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pet niitte3 to remain at home till tliry are irsrntaed
in the is ilky,. man>•evves, under Cosr.mordets
whose etainples will afford them hying lessons of
courage and devotion :o their Sovereign, and at the
sometime inspire them with an interest is the gloi
of their countty. These Cortim,n 4ers, Gent'. mtm,
shall be chosen out of your own body. In this re•
guldtion of His Majesty, for the convenience nf the
Conscripts, you will also perceive another proof of
His Majesty's tender care, and of ts.ose sentiments
with which the Emperor is atuated in respett to the
Senate.

" The zeal with which yon have hitherto second-
ed His Majesty's great views, and particularly by
your decrees of the 26th of September, ISO, and
December 4, MG, is a certain guarantee for that
which it is necessary you should exhibit under the
present circumstances.
" The ardour of the French youth to assemble
under the standards of the Effiperor, will afford a
proof, that they are worthy to tread in the steps of
their elder brothels, and that, like them, they are
ready to form a rampart for the glory of their
country.
Thus the enemies of France will be disap-
pointed—those enemies who have long since per-
suaded themselves that difficulties would arise,
which have never existed, and flattered their ima-
ginations with fomenting animosities that have been
lost in the general feelings of love and astonish-
ment at the Hero who governs us; and hence men
of all ranks, and all opinions, will join in the com-
mon cause. They will all unite under the standard
of him, whom they acknowledge as the aut:ror of a
new order of things, and who has banished from
their remembrance all the painful considesations of
past calamities.
" Then possibly the eyes of our enemies will be
opened, and they will perce;ve the futility of all
their plans; at least, they will be clearly convinced,
than an Empire, established by genius, supported by
heroism, and daily strengthened by a fresh accession
of love and fidelity, cannot be easily annihilated."
The following documents were afterwards read :
Extra° from the Minutes of the Secretary of State.

"From the Imperil Camp at Oaterode, March 90, 1807.
" NAFOLEON„ Emperor of the French &c.

" We have decreed, and do deuce n follows :

" The Senate shall, on Saturday the 4th of April,
assemble at the accustomed place, under the inspec-
tion of out Cousin the Arch-C hancelior of the Lai—
pite. (Signed) " NAPOLEON.
" H. B. Martel'.
" Imperial find qturters at Oatatude, March 19.
" Guts—Never were your armies so numerous,
so well disciplined, and organised as at present.
" The Soretru Conviliattn of Sept. 22, ISOS, had
pot 10,000 of the Conscription of 1806 under the
disposal of Government. That of the 4th of Dec.
last has ordered the calling out of an equal number
of Conscripts for 1807.
" These men, amounting to 160,000, are already
assembled tinder their resp:•Etive colours. I cannot
hut bear the most honourable testimony to the ac-
tivity of the Prefetle, and the good condua of the
Recruiting Officers, and the Gendarmerie, not to
mention the loyalty manifested on this occasion by
the Empire at large.
" But, Sire, notwithstanding this general union of
all sentiments and opinions, we are not to conclude
that your Majesty's armies are at present more nu-
urerous by 160,000, than they were at the p •riod cf
the commencement of the Fourth Coalition.

" Since the Ist of Sept. the annual teviews have
cletsed, and in consequence of the double ingpe4tion
which your Majesty had ordered, we have been in
a situation to pick out and dismiss those old soldiers
who had fulfilled the period of their engagement,
and who, of course, had a right to the reward of
their services, and more especially on account of
the honourable wounds they had received. In this
manner 15,000 men have been discharged. The
men, which an army so numerous as your Majesty's
has lost by sickness, and who have fallen upon the
field of battle, for instance in the battles of Schleitz
and Saalfeld, Jena, and in the affairs of Prentzlow,
Golymin, Lubeck, Pultusk, Bergireid, and lioff,
and in the battle of Eylati ; and those whom I have
been eblited to send to the depot, in order that they
may be discharged after the first inspetlion, have
also been the cause of a decrease of 14,000 men.
The real increase, th2refnre, Sire, of your military
force, d s not exceed 130,000 men. At the con-
clusion of the war of the 'cliird Coalition, your Ma-
jesty had fine, numerous, and formidable armies,.
and this considerable increase has rendered them still
finer, more numerous and formidable.
" The army of Italy, which your htij-sty has as-
sembled in Frianl, in the plains of Brescia, Verne,
Bassano, and Alexandria, is the most respe:table
that France ever had in that quarter. No detach-
ment has been sent from that army to join the
Grand Army in Poland, some cavalry excepted,
and which has since been replaced by others, in con-
sequence of your Majesty's decree to double the
number of your cavalry.
. . _ . .

" The army of Dalmatia has suffered by sickness.
which has been put a stop to by the return of the
tine weather. Its losses have been repelled, and
the Spats us halg_are numerous.
" Ihe army of Naples has received tf, MOO Con-
scripts, drawn from the elefros, several of which have
been established in your Majesty's Italian States.
" The viamies of the Grand Army have covered
the frontiers along the Rhine; these frontiers are
covered by a second line of the Army of Reserve,
under the command of Marshal Kellerman.

" The corps belonging to the Camp of Boulogne,
filled up by the conscription of 1807, defend the
Northern coasts of France, against all attacks from
the enemy.
" Your Majesty has given orders to form three
camps, at St. Loo, at the c►ty of Napoleon, and in
LA Vender, for the safety of the coasts of Brit-
tany, Normandy, and Gascony. We are occupied
in the execution of your Majesty's commands.
The Grenadiers and Yagers of the National
Guards, belonging to the departments of Gironde,
the Lower Seine, and the Rhine, contribute to-
wards the safety of the interior.
In this situation of affairs, and in obedience to
your Majesty's commands, I submit to your Ma-
jesty the necessity of calling out the Conscription of
1808, and to form them into five legions of Re-
serve, for the defence of the interior. 1 our Majesty
had given me to understand, that besides this line
of camps, and this union of the National Goa; ct.,