The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-01-14 00:00:00

MESSAGE
OF THE FRENCH SENATE TO THE EMPEROR
AND KING.
" Sias —The Seadte has received the message
which your Majesty hay been pleased to transmit to
it from the capital of so many provinces which your
armshave so rapidly comity-red—from that city which
the august presence of Napoleon the Great, and the
Eagles of his armies, consecrate as one of the most
remarkable of his incredible conquests. Your Ma.
jest), has communicated to the Senate and the
French people, the sublime sentiments which never
cease to occupy your breast for the good of our coun-
try and that of all Europe. l'he Senate li.t.tens to
offer you the homage of its grat;tudo. Sire, what
have you not done to obtain that peace which England
ought to wish for more than France ? And let us be
permitted to tell your Imperial and Royal Majesty,
th•rt the people of France would not have heard,
without sensible regret, of the sacrifices your Ma-
i sty has offered to procure the tranquillity of the
Continent, had you not covered Europe with your
trophies, aad dispersed the three coalitions, whfch a
blind fatality had successively precipitated against
France: And when a fourth Coalition has dump-
peered before you—when, at the voice of your Ma-
je%ty, the wrath of the French people, more terrible
than the storms of the ocean, had overturned, de-
• stroyed, and annihilated every obstacle that opposed
itself, and your Vlaj 'sty still offered the mew peace
. to the enemy, which you had proposed before you
•resumed your thunder—(these are the wartoreabie
words in your Majesty's Meosage)—yrea wished for
a dur shle prosperity, not only for your own people,
not only for your allies, but even for your ennpsice
immortal thanks be rendered to your Majesty
in the name of humanity

tt Let the calamities fall only upon that insular
Coop, "el 'ot. which provokes, propagates, and mul-
tiplies them: and w h wh ins it rests, entirely, to '
put an end to them May that Government meet
with just reprisals; may it be denounced in its
commerce, and consequently through its whole ex-
istence, by a kind of political anathema ; may it be
isolated upon the rocks that are enrironed with
storms, wh n it shall in vain attempt to secure itself
in tee misfit of use geld it heaps up, and which is
still tinged w'th the blood of the unfortunate in-
habitants of the enslaved East.
That Government has recalled the pnaiee of j
the barbarous ag. s, and will experience all the evils,
of it. Let a wall of brass keep it far from that Con-
tinent where the impious agitators have so Often, by
their influence, diffused error and vain alarms, with
cot rupting promises and homicidal peignards, from
t e cabinets of faithless Ministers even' into the Ca.
terns of bri 'ands. and the dens of assassins.
" Let Europe, whose civilisation it has wished to
throw back, be for it an inhospitable land! Let its
ships, of which it is so proud, be scatter:yl.oller the
sets on which they ryranniz- ! May they wish in
vain to esc.pe from the angry ocean; and on the
coasts of Europe let them only find places wit-re
they will be wr'cked without receiving assistance ;
where inevitable imprisonment, or the avenging
thunder of the rights of nations, await them 1—
And what is the term which your lslajesty will
be pleased to put to this terrible re-anion against
the Ish,sies which the English Government has so
often struck ? The moment when a listing peace
shall guarantee the freedi'm of commerce, the
li-
berry of the seas, the in lependence of nations. the
end of all the calamities with which the British
Government has inundated Europe, the happiness
of this English nation itself. which the Government
deceives, leads away. and degrades. from that high
pinnacle of glory where so many great men bad
raised her.
" I o area this deliverance of European industry,
the French people, Sire, will second you with their
generous exertions. What would it not dp for that
august Monarch who despises fitigues, privations,
and dangers, when he fights for the prosperity and
honour of the nation which has trusted to him their
destinies? What would it not do for the Hero
k admires. and for the Father it loves? The Se.
nate, Sire, has hastened to adept the Senate, Como,-
sus ; which permits 80,000 brave men more to go
under your orders, and join in the ranks of the col.
querors of Marengo, Austerlitz, and Jena, to tii.
lintels and to gain a peace by conquest—those of
your children, to wham the law has decreed the ho.
nourable ptivilege to match the first, in order to
shale the glory of their seniors in arms. We thank
you for c..lling them so soon into year camp, as to
give them hopes of still finding laurels to gather at
the evreinity of Europe. And, in the mean time,
Sire, the Senate, devoted, like the people, to your
sacred person, feeling it their glory to transmit to
your Majesty the sentiments of the nation. sup-
presses the secret wish which calls for the presence of
your Majesty. It is incessantly occupied with those
prodigies which your genius effeas, with the great
affions of your invincible armies, with the renown of
their illustrious chiefs, with that peace which your
Majesty will give the world, and with that happy
mom-nt. whet,. as the interpreter of the public gra-
titude. it will present to your Imperial and Royal
Majesty, the homage of their respea, their love, and
their inviolable fidelity.

v. The Prevalent and Secretaries;
(Signed) " CAMBACERES,
" Arch•Chat.eellor of the Empire.
" Di PETE, Secretary.
" PORCIIER, Ex-SecreUvy."

Tbe Martha nal &tibiae ROYNTOM, from Ullapool,
for Bristi.l, is lost near Gar Lock.
'Me Western Trader, Worresini, arrived at
Li-
verp.'-d on Friday : she ailed from Philadelphia
the 2.1 Dee. On the sth inst. at a. w. off Cork,
SAW a brig on the lea how ; at i 0 4. w. she came
alongside, AnJ fired two musket shots through the
main and fore sad% the Master then came cn
b wrd she proved ro be a French privateer of IS
guns.— She d• rained the Western Train one hour
and an halt, And then bore away for a sip to lee-
ward. On the lith, saw two brigs and a ship -tandihg
tar e westward ; the ship hoisted American co-
kis sas she pa led. On the 7th, at half past (Oar
PN,. the S,malls Light House hone souih, distant
fiec 'crimes, several sail in sight, standiog to
yes:weld. spoke the ship flurried, bound to New
.0,1 , ar.d aierig :rum Liverpool, bound to the
larriA, to whom she gave information of
•the al.

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