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London, England, 1813-02-22 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

ORDERS—Committee on Deputy Remembrancer of the Ex-
chequer Bill—House to be called over—Artificets, &c. Wages
Bill, second time.

biOTICZ—Sir George Clerk, to refer the Report of the Com-
mittee on Exempting Mail Coaches from Tolls to a Committee.

THURSDAY.

ORDER—Bristol Election, at three o'clock.
NoTices—Mr. Lockhart, to move to refer the Report of the
American Claims to a Committee—Mr. Grattan, to move for a
Committee to take into consideration the state of his Majesty's
Roman Catholic subjects, agreeable to the resolution of the Wit
Parliament. FRIDAY.
- NOTICZ—Lord Palmerston, Army Estimates in Supply.

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, FEBRUARY 14.

To-day, Monday, the 14th of February, his Ma-
jesty the Emperor and King departed at one o'clock
from the Palace of the Thuilleries, in w and state, to
proceed to the Palace of the Legislative Body. Sal-
voes of artillery announced the departure of his Ma-
jesty from the Thuilleries, and his arrival at the Le-
' gislative Body. •
[Here follows the route the procession took.]
The President of the Legislative Body and t 5 de-
puties received his Majesty at the bottom of the stair-
case, and conducted him to the apartment prepared
to receive him.

The Deputation from the Senate and Council of
State having taken their places, and her Majesty the
Empress being seated on the throne, in front of the
Emperor's throne, accompanied by her Majesty the
Queen Hortense, and surrounded by the Officers of
her Household, the Diplomatic Corps occupied a
Tribune to the right.
The Emperor, after having rested himself in his
apartment, went to the hall of the Legislative Corps,
preceded by his suite. On the entry of his Majesty
all the Deputies arose. His Majesty seated himself
upon his throne, the Princes, Grand Dignitaries, 8:c.
having taken their places according to their rank.
The Emperor being seated, the Grand Master of
the Ceremonies took his Majesty's orders for opening
:the Sitting.
The Prince Vice-Grand Elector demanded his Ma-
rjesty's per mission to present to him the Members of
:the Legislative Corps lately elected, and allow them
to take the Oath.

One of the Officers called over the names, and the
oath wali taken.

This being finished, the Emperor delivered the fol-
lowing Speech :
66 Gentlemen, Deputies front the Department: to the Le-
gislative Body,
66 The war again lighted in the North of Europe
offered a favourable opportunity to the projects of
the English upon the Peninsula. They have made
great efforts. All their hopes have been deceived.—
Their army was wrecked before the citadel of Bur-
gos, and obliged, after having suffered great losses,
to evacuate the Spanish territory.
66 I myself entered Russia. The French arms
were constantly victorious, in the fields of Ostrowno,
Polotsk, Mobilow, Smolensk, Moscow, Molairadsla-
vitz. The Russian armies could not stand before
our armies. Moscow fell into our power !
66 Whilst the barriers of Russia were forced, and
the impotency of her arms acknowledged, a swarm
of Tar:ars alined their parracidal hands against the
finest provinces of that vast empire, which they had
been called to defend.

44 They in a few weeks, notwithstanding the tears
and despair of the unfortunate Muscovites, burned
more than four thousand of their finest villages—
more than fifty of their finest towns ; thus gratitying
their ancient hatred, under the pretext of retalding
our march, by surrounding us with a desert. We
triumphed over all these obstacles ! Even the fire
of Moscow, by which in four days they annihilated
the fruits of the labours and cares of four generations,
changed in no respect the prosperous state of my
affairs.

" But the excessive and premature rigour of the
winter brought down a heavy calamity ou my army;
in a few nights I saw every thing change! I expe.
rienced great losses! They would have broken my
heart, if, under such circumstances, I could have
been accessible to any other sentiments than those of
the interest, the glory, and the future prosperity of
my people. _ _

On seeing the evils which pressed upon us, the
joy of England was great—her hopes had no bounds;
she offered our finest provinces as the reward of
made as the conditions of peace the dis-
memberment of this vast empire : it was, under other
terms, to proclaim perpetual war.
44 The energy of my people under these great cir-
cumstances ; their attachment to the integrity of the
empire ; the love which they have shewn me, have
dissipated all these chimeras, and brought back our
enemies to a more just consideration ofthings.
" The misfortunes produced by the rigour of hoar
frosts have been made apparent in all their extent.
The grandeur and the solidity of this empire, found.
ed upon o.e efforts and the love of fifty millions of
citizens, and upon the territorial resources of one of
the fines: countries in the world.

66 It is with lively satisfaction that we have seen
our people of the kingdom of Italy, those of ancient
Holland, and of the United Departments, rival with
Old Fiance, and feel that there is for them no future
hope but in the consolidation and the triumph of the
Graf,d Empire.
‘f The agents of England propagate among all
ppr neighbours the sritit of Wok against 6oire-

ieigni, ; ZnglAnd wishes to see the *hole Continent
to become aprey to civil war, and all the furies of
anarchy ; buf PROVIDIINCI has designed her herself to
be the first victim of anarchy and civil war.
I have signed with the Pope a Concordat which
terminates all the differences that unfortunately had
arisen in the Church.

g, The French dynasty reigns, and will reign in
Spain. I am satisfied with all my allies : 1 will aban-
don none of them. I will maintain the integrity of
their States. The Russians shall return into their
frightful climate.
44 I desire peace ; it is necessary to the world.—
Four times since the rupture which followed the trea-
ty of Amiens, I proposed it in a solemn manner. I
will never make but an honourable peace, and one
conformable to the interests and grandeur of my em-
pire. My policy is not mysterious ; I have stated all
the sacrifices I could make.

66 So long as this maritime war shall last, my peo-
ple must hold themselves ready to make all kind of
sactifices ; because a bad peace would make us lose
every thing—even hope and all would be comprized,
even the prosperity of our descendants.
66 America has had recourse to arms, to make the
sovereignty
,of her flag respected—the wishes of the
world accompany her in this glorious contest. If she
terminates it by obliging the enemies of the Conti-
nent to acknowledge the principle that the flag covers
the merchandize and crew, and that neutrals ought
not to be subject to blockades upon paper, the whole
conformable to the stipulations of the* Treaty of
Utrecht, America will have credit from all nations ;
posterity will say, that the old world had lost its
rights, and that the new one reconquered them.
66 My Minister of the Interior will explain to you
in the Expose of the situation of the empire, the pro-
sperous state of agriculture, manufactures, and of
11 our interior commerce, as well as the still constant
increase of our population. In no age has agricul-
ture and manufactories been carried to a higher de-
gree of prosperity in France.
" I want great resources to meet the expenses
which circumstances demand ; but by means of the
different measures which my Minister of Finances
-will propose to you, I shall not impose any new bur-
dens on my people."
Alter the Speech, the Sitting terminated, and his
Majesty retired amidst acclamations.--(Moniteur,
February 15).