THE NATIONAL REGISTER. JAN. 9. ext. the dispositions of the said, decrees to towns and places which pre not comprehended in them. 111 Those of our said Extraordinary Commissioners who shall be sent into countries threatened by the enemy, shall order le%ies en 'those ' and all other measures, whatever, necessary to the defence of the country, and commanded by the duty of opposing the progress of the enemy, Veside‘, special instructions shall he given them, according to the particular situation of the depart ments to which they shall be bil% IV. Our extraordinary Commissioners are authorised to order MI measures of high pnitcc, Hhicle circumstances, awl the main tenanee of public m der, may demand. V. They are likewise m &red to form military commissions, and summon before them, or before the special courts all persons aeeu. sed of favouring the enemy, of twilit; in communication with him or of attempti:;g the public tranquillity. VI.. They shall he authorized to issue proclamations, and pass decrees. The said decree), shall be obligataiy upon all citiTens. The judicial authorities, civil and military, shall be bound to con form themselves to them, a d cause them to be executed. VII. Our Extraordinary Comini , sionerb shall correspond with cm Minister , *Toil tlic object, relative to each service. VIII *hey shall enjoy in their respective crpacitie•, the honours allowed to them by our regulations. IX. Our llini►sters are charged with the execution of the plc:sent Pecrec, which shall be ince► test in the bulletin 01 the laws. (signed) NAPOLEON _ By the F.istper 7 r, The Minister Secretary of State, • (£ii:_ned) The Puke of HASSAN°. Palace of the Thuilieties, Dec. 16, 1831. Napoleon, Emperor of the Fre. Kinu• of Italy, Pi uteri rof tl►e Rhenish Confederation, Mediator of the Swiss Confeder ation &e. in eowsequenre of our decree of thi: day, we have named and ;lame for our extraordioary Commissioners [Here follow the names of the Commissioner.] CONSERVI FIVE SEN tTE. SITTING OF hIOND IV, DECEMBER 27, 1813. Ifis Serene Higltn.•ss tie Prince Aren.C.iiiiicelio r of the anipire President. In the name of the Special Committee appointed in the Sitting of the '2l.d of this month, the Senator, Coma. fie Fontanes, one t it• Members, obtained permission to speak, and made to the Assembly the following report : " My Lord,--Senators,-ITe first duty of the Senate towards the Monarch and the people is till tia. The extraordinary situation in which the country fu :0 itself, fenders this duty still more obligatory. " The Emperor himsclt invites all the great bodies of thtl State to exprt ss their opinions freely,—a truly loyal idea! " The salutary development of those monarchial institutions, iu which power centered in the hands of one, is strengthened in the . . confilence of all ; and whiAt, giving to the throne the ginnantee of the national opinion, gives to the people in their turn tht conscious s. of their digoity,—the too just reward of their sac' ifices, " Such IlleiglidliilllollS intentions ought not to be deceived. " Accordingly, the committee named in your Sitttog of the ?2tl of December, whose organ I have the honour to he, has made the most serious examination of the official papers submitted to their inspection by the orders of his Majesty the Emperor, and Volllllllllli ciited by the Duke of Vicenza. Neglivialions for peace have commenced ; you ought to be ac rili:;ii:ted with their progress. Your judgment trout not be prejudiced. A bare enumeration of facts, by guiding your opinion, must- prepare gnat • I Frallre, " When the Austrian Cabinet laid aside' the character of a media tor when every thing gave room to joilme that the Congress at Prague was ready to he dissolved, the Emperor fretermined to make last effort for the pacification of the Coutinent. The Duke of Rosati() wrote to Prince Nletternich. Ije propo sed to neutralize a point on the frootiers, and there to resume the liegotiatunhe for Prague, even during the continu4nce of hostilities. tjohappily these ()Vellums had no efiect, " The time when this pacific step was taken, is important It was on the 16th of August last. The remembrance of the days of ',often and Bautzen was recent, This wish against the prolongation of the war may then be said to ht in sumo .fle,grev contemperoy with the date oft p ViCioriPS. 19 " efforts of the Fiench Cabinet were in vain; peace became more remote : h stilities began again ; v%ents assumed another face. The solliers of the German Minces, but now our Allies, s:ieWe.l more than once, while fighting, tinder our banners, a fidelity but too dubious : all at once they ceased to dissemble, and joined our enemieg. " From that moment the combinations of a campaign so gloriously begun ci,nl(l not have the txpeetell !•ttecess. 66 Tile Euiperor perceived that it was time to order the French to evacnue Germany. He returned with them, fighting at almost every step ; and on the narrow route wises e so Olahy open defections and siieut treacheries contihed his progress and his motions, new trophies marked his return. " We: followed him w me uneasiness in the midst of so many obstacles, over which he &thew could ts inmple With joy we saw him semen to Isis trontiers, not with Isis accustomed good fortune, Ina not without heroism and without glory, " Hae jug returned to his capital, he turned his eyes from those fields of battle where the world had admired him for fifteen years ; he even detached his thoughts tom the great designs which Ise ln:d conceived. I use his own expressions; he turned to his people, his heart opened itself, and we read in it our own sentiments. " He desired peace, and as !won as the hope of at negoeiatiou seemed possible, he hastened to seize it. ‘‘ events of the war led tile Baron de St Aignan to the heads ge ,,, t i cr % of the Allied powers. There he saw the Australis - Minister, Prince Metternich, and the Russian Minister, Count . Nieo:lreid. " Both, in the name of their Courts, laid before him iu a cohfi dentist cone ersation the bases of a general pacification. Time Eng. Issh Ambassador, Lord Aberdeen, was present at this conterrence- Oteervo this last fact, Senators, it is important, B iron St. Aiencm, being desired to acquaint his Court with all he Is id heard, faithfully aciplitted himsellor this commission, " Though France had a right to hope for other proposals, the Em• permr sacrificed every thisig to his sinewy wish for peace. He caused the Mike of Missals° to %elite to Prince Metternich, tit et lie adant ted as the basis of negociation, the eeaeral principle oontabied its the confidential report of M. de St. Aignan. • " Prince Meth rushs, in reply to the peke of Bassano, seemed to think them was something vague in the acceptance (adlitston,) given by France. 6 6 Then, to remove every difficulty, the Duke of Vicenza, after having taken the orders of his Majesty, made known to the C:binet of Austria, that his Majesty adhered to the general and summary bases communicated by M. de St..ligium. File Duke of Vicenza's letter is or the vd of December ; it was received on the sth of the same month. Prince Metternich did 'sot answer till the 10th. These dates must he rarefidly observed : you will soon set that they are not with, out importance, " Just hopes of peace may be conceived on reading f e answer of Prince Metternich to the dispatch of the Dicke of Viceeza ; only at the end of his letter he announces:, that before the negocia thitc are evened, it is necessary to confer sellout them with the Allies. These Allies can be eo other thin the EnJish. Now their 4111W:seekr was pm esent at the 'conversation of which M. de St. Aignass .ad been ve itness. Se c clv not desire to excite distrust, we relate. " We have carefully noted the date of the last e3rresi - ondence between the French and the Awls lass Cabinets ; we have saiu that the Duke of Vicenza's letter must have been received on the sth, and that the receipt was not acknowledged till the 10th. " Iu the interval, a Gazette; now under the influence of the allied powers, published to all Europe, a declaration, which is said to be titruished with their authority, It would be melancholy to believe it. This declaration is of a nature unusual in the dip'omacy o f Kings It is no longer to kings like tie mselves that they explai n their grievaeces, and send their manifests es. It is to the in that they address them ; and from what motive do they adop e such a new method of proceeding ? It is to separate the cause of the people from that of their governorA, though the interests of society lies every where United them. " not this example be fatal ? Should it be given, eettiecialle at this period, when people'S mimic, agitated' by all the diseases v . ? pride, are so averse to bending under the authority which protects them, while it represses their audacity ? against whom is this indirect attack ahhed? Against a r via man, who merits gratitude of ail h mugs ; because, by reqestabllshinit the Oro Fr..nce, he as closed up the crater of the volcano which Om them all. " It must not be thiseinbled, that in certain respects, this ex' (him, y manifesto U , in a moderate tome. 'Dos proves, that tt perienve of thr coalition has gaiucd perfection. ted the rune Or tlie • 1 44