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thence' by a Master of fieremonies, and presented to
the Empress by the Duchess of Montebello, liatly sif
Honour to her Majesty. In presenting to her Ms-
jestyt
_his Excellency the Minister at War said
MADAME-1 present to your Majesty the colours
taken ;t the battles of Wichau, Leipaic, and Hanau,
which his Majesty the Emperor sent me from the 6414
battle, and ordered me to present to your Majesty,"
w:th the inhjoined letter.
These colours will a

to poiterity the valour
"r, •
- •
44 Treasons without example have plocured to our
enemies great adearitages ;Alley are for them ..vithrt
glory; they cannot support Ahem by Similar trophies.
May I be permitted, Madame, to congratulate
myself on this honourable mission ?"
Her Majesty replied-
-41 MONSIEUR THE MINISTER AT W4...1 am molted
With this new proof of remembrance, arid with die
sentiments of my august husband.
di All that he can do for me merit of him, by my
ttnboOnded attachment to him and to France.
Place, on my part, these trophies in the Church
of Invalides, that these braiT men may are in them a
proof of the interest which I have for them ; I know
all the claims which they have to my protection."

IMPERIAL. DECREI' .
gETRAFT 11104 KINUTES Or VIC SIVIISTART Cr

STATr.
" Niue of Sr. Cloud, November 1, 1813.
fl Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy.
Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Me-
diator of the Swiss Confederation, 8;c.
" Upon the report of our Minister of Finances,
considering she urgency of circumstances, our Coun-
cil of State agreeing, we have dectee4 and do decree •
as follows :
" Art. 1. There shall be collected 30 Centimes
additional to the contribution on door!, windows and
patents of 1813. The said Centimes shall be payable
by thirds, in the departments of the months of No-
veinber and December, 1813, andlin .14-4pary; fBl'+.
" 2. The personal contribution, and the part of
the contribution nn property, which is collected by
classes, shall be doubled for the year 1813 i• the ad-
ditional impost shall be levied at.the period filed b;
the preceding weft&

44p 3. The g allowance on account of preceptors, and
those of receivers upon the abnie.reentioned ektraor.
dinary contributions, shall only be imposed at this
rater for preceptors a quarter, and for receiver the,
half of the rate fixed, as the tax on the principal,
64 4. Reckoning from this day, there shall be col.
leeted two new deeitues, by kelogramms, on salt, and
ten centimes in addition, as well as.in respect to the
receipts of administration of taxes collected, cot sub-
ject to the sear tenth ; as to •the Tarils •of Octroi,
others than those of agreement and assessment.
46 5. The additional duty upon salt shall be collec-
"tied upon salt remaining in the warehouses, agreeably
to Art. 8 of the law of Bth April, 1806,.antl- to the
Imperial Decree of the 1 Ith June following.
" 6. Ncitwithssendhig the dispositions 'of the pre.
ceding Article, the Administration for Salt lieyond
' the Alps Oran not sell salt above 60 oentispes the
kelogramme (6 sols the lb.)
" 7. The dispositions of the present Decree dull
not be applicable, except in what relates to the tax
upon salt, to the Departments of the Mouths of the
Meuse, of the Months of the Yssel, of the Ufpri Ys-
• set, of rese, of Western Ems, of Eastern Erns, and
of the Zuyder Zee, on account of tha txtractrifinaq
charges whick they support. ••• '
44 8. 01;r Ministers are charged, each as far as
Concerns him, with the execution of the present De-
cree, which shall be inserted in the Bulletin of Ljws:
(Signed) " NAPOLON.
64 The Minister Secretary of State ad interim,

• (SignO) " Duke of CanuaF."
Nov.-16.—The Senate yesterd ty assembled Er-
44ordinarily under the Ptesidency of his Highness tl*
Prince Arch-Chancellor of the. Empire. Count Reg-
naud de St. Jean D'Angley, and Count Ma. Comp
sellors of State, were present at the assembly.
NOVIMBER 17.—The King of Naples atiived oa
the sth instant in his capiial. ' • -:''
(44 the 7th instant le puke of Reggio arrived 4
Bar.
The Moisitsur of the nth contains three Motifs a
Seatztus Cpandie, which are extremely long; and of

which the following is a vet y brief extract
The first is for placing 500,000 men at the
disposition of the Minister at War, and begins
by referring to that Memorable Sitting, in which
the Empress pointed out the necessities of /ratite,
that France can only be safe by proportioning
her efforts to those made to subject her ;—that a:
that period the desertion of Bavaria, the desertion of
the Saxons were unknown ; .that circumstances had
rendered glorious victories barren, that tLe cry of
alarm, and for assistance of our children and brothers
still in arms, still gloriously fighting on the hankt.; of
the Rhine, resounded on the banks of the Seine, the
Rhone, the Deubs, the Gironde, the Moselle, and the.
Loire, Btc. asks what would the situation of France
be, should the enemies who are on her frontiers pone
trate into her territisyy, 4ssefts that the meeting o
Plenipotentiaries on the part of the Allies was onl)
intended to deceive ; refers to the partition of Mani
as a warning to France ; appeals to the honour o
Frenchmen ; and concludes by saying, that sur
rounded by the whole power of the nation, the Eir
peror, as moderate as when he granted Austria
Peace of Leoben, and Campo. Fortnio, in the hop
of signing that of Europe, may wisely prepare Peace
by balancing the conditions with justice, and signin,,.
it with honour.
The second is for the prorogation of the Powers o
the Deputies to the Legislative B2dy of the fort
series. It begins by proposing that the sDepnties
the Legislative Body of the fourth series shall ever
cise their functions during the whole of the Sessi .
which shall open on the 2cl December nut, assignin
as a reason, that circums antes would not admit r
;he delay for replacing th tse going out.
The third is, that his Majesty shoUld appoint
the Presidentship of the Legislative Body, in place
choosing. as heretofore, from among five candidates
presented to him by the Legislative Body. Those
three projets were adopted.
Here follows a Decree, by Art. 1, of which 300,000
conscript,. taken hams the classes of 1811, 12, 13, 11.
IWO, 1807, and following rears, and including 1614,
.rte placed at the dispc:ation of the Minister at War.
Art. 2 states that .5(4000 men shall be immcchatel:.
b levied for active service, and 50,000 more held ie.