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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



conscripts of 1811 were placed at 

 the disposal of the minister of 

 war. For recruiting the naval 

 force, it was decreed that the ma- 

 ritime departments should each 

 year furnish a certain number of 

 young mariners, from the age of 

 twelve to sixteen ; at which time 

 of life they could be trained up 

 for sea affairs with greater ad- 

 vantage than at a later period. 



The Count de Lacepede, on 

 bringing up the report to the se- 

 nate of the Senatus Consullum, for 

 the disposal just mentioned of land 

 conscripts, said, that " the new 

 departments had acquired rights, 

 to contribute to the military con- 

 scription ; and that consequently 

 the contingent to be furnished by 

 each department would be consi- 

 derably less than it had been for 

 some years. The departments or 

 districts that were to furnish their 

 quota of youths for the marine 

 service, were exempted from the 

 land conscription." 



Amsterdam was to rank as the 

 third city in the French empire. 

 Paris was the first; the second 

 Rome. In the annual statement 

 presented to the emperor for the 

 year 1811, the whole population 

 of the French empire, before the 

 annexation of Rome,* Holland, 

 the Valais, and the Hanse Towns, 

 amounted to SSjOSOj^'iS persons, 

 without reckoning the military 

 actually bearing arms. It was, 

 after that annexation, computed 

 at about 43,000,000. 



The electorate of Hanover was 

 annexed to the kingdom of West- 



phalia. It was divided into three 

 departments, and the name of 

 Hanover abolished. The French 

 conscription laws were also intro- 

 duced into the kingdom of Naples. 

 The conscription law was also in- 

 troduced into that of Denmark. 

 A corps of French marched to 

 Lubeck. The peninsula of Jut- 

 land was completely isolated, and 

 wholly at the mercy of France. 

 By a royal decree, the Jews were 

 to be included in all military levies 

 in Denmark. A census was taken 

 throughout the grand duchy of 

 Warsaw ; a prelude to the esta- 

 blishment of the conscription law 

 in that country. 



While Buonaparte amused the 

 French with magnificent projects 

 and promises, and a display of the 

 extent and population of the em- 

 pire, he was employed in rivetting 

 their chains by improving his sys- 

 tem of spying and imprisonment. 

 It was that in Paris both men 

 and maid servants should have 

 their names registered in a book 

 to be kept by the prefect of the 

 police, and be ready to produce on 

 demand acertificate of inscription. 

 They were all of them, on their 

 appearance at the office, to be pro- 

 vided with a character from some 

 householder. The whole of the 

 servants of tlie capital were thus 

 so many tools that might be em- 

 ployed by the secret agents of the 

 emperor. By compelling the 

 young men, too, to appear from 

 time to time before the board of 

 police, he might seize as many of 

 them as he might choose for the 



• Rome had been annexed by the fiat of Buonaparte and actual possession in 

 1809 ; though the decree had not gone through the formality of a Senatus Consul- 

 turn till February, 1810. 



