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London, England, 1812-02-23 00:00:00

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unrewarded. Yoe raise my notions of the English people,
and I have experienced too much satisfaction at finding
such a friend, not to take every possible means to secure
his affection. I, have, in consequence, 'passed the follow.
ing Decree, in order to bestow on you a. distinguished and
public mark of my. esteem and gratitude.
We NAPOLEON, Bc.c.
Being desirous of displaying our esteem towards Sir FRANCIS BUR.
a x-rr, Bart. and of testifying our admiration of his patriotic conduct
ever since he became a public man, and more particularly of the decid-
edly Gallic sentiments expressed in the Speech in which, on the 21,t
instant, he opposed the grant of 2,0001. a year to our enemy Lord WEL-
LINGTON,
'Have decreed, and do decree as follows:—
Art. Ist. That the said Sir FRA r!z els BURDETT, Bart. is admitted Ito
all the rights of French citizenship ; which rights shall remain in his
male descendants ad s,ecula urridortim.
Art. 2d. The said Sir' FRANCIS BURDETT, Bart. is created Grara
Cross of the Legion of Honour, with the reversion of the first Duke-
dom vacant.
Our Minister of the Interior shall see this Decree registered and car-
ried into execution.
Dane this 22d day of February, 1812, at our Balloon Observatory,
'2,600 tolses above the surface of the earth.
NAPOLEON.

GARNLRIN, Witness and Secretary.

U.VITED STA 2'ES.

American Papers to the 2d instant were receive.] on
Friday, bringing, intelligence of considerable moment.
Tire bill for permitting the importation of British goods,
purchased or contracted for previous to the 2d February,
1811, had not passed, and some of the Papers stated that
it would not pass. The official documents contained in
the American Papers arc highly interesting. We are
glad to find the base imputations cast upon the Bri-
tish Nation and charaCter, both in and out of Con,
greys, with respect to stirring up the Indians to war
against America, have ilten so triumphantly refuted ;
Aid. that even the American Government was the
channel through which that refutation had been conveyed
first' to Congress, and afterwards to the Public. Mr.
FOSTER called the attention of the American Govern-
ment to a letter written some time since to Mr.
MoniEtt, by Sir JANIFS CRAIG, directing him to apprise
the American Government of the intention of the In-
dians to make war upon the United States. The corres-
pondence between Messrs. FOSTER and MUNROE on the
subject, has been communicated by the PRESIDENT to
Congress, and published.
' . The other contents of the American Papers sare of
considerable importance. It appears from the official
Budget that the expenses d the war cannot be defrayed
without many new taxes and accumulating debts ; and
an official Report made by Mr. GALATI:I to Congress
shows what was the state of American commerce, and
the vast disproportion between the amount of e:Torts
taken oil' by this country and by France, or7even by all
other nations. If any thing can open the eyes of the
Americans to the ruinous consequences of a war with,
1 this country it would be these documents, upon the latter
1 of which an American Paper has the following coni.

melts :
" document k highly interesting, we here see from the foun-
tain head of authority, that of FORTY-FIVE P.TILLIONS of dolkrs of
our exports, the grand source of our national riches—more than thirty-
eight millions of them are purchased by Great Britain and her Allies,
Spain and Portugal; while short of one million two hundred thousand
• are taken by France and Italy. Farmer, marfc. well ! that of the alloye
exports, more than Six Sevenths of them are derived from Agricta-
ture.—f Coltonbrian alivel.)
Mr. GALLATIN'S Report is finished to-day. It has electrified Con-
gress—hi-Ow the w;'r fever—and must have a good effect on the Ameri-
can l'ublie.—; Caumbrianfinal.)