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the 'interest 'et the aseetiogs of tee tegiiletive
Body, after their solemn opening, was cot:tined to
the results of the scrutiny for the nomination of
Vice-Presidents ani Sreretaries, till the Minister of
the Interior yesterday came to graily the impatient
expeetation of the assembly and of the public, by ad-
dressing them more at length on the important sub-
jefts, briefly touched upon in the Imperial speech.
The above-mentioned Minister, M. de Champagny,
accompanied by the Ceunsellorsiof State, Crete and
Bigot Preameneu, appeared at the last meeting of
the Legislative Body, and traced, with some detail,
the events that have occurred since the Emperor's
coronation. We shall subjoin this interesting Ex-
pose, to which the great number of LOU has given
a greater extent than usual :
EXPOSE OF THE STATE OF THE EMPIRE.
Messirrirs the Deputies if the Legislative Beilip.-1 am charged
by His Majesty the Emperor to give yogi an account of the
state of the Empire during the vast year.
Its destinies had just barn fixed on an iinny Table basis; a
ceremony, the recolledion of which will form an einalt in its
annals, had raised the Chief of the State, arid his august fl-
u Iy , to the 11,g..ity which the wishes and the wants of France
required, when you last year met iii tlits place, which was con.
Ist:rated by Ins piesetim. In the mid tof you shone the first
rays of that immortal lustre, with which the homage of the
people, and the benedigion of Heaven, have i vested hint—a
happy omen for the labours you were about to undertake
Accordingly, your opirations have answered his expectation,
for they have is 3 been useful. Love for the public weal, and
the inspiration of genius, have guided your steps, and the
unity established in the empire, and so solemnly proelaimed,
has appeared to infuse still more harmony into your sentiments
and your deliberations.
The Emperor, in his turn, had announced to you, that
he looked upon his new honours as a teat debt. To acquit
Himself of this debt, every moms at ef his life has bete devoted.
You know whether he has fulfilled Iris promises, and how far he

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has surpassed your expectations ; you know with what events,
perhaps you win say with whist mollies, a >ear, scarcely claps.
ed, has teemed. These 1 wll recapitulate, without pretending
is give a complete acensat of them, or to describe their im-
mense results. Europe, still motionless with astonishment
arid terror, and Franey, transported with admiratrun and lov-,
render it unnecessary for me to say what I should in sato an.
tempt to express.
Scarcely were your labours concluded, whet the Em-
peror resolved to visit a part of France. If he were every
where greeted with the most lively and the most novel.
mous testimouies of public alkv.tion, if the
of the city and of the country ran to meet hire, cunning the
bormige of their gratitude and of !-eve, lie Pas not ex-
perienced a pleasure Its. gratece o liis heart, is be/bolding,
with his own eyes, the reset, an Adniiiii•tration, incesssotry
animated, int the last s:s years, by the rest generry;s sr.%••.ude
fur the welfare of the people, and the resterar:r,o of puluig
order. He has seen the traces of our misery I, Ind their
memory of them almost extingir:shed; the lasts respected,
tits Magistrates zealously devoted to tiara. Tomah
preyed, religious ideas honoured, French or', t•:o.r restored to
its former delicacy. If some ameliorations ruin remain to be
effected, they were net such rrTarations as succeed great this.
liters, but improveineuts wbrelt belong to a period of tran-
quillity and of prosperity; yet the Emperor wished to be mad*
acquainted with them, and to accomplish there. He sent for
all those who, by their functions, or their intelligence, wee
cspable of seconding his views; admitted all those who had
favours to solicit; gave a favourable reception to their de-
mands; provoked and listened to their observations; rewarded
services, inspected, in person, the minutest details; and, where.
aver he went, he left, in the measures of his sublime wisdom,
durable monuments of his passage.
Troyes was first honoured with his presence, and obtained
his first beauty ; this bounty promises an existence worthy of
ib ancient celebrity, The prcjiel olalfMiigatirei of the Seine,
. by the seise vessels, front Paris to Chatillen.net far from its
seoree, is conceived ; the details of it are completed, The im-
provement of tbat of the Saone is proMEled.; the towns whiles
It bathes are reeettinieMhollishments; the quiyi of Chalons,
Townes, and Macon, are to be improved and enlarged. Ma-
con will have a cathedral erected within its walls, mire beau-
tiful than that whiles destruction it regrets; the Emperor eon-
' libelee to this edifice a considerable sum from his private
morns s. The Smile, rendered navigable, will be a new be-
' I;efit for the Department of the Saone sad Loire; the Depart.
silent of L'Ain awakes at the sight of its Servemrigri, who
essay thing, and who manifests art ardent desire to inert ase
its in4ustry, and to correct the insalubrity of a portion of its
territory.

Lyons, already hurled with the bounties of him who re-
built as edifices, and re-pc,ipled its manufactoaar, has no far-.
the? wishes to form, and is anxious only to pour forth its just
transports to the deliverer whom it laves. Hut the solicitude of
the Emperor, for this capital of French indurtry, is not ex-
hausted; and when his subjects are filled only with gratitude,
his eye discovers farther means of accelerating the progress of a
prosperity continually increasing since the commencement of
his reign. The southern provinces of the city will be tendered
salubrious; the Rhone will be restrained within its banks, arid
brought n the city, which it seems inclined to abandon ;
wise regulations secure fidelity in the manufarterier, and the
confidence of the foreign colisomer, without injuring the li-
berty of industry ; rewardr, decreed by the Emperor himself, re- I
disable the emulation of the workman ; a drawing-scliimal will
insure the improvement of the art. Lytin‘, communie.iting
with the sea towards the. South, very soon with the Rhine by
the Canal Napoleon; with the Oscan and the Channel by the
Saor.r, the Loire, and the Seine; with Swdzerland and with
Piedmont, will become a mart, the liappy ,iitilatiwa of which
cannot (61 to realm it the centre of a widely-extended corn-

merre.

The ancient Savor, luny opprzssed by the p...fitics of it. 5...
vereigno, happy its being ua r..tr b/ its laves, to a country to

t VCi) it ihr3fll.l).-1011alt by tits triennia, peewits to the Em-
peror, hearts, wh9te fideli,y has already been tried. flyer/
thing is in motion its its sallies, forme.), almost ittac;essibie,
and which will speedily be opened to the ine.t productive com-
munications; bat the gre;;..utiv.rations, of which it is the
theatre, do not cause its minutest interests to be negl.!cted.
The palace of Chain!very is rising again from its adies;
sertud calthem are restored to public utility; midmost are open-
ed for indigence; resting.places are afforded co the traveller;
the greeds of industry are scattered ov..r a sal to which thzy ap-
peared to be sttangets.

The Emperor crossed the Alps, by the route which his i
genius had planned, and which his power has executed. litre
a new scene presented itself to his view ; Piedinout still ex-
hibits some vestiges of a revolution, less terrible, but more re-
cmit than mut. It appears trot to be entirely French, either
y the sentiments which prevail in it, or by the advantages it
enjoys. The Emperor, who had twice appeared under the
walls of Turin, at the herd of a viEtorious army, but did mt
enter that city, from repeet jot misfortune, or weaknees, en-
tered it for the first time ; he there appeared as the father of
his new children, without soldiers, without guards 3, attended
oily by the benefits he brought with him,, greater and mere
powerful for this noble security. The affection to which he
confided was. displayed on every side, The Piodusontese
thawed themselves worthy of the confidence with which he
honours them. The public homage supplied hint with a m-
tiout; the wealthy individuals, in a separate body, premed
amend him; unsteady administrations, borrowine:lightitrem his
genius, proceeded with a mere firm and more regular step;
abuses are reformed, laneuishing commerce is revived, new
markets are promised it; uncertainty is fixed ; opinions are re-
conciled 3 those whe, in difficult times, devoted themselves to
the interests of of Francs, are assured that faithful Frince w sal
not forget their services; those who, impressed with the
bounty of their former mastersoliought that misfortune added
to the duties of gratitude, learn that their new sovereign is too
generous, to remember any thing, but that seal, of which they
have shown ti.emselres capable; services are rewarded, be their
date what it may, and the new cottony to which it is annexed,
acquits debts of the old. The principal families admitted to
the imperial Throne, diffuse around them the lustre of the he•
nours they have received ; the great laid-owners, without
hoping ler the restoratMii ofany prhilege, have no exclusion
to fear; every thing assumes the place assigned to it by wisdom
and justice; Piedmont, formerly conquered by arms, is new
natur.dised by bm,.ty.

Eve-y part of Piedmont ail! owe to this period important
institutions. Turin, C-isal, Alexandria; Twin, formerly the
residence of a Court; Caen, the ancient capital of Monument,
long naturalised by affections avid by manners; Alexandria,
around which, as on their pivot, have revolved great military
operations. Turin, widowed of her Icings, is consoled by an
august promise ; a brother of the Emperor will govern that
be rutiful country, and his well. known character guarantees the
happiness which he will canie it to enjoy ; he will reside at
Twin ; an amiable and brilliant Court will restore to that
city much more than it has lost; its magnificent Palace will be
the abode of beneficence and of the Graces. Formerly, a
glesteoy forams, surrounded by enemies ; now opened to France
soil Italy, of iv hichit seems to be the bowl, it is encircled only
by amcable nations, and commerce and the arts hastening to
resort to it, will lavish upon it their bleating:. Canal, forgot-
ten to this day, but zealously devottd to the Mel of the Ern- '
pire, has greeted him with acclamations, arid not uttered a sin-
gle complaint. The Emperor his anticipated ell its wishes--
a Lyceum, a Bishop's See, and Tribunals, restore life to that
handsome city; concessions enrich it. These benefits will
give a rapid developemern to the advantages it derived from its
- happy situation, front a favourable climate, and all the gifts of
• nature. Alexandria, proud of receiving within its walls the
same brave men whose victory it beheld, and by whom it was
conquered, celebrated their arrival as • triumphant festival;
they were a:sembled within its walk. The Conqueror of „Ma-
rengo was surrounded by the companions of his glory, in that
plain which was the illustrious theatre of it. The prizes of valour
were distributed by the same hands that directed their exploits;
a monument ism...crated to the menu of those who sacrificed
themselves/sir their country. The people of Italy, assembling
to this spectacle, celebrated, with the French soldiers, the anni-
versary aa ria! which Axed their destinies, by coltirmitigthir•
of Trauce. to such places the French will always be sure to
conquer; there will be established the bulwark of the empire,
there will rise the first fortified town in Furope. The rivers
are turned to protest its circumference ; the most profound
combinatioes of art direfi immense operatious, on which more
than twelve ntilliens of francs have been expended. The Em-
peror hes traced the plan, amt followed all the details ; it
renders Alexandria the sat of all the great military establish-
, mints; but, by assigning so it such high import ince in war,
he will ennfer upon it all the blesiings of peace ; lie establishes
its internal administration ; he creates for it a comineree of
staple and transit, destined for it by the rivers that bathe it,
said the cowireensiestions of whist' it it the centre ; its plains,
formerly desolated by banditti, am delivered from the scourge,
by which, for ages, the" hare been devastated.

The blessings whieh accompany U. Emperor have bran
heard along the while chain of the Apennines Genoa has
heard them—she has hastened to present to the Enspemr hi r
homage and her wishes—her wishes are to be French—she is
half so already, by her affeetions, by her habits. The interest
of her own existence commands her to be so entirely. Inclosed
between the ma, which formerly nourished her, and& which our
elem los, who arc her enemies, have strut the pa...ages, and those
mountains, of which oar laws, wisely prohibitory, makes barrier
for her, Genoa, in want of every thing, without troops, with-
out laws, almost without government, solicited the honour of
an adoption, which has united her to a great people, and ad
witted her to a ..hare of the blessings which they enjoy, and of
the first of all, their government. This wish has been arrom
plashed. It was that of all classes of citisens, and th r ninon
has been to al: a benefit. The Emperor has consnraird it by

his preserve. It has been received with the transports which
a Deliverer ha+ excited. Genoa, French, receives the com-
modities ref Fledmont ; furnishes France with the produce of
its industry; lives and enriches itself by her; and promises
her, in lier turn. an increv.e of maritime force, and of com-
mercial riches. Several of her intim'', already known to the
F.nrperor, have received from hies flattering distinflions. The
French laces are introduced there, without hurting any of the
interests 'Web formerly fl,urishsithc.c. The public debt is.

eons:ilidAted; its territory egerandiied. It is divided into I

',armada, add the clepaitment nearst to France bas rett.e.vet:

a name which recoils to the memory one of the fuss victor,:
of the Hero of France ; one of the tir.t crowns with
Ifigtercr adorned that,forehearil,
statics se covered with laurels.
The land on which this first laurel, the presage of so man,
immortal successes, was gathered, well deseived to he Frt•Fv.A.
The benefit of this organisatitm is .secured to Genus by the
choice of a Grand Dignitary, neinitiateol W estahlish it.
Parma and Plaisance, long uncertain of their destinies, still
snhjected to arthic institutions, have also possessed the Chief
of the Empire, auddate from hi: passage a cede of laws, s
system of administration, suited to this enlightened age. If
false alarms have excited a momentary distorlmont in state
rallies of those states, prompt, but villd measures, have sown
restored order morn/ the misguided shepherds, incapable
themselves of assigning the rause of an agitation almost purr.
ile, and which ceased, the moment it became the object ea•
tenger ottentioat,. holeaawhile Italy lass changed it. foce, and
the ancient kingdom of the Lombards is renered at the voice
pf Nepotsm,. reposing wider the shade of the tasO.
nareby, Irons its long convulsions, has no longer a: a
envy France. The same tussah aisimate, it ; the saw- posrr
protects if ; the same spirit forms its new institutions,
dating them to situation aril its n11:411 .11. 14 all is.
sainted, in the name of its Lime, bin whore at had c& sea
deliverer. Mantua received with transport him who was ender
it; wills the vanquisher of care armlet*, sent to delerid it
at Castiglione. the French suldicrs tricot to trion•
memory the successes of the army of Italy. lit whatever part
of Europe the genius may conduct them, who has an often
led them to victory, they annalist themselves mill Lome tea,
tram su:cenes. Italy is proud of receiving laws from a new
Charlemagne, and fancies that she sees springing up oath het
ancient gh..rr, all the prosperity which her climate srd her
soil entitle herb. A Prince, taught by his lemma, ariaptrd
early by his affeetions, as he has been sines by his Jr trees,
caatinues lar. work, in forming hitosolf opera this model.—
Italy attaches herself with enthusiasm to he steps. Dis,ilsri.,g
a new character, she hopes to prove, that her 141 W. Welk.ll6
Was the vice of het institutions, and not the fault of her in.
habitants. France, who receives with aridity the &tail f
these grand cruatio.•, sd:yoscs the Emperor still racelipi; I
accomplishing them, wheat he is already at the gate of h.er
capital to give an account of the intemal situation of the en.
pint. In a few days after, England, astonished, hears resoorid-
ing upon the coast of Boulogne, the report of the cartoon

which announces his pretence. It is there, in the roilit of
the chosen troops of his array, in the List cares of there g:.:11
prepar lions, that he comer to taste repels. fits !wig c:•
eulations are just on the point of execs:) ion : Tie army, ::e•
patient, fancies the moment arrir ait, which will retompenrc tt

long labours; but Englaqd, tie•tbling not for its glory or its
commerce, but for its very existence, has prepared upon tha

Continent, a prnirroful divers:on. She has sent forth a cry of
terror; at this cry th' Continent is in commotion. Its tau-
nters have taken arms. From all parts, they a Ivan(' against

France. Already they menace her frontiers. U,ron this ere
expeded aggression, the Emperor changes his plans of raw
, paign ; England triumphs in hating poured upon the cContie
neat all the evils which she had dreaded. Vain triumph! She
hare soon learned, that she has only precipdated ruin ups
those whom site roes:ded as her supports, and dug as abyss,
that must swallow them up.
In a few days, the Emperor hal carried his army from the
Musks of the Clannel, to the hauks of the Rhine. Ile had
taken leave of the Senate, of the Nation. He had paned the
Rhine. He was at Ulm, at Vienna, u Ansterlite. I •di all
attempt to recount exploits really wonderful, which CIA roll
he related in suitable terms, by him who has performed them.
Exploits, which we all know; which we will teach our clad-
dren, the moment they are capable to listen to them; wish*
our grand.children will relate with pride, and which can't tete,
fur ever, the glory of the nation,;alniost at seeded as its locovie
parable Chief. As Minister of the Emperor, I disappoint ti 4
intentions, in holding this language; bast I sin a Petri...,
happy to be an; and I am unable to speak coldly of him, WA.)
constitutes the glory, and the prosperity of my country.
I have commence I this sketch of so many events, at there
of the consolation. Yoe know how glom our is bee ime, at
toe end of one year, this memorable epoch ; and his: t,..t
crown, given by a great people, has been confirmed, by G'4
ard Victory, upon a head so worthy to carry it. —That with
which you are less acquainted, and upon which it become
me to say more, is, that in the midst of these inninente 354
painful labours, when the Emperor, giver up to the chasms
and vicissitudes of war, underwent all its fatigues a corn-
/Don soldier, eeposed to ail the sevenity f a rig nous testae,
having often for his bed nary a bundle of straw, i, fur Iris one
tering the heavens, from which all the fire of his ge,iiii; mores
to emanate ; even then, at the distance of three hundcd
leagues, he held all the threads of the Administration of 1 rime,
took care of its most minute details, attended to the lantern
of his people, as to those of his soldiers, ass entry thirst
knew every thing, like to that invisible Spirit, which rimer
the world, r,..J which is only known by its power .1:1
betaatty.-7AS evidences of this, you bare the numerous!,
trees dated from Ulm, Munich, Vienna aud Austerlitz
The interior was stripped of troops—Paris had not a r •,
diet, and yet never wee public miler more strict:, ntailitaieri
—never were the laws better executed. France ob”cd
name of its Sovereign, or rather the sentiment of lose arid ae
miration which she felt. It was this sentiment which bet
end the progress of the conscription, and made its prha°"
thro..tilil before the time when the contingent was etpstkd
be raised. by it is formed this long rampant of 'to:unto:y*3
diem, which line our frontiers from the Charted to t:ie
a new army, almost spontaneously formed, and soh ch tth
noences to Europe, that, at the voice of its Chief. Too*'
Min become a great army. It it this sentiment of eie
and military ardour, which aiitmates dime young mei. •
press to enrol themselves in the Emperors Guard of II
and who alone, in all France, may regret the rap d,ty
exploits, in which they had no part.
Peace was c.included, before, in many put. of Frame'.
was scarcely known that the war was begun a eat mi.
long as your annual Session, and the consiquences of w
must embrace future ages, larol.e, and the tithe. •
world.

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If courage and genius have made war, Eznzro;
dention have concluded peace; a Sovereign, ode t
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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
the 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-
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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
ranimunication 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..trn a more tele and easy passage t-ss-ds distant regions.
Titz produce u: tLiz tax for keeplog on the toed., 00"m'
41g 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.
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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
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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

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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.

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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.

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(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 3lttiesty, 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.