The National Register.
London, England, 1811-01-13 00:00:00

711 E NATION-AL REGISTER. -

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Leloved Monarch's reign been fully accomplished,
and publicly hailed by national gratitude, when the
long sufferings of his daughter came to a melan-
choly close. Death snatched her from „his paternal
love, and his reason was buried in her grave. Vio-
lent paroxysms of grief and of delirium succeeded
each other. The people mourned-for their King :
politicians felt for themselves. Parliament met
out of necessity, when the period of its prorogation
terminated. An adjournment was proposed and
carried, though not without some verbal op-
position, in the hope that his Majesty's reco-
v:ery would render further proceedings unneces-
sary. The violent symptoms of .his illness hav-
ing decreased, another adjournment was moved for
by Ministers at the end of a fortnight, when they
encountered a most formidable opposition. Deli-
cacy and propriety, however, triumphed anew, and
at the expiration of this second adjournment they
agreed to an examioationof Physicians, the result
of which displayed much ingenuity in the questions,
and much science in the answers, but communicated
little information on the main point, the probable
time of the complete recovery of his MAJESTY.
Measures for restoring the suspended exercise of the
Royal Authority were then immediately adopted.
Former patriots who so loudly declaimed againstthe
fancied increase of the Royal Prerogative, and the
diminution of national freedom now changed their
language. Interest, the needle which guides their
conduct pointed a different way, and they zatered
their course accordingly. They supported the pro-
ceeding by Address which tended to create a
Regent de jure suo and riot de jure Parlementi ye!
rpuli, thus sacrificing the will, authority, and ix-
dependence of Parliament, at such an important
And difficult period, to the pretended right of an
elevated person to be Regent. Ministers, on the
tonta-ary, proposed to proceed by declaring- the
neceosity which compelled the two Houses to act ;
lid
by virtue of the wdl of the Nation expressed

}through its Representatives, investing the Prince of
:Witt.E.s with that
,Otion of the Regal Authority
fteeessary for the,purposes of Qovernment. Vain
attempts were made to -carry.an Address through
both Houses. The supporters of the Bill triumphed,
s‘crud the year closed before the discussions respect-
ing the necessity of imposing restrictions on the
:Regent, and theirmature, terminated.
IA our next we shall follow the eventful course of
iSIO, through British India and bOth Americas.

and cotton within 14 miles of
were destroyed on-the 12th Sep-
eruption. every thing else
ten miles was also destroyed. The
'ea iirat 100 feet deep.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

CONSERVATIVE SENATE.
MARINE CONSCRIPTION.

PAR/8, DEc. !ft—The Councillor of State, Count Cairarelli,
presented the following Expossi
" Senators—We are commissioned by his Majesty to present
to you the Project of a Scnatus Consulpan, in which you will
take pleasure in remarking the character of public utility, of
energy, and of foresight, which belongs to the vast conception;
of his Majesty. •
" The Empire enjoys the most profound peace. The nations
which surround it, deeply convinced that the surest pledge of
their repose will constantly be found in their alliance with the
French people, every day draws closer the ties which unite
them to it, andi appear to constitute only one and the same
great family, by their sentiments towards the august Chief of
France.
" And if the horrors of war still desolate the extremities of
Europe; if the misled portion of a neighbouring nation, agitated
by factions, still mistakes its true interests, you know, Gentle-
men, that the cause must be sought for in the perfidious machi-
nations of that Government, the enemy of Europe, which, re-
pelled and menaced on all sides, has no longer any thing but a
single corner, where it is still able to fan the flame of discord and
of civil dissections.
" England blockades the ports of Europe; she patroles upon
the seas her ships, every where the objects of reprobation ; she
seeks openings tor the produce of her manufactures, piled. up in
Ow warehouses of her dismayed inhAbitants. Her criminal
system is recognized; her snares have lost their effect; the taa•
dons at List know how to appreciate both her fatal alliance and
her disastrous services.
" Amidst the calm which his Majesty has re-established in
the Empire and in Europe, he is occupied with the amelioration
of his Marine; and his genius suggests to him efficacious means
for opposing to his enemies upon the seas numerous Beets, ani-
mated, like his veteran and formidable plialamcesovith -a desire
at last to conquer an universal peace. The will of his Majesty
shall always be hat of destiny ; for power and genius sever v; ill
in vain,

Already, Gentlemen, at the voice of his Majesty, maritime
establisment are created; our coasts, the extent of which is
augmented, are every where defended by courage and fortified
by art; the arsenals are provided lath necessary materials;
ships are rising in our ports, and our fleets will one day try their
stt ength with those of the enemy, and reign upon the seas.
But to arm these vessels, to equip them, his Majesty has felt
that he stood in need of seamen. Those who at present man
his squadrons, would not he sufficient for the greatness of his
plans • new means are necessary for new views.
" Commerce and the fisheries, which were wont to furnish
seamen to the State, are at pre,ent too inconsiderable, and new
system must be fOrthwith resorted to for supplying the wants of
the country. At the voice of his Majesty there issues from tho
maritime departments, a crowd of young men, who, being at
once sailors and soldiers, will shew themselves worthy rivals of
those who have raised su high the glory of the arms of. the Em-
pire.
44 We shall now unfold to you, Gentlemen, the basis of thy;
Institution, from which his Majesty 'expects the most .adv.inta-
geous results: The Emperor has perceived- that the mode of
Conscription can alone procure fur the Marine those resources
in men which it requires ; but he has felt thaw this mode could
not he extended through the whole of our territory, for the
iu-
clinations of men are generally the fruit of their habits. 'nes
the inhabitants of the towns of the interior never seethe

sea or seamen ; 1 stranger to that element, to that mode
of life, he forms to himself only a monstrous idea of it; he rre-
lers the land-seotice for which the innuinerabi:! victories of our
armies have already excited his early enthusiasm.
" The inhabitant or the coast, on the contrary, 'from his ear-
Hest years is hearing the sea-service talked of; around him every
thing presents the image of it ; while yet*a child he gambols In
,that element, upon whicn.one day he will braVe a storM
itht: battle. Born on coasts adjacent to those of the enemy, he
'feels the necessity of defending them, because be hai td prettet
his fainily and. his property. Ile is actuated more than any
other with the feeling of. resistance to aggression i he is at once
• a main and a citizen.
" It is from the marittne departments, then, that the marje
must be itecruited; it is from the line of coasts that must-be
made the selection of men destined to serve. on thisea.
" But the profession of the seaman is liable to so. many Vi-
cissitudes and dangers, that it is necessary to uonunence it •frotn
the most tender age, *hen the organs arr docile, the bo4y
flotible' and habits are contracted without dillkultv:* It is ne-
cessary 01. at the mariner. shonld be' early iicCUEQIIIC'd t!and leanto face it iwiei sr-4;e.

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" Young suitors shall therefore be selected at the age of from
13 to 16; if younger, the State would wait too long before it
enjoyed their services.; if old. r, the physical constitution of
man could only be bent with difficulty to all the to k of sea-
manship. Here it is our duty to communicate one of those fine
thoughts of the Emperor—that of imitating, fi out tke present
moment, those young conscripts in the career which they are
destined to run.
" His Majesty has formed crews for ships, and crews for flo-
tillas. The former, composed of experienced mariners, will
man She ships ; for the latter, his Majesty is fitting out in his
ports small vessels, commanded by skilful officers ; on board
which will be exercised in .manceuvres,_in steering, in the use of
arms, those young seamen, whom the Senatus Cnnsultuin, which
we present, summons to the honour of serving their country.
" .Doubtless, Gentlemen, the experience which they will ac-
quire in the navigation of the coasts and in the roads, will not he
so great as that communicated by distant expeditions; but they
will thus be familiarized with their state, they will see and will
vanquish its difficulties : they will acquire a taste for it, even in
this way, that it will present to them obstacles which they have
to surmount; and in a few years they will be fit to serve in a
more useful manner, on hoard the ships of his Majesty.
" At the same time that his Majesty projected means for
training to himself seamen, he has ordered the necessary mea-
sures for forming the officers who are to command them.
Every thing is connected in his
.conceptions ; their whole always
hears the impression of the genius who presides over the pros-
perity of tke Empire.
PROJECT OF TII E SENATUS CONSULTUM.

" Art. I. The coast districts of the thirty departments here-
after-named shall cease to contribute to the conscription of the
sea service.
44 11. The following are thirty departments in which the ma-
ritime districts shall be reserved :
" Maritime Alps, Appenives, Ande, Mouths of the Rhone,
Calvados, Lower Charente, Coasts of the North, Dyle, the
Scheldt, Finisterre, Gard, Genoa, Gironde, Hera ult, lle and Vi-
laine, Landes, Lower Loire, Lys, Manche, Montenotte, Mor-
linan, Two Nether:, Nord, Par de Calais, Lower Pyrtnnees,
Eastern Pyrennees, Lower Seine, Somme, Var, Vendee.
111. Ten thousand Conscripts of each of the clas4es of Igl 53,
1814,1815, and 1816, shall be immediately placed at the dis-
posal of the Minister of Marine.
" IV. The present Senatus Consultum shall be transmitted in
a message to his Majesty the Emperor and King.