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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

JAN. 9.

ext. the dispositions of the said, decrees to towns and places
which pre not comprehended in them.
111 Those of our said Extraordinary Commissioners who shall
be sent into countries threatened by the enemy, shall order le%ies
en 'those' and all other measures, whatever, necessary to the
defence of the country, and commanded by the duty of opposing
the progress of the enemy, Veside‘, special instructions shall he
given them, according to the particular situation of the depart-
ments to which they shall be bil%
IV. Our extraordinary Commissioners are authorised to order
MI measures of high pnitcc, Hhicle circumstances, awl the main-
tenanee of public m der, may demand.
V. They are likewise m &red to form military commissions, and
summon before them, or before the special courts all persons aeeu.
sed of favouring the enemy, of twilit; in communication with him-
or of attempti:;g the public tranquillity.
VI.. They shall he authorized to issue proclamations, and pass
decrees. The said decree), shall be obligataiy upon all citiTens.
The judicial authorities, civil and military, shall be bound to con-
form themselves to them, a d cause them to be executed.

VII. Our Extraordinary Comini,sionerb shall correspond with
cm Minister, *Toil tlic object, relative to each service.
VIII *hey shall enjoy in their respective crpacitie•, the
honours allowed to them by our regulations.
IX. Our llini►sters are charged with the execution of the plc:sent
Pecrec, which shall be ince► test in the bulletin 01 the laws.
(signed) NAPOLEON
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By the F.istper7r,
The Minister Secretary of State,
• (£ii:_ned) The Puke of HASSAN°.
Palace of the Thuilieties, Dec. 16, 1831.

Napoleon, Emperor of the Fre. Kinu• of Italy, Pi uteri rof
tl►e Rhenish Confederation, Mediator of the Swiss Confeder-
ation &e.

in eowsequenre of our decree of thi: day, we have named and
;lame for our extraordioary Commissioners
[Here follow the names of the Commissioner.]

CONSERVI FIVE SEN tTE.

SITTING OF hIOND IV, DECEMBER 27, 1813.

Ifis Serene Higltn.•ss tie Prince Aren.C.iiiiicelio r of the anipire
President.

In the name of the Special Committee appointed in the Sitting of
the '2l.d of this month, the Senator, Coma. fie Fontanes, one t it•
Members, obtained permission to speak, and made to the Assembly
the following report :
" My Lord,--Senators,-ITe first duty of the Senate towards the
Monarch and the people is till tia.
The extraordinary situation in which the country fu :0 itself,
fenders this duty still more obligatory.
" The Emperor himsclt invites all the great bodies of thtl State to
exprt ss their opinions freely,—a truly loyal idea!
" The salutary development of those monarchial institutions, iu
which power centered in the hands of one, is strengthened in the..
confilence of all ; and whiAt, giving to the throne the ginnantee of
the national opinion, gives to the people in their turn tht conscious-
s. of their digoity,—the too just reward of their sac' ifices,
" Such IlleiglidliilllollS intentions ought not to be deceived.
" Accordingly, the committee named in your Sitttog of the ?2tl
of December, whose organ I have the honour to he, has made the
most serious examination of the official papers submitted to their
inspection by the orders of his Majesty the Emperor, and Volllllllllli-
ciited by the Duke of Vicenza.
Neglivialions for peace have commenced ; you ought to be ac-
rili:;ii:ted with their progress. Your judgment trout not be prejudiced.
A bare enumeration of facts, by guiding your opinion, must- prepare
gnat • I Frallre,
" When the Austrian Cabinet laid aside' the character of a media-
tor when every thing gave room to joilme that the Congress at
Prague was ready to he dissolved, the Emperor fretermined to make
last effort for the pacification of the Coutinent.
The Duke of Rosati() wrote to Prince Nletternich. Ije propo-
sed to neutralize a point on the frootiers, and there to resume the
liegotiatunhe for Prague, even during the continu4nce of hostilities.
tjohappily these ()Vellums had no efiect,
" The time when this pacific step was taken, is important It
was on the 16th of August last. The remembrance of the days of
',often and Bautzen was recent, This wish against the prolongation
of the war may then be said to ht in sumo .fle,grev contemperoy
with the date oft p ViCioriPS.

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" efforts of the Fiench Cabinet were in vain; peace became
more remote : h stilities began again ; v%ents assumed another face.
The solliers of the German Minces, but now our Allies, s:ieWe.l
more than once, while fighting, tinder our banners, a fidelity but too
dubious : all at once they ceased to dissemble, and joined our
enemieg.

" From that moment the combinations of a campaign so gloriously
begun ci,nl(l not have the txpeetell !•ttecess.

66 Tile Euiperor perceived that it was time to order the French to
evacnue Germany. He returned with them, fighting at almost
every step ; and on the narrow route wises e so Olahy open defections
and siieut treacheries contihed his progress and his motions, new
trophies marked his return.
" We: followed him w me uneasiness in the midst of so many
obstacles, over which he &thew could ts inmple With joy we saw him
semen to Isis trontiers, not with Isis accustomed good fortune, Ina
not without heroism and without glory,
" Hae jug returned to his capital, he turned his eyes from those
fields of battle where the world had admired him for fifteen years ;
he even detached his thoughts tom the great designs which Ise ln:d
conceived. I use his own expressions; he turned to his people, his
heart opened itself, and we read in it our own sentiments.
" He desired peace, and as !won as the hope of at negoeiatiou
seemed possible, he hastened to seize it.
‘‘ events of the war led tile Baron de St Aignan to the heads
ge,,,ticr% of the Allied powers. There he saw the Australis -Minister,
Prince Metternich, and the Russian Minister, Count .Nieo:lreid.
" Both, in the name of their Courts, laid before him iu a cohfi-
dentist cone ersation the bases of a general pacification. Time Eng.
Issh Ambassador, Lord Aberdeen, was present at this conterrence-
Oteervo this last fact, Senators, it is important,
B iron St. Aiencm, being desired to acquaint his Court with all
he Is id heard, faithfully aciplitted himsellor this commission,
" Though France had a right to hope for other proposals, the Em•
permr sacrificed every thisig to his sinewy wish for peace. He caused
the Mike of Missals° to %elite to Prince Metternich, tit et lie adant-
ted as the basis of negociation, the eeaeral principle oontabied its
the confidential report of M. de St. Aignan. •
" Prince Meth rushs, in reply to the peke of Bassano, seemed
to think them was something vague in the acceptance (adlitston,)
given by France.
66 Then, to remove every difficulty, the Duke of Vicenza, after
having taken the orders of his Majesty, made known to the C:binet
of Austria, that his Majesty adhered to the general and summary bases
communicated by M. de St..ligium. File Duke of Vicenza's letter is
or the vd of December ; it was received on the sth of the same month.
Prince Metternich did 'sot answer till the 10th. These dates must
he rarefidly observed : you will soon set that they are not with,
out importance,
" Just hopes of peace may be conceived on reading f e answer
of Prince Metternich to the dispatch of the Dicke of Viceeza ;
only at the end of his letter he announces:, that before the negocia-
thitc are evened, it is necessary to confer sellout them with the
Allies. These Allies can be eo other thin the EnJish. Now their
4111W:seekr was pm esent at the 'conversation of which M. de St.
Aignass .ad been ve itness. Se c clv not desire to excite distrust,
we relate.
" We have carefully noted the date of the last e3rresi- ondence
between the French and the Awls lass Cabinets ; we have saiu that
the Duke of Vicenza's letter must have been received on the sth,
and that the receipt was not acknowledged till the 10th.
" Iu the interval, a Gazette; now under the influence of the
allied powers, published to all Europe, a declaration, which is said
to be titruished with their authority, It would be melancholy to
believe it.
This declaration is of a nature unusual in the dip'omacy of
Kings It is no longer to kings like tie mselves that they explain
their grievaeces, and send their manifests es. It is to the in
that they address them ; and from what motive do they adope
such a new method of proceeding ? It is to separate the cause of
the people from that of their governorA, though the interests of
society lies every where United them.
" not this example be fatal ? Should it be given, eettiecialle
at this period, when people'S mimic, agitated' by all the diseases v.?
pride, are so averse to bending under the authority which protects
them, while it represses their audacity ? against whom is this
indirect attack ahhed? Against a r via man, who merits
gratitude of ail h mugs ; because, by reqestabllshinit the Oro
Fr..nce, he as closed up the crater of the volcano which Om

them all.
" It must not be thiseinbled, that in certain respects, this ex'
(him, y manifesto U, in a moderate tome. 'Dos proves, that tt
perienve of thr coalition has gaiucd perfection.

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