STATE PAPERS. 



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appear incredible. Ocular witnesses 

 are necessary to prove the facts to 

 France, to Germany, and to Italy, 

 before the slow progress of truth 

 win fill those countries with mourn- 

 ing and consternation. Indeed, it 

 is difficult to conceive, that in a 

 campaign of only four months' du- 

 ration, one hundred and thirty 

 thousand prisoners should have 

 been taken from the enemy, besides 

 nine hundred pieces of, cannon, 

 forty-nine stand of colours, and all 

 the waggon train and baggage of 

 the army. A list of the names of 

 all the generals taken is hereunto 

 annexed. It will be easy to form 

 an estimate from that list, of the 

 number of superior and subaltern 

 officers taken. It is sufficient to 

 say, that out of three hundred 

 thousand men (exclusive of Aus- 

 trians), who penetrated into the 

 heart of Russia, not thirty thou- 

 sand of them, even if they should 

 be favoured by fortune, will ever 

 revisit their country. The manner 

 in which the emperor Napoleon 

 repassed the Russian frontiers can 

 assuredly be no longer a secret to 

 Europe. So much glory, and so 

 many advantages, cannot, how- 

 ever, change the personal dispo- 

 sitions of his majesty the emperor 

 of all the Russias. The grand 

 principles of the independence of 

 Europe have always formed the 

 basis of his policy ; for that policy 

 is fixed in his heart. It is be- 

 nealli his character to permit 

 any endeavours to be made to 

 induce the people to resist the 

 oppre^sion, and to throw off the 

 yoke whicii has weighed them 

 down for twenty years. It is their 

 government whose eyes ought to be 

 opened by the actual situation of 

 France. Ages may elapse before 

 an opportunity equally favourable 



again presents itself; and it would 

 be an abuse of the goodness of Pro- 

 vidence, not to take advantage of 

 this crisis to reconstruct the great 

 work of the equilibrium of Europe, 

 and thereby to ensure public tran- 

 quillity and individual happiness. 



Concordat between Napoleon and 

 the Pope. 



His majesty the emperor and 

 king and his holiness being in- 

 clined to put an end to the differ- 

 ences 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 fol- 

 lowing articles, which are to serve 

 as a basis for a definitive arrange- 

 ment: — 



Art, 1. His holiness shall exer- 

 cise the pontificate in France, and 

 in the kingdom of Italy, in the 

 same manner, and with the same 

 forms, as his predecessors. 



2. The ambassadors, ministers, 

 charges d'affaires of foreign powers 

 to the holy father, and the ambas- 

 sadors, ministers, or charges d'af- 

 faires, whom the pope may have 

 with foreign powers, shall enjoy 

 such immunities and privileges as 

 are enjoyed by the members of 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 charges d'affaires. Those 

 which were alienated, shall be re- 

 placed, as far as 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 archbishop'ricks 



