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w:,th confusion. At their approach, Ensiling was
provided with a numerous garrison ; twC4l ve thousand
p L.k.v.d troops marched from St. Okner, under the or-
4Jers of the Senator-General Rampon ; and eight
tierni-brigades of reserve, which were at Boulogne,
Louvaine, and Paris, proceeded post to the points

that were menaced.
"These troops were of themselves sufficient for the
defence ot Antwerp. That place, which is covered by a
strong rampart, and the advanced works which your
.!Nlajesty caused to be considered four years ago, is
further proteavd by extensive inundations; and
on the left bank of the Scheldt, the tort ot La Tete
rte Flandre, which is itself surroured by an inun-
dation of 2000 toises, secures the communication of
Antwerp with our fortresses in the North.
English The Expedition was formed upon the
supposition that Antwerp was only an open city,
wherefis that foitress could not be taken but alter a
kng siege. Independent of troops of the line, yeor
Majesty saw, at the fist signal, 150,000 national
guJids ready to march, and at their head the Mojors
ot your infantry, Officers ot the fifth battalions, and
ve!trart Officers you found in their ranks a number

of old soldiers.
NUITI,TOUfs' detachments of cavalry of the line
were preceded by the Gens-d'armerie of Franc,._
The English were not aware that this branch ut ce
alone could, at a moment's' notice, wnst:tut,lt• at any
given point fit) squadrons, composed of aku that
,`tad seen sixteen years of service, all equally expe-
rienced, equally well disciplined and armed as those
brave cuirassiers, who, under your Majesty's orders,
have brought to so high a pitch the glory of the

French cavalry.
" As 'by enchantment, the dispositions prescriti-
re, by your Majesty cause cl n) appear, at the same
nlstant, on the banks of the Scheldt, and at the ren_
cLtzvous of the Reserve at Lisle and Maestricht, four
different armies, under the command of Marshal
the Prince. of Ponte Corvo, and Marsithls the Dukes
of Cornegliano, Valmy, and
The sudden-developement of such a force, and
the national impulse which continued to multiply its
numbers, struck the enemy with consternation.—
Their enterprise, calculated upon false data, com-

pletely
" Europe has witnessed the realization of that
which your Majesty's penetration anticipated, when
you pronounced that this Expedition originated in
ignorance and inexperience ; and when, .sparing of •
French blood, and dire&ing that a plan merely de-
fensive should be ic;liowed, you wrote to me :---
‘ We are happy to find the English crowding into
the marshes of Zealand ; let them be merely kept
in check, and their army will be speedily :destroy-
ed by the bad air, and the endemic fevers of• that
country.'
-Whilst our troops were distributed in comfort-
able cantonments in the environs of Antwerp, or
stationed in that fortress, tite English army, encamp-
ed in the• midst of marshes, and destitute of water
tit for drinking, lost upwards of one-third of its
soldiers. But the facility which the English have
of going by sea from one quarter to another-may
lead us to expect that all that will have escaped the
disasters of this Expedition will be sent to reinforce
their army in Portugal.
Sire, the various fields of baffle in which your
armies have distinguished themselves are too remote
from each ottier to admit of your marching, without
inconvenience to the soldier, ono of- your armies
from one scene of aCtion to the other ; and your
Majesty, so highly satisfied with the zeal of the
troops whom you command beyond the Danube, is
anxious to spare them from the fatigues of the war
in Spain. Besides, the French armies beyond, the
Pyrennees now consist of 300 battalions and. 150
squadrons. ..It is therefore suilicient,, Without send-
ing any additaonalcorps thither, to keep up at their
full establishment those already there.- Thirtylitou-:
sand men, colleCted at Blyonne, afford the ni6ns.
of accomplishing this objeit, and of repulsing arty
force which the English may cause to advance.-
" In this state of things, I conceived that it cor-
responded with your Majesty's views to limit the
levy necessary at this moment, to the contingent in-
dispensably requisite for replacing in the battalions
of the interior, the drafts which are daily made from
them. The returns which•willbe laid before your
Majesty Will inform you, that of the conscription
for the years 1806-7-8-9 and 10, there still remain
more than 80,000 men, who, though balloted, have
not yet been called into aetual serviCe". This im-
mense reinforcement might march against your ene-
mies, should that measure be rendered necessary
by any imminent danger to the State: 71 propose
to .your Majesty to call out only 36,000, and to
declare all those classes entirely free from any future
call.
" By this means, your armies, Sire, will be main-
tained at their present respeCtable establishment, and
a rnnsiderable nomber of your subjects will be defi-
nitively released from the conscription. Your Ma-
jesty will alio have at your disposal, the 25,000 men
afforded by, the class of 1811, upon whom I shall
not propose to your Majesty to make any call, un-
less events should disappoint your hopes and pacific

intentions.
" Your Majesty's armies are equally formidable
from their numbers as from their courage. But who
could advise France not to proportion her efforts to
those of her' ecemies ? In giving -such advice, the
result of the most imprudent security, it would be
necessary to forget that Austria, very lately, had on
foot 700,000 men
.; and that to createithis:gigant,ie
force, that Power did not hesitate toi-e?tpose her po-
pulation to almost total destruttionfland to attack
the very basis of her prosperity.
~W9must equally
forget; that England has taken part in•the, Conti-
nental war, by landing, at the same moment, three
different armies, on the coasts of Naples, Holland,
and Portugal.
" The agitation of those who are jealous ,of
France has been redoubled, because they are con-
scious that the present crisis has •for ever fixed her
greatness. Their efforts will .be impotent, because
France has been enabled to reach the. highest pin-
nacle of success and of glory, without making any
0f those ruinous sacrifices which =destriiy.her. ene-
mies. In lad, the:successiVe:calls,
.up to the present moment, inadesdponliia:diffjrent
classes of conscripts, scarcely 'have. one-fourth. of
those who composed them taken tftefield.:.-•
"..In considering the situation of. your Majesty's
armies, and the- results of the English Expeditions,.
can we, without a degree of satisfaction, behold Etig-
land, in imitation or Austria, making efforts dispro-

pottionate to her means, and the wants of her navy
What can she ex,,.et, truth thts coutest upon lard,
and man to man, with France, that shall not redound
to her own injury and disgrace ?
" Sire, the French -people will have to thank your
Majesty for the inexpressible advantage and glory of
a peace, conquered without maritime expedoions,
from an enemy who, by his situation, thought him-
self free from all attack. Every serious attempt upon
the Continent, on the part of the English, is a step
towards a general peace.
" The English Ministers who preceded the Mem-
hers of the present Government, a more able set of
men than the latter, were well convinced of this
truth, and took good care not to commit themselves
in an unequal contest. It d;d not escape their ob-
servation, that to carry on a long war, it was neces-
sary that it should press lightly upon the people who
had to support it.
" Within the last twelve months the war has cost
England more blood than she had previously shed
from the period when she broke the peaceof Amiens.
Committed in the battlt-s-of Spain and Portugal,
whence her duty and her interest forbid her to re-
cede, she will see those countries become the tomb
of her bravest warriors. Sorrow for their loss will
at length produce in the minds of the English
people a well tounded abhorrence of those cruel
men, whose ambition and frantic hatred dared to
pronounce , the expression of eternal war. It will
excite in thin people the wish for a general peace,
which every luau of good sense way predict to be
near at hand, if the English persist in a continental
contest. _ _

" I am, with respe&, &c.
" The Niinisier at War Count Dc HUNNEBURGLI."

REPORT OF THE MOTIVES OF THE FROJET CF THE

SENATU4 CONSULTUM, RELATIVE TO A LEVY OF
36,000 CONS:I:RIFTS, ON THE CLASSES OF la' /6,
1807, 1808, 1809, AND 1810, BY THE COUNT
DE CLSSAC, ORATOR OF TUE COUNCIL OF•STATE
This report, after many adulations on the genius
of the Emperor and King,- and a high-coloured
panegyric on the loyalty and exertions of the French
nation, proceeds to explain the causes of the levy :
" The enemies of France," says the Orator' " ob-
serving that we levied the classes of 1809 and 1310
before the period in which they were to be called
into action, thought, without doubt, that we had
recourse to that luode, because none of the resources
of former years were left to us. How .great was
their mistake If the French Government had
adopted that line of conduct, it was because it could
never be brought to think that the English Govern-
ment had determined to wage perpetual war with
France it was because it could never be brought
to think that the Austrian Government, to which
peace was so important, so necessary, that that Go-
vernment, to which a liberal and unexpected peace
had been granted, had a right to cope again with
the French armies, directed by Napoleon the Great,
and electrified by his presence.
" Our Emperor, therefore, calculating upon a
speedy and long peace, was willing to divide the
weight of the war among several classes, in order
that it might press the lighter upon each of them.
He was also desirous that the French, who constitut-
ed these two classes, and who, according to the pro-
per estimate of public duties, might hate been de.
prived .of their share of military glory, should be
furnished with an opportunity of acquiring it.
" Disappointed in his first expeetak ions, the Em-
peror had recourse to those supplies of men which
he had, from principles of prudence, lett in reserve:.
Twice did he apply for succours, and twice were the
contingents which lie deemed th:Cessary furnished
with rapidity.
Our moderation had thrown a veil over our
strength, but our moderation is desirous now of
mainle,ting our streng,th. Let us put an end to at
error so tatal to our enemies, and which- ilia); be-
come still more disastrous to them ! When they
shall be well acquainted with our resources, they
will no doubt be convinced that a frank and solid
peace is the only part, the only post, in which they.
can find safety.,
" It belongs to weak governments to seek for.
security in the concealment of their weakness',. and
the evaegerations of their strength. It is the duty
of France to make known to her friends and ene-
mies her true situation. That situation is such as to
inspire the former with more energy, arida() warm
the latter, that in taking up arms they must expose
themselves to certain loss.
" The following, Senators, is the precise state of
the conscriptional force of France, and I can pledge
myself for its accuracy :
" The class of 1306, consisted of 42,000, ac-
cording to the lists of conscription. •
That class comprising Is months -
That:of 0307
18D9
ISt° •

423paota
35Z,000
3131,000
362,000
362400

Total 1,867,000 ;
Of these classes, until the present moment, there,
have been raised but 520,000 men.
ISA
;B°7
1803
18c9
1810

14;500
102,j00
2,500
I I a,oos

52,000
" There consequently remains still at home of
•the five classes 1,347,000 men.—
The Orator next proceeds to spew the great fad-
...,
'lO with wuich the new levy must be raised,
leiving an immense number still behind,-' and
argues that such resouices will be the most effica-
owls means of reducing the English to the necessity
of klernanding zi peace, which however tieeess4y to
France, is ihchspensably to them, I),:c.ause very
existence may perhaps depend upon it.

in the same position. All cicrth!s bave ceased as to
Ilse signing o the. peace at Vienna. BI4oNAPARTE,
it sai‘i, is going to Spain. •it is also said he, is
go-
ing to commence operations against Tui.key, in con-
cert with Russia, as the troops of the Emperor
ALEXASDER have lately had bad success.

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L,O ND 0 N,

THURSDAI'j NOVEMBER 2, 1809.

This morning Mr. MILLS, the Messenger, arrived
at the Foreign Office with Dispatches from Marquis
WELLESLEY. The Dispatches are dated the 16th
ult. The Marquis, we understand, was then mak-
ing preparations for his departure, and it was sup-
posed that he would come home by way of Lisbon.
We are happy to find that the accounts from our
Army are of the most satisfaaory nature :
the troops were almost all restored to petted
health. The French army under SOULT remained
at Otopessa and Arcebispo. NEY was at Salamanca.
A considerable French Corps had "a lvanced into La
Mancha, and the Spanish army had taken a position
at the foot of the Sierra Morena mountains. It was
supposed that the French did not intend to make a
serious attack upon the Spaniards, but merely to de-
prive them of the supplies they drew from La
Mancha.

We received this mcrning Hamburgh Papers to
the 21st, and Berlin to the 13th. The following

are the most important articles in them :
VIENNA, OCT. 7.—His French Imperial Majesty
visited the Court Theatre at Scfioenbrunn yesterday.
He came about nine in the evening, as he previously

had a conference with the Prince of LICHTENSTEIN.

The Peace will be made public On the arrival of a
courier from Petersburgh, who is expeded to bring
with him the guarantee of the Treaty.