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FROM THE DU ICH PAPERS.

HAGUE, DEC. 16.
Their High Mightinesses were this day assembled,
and will, on Friday, proceed to business.
The following letter was received from His Ma-
jesty on the 11th :
" Louis Napoleon. by the Grace of God, &c. to
the Assembly of their High Mightinesses
.4 We send you with these, the pr4et of the law
announced in our Message of the Ist inst.
" Considering that among Monarchies, Holland
is the only one in which there is no order of Knight-
hood:

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"Considering that the Dutch nation is as cele-
brated as any other in the military annals of the
world, and that it is our duty not to neglea any
means which may tend to preserve this nation in
that rank and esteem which it has at all times en-

joyed :
" Willing, at the same time, to institute public
rewards, for such of our subjeas, of all ranks, as
have distinguished, or may distinguish themselves,
particularly the officers in the sea and land service,
we present to yon the following decree i—
t. 1. There shall he rustled a Grand Order of the Kingdom,
under the der:emination of the Order of the Union, aiid be-
sides that an Older of Merit, intended fur the Burghers and
the Military.
"ii. The Great Order of the Union shall consist of thirty
GratidUrotwes at most. To this Order no pecuniary privileges
are to he attached; hot the es peaces attending its adminiiira-
tinn shell be proviikd by his Mainly, for such persons as shalt
he ifirthigui,hed by Cie grant of she Order.
Th, Royal I Wet of Meet shall consist, at most, of
50 Comman,iers, awl 3.41 )(thetas
"4 Tim Royal Urd .r of Minis shall be endowed with an
annual revenue of 50.00 n !tutus, which is to Ire deduOed from
WI yearly increase of the ~venues Of the State.
5. The King is to be (lactate I the Chief Grand Masterand
*under of both Orden.
" 6. The King mall nominate all the Grand Crows, Com-
manJen and Knights of both Orders, being assisted by a Chap-
ter, formed out of the three senior Coinutanders and seiner
Knights, and a Great Cliancellerof the Order chosenfrom the
COmiltinders,aihi who is to be Teuelorer at the same time.
" 7. The King shall determine upon the necessary rules and
/*notations, reauertisig the de-orations, discipline, and adini•
*natation of both Orders, and the distributien of the fund
appropriated to the Older of Merit.
" And this Decree shall he transmitted to His Majesty.
" We eonsmend you to Goal's holy keeping.
" Given at oni Royal Palace of the Hague, Dcc. 11, 1606,
. is the first year 04 one ici=a,
(Sir ")
oar ON TN& 0055, NOV • 30.
Since the armies of the French and their allies
base spread further in Prmsia. Poland, and Silesia,
.14 the account., rat their 4:vacations are less connefted
and mare itni .:rted than before. We only know,
that the same good fortune as before continues to
emend the Fiend) arms, and to which we may now
mdd t‘:t follnwing pat ticulars: The public spirit in
pci,,,d continues to increase ; all who can obtain
arnis show themselves: darts) are 10,000 men, 61-
1 vas: y and infantry. already belWeenPownand Lancje,
completely armed.
ftfarshal Lannes advanced towards Thorn, on Vie
eight bank of the Vistula, on the tlst; and Marshal
A tigers-au has given orders to attack Cnlberg, and
the tort of Dantxic, which are not yet in the hansts
of the French.
e troops that have been employed in Silesia.
before Schweidnitz and Nets.,, and had withdrawn
born those places, have again invested them. Since
•. ) - she 2Pith, a column of Bavarian troops have matched
Sowards Pottikau, is order to approach nearer that
way to
A numb-r of troops have passed the Oder within
these three days, whi!e others are marching to Sae-
!
• al.+, so that scarcely 30,000 men remain in Bran-
denburg and Saxony.
TillßTY.Ftrnt BULL! LIND/ MI GRAND ARMY.
" Niue, ?fov, at, 4.6.
" The Fmprror left Berlin at two o'clock in the
) afternoon of the 95th. and arrived at Custrin on the
same evening about sir. Oa the setb, he was at
lfticxerite ; and on the 27th. at ten o'clock at night,
be arrived at Posen. The neat day his Majesty gave
audience to the venous States of the Poles.
Nlarthal Du.oc continue.! his journey to Oste.
rode, where be found the King of Pruesia, who de-
.
dared to him, that a part If his Slates uwer in /hm
jsameasioe of the Russians ; Mat he we: &patient Iva
thel ; earmettscally hr esald eel ref.& lee armistice
• ,h.eh had &ea counseled Iv 44 Farau, &Awe it was
not in Ai, p a. r le
sotto the stipulated conditions.'
" The Grand I /aloe of Herg, with a part of the ca-
valry of the Reserves VII the c stye under Marshals
Davoust and I.asnes, and Augereau, have enterer!
Warsaw. The Russian General Renningacn, who
occupied the place before the French arrived, evacu-
R Merl it on linarin:: of the or .6 of the French

,n 7 t.. ippro ..
and that they intended to give him !rattle.
" Prince Jerome, with a corps of Bavarians. is at
X:iUtsch. All the rest of the army has arrived at
Posen.
•• Marshal Mortice. after taking possession of the
norise-ttswas, proceedel towards Aticlam, Rostock,
and Swedish Pomerania.
•• The surrender of {Liman was marked by some
' . • particular circumstances :
; " Resides the g.reison. it seems that after the bible
of the 14th, some Prussian betiding's had taken re-
fute there. lfilorders reigned among the numerous
r. r-..ei. The Officers were exasperated unbolt the
Gerweali, and the soldiers asiWast the Officers.-
5, arcely WAS the capitulation si4ne.l. when General
St.ary received a letter from the Commandant.
At • General Van %choler, which he very properly an-
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op
'were& In the mean while the proton was in •
' ewe of isourtectiria. and the first act of the mutineers
IMO to break open the mapaisies where the brandy
was deposited, and with which they were soon intoii-
li • Gated. Jut consequence of this situation, they soon
, tegan to fire upon each other in the streets--soldiers.
•. , (rheas and otfrtera, pell-melt, altogether. lbsoriler
i . was dll its height--General Van bawler, writ courier
0. 0 after courier to General Savary, to request him to
take preiseetiee of the place. omit before the appoint-
ed time. To this the General ceiviarated ; advanced.
a-til enured the place through a dowser st bullets.—
It le drove all the soldiers of the garrison &brooch owe
Odle Titer into a wrighboonag meadow where be
. aseentbled she Officers. and gave the. Is-esderdansl
. that die behaviour was owing to their felaveil d;a-
eipiime. - lie then pre them a cater' is sir. anti re-
' ... whored VON is die piece.. It is thinighe mecca' 686.
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" LOUIS."

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