D -East Ems Upper Ems 4 Mouth of the Weser 3 4 nation 10 10. As communication shall be forined with the Baltic by a canal, which, extending from the canal of Hamburgh to Lubeck, shall make 4. These deputies shall be ap- a communication between the Elbe pointed in the year 1811, and shall and the Weser, the Weser and the be renewed in the year to which the Ems, and the Ems and the Rhine series belongs, in which the depart. fed et bin ill ment to which they belong shall be placed. w 5.These departments shall be placed in the following series of the legislative body, namely:-First series, Mouths of the Maese and West Eaus; second series, Friesland and the Upper Ems; third series, the Zuyder Zee and East Ems; fourth series, Mouths of the Yssel, and Mouths of the Elbe; fifth series, Upper Yssel, and Mouths of the Weser. 6. For the departments of the Zuyder Zee, Mouths of the Maese, Upper Yssel, Mouths of the Yssel, Friesland, and West Ems, there shall be an imperial court of justice, whose seat shall be at the Hague. 7. For the departments of East Ems, Upper Ems, the Weser, and the Mouths of the Elbe, there shall be an imperial court of justice, whose seat shall be at Hamburgh. 8. In the departments which belong to the jurisdiction of the imperial court of justice of the Hague, there shall be a council of senators; and another shall be erected in the departments which belong to the jurisdiction of the imperial court of justice at Hamburgh. 9. The cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck, are placed among the number of good cities; their mayors alautres babli tom Report concerning the Marriage of Buonaparte y an In the year 1809, and on the 15th day of December at nine o'clock in the evening, we, Jean Jaques Regis Cambaceres, Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, Duke of Parma, exercising the functions prescribed to us by title the second of the fourteenth article of the statute of the imperial, far mily, and in consequence of orders addressed to us by his majesty the emperor and king, in his private letter, dated that day, of the fol lowing tenor LBIND PLAS " Paris, Dec. 15, 1809 My cousin,Our desire is, that you repair this day, at nine o'clock in the evening, to our graud cabinet of the palace of the Thuilleries, ats tended by the civil secretary of state of our imperial family, to receive from us and the empress, our dear consort, a communication of great importance. For this purpose, we have ordered this present private letter should be sent to you. We pray God to have you, my cousin, in his holy and blessed keeping.” On the back is written To our cousin the Prince, Arch-Chan cellor, Duke of Parma," We accordingly proceeded to the hall of the throne, of the palace of the the Thuilleries, attended by Michel Louis Etienne Regnault (de St. Jean d'Angely) Count of the Empire, Minister of State, and Secretary of State to the imperial family. A quarter of an hour afterwards, we were introduced to the grand cabinet of the emperor; where we found his majesty the emperor and king, with her majesty the empress, attended by their majesties the Kings of Holland, Westphalia, Naples, his Imperial Highness the Prince Viceroy, the Queens of Holland, Westphalia, Naples, and Spain, madame, and her Imperial Highness the Princess Paulina. His majesty the emperor and king condescended to address us in these terms:-- "My Cousin, Prince Arch-Chancellor,---I dispatched to you a pri vate letter, dated this day, to direct you to repair to my cabinet, for the purpose of communicating to you the resolution which I and the empress, my dearest consort have taken. It gives me pleasure that the kings, queens, and princesses, my brothers and sisters, my brothers and sisters-in-law, my daughin-law, and my son-in-law, become my adopted son, as well as my inother, should witness what I am going to communicate to you. The policy of my monarchy, the interest and the wants of my people, which have constantly guided all my actions, require, that after me, I should leave to children, inheritors of my love for my people, that throne on, which Providence has placed me; notwithstanding, for several years past, I have lost the hope of having children by my marriage with my well-beloved cou sort, the Empress Josephine. This is which induces me to sacrifice the sweetest affections of my heart, to attend to nothing but the good of the state, and to wish the dissolution of my marriage. "Arrived at the age of forty years, I may indulge the hope of living long enough to educate in my views and sentiments the_children which it may please Provi dence to give me. God knows how much such a resolution has cost my heart; but there is no sacrifice be yond my courage, when it is proved to me to be necessary for the welfare of France. I should add, that far from having reason to complain, on the contrary, I have had reason only to be satisfied with the attach ment and the affection of my wellbeloved consort; she has adorned fifteen years of my life, the remems brance of which will ever rentain engraven on my heart: she was crowned by my hand. I wish she should preserve the rank and title of empress, but above ail, that she should never doubt my sentiments, and that she should ever regard me as her best and dearest friend.” His majesty the emperor and king having ended, her majesty the empress and queen spoke as follows:-- "By the permission of our dear and august consort, I ought to declare, that not preserving any hope of having children, which may fulfil the wants of his policy and the interest of France, I am pleased to give him the greatest proof of attachment and devotion, which has ever been given on earth. I possess all from his bounty: it was his hand which crowned me; and, from the height of the throne, I have received nothing but proofs of affection and love from the French people. I think-T prove myself vbodajnemus or to oelsengitesiel myself grateful, in consenting to the dissolution of a marriage, which heretofore was an obstacle to the welfare of France; which deprived it of the happiness of being one day governed by the descendants of a great man, evidently raised up by Providence, to efface the evils of a terrible revolution, and to re-establish the altar, the throne, and social order, But the dissolution of my marriage will in no degree change the sentiments of my heart. The emperor will ever have in me his best friend, I know how much this act, demanded by policy and by interests so great, has chilled his heart but both of us exult in the sacrifice which we make for the good of the country." After which, their imperial majesties having demanded an act of their respective declarations, as well as of the mutual consent contained in them, and which their majesties gave to the dissolution of their marriage, as also of the power which their majesties conferred on us, to follow up, as need shall require, the effect of their will-We, Prince Arch-Chancellor of the empire, in obedience to the orders and requisitions of their majesties, have given the aforesaid acts, and have in consequence executed the present proces verbal, to serve and avail according to law; to which proces verbal their majesties have affixed their signatures, and which, after having been signed by the kings, queens, princes, and princesses, present, has been signed by us, and countersigned by the secretary of state of the imperial family, who wrote it with his own hand. Done at the palace of the Thuilleries, the day, hour, and the year aforesaid. (Signed, &c.) Having seen the projet of the senatus consultum, drawn up in the form prescribed by the fifty-seventh article of the act of the constitu tion, of the 4th of August, 1802After having heard the motives of the said projet, the orators of the council of state, and the report of the special committee appointed on the sitting of this day-- the adop tion having been discussed by the number of members prescribed by the fifty-sixth article of the act of the constitution, of the 4th of Au gust, 1802, the senate, decrees that:-- I. The marriage contracted be tween the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine, is dissolved II. The Empress Josephine shall preserve the title and rank of ent press queen crowned. III. Her dowry is fixed at au annual income, of two millions of francs, on the revenue of the staté, IV. All the assignments, which may be made by the emperor, u favour of the Empress Josephine. on the funds of the civil list, shall be obligatory on luis successors, V. The present senatus consul tum shall be transmitted by a mes sage to his imperial and royal ma jesty. IV. Exposé of the state of France. Report of the minister for foreign affairs to his majesty the empe ror and king. SIR,-Your majesty has exalted France to the highest point of greatness. The victories obtained over five successive coalitions, all pro moted by England, have produced these consequences; and it may be said, that we are indebted to Eng land land for the glory and power of the great empire. At every opportunity, your ma jesty made offers of peace, and with out considering whether it would be more advantageous than war: you looked, sir, only to the happiness of the present generation, and you always shewed yourself ready to sacrifice to it the most flattering prospects of the future. It was in this spirit that the peace of Compo Formio, of Luneville, and of Amiens, and subse quently of Presburg, of Tilsit, and of Vicima, were concluded; it was in this spirit that your majesty has five times sacrificed to peace the greater part of your conquests. More anxious to adorn your reign by the public happiness, than to exfend the frontiers of your empire, your majesty sets bounds to your greatness; while England, keeping the torch of war continually alive, seemed to conspire against her alfies as well as herself, to create the greatest empire that has existed for twenty centuries. At the peace of 1783, the power of France was strong in the family compact, which closely bound Spain and Naples with her political system. At the peace of Amietis, the respective strength of the three great powers was increased by the addition of twelve millions of Polish inhabitants. The houses of France and Spain were essentially hostile to each other, and the people of the two countries were removed farther than ever from each other, By the difference of their manners. One of the great continental pow ers had her strength less diminished by the junction of Belgium with France, than it was increased by the acquisition of Venice; the secus T larizations also of the Germanic body added more to the power ofour rivals. Thus, at the conclusion of the treaty of Amiens, the relative force of France was less than at the peace of 1783, and much inferior to that to which the victories obtained during the wars of the two first coalitions gave her a right to expect. This treaty, however, was scarcely concluded, when the jealousy of England displayed itself strongly. She took the alarm at the increasing prosperity and riches of the interior of France; and she hoped that a, third coalition would wrest Belgium, the provinces of the Rhine, and Italy, from your crown. The peace of Amiens was broken; a third coa lition was formed, three months after, it was dissolved by the treaty of Presburg. England saw all her hopes blasted; Venice, Dalmatia, Istria, the whole of the Adriatic coast, and that of the kingdom of Naples, fell into the power of France. The Germanic body, established upon principles contrary to those upon which the French empire was founded, dropped to pieces; and the system of the Confederation of the Rhine transformed in close and necessary allies the same nations, who in the first coalitions marched against France, and united the indissolubly to herself by their common interests. The peace of Amiens then became in England the object of every statesman. Tlie new acquisitions by France, which there were no hopes of wresting from her at any future time, rendered the fault that was committed more evident, and shewed the full extent of it, An enlightened man, who during the short interval of the peace of Amiens, Amiens, visited Paris, and had The negociations began, and learned to know France and your majesty, was put at the head of affairs in England. This man of genius comprehended the situation of the two countries. He perceived that it was not in the power of any state to compel France to retrograde; and that the true policy consisted in arresting her progress. He per ceived, that by the success obtained over the third coalition, the question was changed; and that it must no longer be thought of contesting with France the possessions that she acquired by victory; but that it was necessary, by a speedy peace, to prevent those new acquisitions which the continuation of the war would render inevitable. This minister did not conceal any of the advantages which France derived from the erroneous policy of Eng land; but he had in view those which she might still acquire. He thought that England would gain much, if none of the continental powers lost more. He directed his policy to disarm France, and to have the Confederation of the North of Germany recognized in opposi tion to the Confederation of the Rhine. He perceived that Prussia could only be preserved by peace; and that on the fate of that power depended the system of Saxony, of Hessia, of Hanover, the fate of the mouths of the Ems, of the Jade, of the Weser, of the Elbe, of the Oder, and of the Vistula, ports necessary for the commerce of England. Like a great man, Fox did not deliver himself up to useless sorrow for the rupture of the treaty of Amiens, and losses henceforth irreparable; he wished to prevent greater, and he sent Lord Lauder dale to Paris, every thing led to hope that they would have ended happily, when Fox died. From that time they languished. The ministers were neither sufficiently enlightened nor temperate to perceive the necessity of peace. Prussia, excited by that spirit which England infused into all Europe, put her troops in marchi. The imperial guards received or ders to set out; Lord Lauderdale appeared terrified at the conse quences of the new events that were preparing. It was proposed to sign the treaty; that Prussia should be included in it, and that the Confederation of the North of Germany should be recognized. Your majesty, with that spirit of moderation of which you have given such fre quent examples to Europe, consenter. The departure of the imperial guard was delayed for some days, but Lord Lauderdale hesi tated; he thought it necessary to send a messenger to his court, and that messenger brought him an order to return. In a few days after Prussia no longer existed as a preponderating power. Posterity will consider that period as one of the most decisive in the histories of England and of France. The treaty of Tilsit put an end to the fourth coalition. ང་ After some further uninteresting remarks, the report proceeds thus: The fifth coalition broke out, the new events of which again turned out advantageous to France. The only ports by which England preserved an avowed communication with the continent, together with the Illyrian provinces, passed under the power of your majesty by the treaty of Vienna, and the |