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nal -h.% kis losses art nothing in comparison in the risk which was in cunt-dray the monarchy of which he is the chief. Princes, our - - - allies, have had their power extended, and their titles ennobled. The bounty of the Emperor has surrounded Fraace with nations friendly to her government. Italy, the noble daughter of France, and who pmmisea to be worthy of her parent, has reaped the fruits of the war. But her power is our own ; her opulence adds to our prosperity ; our enemies are driven from her shores, arid they can no longer have commercial relations with her. This rich soil is snatched from their avidity. Italy is a conquest obtained over Finland. She k united to Ger many by the two-fold bond of proximity and friendship; and by that alliance which her Prince has contracted with the daughter of one of the most powerful Sovereigns of the Ger manic Empire, tranquillity is aow assured to the peaceful in habitants cif the mountains of the Tyrol. Commerce will en rich its deserted sallies; its cooquest will be a blessing conferred upon it. The Emperor, generous towards his enemies, nsageanirnous towards his allies, has not been les< generous and fess magna nimous towards his people and his army. Never was a Boer crop of trophies presented to the eves of man—Never did a nation receive a more magnifici nt present. The place where the Senate of the Empire sits, the Oat:edict of this eity, the Hotel de Vdle, are filled and adorned with standard. taken from the enemy, present?cl by tie noble antld elicate liberality of the Ccnqoeror, a recompenceequally honourable to the companions of his victory, and to his peopleortio had followed him with their wishos.and were prepared to second him with all their efforts.— The army hai made several campaigns its three months. Franca has reckoned them by its successes. The 'Emperor has reckon ed them by the recompances which he has granted. The heroes who return with hint, retorts with new hollows; those who have devoted themselves for the country, have bequeathed to him the interests of their families, and the care of their memory. Re has satisfied them : but the most desirable re itornpenee of a French soldier, is the esteem of his Emperor. This is the glory of the empire, enereased by his courage.-- These are the transports of all France, which reverses him upon his retort). The Emperor wishes them to come to en joy them under bin own eyes ) that a triumphal fete should be given by the capital to the arniy ; a spectacle worthy of the great events •Irhich it is to celebrate; in which the whole eclat of the arts, all the pomp of ceremonies, all the signs of glory, all the'expressions of public joy, will surround the grand army, assembl- d rear its worthy Chief, and make a brilliant procession for these phalanxes of heroes. Such are the principal events of the year which has expired. I harm been able merely to notice them. I must lay before you more particular details of the Itgis'at.vs dispositions and ministerial operattotis which hors Jtstiaguished this brilliant era of .Jr Armory. The Administration has had abundant reason in congratulate itself upon the patriotism of the clergy. The salaries paid to the innate' of the chapels of ease, hose been en article of consi double ex pence, hut of greater tinpmtalwe.—A rear number of ruined churches have been repaired, and the influence of morality and religion is apparent. Under these rircumstauces, a sincere attachment to the Emperor has been manifested by the bishops, and archbishops, am by fair words, but by an effi cacious and active seal, which the Emperor has known bow to Vlatteas• The Tribunal of Cantatien has fulfilled its duty. It main tains the uniformity of legislation ; its watchfulness restrains the abuses which creep into tribunals. The new recede thins have diminished, by one-third, the expenses of justice; and the Emperor has taken advantage of this economy, to augment the salary of the Judges, which appeared to him to be diopropottiosied to the importance of their funetione. Th. Judicial Code will he promoted to you. Different bodies, which have presented appeals, have been heard. It • ;II not be a perfect work, bat better thou that which hitherto existed. . Crimes have diminished. Such is the state of public esi• ewity, that, for these many years, the criminal tribunals have not had so few crime, to painsh. From the centre of Italy, the Vaveror had watched user the imereal safety of Fiance, and the Pe44111 of rend invariable the eider lie had there established. he Ind inatituted the Companies of Reserve. This feree, mere h departmental, augments the resources of Administration, at the mine time that it adds to its dignity. Its vigilance is excited about the public establishments, avid leaves to theta d'ormerie the most active part of its signet., which that valuable corm per. forms with equal seal and 44Cee11., the pursuit of banditti,and the disturbers of the public peace; it makes She regular army ads pouble force ; forms the youth to military service; and teaches them, that it is by contributing to maintain order, obedience to th e law., and the respect of property, they render themselves worthy to defend digitate against external foes. Ti.: admioistraCon has followed the cows. marked out for it during the peace; the public works that wets begun have boon eominued with spirit ; new and great undertakings have baen pLinned, prepared, executed ; and, under the burden of a douhl• war against almost the whole of Europe, 40 ignitions bare been devoted to that important branch of the public ser vice. ! It .0 1 , at r 1 5 .1 w;th C aria 0311.10, .. t~ ~"'t ,•iuf ; ~~11: ~r 111 , e 3 " :1 ~.: `: C The Alpe and the A ppenines, those two great barriers. !.trout by the hand of nature, which hitherto the genius of war alone has passed, give way to the efforts of art, and unite Italy and France, Piedmont and the Genoese, by the bonds of commerce, as they *ill hereafter be united by political in terests. On the declivitics, and on the summits of the Simp. Inn and Mount Cenis, enormous carriages roll with Cane-4 Prodigy of the arta of pace, almost as astonishing an the ea• plaits of war, of which these mountains hate been the thea. On the shore of the Laire of Geneva, •mong the pro ciPieet of Maurienite„ steep roads have been levelled; and ere single dzcliv:ty, skilfully contrived, will soon conduct the traveller fo,m Pu..t de Beauvoisio to the foot of Mount ( " 7 "•us• Mount Genevre w• 11 afford Sr. Spain a much shutter ra nimunication with Italy. TM rocks which border the Me doerraneari. from Touloa to Genoa. and have witnessed the LtteiCezioloits of our amiss, to which Pl'ol,o they base ap pc.red to be seceoiialc, will come to he the theatre of war; :ekl, levelled with immense labour, will in future present to t..tr n a more tele and easy passage t-ss-ds distant regions. Titz produce u: tLiz tax for keeplog on the toed., 00 "m' 41 g ta fifteen mil as, hoc beer! otognsd to each department, arid di•Aed among the roads of the first, iccond, and third • The puha exchequer bee added to it between live r.d sic ; th.f whole of WI fund has been applied to vse repOr of forts . .:f :be two fast classes. Sevens! new cora. a.:: !Lunt, dared by the clasinintateter ha ve Intel" :.~ id mad bilit t 'l Prod'" tdd Ato '..' lev. 4 •h of WE. - . the attention of govevntneut ; that from Valerie to La Rogue is completed; that from Caen to Manna& is finished; that from Ajaccio to Bastia i; half done; that front Alexandria to Savona is marked out ; three from Paris to Mentz, by Ham burg; from Aix-la-Chapelle to Mont-Joye, are decreed the ' zeal of the departments Ins coitcurred, in various points, with the efforts of the administration. A laudable emutetion and metes a great number of the cotnnihnes for the rapair of the adjacent roads; and it is to he hoped, that this exerteple will open the eyes of the inhabitants of the country to their own interest, cod will be daily followed. Bridges are rebuilding upon the Rhine, al Kehl, and at Brim.; upon the Meuse, at Civet; upon the Cher, at Tours ; upon the Loire, at Nevelt and Luanne; open the SWAM!, at Auxonere; upon the Rhone, at Avignon ; that of Nemours ii completed. Finally, these , ewe • ungovernable torrents, the Durance, which badness, befoie submitted to the yoke; and the Isere, which had destroyed those imposed 1111011 it, have been obliged to pate under bridges, already in a state of forward• tress, which the neighbouring counory is going to finish; a work of enormous difficulty, which ne one had ever dared to undertake, or had beeu undertaken without success. The banks of the same rivers, those of the Seine, of the Aube, of the Moselle, of the Sedle, and of the Tarn, have been the theatre of a vast system of works, which make along their banks market roads, rainier their courses more free, and pro tea the neighbouring fields. Distinguished Scavans, invited from the banks of the Po, have traversed their who'e extent, and visited arid sounded all their passages. Freest fmm ous obstacles, which interrupted its course, subjefled to a inure judicious police, the N will carry, front the loot of the All 4 to Venice, our merchaitilize and our soldiers. A beneficial lature encourages that cmiinerce, which wnold ronlarace both the fiscal ineasuras of the ancient Princes, and the rivalry of States. The Emperor has prononitcoll it The Po is free . _ Six grand Canals are in execution: that if Saint Quiutin, upon which more than 5.00ty.00 francs have been already ea penciled, may be finished in the clone of the neat year, with the aid of the means which you wilt be called upon to furnish. The tunnels are wended, and only two s!Meee remain to be made of twenty-four. Fielit hin.dred thousand francs lave been appropriated to the Canal Nam:neon, whi h is to j;! , .:: the Rhine to the Rhone. The pirtion of the Canal of Hourgo:n., which extends from Dijon to Saint Jean de Lorne, reck,-.i eleven sluices complete, of twenty-two The Canals of fl:avet, of the Me, and Rance, which esrahlivh, in 1112 bosom of Brefigne, internal commun;cations between the Colph of Cas tor,. and the Channel, are already carried, the former one thild, and the latter, one-eighth of their way. That of Arks, which is to make the Rhone navigable, at its numrli, is one (mirth finished. The branching Canals, which increase the natural kr , - ti:ity of Belgium, have been repaired, extended, and multipled Some other canals, not less important, are commented, or, at least, traced out, and will be speedily undertaken.—Such are that of St. Vs'ery, which will complete the navigation of the Somme to the sea ; that of Heaucaire to Aigues !Hones, which will shorten the communication of that great commercial ren dezvous with the Mediterranean; that of Sedan, which will unite the I.4:;ier and Lower Meuse; hut, a particular, those from Niort to Rochelle, and from Nantes to Brest. The Ir,t has already enliveutd all those countries, to which it prornieet • new saistwace; tie termed coneemtine with the Loire amil the Vilaine, will terminate in four channels at the sea, and will convey, from a'l quarters, to the Western Depart_ meats. the productions of commerce, and naval stores. Several others are projected, as that of the Censee, destined to unite the Senthe mad the fsehetrit; th 4 uf Ypres, which will she:ten the comm ion of L:ale with the see; thou which are to tw earned along the Heine, the Vesle..and the Aisne ; and, lastly, the lateral canal of the Loire, going from Digouin to Briars, and rendering easy and practicable, in every season, the navigation of the most beautiful and coangeable of our rivers. History has preserved the names of the princes, who, in sanitise times, renderel their reigns illustrious by similar omits; the most flourishing states are I,lc6bted to theiti fur their inteenal prosperity. What a glorious futurity 11 promised to French industry, by *solicitude which thus extends and multiplies there, amidst so many other cares, io every part or the empire. If yes cut your eyes on our ports, you will see that ever. tions are making oar both seas, to render them mere access.- DM, more conarnalmus, and more secure. basins are digging at Antwerp ; aloicos and canals are forming at Antwerp, Dieppe., Ostend, Dunkirk, and Ham. At Honfleur, Bordeaux, Nice, Holinguen, Belle-isle, Matti°, and Bastin, quays are eon. structod, and Jr_ tires or moles lengthened or rebuilt. Al these different kinds of works are carrying no at Rochelle Toe cleansing of the ports of Cette and hlarseilli-s is cootinued, and that of Oleron a enlarging. The p.r s of Dislute and Casteret are prepared in such a manner as to be Ca pable of receiving a great number of vessels and gun-boats, which•iil alarm the iiihabitants of the English islands of Jersey and Guernsey, as those at Boulogne menace Dover and London. The sotandings taken at Brno have afforded satisfactory re sults; the Rhone will have • port. Engineers hays exa mined what inaproveinenta it potsi'ale to make in that of GUM. SiK million eight hundred and fifty thousand francs have been expended on the military ports. This suns has been principally applied all the excairatioto, the jetties of the Mole, the eunstruction of the outer port and basin, and the foundation of the new port, Bohoparte, which, destined to complete this beautiful maritime creation, and worthy of his name, will be, on the Channel, tfte terror of England; at Boulogne, the baiin and the sluice, the completion of the works which constitute the whole of the port, and the con struction of the esta'aiishments by which it is surrounded; at Ambleteme, the works necessary for deepening the port, the elevation of the jiity, which protects at from the sand driven sgaimt,it by the west w.iidi, the line-walls, and the bending', at tires!, Acs losinstiort of ell altliCl3l island, the excavations in the race, toe hirepitata, thz magltines, the arsenal, the barracks, an.t Cr. completion of the batteries; at Antwerp, the continuation of the rapid works, which are to form the arterial of our morio7e, on the North Sea, the erection of quays Aral work shops; oh the read of Rochefort, the jetties mt which Fort Boyard 1. to he erected, and . the °iterations of every kind required by this d Rtcult curutroctron. Eleven other livaits have constantly had storks in activity; Ostend, l ' ur the'even,iletion of the batteries, and the formation of a .narine hesoital ; Dunkirk, for cleansing and repairs; giants*, for the establish .lent of a poetic' magarne ; Havre, bat the inisinienance of its establuhuients; rOricnt, far the • • erection- of • ad• isaloari, *di the rzpairs of its building( ; Itucliercirt, for the repair of the quays, ;114 enclosure Of the arsenal, &c. •Tnulnu, for themm;struition'otTthegeneral ma gazine whieft was frurned, tfti building for the rest Masts, and the works fur raising four vessels, by which it aias obstructed. This port, one of the must beautiful works of art and nature, recovered fiom at disasters, will soon be free from every vestige of therm; the. same hand which took it from the mutiny, will restore it to its foriner prosperity. The election of 129 weighing machines, 100 of wh'ch have already reached the places of their destination, deemed by the laws of the 29th . Floreal, year 10, and the 29th Ventose, year 19, will secure the roarl•frera the injuries committed by the im prudence of carriers, by obliging thorn to proportion the breadth of their wheels to the weightof their carriages. Three telegraphic lines are formed to Breit, Brussels, and Strasburgli y and branches to Boulogne and Cape . Grinee. A fourth line will, in six months, extend to Milan, through Lyons and Turin. • The organisation of bridges and Causeways, established on a plan Snore extensive, and more regular, decreed in the year lg, and executed in the year 13, insures pensions to nl4 ages rewards to services, advancement to merit, and encourage ment to all the engineers ; and proportions that corps, through out the whole extent of France, to the system of the public works. Two new cities are rising in the bosom of a country, for_ merly desolated by civil war, and ton long a imager to our commerce, and to our arts, as well as tc our manner'. its whole population was fixed upon the coasts; the interior will DOW be enlivened. In Morbahan, Napoleonville is proceeding upon the plane decreed this year; it is already advanced. Military tune t. lees, and civil edifices, are erecting there—the Lyceum is ready fur the reception of one boa:circa-I and fifty pupils. Situated an the centre of the new canals of ei.dermit Bretagne, Napoleonville w.ll, in peace, be the centre of an extended commerce ; m war, an imposing ml , itary centre, a deity for the equipment of our marine. La Vendee hails the birth of its new capital ; the city of Napoleon has b-he'd the foondations laid for all the great establhhinents which are suited to its destiny, said are capable of vivifying the department, of which it is We eentre. Issas in (von a forest, formerly deserted, it will summon the larsile of commerce, by the roads that will crust each other ii.ider its walls ; it will behold its happy bituation resorted or, by a population, faithful and deviated to the Prince, who has restored to it religion, tranquillity and abundance —The Emperor has given permi.sion for his name to be iwa pressed on thole two magnificent works, as on two unperishable medal, : they will revive the recollection of great calamities oomplely retrieved. _ (To be continued.) PARIS, MARCH 8. Prince Joseph, brcther to the Emperor, and Com mander.in-Claief of the Army of Naples, took pos session of the kingdom of Naples in the inane of His 3lt t iesty, and issued a Proclamation to that ef feCt, on the 21st of February. This Proclamation announces the irrevocable exclusion of the Dynasty of Naples from the Government of that State. It invites the people to concur in the measures which will be taken to improve their finances, to diminish their wants, and to obtain for them Justice and Peace. Their Magistrates arc retained in their of fices, and those who have abandoned their posts will be replaced by others. Prince Joseph has provi sionally confided the funetions of the Secretary of State, who was absent, to certain Direetors. The Moniker, after announcing the capture of the Cape of Good Hope by the English, makes the following observations : The Captain-General of the Isle of France offered, fifteen months ago, to the Commander of the Cape, to send him two thousand men as a rein. forcernent, but he would not accept it. The four Dutch ships which are at Batavia have done no. thing fur the common cause. They have not once quitted Batavia ; they hate not made one price. It is remarkable, that while England sacrifices Aus tria, and the powers which she has seduced, she 111 employs her power not against Boulonge, to make attempts on our coasts, but to conquer the Dutch Colonies. The English make dupes, but they do not choose to be dupes. They will say after this, that France wishes to exclude them from the Con tinent. It is England, that, by her conduet, has renounced it in the most decided manner. Ob serve, that the King of Naples and the Russians be lieved, that General Baird was to ad in concert with them." A funeral service was celebrated, the day before yesterday, with great pomp, in the metropolitan church of this city, for the warriors who died in the battle cf Austerlitz. The Cardinal Legate of the Pope, all the Bishops at Paris, the Cures of the ca pital, and the clergy of the Imperial Chapel, were present. 'incur, MARCH 8. The Ratoeintt State Garet*, after reciting the Bulletin of the English Admiralty, which an nounces the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, and stating that our loss must have been greater than it is represented, goes on to cbserve—.s We may., in this state of things, consider the retreat of General Jansen,, towards the interior, as a measure very emb ing, and well planned long before ; which may extremely augment the dAculties of obtaining complete possession of the immense plains of the southern extremity of Africa, which may prevent the enemy, in a great measure, from pro curing horses and draft oxen ; as also beeves, butter, and other necessary provisions, and force them to, detach, without delay, towards the interior, a consi derable part of their forces is pursuit of this Bata.: ian 4. General, and to follow his movements in every diree: riots. This will oblige the enemy. to und:rtake costs• tinual marches, rendered the more fatiguing id countries already deprived of the: strticles of the first necessity, and, at all clients, embarrass, retard; or prevent, other operations in The same paper, in communicating, this day,,in an extraordinary sheet, the * speech of the Emperor Napoleon, at the opening the Legislative Body, no tices, particularly, the expressions by which His Majesty has testified his desire to see the war with England terminated; and has declared himself disposed immediately to commence this work. tak ing for basis, the stipulations of the Treaty of Amiens. Ihe said Gazette represents this part of the speech of Eli Majesty, not only as the proof of his pacific sentiments, but as, in some sort, the answer to certain indirect steps, which, since M. Fog's entrance into the English Ministry, have been towards the French government, to arrive at the re-establishment of the maritime peace. After the rending of the E.rpaai, the President of the Legislative Body (M. Fontainca) thauited the that it should lee taken into the consideration of g Committee of the whole Body. . A motion was also made, and carried, to adorn the Hall with a picture, repreirnting the vielories of the last campaign. Other communications have taken place between the Government and the Senate. They relate to the adoption, by the Emperor, of the daughter of the Aerator, Beauharnois, Ambassador to the Cotrrt of Florence, and her marriage with the hereditary Prince of Baden, who arrived at Paris t n the id, for that purpose. Two days afterwards, the Senate teceived an Imperial Message, to the following ef• fee: MESSAGE OF HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND KING Sewasoss—Will , ng to gi•e a proof of our affectinis far the Princess Stephanie, niece alter well-beloved Consort, we Rave betrothed her to the Prince Charles, Hereditary Prince of ledeo, and we have thought l: roper, on this occasion, to ado;it the said Princess. Stephanie Na,iuleon, as our daughter. This 011i011, the mutt of the frieuiship, which has fur several years bound us to the Elector of Baden, has also appeared conformable with oar po:ity, and the good of our people. Our departments of the Elitei w.:I see with pleasure an &Manse, which wit he to them a new motive for cultivating the relations of COMMerCli and good neighbourhood with the subjects of the Elector. Tee datinguished qualities of Pi ince Charles, of Baden, arid the par. titular affection which he ha: 'tartan as, ow en occasions, a' to us, a sure pledge ed tfivfluPpinesa of our daughter. Ac..-u‘. Maned to see her participate in eves thing width intem.s us, we hem thought it our duty to delay no louvr to communi cate t.) y r.O .in all.ance so agreeable to ui. (Signer') N Given at our Palace of the Trilleriea, March 4. The five per Cent. Consuls. 6£ fr. 30 cent. Br. R 1.1102, Y ARCH • The Marquis Luechesini will set out to-morrow upon his return to Paris. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAIICH 19. --....—__ .. The latest Paris Papers received in town are of the Ist instant. We have, hbwever, received The Lodes Gosettes of the 11th And 14th, which, with their Supplements, carry the I'AI-is news down to .' the 9th. The most impo rtant part o f t h e i r con- ‘4 ,; tents is 44 THE EXPOSE OF THE STATE Or THE .. FRESCH EMPIRE;" but though it suns into great • length, it is not given complete ; the conclusion being promised in the next succeeding number.._ This article has been looked forward to with much anxiety and interest. as it is drawn up in imitation of His MaJtsrx's Speech, and intended to carry the same weight in the estimation of Foreign Na- i tions. The present Exposi, so far as it is detailed to us, though of considerable length, throws no new light upon those changes, which, it is well known, BONAPARTE meditates in Europe. That Piedmont is to have a Governor-General at the head of 1 its Government, who is to have his residence at Turin, is :he only new political fact which it dis closes ; and it is only by the aid of a loose and se parate paragraph, we are enabled to discover that Lours BONAPARTE is to be this Governor-General. It commences with the coronation of BONAP AR Tit, as Empeten of the French, and gives a rapid sketch of his subsequent journey to Milan, his coronation as King of Italy, and the various changes af felled by him in Parma, Plaisance, Genoa, and i other states in the North of that Peninsula, all of ; which are described as eminently beneficial to these enslaved, degraded, and impoverished conrtri.s. It then traces his return to Paris, his visit to Bon- ' logne, the march of his army into Germany, and h:s i military operations, down to the peace of Presbnrg. 1 This is given with a still more hasty hand; but the deficiency of detail is amply made up lt,the ea - überance of flattery. We a r e to ld, t h a t f og, 1 --- 17 - 7•1 tyke heart of Germany, " he saw every th ‘ _........., j