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which are tweeter', to fupport the toils and fatigues
of war : you will convince them that there are the
principal guarantees of vidory : you will teach them
to make every facrifice for the glory of the throne,
and good of the country.
66 We have triumphed over all our enemies. In
the courfe of fix months, we have paired the Main,
the Seal, the Elbe, the Oder, and the Vifula : We
have made ourfelves mailers of the firongefi places
in Europe—Magdeburg, Hameln, Spandau, Stettin,
Cuttrin, Glogau, Breflau, Schweidnitz, and Breig.
Our foldiers have proved viaotions in feveral battles;
they have taken upwards of Soo pieces of cannon upon
the field of battle ; they have feat 4000 pieces of
heavy artillery to France, four hundred Ruffian and
Pruffian ftandarch, and made upwards of soo,ooo
prifoners of war.
46 Neither the lands of Pruffia, the Oefarts of Po.
land, nor the forms of winter—in fait, nothing has
been able to damp or extinguifh their ardour for ob-
taining peace by their conquetts, and by means of
their triumphs, to return to their native country.—
Still our armies in Italy, in Dalmatia, and Naples,
remain undiminifhed ; our camps at Boulogne, in
Brittany, in Normandy, and on the Rhine, remain
entire.

" Though at prefent we afk for new facrifices from I
our people, in order that we may obtain a greater
extent of force, it is not that we (hould abule this
power for- the purpofe of prolonging the war. Our
policy is Invariable. • We offered peace to England
before the fourth coalition had (hewn itfelf: the rams
Peace we offer to England RM. The principal
Envoy which England employed in there negocia-
tions has made the molt public declarations, and in
the molt unequivocal term., that the peace would
have been both honourable and advantageous to
England : thus he has made the juaice of our caufe
appear evident. We are ready to conclude a peace
with Rutlia, upon the fame conditions as were figned
by her negotiator, but which were rejdaed iu conic-
quence of the arts and intrigues of the Engin. 'We
are ready to ream e to the eight millions of the inha
bitants whom we have conquered. their tranquillity,
and to refiore to the King of Prullla his Capital.
" But though fo many traits of moderatibn. al-
ready fo often ienewtd, have not been able to prevail
over the deceptiims to which England, e:.fiamed as
it is by its pall-inns, has had recourfe, that power can-
not tee the plffihility of peace but in our annihilation;
nothing, their fore, remains for us but to bear the ca.
(amities of war, and ti, throw the Brame and odium
nt it upon that nation, which continues to purchafe
its monopoly with the blood cf the Continent. We
!hall, in the i efources of our own mind, in the courage,
devotion, and the power of our people, find certain
means to render all the efforts of that coalition,
formed of hatred and injuilice, null and void. and t',
turn them to the difgrace of their authcrs. French.
men ! we brave all dangers—for the glory and tran-
quillity of our children.
" Given at our Imperial Head-quarters at Ofterode, March 20,
Iso7.—Signed by order of the Emperor, H. B. MARKT."
After the Meffage had been read, M. Regnault
St. Jean d'Angely akended the tribune, in order to
explain the motives of the Senatus Confultum. His
fpeech was little more than an echo to the Emperor's
Me Mtge.
Tha. examination of the projeft of the Senattis
Confultum, communicated to them in this Sitting,
was transferred to a committee of five Members, viz.
M. M. Lacepede, Colaud, Valance, Lemerier, and
Denim nier.
This day at two o'clock the Prince Arch-Chancel-
lor repaired again to the Senate, and after the ora-
tots of the Council of State were introduced, the
above-mentioned ordered their report to be made as
follows, by the Senator M. Lacepede:—
~ Gentlemen Senators—You hive put his Majelty's Meffage
into the hands of your Special Committee,dated Ofterode, March
so, and communicated to you by the Arch Chancellor of the Elsa •

pire.
0 You have likewifo b-fore y,ur Committee the projedt of
the Senatus Confultum added to hi. Majefty's Meffage, together
with other documents thereunto belonging.
" The motives of his Majetty's Mclfage are explained in the
Addrefs of his Excellency the Arch Chancellor, in the Report of,
the Minifter of War, and in the Addrefs of the Counfellors of
State, the Orators of the Government Thee documents have
been inveftigated and difeuffed in various Sittings, with all the at-
tention due to the importance of your determination.
" That mthing fhould be left to chance, when the greateft in-
terefts of the country arc concerned, the period which will neceffs.
rily call the Confcripts of 1808 to join their Itandards, will fcarcely
run to fix months. However, thefe young Soldiers arc not to pal
beyond the limits of the Empire; but they are to be gradually in-
troduced into their new appointment, and to be made acquainted
with the military (deuce in the Weft and molt agreeable
manner. They are to he configped to the inftradlion of the
molt celebrated Warriors, ehofen by the Senate out of its own
body. Thus they will maintain the tranquillity of the French
provinces, and defend its coals and frontiers againft all attacks
of the enemy. They will cover France with formidable camps,
and leffen the call for fathers of families. whore generous difpofi-
tions may have led them to range themfelves under the banners of
the National Guards. They will replace a number of old foldien
in the difr..rent departments, who may again long to place them.
(elves uadcr the command of their Emperor. They will contd•
bluster the formation of a military forte, which, at preheat, MAP
ding almoft over the whole furfaet of Europe, promifes the trine
decifive advantages. And tatty, by counedling the beft military
means, they will conquer that peace, which is QM offered to our
enemies ; which is even, this moment, offered• by a Conqueror,
whore aft onilhing vidtories hive not in the leart diminißied his mo-
deration. This is his object. and fuels will be the effedts of the
Senatus Confultum fubtnitted to your deliberations. Your Cons.
mime having übfereed with pleafure, from the papers laid before
them, that the levy of eighty thoufand new conferipts will not re-
quire any Ire& fecrifices, their dccifion was unanimous. Senators,
they have charged me to tranfmit to you their acceptance of the
Senatus Confultum, which bad been previouily fubmitted to your
confi.:crailt n.
" They have alto to lay before you a (ketch of an Addrois to his
Majefly the Emperor and King, togetbcr with a Decree he tab,
the conscripts, in sincerer to his Majefty's ?damp of the sods of
March, 'Soy, as a teeth proof of the love, fidelity, and the dcvo
tint, of all the French to Isis bilajefty'a perfon."
In eonfequence of thie report, the Senate, in the fame Sitting,
adopted the project of the Senatus Confultum, together with the
Addrefs prafented by the Committee.
'Flys Semen' Confultum, and this Addrefs, are not to De
lilted till they have been approved of by the Emperor.
CONSTANTINOPLE, FEBRUARY ss.
Five days ago the Englifh paired the Dardanelles,
and are now at anchor near this city. Their magi.
time force Cunii ft a of two 3.deckers, four other naps
of the Use, and four frigates. The Captain Puha,
who was himfelf at the Dardanelles, mod who arrived
herebefore the En4lifh to annoying this unfortunate
event, has been &fruited fruits his ace, and it is
thought ha will lore his head. According to appear-
ance. there will foun be a declare battle between the
two femadrotts. That of the Turks is much .perior
to the Englifh, unlefs the latter be reinforced.
Waco 4.—Admiral Duckworth having paired
nice days before the capital of Turkey, and the Re-
-

gociation between the Ambaradot M. Arbuthnot
and the Minifters of the Porte being broken off, the
Englifh fleet unexpeCtedly fet fail in the morning of
the int. and under favour of a thong Northerly
wind, (leered towards the Upper Dardanclles, for the
Black Sea. However, this fleet again altering its
courfe, fuddenly tacked, and after this mancenvre,
traverfed the fea of Marmora, and (leered towards
Buda, upon the Afiatic coati oppofite to Conftanti-
nople. It then came to anchor near the ifland Kalo-
lenni, and took in provifions and frefh water. The
Turkith fquadron, which has returned from the 80l
phorus, has formed a '
unction with the reliefs lately
fitted out, that lay off the arfenal and Tophana.—
Thefe (hips, farming together about fifteen or twenty
fail, under the Captain Pacha, or the Turkilh Grand
Admiral, are gone in quell of the Englifh fqnadron.
The crews of the Thai& vefels are moftly compofed
of Janilfaries. It is generally expected that we (hall
very loon hear of a naval engagement.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, APRIL t 7.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
OW°ls, for money, 64-4—May 62if —Osmium 4 4 pt.
Eichorn Bills, par. 3s. pre.

liamburgh Papers to the 4th, Park to the r stho
and Dutch to the t4th halt. arrivedjlatt night and this
morning two Gottenburgh Mails. By thefe we have
•arious intm(ling artialcs of intclligenCe with which
the preceding columns are occupied. _ _

They bring two French Bulletins, the 67th and
68th, dated at Ofterode, 25th and agth ult. It ap
pears by the 67th Bulletin, that no general engage.
ment h.td then taken place. Itimentions the coot-
plete inveftment of Dantzic on the aoth, and the de-
feat of a Pruffian outpoll, which had been in •ain
attempted to be recovered again. The Pruffians
are Rated to have 101 l feveral hundred prifoners and
fame artillery; but it is plain the enemy has gained
no folid advantage or a boaß would not be made of
the French army being defended by formidable
works thrown up fur the purpofe.
We yefterday Rated the important igt, that the
Emperor ALEXANDER, fo far from feeking a degrad-
ing peace, had caufed it to be notified to NAPOLEON,
that he world Wien to no propofals for fufpendirg
hoftilities, till the French armies had evacuated Ger-
many. The meliage of NAPOLEON to the Senate
thews, that it was on no trifling grounds that he was
induced to feek a pacification, " retlore tranquillity
to eight millions, and replace the King of Pruffia
in his capital." Before the fill three months of
18°7 are expired, he finds himfelf under the ne-
ceffity of calling out the confcription for the year
rBoB. The oftenfible motives for this tyrannical
and vexatious proceeding are developed in hit Mel-
fage, in the Addrefs of the Arch. Chancellor, and in
the Report of BEETKIII, the Miniller at War. The
real caufes are to he fought in the lofres of the
French army, the enerekting danger to which it is
expofed, and the de ermination, perhaps of BONA•
PARTE, to contend for the Sovereignty of the Conti-
nent on the Banks of the Viftu!a. It is evident, that
he is apprehenfive of Come unpleafant confequences
from the rigorous execution of this odious meafure.
I Hence the extraordinary indulgence with which the
youthful vitlims of his wild and infatiable ambition
are to be treated at the outfet. Inftead of immediate
exp )fure to toilfone and tedious thatches, like the
facrifices of the prefent year, they are to be fubjetted
to no greater hardetips than that of learning the ne•
ceffary difcipline in their own fields and habitations.
It is by fuch deceptions and fophiary that a veil is
endeavoured to be call over the tyrannical charac.
ter of a proceeding which, we make no doubt, has
created univerfal conflernation throughout France.
—Among other reafons for having recourfe to the
confcription, we find an extraordinary levy of two
hundred thonfand men in this country mentioned,
alluding, we fuppofe, to the perfons who are to be
called out and difciplined under the Training AEI.
We fcarcely expelled, after expreffing fuch perfett
contempt for the volunteer army of this country,
Bosaraara would become alarmed by our partial
levy ea mei.
The French papers contain various letters refpeit
ing the pang of the Dardanelles, and holding out
a vain Wee that the Turks, who are reprefented as
much Copeckr to the Engliffi, will Coon bring on a
decifive battle between the two fquadrons. They
Rate that the Turks neither could nor would fubmit
to U' Wilts that had been offered.
The following is the lateft intelligence from the
Lower Elbe :

" FROM THE LOWER ELBE, APRIL 7

so We have received intelligence from Koningiberg
of the afith ult. A derperate affair has occurred be-
tween the PrufGans and the French, in the environs
of Guttaadt. The PrufGans forced their way into
that town twice, but were repulEed each time.
id There has been a report within there few days,
that the French had entered Daotzic ; but it wants
I confirmation."

The Duke of Montrofe packet, with Mails from
New York, is arrived at Falmouth. The letters will
be delivered tomorrow.
A Mail al lived day from Malta. Onr letters
from Gibraltar, by this conveyance, Rate, that the
Caarry fchooner, the capture of which we have al.
ready announced, had the misfortune to be attacked
by three Spanifh privateers at once, who inflantly
carried her by boarding. The attack was fo fudden,
that the slifpatches with which the was charged fell
taro the heads of the enemy. She loft 3 killed, and
14 wounded—aid among the latter, the Commander.