their Mediator, and thus putting an end to all the uneasiness endeavoured to be spread among that brave people. Holland, placed between England and France, is equally bruised by them. Yet she is the debouché of the principal arteries of my Empire. Changes will become necessary; the safety of my frontiers, and the well understood interests of the two countries, imperiously require them. Sweden has lost, by her alliance with England, after a disastrous war, the finest and most important of her provinces. Happy would it have been for that nation, if the wise Prince that governs her now had ascended the throne some years sooner! This example proves anew to kings that the alliance of England is the surest presage of ruin. My ally and friend, the Emperor of Russia, has united to his vast empire, Finland, Moldavia, Wallachia, and a district of Gallicia. I am not jealous of any thing that can produce good to that Empire. My sentiments for its illustrious Sovereign are in unison with my policy. When I shall show myself beyond the Pyrenees, the frightened leopard will fly to the ocean, to avoid shame, defeat, and death. The triumph of my arms will be the triumph of the genius of good over that of evil; of moderation, order, and morality over civil war, anarchy and the bad passions. My friendship and protection will, I hope, restore tranquillity and happiness to the people of the Spains. Gentlemen, Deputies of Departments to the Legislative body--I have directed my Minister of the Interior to lay before you the history of the legislation, of the administration, and of the finances of the year just expired; you will see that all the ideas I had conceived for the amelioration of my people, have been followed with the greatest activity-that in Paris, as in the mest distant parts of my empire, the war has not produced any delay in the public works. The Members of my Council of State will submit to you different projects of law, and especially the law upon the Finan ces; you will see in it their prosperous condition. I demand of my people no new sacrifice, though circumstances have obliged me to double my military means. Sentence against General Monnet. From the Moniteur, Dec. 9. The Council of Inquiry appoint ed by his Majesty the Emperor and King, convened by his Excellency Count de Huneburgh, Minister at War, in obedience to his Majesty's Orders, dated Schoenbrunn, Sept. 7, 1809, and assembled at the Ge neral Military Depot, closed on the 25th of last month its deliberations, and pronounced the following Sentence: That General Monnet, contrary to his duty, did not fulfil the orders of his Imperial Majesty, in case of his being pressed hard by the enemy, to cut the dykes rather than surrender. That he surrendered the fortress at a time when it had only sustained a bombardment of thirty-six hours, when the garrison was still composed of more than 4,000 men, when no breach was made in the rampart, and the enemy was yet more more than 800 metres distant from the fortress, and when our troops were yet in possession of the outworks, and when, consequently, the place was not really besieged. That the General is therefore guilty of gross misconduct, which cannot be attributed to any other motive than cowardice and treason. And the Council declares, moreover, that the General is guilty of extortion and embezzlement, since it appears in evidence, that he did receive, or caused to be received, for his own private benefit and use, from the year 1803 to the year 1806, the sum of ten Dutch stivers, or twenty sous Tournois for each half anker of Geneva which was exported. (Signed) Count RAMPON. either by land or water, the car- lace of Fontainbleau, (Signed and countersigned as The immediate occasion of this Decree was the smuggling practised at Hamburgh. The ingenuity of trade is intinite, and its resources are inexhaustible. Those who are acquainted with this truth, will hear Count d'ALZVELLE, Vice-Ad. the City each of them fourteen Counts SONGER and BASON, The above Sentence was confirmed by the Emperor and King on the 6th instant, and ordered to be transmitted to the Minister at War, for the purpose of being carried into execution against the delinquent. The following Decree will assist in explaining the Designs of Buonaparte, with regard to one extensive branch of the Hanseatic League.-Imperial Edict. "Hamburgh, Nov. 17. "It is hereby publicly notified, that all colonial produce is prohibited to be imported into, or exported from, our City of Hamburgh, from the date hereof. Should it be attempted in disobedience to this Decree, to convey any such produce to or from our said city, pounds of coffee and other produce concealed beneath their garments, by which expedient an immense quantity found its way into the warehouses of the dealers. Divorce of the Empress Josephine. By desire of his Majesty the Emperor, all the Members of the Senate assembled yesterday, at eleven o'clock in the morning, in full dress, in the hall of their usual sittings. The sitting of the Senate yesterday, at which the Kings of Westphalia and Naples, Grand Admiral the Prince Viceroy of Italy, the ArchChancellor of State, the Prince Vice-Grand Constable, and the Prince Vice-Grand Elector assisted, and at which the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire presided, will form, on account of the importance of of the subjects which were discus--At half past four, the Senate resed, an epoch in the annals of France. On that day was presented to the Senators, a Projet of a Senatus Consultum, respecting a Dissolution of the Marriage between the Einperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine. This dissolution of marriage, required by the two high parties, and approved of by a Family Counsel, at which all the Princes and Princesses of the Imperial Family, present at Paris, assisted, received, the same day, the assent of the Senate, after having been the object of examination of a Special Commission named for this purpose. After having read the contents of the Imperial Decree, which enacts the convocation of the Senate; and of that which directs that it shall be presided by the Prince Arch-Chancellor, and that the Princes of the Imperial Family, hereafter named, should be present in the Senate, the official Journal gives an account of this memorable sitting in the following terms[Here follows a speech from the Arch-Chancellor of State, the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, President, and the Duke of Parma]-The Count Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely laid before the Senate the Projet of the Senatus Consultem, and explained the motives of it, which are, that they mutually sacrifice their conjugal happiness to the welfare and interests of their country.[Here follows a speech from the Prince Viceroy of Italy; after which, the Count Garnier, Annual President, proposed to refer the Projet of the Senatus Consultum to the examination of a Special Commission of nine Members, which was named, and made its Report during its sitting.] sumed its sitting, and Count Lacepede, one of the Members of the Special Commission, made the Report, which terminated in proposing the adoption of the Projet of the Senatus Consultum; and also the adoption of two Addresses-one to the Emperor, and the other to the Empress. Extract from the Register of the Conservative Senate, of Saturday, the 16th Dec. 1809. The Conservative Senate, assem❤ bled, to the number of Members prescribed by Art. the 90th of the Act of the Constitution, and dated the 13th December, 1799, having seen the Act drawn up the 15th of the present month, by the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, of which the following is the substance: "In the year 1809, and the 15th day of Dec. 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 Tit. 2, of Art. 14 of the Statute of the Imperial Family, and in consequence of orders addressed to us by his Majesty the Emperor and King, in his private letter, dated that day, of the following te nor: "My Cousin ;-Our desire is, that you repair this day, at nine o'clock in the evening, to our grand cabinet of the palace of the Thuilleries, attended by the Civil Secre tary of State of our Imperial Family, to receive from us and from the Empress, our dear consort, a communication munication of great importance; for this purpose, we have ordered that this present private letter should be sent to you. We pray God to have you my Cousin in his holy and blessed keeping. Paris, 15th December, 1809." On the back is written-To our cousin the Prince Arch-Chancellor Duke of Parma.' We accordingly proceeded to the Hall of the Throne of the Palace of 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, and Naples; his Imperial Highness the Prince Viceroy, the Queens of Holland, Westphalia, Naples, and Spain; Madame, and her Imperial High ness 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 private 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-in-law, my daughter-in-law, and my son-in-law, become my adopted son, as well as my mother, should witness what I am going to communicate to you.' "The politics 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 consort, the Empress Josephine. This it 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 40 years, I may indulge the hope of living long enough to educate, in my views and sentiments, the children which it may please Providence to give me. God knows how much such a resolution has cost my heart; but there is no sacrifice beyond my courage, when it is proved to me to be necessary to the welfare of France. I should add, that, far from ever having had reason to complain, on the contrary, I have had only to be satisfied with the attachment and the affection of my well-beloved consort. She has adorned fifteen years of my life, the remembrance of which will ever remain engraven on my heart. She was crowned by my hand. I wish she should preserve the rank and ti tle of Empress; but, above all, 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 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 been signed by the Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses, present, has been signed by us, and countersign "Done at the palace of the Thu illeries, the day, hour, and the year aforesaid; (signed) NAPOLEON. interests of France, I am pleased to give him the greatest proof of attachment and devotion which has ever been given on earth. I posed by the Secretary of State of the sess all from his bounty, it was his Imperial Family who wrote with his hand which crowned me, and from own hand. the height of this throne I have received nothing but proofs of affection and love from the French people. I think I prove 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 descendant 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 interest 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 have demanded an act of their respective declarations, as well as of their mutual consent contain ed 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 act, and have in consequence executed the present proces verbal, to serve and avail according to law, to which proces verbal their Majesties have affised their signature, and which, after having JEROME NAPOLEON. PAULINE. CAROLINE. CAMBACERES, Prince Arch- Count REGNAULT, (de St. Having seen the Projet of the Sena- DECREES, Art. I. The marriage contracted between the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine is dissolved. II. The Empress Josephine shall preserve the title and rank of Empress Queen crowned. III. Her |