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FROM THE MONITEUR.

CONSERVATIVE SENATE.
MESSAGE OF Till FIRST CONSUL TO Till
CONSERVATIVE SENA
Printed by order of the Senate.

Saint Cloud, April 18, 12th Year of the Repub4e,
lON•PARTL, FIRST CONSUL OF THE REPUBLIC, TO

THE CONSERVATIVE SENATE.

" SENATORS,

" The Senator, Jot.eph Bonaparte, Grand Officer
of the Legion of Honour, has expressed to me his
desire to partake of the ;et-Hs of the Army encamped
at Boulogne, in order that he may share in its glory.
" I have judged it would be for the interest of
the state, and that the Senate would see with plea-
sure, that the Senator Joseph Bonaparte, after hay.
ing rendered important services to the Republic, by
the solidity of his counsels in grave and difficult
circumstances ; by the knowledge, ability, and
wisdom he displayed in the successive negotiations
of the Treaty of Morfontaiae, which terminated
our differences with the United States of America ;
of that of Luneville, which restored peace to the
Continent; and again, of that of Amiens, which re-
established peace between France and England ;
that he shriuld be permitted to contribute to the ven-
geance which the French people have sworn for the
violation of that latter treaty, and should be placed
in a situation to acquire new titles to the esteem of
the nation.

" Having served under my eyes, in the rally cam-
paigns of the war, and having given proofs of his
courage, and his disposition to the trade of war, in
the rank of Chief of Battalion, I have appointed
him Colonel-Commandant of the 4th Regiment of

the Line, one of the most distinguished corps of the
army, and which is to be mentioned as one of those
which, always placed in posts of the greatest dan-
ger, have never lost their colours, and have very
often decided the day.

" I desire, therefore, that the Senate will consent
to the request which the Senator Joseph Bonaparte
will make, for leave to be absent frum its delibera-
tions during the time in which the occupations of
war will detain him with the army.
(Signed) " BONAP•ItTE.
" By the First Consul, the Secretary of State,
(Signed) "H. B. MARET."
mats, APRIL 18.

GENERAL MARMONT, COMMANDER Is CHIEF OP
THE CAMP Of UTRECHT, TO THE FIRST CONSUL.
Head Quaders a& Utrecht, April
" CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL,
" t have the honour to inform you; that four large
English boats, full of troops, on the 11th, attacked
titv frigate Le Meal-Mann, stationed at the 'Axel ;
the crews were taken from Punch. The contest
was neither long nor doubtful; two boats were sunk
The two others escaped, but with the loss of hail
their peoplt. This was really .in aa of folly which
cost the English dear. They lost above 100 men.
The frigate Le Mud Merin sustained no loss.
The English, probably, reckoned upon surprising
her.
A fine English frigate of 40 guns, took fire in the
Road of Bellerose. Half of the crew perished. The
other half escaped to shore. Thi was one of the
finest frigates in the fleet of Lord Nelson. (MonMeur.)
APRIL 24.
The new appointed members of the Senate are
Citizens St. Suzanne, Beauharnais, Delannoy, and
St. Martin de Lt Motte. The Senate have also
given hi a list of candidates for the remaining va-
cancies.
They write from Marseilles, that Admiral La-
touche had been seen off that port on the 9th instant,
with four ships of the line, four frigates, and three
brigs.
Foie per cents. 31 francs 51 cents.

lIIJULOGSZ, AralL 17.

At seven this morning, the wind blowing E.N.E.
very fresh, the Admiral ordere.l the vessels in the
Road to return. 'The part of the flotilla moored in
the roads of Ambieteuse and Vimereux entered the
port of Boulogne. The left of the line at moor-
ing, had orders at two P. M. to sail to Etaples.
One prame, and fifteen gun-boats, forming this di-
vision, had a brisk engagement with six of the
enemy's frigates. We have not lost a single man
The top-mast of the prams was carried away, and
two of the gan-boats received each a cannon ball.
Prom the shore it was perceived that a great num-
ber of our balls struck the frigates, and that the
bowsprit of one was destroyed by a shell. The
enemy veered and took to flight.
The flotilla returned to this port, with the excep-
tion of a division of gun-boats, which the Admiral
thought proper to leave in the road during the night.
The weather becoming stormy, he afterwards or-
dered these also to return to harbour. The enemy's
:qu..dron has disappeared, and regained the Eng-
lish coast.

Our soldiers exercise in the sea service every day.
They manage the oar, and handle the ropes and
sails, as well as the most experienced sailors. And
why should they not do so Our guasboau are not

mere d.fficult to manage than the Roman p,allies ;
and it is well knows, that the Roman legions were as
dextrous in fighting un the water as on the shore.
Thus, this expedition, announced witk such
po.op •by the 1Tnsl;s11, and which was thought
of such conseimence as to counterbalance the
evils of an embargo, has disappeared in smoke. Few
spectacles can be more interesting than that of small
vessels, drawn up as line, in the open sea, iu face of
immense ships. It is, as some Englishmen have
well expressed it, the combat of David :rah Goliath
The English ships dare us to the combat ; but as
we advance they retire. We have not harbours,
they say, near their coasts, to contain a sufficient
quantity of vessels fur invasion ; but Bonaparte has
said to his soldiers, " Make harbours ;" aad, instead
of one, they have made four. To hear them !.peak, we
should suppose it required years to build vessels for
the invasion ; and in less than six months we have
sufficient to convey '200,000 men. To listen to them,
it was impossible to coiled these vessels on any
pcint, and we have seen them navigate at pleasure—
from the mouth of the Garonne, to the Scheldt, the
movements have been incessant, and the engagements
daily. We have sees► our flying artillery and troops
patrole our shores, and carry aid to our batteries.
Each assembling of our vessels has been made with-
out loss. At present, the English say that we cannot
break through their squadrons. When the signal
shall be given, they will sec, but they will only see
for once, that this impossibility is no more such than
all the others. And when once our battalions are
formed, and our standards unfolded, in the bosom
of England, we shall see what can be effected by
this nest of manufacturers, shopkeepers, and
brokers!

ROT TE RD AOll, APRIL 10.

Letters from the Cape of Good Hope state, that
the English army in Ceylon, reduced to 300 men,
shut up in a citadel, is surrounded there by $OOO na-
tive troops. They seemed disposed at the Cape to
attempt to possess themselves of that island, with
the consent and assistance of the islanders. They
meant to use in this expedition some heavy ships,
richly laden, arrived from Batavia, but which the
war prevented from continuing their voyage for
Holland ; the cargoes had been landed. We have
also learned, by the same letters, that the Batavian
Rear-Admiral Dicker, commanding two ships of
the line, having been informed, at the Isle of Rhe,
of the renewal of hostilities, had joined Rear-Admi-
ral Linois.

FROM THE HAMBURLiti MAIL.

P• 0.111, Aram 18.

Last night the Minister of the War Department,
Alexander Berthier, left this capital fur the coast.—
It is believed that he is going to inspeO the camps
formed from Boulogne to Ostend. Affairs detain
yet the First Consul here, otherwise before this time
he would have headed his brave army, waiting with
so much impatience to add to its former laurels by
conquests in Lugland.

11A0Vt, APRIL 21.

A private letter from Paris says, that the French
Govec =eat has sent a Message to the Senate, con-
cerning the hereditary dignity of the Chief of the
Republic. We are assured, that the first acct of Eo•
naparte, in his new rank, will be to pardon Moreau,
who probably, when tried, will be found guilty; then
he will be respired instead of executed, upon condi-
tion of retiring to the Isle of France, where his wife
has the greatest part of her property, Those who
pretend to know Moreau's cbaraaer, say, that he
will willingly, and with gratitude, subscribe to these
conditions. He has now obtained permission to see
his young son every day. Madame Moreau has not
yet been permitted to visit her husband, who is day
and night guarded by two tens gnomes.

MADIID, ♦►RSL 5.

Our Government has ordered all persons, not
housekeepers, both Spaniards and foreigners, who
cannot prove that business obliges them to reside
here, to leave tliis capital within thirty days.

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from extinftion, and to rescue an indefatigable ser-
vant of the public and his nurnerotu family from all
the horrors of distress. we are proud to find that
Sir Rom. Humus and Co. Bankers, St. James's.
street, have kindly condt-wended to receive the sub-
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P. llorte's certificate is signed, ant: be hopes he
will soon be released from prison. He Les, for these
few days past, availed himself of the Day-rules to
come nut, in order to make some arrangements with
his assignees, so as to prevent the sale of the print-
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assurances of his warmest gratitude are due to the
under-name) benefattors, whose examples he trusts
will be followed by the liberal encouragers of all his
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