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the ge:rlti s,f Frete ellaa bees yew ptineipal ease,
the niters:se of Spaiu hiesell has, however, hers
dear. and in uniting the thiro States, by the most to-
innate illative, the prosy krity and the glory of both
were equally the objects proposed. The troubles
which have manifested themselves have particularly
asscited the 'dice/ode of your Majesty, in deprecat-
ing their progress, in foreseeing their and canoe-
spienets, in hoping to'prevent them by persuasive
•neaus„and by measures of wise and humane policy.
Your Niajwity interfered as a mediator iu the midst
of the divided Spanianla, sheering them on one side
t!ie anarchy which threatened them, and on the other
England reedy to iirolt by their divisions, end to
snake use of thew to suit her convenience,und paint-
ing out to them the way by which they might be
ii•ir.s.l from tins doable danger, by a constitution,'
ever provideut, proper to provide :ill of which they
stood in need, and iii whidi Own, ideas intermixed
themselves with those micieut institutions which
Sp uin wished to lie prey. reed.
Toe expectations of your Majesty hare been de-
'reived. interests, foreign intrigues, and
un influeuces of iiineign corruption have prevailed.
Why is it so easy to lead nations to their ruin by
letting loose their pas.viens ? Ia a former Report,
I have made your Majesty aoquaiuted with the in-
/locum which the English were acquiring in Spain,
the numerous party that they had formed, the
friewids whom they had acquired in the commercial
towns, by holding out to them the prospect of a
revival of their trade; 1 had pointed theta out to
you as authors of the sedition which overturned the
Throat of Charles IV. and the favourers of the psi.
pillar disorders which arose at that °pod'. They
hart burst through that salutary restraint which
keeps the people in submission, by operating upon
their Interest. The populace of Spaiu having shaken
off the yoke of authority, aspersed at governing.—
guld, the intrigues of the agents of the In-
eluisation, who were afraid of losing their authority,
Lee influeuce of the numerous tribe of Monks in
:Spain, who dreaded a reform, have, in this critical
minneut, occasioned the insurrectiou of several
Spanish provinces, in which the voice of the more
priideut class has been either mistaken or stifled, of
whom net a few have fallen victims to their count-
wow, opposition to popular tumult, and a dreadful
unamliy has been seen to diffuse itself over the
greatest part of Spain. Will your Majesty permit
England to be able to say, " Spain is one of my
prerinees, my flag, drivel' from the Baltic, the
North Sea, the Levant, and even from the shores
of Persia, rules in the ports of France ?" No, never,
Fore :—To prevent so much shame and misfortune,
two millions of brave men are ready to scale the
Pyrenees, end the English wi'l be chased from
the peninsula. If the French fight for the liberty
of the seas, they must, to conquer, begin by
wresting Spain from the influence of the trains of
the ocean. If they combat for peace, they cannot
obtain it until they have chased from Spain the
enemies of peace.
If your Majesty, embracing the future as well
as the present, aspires to the noble object of leaviug
After von your empire calm, tranquil, and stir.
r Jed by powerful friends, you must begin by
sccuring its influence in Spain.
Lastly, If honour is the first sentiment, as well
as the fhrst object of Frenchmen. your Majesty
must promptly inflict vengeance for the outrages
emninitted spoon the French name, and the atro-
cities to which so great a number of our country-
snmi here fallen victims. Frenchmen, establishes'
in Spain for more than twenty years, exercising in
, tome their useful industry, and almost regarding
Spain es their country, have been massacred.—
Every where Fieurb property has bean seized.
The Coosular Agents of your Majesty have expe-
rieucod a treatment which would not have been sal-
erred vireo in the most barbarous countries. What
"ItillaUtiOn• whet consideration, will the French
name enjoy in Europe, if, in it country so near to
us, atrocities so infamous and so public remain
nitpunislied ? Reparation ought to he had for
them—hat u reparation consonant to Frenchmen,
by victory.
It is no small advantage the probability of at
length ineetiug the English, of fighting them man
to 111411, Or making them also feel the evils of war—
of a war, of the dangers of which they are igno-
rant, having only caused it by their gold. The
Eii4lish will he beaten, destroyed, dispersed, or :it
le.tst they will make haste to fly, as they did at
Toulon, at the IlAder, at Dunkirk, in Sweden,
road emery where the French armies have been able
to ind them; bin their expulsion from Spain will
be the min of their cause. This last cl-eck will
exhaust their means, anisihilatiug ;it the same time
their last hope.', and peace will become more Fro-
"table. The ishcs of all Europe will in this con-
test he with France. France and Russia make
1111 l mon cause agaiiist England. Demnark sup-
ports with honour a contest which she did not pro-
v.ike. Socilen, lotrayed and abandoned by the
ally to whom au insane Cabinet has sacrificial her,
has already lost her most important provinces, and
is haste • g to that ruin which is the iuevitable
effect of alliance and friendship with England.
Such sill be die fate of the insurgents in Spain.
the contest becomes serious, the English will
almeidon Spain, after making them the sad bequest
«r a civil war—of a war for foreign interests, and
fur onsirehy, the most cruel of scourges. It will he
for the wisdom and beneficence of your Majesty to
repair the reds of ulna' they will be the cause.
The Court of Vll'llll3 has constantly testified to
your Majesty the must amicable intentions; indig-
nant at the policy of England, she has recalled her
Minhiter from London. scut hack the Minister who
was at Vicima, shut her ports against Euglainl, and
placid herself in a state of hostility with that
Power. 51w has added to these measures an inter-
dict iu her ports ugniust the admission of vessels
%%Midi, look; a neutral Sag, am only tile earners of
English Kralove and nierchandies. Your Majesty
has coltivated this favouralile disposition ; has
tes-
tiiel to the Court of Vieuna friendship and confi-
deoce; and has several times intimated to her, that
Fraure takes a real interest in her prosperity. Lit-
terly, however, this Power has carried its armament
inevisiire—its military force is out of all pr -
tau hen
to its population and finances. Your Mlis
ni..ters. Sire. only wish to remark this, in order that
your :.lajesty may perceive the necessity of aug-
menting your force, for the piinue,e of still pre-
the relative superiority which exists liettvena
die power mid the population of the two empires.

A new revolution has broken out at Coustanti-
-triple. Sultan Mustapha has been deposed.
The Americans, a people who involve their for-
tune, their prosperity, and almost their existert*,
in cosumeice, have e,trea the example IN a great
and courageous sacrifice. They bare inhibited, by
a general embargo, all commerce isud all naviga-
tion, rather than shamefully submit to that tribute
winch the Euglish impose on the navigation of al,
nations. Germany, Maly. Switzerland, and Hol-
land, are peaceable, and 'wait only for a maritime
peace to exert all their industry:
That peace is the wwh or the world, but Eng-
land opposes it ; and England is the enemy of the
world, The French nation, all Europe, knows the
efforts made by your Majesty to obtain peace ;
they know that your enterprians are the immediate
rc%ult of the ill success of the attempts which you
have made to obtain it.

The devotion of the French people' is without
hounds ! and it is mare especially wider circum-
stances which are so essentially connected with their
liononr and its pecurity, that their sentiments will
be evinced, and that they will shew themselves
worthy of reaping OW harvest of glory and honour,
which your Majesty has prepared for theta. I ant,
with respect, &c.

MESSAGE OF THE EMPEROR AND KING NAPO-
LEON, TO THE SENATE. •
SENATORS-My Minim er for Foreign Affairs will
lay before vim the different treaties relative to
Spain, and the constitutions agreed to by the
Spunish Junta. My War Minister will acquaint
you with the wants and the situation of any armies in
the different parts of the world.
I am determined to carry on the war with Spain
with the utmost actisity, and destroy the arm( s
which Erigleld has disembarked in that country.
The future security of my subjects, the prosperity
of commerce, and a maritime peace, must alike
depend on these important operations.
My alliance with the Emperor of Russia extin-
guishes every hope which England can entertain
from her projects. I have no doubt respecting the,
peace of the Continent, hut I neither will, nor
ought to rely upon the false calculations and flu.
errors of other Courts, and since my neighbours
increase their armies, it is a duty incumbent on me
to increase mine.

The Empire of Constantinople is struggling with
the most Violent convulsions; Sultan Schuh the
best Emperor the Ottomans have had for a length
of time, has just fallen by the hands of his owe
nephews. This catastrophe has deeply affected ine.
I impose fresh sacrifices on my people, confident of
their support ; they are necessary, in order to se-
cure them from heavier sacrifices, and to lead them
to the grand result of a general peace, which ought
also to be considered as the moment of repose.
Frenchmen, my projects have but one object in
view, your happiness and the permanent well-being
of your children ; and, if I know you right, you
will hasten to comply with this new call, rendered
necessary by the interests of the country. You
have so often assured me of your affection, I will
behold the sincerity of your sentiments in the ala-
crity with which you will second projects that are so
iutimuttly connected with your dearest interests,
with the honour of the Empire, and with my glory.
Given at the Imperial Palace of St. ('loud, this
ath Sept. 1808. (Signed) NAPOLEON.

REPORT OF THE WAR MINISTER TO HIS MA-

JESTY, THE EMPEROR AND, KING.
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SIRE—I have the honour of laying before your
Majesty the state and situation af your Majesty's
armies in Poland, in Prussia, and in Silesia, in
Denmark, in Dalmatia, in Albania, in Italy, Na-
P• te. and in Spain. I annex to it that of your Ma-
jesty's armies of reserve, at Boulogne, on the coasts,
on the Rhine, and in the interior. Your Majesty
will perceive that France never before possessed
more numerous or better appointed armies, and that
they sere never better kept up, or better provi-
sioned.

Notwithstanding, however, the different events
which have taken place in Spain, have occasioned
a pretty considerable loss, in consequence of an
operation as inconceivable as it is painful, of the
division under General Dupont; your Majesty has
notified the resolution you have taken, of aiwiem Wing
more than two hundred thousand men beyond the
Pyrennees, without, however, weakening either the
armies in lierinany, or that of Dalmatia. For the
attainment of this end, • levy of eighty thousand
men' appears to be indispensable. Your Majesty
can only take these eighty thousand from the four
classes of the conscription of the years leo6, 1807,
1808, and lao9.

It is ascertained by the registers kept in my office,
that independently of the men who have married
within these four years, the conscription for these
years might furnish six hundred thousand. In
taking from that number a levy of eighty thousand
men, your Majesty will have culled out only one
conscript nut of seven, and the vacancies in the ar-
mies will he tilled up with soldiers of 21, 22, and
23 years of age ; that,is, with men fit sail pLepoow4
to undergo this fatigue.. of war.
Nor hos it escaped your Majesty's foresight, that
such an augmentation of force would necessarily
involve an increase of expense of several millions in
the Vier Department. It is not your Majesty's
wish that I should detain your attention with that
object in this report ; your Finance Minister has
taken upon him to make good that charge, without,
in anywise, increasing the taxes established by the
lost law.

It is true, Sire, that the custom observed of late
years, might, to a certain degree, induce u part of
lour subjects to consider themselves as released
train the duty of the conscription, from the mo-
ment, that, upon the total mass, they had furnished
the contingent required for the year; and wider
this point of view, what I propose to your Majesty
might appear to require from your subjects a sa-
crifice ; hut,Sire, there is no one but knows, that,
by the words of the law, your Majesty would he
authorised to call to your standard the whole of
the eonscription, not only of the last four y ears,
but eien of the antecedent years ; and even were
there questions of a real sacrifice, what sacrifice is
it that your Majesty has not a right to expect from
the love of your subjects ? Who among us is igno-
rant that Tom- Majesty wholly sacrifices yourself
for the happiness ed France, and that upon the
speedy accosakilishment of your high designs—the

repose of the world, the future safety, and the re-
establishment of a maritime peace, without which
France can never cßjoy calm and tranquillity ?
proposing to your Majesty to declare, twat
henceforth no retrospective call shall take on au an-
tecedent conscription, 1 only participate, Sire, your
piArnal wiblies.

I think it expedient, at the same time, to propose
to your Majesty to order out the conscription of
the dear fain, and to deteriniut the alumna of it,
from the present ia.tant, at eighty thousand men,
to tarnish the means, as occasion may require, of
forming camps of reserve, and of protecting the
coast in the spring time. This conscription would
be raised only under the apprehension of a war with
other Powers, nor would it be culled out before the
month of January next.
Sire, it is a misfortune inseparable from the pre-
sent state of Europe, t.at when one Power exceeds
the unwind of the forces prop.ortioned to its popu-
lation, the other Powers cauuat dispense with in-
creasiier theirs in the same proportion.
Engrand, independent of the immense number of
her seamen, has on foot an army of more than
two hundred thousand men ; nor is she occu-
pied, in every Session of her Parliament. with any
thing so ranch as with the increase of her land
forces. The armies of Austria have been consider-
ably increased. France, although she has armies
more numerous than all the other Powers, has, noi-
witledantling. fewer men under arms than any of
them, compared with her population.
four Minister for Foreign Affairs assures me,
that a strict alliance subsisted between your Ma-
jesty and Russia. Thearmanients of Austria have
often excited my solicitude. The same Minister
assnred me, that the best u.iderstandiug was kept
up with Austria, and that her levies should only be
considered, either as precautions, or as the effect of
apprehensions, which are forcibly impressed on
every Court, by the numerous Agents which Eng-
land continues in pay oil the Continent.
But if it does sot belong to the be.msess of my
department to dive into the views and interests of
States, and explore the tortuous labyrinth of poli-
tics, it is at least my duty to neglect nothing to
make your Majesty's armies maintain, at all points,
that just supenority which they ought to possess.
The armies of Albania and Dalmatia, of Denmark,
and of the Elbe, will not allow of any diminution,
under the circumstances of the moment.
What I have to propose to your Majesty, will
give the army of Spain two hundred thousand men,
without weakening the other armies ; so that, not-
withstanding the augmentation of our force beyond
the Pyrenees, when the conscription of 1801 shall
be called out, your Majesty will have increased
your armies of Germany, of the North, and of
Italy, by more than eighty thousand men.
And when, iu order to escape the crisis into
which she has been drawn by a false as well as an
angry policy, the English Governments exerting
every where its activity, does not hesitate to com-
bine, with the resources it draws from its Meichaus-
tible finances and its formidable fleets, the arts of
intrigue, of corruption, and impostnre, would it. be
at all extraordinary that the 'muse population of
France should hob' out the spectacle of' a million
of artned men, ready to punish England and all
those whom she sway seduce; KM present every
where the same huge mass of force, to protect with
the same shield the honour and security of France?
What other result, Sire, is there to be expected
from armies so numerous, and a position so formi-
dable, but the speedy re-establishment of the tran-
quillity of Spain, that of a maritime peace, and of
that general tranquillity, the object of your Majes-
ty's incessant wishes? Much blood will have been
spared, because a gteat number of men will have
been ready to shed it. A durable happiness, pre-
pared by the combination of your powerful genius,
will be the effect, Sire, of the new proofs of affec-
tion and attachment which your people will afford
you, and of the noble aspect of that nation. which
your Majesty has pointed nut to posterity under
the name of the Great Nation.

War Minister, alai, under this denomivatiorr, the
organ of the French soldiers, allow me, Sires to be
the interpreter of their sentiments for you. Your
Majesty shall always see us ready to -.edifice our
lives for your glory, which is inseparable from the
national Klory, to which you have so powerfully add-
ed, and for the important interests of the country.
I am, with respect, &c.
[This Paper als► contains the Act of Renuncia-
tion negociated between the Prince of Peace and
Duroc, by which Churls-, IV. end the Prince of As-
turias, abdicated their right to the Crown of Spain
to Napoleon.]