Star.
London, England, 1813-11-02 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, OCTOBER 25.
The Municipal Council of Avignon says, in its ad-
dress to the Empress and Queen, as follows:
a Who is he among Frenchmen who would not be
profoundly moved and disposed to make every sacri-
fice when your Majesty calls upon them in the name
of the Emperor—of the country—and of honour !
The great name of the Emperor produces all the re-
spect due to the Sovereign, and all the transports of
admiration to which he has acquired immortal rights.
The country!—lt was Napoleon who restored it to,
us by putting an end to all the storms of the Revo-
lution, and repelling foreigners who threatened our
territory. National honour itself owes a new eclat to
that powerful genius, who revealed to France the
secret of her forces, and raised her to a degree of

glory which he knows how to maintain. Madame,'
the inhabitants of the town of Avignon, in common'
with all Frenchmen, dare assure your Majesty, that'
they will shew themselves worthy of the confidence
you have placed in them ; they swear to the august
companion of Napoleon the Great, to the mother of
the King of Rome, that no effort will appal their zeal
and their fidelity, when the object is to defend the
throne, which your virtues ornament, and towards
which we every day raise our homages, our wishes,
and our hopes."

MILAN, OCTOBER 19.

The speech-delivered in the Senate of the Empire,
by the Enipreos Queen and Regent, is well worthy of
being considered by all Italians : her Majesty, among
others, repeated these memorable words :—" I know
better than any one what our people will have to,
dread if they ever-suffer themselves to be conquered."
ig Italians ! it is to us, to us principally, that it be-1
longs to reflect upon these words; which evidently
came from the Empress's heart. She passed her first
youth in the midst of the very individuals who have
just now engaged her father to make war on us. She
said, that she knew better than any one the sentiments with
'which they are animated, and the fate they would male us I
suffer if they succeeded in cm:qua-in: us.
46 Italians ! if the sentiments with which Our ene-
mies ale animated ought to excite the courage and
resistance of Frenchmen, how much more ought they
to inflame our patriotism and our valour ? French-
men have, never been subjects of our enemies. The
latter have nothing to reproach the French with, but
that of being stronger and better commanded than
themselves. But we—we who have changed Sove-
reigns, and who are attached to our King by so many
ties of gratitude and love—we, who have placed our
• glory and ambition in serving him, let us-form, if it
is possible, an idea of the resentment and pi ivate ven-
geance of which we will quickly be the object and
the victims.

" There is no doubt but that the efforts of our

enemies will turn to their shame, and will fall before
• the genius and power of the Emperor. The days of
Lutzen and Dresden otyht to convince them of the
absurdity of their hopes, and prove to,them, that the
Empei or is now more strong and more great than over.
" Suppose that the enemy should for a moment
penar.,te to us, he would not, at first, fail to hold
forth -to us a paternal language, and promise us to
forget the past. But who among us would be the
dupe of his artful promises? We know him. We

have Lot yet forgotten the day of the 13th Messidor,
which pit ceded the intim' ta day of Marengo. Can
we believe that the Empetor woald ever pardon the
functitnaTies, of all classes—the Generals; the Offi-
cers, the Soldiers, who have so often conquered'him
Would he pardon• the Lomhardians their first en.
thusiasm, and the fidelity of which they have given.
so many proofs ? Would he pardon the Batonais,
the Brisceans—the sentiments of admiration and
devotion with which they have been constantly- ani.
mated towards the Emperor ? Would he pardon
the Venetians' the profound grief which the treaty
of Campo Formio .caused them, and the joy they
exl,ibited on healicg of the treaty of Presburg
—Wo.4ld he pardon Vie Miiain,ci the services of ail
kinds which they have rendered the Sovereign in the
• administrations and-in the armies ? 'Would he pardon
the Tyroleans the sentiments of fidelity which' they
have evinced since the late treaty of Vienna ? %Arid
he pardon the Pre:es:ors of our Universities, of our
Lyceums, the Viegepts, the examples of patriotism
arhith th, y have .even to our youth? " Ah ! ask it—
ask it of her Majesty the Empress I she will deign to
inform you, that those strangely deceive themselves,
who think they can obtain peace by weabeere, and the
forgetting of tleir fret duties.
" Italians! We all know our duties, and we cannot
too frequently repeat, that onr most pressing interest
commands us to fulfil them." .

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