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any heart to attend to nothisg bat the good of the State, and
to wish the dissolution of my 'sorriest. Arrived *the age
oho yeas s, I nay Suds, thehope of living lougessugh to
educate, in my views sad sestitseek,' the children which it
- luso please Providence to give me. God knows how much
such a rfsolution bas cult my ,heart; but thaw it no etc, i-
Air beyond in," courage, whets arta proved to me to be neces-
sary to the si Marc of Fraucel !I:should ad.!, dials far fail
ever having had 6666011 to complain, on the contrary, I
have had only to be satisfied. with the attachment and file
affection of my well-beloved Consort. She has advised
Atwell years of my life, the remembrance of which will ever
remain engraveu on my heart. She was crowned by
any hand. I wish she should preserve Ole rank and title of
Empress; but, above all, that she should never doubt my
sentiments, and that she should ever regard me as her best
and dearest friend.'
His Majesty the Emperor and King having
ended, Her Majesty the Empress Queen 'puke as
fullniea
" ity the permission of our dear and august consort, I
ought to declare, that net preserving any hope •ol having
children, which may fulfil the yenta of his policy and the
istereets of France, I am pleased to give hint the greatest
groat of attachment and Jevetiou which has ever barn given
on earth. I possess all from his basely, it was his hand
which crowned me, and from the height of this &Inoue I
_have received nothing hut proofs of affcction and love from
the French people. t think I prove myself grateful in con-
senting to the dissolution ota marriage which heretofore was
au obstacle to the welfare of France, which deprived it of the
happiness of being one day governed by the deecendant of a
great man, evidently rased up by Providence to efface the evils
of a terrible revolotiusi,nuti to re-establish the all ar,the throne,

and social order. But the dissolution of my marriage will
in no degree cheap the sentiments of my heart; the Empe-
ror will ever have in me his best friend. I know how much
this act, demanded by policy, and by interest so great, has
chilled his heart ; but both of as exult iu the sacribee which
we make for the good of the country."
After which, their Impend, Majesties having
desuended an act of their respective declarations,
as well as of their mutual consent contained in
theta, and which their 11.ijesties, gave to the disso-
lution of their marriage ; as else. of the power which
their Majesties conferred on us to follow up, as need
shall require, the effect of their will, we, Prince
Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, in obedience
to the orders and requisitions of their Majesties,.
have given the aforesaid act, and have in cod:.,"
sequence executed the present proves verbal, to,
serve and avail according' to law, to which proses
verbal their Majesties have affixed their signature,
and which after having been signed 6y the Kings,
Queens, Princes, and Princesses present, has been
signed by us, and couversignsd by the Secretary
of State of the imperial Family who wrote with his
own hand.
Done at the palace of the Timilleries, the day,
1. no, and the year aforesaid ;
(Signed) NAPOLEON.
JOSEPHINE.
MADAME.
LOUIS.
JEROME NAPOLEON.
JOAC'IIIM NAPOLEON.
EUGENE NAPOLEON.
JULIE.
HORTENSE
ATHERINE.
PAULINE.
CAROLINE.
CAMRACER ES, Prince Arehrbaurrllnr.
Cruet 1R N A -.SIT, (de St. Jean d'Angely.)
Having seen the Projet of the Senaixs Comm/tam,
drawn up in the faint prescribed by the 57th Arti-
cle of the Act of the Constitutions of August 4.
ISO 2 ; after having heard Abil-iliOtiVtlS of the said
Projet, the Orators of tilt• 'Colwell of State, find
the report of the Special'thinnsission appointed in
the sitting of th:s day; the adoption having ban
discussed by the number aim embers prescribed Ii
the Stith Article of the Act of tbe Constitution of
August 4, 1402 ;
DECREES.
Art_ I. The marriage contracted between the Emperor
Napoleon and the Empress Josephine is dissolved.
11. The Empress Josephine shall preserve the title and
rank of EmpiosisQueen crowned.

111. Her dowry is (lard at en annual income of two mil-
lions of fiance, on the revenue of the slate.
IV. All the assignments which may be made by the Fin-
'wow, in favour •f the Einpres. Josephine, on the funds
of the Civil List, biotin be obligatory on his successors.
V. The present SEAM us Consittfitm shall be transmitted
by a message to His Imperial and Royal Majesty.
The two Ailarcener proposed by the Commission
were afterwards irut to the vote, and adopted in the
fu llowiug terms.
(The lateness of the hour prevents their being given.)
Motiteur of flee 171.6 Dec. 1509.
GEN ERAL ORDER OF THE ARMY, Dag. a, 'Bog.
His Majesty makes known to the army, that
• the Spanish army, commanded by the Duke Del
Parque, who imprudently engaged em the Right.
Bank of the Tomes, was completely defeated
on the esth Novemb,r, at Alba, by the 6th
corps of the army, and the 2ti division of dra-
goons. Fifireu pliers of cannon, many cais-
sons, six standards, ten thousand muskets, OM
above two thousand prisoners, fell into the hands of
the Imperial troops. The_ enemy had three thou-
send Mtn killed; one General, several Colonels.
and a great number of Officers. The remains of
the arm), favoured by the night, fled in all
directions, abandoning their arms and banage.
—Thus the last hope of the insurrectional party
is destroyed. It is to be hoped, that, by the pur-
suit of these detached s:prps, and the insurgents
which are di.persed in the provinces, which is about
to take placr, internat. triMqtfillity will soon be (A.-
eltaLlished.
(Signed) DUKE DA 4,
Marshal si Me Empire.
(Manua! Vila, 18114 Devi
immix, sot. 25.
111. M. Gent: of this city, has beeo arrested. and
his papers *Laud and sealed up.--(Mo. Dec. 16.1

WAPLts, Nov. 29.
Oa the q2d inst. the English evacuated the
islands of Porisa and Vantoletie, which they had.
kept possession of ever sicee the entry of the French,
army into this kiugdoni.—(Moniteur, Dec. 13.)
comsTANTlNuel.s, OCT.
The Russians, who were encamped at Hahn,
have repulsed the troops of the neighbouring dis-
tricts who attacked them, and obliged them to re-
tire, but the army of the Grand Vizier has beaten,
on the other side of the Danube, a corps of (i,OOO
Itussiuus, and taken four pieces of cannon, &a. ace.
LEGISLATIVE BODT--(Surriso or Dire z is-)
. Count Montelbert delivered, ia the Emperor's
name, an Exposition ()idle state of France up to the 11
first of this month. After having introduced this im-
portant narrative by observing thut signal victories,
generous pacification, the results of the most pro.
found political cumbinatious, and the maintename
of order in the interior, form the prominent
features of the history of the Sear which has just
elapsed, he enumerated, under the different heads of
public labours, in particular hi Paris, charitable
establishments, public instruction, sciences, letters
and arts, agriculture, manufactures and industry,
mines, commerce uiid trade, fitianc.s, religious wog•
ship, war and politics ; the iirogri es made, advan-
tages obtained, and changed elite', tl, in the course
of the said year.
Under the head of commerce and trade, he ex.
pressed himself in the following manner Corn-
inerce in general applies itself to draw the greatest
possible advantage from the products of agri-
culture and industry. Our trade undoubtedly
suffers from the present eitraordinsry state of
atliiirs, which, forniiiig, as it were, 'two masses,
one of the European Continent, the other of
the seas, and of the countries from which they
separate us, leaves to them no communication
with France. Oar relations with the United States
of America are also for the present suspended; bat
as they are founded on mutual wants, they will
speedily resume their former coarse."
Under the head of religious worship, after having
declared, that in France all religious are not only
tolerated, but honoured and encouraged, he makes
the following observat;ons:-r" No well-informed
person is ignorant of the mischief, which the tem-
poral sovereignty of the Pepe has done to religion ;
but fur this mischief, one moiety of Europe
would not be severed from the Catholic church.
There was but one means to free it for ever from
such great dangers, and to reconcile the interests of
the State with those of religion ; it was necessary
that the successor of St. Peter should again be-
come undisturbed by worldly concerns, meiely a
pastor, like St. Peter."
Under the article of war, a description is gisen of
the advantages detained iu Germany, Austria,
Hungary, and Spain, which is terminated by the
following remarks
" By the peace of Vienna, France eneller allies
liner obtained considerable advantages, and the
Continent of Europe has regained franquillity and
peace. Let us hope that 'this peace will be more
permanent than that of Preaburgh, and that the
men who deluded the Cabinet of Vienna, after the
peace of Presburgh, will not succeed in deceiving it
again after that of Vienna. They would pronounce
the doom of their master; for Frauce, ever great,
powerful and strong, will always knew how to de-
stroy and counteract the combinations and intrigues
of her enemies.
" In the mean time, England, seeing that our
armies were employed in Germany, and being al-
ways ill-informed, notwithsianding ilia immease
treasure she wastes in paying spies, fancied, that our
veteran troops had left Spain, and that the weaken-
ed French army would not be able to ivithsta nd
their efforts. Forty thousand men were disem-
barked in Portugal. joined the insurgents, and flat-
tired themselves they should be able to march to
Madrid ; they gathered nothing but disgrace from
their enterprise ; they were met by armies in all
places, where they fancied to find only divisions."
Forty thousand Imo landed at the seine time in
Walcheren, and, without having commenced the
siege, by means of a short bombardment, they ren-
dered thermielvea in a fortnight masters of Flash-
ing,which was cowardly defended. His Majesty
ordered a report to be made to him on this sub-
ject. The Emperor generously rewards those who,
auimated with his sentiments and sensible of what
they owe to the honour of France, are faithful to
glutyeand their country ; but he severely punishes
those who calculate the danger, when victory
alone should occupy their minds, sod prefer a dis-
graceful flight to a glorious death.
,f. In the meau thee, all the departments rose in
arms; 1.50,000 mew of the nation''' guards put
themselves in motion, while, at the same time,
scoop troops, drawn from the depots, assembled
in Flauder., and the gensdarates formed a corps of
eight thousand chcice cavalry. The English Com-
mander-in Chief, as a wise and prudent mon, would
not expose his army any longer to dangers more de-
structive than the plagne ; he returned to England.
All the departments gave striking proofs of their at-
tachineut to the government and Emperor. Some
districts only, in the department of the Sarre,'
shewed • a contrary disposition. Communiouers,
have beers appointed to inquire into their conduct.
The commute-s and private individuals, who have
thasibsylves, *hail be deprived, dorm g

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4'. Under the head of Politics, the changes are elm.
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AMMON', Wilkh Weis the result of the peace of
Viernna.• and
.tfho giuperor's views developed, with
regird to ireiortant future arrangement... ".It
wouldl ,e fie. en an easy task for the Emperor,"
soya Count Wiontalbert, " to unite all asllicia with
the Duchy of Warsaw; but he would not do shy
thing, which could excite the least uneasiness in the
mind of hisally, the Emperor of Russia. His %1,.
jesty never entertained the idea of restating the
kingdom of Poland. What, he has done for New
Gallicid, was prescribed to him by sound policy mail
honour ; he could not surreodes 10 1.1114 Vt'llgt:lllee•
of an implacable Prince, people who lied displaced
such fervent zeal for the eerier of France." Ile
then proceeds—
" The 11:111110 Towns shall preserve their inde-
pendence; they shalt serve as a 110.140111 of the rro-
private of war, with regent to EtiglAnd.
" Peace shall immediately be eco ticluded with
Sweden.
" Nothing shall be changed in the political
relations of the Confederation of the Rhine, and
the Helvetic Confederacy.
" Holland is, in fact, only a part of France; a
definition of that country may lie elven. by saying
that it is an alluvion of the Rhine, the Meuse, and
the Scheldt ; that is to say, of the great exterior of
the French Empire. The) absolute inutility of her
customhouses, the disposition of her agents, and the
sentiments of its inhabitants, which tend incessantly
to a fraudulent trade with England, have, rendered It
necessary to exclude them from all commercial in-
tercourse with the Rhine and Weser. Thus placed
in a state of morbid compression between France
and England, Holland is deprived both of the ad.
vantages, which clash with our general system, and
which she mpot relinquish, and of those which she
right enjoy; it is time that all this should be set
eight.., ,-
."" The Illyrian provinces cover Italy; gine her a
Cect communicatioss with Dalmatia; procure us
ilioirst of inuntahatsredritart with the Empire of
t onatrustiniple. uhichiietiost be the intention of
Yiunce.. fur Iry Maly reef/0N AO support sod pro.
tVt.: •;. - !;.' • : :I/ • .
"Spiits and Parturiene the seat of a furious rea
volution; the onnineroue agents of England keep
up thoooniagrosion which they base raised. The
- force, the powint,,und the calm moderation of 'the
Emperor, will restore to them peaceful days. Should
Spain lose her colonies, it will hr through herliwn
fault. The Einpreor will were, oppose the iudepend.
ence of the continental nations of America; that in.
dependence is its the natural order of events; it
is just; it• agrees with the true interest of all
European 'powers. Should the people of Mexico
and Pefli:wishiatraise themselves to the elevation
of a tiobit.liiihiPlaence, France shall never oppose
the, -ptaiidid the/t enter into no connexion with
Engllsedv" Prince is not under the necessity of
ireVitreltinl-sibiglibnur4 'or ;lapping on them tyrau-
labewil,lb ,!cure hei'liPosnerity and trade. -
‘ot . r
'''. " We hart lost the. C•lony of ilartinique, and
that ofagaxemi they were both badly defended.
lrhs eirleiunstances which led to their loss, form the
object 0., strict jarquiry ; although it is not of any
weigheinitkgeneral balance of affairs, since they
will be restored to us in a more flourishing tenths
tion, at the general peace."—(Mortifeurs of bre;
comber 14.)
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SWEDEN. •
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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
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EXTRACT FROM • LETTER, DATED, STOCRTI•LIis
THE 11TH Dsc.' DM :
•• We have at last Peace with France ; thechief
conditions are stated to be the following :
" I. There shall be as everlasting Peace between Sweden
and France. •
•• 11. Pomerania, with the Wan.' of linen, and the Dc•
residencies thereof, are to be returned to Swedes.
" 111. The SOL...lft shall hays a right to import, is Stra•
dish vessels, salt and colonial produce &or &erd, on
proofs being given, that the lime are fur the actual ricotta
and risk of Swedish subjects. It is further agrrd, that the
Emperor Napoleon will grant a free passport to the late King
of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, to proceed to, and reside is
Switzerland, or such Other placer may hereafter be decided
spun, in the r much aluminium', or dependencies of France."
.. When Count Essen, the Swedish Ambassador
at Paris, applied to Napoleon for a p rsaport, it is
said that he replied. " I grant a free paisport to
shthh:atlelhaMehlolooenrae:;:a:netdourf:epdtripeotaegtcetai,onnoynlijoltanicoyeybouvisthaBoters.r„ rtwithreri
you think, Count Ewen, that Gustavus Adolphvid
would have done this to me, had I been in his situ-

mien?"
" The King proposed, some days ago, to the
States, to raise a standing army in Sweden, whereby
all and every one, under a certain age. would
hovel been obliged to learn the military exercise,
hi c'h the Nobles, Clergy, and Burghers. agreed to,
but the peasants opposed it ; and such is the put-
rilety of the present Government, that two days
afterwards.the Kincretracted the proposal. A new
'tax is to be levied, but although it is very consi-
derable, yet it k wilt be less felt by the poor—it is
something like our Income Tax."

THE I

W.ED

DIVORCt
41 a late h
papers to the 1
Their content
They preseot
of the French
relations; an
adopted fur die
pat.soN and tl
that a nieasui
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vansal kings a
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many. and ti
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th.nnhatio

conjogal affect
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cauteinplat
more likely to
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sr. believr, for
f ..1 to him it;
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years past, nor
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tho Constitute
imperial Crow

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may be spiirt4
that of Frame
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of conjugal a
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fancy that gr
children.—A
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of life ; •
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