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VIM!. 7E3tVUT ES.
Ts' ?SITUATION OF TISE EIHFIEr,
SERUM TO THE tEOISLATIVE BODY, IN THE SITTING
.O 1 !ME ..23.111 OS 4IJIMLUARX, Hid EXCELLENCY
COUNT DE mos:TALlyitt, siiiiisirsa OF THE INTERIOR.
Gentlemen—His Majesty has ordered me to in-
form you of the situation of the Empire in the years
1811 and 1812. You will see with• satisfaction, that
notwithstanding the great armies, which the state of
the marierme and continental war obliges us tolteep
on foot, the population continues to increase'} that
our industry has made new progress ; that the lands
hove never been better cultivated, nor the manufac-
tories more flourishing ; that never, at any epoch of
our history, have riches been more spread among the
different classes of society.
The simple _cultivator at this time knows enjoy-
ments to which he was formgly a stranger; he Nr-
chases at a higher price such lands as suit him best ;
his clothing is better, his food is more abundant, and
more substantial ; he rebuilds his houses, and makes
them more commodious and substantial,
New inventions in agriculture, in industry, and in
the useful arts, are not rejected, merely because of
their being new. Every where trials are
.crtind
such as experience proves to be preferable
are se-
fully substituted for the old routines. The artificial
sheep-walks are multiplied, the system of fallowing
is discontinued, inclosures lcss extensive, and new
cultivations augment the produce of our lands ; the
cattle multiply, and their breed is ameliorated; the
lowest farmers have acquired the means of obtain.
ing, at high prices, the rams of the Spanish breed,
and the stallions of our best kinds of horses. Become
enlightened to their true interests, they do not hesi-
tate making these useful purchases ;—thus the wants
of our manufactures, our agriculture, and our armies,
become every day more assured of relief.

This degree of prosperity is owing to the liberal
laws by which this great empire is governed ; to the
suppression of the Feudal System, the tithes, the
Main-morter, the Monastic Orders ; a suppression
which has constituted or rendered free, that great
number of private estates, now become the free pa-
trimony of a multitude of families hitherto of the
lowest class : it is owing to the equality of partitions,
to the clearness and simplicity of the laws on pro-
perty, and on securities ; to the promptitude with
which law-suits, which are every day decreasing; arc
decided ; it is to these same causes, and to the in-
fluence of vaccination, that the increase of the popu-
lation should be attributed. And why should we not
acknowledge to ourselves, that even the conscription
itself, which every year causes the choice of our youth
to range themselves under its banners, has contri-
buted to this encrease, by multiplying the number of
marriages, in favouring them, by for ever fixing the
fate of young Frenchmen, who have once obeyed
the law.

[Here follows a long detailed account of the state
of population, agriculture, manufactures, commerce,
public works, interior administration and marine, oc-
cupying nearly the whole of the Moniker, and two
supplementary sheets, of which a brief abstract will
be given hereafter.]
To which the President of the Legislative Body
replied as follows ;
GENTLEMEN—The Expose of the situation of the
Empire, which we never heat without treat interest,
connot find more enlightened judges, not receive more
sincere applauses, than in the bosom of the -,egisla-
tive corps. Who among us is ignorant of the pro-
gress of this interior circulation, which enlivens every
kind of industry, and has caused its effects to reach
even that laborious class which had for so long a titre
been ignorant of its enjoyments ? It is by the remem-
brance of those days, not far removed from us, and
not by the regret of those who cannot hope for them
again, that we love to judge of the works of Govern-
ment, and of their success. France, always tributary
to Foreigners for the greater part of its wants, with-
out circulation among the interior towns, without
certain employment to the inhabitants of the country,
and without giving them proportionate wages, saw
her commerce and her for tme concentered in a few
maritime cities, whose splendour we for the moment
regret, but the influence of which was but little felt
in the distant provinces.
At present a more skilful agriculture yields a more
considerable produce; great manufactures bring into
every district foreign arts ; more abundant and bet-
ter-paid labour makes the people forget their priva-
tions. But nevertheless, far from us be the idea of
any injustice towards those anterior times; much
was then done, but we have surpassed the hopes of
our forefathers, and farlfrom misconceiving these
benefits, we love to place the glory of them to their
author, How can we forbear admiring these gene-
rous efforts which no interests could relax ? In this
very year, when unexpected losses appear to leave
no other care than that of repairing them, immense
sums are consecrated equally to interior industry, to
retaining what has already been atchieved, and to
the execution of what is not yet performed,
May our enemies at length acknowledge the infinite
resources of this Empire, and judge of her greatness
by this noble emulation of generosity between the
Sovereign and the people, and thence foresee its de-
stiny, which is in the hands of a genius equally ca-
pable of inspiring his enemies with terror, and his
people with confidence.--Moniteur, Feb. 27.

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REPORT, acc. TO lIISROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE

REGENT.

The following Members of his Majesty's Most Ho-
nourable Privy Council, viz.
His Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY,
The Right Hon. the LORD Hrort CHANCELLOP,
His Grace the Archbishop of Yourt,
His Grace the Losw PRIMATE of IRELAND,
The LORD PRESIDENT of the Cot;4ottst
The LORD PRIVY SEAL,
The Earl of BUCKINGIMUSIBRI4
The Earl BATHURST,
The Earl of LIVERMOL,
The Earl of MULGRAVE,
The Viscount MELVILLE,
The Viscount SIDNOUTH,
The Right Hon. the Loan Bisswp of LoNow,
The Right Hon. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, Loup
CHIEF JUSTICE of the Court of Ic.'s Bench,
The Rt. Hon. the SPEAKER of the H. of Commons,
The Rt. Hon? the CHANCELLOR of the ExcireouEn,
• The Right Hon, the CHANCELLOR of the DUCHY,
His Honour the MAsymt of the ROLLS,
The Right Hon. the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the
Court of Common Pleas*,
The Right Hon. the LORD CHIEW BARON of the
Court of Exchequer,
The Right Hon. the JUDGE of the High Court of ,
Admiralty,
The Right Hon, the DEAN of the A norms,
Having been summoned by command of your Royal.
Highness on the 19th February, to meet at the office
of Viscount SIDMOUTII, Secretary of State for the
Home Department, a communication was made by
his Lordship to the Lords then present in the follow-
ing terms;
44 MY Loans—l have it in command from his
Royal Highness the PEtscie REGENT to acquaint
your Lordships, that a copy of a letter from the
Princess of WALES to the PRINCE REGENT, having
appeared in a Public Paper, which letter refers
to the proceedings which took place in an En-
quiry, instituted by command of his MAJESTY,
in the year 1806, contains, 'among other matters,
certain animadversions upon the manner in which the
PRINCE REGENT has exercised his undoubted right of
regulating the conduct and education of his daughter
the Princess CHARLOTTE, and H. It. H. having taken
into consideration the said letter so published, and ad-
verting to the directions heretofore given by his Ma-
jesty, that the documents relating to the said inquiry
should be seated up and deposited in the Office
of his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, in
order that his Majesty's Governmen t should pos-
sess the means of resorting to them, if necessary—His
Royal Highness has been pleased to direct, that the
said Letter of the Princess of WALES, and the whole
of the said Documents, together with the copies of
other Letters and Papers, of which a Schedule is
annexed, should be referred to your Lordships ;
being Members of his Majesty's Most Honourable
Privy Council, for your consideration, and that you
should report to His Royal Highness your opinion—
Whether, under all the circumstances of the case, it
be fit and proper that the intercourse between Cie
Princess of WALES, and her daughter the Princess
CHARLOTTE should continue to be subject to regu-
lations and restrictions I"

Their Lordships adjourned their meeting to Tues.
day, the 23d February, and the intermediate days
having been employed in perusing the documents re-
ferred to them, by command of your Royal High-
ness, they proceeded on that and the following day to
the further consideration of the said documents, arid
have agreed to report to your Royal Highness as
follows :

In obedience to the command of your Royal High- I
ness we have taken into our most Serious considers-
Lion the letter from her Royal Highness the Princess
of WALES to your Royal Highness; which has ap-
peared in the public Papers, and has been referred to
us by your Royal Highness, in which letter the Prin-
cess of WALES, amongst other matters, complains
that the intercourse between her Royal Highness and
her Royal Highness the Princess CHARLOTTE has
been subjected to certain restrictions.
We have also taken into our most serious considera-
tion, together with the other Papers referred to us by
your Royal Highness, the documents relative to the
Enquiry instituted in 1806, by command of his Ma-
jtsty, inn the truth of certain representations respec-
ting the conduct of her Royal Highness the Princess of
WALES, which appear to have been pressed upon the
attention of your Royal Highness, in consequence of
the advice of Lord TituaLow, and upon giound4
of Public Duty, by whom they were tran.ruittkd to
his Majesty's consideration. And your Ro) al High-
ness having been graciously pleased to command us,
to report our opinion to your Royal Highness, %she-
;her, underarm the circumstances of the case, it be fit
and proper, that the intercourse between the Princess
of WALES and her daughter the Princess CHAIrLOTTE
should continue to be subject to regulations ar.d re-
straint ?

We beg leave humbly to report to your Royal
Highness, that after a full examination of all the do.

The Cain JUSTICE of the Court of Common Pleas was
prevented, by indisposition, from atteading during any part of
these Proceedings. '

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