The National Register.
London, England, 1809-12-31 00:00:00

Choatellor, Duke of Parma."

•` We accordingly proceeded to the Hall of the Throne of the
Thuilleties, attended by Michel Louis Etienne Iteguault (de
St. Jean d'Aagely), Count of the Empire, Minister of State,
and Secretary of State to the Imperial Family. A quarter of
an hour afterwards we were introduced to the Grand Cabinet of

the Emperor, where we found his Majesty the Emperor and
King %lilt her Majesty the Empress, attended by their Majes-
ties the Kings of Holland, Westphalia, and Naples, his Impe-
rial Highness the Prince Vice-Roy ; the Queens f Holland,
Westphalia, Naples, and Spain ; Madame, and her Imperial
Highness the I'rincess Pauline. His Majesty the Emperor and
King condosceuded to address us in these terms
My Cousin, Prince Arch-Chancellor, I dispatched to you
44 a private letter, dated this day, to direct you to repair to my
" Cabinet, fur the purpose of communicatinK to you the resolu-
" tion which I and the Empress, my dearest Consort, have taken.
" it gives me pleasure that the Kings, Queens, Prioresses, my
brothers and bisters.in-law, my daughter-In-la w, and my son-iu•
law, become my adopted son, as well as my mother, should
44 witness what tam going to communicate to you. -- ;..
44 Tho politics of my monarchy, the, interest and the *lusts of
" my people, which have constantly guided all my actions,
46 require that after me, I should leave to thilftreo. inheritors
" of my love for ofmy people, that throne on which Providence
" has placed me. Notwithstanding, for several yettri past I
have lost all hope of having children by my marriage with my
" well-beloved consort the Empress Josephine. 'nisi* is which
64 induces me td sacrifice the sweetest affections of my heart,
64 to attend to nothing but the good of the State,, and to wish
" the dissOlutiou of my marriage. Arrived at the age °lrony
•' years, I may indulge the hope of living long twines to edu-
" case, in my views and sentiments, the children which -it ma
44 'skive Providence. to give me : God knows how much such
" a resolution has cost my heart ; but there is no sacrifice be-
" yond my courage,. that I will mat make, when it IS proved
" to me to be necessary to the welfare of France. I. shoe ld
" add, that far from ever haying had reason to complaingon
" the contrary, 1 have had only to he gratified with tiseatteilt-
" merit and the affection of my well beloved Consort. She has
44 adorned 10 years of my life, the remembrance of which will
" ever remain engraven op my heart. She was crowned h, my
" hand. I wish sbc should preserve the. rank and title of Do-
ti press, but, above all, that she should item doubt or *tali-

" meets, and that she should ever regard me as her beat as!
4* dearest friend."
His Midesty the Emperor and Kieg baying ended, bet Moja.
ty the Empress and Queen spoke as fillows :
" By the permission of our dear and august Consort, I ought
" to declare, that not preserving any hope et having children,
" which may fulfil the wants of hii policy and the interesis of
" France, I am pleased to give him the greatest proof of at.
" tachment and devotion which has ever been given on earth.
" I possess all from his bounty ; it was his hand which crowned
" tar, and from the height of tills throne I have received no.
" thing but proofs of affect jou said love front the French people.
" I 'think I prove myselroateful in consenting I. the disso-
" lotion of a marriage which heretofore was Oil obstacle to the
" welfare of France, which deprived it of the happiness of
" being one day governed by the descendants of a great man,
" evidently raised up by Providence to efface the evils of a ter.
" rible revolution, and to re-establish the altar, the throne, and
" social orde . But the dissolution of my marriage will in node-
'F, gree cluing tbe sentiments of my heart. The Emperor will
"'ever bay nme his best friend.
I know how much tbisact,
" dethanded by policy and interests so great, has chilled his
" heart; but both of us exult in the sacrifice which we make
" for the goad of the countr)."

I" After which their Imperial Majesties having demanded an
act of their respective declarations as well as of the mutual con-
sent contained in then; and which their Majesties gave to the
dissolution of their marriage, as also of the power which their
Majesties conferred on us to follow up as need shall require the
effect of their will, we, Prince Arch Chancellor of the Em-
pire, is obedience to the orders and requisitions of their Majes•
ties, have given the aforesaid act, and have in consequence ex-
ecuted the present praxes verbal, to serve and *tail according to
law, to which proses verbal their Majesties have taxed their
signatures; and which, after having been signed by the Kings,
Queens, Princes, and Princesses present, has been :ivied by us,
and countersigned by the Secretary of the Imperial Family.
" Done at the palace of the Thuilleries, the day, bout, and
the year aforesaid.
(Signed) 44 NAPOLIEOO, " EUGENE N'Apotgots,
• JOSIPIIINE, al JULIE,
44 MADAME, 44 HO RTE NS Et
44 Louis, CATR EMI NX,
• JgROMIIt NAPOLEON, " PAULINE,
44 JOACHIM NAPOLEON, '4 CAROLINE.
" CANBACERES, Prince Arch Chancellor.
"COUNT HEYNAULT, (de St, Jeand'Angely.)"
" Having seen the projet ef the Sonatas Consultant, drawn up
in the form prescribed by the 57th Article of the Act of the
Constitution, of the 4th August, 1802; after having heard the
motives of the said projet the Orators of the Council of State,
and the Report of the Special Commission, appointed in the sit-
ting of this day ; the adoption having been discussed by then's.
nuns-
berof Members prescribed by the 56th Article of the Act of the
Constitution of the 4th August, 1802,,dectee;
" Art. I. The marriage coatriitted between the Emperor
Napoleon and the Empress Josephine is dissolved.
64 11. The Empress Josephine shall preserve the title and
rank of Empress Queen crimped.
" 111. Her dowry is fixed at an annual income of two mil-
lions of francs, en the revenue of the State..
" IV. All the assignments which may be made by the Em-
peror in favour of the Empress Josephine on• the funds of the
Civil List, shall be obligatory on his suecessots.
46 y. The present Senates Competitive shall be transmitted by
a message to his Imperial and Royal Modesty."
The two Addresses proposed by the mission were after-
wards pat to the vote, and adopted.

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