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FO4Xletl INtEL LA; LATE.
}SRO![ TUE FRENCH PAPERS.
SITTING C? TUE SENATE, DEC. 2.

M. M:Regnaolt De Saint Jean D'Angelly, and
Lacuee, 'Orators of the Council of State, charged
with presenting • project of Senatus Cousallumt, had
been introduced at the commencement of the Sit-

ting.
M. Regnault mounted the Tribune, and read the
projea of the SCIOtftS COll5ll/i1(11 ; ordering,
That 80,084 conscripts should be raised in 1807 ;
That the appeal, for that purpose, should be
made at the times fixed by the Imperial decrees ;
That the conscripts should be taken from among
the natives of France, born between the Ist of Janu-
ary 1787, and the Slit December, of the same year.
M. Regnault aftern ards explained the motives of
• the Soiatar COnStiqtlllB in the following terms :
" Monseigneur—Senators ! —Little more than a
riii has transpired since His Majesty the Emperor
..041110n, ready to quit his capital to repel the
• 14110081 on of the Emperor of Auetrin, deposited in
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the bosom of the Senate, the assurance that the
French soldiers would do their fluty.
• " Senators ! Europe has seen with what glorious
fidelity this august promise has been fulfilled; and
Otis day. the anniversary of the immortal vittory
of Austerlitz, we feel a pleasure in recalling the
French people to sentiments of happiness and grati-
tiode.
" But this memorable epoch is already removed
!tern us by triumphs not less splendid. That army,
at the bead of which, three months of the last year
sisitEced His Majesty to fight, to overcome, and to
Make peace, has fought and conquered a new ene-
my. His Majesty's soLiers have a second time
sjlFdone their duty.
Ftenchmen ! it is incumbent upon you to do
yours. His Majesty has not less confidence in his
people than in his army, and none of his hopes have
been fruarated Before he matched towards the
Danube, in concert with you, Senators; he called out
the conscripts of 1806, in advance, to join their co-
lours; and he left the guarding of bur coasts, our
Ronti,rs, and strorg places, to the citizens compa-
ring the National Guard,. The National Guar.is
bare honourably fulfilled their dories, and they are
still udder arms in several departments of the en:
pine. The young conscripts have answered with
fidelity and courage to the appeal of the Emperor
End the country. They are in the ranks of our
• eitiorious 4halauxes—ther4e they rival the old sot
eters; and it is to the prudence which has reckoned
eras their bravery, and to the genius which has ern-
.; piled it, that the safety and glory of the empire is
to he imputed. It is to this absolute devotion, to
that more confidence of the people and the army in
the Emperor, that France has to ascribe the circum-
stance of sui-jr the war carried on 250 leagues from
Is* frontiers i and all the calamities inseparable from
Is war, falling upon these who had provoked it.
" Senators! what His Majesty proposed to your
fore-ieht last year. is not less, but rather more, ne.
(*Warr it present. It is iweessary that a new con-
emfmtioes should prepare to carry, if needful. towards
bordera cal the Rhine, the Viso:blithe Spree, and
IMOder, A Mu force so add to oar viaorious army.
It Is necessity that the regiments in the interior
should be filled up, and present to our enemies a re.
/toe ready to My wherever the voice of His Majesty
shalt call them. It is necessary for the interests of
the people and the armies, that their force should
reek His Majesty to regulate their b y. and
therefore in se.ding brave men to the field in great.r
bombers. it costs the less blood to obtain the viaory.
The war. for the reoewal of which England has paid
*ad tebeichwed its prolongation, is in no respea an
elrelisary war. It ought not to terminate with the
autumn of the present year, merely to be renewed in
the autumn of the year following.
" His Majesty wishes to spare his people, and his
Allies. the periodical repetition of banks, where
glory and triumph are always pu:chased by losses
and sacrifices. He has declared to horope his in.
tension of seeming to it a general and durable peace.
It is loom the bosom of the Continent, which Eng-
land wished to sat in a flame, that a terrible war
"hall be hereafter made upon her. It is only in
applying to England, upon all the Ettropean shores,
0w priticmies she has applied upon every sea, that
die Emperor wishes to bring her back to the ancient
isprinciplesbybanotialtnine rigihrts of menand
vesselsof civilized
i'
n lanildfad nations.
romever
gone to which fiis Majesty may gextend his •ieloy
-
1 lions esdle. and his avenging justice, that he will
t. goo ten the Fnglish Ministry for their culpable refu•
i, sal t ) give to the woad, which would be greatly ad-
s vantageroas and iionoutable to her, that peace for
. which the world sighs.
" these are the noble thoughts, the generous pro.
japes. that His Mai sty confides to the Senate, and
to the nation ; the execution of which still requires
the concur of every will. It is to insure their
realisation. LIM the cot.scription of 1807 is to be
obit moose,* itolled for by you, Senators. in the same
Xgras when, fistrteen months since, yogi called
e conscription of 1806. •
a' hiss meatorte, as eatraordinary as the present
animist 41/Cti af Eurttpe. will produce the.hanie, add
Ail mon happy areas. than dre last year. The
eoescripts. who have martbed, have aided in the
earoarst of kingdoms ; those who are going to fol..
low tk C tn, will assist in conquere g peace. .
" You will hasten for them the epoch of devotion
and of combat; they will hasten for their country,
that of peace and gratitude. This is the proj ft of
the Seetro,i C.araltem which His Majesty has order.
ad to be laid before you."
The Senate referred the examination of the pre.
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jelf, and the report was made upon His Majesty's
Message, to a Committee. which had been nominated
during the Sitting, composed of the Senators M M.
Lsicepede, Garat, Barthelemy, Valence, and Peree.
SITTING 0? DEC. 4.
This day the Committee appointed on the 'Zi.l inst.
sent in the following Report by the Senator LiCe.
pede
Mosiseignenr—Senators !—You have sent to
rue Sped .1 Committee the Message which has been
addressed to you by His Imperial and Royal Ma-
jetty, from his head-quarters at Berlin, and which
hss been communicated by his Highness the Prince
Afeh-Ch4rcelkor of the I Avis --.
.• Yoe bay. sent to your Special Committee the
Impinge Deuce,. nailer with ebe two Reports of