The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-12-27 00:00:00

r c• FKEIACII dAu '~t kRs. •.s . PAR ta, Drc. 17.--Riletire of itielbjask. the Fraperor, all the *misers of the Senate nista'. bird yelit!.rilay, at eleven o'clock in the morning, io (.01 tires•, in tht hall of their usual sittings. The bitting of the Senate yesterday, at which the Kings of W•it phalli' and sples, Grand-Admiral the Puttee Viceroy of Italy, the Arch.Chancela La of State, the Prince Vice-Grand constable, and the-Prince Vice-Grand Electornssisted, and at alsiels the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Em- pirs _presided, will form, ou 4ccount of the im portaort of the subjects which were discussed, an epOelt in the annals Of France. On that day was *leafed to the Senators it pre rt of a Sinahoi Vermilion., respecting a ilissblntion of the mar rmge between the Empori,. Napoleon and the Empress J ast•phine. this Ought ticos of marriage r#qiierild by the two high parties, and approved of by a family council, at which all the Princes acid Piitteestes of the imperial Family at present in Paris assisted, reeeiyed the same day the assent of the Senate, after having been the object of ea aikination of a Special Commission, owned for this "puti7os. After haring road the contents of the IniAMattieeree, which enacts the convocation of she Senate, and of that wisieh directs that it 'hail be presided by the Prince Arch -Chaney-nor, and that the Princes; of the jute. iat Family, hereafter slimed, should 'be present itsfho Senate, the Offi cial Journal gives art accoutil of this mentorabla sitting in the fottoling terms :—[litre follow; a gpeeelt . from the Arch-Chaticellur of State, the leanest Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, Presi. chant and Puke of Parma.) • The Count kegnaalt de St. Jean d'Angely laid before the Senate the prtjet of the Senalas Coo iliftem, and eaplainett the . motives of it, which art, that they mutually sacrifice their conjugal happiness to the welfare and interest of the cowl. try. [here follows a speech from the Prilce Viceroy of Italy; after which the Count Carnier, Annual President, proposed to refer the projet of the Senrtus Conaultion to the examination of a Special Commission of nine Members, which was Oanted, and made its report during the Sitting.] • At half past four the Senate resumed its sitting; Ind Count Lacepttle, one of the members of the ComMissidti, made the report, which ter snil.ited in plv,,sing the adoption of the prqjet of the St.ttaftts Consultton, and also the adoption of two addresses, one to the Emperor, and the other to the Emlrftl3. EXTRACT FROM TIIE TIMMER OF TIIE COIfIERV ?Ste SERANE J OF SATURDAY TIIE 'OYU DEC. ' 1 : " The Conservative 4 .7enate, assembled to the ,ember of member! prescribed by Article 90th of the Act of the Constitution, and dated the 13th 1799, biting semi the Act drawn up, the fth of the preunt. month, by the Prince Arch. Chancellor of tic Empire, of which the following ii the substmice 66 Lithe year WO, and the 13th day of Doc. tit nirte o'eluck in the evening, vie, Jean Jaques ed ne Cenibaeires, Prince Arch-Chancellor 'of the glepire, Duke of Parma, czerrising the bone. eons 'prescilbed to es by Title the td of the 14th A ilkle of the Statute of (hi Imperial Family, sitd iA cormequenec of orders addressed to us by i~'? Majeoy the Emperor and ling, in his pri. vote letter ,:ated that dny, of the-following tenor: 6 My Cousin, our desire is that you repair this 4 day, at nine o'clock in the evening, to our 6' gravid Cabinet of tliePalace of the Thuilleries, ealLtellifei by tho Civil Secietary of State of our • Iniperial fsMily, to receive from us, anti from • ihe Empress, tiUr dear contort, a communication • of great importance; fur this purpose we have 6 °Merit! thal this present privateletter should be 6 s e nt yogi. We piay God to have you, my • Cowin, in bit holy Wang keeping.' • ?ark, net% 13, 11504.' On the back-is written, To our Cousin, the 6 Prince Arch.Chaneellor, Duke of Parma.' 44 We acceitlingly proceeded to the Hall of the Throne of the Palate of t!le Thuilirrics, mutinied ht htichel.Louis.Etienne.Regnault (de St. Jean oAngely ) 1 Count of the Empire, Minister Of-State, and Secretary of State to . the Imperial Family. A quarter vf an beer afterwards, we were intro. dla:ed to the grand Cabinet of the Emperor, *here we found his Majesty the Emperor and . . King with her Majesty the Kinpress, attended by iliac Majesties the Kings of [Lifland, Westpha lia, and Naples ; his Imperial Highness the Prince Viceroy ; the Queens of Holland, Westphalia, Naples, and Spain ; Madame, anal her Imperial Highness the Princess PCIIIIIII. His Majesty the briperar and King condescended to address us in doeiti 4 . Mt Cousin, Priam Arch Chancellor, I dim. patOnAto yen a ptivett letter, dated this day, to diregt_yon to repair to my Cabinet for the purpose of communicating to you the resolution which I lo w o w E mile 's, my d e al t st consort, hallo taken. It gisros ate pleasure that the Kings, Queens, and #viiicasses, my brothers an=l siqers, in; brothers spad my &lighter-In-law, and my becoitie my adopted son, as well as my sswOlCr i should witness what I am going to eon'. ainnicate t!) you. 4 The, pulitict of my monarchy, the interest v ,„l ik Wants of my people, which have constant. ly guided all my actions, require tgat after me, I Dace to children, inheritors of my love for yiN oply; that throne on which Peovilence has pl atte d ine. N:itsvithstanding, for several years past I hare lost the hope of having ehitilion by my suartie l v with my well I I to::;oit; . the *ln. pros Josephine. This it is which me to sacrifiee tho sweetest affections of My heart, to * u s ed to nothing but the good of the state, and so 'Oh 'the distiolution of my inirr . oge. Arrlied . 10, 1 11se ago of forty years, I :nay the hope Gm; risoiigh tb 'educate, in 'My views and • lhe children sr h i"h" it . may please p r 6. vidsatei to 'girt ihie : * Cod knows hula Inuch Such resolngovi 'hiss cost iy hiart: but theme' is iio o drifilio nsx courage, that I will not 1011, 0 1,.. M heel It proved to *Se to he. isidestiary to the ,clfaid of trialice. I should add; that far from cvsr iiivin4 tte on the con. Vary,. I 'gift: to be satisfied win! the at. . • _ • 1111 STAVISMAN.. taehment and the affection of my well-beide/0d Con, sort. She has *thorned Li ?ears of my life, the remembrance of which will ewer remain angreren cm my heart. She was crowned by my hand. I wish she should ',reserve the rank and title of rap, hut, above all, that she should never doubt thy seeptiments, and that sho shun id ever regard me as her best and dtitrest friend.' t 4 i l is Majesty the Emperor and King having ended, her Majesty the Eatpras and Queen spoke as follows " By the permission of our dear and anggst " ctlnsurt, I ought to dcclire, that nut pre erv_ ing any hops of having ch:ldrun, which may P' fulfil the wants of his policy and the interests of " France, J ass !timed to give hint the greatest 64 proof of attachment and deli-wing whteh has " ever heca given on earth. I possess all from 44 his hounty; it was his hand which crowned me; 44 and frotn the height of this throne I have reecir " ed nothing but proofs of affection and lore " from the French People. _ _ " I think I prove myself grateful in consent -14 L uis to the dissolution of & marriage which here. tofore was an obstacle to the welfare of 64 France, which deprived it of the happiness of " being one day governed by the descendants of gt a great man, evidently raised up by Providence, " to efface the arils of a terrible revolution, and 4 4 to-re-establish theeltar, the throne, and social " order. But the dissolution of my marriage will 4 ' in no degree change the sentiments of my heart. 44 The Emperor will ever hove in me his best Wends I know how much this act, demanded " by policy and by interests so great, has chilled " his heart ; but both aims exult in the sacrifice 4 ' which we make fur the go.d of the country." " After which their•lnsperial Ma . fratiel having demanded an act of their respective declarations, as well as of the mutual consent contained in them, and which their Majesties gate to dissolution of their marriage, as also of the power *Well their Majesties conferred on its to follow up as need shall require the effect of their will, we Prince Arch Chancellor lit the Empire, in obedience to the orders and requisitions of their Majesties, have given the aforesaid acts, and hive in consequeuce executud the picseht preces rerbul, to serve and avail according to law, to which prores verbal their Majesties have affixed thtir signature ; and which, after having been sigruil by t h e Kitit• 2 Queens, Minces, and Princesses rrownt, his been signed by us, and countersigned by the: Sccretary of the Imperial Family. " Done at the Palace of the Thuillcries, the day, hoer, and the year afuresriiil. (signed) " NAPOLI:ON " ;:t•c;F:XL NAPOLEON " 40$11PitiNE ULM. " 11AI)A NIE " 110IiE v:iE " I:0111s •• CATHERINE " J Elto ALE ti*POILEON " PAULINE " JOACIIISI NAPOLEON " CARMAN E " AMIIACE It F.S. Primer. Arch Cian.rllor COUN f H Y NM; LT (de Rt. Jean d'Angel, ).7 44 Having seen the projitt of the Senatus Con sultum, drawn up its the form prescribed by the 57th Article of the Act of the Constitution of the 4th August, 1802 ; after having heard the motives of the said projet, the Orators of the Council of State, and the Report of the Special Commission, appointed in the sitting of this diy ; the adoption hiving been discussed by the number of members prescribed by the 58th Article of the Act of the Constitution of the 4th August, 1802, decrees, " Art. I. The nsarriage contracted between the Emperor Napoleon sod the Empress Jesephiue is dissolved. 11. The Empress Josephine shall preserve the title and rank of Empress Qseen cross med. " 111. Iler dowry is lied at an annual income of two of francs, esi the revenges of the State. " IV. 411 the assignments which may be made by the Ens peror in favour of the Empress Josephine on the funds of the List, shall be obligatory on his sieceftwors. " V. The pram t Senatus Cumultum shall be transmitted by a message to his Impede. and Ite3al lifaje.4y." The two Addresses proposed by the Commission were afterwards put to the vote, and adopted. FRENCH EXPO.d. PARIS, DEC. 13. —ln the sitting of yesterday, M. Montalvet, the Minister of the Interior, pro. nonnee.l the following Erposr of the Empire, to the 1-1 of December, 1809 : 46 Menu:ens— Every tune that the situation of the Empire has been statett to you, the French 'Winn has reckoned new triumphs. " Brilliant victories, generous treaties of peace, the results of the most profound political combine. lions ; great works uudertaken ; the order of the interior maintained. Such is the picture that all my predecessors have had ci trace ; and it is that which forms the history of the year that has just elapsed. " The return of this enumeration of presperi ties acqwires every day a more glorious character. Thipeoessorable &mita one year, say appertabi to fortune, to what is called chalice, to a will of which nothing has yet shown the force or the constancy, the weakness or the versatility ; but those which return perpetually the same, are necessarily the work ef a genius, and an arm equally powerful. The former may transitorily appertain to any time; the others fix those eras which divide the course of ages, and which subject a long series of years to every epoch which changes the lace of the world. the course of the last Session, yen hid concurred to give a new Criminal Code to France, and adopting the plans prepared by thin Council ..f State, and imnietliately undcr the eyes of his Majesty, the necessary suurce Of all laws ; and then the Emperor himself, as lie had announced to you, had re-placed on the Throne of Madrid his august Brother ; the forced the English to pre cipitate themselees towards their ship., and only ceased to *IWO them that he might return to the centre of hltdominiuns to observe and arrest the projects of Austria. • Ptltitm; MORK Q. gg The stay which' hja Majesty then mile at Paris, was dioinseished by the care which he took tp rituieto all the Patti at Hsi vast Administration of his Empire. Ili, gate a new activity to the iinesense lithium which . ito period of peace ever saw inidertakin in suds - great so:embers, nor pa: iownd with so much ardolor.' Prisoners of war, frolidifferelit 101mo : seal by victory ) have linhk. ell the Mad of St. Quer tin ; two leagues of an im posing anbterraseous passage, open a cotemenica. tion between the rivers and seas of the North of the empire, Red the risers and seas of the South. S e v e n gionailmi workmen have asst. ceased to la. boor on the caul of the Pilorth f. and uearly eight leagues of this now way opened to the !thine and the Meese, to bring their conjtsinod waters to Ant. weep without goitting for a moment the soil of France, hen bceu executed. This canal so Am, portant to commerce will nut be a less benefit to agriculture. Lands equal in superficies to several departments will be peopled and fertiliged. The peaceable conquest of agriculture will soon summit both our riches and our prosperity. Two millions have been usefully expended in 111U9, on the canal of Napoleon, which will unite the lthotte to the Rhine. Marseilles, Cologn, and Antwerp, will soon be bathed by the same I waters : this canal will be made to communicate Math the Seine by that of Burgundy, the works of which abandoned by the old Government, have received anew the greatest impulse; already the navigation is complete from Dole to Dijon; they aro at present working between Dijon and the bridge of Pany, between the Yonne and St. Flo. rennin ; several important loclts upon the Seine, the Aube, and the Sumnie, have been finished in 1808. Every where the plans which Wetted to improve former navigations, to extend them, onto create new ones, have been undertaken, Or coati. need with activity. Thu maritime works have made the greatest progress ; those of Cherbuigh already present to the astonished eye an immense port, hollowed out of the rock. its depth has been this year carried to thirty-three feet below the level of high water. it is de. fended by a pier, the execution of which has been as perfect as the idea has been bold. Facings of grAttite, give to the port awl its quays, the most imposing character of grandeur and duration ; the excavation will descend sixteen feet lower. so that there will remain in the putt of Cherhurg twenty.six feet water at low water. "'rho sluice at Havre is nearly finished; it will secure, from the twiddle of the next campaign, the constant entrance of vessels into the channel. At Dunkirk, an octagon sluice, which will drain va. liable lands, and secure an easy navigation, has been fuini-lied this year. " The basun of Antwerp, is excavated in all the anterior part, and the sluice of the sea is raised above its foundation. "':'he Port of Alto. has been deepened. ‘ The Vol of Marseilles offers a more easy anchorne than ever. " The road* of hfount Cenis, of the Simplon, these which traverse the Alps, the Appenistei, in every direction, and the Pyrenees, have received a new degree of advancement ; or are completed. Roads, equally beautiful and e.isy, Lad from Alexandria to Savona, (ruin the b4nk, of the 'ration) and the Po to thu nearest shores of I:te Mediu err anean. " The grand draining. of Bourgain, of Cotentin, of Rochefort, have stresdy changed sterile marshes into fertile lands, and their results, drawn upon the government the blessings of the people, astonished at nut having suffered slily of the evils, however transitory, which they had been made to dread. WORKS OF PARIS. " Paris becomes every day, by its works, more worthy of being the metropolis of one of Mose empires, around which are grouped, in the history of times, all that is contemporaneous. In its vici. nity the bridges of Bezons, Choisy, and Seines have been begun; that of Charenton has beet ro. established ; that of St. Cloud restored. The beau. tiful bridge of Jena has been conducted to the raising of the arches; that or Saint Michael has been freed from the homes that obstrucied it ; the Quais Napoleon and the Louvre have been finish. ed ; that of Jena has bee's carried beyond the es. planadc of the Invalids : the part of the Rape has been executed on a great and a beautiful " Plentiful granaries have been foundA. " Every disposition fur the construction of an immense abattier has been made near the barrier of Itochechouard ; the ground is levelled, aid the foundation prepared. " A provisory establishment for an cichange, till the time when the magnificent edifice intended for the purpose, and which is already begun, shall be finished. The Temple of Glory occupies a a great number of workmen : it will be worthy •f its noble destination. Four messy pillars faced with a stone equal in hardness and grain to the finest marble, intended to support tie tritimphsl arch of 12 Ktnile are nearly completed. The column of Austerlitz is adorned, fur half its height, with bronzes, which will clernir.: the great achievements of nor warriors. " The - arch of the Carousals, which is finished, unites toste_and ota.,;uilicauee. " The facade' of the building in which yon meet is finished. The Louvre displays new beauties in rapid - progress of its resturatioa; the Gallerywhich will complete its junction with, the Thuilleries, astonishes by its progress the inhabitants even of this city. " Afready•the capital enjoys a part of the wa ters which will be brought to it by the canal of Oureg,while the boson of LaVillette, and the bison. Win of Innocents, present . to it works as beautiful as they are useful. " In this long communication, I am only able to point out the least parts of the works com pleted or continued in the course of this year, lust each of you is witness to their deyelopeniesit, sloes" there is nut a part of France to which they du not extend. Among these grand constrtictiiits there are some more particulaily consecrated to . . public order god benevulessfe. .• ESTABLISHMENT* OF BF:NEVOLENFE. " The Eltipe tor liiiiordered the establishartnit of futiy-two depots of inenclicity, and securest to them this necessary 'funds far their sitaiatenanee ; thirs'svill be healed most hideous wounds of political states; thus the public manners atiil in dustry will profit by a regulation 'which will xnatclt troth misery and depravity a iiiiinber of beitaks, who . iteiniscd cowdeame4 to theist •. resOurte. 6 4 Several or these establishments have alres.ly beets ctiriplcittl, • • " " Ifis 111.jessiy has bestowed immouse bessafita Op 'how of his subjects, who have suffered groat calamities. The backs of ttio !thine had been ra. raged by iisundatious : the itiliab.tauts have re. aired nearly a mil flier f.,r iiidetniviiirs, or ' to be easplo)eil its rip callous and useful laboun. U The cuiiiitries h.ve sulf..red by storms • or fir.., have recrivesi sue, ours. Ctrs his fistflisslstril a gr,••• bin of cities, with - 1 pies of bark, %bleu they harp 111MC14.1111 re. calved. " Depots for vaccination have beenestaldshed. They secure to Clunlivs ocnert.iitt means of never wanting an invide preservation; wiiich, useful and true frieuds of ltutexiily ItAve • made Isitowu . u. • • to all the classes of our numerous population. 46 Among those of the w.iiits of the French, • which have fixed the attention of the Sovereign, • ' the cultivation of the wont qualities, that of the. mind, that of the arts of ituagiostion, hare conti nued to hold one of the first mks. Pliat.lC INSTRUCTION. " The Imperial University has entered on its functions. It has collected reformation c•mcern ing all the bosses of cducatios is the Enspire Academies ar43 foreleg, the faculties vstablishiu4. The Lyceums coutiouis to furnish numerous pupi!s to the Polytechitic School, end that of It. Cyr Th e formes , has eiwa)s keen the nersery of pr.. sons distinguished by ricir knowledge ‘ .0,41 their coutluet ; .at St. Cyr is perpetually renewed that h;rdy reel of youth, equally well exeruicid, coo [spout and'zialoos, whit, *hen they arrive under their standards, will skew themseltes worthy to march with our ancient heroes. - Scti:Ner.S, LITERATURE. AND ARTS. ce I..very species of enoursgemeut is given to the sciences, is literature, and to the arts - honors, rewards, useful uniployments, coufideal to artists (bit distinguish themselves ; 00.. thing is neglected. But the 4rat of those me. morable epochs, farmed to exalt the noblest emulation is arrived; the decennial prizes are about to be distributed by the hand of Iglu who is the fountain of all true glory. they *timid have been distributed this day could the jury 114ve coin pleted their labours . . Ills M:tjesty wished no spe. cies of merit, n hether literary or belonging to the sciences and arts, to be unrewarded. T!so decree of the 2-Ith Fructitlor, of the year l2 p has been regarded lky the Emperor mutely as an expression of a general sentiment. That sentiment has just rt4crived a full develope meet by a late Decree, auguienting the nimbus- o f prizes. New examinalions, new adjudications, are become necessary. The Emperor wishes to bo certain that they shall e x press that segtinieuts of an enlightened public opinion, and to acquire &hip ceri 4 iniv, he has ordered that. the worLs lionoure4 by these aujittiteatioug, lee subjected to s solo no discussion. A distinction highly flattering to those whose works are judged worth . ) of the prises. 44 Tne Museum of Natural History has beau increased ; that of the Arts has reeeivel new ricks by the requisitions of the CAefs d'Oarre of the Howse Gallery. MiItIOULTURE. 46 The propmtation of the cultore of Improved wool has madej new ad/aisles, arising in a pelt measure from the importation of Spanish and Ger. 'nen docks. "Twenty thousand choice mares have been pre.- lehted to the incise hundred stallions cullveted in our studs and depute. litanies's!, hare been diet. tributes! to the proprietors or Ali ripest tFoc6.— The cultivation of cottOrsin our southern Fusin ces has hitherto atrufded nothin' but boptl. thew have not been destroyed by this two extraordinary !Mississi of 11108 and 180 . 4, aod that id 9 greet point gained. .A'tte ,, pti harn bees . made. to naturalise s& indigo. France prods' and . wine far be yond her consumption; aftt l inefotthe first qua lity this bas been a well ItO t wu fact, Nit our de.. peodence on foreign conntrum fur grain has always been considers:3as an established truth. How ra luaLle then the experiment now 'eking. " Sums Distract: itsileedfrol st axiiparsildet to sell their corn. This is a momentary mist:atone, but will be a source of security for tins future' The scarcities most frequently depended merely on opinion ; it was only requisite to enlighten tins, and France, litnceforth secure of producing an increase brynaid her consumption, can no longer be in fear of want. " The Emperor has, however, devoted all his solicitude to the present circumstances; esporta. lion of guru is permitted from a great neeilser of points of our froneltrs, both maritime and terres trial, provided alwals that the price exceed Hot certaie rates in the neighbouring markets. SIANVPACTURYS AND 1,11)1;4TM'. Industry loci - eases the ralue of Citric reeteriak, by matioul labour, and frequently in propertions that snay be termed itifinit.:: It has cutistAu t ilx . occupied theattentionoltioverinenr; Gill heti the of outtiority'raftnut be a direct encouragements granted, tno!liflcatiotts introit:l64o into the tariffs of the custom-bimes. whether em. tional or fureigo, such are it' meanisics t and .itch are its measures. It his further watelseil.ith re.. doubled rare over the School of Ara osolTristps, at Chalons, of which the good iff4ela felt. M. Richard, Nlesbrt..Teruitu;c, M. de Nett liege, 3-1 many Whirs . , la.sfescenii“ aril in their valuable t stishmetits a dem-et; ttf .scii its, att rifgaitiz . atiott, and mean, or insitinst!utent, which, sootier them, are worthy to be citcd. They die honour to the stalks's, and contribute to its . I t y. VINES. • " The mines conceal riclies,which l wilhoot in dustry, 'would remain buried in the earth. A re gulation fur the mineg, poaitire.aud clear, Mill be eamplnted in the course of 'voter so , %lott• Heins kir deriving (mut it the earliest betteii4 are ;;re 'Weds. Vratme inksv•ses a great ttuntbur ut able coal utios, which ware us from all fear of ever %“Ostlit , fuel. •.. • • P " Mines of copper, Iced, sad silver, are now workihs ; others are object's of search and experi suesit• • • C9NIMER,CL. 44 Cumnsisros is employed gemerally in tirriving , ireatest pos n ilike advAillace From the products n:r . 1 . 16:111013f . e. a .if I • ' et •n•••••• •••• 1.• • • • . r W -