702 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



Art. 1. The papal territory is 

 united with the French empire: 



2. The city of Rome, illustrious 

 for the recollection it recalls ,and 

 for the monuments which it con- 

 tains, is declared to be a free and 

 IMPERIAL CITY. Its govern- 

 ment and administration shall be 

 fixed by a particular decree. 



3. The monuments of lloman 

 greatness shall be maintained and 

 preserved, at the expence of our 

 treasury. 



4. The public debt is declared 

 to be the debt of the empire. 



5. The revenue of the pope shall 

 be fixed at two millions of francs, 

 free from all charges and contribu- 

 tions. 



6. The property and palaces of 

 his holiness shall be subject to no 

 imposition, jurisdiction, or visita- 

 tion, and shall besides enjoy espe- 

 cial prerogatives. 



7. An extraordinary consulta 

 shall, on the 1st of June, take pos- 

 Bession in our name of the papal 

 dominions, and adopt measures that 

 on the 1st of January, 1810, the 

 constitutional governmentmay take 

 effect. 



(Signed) Napoleon. 



IVashinsrton May 22. 



EXTRA SESSION. 



Ihis day both Houses of Con- 

 gress assembled in their respective 

 chambers. In the senate twenty- 

 one members attended. In the 

 lower house, at the first call 120 

 members appeared. 



General Varnum is re-elected 

 speaker. 



President's Message. 

 At twelve o'clock, the president 



of the United States communicated 

 by Mr. Graham, the following 

 message to both Houses of Con- 

 gress : 



Washington City, May 23. 



Fellow citizens of the senate, 

 and of the House of Representa- 

 tives — On this first occasion of 

 meeting you, it affords me much 

 satisfaction, to be able to commu- 

 nicate the commencement of a fa- 

 vourable change in our foreign re- 

 lations, the critical state of which 

 induced a session of Congress at 

 this period. 



In consequence of the provisions 

 of the act interdicting commercial 

 intercourse with Great Britain and 

 France, our ministers at London 

 and Paris were, without delay in- 

 structed to let it be understood by 

 the French and British governments, 

 that the authority vested in the 

 executive, to renew commercial in- 

 tercourse with their respective na- 

 tions, would be exercised in the 

 case specified by that act. 



Soon aftertheseinstructionswere 

 dispatched, it was found that the 

 British government, anticipating, 

 from early proceedings of Congress 

 at their last session, the state of our 

 laws, which has had the effect of 

 placing the two belligerent powers 

 on a tooting of equal restrictions, 

 and relying on the conciliatory dis- 

 position of the United States, had 

 transmitted to their legation here, 

 provisional instructions, not only to 

 offer satisfaction for the attack on 

 the frigate Chesapeake, and to make 

 known thedetermination of his Bri- 

 tannic majesty, to send an envoy 

 extraordinary with powers to con- 

 clude a treaty on all points between 

 the two countries ; but moreover, to 

 signify his willingness, in the mean 



time, 



