The Sun.
London, England, 1806-03-13 00:00:00

train, the FRENCH and DUTCR P.IPEES:

PARIS, MARCH 2.—The opening of the Sessiod
of the Legislative Assembly, which took place yes,
terday, was uncommonly interesting. All the places
allotted for strangers were crouded early in the
morn:•-g. About mid-day the firing of cannon an-
nou. the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor
.and Kings who entered the Hall in which his statue,
holding in one hand the Legislative Code, is ereeled.
The head of the statue was on this occasion adorned
with a crown of laurel.

The Empress had a short time before entered by
another door. She was accompanied by the Princesses
her sisters, and the Prince Royal of BAVAR lA. Amidst
repeated shouts of Live the Empress! her Majesty
seated herself in an arm chair near the statue, and
received with most gracious affability the proofs of
respea which were offered to her from every side.

Military music was played While the Emperor en-
tered. The moment he ascended the throne, the
Empress and all the Members of the Assembly stood
up, and the Hall resounded with the exclamation--
Live the Emperor !
On the summons of the Arch-Chancellor of the
Empire, several Members, who had not before been
sworn in, proceeded to take the oaths. This cere-
mony being concluded, the Emperor arose and made
the following Speech :
" Gentlemen, the aTuties from the Departments
to the Legislative Body ; Gentlemen, the Tribunes,
and the Members of my Council of State : Since
your last Session, the greatest part of Europe has
entered into a coalition with England. My Armies
have never ceased to conquer, excepting when I or-
dered them to combat no longer. I have avenged
the rights of the feeble States, oppressed by the
strong. My Allies have increased in power, and in
consequence. My enemies have been humbled and
confounded ; the House of Naples has irrecoverably
lost its crown ; the whole of the Peninsula of Italy
forms a part of the Great Empire. I, as supreme
Head, have guaranteed the Sovereign, and the Con-
stitutions that govern the different departments.
" Russia only owes the return of the wreck of
her Army to the advantages of the Capitulation
which I granted it. Able to have overturned the
Imperial Throne of Austria, I have confirmed it.
The conduct of the Cabinet of Vienna, will be such
as will prevent posterity from reproaching inefor any
want of foresight. I have yielded an entire confi-
dence to the protestations which have been made to
me by its Sovereign. Besides, the high destinies'
of my Crown do not depend upon the sentiments
and dispositions of Foreign Courts. My People will
always support my Throne against all the efforts of
hatred or jealousy; no sacrifice will be painful ,to
them to secure that first interest of the Country.
" Bred in camps, and in 'camps that have always
been triumphant, I ought to acknowledge that, in
the late events, my Soldiers have exceeded my ex-
peEtations. It is *aging also to me to declare, that
my people have also fulfilled the extent of their du-
ties. In the heart of Moravia I never ceased for an
instant to experience the etteCt of their love and en-
thusiasm. Never have they given me any marks of
their attachment which have penetrated my heart
with sweeter emotions.
" Frenchmen ! I have not been deceived in my
hopes. Your love, MOM than the extent and the
riches of your territory, constitute my glory. Ma-
gistrates, Clergy, Citizens, all have shown them-
selves worthy of the high destinies of that admirable
France, which, for two ages past, has been the ob-
*lea of the leagues and the jealousies of its neigh-
bours.

My Minister of the Interior will inform you of
the events, which have taken plaCe in the course of
the year. My Council of State Will lay before you
plans of laws to ameliorate the different branches of
the Administration. My Ministers of Finance, and
of the Public Treasury, will lay before you the ac-
counts which they have presented to me. You will
perceive by them the prosperous state of our finances.
Since my return, I have been incessantly occupied
in giving to the Administration that spring and acti-
vity which give life to the extremities of this vast
Empire. My people will have no new burdens to bear,
but new plans will be proposed to you, respeCting the
system of the finances, the basis of which were esta-
blished last year. I intend to diminish the immediate
impositions which bear upon the land alone, and
to replace a part of these charges by indirect du-
ties.

Through the elements we have lost some
Ships, after an engagement imprudently commenc-
ed. I cannot too much praise the greatness of soul,
and the attachment which the King of Spain has
shewn in these circumstances for the common cause.
lam desirous of Peace with England. On my part,
I shall never retard that moment. I shall always be

ready to conclude it in adopting, for its lasis, the
stipulations oldie Treatygf Amiens.
" Gentlemen, Deputies to the Legislative Body,
the attachment you have she•wn to me, the mani;er
in which you have seconded me in the late Sittings,

diStitit of yOtli asgstahce: kotilhig
be proposed to you }ant that *hich is necessary to
gnifrantee the glory and safety of my People"

Nit 'Of tcu 3.—'The solemnities intended to take
' place here in May next will be honoured with the
presence of Five Kings.

At length positive orders have been given for the
return of the whole a the Austrian prisoners ; they
are to tortimence their March homewards on the Ist
of April ; but nothing has yet been announced to de-
termine whether the Russians are to follow them.

HAGUE► MAlttli 6.-4 t must be allowed that the
Cape of Good Hope has not been basely given up ;
this even the Enemy does not attempt to deny.
General JANSEN had not more plan twelve or thir-
teen hundred men to oppose to eight thousand troops
landed by Sir HOME POPHAM and to be able to
effect his retreat up the country before such a force,
in order further to annoy the Enemy, Certainly de-
serves credit.

FRANKFORT, MARCH I.—Marshal AUGEREAU'S
Army has entirely left the whole of the right bank
of the Mayo, and must have arrived by this time
upon the Frontiers of Westphalia. it is said that
he will take possession of the Duchy of Berg.

Prince CHARLES has erased General MAcx's name
from the list of Generals ; and his employment as
Chief of the Staff has bee❑ conferred on General
MAYEY:, w!lo enjoys the particular confidence of the
Archduke.

BATTLE OF ALJSTERLITZ.

THE RUSSIAN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE

OF AUSTERLITZ.

(From the Petershurgh lournil of Friday, February 2.)

TIiOPPAC,T, JAN. 25.—The issue of the Battle of
Austerlitz has been so \veil confirmed by its con-
sequences, that it is almost incredible how France
could publish such extravagant and untrue relatiOns
of that affiir. All Europe, and the Russian Nation
in particular, justly expect a relation oft our part.
The love of truth alone, and the wish to adduce
none but well-authenticated fads, have hitherto
prevented the appearance of this relation. In the
mean while it is necessary to corre& some of the
statements of the French Bulletins, particularly the
30th, and to lay them before the Public.
Gen. SAVORY spoke with two persons only be-
longing to the Emperor's suite ; and excepting these,
he only saw some IYield-Adjutants, who had brought
dispatches from their Chiefs, or were in waiting to
transmit orders to them.

The Chief of the French Nation might not have
derived any pleasure from the conversation of Prince
DOLGORUUCKI ; but he at the same time forgot that
the Russians did not belong to those nations who
sought his prote&ion.
Tne number of the Allied Army, as stated in the
Bulletins, " 105,000 _den, viz. 80,000 Russians
and 25,000 Au.;trian , and the French much infe-
rior."---But why were ►heir numbers not given ?
B4sides the Reserve, which alone was said to be
equal to an Army, the Enemy's force consisted of
four large divisions of 20,000 Infantry and 3000
Cavalry each, commanded by a Marshal and two Ge-
nerals of Division. The Combined Army, on the
other hand, consisted 452,000 Russians and 17,000
Austrians.
But this inferiority in number was the least mis-
fortune in the Rdssian Army : the scarcity of provi-
sions Was so great, that for nearly two days preced-
ing the blttle they had nothing to eat. The horses
were famished to such a degree that those belonging
to the Artillery could no longer draw. Of course, in
the battle, the Artillery was of little use, excepting
in those stations where it was at first planted. The
total failure of provisions and forage was alone suffi-
cient to prevent our maintaining our post any longer
at. Olmutz, or to take another station farther in
the rear. These circumstances urged the neces-
sity of the battle, the happy result of which could
only be expeaed from the valour of the Troops.—
The Imperial Guard, of which it is said in a Bul-
letin, that it lost all its colours, are still in posses-
sion of them, and have taken one pair from the
Enemy. The Combined Army, it is said, lost
15,000 killed and 20,000 prisoners. Do they in-
clude among these the 20,000 said to have been
drowned !

After so many forced marches, and so much fa-
tigue and hunger as has been sustained, with the
sickness consequent thereunto—after the affairs upon
the Danube and in Moravia—of the whole Russian
Army there is not a deficiency of more than t 7,000
men. But, were the loss as considerable as the
Bulletin has pretended, why was nut the Russian
Army pursued, as that Bulletin falsely asserts ?
On the contrary, the Russia❑ Army kept the field
till the next morning. The Armistice was not
concluded, but with the Emperor of Germany, at
whose particiular desire the Rus'ians first com-
menced their retreat, and which was also et-Yeted
in good crder and without loss, notwithstanding the
French party assert, that during the Negotiations
with Austria the French Army prc,4emted its vic-
tories. To enhance the glory (,C• this day, the
French Bulletin says, that the French Guard (the
Reserve corps) took no part in the Battle. The.
same Bulletin however afterwards asserts, that when
one French Battalion was broken by the Russian
Guard, BONAPARTE ordered Marshal Bt”IERES to
advance, and that the Imperial Guards oh both sides
immediately came to action.

The French Bulletins abound with false state-
ments, over which the pretended noise and dis-
tra6lion, occasioned by the discharge of two hun-
dred pieces of cannon, and a conflia between
YOO,OOO men, throw but a flimsy covering. Can
it possibly serve the interests of a great General to
saudion such reports ? Can he really stand in need
of such means as these to increase that military
glory which is not denied him ?' Posterity wilt do
justice to the truth.
OLMUTZ, JAN. 1 9.—The latest accounts from Aus-
tria state the number of the French in the Hos-
pitals at 14,000 men. When we add to these
the six or eight thousand that fell in the Battle of
Austerlitz, it will prove, that this day, which, ac-
cording to the French accounts, cost them so small
a number of men, was truly sanguinary, and must
of course, have been an advantage dearly purchased
by BON APA WEE.