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&impacted by moderatiint and traced out by HEM,
are the trophies raised to the happiness of her people;
to the tranquillity of Europe.
48: The Emperor proposes peace. ,Vain hope of a
great soul 1 Thrice the cry of alarm was raised on
all sides—thrice one victory led only to others; and
peace, always offered, always demanded, and as it
were pursned, retired before our eagles to the ems-
mities of Europe.
44 In those shocks of which human prudence can-
not moderate, the effects, empires of the, first rinkl
ire overthrown front their foundations ; small States
disappear ; we have seen the gothic supports of the
European edike nimble down of themselves, without.
the possibility of their being rebuilt en the same plan;
and had not the:genitts of orderadvanced with a step
equal to that of.arques, it would no longer bare been
war, but anarchy and death which the 18th century
had bequeathed to,its eutcesecirs.
" Does the conqueror perceive from the height Of
his car, nations united by ancient habit& ; be seeks eat
faithful princes, he creates for them comnsonintemats,
rite entrusts to them the destinies of those regenerated
States of whic.h he has.declared himself the protector.
But where all forms of government have been frill
in vain; where the aggregations are too small, hr
destitute of sufficient prin,ciples of adhesion to form
masses, where localities would infallibly subject men
and things to the direct action of avarice, of the at-
tacks or intrigues of the eternal enemies of France;
there the interests of the empire command the union I
to the victorious nation of those portions of its con,
quests, to prevent their inevitable dissolution. And
in the deliberation iii which you are occupied, "the
question should be put thus Holland and the Hanse
Towns being incapable' of existing by themselves,
ought they to belong to England or France ? We
shall search in vain for a third alternatiye.—That in,
heritance of rivalry, always increasing by the impor-
tance cf the interests, as well as by that of the masses,
our generation, Senators, has succeeded to, withoutl
being able to reject a single portion of ii. It is no
longer two armies who combat on the plains of Fon-
tonoy ; it is the empire of the seas which still resists
'that of the Continent :, a memorable, a terrible strug-
gle, and of which the eitaatrophe, perhaps, not far
distant, will long "betty/ the attention of future
generations.
"Let us listen to the political writers of England ;
their alarms confirm this truth, still less, however.
than the desperate measures of its government : it it
were not led on by the imminence of its danger, would
it have dared, in the presence of civilized Europe, to
tear the compact of honour and of eternal justice
which connected neutral powers with the Belligerents?
One would believe, in reading the acts of the English
Ministry, that the law of nations exists no longer ;
and who, then, has substituted for its immutable prin-
ciples the excesses and the violence of barbarism
England.
" So early as 1756, her first attempts upon the im-
prescriptible rights of nations compelled Sweden and
Denmark to defend them by tl.e dcvelopement of an
ermed neutrality. Some years; later, the 28th Fe-
bruary, 1780, England pushing her endeavours still
farther, Russia saw no safety for the honour of na-
tions and Vhat of Sovereigns but in a public exposition
of the maxims acknowledged by all civilized people ;
she proclaimed the conditions on which her neutrality
was to depend :
" That crust al aliips shoo,: navigate freely, from port to port,
and on the coans of nailous at wac.
• 14 'I hat property belonging ti the subjects of Powers at war,
should be fret on board neutral ships, with the exception of con-
traband.
hat to determine whit characterises a blockaded port, that
designation should only be given to suds into which there was an
evident danger of entering, in consequence of the ships of the at-
tacking Power being stationary and sufficiently near."
" Such were literally the deliberations in which

the Cabinet of St. Petetsburgra laid down the rights
:o( all Sovereigns. England replied by throwing
!off the mask, and signified to the States of Holland,
ithat the flag does not cover thi property. From that
• period she tlibught herself able. without danger
.as withour obstacle, to give full swing to her usurpa.
tinns. It was necessary to wait for a period wheel
powerful reprisals would compel her to returnio
justice. The cley is arrived ; the Decrees of Berlin
and Milan are the reply to her Orders in Council...
The British Cabinet has; so to speak, dictated them.
to France. Europe receives them for her code ; and
that code be the palladium of the seas.
66 Let England abjure her madness ; let her rein-
state neutrals in their rights ; justice has never ceased
to demand this of her. If she .had not rejected the
conasels and ilfers of moderation, what dreadful con-
sequences might she not have avoided ! And to con-
fine ourselves to the subject of our present deli4era-
tion, she would nut have forced France to enrich her.
self by the ports and the arsenals of Holland ; the
Ems, the Weser, and the Elbe, would not have flowed
under our dominion • and we should not have seen
the first country of the Gauls washed by rivers united
-by an internal navigation to seas which were r.nkoown
a, them. Niv here still are the boundaries of possibility i
Let England answer it. Let her meditate on the past.
—let her learn the future. France and Napoleon
will never change. Vow. •Committee unanirontislr
propose that the Senates Constiltuat'be adopted." •

The Conservative Senate, assembled' 'number
of members prescribed by Article XC: oldie Act el.
:he Constitution of 1799, having taken -into its con-
sideration the Message of his Majesty the Emperor
and King, of the 10th of December, and the Report
of their Special Commission thereon, decrees, that the
fnllowing address be presented to his Majesty by the
President and Serrctitrics:
" Bite—The depth and extent ofryour plans, the
candour and generolii.y of your. policy, and your'
constant anxiety 'for as prosperity of your subjects,
mart never been nianit.ested morn strongly than in
ycur Imperial and Royal Majesty's message to the
::..enate. The orders of the Lash Council nave not
only rent in pieces the public I.lw of Europe, but bare'
also violated those natutil laws, vilich are as old and
ass eternal as. the globe. Nature herself has pl.iced-the
seas beyond the dotnioion of man—he may pass over
but he cannot maintain possession of them': and to
.af:et to rule an element which surrounds the hiibita-
ble globe on every side, is nothing lest than a daring
ktettipt to Loll the old and •tho ,new world in cap.
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ticsy, and to& a disgracefal mark of slavay on all
mankind.
66 Such is the sacrilegious attempt against which
your Majesty unites all the efforts of your power.—
Justly indignant Europe applan4s and Keough rat.
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