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3 PARTS, MARCH 3 I..—At three' this :afternoon the
13rince. Arch-ChanCeller of the. Empire attended the
Senate; where, being received with the usual cere-
tnony, his Serene Highness ordered the Secretary of
the Senate to read the Decree by which he was.ati-
thorized to preside at the Sitting. His Serene
Highness thou pronounced the following Speech
" GENTLEMEN,
" At the moment when France, uniting in inten-
tiou with you, secures its happiness and its glory,-
in swearing to obey. our 'august Sovereign,' your
_necessity has 'foreseen the ecesity of co-operating
in every part of 'the system of Hereditary Govern-
ment, and to establish it by institutions analogous
to its nature.

rr Yotir wishes are in ;part fulfilled; and will. be
'ill more so; by the different'Aastliat His Majesty
the Emperor and King has prescribed to me for your
sanCtion. Ht.nx you Will gratefully receive these
tew testimonies of his confidence in the Senate,
and his love for his People ; and, conformably to
'His Majesty's intentions; you will hasten to.inscribe
them, upon your registers.
"( The first of these A.6ts is a Statute containing
Abe dispositions resulting from the 14th ArtiCle of
the. Mt of the constitutions of Floreal 8; of the
'year twelve.
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This Statute regulates every think concerning
the Civil Constitution of the Imperial House, in pre-
scribing the duties of!the Princes and Princesses who
compot;,..it, towards the Emperor.
• " The ..fundamental principle of this important
Tamily Law announces
,how much His Majesty has
it at .heart, that the dynasty of which he is the
f:Ainder, -should perpetuate the happiness of Fance,
:and fulfil the sublime hopes of •which it is the ob-.,

jed. • •
". It is particularly- for the interests of Nations
that Princes should be educated in a manner su-:
perior to.other men. The honours which they re-
ceive from their infancy are calculated to give more
authority to the examples of submission and virtue,
which is the-principal debt they owe to their Coun-
:try. -."
" The accomplishment of their high dptinies
also requires, that . they should be placed; almost
from-their birth, under the inspection of the Father
.of the Empire, in order that his vigilance may dire&
their inclinations for the interest of the State, and
thatthe:most severe morality should purify-and en-
'noble all their affe&lons.
The' second ASR is a Decree, which unites the
Venetian Provinces with the Kingdom of Italy.
Thus, this part of His 'Majesty's States will receive,
in consequence of this disposition, that new degree
of importance and. 'lustre which 'the glory et its
.founder had reason
.to hope. .
" .By the third Decree His Majesty confers the
Throne of Naples upon His Highness Prince Jo,
isujt, and his legitimate heirs male.
:!t-Ho reserves to 'this Prince the rights assured
to him by, the Constitutions of the Empire, in pro-
idin
of Naples shall never be united upou the same
" This glolious recompence of the services of
wince Joserni and his constant and pious affedion
for the head of his tiun4y, shall be for you, Gentle-
Men, the subjea of a lively satisfaClion. And how
much more-. active will not this sentiment become,
. in consequence of the elevation of a Prince, the ob-
- je& of youi love -and veneration, when you are in,
formed that this elevation will not put an end to our
connexions with him ; and when you know that the
new King of Naples is to preserve with his Crown
the title of Grand Eledor.
" Relat;ve to the third and fourth Decrees—one
contains the cession of the Dutchies of Cleves and
Berg, in their full sovereignty, to his Highness
Prince MURAT ; the other confers the Principality
of Guastalla on her Royal Highness -Princess PAU-
LINA, and her spouse,. the Prince UORGUESE. The
military glory of Prince MuRAT, the splendour and
importance of' his successes, hiS public and private
virtues, will interest every Frenchman in the just
reward that he has obtained, and render his autho-
rity dear to his.new Subje&s. The safeguard of an
important part of the frontiers of his Majesty's Ern.-
pire will be entrusted to Prince MURAT. Can his
Majesty place it in worthier hands ?
. You had appreciated the merit of Prince Bolt-

,GHESE even before your Decrees had natnralized
him among us. His condu& in the last campaign
has given hint new claims to your esteem and the
public confidence.
" The fifth Decree transfers, in its complete So-
vereignty, the Principality of Neufchatel to Mar-
shal Bun rii-ux. This aileaing proof of the
.Em-
Peror's. good will for an old companion in arms;
- and a co-operator, as intrepid as intelligent, can-
not fail to excite the sensibility of. every good heart,
us it will be a motive of joy in every well-informed
. mind: •
" The sixth Decree effoas the re-union of the
• countries of Massa, Carrara, and Garfagnana, to the
Trincipality of Lucca.
" In fine, Gentlemen, the seventh Decree esta-
blishes thr.ee great titles in the States of Parma and
Plaisance, the splendour of which will be -maintained
by Considerable revenues, to be appropriated to that
purpose, in these 'countries, 'consistent with his Ma-
jesty's orders.
" 13y the effe& of similar reservations in the De-
crees relative to the States of Venice, the Kingdom
of Naples, and the Principality of Lucca, his Ma-
,. jesty has created recompenses worthy. of them for
severl of his subjects who have rendered him signal
services in the war, or who have contributed in emi-
nent offices, in any distinguished manner, to the
good of the State.
" It is the Emperor's wish that these titles should

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become the property of those who receive them,

:and that they shall enjoy the right of transmitting
them in the male line to the eldest of their legiti-
mate descendants, as a Menument of imperial. mu-
niticence, and the just motives that excited these
rewards. This grand conception, Gentlemen, •and-
'the 'secondary measures that accompany it, shall
make known to Europe thee4imatiuu that his Ma-
i, j
• %ty attaches to the exploits of the brave man who
bare seconded his kabours; and to the fidelity of

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those . r lid§ efilV.4ea in. the aireatua ,or
atfaits 'of impofrance. • •

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This disposi‘t.fga.4ti, 'it the same tii.-n&`,..poU
kal advanthpes'thA‘, ill nc,t escape your foresight.
The habitual splendour which surrounds men en'ti-
nent in dignity, gives ilkin-With the people an au-
thority-of counsel ande'tiamgle, which the Monarch
cantonuOuies adtantageoUSly apply to increase the
authority of the 'public fuli(Stion. On the' other
hand, the same nren 'are the natural intercessors- for
the people at the Throne ; it is therefore Consistent
with (the good of the State, that by the stability and
splendour of their situation they Shall be' raised
aboVeeVety.vulgar consideration.:
• ‘f From thes'a MotiveS, the propriety of which is
incontestible,•ether advantages arise, 'which will be
easy in then' application ;. and \chic-11,1 believe,' it
will be superfluous to 'analyze.
Such, Gentlemen, is the profound basis upon
whiCh his gajesty wishes to establish the great
political system, the idea of whichs was inspired into
him by Divine Providence. In securing the happi7
.
ness of the present generation, in preparing the
greatness of the future *race, his Majesty is inces-
santly adding to those sentiments, of love, admira-
tion, and respe&, which you feel in common with
the rest: of. the French Nation."

THE MESSAGE OF Ti-LE EMgEROR AND KING.
[The first avec. paragraphs are only a
,repetition
of a part of the preceding discourse :, the conclusion
is as follows •
a We have thought proper, under these circum-
stances, that several obligations, and some burthens,
which were borne by our Crown of Italy, should-
be uefrayed by the' £it of Naples and the • Prince
of Lucca. •
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. aWe have also found means to conciliate the in-7
terests, the dignity of our Throne, and the senti-
ment of our gratitude,. fbr the serviceswhich have'
been rendered us in the civil and.military
Whatever may be the power to which Divine Pro:,
vidence and the love of
.onr. people has elevated us,
it is no/ sufficient for the recompense of sb Many,
Heroes, or for the :acknowledgment of the
ions testimonies of love and fidelity which our per-
.sOn has experienced. • • •
a You will perceive, in many of the dispositions
which will be transmitted to you) that we have not
solely abandoned ourselves to the sentiments of affec-
tion with which we have been penetrated, and to
the happiness of doing good to those who hxv-e so
faithfully served us; we have been chiefly influenced
by the grand idea of consolidating social order, to-
gether with bur Throne, which is • its ,basis and
foundation ; and to create points of correspondence
and support to this. great Empire. This attaches
itself to our dearest wiShes, to that'to which' we have
devbted our whole life—the greatness and prosperity
of our people.
" Given in our Palace of the Thuilleries, March
00) ' 1.806,

(Signed) " NAPOLEON.
" Secretary of State, H. B. MAKET,.."

- PARTS,- 3.--The marriage ceremony is-to_
take place; on Tuesday next, at eight .in the
evening, between the Prince of 'BAD'EN and the Prin-
cess STEmAtiz, in the Chapel of the Palace of the
From the lists transmitted to the Holy Synod
from the different Ileptarchies of the Russian Em,
sire, it appears that the number of births in the
year 1804 were—males 715,334 ; females 642,933;
total 1,358,287. Marriages , 311,798 ; deaths
789,818 ; of which there were—males 439,137 ;
females 380,681. So that, in the course of that
year, the number of births exceeded the mortality by
568,469 souls.
M. DE HAVGWITZ, the Prtissian ArnbaSsador.Ex-
traordinary, left Paris on Friday evening to return to
Berlin. • . ,

NAPLES,MARCIT 18.—Prince JosEnt had scarce-
ly made himself, master of Naples, when he sent
two detachments under the Generals ST. C 1 it and
REGNIER, the first towards Tarento, and the second
towards Reggio and the Strait of Messina. General
REGNIER arrived at Lauria on the 7th of March,
where lie took three Officers and fifty Neapolitan
Soldiers. At Bosco he found sixteen caissons and
three pieces of cannon, On the Bth the Army
marched to Castel Luccio, which the Enemy had
left in disorder somehours before their arrival. They
found there four Officers, some .Soldiers, and some
magazines. 'On
.the oth..the Army marched :at
break of day, halted at the Rotunda, and afterwards
penetrated the defiles of the valley .of
,St..Nartin;
and proceeded, against the Enemy, who jieeined dis-
posed to wait for the Fi-cnch Army in an intrenched
position at Camperenese. the yplt igellrg over-
threw them at the first shock ) and this plass of
armed men, that one -cannot distinivaish by the title
of soldiers without disgracing that honourable name,
fled merely at the sight of the first Regiment of
Light Infantry, and two Battalions of the:42d, which
formed a small advanced guard under General COM-
PERE. Vi RDIER'S Division, which followed, fornied
in the second linc ; but the Enemy was already,
routed: Their cannon, and five or six lines of re-
doubts, baggilge, &c. all remained in the hands of
the French ; and out of the whole of the Neapolitan
Army, General DAMAS was not able to colle& in his
flight more than eight or nine hundred Infantry,.and
fifty hOrse : the rest were taken or dispersed in the
mountains. Two thousand Prisoners, the Generals
Tsnum and. Ricci,_ the Colonel, and a Battalion of
Guards, have already been colleaed, and are on their
• 'war to Naples. The .French were. well received
by the people of Calabria : it ,was impossible to
raise the Levy _en Masse ; it is impoSSible. to con-
ceive what motives could induce the Government to
compel such
.bad Troops to fight, notwithstanding
they were the only hope thatmliainedto the Go-
vernment that direiled them:: .

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Since that period each of the elitremittes of the
Peninsula have been _occupied. Gaeta still holds
out ' • but the artillery is getting ready for besieging ,
it. 'The Neapolitan Army hada good position, and
were formidable in :numbers; but it-is the error of,
all Cabinets to imagine, that a number Of soldiers
only is nedessary to obtain viBory. A small number
of soldiers will always vanquish a great 'nu/fiber;
but these must be real soldiers, animated by the
true military spirit, determined to conquer or die,
full of .vigour, cnthu,siasm, and health. As to the

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t 1 • tts and
sussiaJA ey no %trait tie arrnat
Ar‘ok, but .enit Ps fast as they could.
Prince Jos;t94 has .(i6118,1 a great part of the
most disatleCted persons. -.Net.).l...'sent them to diirerent
Fortresses. The majority Ot The .17.7ation are in ge-
iieral well dispOsed,:andlhef',eople every who're tes-
tify their hope and joy; but ROBESTIERRE and MA-
1t AT never excited. any terror equal that inspired
by the
.Queen.. - They dread her vengeance, .certain
that if ever she re-enters Naples, there is tick a step
they have taken, nor a .visit they have • made., that
will not lead them to death. The Neapblitanf may
console themselves ; their Queen shall never re--
vane the Government ; the former scenes 2'shall
never be renewed ; thoSe horrible times, °when the
lender CIMAROSA, and the best Citizens, Were mas-
sacred; shall return no more. The dynasty of Naples
has ceased to reign over that City, and its fine King-
dom.

MARCH, 22.---Generfil DiTHESNIE' arrived at Cas-
sano at the same time that- Genctal-REErt arriv-
ed at ,Reggio. The Neapolitan General, with the
wreck of his Army, was not able to embark : he is
'Wandering about the Country, and some fugitives
are talon every day. •
The Marquis DE RADIO, Chief of .the Levy-0 -
Masse,-'and an intimate. confidant of the queen, has
been arrested. He was employed in oraanizingas-
OssinationS in the-rear of the Ariny. ,He is deliver-,
ed up to a Military Commission, and them is no
doubt of his being shot. This is briefly the history
Of' this Marquis : be had been condenined, to be
hanged by the common course of law ; but 'the
queen being- persuaded of his -daring Charaeler,, gave
him'a fie pardon, and made him, a Marquis and a
Colonel on the same day.--The Country-is tranquil,
and the people in -general seem satisfied.. , •
PALRRNIO,,MARCH 9.—Gelteral FORTEQUENI had
scarcely arrived in • this city when. her solicited and
obtained leac,e, on. necouilt of ill health, to retire
from the offices of War and Marine, as as from
he: Royal. Service. Great preparations are making
Mere, as we fear that the Enemy _ will attempt a
landing.
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