STATE PAPERS. 



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more than 800 metres distant from 

 the fortress, and when our troops 

 were yet in possession of the out- 

 works, and when, consequently, the 

 place was not really besieged. 



That the general is therefore 

 guilty of gross misconduct, which 

 cannot be attributed to any other 

 motive than cowardice and treason. 

 And the council declares, more- 

 over, that the general is guilty of 

 extortion and embezzlement, since 

 it appears in evidence, that he did 

 receive, or caused to be received, 

 for his own private benefit and use, 

 from the year 1803 to the year 

 1806, the sum often Dutch stivers, 

 or twenty sous Tournois for each 

 half anker of Geneva which was 

 exported. (Signed) 



Count Kampon. 



Count d'ALZvELLE, vice-ad. 



Herenoud. 



Counts SoNGER and Bason. 

 The above sentence was confirm- 

 ed by the emperor and king on the 

 6th inst. and ordered to be trans- 

 mitted to the minister at war, for the 

 purpose of being carried into exe- 

 cution against the delinquent. 



The folloxving Decree ijoill assist in 

 explaining the Designs of Jiuo- 

 naparte, with regard to one ex- 

 temivc branch of the Hanseatic 

 League. — Imperial Edict. 



"Hamburgh, Nov. 17. 

 *' It is hereby publicly notified, 

 that ail colonial produce is prohi- 

 bited to be imported into, or ex- 

 ported from, our city of Hamburgh, 

 tVom the date hereof. Should it be 

 attempted in disobedience to this 

 decree, to convey any such produce 

 to or from our taid city, cither by 



land or water, the carriages or ships 

 so employed, and the merchandize 

 so transmitted, shall be put under 

 confiscation. The minister of fi- 

 nances is ordered to carry this de- 

 cree into execution. 

 "Given at the royal pa- 

 lace of Fontainbleau, 

 this 29th day of Oc- 

 tober, &c." 

 (Signed and countersigned as 



usual). 

 The immediate occasion of this 

 decree was the smuggling practised 

 at Hamburgh. The ingenuity of 

 trade is infinite, and its resources 

 are inexhaustible. Those who are 

 acquainted with this truth, will hear 

 with incredulity that 5 or 600 wo- 

 men were engaged by the merchants 

 of Hamburgh daily, to convey into 

 the city each of them 14 pounds 

 of coffee and other produce con- 

 cealed beneath their garments, by 

 which expedient an immense quan- 

 tity found its way into the ware- 

 houses of the dealers. 



Divorce of the Empress Josephiiie, 

 Dec. 17, 1809. 



By desire of his majesty the em- 

 peror, all the members of the se- 

 nate assembled yesterday, at eleven 

 o'clock in the morning, in full dress, 

 in the hall of their usual sittings. 

 The sitting of the senate yesterday, 

 at which the kings of Westphalia 

 and Naples, grand admiral the 

 prince viceroy of Italy, the arch- 

 chancellor of state, the prince 

 vice-grand constable, and the 

 prince vice- grand elector assisted, 

 and at which the prince arch-chan- 

 cellor of the empire presided, will 

 form, on account oi the importance 



of 



