Star.
London, England, 1811-01-09 00:00:00

ROYAL NI UESTY.

• "„PARIS, DECEMBERS, isio.
SIRE--According to the laws of our military 0r.,"
garrization, the conscription slrbuld be raised on the
Ist of January, 1811. I therefore submit to yOur
Majesty the projet of a Senatus Consultum.
" I have not distinguished the conscription of this
year into active and reserve contingents, because it fff
appeared to. me, that the intention of your Majesty'
was only to make levies progressively, and in the
course of the year.
" In proportion as the new conscripts arrive under
their colours, an equal nuber Of old soldiers'must be
sent back to their homes. A great many have al-
ready re-entered them, and your Majesty will take
into your consideration the circumstances of .the war
in Spain and Portugal, in order •to authorise me to
grant more or less definitive discharges.
" The conscription is the basis of the prosperity of
France ; it,is that which, for so many years, has re-
moved far from our territory the scourges of war.
" When your Majesty shall have concluded a ma-
ritime peace, and shall be able to dis Sand your ar-
mies, it will be equally necessary to raise, every year,
a part of the conscription, for the purpose of main-
taining the forces of your Mojesty on a footing which
is suitable to your empire; bat Ido not reckon that
there will then be any necessity for more than a third
of the conscription which I propose to raise at present,
which will form at the most only 1-9th of the males
liable to be called on as conscripts. It is obvious, then,
how much that contribution will be lightened—the
first in importance of those which the French' owe to
their country. The militia. which appeared a mode-
rated institution, but which was aggravated by a
multitude of exemptions, wbighed heavily on the na-
tion after the wars of Louis XIV. and even the wars
of Flanders and Bohemia.

" The conscription of 1811 will occasion extraor-
dinary expellees for the fast clothing:and equipment,
for the expences of the match, &c. of so considerable
a number of. open. I have brought them to the budget
of the year, and they are compiehended in the general
arrangements which your Majesty leis made for the
finances of that service, without that augmentation of
expence necessary any augmentation of
taxes. My &pal tuient feels the effects of the pros'.
perous state of your MajeNty's finances. Scarcely do
a few contested accounts, and which require exami-
nation, remain to be paid ; no part or the service
languishes, and all my expences, formerly so much
in arrear, are brought'up to the present day.
"I am with reslect, &c. (Signed)
"The Duke of FELTItE, Minister atWar."
The Report beirg read, Count Regnaud de Saint
Jean D'Angely spoke as follows :
" Ses:srons—When his n.jesty summoned finder
his Eagles the conscriptions of 1809 i4d 1810Aefore
the ordinary period, he announced victory arid peace
a; the rewatd of the devotitin of his young soldiers.
"'The Emperor kept his word ; he vanquished and
pacified, without having any need to anticipate again
the period when it is the &sty of Frenchmen subject
. to the conscription to pay the debt to their country.
" Time has brought round the return of the perio-
dic term, when a call must take place. ' I
" 'At the commencement of 1811, the conscripts of I
that year must prepare themselves to enter succer-.4
sively the ranks, in order to replace either those brave
men who have fallen in battle, or the veterans who
repair to the bosom of their tarnilies, carrying with
them their glory, and seeking reuse.
" The number raised on zl.e =mint- conscriptions
has been 120,000 men ; but the call has only. been
made to you succebsivele, and with the distinction
of immediate destination and that of reserve.
Eiten though ti.e whsle of a levy equal tothat
of preceding conscriptions may not "be necessary at
present, yet his Majesty has thought that it was better
to place at the disposal of his War Minister the num-
ber of conscripts employed in preceding years.
" They shall not be forthwith called upon,but sue-
cessively, in virtue of decrees of his Majesty, and as
often•as they shall be wanted.
• No augmentation of revenue will he necessary; and
• the funds assigned by the budget of 1810 for that ser-
vice, or disposable for that of 1811, will stilfice for the
expences of these two years, and for all the branches of
the service.
• " To maintain herself in an honourable attitude,
to shew her if protecting or threatening in the eyes
of her friends or her enemies, France has no need,
Gentlemen, of any new effort, of any extraordinary
sacrifice.
•' For it is not thus that we are ever to designate
the levy of the conscription—a personal tribute, a
pledge of the independence of the sower and of the'
glory of the empire, and which must, in time of peace
a.. in time of • war, be paid every year either in a
greater or a less proportion.
" And the mirth:own of that proportion must always
be given in peace, in a component ratio, first of the
result of, the ordinary mortality, and secondly, of the
number of discharges that are given.
" The number of discharges will, then be that of a
fifth of the army, if it should not happen that a great
number of Frencluttep 0,14 the,*l44rY life! itirslot,
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