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you wished to have a triple reserve, to Secure yonr
territory against any plan of hostile attack what.
ever. Your Majesty further observed, that the
camps of Boulngne, St. Lon, the City of Nspoleon.
and La Vendee, round employment fol• a great num-
ber of the old battalions, who, besides, would he in
a condition for setvice elsewhere, as it might be re-
quired. and that your coasts would be sufficieney
proteded by the National Guards, and the new le-
gions.of Reserve.
I. Sire. this prtident foresight is worthy of the
Chief of a great Empire, and a great Goneral ;
one, who though continually attended by vidot y, I
have constantly seen Carefully adopting every mea-
sure calculated to repair the consequences of a de-
feat. When your Majesty advanced and obtained
the vietory of Jena, I received your commands to
provision the fortresses on the Rhine, just as if our
own frontiers had been threatened by the enemy.

" But however weighty these considerations may
be, there is still one which is not less worthy your
Majesty's heart. According to the usual course of
things, the Conscripts of 1808 should be called out
within the limit of six months, and assembled un-
der their respeEtive colours. Con equently they
would have to endure the pain of long marches and
heavy fatigues ; but now your Majesty's goodness
condescends to inure them insensiby to the service s
for being called out six months before the Conscrip-
tion of 1808 was expefled, they will have an oppor-
tunity of learning the use of arms in our own for-
tresses, in our own fields, and even in the heart of
their own country.
'• In consequence of another of your Majesty's
determinations, in which, aduated by the love of
your people, you have entrusted the training of the
young men to persons distinguished by their rank,
and the services they have per formed for the State,
your Majesty, of course, has confided the command
of the Legions of the Interior and the Reserve to
"the Members of the Senate—melt who had before
distinguisbed themselves by their military skill and
courage. These are the fathers of the country, who
will nourish and instrua her children. Their ho-
nourable experience shall open the career of the
French youth in the paths of glory.
" These advantages, Sire, must have determined
your Majesty to call out the Conscription for the
year 1808.
" One objeftion, Sire, may be made against the
motives which have prescribed this measure to your
Majesty ; that is, the increase of the expenditure
which it will occasion. But your Majesty's finances
are in the most flourishing situation. Your Ma-
jesty's good coadud, in providing extraordinary
means for extraordinary measures, has prevented
the necessity of laying any fresh burdens upon yogi
people; and, without requiring any fresh sacrifices
frosts them, your Majesty will be able to answer
every claim that your own glory and the safety of
the country can require.

...Ch; Prince rif.NEUFCHATEL, Minis,erat War.

(Signed) Matslial ALEXANDER SLR FHIER."
MESSAGE OF HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND

KING.

" SENATORS—We hare given orders for a Projrt
of the Stnatus Censitltimi to be laid bsf•re yon, in
order for the immediate calling out of the Conscrip-
tion for 1808.

" The Report which our Minister of War has
transmitted to us will acquaint you with the va.
rious advantages which must be the result of this
measure.

" All the nations round us are arming ; England
has again set on toot an extraordinary levy of two
hundred thousand men. Other Powers, as well at
England, are adopting the measure of extraordinary
levies, as their last resource. However strong and
numerous our armies may be, we ate by no means
convinced thdt the regulations of the Senatar Conseil-
tam will be the less necessary and advantageous.—
At any rate, the sight of the triple barrier ut camps,
which encircles our territory, must have the same
effect upon our enemy, as the triple line of fortresses
which defends our advanced frontier. This ss ill
lease them without the least hope of gaining any
advantage over us, will assuage their fury, and
finally, in consequence of their total incapacity to
do us any injury, will bring them back to a sense of
reason and justice.
The zeal with which our people have executed
the Senntur Cohruitens of Sept. 24, 1805, and that of
Dec. 4, 180(i, lids made a sensible impression upon
our gratitude. Every Frenchman will probably
thew himself worthy of so honourable a name.

I. We have nominated Senators to the command
and direaion of these interesting young men—Se-
nators who have already distinguished themselves
itWhe career of glory. We Writer ourselves, that
in consequence of this determination, you will jus-
tify the unlimited confidence reposed in you. The
Senators will teach the young men that discipline
and patience, which are necessary to support the
toils and fatigues of war : you will convince them
that these are the principal guarantees of vianry :
you will teach them to make every sacrifice for the
glory of the throne, and good of the country.
.• We have triumphed over all our enemies. In
the course of six months, we have passed the Maine,
the Saal, the Elbe, the Oder, and the Vistula : We
have made ourselves masters of the strongest places
in Europe—Magdeburg, Hameln,Spandau, Stettin,
Custrin, Glogau, Breslau, Schweidnits, and Brieg.
Our soldiers have proved viaorinus in several bat-
tles ; they have taken upwards of 800 pieces of can-
non upon the field of battle ; they have sent 4000
pieces of heavy artillery to France, 400 Russian
and Prussian standards, and made upwards of
200,000 prisoners of war.
" Neither the sands of Prussia, the Deserts of Po-
land, nor the storms of winter—in cat, nothing has
bean able to damp or extinguish their ardour for
obtaining peace by their conquests, and, by means
of their triumphs, to return to their native country.
Still our armies in Italy, in Dalmatia, and Naples,
remain undiminished ; our camps at Boulogne, in
Brittany, in Normandy, and on the Rhine, remain
entire.

" at present, we ask for new sacrifices from
our people, in order that we may obtain a greater
extent of force, it is not that we should abuse this
power for the pnrpose of prolonging the war. Our
policy is invariable. We offered peace to England
before the fourth coalition had shewn itself ! Ike
tense Peeelf sue offer to England still. The principal
Envoy which England employed in these negotia-
tions has made the most public declarations, ant: in
the must unequivocal terms, that the peace vszuld