STATE 



alleviation. And wc hereby com- 

 mand all and every j)erson, with this 

 view, to aliord him all possible aid 

 and assistance. — Given at our pa- 

 lace of St. James's, on the 4th of 

 November, 1805, and in the 46th 

 year of our reign. 



George Rex. 



Letter from Napoleon to the Landam- 

 maii of SuitzcrhinJ, dated 4th Ja- 

 nuary^ 1803. 



To our great and dear friend the 

 Landamman of Switzerland. 

 " Very dear and great friend, — 

 At the moment when it pleased di- 

 vine providence to call mc to the 

 throne of France, nothing coidd be 

 more pleasing to me, than the ex- 

 pression of thesen(iineii(s with which 

 you participate in the event. Your 

 deputies have delivered your letter 

 of congratulation, and in the manner 

 in which they have discharged their 

 mission, have fully justified the con- 

 fidence you placed in thcni. During 

 their stay here, they have been able 

 to assure you of my unchanjjeabie 

 intentions to preserve the friendly 

 relations between the two states. I 

 wish they may convey to you these 

 assurances, as also those of my es- 

 teem and regard for you. I pray 

 God, my dear and great friend, to 

 have you in his holy keeping." 



(Signed) A^apoleon. 



Report of a Discussion and Statement 

 in the Lrgis/ative Body of France, 

 21 Feb. 1805. 



The order of the day was read for 

 the discussion of the bill presented 

 ou the 22d Pluviose, cuaceroing tUe 



PAPERS. e\g 



finances of the year 13. — M. A maud, 

 orator of the section of finances, in- 

 vestigated the bill under these four 

 points of view : l.The divers dis- 

 tributions of funds anterior to the 

 current year. 2. The expence of 

 the political establishment during 

 the year 13. 3. The ways and means, 

 or receipts in tlie year 13. 4. The 

 present views of amelioration and 

 forecast for the year 14 ; he succes- 

 sively presented, under these heads, 

 all the general and particular reflex- 

 ions made by the section of the finan- 

 ces of the tribunate. We shall no- 

 tice the 2d and 3d heads, as being 

 the most important ones. 



Expences of the political establishment 

 during the year 13. 



The expences of the political establish- 

 ment, is Kxed by Art. VIII. IX. X. Cap. 

 IV. of the present bill, at a sum for the 

 year 13, of 684,000,000 fr. 



The general amount of 

 these expences for the 

 year \'l, with the aug- 

 mentation which has been 

 accounted for, is 762,000,000 



Whence it follows that 

 tlic expence of the politi- 

 cal establishment in the 

 year 10, is less than that 

 of the year 12, by 78,000,000 



M. Arnaud then examined ia 

 what proportion the difFeren t branch- 

 es of public service are diminished. 

 — Such a diminution, said he, which 

 leaves, to our means of defence 

 against the enemy their full activity; 

 a diminution from which the service 

 of no administration nor any interior 

 amelioration will suffer; a diminution 

 which exists after our consideration 

 abroad has been insured by a formi- 

 dable establishment of land and sea 

 forces, by means of the abundance 

 of the ordinary and extraordinary 

 receipts of the year 1?, such a dirai- 



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