other country, were rendered nugatory by the 
clandestine intercourse carried on between 
Holland and thiscountry. That his master’s 
determination has been quickened by reflect- 
ing, that she is without marine, without the 
meanf for carrying on offensive Gr defensive 
warfare; that during the late expedition, the 
important position of Veere, and the fort of 
Bathz, had been abandoned before the enemy 
appeared : and that in fine, ‘‘ without army, 
without revenue, it might almost be said with= 
gut friends and without allies, the Dutch are a 
society animated only by a regard to their 
commercial interests, and forming a rich, use- 
ful, and respectable company, but not a na- 
tion The duke then declares, that he is 
charged to make known to the Dutch ministry 
and nation, that the present situation of 
Molland is incompatible with the circumstan- 
ees or the situation ian which the new princi- 
ples adopted by England have placed the atf- 
fairs of the empire and the continent. In 
eonseguence his imperial majesty proposes— 
4. To recal home the prince of his blood 
whom he had placed on the throne of Hol- 
Yand. The first dutv of a French prince 
placed in the line of heraditary succession to 
the imperial throne is towards that throne. 
When in opposition to that, all others must 
give way; the first duty of every Frenchman, 
in whatever situation destiny may place him, 
is towards his country. 
2. To occupy all the mouths of the rivers in 
Holland, and all its ports, by French troups, 
as they were from the conquest made by 
France in 1794 tothe moment when his ime 
perial majesty hoped to conciliate every one 
by establishing the throne of Holland. 
“3. ‘To employ every means, and without 
being stopped by any consideration, to make 
Hoiland enter into the continental system, 
and to wrest definitively its ports and coasts 
from the administration which has rendered 
the ports of Holland the principal entreports, 
and the great part of the Dutch merchants 
the brokers, and the commercial agents, of 
England. 
” 
. 
FRANCE, 
Paris, Feb. 17.—At two o’clock this 
day, the senate assembled, under the 
presidency of the Prince Arch-chancellor 
ef the empire, and adopted the fullowing 
sepatus-cousultum: 
Extract from the Records of the Conservative 
« Senate of Feb. 17. 
The Corservative Senate, assembled in 
the number of members prescribed by arti- 
cle xc. of the constitutional act of the i3th 
Dec. 1799, has considered the project of the 
Organic Senatus Consultum, drawa up in the 
form prescribed by article Ivij. the constt- 
tutional act of the 4th of August, 1602, after 
having heard the oraiors ct the council of 
state, and the report of the special commis- 
sion appointed in ihe sitting of the 14th of 
this munth, the adoption being voted by che | 
State of Public Affairs tu March, 
- [April ye 
number of votes prescribed in article lvi. of 
the constitutional act of the 4th of August 
1802, it is decreed as follows:— 
TITLe First.—Of the Union of the Roman 
States to the Empire. 
Art. 1. The state of Rome is united to the 
French empire, and forms an integral part 
thereof. 
2. [t shall be divided into two departments : 
the department of Rome, a 
of Trasimene. : 
3. Thé department of Rome shall send 
seven deputies to the legislative body, The 
department of Trasimene shall send four. 
4. The department of Rome shal! be classed 
in the first series—the department of Tra- 
simene in the second, 
o. A senatory shal! be established in the 
departments of- Rome and Trasimene. 
6. The city of Rome is the second city of 
the empire.—The fpayor of Rome is to be 
present when the emperor takes the oaths on 
his accession. He js to rank, as are also all 
deputations friy@*he city of Rome, on all 
occasions, jm,iatsnly after the mayors or 
deputations of pe cit:y of Paris. 
_ 7. The pince| imperial is to assume the 
title, and <..iye’ the hoaours, of king of 
Rome, . 
and the department ~ 
8. A prince of the blood, ora grand dig - 
nitary of the empire, shall reside at Romes 
who shial! hold the emperor’s court. — 
9. The property which composes the en-~ 
dowments of the imperial crown shall be re- 
gulated by a special senatus consultum. 
10. After having been crowned in the 
church of Notre Dame at Paris, the emperors 
shali, previous to the tenth year of their 
reign, be crowned in the church of St. Peter. 
11. The city of Rome shall enjoy partie 
cular privileges and immunities, which shail 
be determined by the emperor Napoleon. 
Titre Il.—Of the Independance of the In- 
perial Throne of ali authority on Earth. 
12, Every foreign sovereign is incompa- 
tible with the exercise of any spiritual au- 
thority within the territory of the empire. 
15. The popes shall, at their elevation, 
take an oath never to act contrary to the four 
propositions of the Gallician church, adopted 
li an assembly of the clergy in 1682. 
14, The four propositions of the Catholic 
charch are declared common to all the Ca-- 
tholic churches of the empire. : 
~Titce Lil.—Of the temporal Existence of 
the Popes. 
15. Palaces shall be prepared for the pope 
in the different paris of the empire in which 
he may wish to reside. He shall necessarily 
have one at Paris and another at Rome. 
16. Pwo miliions in rural property, free of — 
ali impositions, and lying in different parts of 
the empire, shall be assigned to the pope. 
17. lhe expenses of the sacred college, 
and of the propaganda, shall be declared im- 
perial. 
18, The present organic senatus consul 
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