Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-03-12


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LEGISLATIVE BODY.
Presidency Of the Count Of the Empire
-. Fontanes.
Sequel Of the Sitting Of the llM efDee.
The following is the statement of the situa.
ton OF the empire, at the list Of Dece m.
Der, 1909, such as it was read in the LIE.
gislative Body by his excellency the Mi
mister of the Interior.
Count Aantalipet.. -Gentfemen, every
time that the situation OF the empire has
been laid before you, the French nation
had numbered fresh triumphs.
Shining victerAs, generous peaces, the
results OF the most profound political COM
binations, great works undertaken, the in
tcrnal order maintained, such is the picture
which all my predecessors have had to
draw; it is again what forms the history OF
the year which has just elapsed.
The return Of this enumeration of pros
,perity, acquire every day more glorious
character; the memorable facts ola yearmay
belong 70 fortune, 10 what is called hazard,
tn force or constancy, the weakness or YER.
sa;ilty OF which are hitherto unknown but
those which are every day renewed the
same. are necessarily the work OF o genius
and Of a hand, equally powerful. The for.
mer may transitOrily belong to all times,
the latter fix those eras which divide the
course Of centuries, and which subordinate
a long series of years to every epoch which
changes the face Of the world.
In the course of your last session, you
co-operated in giving new criminal Code
10 Francs, by adopting the project prepared
in the council Of state, and before the eyes
Of his majesty himself, the necessary source
Of all laws and at that very time the en-
perar, as had announced to you, was replac-
ing his august brother upon the throne of
Madrid; he was forcing the English to fly
to their ships and ceased to pursue them on
ly in order 70 approach the centre of his
states, for the purpose Of being better able
60 study and stop the projects of Austria.
Public FORKS.
The stay which his majesty then made
at Paris was marked by the care which he
took to regulate all the parts of the vast ad.
minissration of his empire. His orders
gave fresh activity TO the immense works
which at no period of peace were undertak-
en- in such great numbers, or carried on with
so much ardor. Prisoners ofwar, Of differ
ent nations, sent BY victory, have finished
the canal of St. Quentin. Two leagues of
an awful subterranean cut open the commu-
nication between the great rivers and the
seas of the centre and the south.
Seven thousand laborers have neverceas-
ed working at the canal of the north, and
nearly eight leagues of this new way, o.
pened to tine Rhine and the Mouse, in or
der to bring their united waters to An
twerp, without ever quitting the territory
Of present France, are executed. This
canal SO important for trade, will not be a |
less benefit to agriculture. Heaths equal !!
in extent to several departments. will be
peopled and frrtiiized va peaceable con-
quest of industry, they will soon augment |
both our riches and our prosperity.
Two millions have been usefully expend.
I'd in 1909 in the canal of Napoleon, which |
will unite the Rhone to the Rhine Mar.
settles, Cologne aud Antwerp, will appear
to be watered by the same rivers.
This canal will communicate with the
Seine by thu. of Burgundy, the works of
which, abandoned by the former govern
mens, have just received the greatest i'm
pulsion it is already navigable from Dole
to Dion the works arc DOW sarryiag, On !