TITLE V. Of the Guard of the minor Emperor. 29. The Guard of the minor Emperor, the superintendence of his Household, and the care of his education, shall be confided to his Mother.-30. In default of a Mother, or of a Prince designated by the deceased Emperor, the care of the Emperor is confided by the Council of Regency to one of the Princes titulated the Grand Dignities of the Empire.-31. This choice shall be made by a scrutiny, and carried by an absolute majority of voices; in case of being equal, the Regent shall decide. TITLE VI. shall take, within three months after the -36. The Prince Arch-Chancellor, assisted by the Minister Secretary of State, shall form a proces verbal of this oath. The Aet shall be signed by the Empress or the Regent, by the Princes, the Grand Dignitaries, the Ministers, and the great Officers of the Empire. TITLE VIII. of the Administration of the Imperial Domains, and of the Disposition of the Revenue in case of a Minority and Regency. On the Oath to be taken by the Empress Regent, and that of the Prince Regent, for the exercise of the Regency. Section I.-Of the Empress Regent's Oath. 32. If the Empress Regent has not taken the oath during the Emperor's life-time, for the exercise of the Regency, she shall take it within three months next following the Emperor's decease.-33. The oath shall be taken by the minor Emperor, seated on his throne, assisted by the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, the French Princes, the Council of Regency, the Cabinet Ministers, the great Officers of the Empire and the Crown, the Ministers of State, and the Grand Eagles of the Legion of Honour, in presence of the Senate and of the Council of State.-34. The oath to be taken by the Empress is conceived in these terms:-I swear fidelity to the Emperor; I swear to conform myself to the Acts of the Constitution, and to observe the dispositions made by the Emperor, my Consort, for the exercise of the Regency, not to consult in employing my authority, aught else than my love and devotion for my Son and for France, and faithfully to return to the Emperor on his coming of age the powers confided to me. I swear to maintain the integrity of the territory of the Empire; to respect, and cause to be respected, the Laws of the Concordat, and the Liberty of 39. When the decease of the Emperor Religious Worship; to respect, and cause shall take place, the Prince Arch-Chanto be respected, equality of Rights, Civil cellor of the Empire, or in default of him, Liberty; and the irrevocability of the Sales the first in rank of the Grand Dignitaries, of the National Effects; not to raise any shall cause seals to be put on the chests of Imposts, nor establish any Tax, but for the treasure of the Private Domains, by the Seuse of the State, and according to the fun-cretary of State to the Imperial Family, in damental Laws of the Monarchy, to main- presence of the Grand Judges, of the Chantain the Institution of the Legion of Honour, cellor of the Senate, and the Intendant Geand to govern with the sole view of the in-neral of the Private Domains.-40. It terest, welfare, and glory of the French People. Sec. 1.-Of the Regent's Oath. 35. The Prince called to the Regency Section 1.-Of the Crown Funds. 37. During the Regency, the administration of the Crown Funds shall continue according to the rules established. The use to which the revenues are to be employed is fixed in the usual forms, under the authority of the Empress Regent, or of the Regent.-38. The expense of their house-keeping, and their personal expenses, shall form part of the Crown Budget. Section 2.-Of the Private Domains. shall be proceeded with according to the orders of the Family Council, to take inventories of the funds and articles of moveables, by the Secretary of State to the Im the commencement of a minority, without its having been foreseen by the Emperor previous to his decease, the powers of the Ministers shall be prorogued till the Regent's arrival, as is before mentioned in Article 48. Sec. 3.-In cases not foreseen. perial Family, assisted by the persons nominated in the preceding article.-41. The Council of the Family will attend to the execution of the dispositions of the Senatus Consultum of the 30th Jan. 1810, concerning the Partition of the Effects of the Private Domains. The funds belonging to the Emperor, after this partition, 51. If in the absence of the Emperor, shall be thrown by the Treasurer of the major or minor, or in the absence of the Private Domains into the Imperial Trea- Regent, the Government being in the hands sury, under the care of the Family Coun- of the Council of Ministers, presided over cil, and placed in the most beneficial man- by a Grand Dignitary, there should be prener.42. The produce of the same shall sented, for resolving any questions not debe successively added to the principal, and cided by the present Act, the said Council the whole remain in reserve until the Em- of Government, performing the functions of peror become of age. 43. Account a Privy Council, shall put in form the proshall be rendered of all these operations by jet of the Senatus Consultum, and cause to the Family Council to the Empress Re-be presented to the Senate by two of its gent, or Regent, who will give the defini- Members. tive authorization for placing them out. Sec. 3.-0f the Extraordinary Domains. TITLE IX. Of the Anointing and Coronation of the Empress. 44. The Empress Regent, or the Prince Regent, shall dispose of, if they judge con- 52. The Empress Mother of the Heredivenient, all the funds of 50,000 franks in-tary Prince, King of Rome, may be anointterest and upwards which have been made ed and crowned.- -53. This prerogative before the minority, without having been shall be accorded to the Empress by letters disposed of, or caused to be returned to the patent, published in the customary forms, Extraordinary Domains of the Crown dur- and which shall be besides addressed to the ing the Regency.- -45. The other funds Senate, and entered in their registers.remain in reserve until the Emperor comes 54. The coronation shall take place in the of age.-46. The Administration of the Basilique of Notre Dame, or in any other Extraordinary Domains shall continue, ac- church designated in the letters patent. cording to the established rules, as is said before, concerning the Domains of the Crown. 47. The funds which may be found in the Treasury of the Extraordinary 55. The Imperial Prince, King of Rome, Domains, at the time of the Emperor's decease, shall be thrown into the Treasury of may in his quality as Heir to the Empire, be anointed and crowned in the Emperor's the State, and there remain till the Empe-life-time.-56. This ceremony cannot ror comes of age. TITLE VIII. In case of the Emperor or Regent's Absence. Sec. 1.-In case of the Emperor's Absence. 48. If, at the moment of the Emperor's decease, his successor is out of the territory of the Empire, the powers of the Ministers shall be prorogued until that the Emperor is arrived in the territory of the Empire. The first in rank of the great Dignitaries shall preside in the Council which governs the State, under the form of a Council of Government. The deliberations there shall be taken by an absolute majority of votes; the President having a casting vote in case of being equal.49. All the Acts shall be made in the Emperor's name, but he shall not commence exercising the Imperial power until he is within the territory of the Empire. Sec. 4.-In case of the Regent's Absence. 50. In case of the Regent's Absence at TITLE X. of the Anointing and Coronation of the Prince, Imperial King of Rome. take place but by virtue of letters patent, in the same form as those relative to the coronation of the Empress.--57. After anointing and coronation of the Prince Imperial King of Rome, the Senatus Consultum laws, regulations, Imperial statutes, decrees, and all other acts emitted by the Emperor, or made in his name, shall bear, besides the indication of the year of his reign, the year of the coronation of the Prince Imperial King of Rome. -58. The present organized Senatus Consultum shall be transmitted by a Message to his Majesty the Emperor and King. The Presidents and Secretaries. The Count de BEAUMONT. (Seen and Sealed) The Chancellor of the (Signed) Count LAPLACE. "Gentlemen, Deputies from the Departments to the Legislative Body. We do hereby command and ordain that the Emperor delivered the following these presents, furnished with the Seal of speech: the State, inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws, shall be addressed to the Gourts, Tribunals, and other Administrative Authorities, for the purpose of being inserted in their Registers, to be observed and caused to be observed by them; and our Grand Judge, Minister of Justice, is charged with superintending the publication of the same. Given at our Palace of the Thuilleries, the 5th Feb. 1813. (Signed) NAPOLEON. Count DARU. By order of the Emperor, "The war again lighted in the North of Europe offered a favourable opportunity to the projects of the English upon the Peninsula. They have made great efforts. All their hopes have been deceived.-Their army was wrecked before the citadel of Burgos, and obliged, after having suffered great losses, to evacuate the Spanish ter ritory. I myself entered Russia. The French arms were constantly victorious, în the fields of Ostrowno, Polotsk, Mohilow, Smolensk, Moscow, Molairadslavitz. The Russian armies could not stand before our armies. Moscow fall into our power! Whilst the barriers of Russia were forced, and the impotency of her arms acknowParis, February 14. ledged, a swarm of Tartars turned their To-day, Sunday the 14th of February, parracidal hands against the finest proHis Majesty the Emperor and King de- vinces of that vast empire, which they had parted at one o'clock from the Palace of the been called to defend.- They in a few Thuilleries, in grand state, to proceed to weeks, notwithstanding the tears and dethe Palace of the Legislative Body. Sal- spair of the unfortunate Muscovites, burned voes of artillery announced the departure of more than four thousand of their finest vilHis Majesty from the Thuilleries, and his lages-more than fifty of their finest towns; arrival at the Legislative Body.[Here thus gratifying their ancient hatred, under follows the route the procession took.] the pretext of retarding our march, by The President of the Legislative Body and surrounding us with a desert. We tri25 deputies received His Majesty at the umphed over all these obstacles! Even bottom of the staircase, and conducted him the fire of Moscow, by which in four days to the apartment prepared to receive him. they annihilated the fruits of the labours -The Deputation from the Senate and and cares of four generations, changed in Council of State having taken their places, no respect the prosperous state of my afand Her Majesty the Empress being seated fairs.But the excessive and premature on the throne, in front of the Emperor's rigour of the winter brought down a heavy throne, accompanied by Her Majesty the calamity on my army; in a few nights I Queen Hortense, and surrounded by the saw every thing change! I experienced Officers of her Household, the Diplomatic great losses! They would have broken Corps occupied a Tribune to the right. my heart, if, under such circumstances, I The Emperor, after having rested himself could have been accessible to any other in his apartment, went to the hall of the sentiments than those of the interest, the Legislative Corps, preceded by his suite. glory, and the future prosperity of my On the entry of His Majesty all the Depu- people.- On seeing the evils which ties arose. His Majesty seated himself pressed upon us, the joy of England was upon his throne, the Princes, Grand Dig-great-her hopes had no bounds; she ofnitaries, &c. having taken their places according to their rank.The Emperor being seated, the Grand Master of the Ceremonies took His Majesty's orders for opening the Sitting. The Prince ViceGrand Elector demanded His Majesty's permission to present to him the Members of the Legislative Corps lately elected, and allow them to take the oath.- -One of the Officers called over the names, and the oath was taken.This being finished, fered our finest provinces as the reward of treason-she made as the conditions of peace the dismemberment of this vast empire: it was, under other terms, to proclaim perpetual war.The energy of my people under these great circumstances; their attachment to the integrity of the empire; the love which they have shewn me, have dissipated all these chimeras, and brought back our enemies to a more just consideration of things.The misfor ture and manufactories been carried to a After the Speech, the Sitting terminated, and His Majesty retired amidst acclamations.-/Moniteur, Feb. 15). tunes produced by the rigour of hoar frosts | manufactures, and of our interior comhave been made apparent in all their ex-merce, as well as the still constant increase tent. The grandeur and the solidity of of our population. In no age has agriculthis empire, founded upon the efforts and the love of fifty millions of citizens, and upon the territorial resources of one of the finest countries in the world.———It is with lively satisfaction that we have seen our people of the kingdom of Italy, those of ancient Holland, and of the United Departments, rival with Old France, and feel that there is for them no future hope but in the consolidation and the triumph of the Grand Empire.The agents of England propagate among all our neighbours the spirit of revolt against Sovereigns; England wishes to see the whole Continent become a prey to civil war, and all the furies of anarchy; but Providence has designed her herself to be the first victim of anarchy and civil war.I have signed with the Pope a Concordat which terminates all the differences that unfortunately had arisen in the Church.The French dynasty reigns, and will reign in Spain. I am satisfied with all my allies: I will abandon none of them. I will maintain the integrity of their States. The Russians shall return into their frightful climate, -I desire peace; it is necessary to the world.-Four times since the rupture which followed the treaty of Amiens, I proposed it in a solemn manner. I will never make but an honourable peace, and one conformable to the interests and grandeur of my empire. My policy is not mysterious; I have stated all the sacrifices I could make.So long as this maritime war shall last, my people must hold themselves ready to make all kind of sacrifices; because a bad peace would make us lose every thing-even hope and all would be comprised, even the prosperity of our descendants. America has had recourse to arms, to make the sovereignty of her flag respected-the wishes of the world accompany her in this glorious contest. If she terminates it by obliging the enemies of the Continent to acknowledge the principle that the flag covers the merchandize and crew, and that neutrals ought not to be subject to blockades upon paper, the whole conformable to the stipulations of the Treaty of Utrecht, America will have credit from all nations; posterity will say, that the old world had lost its rights, and that the new one re-conquered them.My Minister of the Interior will explain to you in the Exposé of the situation of the empire, the prosperous state of agriculture, Paris, February 13. His Serene Highness the Prince ArchChancellor of the Empire appeared on this day, Saturday, the 13th of February, in the Senate, by order of His Majesty the Emperor and King, for the purpose of presiding at the Sitting. His Serene Highness having been received with the usual ceremonies, caused the Concordat, signed at Fontainbleau, the 25th of January, 1813, between His Majesty the Emperor and King, and his Holiness Pius VII. to be read by one of his Secretaries. CONCORDAT. His Majesty the Emperor and King, and his Holiness, being inclined to put a termination to the differences which have arisen between them, and to provide against the difficulties that have taken place in several affairs concerning the Church, have agreed upon the following articles, which are to serve as the basis for a definitive arrangement : Art. 1. His Holiness shall exercise the Pontificate in France, and in the Kingdom of Italy, in the same manner and same forms as his predecessors.2. The Ambassadors, Ministers, Charge d'Affaires, of Foreign Powers, to the Holy Father, and the Ambassadors, Ministers, or Charge d'Affaires, whom the Pope may have with Foreign Powers, shall enjoy such immunities and privileges as are enjoyed by the Diplomatic Body.3. The domains. which were possessed by the Holy Father, and that have not been alienated, shall be exempted from all kinds of imposts, and shall be administered by his Agents or Charge d'Affaires. Those which were alienated shall be replaced, to the amount of two millions of francs in revenue. 4. Within the space of six months following the notification of the usage of nomination by the Emperor to the Archbishopricks NORTHERN WAR.. Armies. and Bishopricks of the Empire and Kingdom of Italy, the Pope shall give the canonical institutions in conformity with the Official Intelligence from the Russian Concordat, and by virtue of this present indulto. The preluding information shall be given by the Metropolitan. The six months being expired without the Pope having accorded to the institution, the Metropolitan, or in default of him, where a Metropolitan is in question, the oldest bishop of the province, shall proceed to the institution of the new Bishop, so that a seat shall never be vacant longer than one year. -5. The Pope shall nominate to the ten Bishopricks either in France or in Italy, which shall finally be designated by mutual consent. -6. The six suburb bishopricks shall be re-established;-they shall be at the nomination of the Pope. The property actually existing shall be restored, and measures shall be taken for recovering what has been sold. At the death of the Bishop of Anagni and Rieti, their dioceses shall be re-united to the six bishopricks before mentioned, conformably with agreement which shall take place between His Majesty and the Holy Father.-7. With regard to the bishops of the Roman states, who are through circumstances absent from their dioceses, the Holy Father may exercise his right of giving bishopricks, in partibus, in their favour. A pension shall be given to them equal to the revenue before enjoyed by them, and they may be replaced in the vacant seats, either in the empire, or in Italy.-8. His Majesty and his Holiness will at a proper time concert with each other on the reduction to be made, if it should take place, in the bishoprick of Tuscany, and the country of Genoa, as Jikewise for the bishopricks to be established in Holland, and in the Hanseatic departments.- 9. The Propaganda, the Penitentiary, and the Archives shall be established in the place of the Holy Father's abode.-10. His Majesty restores his good favour to those cardinals, bishops, priests, and lay brethren, who have incurred his displeasure in consequence of actual events. 11. The Holy Father agrees to the above dispositions, in consideration of the actual state of the Church, and in the confidence with which His Majesty has inspired him, that he will grant his powerful protection to the numerous wants which Religion suffers in the times we live in. The Commander in Chief of the Armies, Marshal Prince Kutusow of Smolensk, has presented to his Imperial Majesty the continuation of the Journal of military operations, from the 30th December to the 4th January (N. S.) which contains as follows: Dec. 18 (30).-Major-General Prince Orousoff has, on the 15th (27th) inst. joined the army, with five complete regiments, which are under his orders, and are intended to complete it. Major-General Ignateef, on the 13th (25th) instant, caused a battalion of Kourinski infantry, and a detachment of the regiment of Lithuanian Uhlans, to depart from the fortress of Bobrynsk for Lithuania. Dec. 19 (31).-General Count states, under date of the 17th (29th), that Lieutenant-Colonel Teninhan, who was at Ragnet with his detachment, having received advice that a large body of the enemy's cavalry had shown themselves on the road to Tilsit, immediately put himself in motion to meet them. He discovered four squadrons of Prussian hussars, who were immediately attacked and broken by the Cossacks. We took from the enemy three officers and fifty soldiers. Lieutenant-Colonel Tettenborn perceiving that the enemy was reinforcing himself with infantry and dragoons, and that he had artillery with him, retired to Lenken and placed his advanced guard at Upper Erseln. After occupying Gumbinnen and Insterbourg, we took 81 prisoners in pursuing the enemy as far as Wehlau. The Aid-de-Camp General Wassiltchikoff reports, that four regiments of Don Cossacks had, on the 10th (22d) inst. united with his detachment. He likewise mentions, under date of the 15th (27th), that the Austrian corps under the orders of Prince Schwartzenberg had parted at Tikotchine, and taken two different routes; his left wing takes the way of Wisna and Lomza to Ostrolenka, and he is putting himself in order to pursue the enemy with all celerity. Col. Joussisowitsch, whom he has in the meanwhile detached with two regiments of Cossacks and Charkoff's regiment of dragoons on the road to Wysokomasowetz, is likewise to pursue the enemy and keep a communication with his corps. Dec. 20 (Jan. 1).-Lieutenant-General Baron Von Sacken reports, under date of the 17th (29th), that Major-General Count |