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44 The union of the Valais has been foreseen ever they moved two by two to the Communion, and re-
since the Act of Mediation, and considered as neces- ceived the Sacrament from tern
hand of the Celebrant.
sary to conciliate the interests of Switzerland with After Mass, different prayers were recited, in vo king
the interests of France and Italy. , the illumination of the OLY GHOST, and these were
44 The English bring all the passions into play.— =ended by the Hymn, Veni Creator.—The Cardinal*
One time they suppose France to have all the designs Celebrant prayed successively for the Pope, the Em.
that could alarm other Powers, designs which she peror, and the Council (N. B. It is thus pointed in
have put iii execution if they had entered into the original.)—The Episcopal Secretaries of the
her policy. At another time they make an appeal to Council then approaching the Celebrant, saluted him,
the pride of nations in order to excite their jealousy• and likewise the Fathers, who received from their
They lay hold of all circumstances which arise out of hands the Decrees, which were to be made public in
'the unexpected events of the times in which we live. this Sitting. One
f them (M. the Bishop of Nantes)
It is war over every part of the Continent that can -mounted the pulpit, and proclaimed, in Latin, the
alone ensure their prosperity. I wish for nothing Decree for opening of the Council.—(Here follows
that is not in the treaties I have concluded. I will the translation :
never sacrifice the blood of my people to interests that " Most illustrious and very reverend Seigneur—
are not immediately the interests of my Empire. I Most Reverend Father, may it please you, for the ho-
flatter myself that the peace of the Continent will not nour and glory of the Holy and undivided Trinity,
the FATHER, the SON, and the HOLY GHOST, for the
be disturbed.
44 The King of Spain is come to assist at this last increase of the exaltation of the faith of the Christian
solemnity. 1h we given him all that was necessary Religion, for the peace and union of the Church, to
and proper to unite the interests and hearts of the decree and declare that the National Council has
different people of his provinces. Sjnce 1809, the commtnced." Then the Cardinal, the Celebrant,
greater part set the strong places in Spain have been and President said, " The Decree has pleased the
taken alter memorable sieges. 'rheinsargents have Fathers ; in consequence, we declare that the Maio.
been heat in a great number of pitched battles. Eng- nal Council is formed."
,land has felt that this war was approaching its term- '. The Te Deum was then chaunted ; after which, a
-nation, and that intrigues and gold were no longer new Decree was made public, on the manner of con-
sufficient to nourish it. She found herself, therefore, ducting themselves in the Council—de modo vivendi
obliged to change the natureaef it, and from Art auxi- in Coacifio. The muster-roll of the Fathers' names
liary she is become a principal. All she has of troops were then called over, to which each, in his turn,
of the line have been sent into the Peninsula. Eng-' answered, Adrwm—(Here I eam.) The suffrages
land, Scotland, and lielaad are drained. English j having been collected in the usual form, the President
blood has at length flowed in torrents, in several ac. ! proclaimed a Decree on the Profession of Faith. All
lions glorious to the French armee."'" This conflict I the Members made the Profession individually, and
against Carthage, which seemed as if it would be de- I thus ended the first Sitting.
cided in fields of battle, on the ocean, or beyond the French Funds 79 f. 55 c.
seas, will henceforth he decided in the plains of Spain ! ST. CLOUD, JUNE 77.
When England shall be exhausted—when she shall at 44 Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of ha-
-last have felt the evils which for twenty years she has iT, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Me-
with so much cruelty poured upon the Continent— diator of the Swiss Confederation, &c. &c.
when half her families shall be in mourning—then ss Considering the Message of the 20th April, 1810,
Shall a peal of thunder put an end to the affairs of the and ....
of .
lt. 1 ltn tiais present month, by which the Legis.
Peninsula, the destinies of her armies, and avenge a ive Jodyhas
. presented to us, as candidates for the
Europe and Asia by finishing this second Punic war.
Gentlemen Deputies of Departments to the Legislative presidentship in the present Session, Count Stanislans;
Girardin, Le Sieur Colland de la Salcette, Le Sieur
Body— de la Rochefoucault, Count de Montesquiou, Le Sieur
• " I have ordered my Minister to lay before you the
Baron d
have named Count de Montesquiou, Presi-
e la Gallisonniere,
accounts of 1809 and 1810. It is the object for which u
I have called you together. You will see in them the We
dent of the Legislative Body.
prosperous state of my finances. Though I have
placed within three months 100inillions extraordinary (Signed) 44 NAPOLEON.
at the disposal of my Ministers of War, to defray the " Count Derte.”
expenses of new armaments which then appeared ne- The knowledge of the choice made by his Majesty
excited the most lively applauses.
cessary, I find myself in the fortunate situation of not
having any new taxes to impose upon my people. I The President then spoke as fellows :—" Gentle-
men, your votes, and the goodness of his Majesty,
shall not increase any tax ; I have no want of any
augmentation in the imposts." again call me to the honour of presiding over this
august Assembly. May I flatter myself that your
The sitting being terminated, his Majesty rose, and
retired amidst acclamations. goodness will follow me in this new career ? Loatted,
for a length of time, with proofs of your goodness, I
His Majesty returned to the palace of the Thuille.
can only talk to you of my gratitude ; but I dare ask
tie; with his retinue, by the same route by which he
my new colleagues to suffer themselves to anticipate
had repaired to the Legislative Body similar sentiments, to view in the honours of this Pre-
i•
The salutes of artillery were repeated on the de-
sidentship, but zeal for their interest, a desire to oh.
pasture of his Majesty from the palace of the Legisle:
min their confidence, a hope of more intimate rela-
tive Body, and on.his arrival at the palace of the
Thuilleries. lions, and of claims to their friendship."
Fresh. applauses followed the President's yeah.
The garden of the Thuilleries afforded this evening
and the Assembly ordered it to be printed.
an enchanthig promenade. The palace wef magnifia
cently illuminated, as were also the alley's, parterres, PAWS, JUNE IP.
and fountains of the garden with the greatestelegance. His Majesty the King of Spain has set out on his
An inunerse crowd pressed around the central pavil- j return to his dominions.
lion of the palace, to salute with acclamations their INTELLIGENCE FROM THE ARMIES IN SPAIN.
Imperial Majesties, whom they expected to make SIEGE OF TARRAGONA.
their appearance in the balcony. i 46 Gm. Suchet, Commander-in-Chief of the army of
:At nine o'clock they appeared, accompanied by the Arragon, marched, the latterend of April, upon Tar.
personages of their Court ; their presence excited revile. On the 3d of May, the enemy was compelled
transports of the mo..t lively ent:aisiasm—cries of to re-enter that fortress. On the 4th, the investment
" Long live the Emperor, the Empress, and the King was complete to the sea. General Salme, with the
of Rome," were repeated from mouth to mouth. - 7th and 16th Regiments of the line, most gallantly
A numerous orchestra perfumed the overture of obtained possession of two entrenchments. defended ,
the Cleaence dense, the Scytlaan march in Semiramis, with great obstinacy by the enemy, before Fort Oliva.
and a number of other pieces, which were terminated The Italian Regiment carried, at the same time, the
by the famous vivat, with which were mixed the cries entrenched post of Loretta, and an inclosed redoubt.
and applauses of the multitudes which filled the near the road from Barcelona. The General in Chief
garden. has cut off the aqueduct which furnished the town
PARIS, JUNE 17. with water. We reconnoitred the place and fort Oliva.
FRENCH NATIONAL COUNCIL. This important work, constructed upon a rock 400'
The first sitting of the Nationartouncil was this tosses distant from the place, is the result of painful
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day celebrated according to the ancient forms pre. oils ; the Spaniards laboured three years, and ex-
pended more than 7,000,000 upon it. It presents 60
scribed by the usages and canons of the church. The
Catholic religion possesses no ceremony more affect. embrasures, and an extent of 800 toises.
Ong, or more august. At seven in the morning the "On the sth, the enemy attempted four successive
doors of the Metropolitan Church of Paris were thrown sorties ; Saline's brigade drove them back.
open to the public—the body of the Church and the "On the 6th, 1500 miquelets and 500 light troops
ailes were in a moment filledjwith those who assisted I which set out from Manresa attacked the -post of
at the ceremony, among whom we noticed a number Monblanch, upon the road of Lerida ; the Comman.
of French and foreign Ministers, and. a great many dant
of the line, received them wit such vi Igoer that
of the Council passed out from the Archbishop's Pa- they speedily regained their mountains. The enemy
lace, and moved en in procession to Notre-Dame. ' has v,ttempted fresh sorties, and been repulsed into his
The procession marched in the following order: First, entrenchments with very great loss.
the Swiss Guards, and the officers of the Church ; "On the Bth, General Rigniat marked out a grand
the Cross ; the Masters of the Ceremonies ; the In- redoubt upon the banks of the sea the work during
cense-bears ; the Choristers ; the Ecclesiastics of the
night was tranquil : at day-
re light an English
the second rank ; the Officers of the Council ; the a cut-down vessel, several corvettes, and an immen.
of armed vessels, came down to disturb our
Metropolitan Chapter, which was to receive the Coon- sity
workmen, by more than 1500 shot, which did no da-
cil at the principal entrance of the church ; the Fes.'
thers of the Council, all in their capes and mitres, mage ; the workmen were covered during the day.
with the semi*, the cross, the gremial, and the mitre ' "On the 10th, Campo Verde re-entered the port of j
of the Bishop who was to celebrate the High Mass, Tarragona, escorted by an English vessel, with the
cart ied by Canons • four Deacons and four Sub-Dea- wreck of his army, defeated under Figueras.
cons in their surylices ; two assistant Bishops ; the 44 In the night between the 13th and 14th, the Ge-
Celebi ant,inliis pontifical garb. His Eminence Car- neral in Chief' caused two of the enemy's entrench.
dinal Fesch, Archbahop of Lyons, Primate of the ments, situated 150 toises in advance of Port Oliva,
Galilean Church, is the President of the Council. to be carried by 800 chosen men. These brave fel-i
The Fathers were ranged in the choir ou the seats lows threw themselves into the entrenchments without
which had been provided for them, having hassocks firing a single shot : the enemy had more than fifty
before them, anctsome small benches for the assistant men.
Priests. The Metropolitan Clergy kid Rectors of "At break of day three columns from Oliva at-
Paris Occupied one side of the Sanctuary. iefzer the tempted to retake these works : they were driven back
Gospel-Lesson, the offic; itieg Sub-Deacon carried upon the fort and almost entirely destroyed.
this time, fired more
the book opened to the Celebrant, and to the Fathers, " The English fleet, during
for them to kiss. This ceremony finished, M. de than 3000 shot upon our works, but without success:
Boulogne, Bishop of Troyes, ascended the pulpit. " The garrison of Tarragona made a sortie with
His discourse produced the most lit ely impression, 6000 men, upon two battalions of the 16th tegiment.
Many passages, above ill his peroration, Ippeared established 90 wises distance from Francoli. The
Models of the most sublime eloquence- The Orator battle was very lively and obstinate; the chosen com-
had chosen for his them`, the influence of the Catho panics of the sth light infantry having arrived, Me
enemy was charged with impetuosity, and put in cons-
liC Religion on social order: He evinced that the
Catholic Religion is the strongest cement'of States, plete mine; our people pursued them to the very
by the hike o
mits tenets, by the .nature of its worship, glacis of the fortress, which, as well as the fleet, epee.,
and by the inistri of ita rastors. The Cardinal, ed a matt dreadful fire; the Spaniards left upon thee
who *as the Celebrant, now proceeded to the High field of battle 300 killed; they bad upwards of 600
Mass. At the second elevatiorl, all chi Bishops gave wounded.—Ott out side,* we had 100 Mat killed or
wounded.
each other mutually the kiss Of peace. After this,

" On the 20th at night, a fresh *retie from Fort
Oliva endeavoured to destroy our approaches ; 80C1
Spaniards, with four pieces of artillery, at the same
time, attacked the redoubt to the left of Loretta,
defended by two Italian companies. The enemy
was every where overthrown ; we took an howitzer
from him.
" On the 21st, Sarsfield, at the head of all the M.
quelets which he was able to unite from the different
points of Catalonia, came to disturb oar communica-
tion with Alcover. General Boussart, with a bat-
talion and 250 horse, marched against him and drove
him from all his positions, killing 100 men.
44 On the 23d, the post of Monblanch was again
attacked by the whole of the Miquelets and Soma-
tenes united : the brave Commandant Anne. receivi.
ed them with his accustomed bravery.
44 On the 25th, General Frere, with 30 battalions
and 400 horse, totally dispersed these bands. During
this time, our attacking works were briskly advanced,
notwithstanding the fire of the enemy. Two new
batteries from the sea coast were, on the 22d, moun-
ted, and obliged the English to keep beyond the range
of their fire. The batteries are connected with the
bridge of Francoli, by a communication ef six hun-
dred toises. We have begun before Fort Oliva, upon
the rock, a parallel fifty toises from the entrench-
ments taken from the enemy. It is requisite to use
gallions, and ring the earth half a league.
" On the 23d we opened a/battery en breelts, at 60
toises distance from the fort.
44 On the 24th, 25th, and 26th, for the siege. On
the right, the declivities of the Francon have been
surrounded, and we established a wooden bridge upon
the river.
44 On the 27th, in order .to attack on the left the
battery en breelie before Fort Oliva —as armed •eith
four 24 pounders, and received the name of the hat.
tery of the King of Rome; three other batteries were
at the saitie time mounted. The hardness of the
ground presented the greatest obstacles ; 200 soldiers,
impatient to see our cannon answer that of the ene-
my, fastened themselves to the g•ins, and dragged
them to the batteries, under the fire of the enemy,
who made at the same instant a sortie, to (name the ,
arming of these batteries,
" General Salme, at the head of the 7th Regi.
trent of the line, marched rapidly upon the Spaniards,
but at the very moment in which he was encouragiug
1-is troops, exclaiming, 44 Brave 7d forward," he was
killed by a ball. The enemy paid dear for this mis-
fortune. Our brave troops threw themselves upon
them, and caused 4 dreadful carnage, even under the
walls of the fortress.
44 On the 28th the batteries were unmasked, ard,
in spite of the brisk fire of Oliva, and that of the for-
tress our superiority was quickly decided. In the
evening the 4re of Oliva was hardly silenced."
exPORT gm* COUNT SeCElET,commatiltaft-IN-Clitlir OF
ARMOW ARKAGON, TO HIS SERENE IiKiHNESS
PEINFE NEUFCHATEL, MAJOR-GENERAL.
Motismosearst—selrour Highness will have seen in
my report, ;het- previous to the conclusion of 2Sth
day at Ills!, the battery en breche, called after the
King of Rome, seconded by three other batteries, had
succeeded in silencing the fire of Fort Oliva. The
cavalier, the parapets, the batteries of the angle,
which is that part of the work least franked, were de-
stroyed. Notwithstanding this advantage, obtained
in so short a time, I determined not immediately to
order an assault ; I changed the direction of many
guns to silence some cannon which remained to the
enemy in that part of the work to our right. The
Chief of the squadron of Artillery, Duchamp, dis-
played his ardour and bravery in it.
44 On the 29th, at eight at night, the firing of four
cannon; loaded with grapesshot, gave the signal for
I the assault. I appointed General Facater to (im-
' nand it. The first column of attack, under the or.
ders of the chief of battalion, Revel, of the 16th regi-
ment of the line, compoied of 300 men, preceded by
the Captain of Engineers, and 20 sappers, furnished
with ladders and hatchets, advanced to turn the work,
and seize upon the gate, which they had much dim-
; coin- in forcing with axes, &c. nl4 a parry of the
columns applied their ladders, and staled the works.
Captain Papigny received a mortel wound, whilst
I directing his miners.
144 The 2d column of attack', composed of SOO
chosen troops from the 7th Regiment of the line, di-
rected by the Chief of Battalion Miocque, and Cap-
tain Dessaix, my Aid-de-Camp, set our from the bat-
tery en breehe, and threw themselves upon the part of
the fort which had been battered en breclu. An hue.
dyed ladders were thrown into the fosse—our Volti-
&curs precipitated themselves into them, under the
tire of the enemy. The fosse was 20 feet—our lad•
ders but 15. ' •
14 The serjeant of miners, Meunen, having placed
-himself at the top of a ladder, made the Vologeies
climb over his shoulders to reach the breach ; his ex-
ample was followed ; but the soldiers d
ietarrive o
slowly to please their impatience ; they at last -
vexed in'the interior of the fosse, part of an aqueduct
which facilitated the passage ; a triple row of
sades defended it. The Italitia Captain of Engineers,
Vacane, ordered themto be cot, and afterw.rds the
ladders to be carried from the first fosse into that of
the redoubt, which was quickly scaled, as well as the
I cavalier. The Italian Miners shewed on this occs-
sion the greatest under.sanding united with bravery
the greater resistance the enemy made the snore wsre
t-the efforts of our brave troops redoubled, amidst cries
of 'Pro( Napoleon.'
44 In the mean time, the seem y cootinoed to fire
some cannons loaded with grapi -sheet at the titre.
mity cf the fort. The hr- e icsitirivas wounded
in the thigh ; the Adjutant-G..
Mescelolti hastened with th.! simillNeserve of 50('
Italians, and restored the battle ; he petletrateJ
into the redoubt, saved the' lives a: eight officer,
and 100 Spanish soldiers in it, and thus insur:d the
conquest of the tort. The eberny in vain
von red to save themselves in the extremity of the
garbs behind a third fosse ; 200 artillerymen *ere
there killed upon their guns; theeemainder of the gar-
rison surrendered at discretion. There were still 9oJ
soldiers and 70 officers ; the rest, to the number ia
1500, perished by the bayonet. The whole army de.
played the greatest valour.
[Here follow the eulogiums of particular officers'
and a statement of the stores taken in the place.
among which are rations of hisceit, 10,M
elf weight powder, and 47 pieces of artillei!
" Our loss is the 24 hours did not exceed 250111,:r.