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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. 1 BENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. FARIS DEC. 17. By desire of His Majesty the Emperor. all the Members of the Senate essecubled yesterday, at eleven o'clock in the moruing, is. full Chess, in the Hall of their usual sittings. The sitting of the Senate yestenlay, at which the Kings of Westphalia and Naples, Grand Admiral the Prince Viceroy of Italy, the Arch Chancellor of State, the . Prince Vice-Grand-Constable,•nd the Prince Vice-Grand- Elector assisted, and ut which the Prince. Arch- Chancellor of the Empire presided, will form, im account of the importance of the subjects which were discused, an epoch in the annals of France. — On that day was presented to the Senators, a Pro jet of a Smarts: Cansuhunt, respecting a dissolu tuna of the marriage between the Emperor Napo leon and the Empress Josephine. This dissolution of marriage, required by the two high parties, and approved of by ia Family Counsel, at which all the Primate and Princesses of the Imperial Family, present at ,['aria, assisted, received, the same day, the assent of the Senate, after having been the oli iect of examination of a Special Commission named fur this purpose. After having read the contents of the Imperial Decree, winch enacts the convoca tion of the Senate ; and of that 'winch directs that it shell be presided by the Prince Arch-Chancellor, and that the Princes of the Imperial Family, here lifter named, should be present in the Senate, the Official Jouruel gives an account of this memorable bitting in the following terms--(Here follows a speech from the Arch-Chancellor of State, the Piiuee Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, President, end the Duke of Pattna.)—The Count Regnault. Ie St. Jean d'Angely laid before the Senate the I'o4o of the Senatus Consultant, and explained the motives of it, which ale, that they mutually sacrifice their conjugal happiness to the welfare and nterest of their country.—(Here follows a speech tr.cim the Prince Viceroy of Italy; after which, the :otaiat Gamier, Annual President, proposed to re fer the Projet of the Serrates Gummi/tune to the exa mination of a Special Commission of niue Mem ory winch wastmaned, aud made its report (bu ng its sittin:.) At half-past four, the Senate resumed; its sitting; end Count Lacepede, one of the Members of the ipecial Commission, made the report, which tenni rated in proposing the adoption of the Projet of the kinetics Consultant ; and also the adoption of two kcidresseo—one to the Emperor, and the other to he Empress. lITRACT FI/Old THE REGISTER OF TUE COMSERTA TIFE SENAFE, sir, SATURDAY, THE IDTII DCI.- SEE, 11409.' G. The Conservative Senate, assembled to the lumber; of Meruberra prescrihed by Art. the 90th of the Act of the Coustitution, and dated the 1311, December, 1799 s bating seen the Act drawn up he 16th of the present month, by the Prince krek-Chancellor of the Empire, of which the fol awing is the substance Its the year I biO, and the lath day of Dec. at tine o'clock in the evening, we, Jean Jaques Re gis CamhacereeoPrince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, Duke of Pliat. exercising the functions preseribed,to us by 'A'aeletbe .d, of the 14th Article of the Statute of the Imperial Family, and in con mqueuce,of °Merit addressed to us by His Majesty dmEmperer and limg. in his private letter, dated 'het day, of the following•tenor : COUIISS--Litst desire is, that you. repair this day, sine o'clock in the , ese c ning, to ear panel cabinet of the Hire of die Thiiillern a,' attended by the civil Secretary of Nitreoar Imperial Malty, to receive from um a n d from thenesprem, bur %ear cnithirt, a es iiiiii lineation of gnat im. potamee l for this purpose, we have ordered that this pre. acekerate letter ahoiskil be seat to you. Wa pray God to haver:rum; Celllial is Ivo holy and blessed keeping" " Purl 1:4 Dime eatn 1809.” On the 'back is weitten—.. To our cousin the - gnat Xrelillrfign"Ce et for " Duke of Parniii. 4 '—We proms/ to t h e Hall of the. throne hf the' riaace 0 . 4 Theailleriete attended by Michel binii l :Etienue l!tegnaillt '(de, st. Jean d'Angely) Count ol . thePnspire, Minister of State, and Secretary of State' to the Imperial Fri'ani:y. A quarter din hour ilieiwards we were introduced to the Greed Cab inet "of' the Emprior„ where we found His MajestY:ihe Emperor and King with j Her al , ieety the Empress, attended by their 1116 . t .ties, the tinge of I Ulan& Westphalia, end Nudes; ha linperiall Highness the Prince Vice roy, the Queens of Holland, Westphalia. Naples, and Spann ; M salaam. and her Imperial Highneta the Princess Pauline. Its Majesty the Emptiest and King condescended to address us Su thaw terms : couste Peweec liiittil•rNSSA - St.t.ol-1 patched terse a private letter, doled this day, to dime you to repair to my Cabinet, for the purpose of communicating to yogi the regolative which I, aid the &sprees, my dearest consort,bavrtaken It ghee use pleases r, that the Kier, titterer and Puncrsers. my brothers and sisters-in-law, my daugliter-ie.law, tad my sou-is-law, become my 'dopiest win, as wells. my mother, &Amid wititess what I am gulag to consomme ate to you. " The politirs of my Muoarchy, the interest and the wants of my people, which have colossally guided all toy actions, require, that oder me I should leave to chafers, inheritors of my love for my people, that threw, as which Providence has placed me ; notwtthstatiting fur several year' peel, I have toot the hope of having rbildree by may gearviage with my well-beloved eimeort, the Empress Jaerpliber This it is, which Moots Nes to monies the emote* dhoti's' of • • any heart to attend to nothisg bat the good of the State, and to wish the dissolution of my 'sorriest. Arrived *the age oho yeas s, I nay Suds, thehope of living lougessugh to educate, in my views sad sestitseek,' the children which it - luso please Providence to give me. God knows how much such a rfsolution bas cult my ,heart; but thaw it no etc, i- Air beyond in , " courage, whets arta proved to me to be neces sary to the si Marc of Fraucel !I:should ad.!, dials far fail ever having had 6666011 to complain, on the contrary, I have had only to be satisfied. with the attachment and file affection of my well-beloved Consort. She has advised Atwell years of my life, the remembrance of which will ever remain engraveu on my heart. She was crowned by any hand. I wish she should preserve Ole rank and title of Empress; but, above all, that she should never doubt my sentiments, and that she should ever regard me as her best and dearest friend.' His Majesty the Emperor and King having ended, Her Majesty the Empress Queen 'puke as fullniea " ity the permission of our dear and august consort, I ought to declare, that net preserving any hope •ol having children, which may fulfil the yenta of his policy and the istereets of France, I am pleased to give hint the greatest groat of attachment and Jevetiou which has ever barn given on earth. I possess all from his basely, it was his hand which crowned me, and from the height of this &Inoue I _have received nothing hut proofs of affcction and love from the French people. t think I prove myself grateful in con senting to the dissolution ota marriage which heretofore was au obstacle to the welfare of France, which deprived it of the happiness of being one day governed by the deecendant of a great man, evidently rased up by Providence to efface the evils of a terrible revolotiusi,nuti to re-establish the all ar,the throne, and social order. But the dissolution of my marriage will in no degree cheap the sentiments of my heart; the Empe ror will ever have in me his best friend. I know how much this act, demanded by policy, and by interest so great, has chilled his heart ; but both of as exult iu the sacribee which we make for the good of the country." After which, their Impend, Majesties having desuended an act of their respective declarations, as well as of their mutual consent contained in theta, and which their 11.ijesties, gave to the disso lution of their marriage ; as else. of the power which their Majesties conferred on us to follow up, as need shall require, the effect of their will, we, Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, in obedience to the orders and requisitions of their Majesties,. have given the aforesaid act, and have in cod: . ," sequence executed the present proves verbal, to, serve and avail according' to law, to which proses verbal their Majesties have affixed their signature, and which after having been signed 6y the Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses present, has been signed by us, and couversignsd by the Secretary of State of the imperial Family who wrote with his own hand. Done at the palace of the Timilleries, the day, 1. no, and the year aforesaid ; (Signed) NAPOLEON. JOSEPHINE. MADAME. LOUIS. JEROME NAPOLEON. JOAC'IIIM NAPOLEON. EUGENE NAPOLEON. JULIE. HORTENSE ATHERINE. PAULINE. CAROLINE. CAMRACER ES, Prince Arehrbaurrllnr. Cruet 1R N A - .SIT, (de St. Jean d'Angely.) Having seen the Projet of the Senaixs Comm/tam, drawn up in the faint prescribed by the 57th Arti cle of the Act of the Constitutions of August 4. ISO 2 ; after having heard Abil-iliOtiVtlS of the said Projet, the Orators of tilt• 'Colwell of State, find the report of the Special'thinnsission appointed in the sitting of th:s day; the adoption having ban discussed by the number aim embers prescribed Ii the Stith Article of the Act of tbe Constitution of August 4, 1402 ; DECREES. Art_ I. The marriage contracted between the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine is dissolved. 11. The Empress Josephine shall preserve the title and rank of EmpiosisQueen crowned. 111. Her dowry is (lard at en annual income of two mil lions of fiance, on the revenue of the slate. IV. All the assignments which may be made by the Fin 'wow, in favour •f the Einpres. Josephine, on the funds of the Civil List, biotin be obligatory on his successors. V. The present SEAM us Consittfitm shall be transmitted by a message to His Imperial and Royal Majesty. The two Ailarcener proposed by the Commission were afterwards irut to the vote, and adopted in the fu llowiug terms. (The lateness of the hour prevents their being given.) Motiteur of flee 171.6 Dec. 1509. GEN ERAL ORDER OF THE ARMY, Dag. a, 'Bog. His Majesty makes known to the army, that • the Spanish army, commanded by the Duke Del Parque, who imprudently engaged em the Right . Bank of the Tomes, was completely defeated on the esth Novemb , r, at Alba, by the 6th corps of the army, and the 2ti division of dra goons. Fifireu pliers of cannon, many cais sons, six standards, ten thousand muskets, OM above two thousand prisoners, fell into the hands of the Imperial troops. The_ enemy had three thou send Mtn killed; one General, several Colonels. and a great number of Officers. The remains of the arm), favoured by the night, fled in all directions, abandoning their arms and banage. —Thus the last hope of the insurrectional party is destroyed. It is to be hoped, that, by the pur suit of these detached s:prps, and the insurgents which are di.persed in the provinces, which is about to take placr, internat . triMqtfillity will soon be (A.- eltaLlished. (Signed) DUKE DA 4, Marshal si Me Empire. (Manua! Vila , 18114 Devi immix, sot. 25. 111. M. Gent: of this city, has beeo arrested. and his papers *Laud and sealed up.--(Mo. Dec. 16.1 WAPLts, Nov. 29. Oa the q2d inst. the English evacuated the islands of Porisa and Vantoletie, which they had . kept possession of ever sicee the entry of the French, army into this kiugdoni.—(Moniteur, Dec. 13.) comsTANTlNuel.s, OCT. The Russians, who were encamped at Hahn, have repulsed the troops of the neighbouring dis tricts who attacked them, and obliged them to re tire, but the army of the Grand Vizier has beaten, on the other side of the Danube, a corps of (i,OOO Itussiuus, and taken four pieces of cannon, &a. ace. LEGISLATIVE BODT--(Surriso or Dire z is-) . Count Montelbert delivered, ia the Emperor's name, an Exposition ()idle state of France up to the 1 1 first of this month. After having introduced this im portant narrative by observing thut signal victories, generous pacification, the results of the most pro. found political cumbinatious, and the maintename of order in the interior, form the prominent features of the history of the Sear which has just elapsed, he enumerated, under the different heads of public labours, in particular hi Paris, charitable establishments, public instruction, sciences, letters and arts, agriculture, manufactures and industry, mines, commerce uiid trade, fitianc.s, religious wog• ship, war and politics ; the iirogri es made, advan tages obtained, and changed elite', tl, in the course of the said year. Under the head of commerce and trade, he ex. pressed himself in the following manner Corn inerce in general applies itself to draw the greatest possible advantage from the products of agri culture and industry. Our trade undoubtedly suffers from the present eitraordinsry state of atliiirs, which, forniiiig, as it were, 'two masses, one of the European Continent, the other of the seas, and of the countries from which they separate us, leaves to them no communication with France. Oar relations with the United States of America are also for the present suspended; bat as they are founded on mutual wants, they will speedily resume their former coarse." Under the head of religious worship, after having declared, that in France all religious are not only tolerated, but honoured and encouraged, he makes the following observat;ons:-r" No well-informed person is ignorant of the mischief, which the tem poral sovereignty of the Pepe has done to religion ; but fur this mischief, one moiety of Europe would not be severed from the Catholic church. There was but one means to free it for ever from such great dangers, and to reconcile the interests of the State with those of religion ; it was necessary that the successor of St. Peter should again be come undisturbed by worldly concerns, meiely a pastor, like St. Peter." Under the article of war, a description is gisen of the advantages detained iu Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Spain, which is terminated by the following remarks " By the peace of Vienna, France eneller allies liner obtained considerable advantages, and the Continent of Europe has regained franquillity and peace. Let us hope that 'this peace will be more permanent than that of Preaburgh, and that the men who deluded the Cabinet of Vienna, after the peace of Presburgh, will not succeed in deceiving it again after that of Vienna. They would pronounce the doom of their master; for Frauce, ever great, powerful and strong, will always knew how to de stroy and counteract the combinations and intrigues of her enemies. " In the mean time, England, seeing that our armies were employed in Germany, and being al ways ill-informed, notwithsianding ilia immease treasure she wastes in paying spies, fancied, that our veteran troops had left Spain, and that the weaken ed French army would not be able to ivithsta nd their efforts. Forty thousand men were disem barked in Portugal. joined the insurgents, and flat tired themselves they should be able to march to Madrid ; they gathered nothing but disgrace from their enterprise ; they were met by armies in all places, where they fancied to find only divisions." Forty thousand Imo landed at the seine time in Walcheren, and, without having commenced the siege, by means of a short bombardment, they ren dered thermielvea in a fortnight masters of Flash ing,which was cowardly defended. His Majesty ordered a report to be made to him on this sub ject. The Emperor generously rewards those who, auimated with his sentiments and sensible of what they owe to the honour of France, are faithful to gluty e and their country ; but he severely punishes those who calculate the danger, when victory alone should occupy their minds, sod prefer a dis graceful flight to a glorious death. ,f. In the meau thee, all the departments rose in arms; 1.50,000 mew of the nation''' guards put themselves in motion, while, at the same time, scoop troops, drawn from the depots, assembled in Flauder., and the gensdarates formed a corps of eight thousand chcice cavalry. The English Com mander-in Chief, as a wise and prudent mon, would not expose his army any longer to dangers more de structive than the plagne ; he returned to England. All the departments gave striking proofs of their at tachineut to the government and Emperor. Some districts only, in the department of the Sarre,' shewed • a contrary disposition. Communiouers, have beers appointed to inquire into their conduct. The commute-s and private individuals, who have thasibsylves, *hail be deprived, dorm g - • .0 . .. a ; ir .1. t i sgiCeitippitosilis *ism 0134 rights of :in leirtrZ2Ztlisdet VAt i ee'."." . rd ib : 4 7."T* i'ver in *French Comm o.",o( ' 'lll ... 4 ' . Under the head of Politics, the change s are e lm . • ... . r 7. AMMON', Wilkh W eis the result of the peace of Viernna.• and .t f ho giuperor's views developed, with regird to ireiortant future arrangement... ".It wouldl ,e fie . en an easy task for the Emperor," soya Count Wiontalbert, " to unite all asllicia with the Duchy of Warsaw; but he would not do shy thing, which could excite the least uneasiness in the mind of hisally, the Emperor of Russia. His %1,. jesty never entertained the idea of restating the kingdom of Poland. What, he has done for New Gallicid, was prescribed to him by sound policy mail honour ; he could not surreodes 10 1.1114 Vt'llgt:lllee• of an implacable Prince, people who lied displaced such fervent zeal for the eerier of France." Ile then proceeds— " The 11:111110 Towns shall preserve their inde pendence; they shalt serve as a 110.140111 of the rro private of war, with regent to EtiglAnd. " Peace shall immediately be eco ticluded with Sweden. " Nothing shall be changed in the politi c al relations of the Confederation of the Rhine, and the Helvetic Confederacy. " Holland is, in fact, only a part of France; a definition of that country may lie elven. by saying that it is an alluvion of the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt ; that is to say, of the great exterior of the French Empire. The) absolute inutility of her customhouses, the disposition of her agents, and the sentiments of its inhabitants, which tend incessantly to a fraudulent trade with England, have, rendered It necessary to exclude them from all commercial in tercourse with the Rhine and Weser. Thus placed in a state of morbid compression between France and England, Holland is deprived both of the ad. vantages, which clash with our general system, and which she mpot relinquish, and of those which she right enjoy; it is time that all this should be set eight.., ,- ."" The Illyrian provinces cover Italy; gine her a Cect communicatioss with Dalmatia; procure us i l ioirst of inuntahatsredritart with the Empire of t onatrustiniple. uhichiietiost be the intention of Yiunce.. fur Iry Maly reef/0N AO support sod pro. tVt.: •;. - !;.' • : :I/ • . "Spiits and Parturiene the seat of a furious rea volution; the onnineroue agents of England keep up thoooniagrosion which they base raised. The - force, the powint,,und the calm moderation of 'the Emperor, will restore to them peaceful days. Should Spain lose her colonies, it will hr through herliwn fault. The Einpreor will were, oppose the iudepend. ence of the continental nations of America; that in. dependence is its the natural order of events; it is just; it• agrees with the true interest of all European 'powers. Should the people of Mexico and Pefli : wish i a t raise themselves to the elevation of a tiobit.liiihiPlaence, France shall never oppose the, - ptaiidid the/t enter into no connexion with Engllsed v " Prince is not under the necessity of ireVitreltinl - sibiglibnur4 'or ;lapping on them tyrau labewil,lb ,!cure hei'liPosnerity and trade. - ‘ot . r '''. " We hart lost the . C•lony of ilartinique, and that of a gaxemi they were both badly defended. lrhs eir l eiunstances which led to their loss, form the object 0., strict jarquiry ; although it is not of any weighein i tkgeneral balance of affairs, since they will be restored to us in a more flourishing tenths tion, at the general peace."—(Mortifeurs of bre; comber 14.) ,-- ---- - . -- SWEDEN. • —...,..---, PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. • EXTRACT FROM • LETTER, DATED, STOCRTI•LIis THE 11TH Dsc.' DM : •• We have at last Peace with France ; thechief conditions are stated to be the following : " I. There shall be as everlasting Peace between Sweden and France. • •• 11. Pomerania, with the Wan.' of linen, and the Dc• residencies thereof, are to be returned to Swedes. " 111. The SOL...lft shall hays a right to import, is Stra• dish vessels, salt and colonial produce &or &erd, on proofs being given, that the lime are fur the actual ricotta and risk of Swedish subjects. It is further agrrd, that the Emperor Napoleon will grant a free passport to the late King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, to proceed to, and reside is Switzerland, or such Other placer may hereafter be decided spun, in the r much aluminium', or dependencies of France." .. When Count Essen, the Swedish Ambassador at Paris, applied to Napoleon for a p rsaport, it is said that he replied. " I grant a free paisport to s h th h:a t l e l ha M eh l o l ooe n r a e :;:a:n e t d o u r f:e p d t r ip e ot a e g t c e t a i , o n n o y n l i j o l t a n i c o y e y bou vi st h a B o te r s. r„ r t w it hr eri you think, Count Ewen, that Gustavus Adolphvid would have done this to me, had I been in his situ- mien?" " The King proposed, some days ago, to the States, to raise a standing army in Sweden, whereby all and every one, under a certain age. would hovel been obliged to learn the military exercise, hi c'h the Nobles, Clergy, and Burghers. agreed to, but the peasants opposed it ; and such is the put rilety of the present Government, that two days afterwards.the Kincretracted the proposal. A new 'tax is to be levied, but although it is very consi derable, yet it k wilt be less felt by the poor—it is something like our Income Tax." THE I W . ED DIVORCt 41 a late h papers to the 1 Their content They preseot of the French relations; an adopted fur die pat.soN and tl that a nieasui non has prev imtigurti as th vansal kings a ITOW at Paris. sent, given by measlier* of lit daughter of t consent of th threat" or pros pone it voltint The ch"ractnr am prise that I many. and ti 'toned howl or sorer rout tc th.nnhatio conjogal affect country;' by cauteinplat more likely to uf . Ssatirot is Jo.ePt4IWB, ft sr. believr, for f ..1 to him it; etwl but never years past, nor aumption, it sued, accordin tho Constitute imperial Crow 'lien, the ehle llollaint, by hi daughter of t •tr.o.igenvist sehtlier., NAP ease &Jointed mg, in the e? tested by, and AIXIAIIDES Wade isinte• • its he 6 now ,tt be will be des attain its In.4j ‘houilds with may be spiirt4 that of Frame I . .ie chance, t ova, 'marriage, of conjugal a from his pre' fifteen years to iii diminution was a young a ' issue by a lora has ha to press' marriage I' illegitimatstofl fancy that gr children.—A are. utrotione Upon the vri as one of tl of life ; • measure of h cruelties. he band, and th, He hisuo.d ✓ayed him fro It se true. he she 'nay be in end well the for he was bu nage with hi • protectim since conduce repudiate her be raised her an act of the wo!otion of el Upon the a rs, the 1 pire, we h It boasts then the Treaty of justmeut of t The Ilense-T enc.! ; but th, ]France is al Cayenne and prc.tilaptioo an improved I Melte° and F dependence, I England. 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