Star.
London, England, 1805-06-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PROM THE PARIS PAPERS.
MILAN, JV N E 7.—The Scffinn of the Legit Wive
Body opened this day. At lix in the morning, his
Erecellene), General Dueoc, Grand Marfhal of the
Palace, took the command of the Palace of the Le-

siflative Body. The Members of the Legitimise Body
*trembled in grand collume in the hall of their fittings
a, one o'clock. The Council of State proceeded at
es r o'clock from the palace to the palace of tbe Le-
giflative Body, where they were received by a depu-
t ttion of three legislators. This deputation conduaed
the members of the council to the places deflined for
them. At half pall one the Empt efs arrived at the
palace of the Legittative Body, accompanied by her
Imperial Highnes the Princefi Eta z a, by her Ladies,
and the officers of her houfehold. Iler Majefly was
received at the outer door of the palace by the Prefi-
aent and a deputation of thirty Members of the Le-
fiflative Body, and conduaed to the ti ibune p: epared
or her. His Majetty's train fet out from the palace'
at two for the palace of the Legiflative Body. His
departure was announced by a difcharge of artillery.
The way through which his train paired was lined
with troops. The proceffion was at-fanged with the
ufual pomp and according to the eflablilhed forms,
and preceded and followed by a detachment of the
Vtencb and Italian guards,and by fquadrons ofMame-
lucks. His Majelly's arrival at the palace of the Le-
giflative Body was announced by a fecund difcharge
of artillery. He was received at the outer door by a
deputation coniprifed of thirty members of the Le4if-
lative Body, with the Prefident at their head. Ihe
proceffion airembled in one of the halls of the palace,
whence it proceeded in order to the hall of fitting,
where the places were arranged in the following or-
der: his Majefty the Emperor and King on a throne;
on his right his Serene Highnefs Prince Etro EVA a in a
chair, two Reps lower than the throne; behind his
Majefly on the right and left, two Colonels, Generals
of the Guard, the Grand Martha' of the Palace, the
grand Major Domo, the grand Almoner and Mat fhal
MONCEY ; back of the throne the Chamberlains and
the French and Italian Efquires. The other officers
of the Court were Ilationed according to their rank.
Oppofite the throne the legiflators were difpofed in a
vii :ular form, their Prefident in the centre, without
any dittinaton of place, but having two State Mtien-
gees of the Legiflative Body, one on his right, the
other on his left. Before the Legiflators fat the
Council of State on chairs, half on the right and half
on the left. When his Majefly was (CAM on the
throne, the whole were uncovered. The Grand !def-
ter of the Ceremonies took the orders of his Majefty.
The Legiflators fummoned individually by the Chan-
cellor took the oath, after which the Secretary of
State read the flatutes of the kingdom. There fla-
totes are eight in number. The eighth Tepees exdn-
fively the eftabliffiment of a military order, under the
denomination of The Order of Ile Iron Crown, and is
divided into five title,. The order is to confift of five
hundred Knights, one hundred Commanders, and
twenty Dignitaries. The motto is to be Dieu we
ra donne, Bare ti qui
.1 toneherm." Vacancies are to be
filled tip every year, on Afcenfion day. Four hun-
dred thoufand.Milanefe livres are to be appropriated
to the Order. Each Knight to have 300 !lyres
yearly, each Commander 700, and each Dignitary
goon livres. One hundred thoufand livres of this re-
venue to be let apart for fuch extraordinary life pen-
fions as the Grand Matter (ball think proper to grant
to any Knights, Commanders, or Dignitaries. The
King of Italy to be Grand Matter, but the Empe-
ror and King, Islaroxzea, in conlideration of being
founder, to retain, during his life, exclufively the title
and funaions of the office. The flatutes were ligned
by all the public Funaionaries, and dire led by or-
der of the Emperor and King, Naroxeow, dated June
6, at his palace of Milan, to be tranlmitted into the
T:gitiers of the Tribunals, and Adminillrative Au-
thorities.
Prince Euc ass then was fummoned by the Grand
blafter to take the oath as Viceroy. He made a
profound bow to his Majefly, and placed hirafelf on
his knees on a cufhion at the left of the throne, where.
putting his hand on the Gape), he pronounced the
following oath :
u I (wear to be faithful to the Conftitution, and to obey the
KW: not to rcfign my NM:Worth% the moment 1 Hull receive
the King's directions thertupoo ; and to give up immedietcly the
authority with which I ant itivelled, to say per:on that &all be
deputed by hint."
His MAJErr Y then addrefrel the Legiflative Body
as follows: _ _

" Gentlemen of the Legiilative Body.
de I have caufed a detailed account to be rendered
to me of all the parts of the Adminifiration. nave
introduced into thcle divers branches the fame fun-
plicity that, with the help of the Confulta and of the
Cenfure, I eflablifoed in the divifion of the Cop ftitu-
Cons of Lyons. Whatever is good. whatever is
beautiful, is always the refult of a oniform and fun-
pie fyftem. I have fuppretf:d the double organiza-
tion of the Departmental Adminiftrations, and of
the Adminiftreions of Prefefture, becaufe I have
thought that by telling the Adminittration folcly
upon the Pier-eels, not only a million would be eco-
nomized in the expences, but a greater rapidity
would be obtained in the courfe of bufinefs. If I
have annexed to the Prefeas aCouncilfor Litigations,
it is to the principle which requires that the Admini:
ilration be the aft of one, and that the decificin of li-
tigious objects be the aft of many.
" The ftatutes which you have kill heard read,
extend to my people of Italy the benefits of the Code
over the drawing up of which I myfelf prefided. I
have ordered my Council to prepare an organization
of the judiciary order which may render to the tribu-
nals the lultre and ccofideration which it is my inten-
tion to give them. I cotta not approve that a Pt mr.or
alone fhould be called to pronounce upon the fortune
of the citizens, and that judges hidden from the eyes
of the public ;hook( decide in fecret not only upon
their property but upon their lives. In the organiza-
tion which will he prefented to you, my council will
Rudy to make my people enjoy all the advantages
which refult from colleCtive tribunals, from a public
procedure, and from a contradictory defence. It
is to fecure to them a jutlice more evidently enlight-
ened, th..t I have cilabtifhed that the circumilances
in which Italy or w permitted me to think of the
ellablitionent of Juries ; but the Judges mull pro-
nounce like the Juries, from their Pole conviction, and
without delivering themfelves up to that fyftem of
ball proofs which much oftener endangers innocence

•
thaa it ferret to difeoler gtillt. The fureft ride of a
Judge who has prelided over the trial, is the convic-
tion of his confcience.

" 1 have myfelf watched over the enabliihment of
regular and confervative fcrms in the finances of the
State, and 1 hope that my people will find them.
feives well, from the order which I have commanded
my Miniliers of Finance and of the Public -Treafure
to eflablifii in the accounts which will be public. I
have contented that the Public Debt fbould bear the
name of Monte fapcleou, to give a guarantee the more
of fidelity in the engagements which conllitute it, and
a new vigour to credit.
" The public inliration will ceafe to be Depart.
mental, and I have fixed the balls to give it the mine.
He, uniformity and diredioq, which mull have fo
touch influence upon the morals and habits of the rif-

ing generation.
46 I have judged that it was proper, from this year
forward, to place more equality in the dittribution
the departmental expences, and to afford fuccour to
thole of my Departments, fuch as the &Endo and
the Lower Po, which fincithemfelves burthened by
the necellity of defending themfelves againft the ra-
vages of the waters. •
G. The finances are in the molt profperous fitnation
and all payments are free of arrears. My people of
Italy is of all the nations of Europc the leaf loaded
with taxes. No new burti.ens (hall be laid on them;

and if there be any change made in any contribution,
if the enredierment is ellablifhed in the projet of a bud.
get, accurdins to a moderate tarif, it is for the pur-
pore of diminithing more onerous impolitions the
Terrier is full of itopertedtions' which manifen them-
felves every day. To remedy them, I (hall vantrith
the obflacles which are oppofed to fuch operations,
much lets by the nature of things than by private in-
tereft ; I, however, do not hope to arrive at refults,
loch as may caufe to be avoided the inconvenience of
railing a tax until the period it may reach to.
~ I have taken meafures to order the Clergy a pro-
per endowment, which they have been depraved of
for; thefe ten years pan ; and if I have made Come uni•
ons of converts, I wi(hed to preferve, and it is my
intention to protea thofe who devote themfelves to
Cervices of public utility, or who, placed in the coun-
try' parts, are in places and in circumftances wherein
they fupply the want of fecular Clergy. I have
at the fame time provided that the Bithops ffiould
have the means to be ufeful to the poor, and I only
wait, to occupy inyfelf with the lot of the curates,
for the information which I have ordered to be
quickly colleaed upon their real fituation : I know
that many of them, efpecially in the mountains, are
in 4 penury which I have the molt preffing dear; to
put an end to.
" Independent of the road of Simplon, which will
be finithed this year, and at which four thoofand
workmen are working at this moment, in the part
alone that crones the kingdom of Italy, I have or-
dered that the bridge of Volano should be begun, and
that fuch important works thou:el be undertaken with-
out delay, and purfued with aaivity.
" I have negleaed none of the objeas upon which
my expel ience in adminiftration could be ufeful to my
people of Italy. Before I return acrofs the moun-
tains, I (ball go over a part of the departments to
become nearer acquainted with their wants.
4, I (hall leave depofitary of my authority this
young Prince, whom I have brought up from his
infancy, and %eta° will he animated with my fpirit.
I have betides taken meafures to direa myfelf the
molt important affairs of the State.

" Orators of my Co.incil will prefent to you a
project of Law autlorifing my Chancellor Keeper
of the Seals, Metz: to a& for four years in the qua-
lity of depolitary of authority, as Vice-Prefident;
a domain which, remaining in his family, may atteft
to his defcendants the fatisfaetion I have felt from its
Cervices.

" I think I have given ft efh proofs of my conftant
refulution to fulfil towards my people of Italy every
thing they cape& from me. I hope that in their turn
they will be electrons of occupying the place that I
deftine for them in my thoughts ; and they never dill
attain it, but by perfuading themfelves that the force
of arms is the principal fupport of States.
" It is time that that youth who live in the idle-
ncfs of great cities, fhould ceafe to fear the fatigues
and dangers of war, and that they fhould enable
themfelves to make their country be refpeeled, if they
with their country to be refpeelable.
"S Gentlemen of the Legilitive Body, vie in zeal
with my Council of State, and by that cancourfe of
wills towards the fole aim of the public profperity,
give to my reprefentative the fuppert helhould re-
ceive from you.
4, The Britith Government having received, with
an evafive anfwer, the propofitions 1 made to it, and
the King of England having immediately rendered
them public by infulting my people in his Parliament,
I have Peen the hopes confiderably weakened, which I
had conceived of the re-e iabl:thment of peace. How.
ever, the French filoadrons have fince obtained fue-
ceffes to which I attach impertance only becaufe they
mutt farther convince my enemies of the inutility of
a war which affords them nothing to gain and every
thing to lofe. The divifions of the flotillas and the
frigates built at the expence of the finances of my
kingdom of Italy, and which at prefent make a part
of the French forces, have rendered ufeful Cervices in
many c rat mitances. I preferve the hope that the peace
of the Continent will not be troubled; and at all
events, I find myfelf in a pofition to fear none of
the, chances of war. I (hall be in the midlt of you
the very moment my pretence would become ne-
ceffary for the prefervatten of my kingdom of Italy."
UNION OF GENOA WITH FRANCE.
GENOA, Joss i.—Some of our Senators, who were
fent to Milan to the coronation of the Emperor NA-
POLEON, as King of Italy, having returned here on
the a4th of May, with M. SALICETTI, the French
Minitier, on the next day an Extraordinary Sitting of
the Ligurian Senate was held, in which the molt im-
portant queflion which cculd be fubmitted to the
confideration of that Affembly was difcuffed. The
Gen'oefe Senate, in this meeting, formally declared
for an union with the French empire, proclaimed its
conditions, and refolved to fubmit it to the appro-
bation of the people. The .Decree folios: in thefe
words :

o The Senate, taking into coaderation the actual (tate of the
Republic, and convinced that an independence, without Rrength
or mesas to prated its commerce, the oily lance of its national
pnifperity, is of no advantage to the State of Liguria, and that it
cantiot cult without being united to the French Empire, parties-
lAA) Lace Ilhtlatout bas bow Incorporated with k; caafulcring

began, that nit declaration Maas at the Conn& Of Arlen,
!the Englint Government, that it could not reagent the itcpubile
of Genoa until it had refueled its andent fonts (a condition to
wLich the Ligurian people mad never casket). espies it to the
ert neceffity of bang involved in all the naval wan tibia may
wife between France and England; corifidering that if, on one
Ode, the Barbary powers ,defolating the Liguttsa commerce, make
ta maritime communication imprallicable, fo on the other our
communications by land are as snuck interrupted by the accent+,
fyftem of the French law of Caton's, confidering, jape, that the
only means of withdrawing ourfelves front a natation fo
of re-ellabliihing our commerce, of recovering an our rights and
privileges, and of removing all the °Kuhn to our participating
with the commerce of France, the immenfo Advantages which
peace will alfuredly procure for her, is to incorporate ourfelves
with the French nation, and that to obtain this favour it is advife-
obis. to pro& of the journey of the Emperor and King to Italy ;
dceree

" Article I. The onion of the kingdom of Italy with the French
Empire, (hall be propofed to his Maier y the Emperor and King,
soder the following conditions That all the Ligurian ter-
ritory, without the leait rejudtion, fhall eaenpofe an Integral part
of the French Empire. ad. That the debt of the Ligurian Repub.
he is to be lividated in the fame way with the debt of the French
nation. 3d. Chat Genoa (hail be a free port with all the privileges
thereunto annexed. 4th. That in Apportion; eg the land tax, due
regard will be paid to the barrennef of the Ligurian foil, and the
expmcea of agriculture, more conlidt rattle than in :Jay other coun-
ters 3th. That there arc neither to he barriers rase cuitom.houtes
between France and Liguria. 6th. 'that the law of Couteription
Mall only amply to tailors. 7th. That the export and import duties
null be regulated in the manner the aloft favourable to the agrl.
culture and manufadurss of Liguria. Bth. That all civil and eel
minal tufts (Sall be decided either at Genoa or in few of the ad-
jacent departments of the empire. st. That all the proprietors Of
national property he fumed in the polfellion and full enjoy-
ment of the laid property. •

" Article 11. The prelim' decree Mall be immediately fubmitted
to the decifum of the people.
LAVITTI LANZOLA, Chief Secretary.

The Regiflers having been immediately opened
throughout all Liguria, to receive the votes of the
Funaionaries and Citizens, the decree of the Senate
was inftantly ratified by a great majority of affirma-
tive votes. The Regifters were colleted at Genoa,
and entiutled to Deputies, who yefterday fet out to
prefent them to the Emperor of the French, and to
entreat his Maje ty to grant the requell exprefred.—
Previous to the departure of the Deputie4, official
communication was made of the willies of the Ligu-
rians to the Aultristn Envoy, Baron GiUSTI, in the
following Note :

" Genoa, Jane t.

" The underfigned Scissor, Minifter for Foreign Affairs, bas
the honour to communicate to his Excellency the Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary of his Majefty the Emperor
of Germany and Auftria the decree, whereby the Senate has in-
duced the Union of the Ligurian Republic with the French em-
pire; a decree which has obtained the fanclion of the people, and
in virtue of which a deputation has been appointed to lay before
his Majefty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, the
willies of the whole nation. His Excellency has refided fulfielatt-
ly long at Genoa to be fatisfied of the impoffibillty under which
this country laboured, of prcfcrving its independence amidft
events which have changed the face of Europe. Too weal to
protedt our commerce and navigation, we have conflandy feat our
flag infutted, and oar coats expofed to the pillage of the Barbary
powers. While tb- great Powers were occupied In making their
flag refpedted. they abandoned the weaker ones to the outrages of
the enemies of the Chrillian name. Our interior Police was alto
fo difficultly eireum ltanced, that ahead of robber, who bad taken
refuge in the mountains, were become an object of terror to the

leighbouring parts.
" On the other hand, England, In tblesegoelatlona whirl pre-

`ceded the Treaty of Amiens, would not reeoguife the eliftersee of
our new flare, nor the changes which we bad thought proper to
make in our Conftitution, by abolilhing the ariltocracy, and by
preferring to all other advantages that equality of rights, on which
the profperlty of every ecnrunercial nation is founded. She has,
in fpite of our efforts to the contrary, included us in all her wars
with France, and our multiuse commerce has always been the
prey to her tyranny. On the land fide, we were Co furrounded
by the territory of the French empire, that if our city Bill pof-
'tires any commerce, we owe it to the Emperor, who has treated
us with fo much goodnefs, that he has made facrifices in our favour
to the pollble prejudice of Nice and Marfeilles. We hat every
rea(on to apprehend, that in the courfe of Cme,his Majefty would
not be able to continue to us there advantages; and then, fur-
rounded an all fides by the French Cufrom-houfcs, without terri-
tory, marine, or commerce, we &old(' have been the molt weak
and rniferable nation. The decree which united Piedmont to
France, bad already pronounced the union of oat' territory with
the French empire, and of our city, which is only a part of Pied-
mont.

In this !late of affairs, by an unanimity of opinion, ?Mich is
unexampled in any nation, anxious to thew ourfelves starchy of
our fathers, and unubk, when left to ourfelves, to give our lag
that fpiendour anti glory which our aneeftors hate obtained for it
under different circumilances, we have refolved to recover that
fplendour and that glory, by incorporating ourfeives with a unit
nation, and by fubmitting ourfelves to the laws of a great Prince,
who has always manifelted towards us fentiments of friendfhip,
and has honoured us with his particular protection.

" The Deputation, who carry the voice of the Senate, of the
Doge, and of the people, depart this evening; and when they
(hall have palled the frontiers of our territories, we fhall confider
our independence at an end.

* The Government has thought it proper to communicate there
circumitances to his Excellency the Baron de Giuiti, and to alfure
his Majefty the Emperor of Germany and Auftria, of their grati-
tude for the concern he has evinced on fermi occafions; and at the
fame time to acquaint his worthy Reprifentative at Genoa that
his million is hereby terminated.

" In placing ourfelves thus under the laws of the French Em-
pire, we do not in the loft add to her continental ftrength. Our
population, few In number, is far from warlike. The produce of
oar finances will be cntirely abforbell in the expellees of the defence
of our malts, and the ertablifbnient of our adonis. France, by
this union, will obtain an augmentation of noel force; and we
cannot but think that we are doing what is the with of all the
Continental Powers, namely, to enable her to contend with the

enemy of all nations. and the tyrant of the fear.
" The under.igned ha the honour to reiterate to his Excellency
the Minitter Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinari. the es-
preifion of his entire elteem, and diitinguilbed coolideration.
(Signed) " sosuirsi."
On the 4th of June, at mid-day, the Emperor re-
ceived the Dnge, and the Deputation of the Senate,
and people of Genoa, introduced by M. de Lscut,
and pt efented by his Serene Highnefs Prince Euo F us.
His Serene Highnefs the Doge aldreffed the Em-
peror. In the cnnrfe of his fpeech he laid:
" Deign, Sire, to hear the with of a people which has been at.
cached to France in times of the greateft difliculty.—Re-unite to
your empire that Liguria. the firft theatre of your vidories, and
the die Rep to that throne on which you are Gated, for the fafety
of all civilized focieties. Deign to grant us the happinefs of befog
your fubjeds. Your Majefty cannot have more devoted or more
faithful."

The following is the anfwer of BonaPAILTI upon
receiving the decree of the Ligurian Senate, for unit•
Mg that country to the French Empire :