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FRANCE.

CONSERVATIVE SENATE, SEPT.ts.
tomes OF THE RECIPROCAL CONDUCT OF ?EPIC,
AND •USTRIA, SINCE THE PSACE OF Luesviit.e,
kEAD BY THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN RELATIONS.
44 All Europe knows, that during the war, in the
midtt even of the moft fignal and decifive fuccefies,
the Emperor of the French never eeafed to with for
peace; that he often offered it to his enemies ; that
after having reduced them to the condition of receiv-
ing it as a benefaftion, he granted it to them upon I
terms which they dared not to espeft, and which I
Tendered his moderation no lets confricuous than
his victories. He is fenfible of the full value of
the glory acquired by arms in a juft and neceffary
war ; but there is a glory more calm, and dear to his
i heart ; his firft with, the conftant end of all his efforts,
have ever been the tranquillity of Europe, the re-
pole and happinefs of nations. this end had been
attained—the Emperor omitted nothing to make it
lalting. It would Rill continue, if the encreafing
profperity of France had not brought it to a period.
It was at firil altered by the artful matures, and af-
terwards broken by the open perfidy of the Cabinet
of St. James's. But peace reigned at leaft on the
Continent—through thevain and falfe pretexts under
which England fought to filcher herfelf, Earope
alit,: difcovered her real motives.
"England was afraid of beholding the French Co-
lonies, which had been, and which might become fo
fiourifhing, rife from their ruins, and grow up again,
as it were out of their afhes; jealoufy witted to Rifle
or at leall to arreft in its progrefs the induftry of
France, revived by peace—it cherifhed the filly defire
to drive the French flag from tbofe teas, in which it
had hitherto appeared with diffindlion, or at leaft to
reduce it, fo as that it could no longer appear there
bat in a Rate of degradation, unworthy of the rank
which France holds amongft nations. But the :no•
live, of England did not terminate there ; the was
urged on by that infatiable avidity, which makes her
covet the monolopy of she commerce and induftry of
all nations ; by that unbounded pride, which induces
her to look upon herfelf as miftrefs of the feas, and
which is the only foundation of the extraordinary
defpotifm which (he exercifes upon them.
44 The caufe then that France had to defend, was
the caufe of Europe, and it was natural to fuppofe,
that neither the intrigues of England, nor the gold
which the held forth to all thofe who might be dif-
pofed to be fubfervi ent to her ambition, nor her de-
ceitful promifes, could engage in her quarrel any of
- the Continental Powers. No pne of them, in fait,
appeared difpofed to accept either her propofitioos or
her recommendations.
44 At cafe refpedting the difpofitions of the Conti-
nent, the Emperor turned all his thoughts to the ma-
ritime war, for which every thing was to be created.
Fleets were built ; ports were excavated ; camps
'
were formed on the chorea of the ocean • te Empe-
ror had affembled there all the forces of his empire ;
and his troops forming themfelves under his inipec-
lion for operations altogether new, were preparing
for new triumphs.
44 England perceived the dangers with which the
was menaced. She *withed to obviate them by crimes.
Affaflins were thrown upon the coaft of France.—
The Englifh Minifters to neutral Powers became the
agents of a warfare, infamous as atrocious, of a war-
fare of confpiracies and affaffinations.
44 The Emperor law into thefe pitiful confpiracies,
he treated them with contempt, and was not thereby
prevented from offering peace on the fame terms
which he had before propofed.
• " So much generofity could not affuage, nay,
i teemed even to augment the frenzy of the Cabipet
: of St. James's. Its anfwer (hewed clearly that it
t would not think of peace, till the hope fhould beer-
t tinguiffied of deluding the Continent with blood and
carnage. But it was fenfible, that to accomplifit filch
a deign, the affociation in its views of a Power, by
his pofition, almoft as unconnected with the Conti-
nental tyflem as England, would not be fufficient—
• that not having any thing to ape& from raffia,
whole fentiments were too well known, its expefta-
tion would be vain, as long as Aultria %mild remain
faithful to her neutrality.
" Maria, which had twice experienced, at the
end of two difallrous wars, at the time of. the 'trea-
ties of CampoFormio and of Lnneville, the generofity
i that France was difpofed 16 thew towards a van-
quilled enemy, did not by any means pay the tame
i religious obfcrvance to treaties, as France.
I " Notwithflanding the formal flipulations of thefe
treaties, the debt of Venice was not ditcharged ; it
was even declared extinguifhed. The Emperor was
aware, that his fubjeCts of Milan and Mantua,"ex-
perienced a denial of juftice, and that the Court of
Vienna had liquidated none of their demands, in
contempt of the folemn engagements which it had
entered into. He was aware that the commercial re-
i lations of his kingdom of Italy with the hereditary
::
States, were fobjeft to obltruftions, and that his fob
jells of France and Italy found in Aultria a very CI
4 ferent reception, from that which. a Rate of peace
a itave them a right to expeft.
i 44 In the dittribution of the indemnities in Ger-
many, Aultria had been treated with a partiality
. • that ought to crown all her wilhes, and furpals
even her expectations. Yet her condua (hewed that
It the was far from being fatisfied. She alternately em-
ployed arts and menaces to procure from the petty
Princes the allion of fuch poffeflions at tufted her.
Thus it was that (he had acciaired "Linclau on the
Lake of Conflance, and the lice of Menau in the
• fame Lake, which placed in her hands one of the
keys of Switzerland. She obtained the ceffion of
Altkoufen from the Teutonic Order, which made
her mikes of an important poll, the port of Rhi-
nau. She had enlarged her territory by a number
of other acquifitions, and was meditating trent ones.
As a meads of aggrandizement, the wat not afraid
to employ evident uffirpations, which the fought to
conceal under legal forms.
• " Thus it was that, under colour of a right para-
mount, (a right which the had renounced by a trea-
ty) and the exercife of Which was incompatible with
the execution of the recefs of the Germanic Empire,
the appropriated to herfelf tome polliffions, which the
iffefted to confider in a Rate of difherifnn, and with-
• out
legal proprietors, though the recefs had formal-
ly difpofed of them towards the divifion of the in-
‘ &mucks: By thefe means the difappointed many
lillika4
Princes of thofe poffeflions which it bad bcetr thoncht

jug 16 atgit theist, toiler pretence of this fame tight
paramount, which, fo far as regarded the Swifs, the
called the right (d'lreameration), the carried off
considerable funs frc m Switzerland. She reveller-
ed the Fiefs of a ne4;llbooring Prince in Bohemia,
under pretence cf compenlations due to the Elcaor
of Salt zburg, of which, contrary to every right, the
claimed to be tole a: bitrets. She perfifted, with me-
naces, to keep recruiting panics in the Bavarian pro.
vinces, in Franconia, and Snabia, and interrupted,
by every means in her power, the Confcription for
the Ele9oral Army there, abufing the prerogatives
formerly granted to the head of the German empire
1 for the common benefit of the States compofing it,
and now fallen into difilfe. She revived them, in
order to interrupt the exercife of their fovcreignty by
the neighbouring Princes, in thofe poffeffions which
fell to their lot in the divifion, and to deprive them
of the increafe of influence in the Diets, which ought
to relish from thefe poliellions.
" The recefs of the Empire, a confequence and ful-
filment of the Treaty of Luneville, had for its ob-
jeet, exclutively of the divifion of the indemnities, to
eftablith, by means of this diftribution itfelf, in the
South of Germany, an equilibrium, which might
enfure its independencetand to prevent thole eventual
caufes of mifunderftanding and war which an imme-
diate contarft between the territories of France and
Auftria might frequently give rife to. Such was the
view of the Mediators, and of the German Empire ;
fuch was the view of jußice, of reafon, of an humane
policy, and conformable to the true interefts of Auf-
tria
" Thus Auftria reverfed what the reeds had fo
wifely eftablifhed, when, by her acquifitions in Sua-
bia the weakened the barrier between France and the
principal States of the South of Germany, and when,
by a combined fyftem of fecineftrations, pretenfions,
careffes, and menaces, the was inceffantly aiming to
fecure to herfelf an exclufive, univerfal, and arbitra-
ry influence over that part of the German Empire.—
She therefore evidently violated the exilling treaties,
and every one of her a&s may be confidered as an in-
fra/lion of the peace. Since Inc rupture of the trea-
ty of Amiens, Maria had, an more than onc oCca.
lions, fnewn a partiality to England. She had recog-
nized by her Os the pretended right of blockade,
which the Cabinet of St. James's has dared to arro-
gate, and according to which, a fimple declaration
of the Englith Admiralty is fufficient to put under
interdia all the coatis of a valt empire ; the had fuf-
fered, without remonftrance or complaint, the neu-
trality of her flag to be continually violated, to the
detriment of France, againft whom all the violences
offered to neutral flags were evidently &rated. All
thefe Gas were known 4o the Emperor : many of
them excited his folicitude. Thefe were real griev-
ances—they would have been jutt motives for war ;
but for the love of peace, the Emperor even A-
ttained from all complaint, and the Court of Vienna
received from him only new teftimonies of deference.
He had made a law for himfelf to avoid every thing
that could give offence to Auftria. When called by
the withel of his people of Italy, he repaired to Mi.
lan, troops were affembled, camps were formed. with
the fingle view of mixing military pomp with reli-
gious and political folemnities, and of prefeating the
Sovereign Majefly in the mid'R of that fplendour that
pleafes the eyes of the people. The Emperor will
allow that he had alto Tome pleafure itf teeing his
companions in arms re•alembled in the places, and
on the very (pots which were confecrated by their
victories ; but wifhing to prevent the uneatinefs of
the Court of Vienna, if it were poffible that Court
could feel any on the occalion, he caufed that Court
to be allured of his pacific intentions, by declaring,
that the camps which had been formed would be
railed after Tome days, and this promife was cleat),
fulfilled.
Aultria anfwered by proteflations equally friendly
and pacific, and the Emperor quitted Italy with the
Pleating hope that the peace of the Continent would
be prelerved. But how great was his aftonithment,
when, fcarcely arrived in France, while at Boulogne
battening the preparations for an expedition which
he was at length on the point of carrying into effea,
he received from all parts the intelligence, that a ge-
neral motion pervaded all the forces of the Auftrian
Monarchy ; that they were advancing by forced
marches on the Adige, in the Tyrol, and on the
banks of the Inn, that thofe abfent on furlough were
recalled, that magazines were forming, that arms
were manufaanring, that levies of horfes were rail.
ing, that they were ereOing fortifications in the de.
files of the Tyrol and about Venice, and that every
thing was doing which announces and is charaaerif-
tic of an impending war. The Emperor could not
of firft believe that Auftria ferioufly wilted for war.
That the wither! •to incur new hazards and to con-
demn to new calamities her people, fatigued by fo
many reveries, and eihaulled by fo many facrifices.
Having had it twice in his power to deprive the
Houle of Auftria of half its hereditary Rates, far fi om
diminilhing its power, he had increafed it. If he
could not count on its gratitude, he thought he
could rely on its faith. He had given it the high.
eft mark of confidence it was poffible for him to give.
in leaving his continental frontiers ungarrifoned and
difarmed. He believed it incapable of abufing this
confidence, becanfe he would have been fo himfelf.
Theft arc furpicions which canntt enter into gene-
rous hearts, ncr find place in refleaing minds. The
Emperor took pleafure in confirming hfrnfelf in his
favourable prefumptions, and he did not fear to thew
to what point he &fired to fee them eftablithed. The
Court of Vienna omitted nothing to prolong the it.
lufion. It multiplied pacific declarations ;it proteft-
ed on its religious attachment to treaties ; it autho-
rized its Ambaffador to make the molt alluring de-
clarations ; it fought, in fine, at well by plaufible
explanations as formal denials, to diffipate the fufpi-
cions its meafures may have given rife to. Still, the
hotlile preparations redoubling every day in extent
and activity, became more difficult to be juflified.
The Emperor ordered that Count PHII;IP DE Co-
sawrzeL, Ambaflador of the Court of Vienna,
ttionld be invited to hell' conferences, and that the
correfpondence of the diplortiatic and commercial
agents of his Majelly fliould be communicated to
him. For four fuccellive days M. de Corsa rztt
waited on the Minifler of Foreign Relations, Mho
placed before his eyes the difpatches previoutly re-
ceived, and thofe which arrived ftrecellively from all
parts of Germany and Italy. The Cabinets of Eu-
rope will find in their archives few examples of fimi-
lar communications made in circumft antes in which

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fufpicioi was fo natural. The Emperor tank} not
give a more convincing proof of his good faith—he
could not carry fincerity or delicacy farther. 'The
Ambaffador from Vienna took a view of the molt
waive, the molt incantellible documents, which,
from all parts announced the fpeedy breaking out of
a war, always preparing though fo fludioutly con-
cealed. What anfwer could he make ?Up to that
moment peace had been loudly profefTed by his Court
at Paris and at Vienna ; but on all its frontiers war
was at length openly organized. The Emperor,
however, was unwilling to reject all hope of accom-
modation. He perfuaded himfelf that Außria may
have been led away by foreign fuggetlions, he re•
folved to do every thing to bring her back to a fenfe
of her true interefts. He repretented to herithat if
the did not with for war, all hor preparations were
without an cobra, inafmnch as all her neighbours
were at peace—that therefore the was uncontcioufly,
and coattail to her intention, tenting the caufe of
England, by making in her favour a diverlion not
lets powerful. nor lefs injurious to France, than a de-
clared war would be.
46 If the wifhed for war, he made her fee its pro.
bable confequences. Superior to all the contidera-
tions, which are bars only to weaknefs, be did not
diffemble that he dreaded war—mot that after to
many battles fought in the three parts of the old
world he could fear dangers‘ fo often braved and fo
often furmounted—but he feared war on account of
the blood it caufes to be foaled, on account of the fa-
erifices without number it irmlt colt to Europe ; and
in confequenee of a love perhaps excel:Gee for peace,
he conjured Auttria to delta from preparations which
in the prefent (tate of Europe, and in the particular
fituation of France, could be confidered only as a
declaration of war, and as the refult of an agree-
ment made with England. Still further, he &fired
that (imaax rcprefentationt fhould be addreffed to
the Court of Vienna by all its neighbours, who,
though bangers to the canfe of the war, whatever
tit* caufe may be, had to fear being the victims of
it. The conduct of the Court of Vienna weakened
the hope every day. Far from defiding from its
pretentions, it increafed them. It terrified by its ar-
maments the people of Bavaria and Suabia. It gaie
the people of Helvetia reafon to dread feeing ra-
Tithed from them the repofe which the aft of media-
tion bad reßored to them. All invoked France as
their fu?port, as the guarantee of their rights. How.
ever, it diffembled Rill, and as a pledge of its pea-
* intentions, it offered a fort of intervention
which it is difficult to charaaerife, but which, confi.
dering only its apparent object, could be regarded
only as idle and puerile. The Emperor pf Raffia
had canted paffports to be demanded for one of his
Chambeilains, whom he had an intention of fending
to Paris. The Emperor knew not what were the
views of the Cabinet of Peterfburgh, they had never
been communicated to him—but alsrqs ready to
feize on every thing that could contribute to an ap-
protimation, he bad granted the laaffports without
delay and without eoplanation. All Europe knows
what was the reward of his deference. The Empe-
ror learned afterwards, by indirect ways, and alto by
the reports that were circulated through Europe on
the &Net% that the defign of the Court of Ruffia had
been, to try by means of parleys to introduce at Pa-
ris a very grange fyttem of negotiation, by means
of which the would at the fame time havetipulated
for England, from whom; as the laid, the had full
powers, which proves how much England was fore
of her,' and have negotiated on her own account.—
So that while nominally a mediator, the would have
been in fat a party, and that by two different titles.
" Such was the end of the intervention Raffia had
projeaed, and a hich the had& renounced, without
doubt becaule reflection suede het 'feel the inconveni-
ence of it. But it was precifely this fame Interven-
tion which the good offices of Atalriii had for their
object to re-produce. It was not likely that France
fhould have Coffered herfelf to be placed in a fituation
in which her real enemies, under the plaufible 'mane
of mediators, dared to flatter thettifelve's with int-
poling on her a hard and intuiting law'; but the Ca-
binet of Vienna, perhaps without' hoping that its
good offices would be accepted, found a great advan-
tage in offering them, that of abating France for a
longer time, making France lofe time, 'and gainlng
time itfelf. At length, thrOwing off the malk,
Aaf-
tria has, in a tardy anfwer, manifefled by her lan-
gnage what the had announced by her preparations.
To the reprefentations of France the has antwered
by acenfatiOns. She has made heifelf the apologia
of England, and announcing that the was opening
her States to two Rutlian armies, the avowed openly
the concert that alas between her and Ruffle, in
favour of England. This anfwer of the Court of Vi.
tuna, full at•once of injurious allegations, of mena-
ces, and of craft, tended naturally to excite the in-
dignation of the Emperor; but thinking that through
thofe intuits and threats he had a glance of fonts
ideas which permitted him to hope, that an arrange-
ment would be (till puffible, the Emperor made his
natural pride yield to confiderations all powerful
over his heart. The intereft of his people, that of
his allies, and of Germany, which was going to be-
come the theatre of war ; the define too, of doing a
thing agreeable to a Prince, who, repelling with an
honnurahle conftancy the intinuattons, the inflances,
the offers fo often repeated of England, and thole
the had feduced, had (hewn himfell always ready to
contribute by his good offices, either to the re dials-
ment or the maintenance bf peace ; all there motives
led the Emperor to makes his jolt iefleaions. He
determined to demand of the Court of Vienna expla-
nations, which thould make known the hafts upon
which negotiations could be carried on. He ordered
the Minitter of Foreign Relations to prepare a note to
this effect. The courier who was to be the bearer of
it was on the point of letting out, when the Emperor
was informed of the invalion of Bavaria. The Elec-
tor bad been fummoned to join army to that of
Auntie, and, as if his anticipated refufal to make
common caufe with Außria, from which lie never
received but evil, again!! France, from wh:ch he
never received but good, could have been to the
Court of Vienna a jult motive for war, the Aultrian
army, without any previous declaration, in contempt
of the duties which his fituation of Emperor of Ger-
many impofes on the Emperor of Auftria, in con-
tempt of. the Germanic Conftitution, of ;11e- Ger-
manic Empire kW; in contempt, in tine, of all the
molt leered rights, patted the Inn, andaaver-run Be.
in profound peace. •

varia .1 pro.
64 After fuck an ad of the Cou:t of Vienna, the

Emperor mild have no longer any thing to demr.n.l
of it. It became evident, that even this Canyte;,
propofed, with a tone fo imperious, and with view,,
fo vifibly hostile to France, was but a new fulre for
its good faith ; that Atifiria, nrsvocahly deterntin,l
on war, would not return to it; pacific iders, and
that the was not even tree to return to them. 'the
courfe of exchange at all places proved evidently,
that a part of the fums granted to the EnglA Ili-
stiffer, to anfwer his purpofes on the Continent, had
reached its dedinatioe ; and the Power which bad to
bartered its alliance, could no longer fpare tlic
blood of its people, the price of vi:lich it had received
All limber explanation with the Cunt of Vienna
having thus become imppflible, the appeal to arms i,
the only refource compatible with honour. L::
England applaud herfelf for having at length fauna
allies ; let her rejoice that blood is about to flow ovt -
the Continent; let her flatter herfelf that her bloo
will be (pared; let her hope to find safety in tf.-,
dikord of other States ; her joy skill be of fort dt
ration; her hope will be vain, and the day is not fii
diflant when the rights of nations will at length he
avenged. The Emperor, obliged to repel an unjult
aggreffion, which he had in vain exerted himfelf to.
prevent, has been obliged to fitipend the execution
of his &It defigns. He has withdrawn from the
borders of the ocean thole veteran bands fo oftesa
victorious, and he marches at their head. He will
not lay down his arms till he has obtained full and
entire fatisfaCtion, and complete fecurity, as well for
his own dotninions as thole of his allies."
CAUSES OF THE DECREE OF THE SENATE FOR RAISyNt,
EIGHTY THOUSAND CONSCRIPTS, PRESENTED TO
THE CONSERVATIVE SENATE, MY REGNAULT, (Di
ST. JEAN ANGELT).
" Sire, the eagles of your armies were about to aro&
the teas ; the violators of the Treaty of Amiens, tor-
mented by remorse, agitated by fear, were on the
point of being punifhed by your juftice ; but a few
days more, and the liberty of the feat might have
been conquered for the world, even in the very feat of
the tyranny of the leas. There is another ad of per-
jury, which calls your Majefly to frefh combats. In
fpite of fait)) pledged at Luneville, the Emperor
of Germany threatens the French Empire. He is
marching againft your frontiers both his own and the
Ruffian troops—the broken remains of thofe whom
your Majesty vanquithed, or fent home unranfomed.
" Your army, Sire, formed of the fame legions
which conquered the Auftrians and the Ruffians,
cotopteted by French citizens, taken from every clafs
and quarter of the empire—your army, whofe
ftrength la increafed by the nature of its compofilion,
whofe devotion to your perfon doubles its energy—
your army, which knows how to feel and think, as it
knows how to fight, whore indignation will, if pot:
fible, increale its valour—your army is fufficient to
fight and conquer, and the diverfion fo dearly paid
for by England, will only have the effect of retard-
ing her humiliation, and changiag the fcene. of
your brit triumphs. But if, while preparing,
on the one band, to combat Great Britain, and
confiding, on the other, on the fidelity of your al-
lies, perhaps trotting to the plain fentiment of their
intereds, which, at any rate, (Mould have counfelled
them m neutrality, your lajefty has not increaft
ed your army, and have not prepared, by extraor-
dinary . levies, for a fuceetfive recruitment .I—diffe-
rent circumftances demand different meafures,--.
In the years which followed the peace, as in thofe
which followed the war, your Majesty has only called
for the fame number of conferipts : you withed to
leave as many as poffiblc for' the purpofes of agri-
cultute and the arts. At prefent, Sire, your wit:
dom requires that the French youth fhould prepare
to pay their country the whole debt, and even before
the period when the would otherwife have called for
the payment of it. The Orators of your Council
demand your order to the Wife Men' (Sages) of the
EMpire, to arm a more confiderable part of the
tkrength of the nation ; and to order a levy of eighty
thOutand conferipts for the year t 806. Several rea-
fons gave combined to make it the duty of the Se-
nate fo decree this mature. It is true, that the
raiding of the conscription has been ordered up to the
prefent time, by the Ades orthe Legiflative Body.
" The propofition °feted to the Senate, will not
diflnrb the order, nor deßroy the Wage heretofore
followed ; it'will'only form an exception, which cir-
cnrultances jullify. Arid fit-ft, when his Majefly is at
a diftance, leading his le.pona to victory, prudence
prefcribis his -preparing, before he quits the centre
of his empire, all the' means of fuccefs which his
wifdomlias conceived. The delays neteffark for the
convocation-of the Legiflative Body, would retard
chide meafures, the quick execution of which, now
become neceffiary, is guaranteed by the intervention
of the Senate.
Secondly, the alteration of the Kalendar pro-
longs the exercife feu' the year 4, which will be the
fame as that of 1806, until the 13th of January,
.18:17, and it will Confift of fifteen nionths. Hence
refults the necetlity of a change in the pet iod of con-
fcription for the' year le. Following the plan of the
divifion of the year; winch France has
_Off aboliffied,
this confeription ought only to include thoie young
men, who will have attained, on the 22d of Scptem-
ber, tBos (the )all day of the year tab the age of zo.
" Sire, your Majelly has declared in your Council,
that your armies are already sufficiently iirung in men
and arms, and that they priffefs all the means of tri-
umphingover the unexpected attack and the ill-advifed
perfidioufnefs of your enemies'. A league m: re [ward-
tons and more formidable, was formerly ellablithed
againd France; and the allied armies, increafed and
swollen like the waves in the temped, were broken,
like them, againfl the mounds that our battalions, un-
der your guidance and protection, have oppofed to
them. The cold and 'blind fentiment of paffive obedi-
ence will carry the troops to-the fight that our enemies
will collat. The enlightened and ardent fentiment of
love of their country, and of their Monarch. will pre-
cipitate the French foldiers into the midtl of dangers.
" The Chiefs of the Foreign Powers and Armies,
having feparate interefts, unite for a moment by trea-
ties, to quarrel afterwards on their execution.—
Though they agree in their Cabinets, they feldoia
agree in the Camp, and Rill more rarely do their ge-
nerals agree with.each other in the field of battle.—e
In France, on the contrary, in the Council and in the •
Army, one fpirit unites all minds, fizes all interetic,
cotmelts all the farces, plans all the refources, create,
all the means, forefecs all the difficulties, has all th:
affeidions at difpofal, directs all the movements, pre-.
pares every fuccers.4 and this fpirit is a compound ot

irie and confidence et thi nation, tad of the ge-
iu Chief.

11 At any rate, Sire, your I►lajelly knows, that,
even to her favourites, Fortune never gives, and
often dearly felts them, vidory Fathir of the people
gs well as of the army, you will be forced to pur-
chafe, with the blond of your children, the triumphs
to which you will lead them.

44 But, Sire, a noble fentiment of devotion and of
pat:i•.)tifm will give to the people. as to the army,
the courage to will and to execute the necefrary fa-
erifices. One brave foldier will replace another ; in
the battalions of referve, always complete, your
Majelly will be Cure always to find enough to fill the
void left by battle in the battalions of war. The
confcr:pts whom you will call upon will vie with the
veteran warriors of your legions for zeal and fidelity.
rzldinefs, and courage.
" I call to witnefs, Sire. that march of your army
frt•rn the coaft of the ocean to the banks of the Rhine
—that march, almoll without halting, during which
trot one Wier ha• quitted his colour.; I call to wit.
tt.e wilh of thole confcripta, who are mortified
at being condemned to the inaction of a depot. and
!rho have claimed their places in the rank of the
troops which are engaged in battle.
The French people, Sire. have put into your
hands the right to will for thefts, and their free, bold,
and courageous will is, like gout's. to maintain the in.
tegrio of their terriivi, and to defend their interens,
their glory, and all the benefits which they derive
from your Majefly.
Your Maley will uphold, with your all-power-
ful forces, with the energy of your infpiring looks, the
force and energy of the nation, and you will not pro.
nounce, you will not let them hear the name of peace,
Wore they are by you avenged and viaorious.
it Such, Sire, is the wifh of France, to the accom-
plifhment of which the Senate will contribute, by .1..
during a levy of Bo,ooc foldiers, to suture our bat-
talions and fquadrons being always complete, and
always renewed until the lad victory. . . .

4, When your Majelly, whofe periOn and mind are
indefatigable, makes labour a duty which occupies
you by day, and Abridges your nights ; when you are
going to '..xpofe to the hazard of war your milted
head, the French, Sire, we judge of them, and we
fwear for them from our own hearts, will only vie in
emulation, readied's, and devotion ; the furrow will
all be referved for thole, who, being fubjea to other
duties, or condemned to follow another line, cannot
aspire to the honour of (haring the perils and the
glory of your brave foldiers, of braving dangers with
them, and of conquering or dying under your Ma-
jelly's eyes, for you, and for their country."
[Here follow: the Imprrial Decree for raga: 80,000
Co/fcripu.]
[The Counfellor of State, Smut, in a long addrefc,
prefaced a projell for a Senatus Confisbum for re•orga-
nizing the former National Guards, to maintain the
tranquillity of the interior, to guard the fortreffeb,
and the coall, &c.]
SPEECH OF IHE EMPEROR NAPOLEON,
TO THE TREACH 3111• TE.

" Under the milting circuit:ltasca of Europe, 1 feel it an ur-
gent duty to sppear among you, and to make you fuUy acquainted
with my faatimmts.
" I am jilt leaving my ecdtal, in order to place myfelf at the
Lead of the army, to carry fpeedy ft:camas to my allies, and to pro-
test the dwelt isaterefts of my people.

"The WHIM of the eternal enemies of the Continent are accom- I
plilbed : war has commenced in the *lift of Germany ; Attitria
and Falba have united with England ; and oar generation I.:again
involved in all the e.lathlties of war. But a Very few days ago
Still elm-lased a hope that peace woeld not he difturbed. Thoats
and outrages only mewed that they could make ton impregion
apon me : but the Avittians have paffed the inn : .ilfisideb is
in-
v.rdeJ: the Mean of Bavaria is driven from his capital : my
hopes are, therefore, vanithed.
" Such is the moment that has unveiled the enifehlevous ma
Oblations of the enemies of the Continent. They are Rill alarm-
ed at the menitelation I have made of my deep and determined
dame tor peace. They are apprehentivc that Atiftria, at the at-
peel of the pipit they had prepared to (wallow her, might lifter
anew po the Metates et jutting and amoderstiosi ; they have hurried
bet Wi6 a war. !tremble at tie kka of the blood that malt be
(pile in Europe ; bat the French ladle will emerge with renovated
and incteafed

• Senators, when at your ddre, at the call of the whole of the
French people, I planed upon my bead the Imperial Crown, I re-
ceived fromvo, from every citizen, the foletnn prom& to main-
tain its bunolar pure and Imallailed. My people have on reery.oc-
(Afyon afforded Me proofs of their confidcnce and affedion—they
will fly to the boomers of their Emperor, and of Ids array, who
Ma few days will have puffed over the frontiers.
" MagiErates, Soldiers, Citizens, all are refolved to recite the
country from the influence of Eagland, who, if the prevailed,
would grant us only a peace marked with ignominy and Ihame ;
and of which the principal conditions would be to burn our heats,
to (hut up our ports, and to eztinguifh our induftry.
" What promifes I have made to the French people I have fell

filled. The French people, on their part, have entered Into no en-
tgemem„with me which they have not more than performed. At
a moment fo important for their glory and for mine, they will
perfi ft in afferting the name of the Great People, a name with
which 1 greeted them in the ntidft of the fields of death and of glory.
" Frenchmen, your Emperor will difcharge bis duty; my fol.
dierswill do theirs ; you will alto difeharie yours."
THE TR tBUNATE.

SECRET SITTING OF THE TRIBUNATE, SEPT. 24.
The Orators of the Council communicated to the
Tribunate, by order of his Welly, his Expoff of the
reciprocal conduEt of France and Auftria, and of the
cables of the prefent war.
One of the Orators of the Council of State having
re.td the Expofe, began his addrefs to the Tribunate
in there words :
" Tribunes, you have heard the Expofe read :
war has commenced upon the Continent. This event
will be affilling to every friend of humanity, but
terrible only to the enemies of France."
He then alludes to the propolition for peace, made by the Pm-
poor to England, in the midit of the terror which be had cached
to her, and of the wonders which he performed to rsitore the
Frtnch 514 g to its former glory. The ufual chargesof ezeidng affaill-
nations, &c. are repeated agaluit England, and Maids and Ruilia
are laid to be blinded by parlitnii, or they would have declared them-
Woes sgainft the abfurd (*yam of blockade by fuch an armed
nrlatrality, as did to much honour to many Sovereigns during the
American war.
He Auks Außria for affernbling its forces towards Italy and
!he Rhine, and affecting that it was for the maintenance of peace.
Auftria has, in fine, without any provocation on
'he part of the Eleftor of 13avaria, without the flight-
.t appearance of lawful motives, jull invaded a part
or his States. Auftria has not then confused Well to

• • •
menaces,. which our Emperor treated with dUilain;
the has attacked our allies; the Emperor of Ger-
many has therefore commenced the war."
Th.. Orator then prays that the evils which may be the cree-
p:rm.:ea the war, may fall on the heads of thole vfho have pro-
duced it; he pays tome fuifnme compliments to the armies of
France and the Emperor's genies, .whkh alone mead elf Et the
Advaenn of Franc-, and er.r.inguilli Ira former divilions ; and sirens
that the charges of amhttion agai..ll the Government of France.
are 11l founded. hut juftly applica6le to the progrefs of the Enghih
Government in India, and to the Ruffian State, which is of three
tithes greater extent than France

The Prelident of the Tribunate replied in the
tam: 11 ylc
" Gentlemen Orators of the Council of titre,
Pofterity gill fc lecely believe, that, whiltt we were eqmhat-
ing for the independence of the fess, and for the commercial liberty
of itit nations. the,Emperors of Atsaris and Ruffia were dirt tired to
stake a diverflon in favour of the common enemy, to coalefce with
Mm contrary to their own interefts, and to the faith of treaties,
and to declare an ticiatt and ahfurd war arainft us.
* This one:Trani ourtenne is the melancholy refult of the
antient, hatted..owed hy the Court of Vienna agaitift France., and
of the dor:3lo'4; gold of the Court of St. lames's.
" It will douhtlifsly, produce the cff, el of dividing our forces.
and of fufpentl:ng for a time the vait deli:los which die genius of
the Great Napoleon w•as at length on the point of executing againit
the linglifh

Rut the sxtr.•orslinary innocuity of the Court of Vienna will
(ono receive its to, died puoithment, and the Monarch whom
France had twice deprived of not: half of his hcrediury l'es will
repent of bacilli, renew': the Coainental war for motives foreign
to his r:al intcretti"

The Pradent concludes with an expreflion of confidence in the
genius and fter of Fonaparte, and the lumina+ and unanimity of
the French l'e•ple, amonet %hero all attempts to excite dirtfions
would be fruitles.

PARIS, SEPTEMBER zS.

His Majefly the Emperor fet out yeflerday morn-
ing fur the army.
Yetlerday at half pall three the Council of State
went to the Tribunate.

Letters from the frontiers of Italy announce, that
a great number o. Au(lrian troops, centing fro:n
Styria and the Tyrol, arc arrived on th:-. banks of
the Adige. The French troops are alto eol,fiJerably
augmented, fit that both fides .•f that liver are at
prefent occupied by confiderable forces. At Verona,
the bridges of Della Pietra and Pnnte Is:uovo have
been barricaded on both fides, and the only commu-
nication between the French and Aufirian territory
was by the bridge of Delle Novi. Cahel Vecchio
was fortified in a burry, which occaliumd the re-
moval of the famous arch of Vitruvias. But the
precaution was ufed of removing all the pieces with
particular care, and numbering them, for t he purpofe
of refloring that famous monument at fume future
period.
Letters tram Milan Rate, that Marfbal Jouttoas
fct out for Paris on the 14th of IA month.
General Maastoar arrived at Mentz on the filth
ult.

SEPT. 27.—The Emprefs fet out with his Majefly
for the army.

The Miniller of Foreign Affairs was yeflerday to
take his departure for Strafburgh, to attend the Em.
peror.
SEPT. 28.—1 n the public fitting of the Tribunate,
held yeflerday, a report was made from the Can.
million appointed to confider of the communication
of the Government relative to the in vafion of Bavaria
by the Anal ians, by which it was propofed, that an
addrefs fhould be prefented to the Emperor, exprel
five of the devotion of the nation to its Chief; and of
its thanks for all the perfonal facrifices which he had
made to maintain peace. This propofition was una-
nimoully adopted.
ULM, SEPT. 18.—The Bavarian troops, under the
command of General WREDE, in this City, left it the
day before yeflerday. The States of Bohemia af-
lembled at Prague on the 9tb inflant.
WORTZRURG, SEPT. t9.—We learn that the Ba-
varian troop; now occupy the principality of Nen-
bourg, and the Upper Palatinate, upon the left bank
of the Danube, where they have provisionally drawn
a line of demarcation. The corps under the orders
of Gen. which had hitherto been flationed
at Ulm, now occupy the city of Ingolftadt and its
environs ; and the Eleflor has given the moil pefirive
orders to oppnfe the enttance of the Austrian troops
into that place.
We learn that Biberach, a place now belonging to
the tieflor of Baden, was occupied by theAuilriatts
on the r sth; and that a regiment of Auttrimr cavalry
had taken puff-talon of Ulm.
Patessavac w, Auc. 3 t.—The Government cow
time to collect veiFels for trat4ertc, which are to
be employed only in the Baltic. They are to be
ready to put to fea by the 3oth of September.