Star.
London, England, 1814-04-12 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE SENA I'E.

EXTRACT FROM' THE REGISTER OF THE CnNSERVATIVE
SENATIVE—SITTING OF THE 3D APRIL--SENATOR
COUNT BARTHELEMY PRESIDENT.
. At noon the Members of the Senate ns,?t in con-
formity with the adjournment cf the proceedings of
yesterday.
The Senate heard the proceeding, as drawn up
read and approved of the same.
They also approved of the statement of the going
up of the Senate to the Emperor of Russia, ay his re-
ception of them.
Upon the occasion of this latter business, and of
the assurance given to the Senate by the EmperOr
Alexander to set at liberty all the French prisoners of
:par within his Stares, the Senate, deeply affected by
this act of magnanimity, which is to restore so many
unfortunate min to their families deuces, that the
trovisional Governineht shall be invited to take all
the necessary measures to accelerate their return. The
penate also decrees, to consectate in their Registers
the remembrance of such great
A member proposed, that the proieeding on the
present subject be printed, and distributed to the ex-
• tent of six copies tot-each Senator.—Adopted:
The Assembly, upon the proposition of another
'Member, atifipts the following Decree :
" The Senate recalls into its bosom all the absent
Senators, except those whose presence shall be judged
Useful in the Departments.
" The present Decree shall be transmitted to the
Prosiisithtal toveenment for execution."
the President communicates to the Assembly
several letters, which it had received froth different
Members of the Senate.
. Four of thete letters, written under the date of
the 4th April, instant, -contain' the adhesion of Se-
nators D'Aboiille; Francois de Neufcheteau, Le.
Roil.
_Laroche, and Shee, to the Measures adopted by
the Senate in its preceding Sittings.
, Senatoti Lejeas, Leyland, and Fallet-Barol, ex-
cuse themselves by three letters, of the same date,
being unable, oil acount of health, to attend the
*Sittings .if the Senate.
. The Senate orders these letters to be mentioned in
-the proceedings,
The Senate proceeded to the-Order of the Day, frr
the definitive wording Of the Decree passed in the sit•
tang of yesterday. Senator Count Lambrecht, charged
with this wording, presented the plan. It was rtad
twice; and tent back to the considetation of a Special
Comniitteei crnststiK4 of •Bavbe Maibois, Fontanes,
arat, and Lanjoinals. The Commitisioners with-
drew foi this put pose into the Council Hall. The
sitting is suspended until their return. At tour o'clock
.the sittieg is resumed.
M. Senator Count Lambrecht read the projet, re-
vised and adopted by the Senate, in the following
.terms:

"The Conservative Senate considering that a cop.
atitutional Monarchy exists only by virtue of the Con.
&Motion or Sociai Pact :
" That Napoleon.BonapartC, di!ring'some time of
2 firm and prudent government, had given to the
Zillion grounds to reckon in fature Upon acts of wis-
dom and jestice ; but that he hat since destroyed the
Compatewhich united hint to the French People--
particularly in levying imposts and establishingttaxes
otherwise than in virtue of the law, contrary to the
express tenor of the oath which he had taken on his
accessidn to the throne, conformable with the .53d
Article otthe Att of the Constitution of the 28th Flo-
real, fear 12
". That he ha; Committed this infringement upon
the rights of the people, even when he adjourned,
without necessity,. the Legislative Body, and sup-
pressed, as criminal, a Report of that Body, whose
title and share in the national representation he dis
Futed :
" That he has iindertaketi a series of wars in viola-
tion of the Fiftieth Article of the Act of the Consti-
tution df the '22d Frimaire, year eight, which tequires
that the declarAtion of war should be proposed, dis-
cussed, decreed, and promulgated, as laws are :
" That he has unconstittitinnally passed several
Decrees, inflicting the penalty of death, particularly
the two Decrees of the sth March last, tending to
have considered as national a war which had no
ground but ie the gratification of his own immea-
surable amletion :
" That he has violated the censtitutional laws by
his Decrees upon the State Prisons :
is '1 hat he has annihilated the responsibility of
Ministers, conieunded all the powers, and destroyed
the independence cf the Judicial Bodies :
" Considering that the liberty of the press, esta-
blished and consecrated as one of the rights of the
nation, has been constantly subjected to the arbitrary
censure of his police, and that at the same time he has
always availed himself of the press to fill France and
Europe with fabrications, false maxims, doctrines fa-
vourable to despotism, and outrages against foreign
Governments :
" The acts and reports approved by the Senate
have undergone alterations in their publication by him'
" Considering that, instead of reigning for the
sole view of the interest, happiness, and glory of the
French people, according .to the terms of his oath,
Napoleon has completed the misfortunes of the coun-
try, by his refusal to treat upon conditions which the
rational interest, required him to accept; and which
did not compromise the honour of France :
" By the Abuse which he has committed, of all the
Leans confided to him in men and money; by for-