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pope a concordat, which terminates all the differences 
that unfortunately had arifen in the church. The French 
dynafty reigns, and will reign, in Spain. I am fatisfied 
with all my allies. I will abandon none of them. I will 
maintain the integrity of their Hates. The Ruffians Jhall 
return into their frightful climate .—I defire peace; it is ne- 
ceffary to the world. Four years after the rupture which 
followed the treaty of Amiens, I propofed it in a (bleinn 
manner. I will never make but an honourable peace, 
and one conformable to the interefts and grandeur of my 
empire. My policy is not myfterious; I have Hated all 
the facrifices i could make.—So long as this maritime vrar 
ih'all laH, my people mult hold theinlelves ready to make 
all kinds of facrifices, becaufe a bad peace would make us 
lofe every thing—even hope—and all would be compro- 
mifed—even the profperity of our defcendants.—America 
has had recourfe to arms, to make the fovereignty of her 
flag refpeCted. The willies of the world accompany her 
in this glorious contefl. If flie terminate it by obliging 
the enemies of the continent to acknowledge the principle 
that the flag covers the merchandife and crew, and that 
neutrals ought not to be fubjeCt to blockades upon paper, 
the whole conformable to the flipulations of the treaty 
of Utrecht, America will have credit from all nations : 
poflerity will fay, that the old world had loll its rights, 
and that the new one re-conquered them.—My minifler 
of the interior will explain to you in the expofe of the 
fituation of the empire, the profperous Hate of agriculture, 
manufactures, and of our interior commerce, as well as the 
flill-conflant increafe of our population. In no age have 
agriculture and manufactures been carried to a higher degree 
of profperity in France.— I want great refources to meet 
the expenfes which circumflances demand ; but, by means 
of the different meafures which my minifter of finances 
will propofe to you, I fliall not impofe any new burthen on my 
people." 
One of the principal cares which Bonaparte took before 
again leaving the French territory was to provide againfi 
any fliock from the pofiible event of his death, by a formal 
legiflative provifion for a regency, in the emprefs-mother, 
during the minority of the king of Rome ; and, to make 
this arrangement as impofing as pofiible, the emprefs and 
tier fon were to be crowned by the pope. To obtain this 
lafl influence, he had an interview with the detained pon¬ 
tiff at Fontainebleau, and a concordat w as mutually flgned, 
which arranged all the differences between the pope and 
emperor, and obtained for the Gallic church the fanCtion 
of the fuccefior of St. Peter. 
If we turn our attention towards Ruffia, we fliall find 
that the emperor was not remifs in preparing himfelf to 
vifit the French with the fame calamities they had inflicted 
upon his people; and to that purpofe he iifued two pro¬ 
clamations through the organ of prince Koutoufoff-Smo- 
jenfko: both are fpirited, and breathe revenge againft the 
tyrant of France; and are full of affUrances that the inten¬ 
tion of the emperor is not to make conqifefts, but molt 
certainly to effeCt, in a folid and lafling manner, the de¬ 
liverance and affranchifement of Germany. He fays : 
s ‘At the moment of my ordering the armies under my 
Command to pafs the Pruffian frontier, the emperor, my 
mafler, direCts me to declare, that this flep is to be confi- 
dered in no other light than as the inevitable confequence 
of the military operations. Faithful to the principles 
which have aCtuated his conduCt at all times, his imperial 
majefty is guided by no view of conquefl. The fenti- 
ments of moderation which have ever chaiaCterized his 
policy are Hill the fame, after the decifive fucceffes with 
•which Divine Providence has bleffed his legitimate efforts. 
Peace and independence (hall be their refult. Thefe his 
majefty offers, together with his affiftance, to every peo¬ 
ple, who, being at prefent obliged to oppole him, fliall 
abandon the caufe of Napoleon, in order to follow that of 
their real intereft. I invite them to take advantage of the 
fortunate opening which the Ruffian armies have produced, 
and.to unite themfelves with them in the purfuit of an 
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enemy whofe precipitate flight has difcovered his lots of 
power. It is to Prvffia in particular that this invitation is ad- 
dreffed. It is the intention of his imperial majefty to put 
an end to the calamities by which (he is opprefled, to de- 
monftrate to her king the friendfhip which he preferves 
for him, and to refiore to the monarchy of Frederic its 
eclat and its extent. He hopes that his Pruffian majefty, 
animated by fentiments which this frank declaration 
ought to produce, will, under fuch circumflances, take 
that part alone which the wiflies of his people and the 
interefts of his Hates demand. Under this conviction, the 
emperor, my mafler, has lent me the mofl pofitive orders 
to avoid every thing that could betray a f’pirit of hoftility 
between the two powers ; and to endeavour, within the 
Pruffian provinces, to foften, as far as a Hate of war will 
permit, the evils which, for a fliort time, mult refult from 
their occupation.” 
The other, which feems more direCfly to iffue from the 
emperor himfelf, runs as follows: “When the emperor 
of all tile Ruffias was compelled, by a war of aggreflion, 
to take arms for the defence of his Hates, his imperial 
majefly, from the accuracy of his combinations, was ena¬ 
bled to form an eftimate of the important refults which 
that war might produce with refpeCt to the independence 
of.Europe. The molt heroic conflancy, thegreatefl facri¬ 
fices, have led to a feries of triumphs ; and w lien the com¬ 
mander-in-chief, prince Koutoufcff-Smolenfko, led his 
victorious troops beyond the Niemen, the fame principles 
ltill continued to animate the fovereign. At no period 
has Ruffia been accultomed topraCfife that art (too much 
reforted to in modern wars,) of exaggerating by falfe 
fiatements the fuccefs of her arms. But, with whatever 
modefly her details might now be penned, they would ap¬ 
pear incredible. Ocular witneffes are neceffary to prove 
the faCts to France, to Germany, and to Italy, before the 
flow progrefs of truth will fill tliofe countries with mourn¬ 
ing and conflernation. Indeed it is difficult to conceive 
that, in a campaign of only four months duration, 130,000 
prifoners fliould have been taken from the enemy, befides 
900 pieces of cannon, 49 Hand of colours, and all the wag¬ 
gon-train and baggage of the army. A lift of the names 
of all the generals taken is hereunto annexed : it will 
be eafy to form an eflimate from that lift of the number 
of fuperior and fubaltern officers taken. It is fufficient 
to fay, that out of 300,000 men (exciufive of Auflri- 
ans), who penetrated into the heart of Ruffia, not 
30,000 of them, even if they fliould-be favoured by for¬ 
tune, will ever revifit their country. The manner in 
which the emperor Napoleon repafled the Ruffian frontiers 
can afl’uredly be no longer a fecret to Europe. So much 
glory, and io many advantages, cannot, however, change 
the perional difpolitions of his majefly the emperor of all 
the Ruffias: The grand principles of the independence 
of Europe have always formed the bafis of his policy; for 
that policy is fixed in his heart. It is beneath his cha¬ 
racter to permit any endeavours to be made to induce 
the people to refill the oppreffion and to throw off the yoke 
which has weighed them down for twenty years. It is 
their governments whofe eyes ought to be opened by the 
aClual fituation of France. Ages may elapfe before an 
opportunity equally favourable again prefents itfelf; and 
it would bean abide of the goodnefs of Providence not to 
take advantage of this crifis to re-conliruCt the great work 
of the equilibrium of Europe, and thereby to infure pub¬ 
lic tranquillity and individual liappinefs.” Here follows 
the lift of generals taken, amounting to 43. 
Belides thefe bold expreffions of his intentions and plans, 
the emperor Alexander iffiued the following addrefsto his 
troops before he left Wilna :—“ Soldiers 1 Your valour 
anti perfeverance have been rewarded by a renown which 
will never die. Among poflerity your names and deeds 
will pafs from mouth to mouth, from your fons to your 
gralid-child ten and great-grand-children, to the lateft pof- 
terity.—Praife he to the Mofl High! The hand of the Lord 
is with us, and will not forfake us. Already there remains not 
