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FRENCH E MPIRE.
PARIS, May 10.

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the purpose of presenting the Organic Sc
natus Consultusn to the Emperor; the re-
s:tinue was accompanied by several bodies OF
troops. The Senate was immediately on
It's arrival admitted to az audience Of the
Emperor. Consul Cambaceres, President
of the Senate, spoke in these terms:
SIRE, The Decree which the Senate
has Just rendered, and which il hastens 70
present to your Imperial Majesty, is but
the authentic expression Of will already
manifested by the nation. his deorce,
which conferred upon you new title, and
which ensures the inheritance OF it, AFTER
lyou, to your race, ADDS nothing to your
glory, nor to your rights.
"The love and acknowledgement Of the
French people have, for four years past,
con6ded 90 your Majesty, the reigns otthe
government and the constitutions of the
State already trusted to you for tie choice
of a successor: The still higher deaomi-
nation which is decreed for you, is, there-
fore, nothing more than tribute which the
nation pays TO her own dignity and to the
desire she feels of giving you every day the
testimonies of arespect and an attachment
which increase daily
All! how could the French people find
bounds to their acknowledgements, when
you do not put any toyour cares anti soli-
citudes for them How could they, pre-
serving the remembrance of the hardships
they have undergone when abandoned to
themselves, think without enthusiasm of
the happiness they experience since they
were inspired by Providence to throw
themselves into your arms? The armies
were defeated: the finances in disorder;
public credit annihilated; factions disput-
ing among themselves the remains of our
ancient splendor; ideas ofreligion and love
of morals had become obscure the habit
of giving and taking back power, would
leave the magistrate without importance,
and had ever rendered odious every kind
of authority.
i" Your Majesty has appeared. You
have recalled victory to our standards; you
have established regulation and economy
in the expenditure; the nation encouraged
by the use you have made of it, has recov-
cred confidence in its owuresources; your
wisdom has Gained the 'age Of party re-
ligion has scents altarsraised ANEW; ideas
Of Justice and injustice have awakened in
the minds OF the citizens, when they have
beheld the punishment follow the crime,
and honorable distinctions reward and g.
nalize virtues. In short, and thisis doubt
less the greatest of miracles wrought by
your genius, that people whom civil efcr-
vescence had rendered refractory TO ali re-.
straint, and at enmity with all authority,
you have known how to make them tie
rish and respect power which existed on
ly for their glory and their repose.
/" The French people pretend not to sit
IN Judgment on the constitutions of other
states, they have no criticism to make, no
examples to lmltate their lesson hencefor-
ward is derived from experience. They
have for ages relished the advantages at
cached to hereditary power; they have
made a short, but painful experiment, of a
contrary system: they return, by free s,
mature delbcration, to path conformable
to their genius.
They make free use of their rights, TO
delegate to Your Imperial Majesty a pow
er OF which theirown interests forbid them
the exercise. They covenant for genera
tons to come; aud, by a solemn conpact,s
they coA6de the happiness Of their ne
phews to the branches Of your race.
The latter viii initiate your virtues: the.
former will inherit our love and our 6de-
lily
!" Happy the nation, which alter 50 ma.
ny troubles and incertitudts, 6nds in IFS
bosona man worthy to appease the tempest
of the passions,,to conciliate ali interests,
and 10 unite all voices!