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London, England, 1805-10-05 00:00:00

. SPEECH OF TUE FAIIPIROIt if ATOLEON,
TO 711 S 141.14C1i I

I' Under the witi tang circumstance+ bf Edeepo. t feel it ah
argon ditty In appear among Au, and to teak, plp fully a -
is/Undated with nay sentiments.
" I art just Roving ins capital, in under to else, myself
the head of the army, to c.irry speedy aurtoars to my allies, alio
to priiter.t the dearest interests of my people.
a' The wishes of the eternal enemies of the Continent .r
has commons...el in the midst of Ciwrnany;
--Austria and Russia have united with England; and "ii,
generati ..gain involved in all the citainines of wai.
a very few days ago I still cherished a hope that nesee would
not be distu.b d Thre its and ottuagas milt the Nei :,at they
'Si•' make no impression upon me, but the Augusts lotto,
puwd the lin tfu,,na isnoird rite Eleacir of Illavagia is
461811 from his capital : all iity hopes are, therefore, v molt Id.
" Such is the moment that has ittiveilA mischievou..
machinations of the 110.“11.4 of the Continent They are still
a'ariti.sl at tie mann...station I lia'e made, of m; deep and de-
termined desire 6.r inure. Thee arenourehensive thai Austria,
at the eyed of the gillolt they hail prepared to SVIA toe her,
might listen anew to the di9,tes of indite and mode,atioit;
the;. have huiro.l her into a war. I tremble at the idea nt the
Veld that must he spilled in Europe; but the French
will einem+ with renovated and inciessed lone.
S when at your desire, at literati of the whit* of
the Froich People, I placed n,,ott my heal the Impsia. Crown,
I receiy-d I a, eon, loos @weir Cilium' the solamii promise to
ni mitato its hollow pure an.t mutinied. MY' people have on
?very occasion, afforded me proofs of their eitnficien .e and vie
..ion—they wsl da us the banners of their Eni.ieros, ant o'
his army, who, in a few days, will have passed over the
frntiers.
* M igistrates, &Viers, Citizens, all are resolved In resent
the oniony from the i.illuiswe of F.ng'and, who, if she prevail-
would gradt us thdy a pg.,, maned with ignominy and
shame; an l lit which the principal co:Winans would be to
Mint our Meets, to ibut Up our ports, and to estinguiih out
industry.
" What premises I have made to the French people 1 have
fulfilled. The French poop'e, on their pat, have enteiesi into
no engigeinent with me, which, they have not more than per-
formed. At a moment, to important for their glory, and for
min., they will prsist in martin: the nine of the Prople, -
a name with which I greeted them in the midst of the fields of
draih and of goo.
" Frenchm-ii, your Emperor will discharge his duty; Qty
soldiers will do their'si you will also discharge your'...'
CAUSES Of THE DECREE Of THE saNATR FOR
11•ISING MONTY THOUSANIS CONSCRIPTS,
SENELD TO Till CONSERVATIVE SENATE, EV
RE'CNACI.T (DE ST. JEAN anGeLY)•
Sire, the eagles of your armies were about o
cross the seas ; the violator a of the Treaty of Arnie
tormented by remorse. agitated by fear, were n
the point of being punished by your justice but - a
few days more, and the liberty of the seas might
have k.en conquered for the world, even in the vet),
seat of the tyomny of the seas.
There is another aft of perjury, which calls Wit
Majesty to fresh combats. In spite of the faith
pledged at Luneville. the Emperor of Germany
threatens the French Empire. He is marching
against your frontiers both his own ant! the Russian
troops—the broken remains of those whom Your
Majesty vanquished, or sent home unransnmed.
Your army, Sire, formed of the same legions
which conquered the Austrians and the Russians,
completed by French citizens takea front every
class and quarter of the Empire—your army, whose
strength is increased by the nature of its compost
than, whose devotion to your person doubles ids
energy—your army, which knows how to feel and
think. as it knows how to fight, whose indignation
will. if possible, incre.tse its valour—your army is
sufficien: to light and conquer ; and the diversion,
so dearly paid for by Etightad, will only have the
Kelt of retarding her humiliation, sad chaagin4
the scene of your first triumphs.
But if; while preparing, on the one hand, to
combat Great Britain, and confiding, on the other,
on the fidelity of your allies, perhaps trusting to
the plain sentiment of their interests, which, at any
rate, should have counselled them to neutrality,
Your Nfojesty have not increased your army, and
have not prepared, by extraordinary levies, for a
successive recruitment, different circumstances de-
mand different measures.
• In the years which followed the peace, as in
those which followed the war, Your Nlajesty has
only called for the same number of conscripts : you
wished to leave as many as possible for the purposes
of agriculture and the arts. At present, Sire. your
wisdom requires that the French youth should pre-
pare to pay their country the whole debt, and even
before the period when she would otherwise have
called for the payment of it.
The Orators of your Council demand your or-
der to the Wise Men (Sages) of the Empire, to arm
a more considerable part of the strength of the na-
tion ; and to order a levy of eighty thousand con-
scripts for the year 1806.
Several reasons have combined to make it the
duty of the Senate to decree this measure.
It is true. that the raising of the conscription has
been ordered up to the present time, by the Ana of
the Legislative Body.
The proposition offered to the Senate will not alit-
turb the order, nor destroy the usage heretofore
followed ; it will only form an exception, which cir-
cumstances justify.
And first, when His Majesty is at a distance, lead-
ing his legions to viftory, prudence prescribes his
preparing. berme he quits the centre of his Empire,
all the means of success which his wisdom has
conceived. The delays necessary fur the convoca-
tion of the Legislative Body, would retard those
measures, the quick execution of which, now be.
come necessary, is guaranteed by the intervention of
the Senate.

Secondly, the alteration of the Kalendar pro-
longs the exercise for the year 14, which will be
the same as that of 1806, until the lath of January,
18u7, and it will consist of fifteen months. Hence
results the necessity of a change in the period of
conscription for the year 15. Following the plan
of the division of the year, which France has just
abolished. this conscription ought only to include
those young meat, who will have attained, nn ti .e
22.1 of September 1805 (the last day of the ye.tr t :),
the age of twenty.
Sire, Your M 'jest y has declared in Your Coun-
cil, that your armies already are sufficiently strimg
in men and arms, and that they possess all ti:
means of triumphing over the antrpeacd attack
and the ill advised pet risi,oustiesi of your enemies.
A league more numerous and more formidable,
was formerly established against France; and the
allied armies, inrretsed and swollen like the waves
in the tempest. were broken, like them. against the
mounds that our battalions, under your guidaice
and protection, have opposed to them.
The cold aed bard sentiment of passive obedic-ce
wrfll effiy ihi troops L 9 the fight that our enteruesei