The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-12-27 00:00:00

1111 STAVISMAN..

taehment and the affection of my well-beide/0d Con,
sort. She has *thorned Li ?ears of my life, the
remembrance of which will ewer remain angreren
cm my heart. She was crowned by my hand. I
wish she should ',reserve the rank and title of
rap, hut, above all, that she should never doubt
thy seeptiments, and that sho shun id ever regard me
as her best and dtitrest friend.'

t 4 ilis Majesty the Emperor and King having
ended, her Majesty the Eatpras and Queen spoke
as follows

" By the permission of our dear and anggst
" ctlnsurt, I ought to dcclire, that nut pre erv_
ing any hops of having ch:ldrun, which may
P' fulfil the wants of his policy and the interests of
" France, J ass !timed to give hint the greatest
64 proof of attachment and deli-wing whteh has
" ever heca given on earth. I possess all from
44 his hounty; it was his hand which crowned me;
44 and frotn the height of this throne I
have reecir-
" ed nothing but proofs of affection and lore
" from the French People. _ _

" I think I prove myself grateful in consent-
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uis to the dissolution of & marriage which here.
tofore was an obstacle to the welfare of
64 France, which deprived it of the happiness of
" being one day governed by the descendants of
gt a great man, evidently raised up by Providence,
" to efface the arils of a terrible revolution, and
44 to-re-establish theeltar, the throne, and social
" order. But the dissolution of my marriage will
4' in no degree change the sentiments of my heart.
44 The Emperor will ever hove in me his best
Wends I know how much this act, demanded
" by policy and by interests so great, has chilled
" his heart ; but both aims exult in the sacrifice
4' which we make fur the go.d of the country."
" After which their•lnsperial Ma.fratiel having
demanded an act of their respective declarations,
as well as of the mutual consent contained in them,
and which their Majesties gate to dissolution
of their marriage, as also of the power *Well their
Majesties conferred on its to follow up as need
shall require the effect of their will, we Prince
Arch Chancellor lit the Empire, in obedience to
the orders and requisitions of their Majesties, have
given the aforesaid acts, and hive in consequeuce
executud the picseht preces rerbul, to serve and
avail according to law, to which prores verbal
their Majesties have affixed thtir signature ; and
which, after having been sigruil by the Kitit•2
Queens, Minces, and Princesses rrownt, his been
signed by us, and countersigned by the: Sccretary
of the Imperial Family.
" Done at the Palace of the Thuillcries, the
day, hoer, and the year afuresriiil.
(signed)
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" AMIIACE It F.S. Primer. Arch Cian.rllor
COUN f H Y NM; LT (de Rt. Jean d'Angel, ).7

44 Having seen the projitt of the Senatus Con-
sultum, drawn up its the form prescribed by the
57th Article of the Act of the Constitution of the
4th August, 1802 ; after having heard the motives
of the said projet, the Orators of the Council of
State, and the Report of the Special Commission,
appointed in the sitting of this diy ; the adoption
hiving been discussed by the number of members
prescribed by the 58th Article of the Act of the
Constitution of the 4th August, 1802, decrees,

" Art. I. The nsarriage contracted between the Emperor
Napoleon sod the Empress Jesephiue is dissolved.
11. The Empress Josephine shall preserve the title and
rank of Empress Qseen cross med.
" 111. Iler dowry is lied at an annual income of two
of francs, esi the revenges of the State.
" IV. 411 the assignments which may be made by the Ens-
peror in favour of the Empress Josephine on the funds of the
List, shall be obligatory on his sieceftwors.
" V. The pram t Senatus Cumultum shall be transmitted
by a message to his Impede. and Ite3al lifaje.4y."

The two Addresses proposed by the Commission
were afterwards put to the vote, and adopted.

FRENCH EXPO.d.

PARIS, DEC. 13. —ln the sitting of yesterday,
M. Montalvet, the Minister of the Interior, pro.
nonnee.l the following Erposr of the Empire, to
the 1-1 of December, 1809 :

46 Menu:ens— Every tune that the situation of
the Empire has been statett to you, the French
'Winn has reckoned new triumphs.
" Brilliant victories, generous treaties of peace,
the results of the most profound political combine.
lions ; great works uudertaken ; the order of the
interior maintained. Such is the picture that all
my predecessors have had ci trace ; and it is that
which forms the history of the year that has just
elapsed.
" The return of this enumeration of presperi-
ties acqwires every day a more glorious character.
Thipeoessorable &mita one year, say appertabi
to fortune, to what is called chalice, to a will of
which nothing has yet shown the force or
the constancy, the weakness or the versatility ;
but those which return perpetually the same,
are necessarily the work ef a genius, and
an arm equally powerful. The former may
transitorily appertain to any time; the others fix
those eras which divide the course of ages, and
which subject a long series of years to every epoch
which changes the lace of the world.
the course of the last Session, yen hid
concurred to give a new Criminal Code to France,
and adopting the plans prepared by thin Council
..f State, and imnietliately undcr the eyes of his
Majesty, the necessary suurce Of all laws ; and
then the Emperor himself, as lie had announced
to you, had re-placed on the Throne of Madrid
his august Brother ; the forced the English to pre-
cipitate themselees towards their ship., and only
ceased to *IWO them that he might return to the
centre of hltdominiuns to observe and arrest the
projects of Austria. •
Ptltitm; MORKQ.
gg The stay which' hja Majesty then mile at
Paris, was dioinseished by the care which he took
tp rituieto all the Patti at Hsi vast Administration
of his Empire. Ili, gate a new activity to the
iinesense lithium which .ito period of peace ever
saw inidertakin in suds-great so:embers, nor pa:
iownd with so much ardolor.' Prisoners of war,
frolidifferelit 101mo:seal by victory) have linhk.

ell the Mad of St. Quer tin ; two leagues of an im-
posing anbterraseous passage, open a cotemenica.
tion between the rivers and seas of the North of the
empire, Red the risers and seas of the South.
Seven gionailmi workmen have asst. ceased to la.
boor on the caul of the Pilorthf. and uearly eight
leagues of this now way opened to the !thine and
the Meese, to bring their conjtsinod waters to Ant.
weep without goitting for a moment the soil of
France, hen bceu executed. This canal so Am,
portant to commerce will nut be a less benefit to
agriculture. Lands equal in superficies to several
departments will be peopled and fertiliged. The
peaceable conquest of agriculture will soon
summit both our riches and our prosperity. Two
millions have been usefully expended in 111U9, on
the canal of Napoleon, which will unite the
lthotte to the Rhine. Marseilles, Cologn,
and Antwerp, will soon be bathed by the same
I waters : this canal will be made to communicate
Math the Seine by that of Burgundy, the works
of which abandoned by the old Government, have
received anew the greatest impulse; already the
navigation is complete from Dole to Dijon; they
aro at present working between Dijon and the
bridge of Pany, between the Yonne and St. Flo.
rennin ; several important loclts upon the Seine,
the Aube, and the Sumnie, have been finished in
1808. Every where the plans which Wetted to
improve former navigations, to extend them, onto
create new ones, have been undertaken, Or coati.
need with activity. Thu maritime works have
made the greatest progress ; those of Cherbuigh
already present to the astonished eye an immense
port, hollowed out of the rock. its depth has
been this year carried to thirty-three feet
below the level of high water. it is de.
fended by a pier, the execution of which
has been as perfect as the idea has been bold.
Facings of grAttite, give to the port awl its quays,
the most imposing character of grandeur and
duration ; the excavation will descend sixteen feet
lower. so that there will remain in the putt of
Cherhurg twenty.six feet water at low water.
"'rho sluice at Havre is nearly finished; it will
secure, from the twiddle of the next campaign, the
constant entrance of vessels into the channel. At
Dunkirk, an octagon sluice, which will drain va.
liable lands, and secure an easy navigation, has
been fuini-lied this year.
" The basun of Antwerp, is excavated in all
the anterior part, and the sluice of the sea is raised
above its foundation.

"':'he Port of Alto. has been deepened.
‘ The Vol of Marseilles offers a more easy
anchorne than ever.

" The road* of hfount Cenis, of the Simplon,
these which traverse the Alps, the Appenistei, in
every direction, and the Pyrenees, have received a
new degree of advancement; or are completed.
Roads, equally beautiful and e.isy, Lad from
Alexandria to Savona, (ruin the b4nk, of the
'ration) and the Po to thu nearest shores of I:te
Mediu err anean.

" The grand draining. of Bourgain, of Cotentin,
of Rochefort, have stresdy changed sterile marshes
into fertile lands, and their results, drawn upon the
government the blessings of the people, astonished
at nut having suffered slily of the evils, however
transitory, which they had been made to dread.