TITLE V. Of the Guard of the minor Emperor. 29. The Guard of the minor Emperor, the superintendence of his Household, and the care of his education, shall be confided to his Mother.-30. In default of a Mother, or of a Prince designated by the deceased Emperor, the care of the Emperor is confided by the Council of Regency to one of the Princes titulated the Grand Dignities of the Empire.-31. This choice shall be made by a scrutiny, and carried by an absolute majority of voices; in case of being equal, the Regent shall decide. TITLE VI. shall take, within three months after the -36. The Prince Arch-Chancellor, assisted by the Minister Secretary of State, shall form a proces verbal of this oath. The Act shall be signed by the Empress or the Regent, by the Princes, the Grand Dignitaries, the Ministers, and the great Officers of the Empire. TITLE VIII. Of the Administration of the Imperial Domains, and of the Disposition of the Revenue in case of a Minority and Regency. On the Oath to be taken by the Empress Regent, and that of the Prince Regent, for the exercise of the Regency. Section I. Of the Empress Regent's Oath. 32. If the Empress Regent has not taken the oath during the Emperor's life-time, for the exercise of the Regency, she shall take it within three months next following the Emperor's decease.-33. The oath shall be taken by the minor Emperor, seated on his throne, assisted by the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, the French Princes, the Council of Regency, the Cabinet Ministers, the great Officers of the Empire and the Crown, the Ministers of State, and the Grand Eagles of the Legion of Honour, in presence of the Senate and of the Council of State.-34. The oath to be taken by the Empress is conceived in these terms:-I swear fidelity to the Emperor; I swear to conform myself to the Acts of the Constitution, and to observe the dispositions made by the Emperor, my Consort, for the exercise of the Regency, not to consult in employing my authority, aught else than my love and devotion for my Son and for France, and faithfully to return to the Emperor on his coming of age the powers confided to me. I swear to maintain the integrity of the territory of the Empire; to respect, and cause to be respected, the Laws of the Concordat, and the Liberty of 39. When the decease of the Emperor Religious Worship; to respect, and cause shall take place, the Prince Arch-Chanto be respected, equality of Rights, Civil cellor of the Empire, or in default of him, Liberty; and the irrevocability of the Sales the first in rank of the Grand Dignitaries, of the National Effects; not to raise any shall cause seals to be put on the chests of Imposts, nor establish any Tax, but for the treasure of the Private Domains, by the Seuse of the State, and according to the fun-cretary of State to the Imperial Family, in damental Laws of the Monarchy, to main- presence of the Grand Judges, of the Chantain the Institution of the Legion of Honour, cellor of the Senate, and the Intendant Geand to govern with the sole view of the in-neral of the Private Domains.- -40. It terest, welfare, and glory of the French People. Sec. 1.-Of the Regent's Oath. 35. The Prince called to the Regency Section 1.-Of the Crown Funds. 37. During the Regency, the administration of the Crown Funds shall continue according to the rules established. The use to which the revenues are to be employed is fixed in the usual forms, under the authority of the Empress Regent, or of the Regent.38. The expense of their house-keeping, and their personal expenses, shall form part of the Grown Budget. Section 2.-Of the Private Domains. shall be proceeded with according to the orders of the Family Council, to take inventories of the funds and articles of moveables, by the Secretary of State to the Im Sec. 3.-In cases not foreseen. perial Family, assisted by the persons no- | the commencement of a minority, without minated in the preceding article.-41. its having been foreseen by the Emperor The Council of the Family will attend to previous to his decease, the powers of the the execution of the dispositions of the Se- Ministers shall be prorogued till the Renatus Consultum of the 30th Jan. 1810, gent's arrival, as is before mentioned in concerning the Partition of the Effects of Article 48. the Private Domains. The funds belonging to the Emperor, after this partition, shall be thrown by the Treasurer of the Private Domains into the Imperial Treasury, under the care of the Family Council, and placed in the most beneficial manuer. 42. The produce of the same shall be successively added to the principal, and the whole remain in reserve until the Emperor become of age. 43. Account shall be rendered of all these operations by the Family Council to the Empress Regent, or Regent, who will give the definitive authorization for placing them out. Sec. 3.-0f the Extraordinary Domains. 51. If in the absence of the Emperor, major or minor, or in the absence of the Regent, the Government being in the hands of the Council of Ministers, presided over by a Grand Dignitary, there should be presented, for resolving any questions not decided by the present Act, the said Council of Government, performing the functions of a Privy Council, shall put in form the projet of the Senatus Consultum, and cause to be presented to the Senate by two of its Members. TITLE IX. Of the Anointing and Coronation of the 44. The Empress Regent, or the Prince Regent, shall dispose of, if they judge con- 52. The Empress Mother of the Heredivenient, all the funds of 50,000 franks in-tary Prince, King of Rome, may be anointterest and upwards which have been made ed and crowned.- -53. This prerogative before the minority, without having been shall be accorded to the Empress by letters disposed of, or caused to be returned to the patent, published in the customary forms, Extraordinary Domains of the Crown dur- and which shall be besides addressed to the ing the Regency.-45. The other funds Senate, and entered in their registers.remain in reserve until the Emperor comes 54. The coronation shall take place in the of age. 46. The Administration of the Basilique of Notre Dame, or in any other Extraordinary Domains shall continue, ac- church designated in the letters patent. cording to the established rules, as is said before, concerning the Domains of the Crown.- -47. The funds which may be found in the Treasury of the Extraordinary Domains, at the time of the Emperor's decease, shall be thrown into the Treasury of the State, and there remain till the Empe-life-time.ror comes of age. TITLE VIII. Sec. 1. In case of the Emperor or Regent's Absence. -In case of the Emperor's Absence. 48. If, at the moment of the Emperor's decease, his successor is out of the territory of the Empire, the powers of the Ministers shall be prorogued until that the Emperor is arrived in the territory of the Empire. The first in rank of the great Dignitaries shall preside in the Council which governs the State, under the form of a Council of Government. The deliberations there shall be taken by an absolute majority of votes; the President having a casting vote in case of being equal.- -49. All the Acts shall be made in the Emperor's name, but he shall not commence exercising the Imperial power until he is within the territory of the Empire. Sec. 4.-In case of the Regent's Absence. 50. In case of the Regent's Absence at TITLE X. of the Anointing and Coronation of the Prince, Imperial King of Rome. 55. The Imperial Prince, King of Rome, be anointed and crowned in the Emperor's may in his quality as Heir to the Empire, -56. This ceremony cannot take place but by virtue of letters patent, in the same form as those relative to the coro nation of the Empress.--57. After anointing and coronation of the Prince Imperial King of Rome, the Senatus Consultum laws, regulations, Imperial statutes, decrees, and all other acts emitted by the Emperor, or made in his name, shall bear, besides the indication of the year of his reign, the year of the coronation of the Prince Imperial King of Rome. 58. The present organized Senatus Consultum shall be transmitted by a Message to his Majesty the Emperor and King. The Presidents and Secretaries. The Count de BEAUMONT.: "Gentlemen, Deputies from the Departments to the Legislative Body. We do hereby command and ordain that the Emperor delivered the following these presents, furnished with the Seal of speech: the State, inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws, shall be addressed to the Courts, Tribunals, and other Administrative Authorities, for the purpose of being inserted in their Registers, to be observed and caused to be observed by them; and our Grand Judge, Minister of Justice, is charged with superintending the publication of the same, Given at our Palace of the Thuilleries, the 5th Feb. 1813. Paris, February 14. To-day, Sunday the 14th of February, His Majesty the Emperor and King departed at one o'clock from the Palace of the Thuilleries, in grand state, to proceed to the Palace of the Legislative Body. Salvoes of artillery announced the departure of His Majesty from the Thuilleries, and his arrival at the Legislative Body.[Here follows the route the procession took.] "The war again lighted in the North of Europe offered a favourable opportunity to the projects of the English upon the Peninsula. They have made great efforts. All their hopes have been deceived.-Their army was wrecked before the citadel of Burgos, and obliged, after having suffered great losses, to evacuate the Spanish territory. I myself entered Russia. The French arms were constantly victorious, in the fields of Ostrowno, Polotsk, Mohiłow, Smolensk, Moscow, Molairadslavitz. The Russian armies could not stand before our armies. Moscow fell into our power! Whilst the barriers of Russia were forced, and the impotency of her arms acknow ledged, a swarm of Tartars turned their parracidal hands against the finest provinces of that vast empire, which they had been called to defend. They in a few weeks, notwithstanding the tears and despair of the unfortunate Muscovites, burned more than four thousand of their finest villages-more than fifty of their finest towns; thus gratifying their ancient hatred, under the pretext of retarding our march, by surrounding us with a desert. We triumphed over all these obstacles! Even the fire of Moscow, by which in four days they annihilated the fruits of the labours and cares of four generations, changed in no respect the prosperous state of my affairs.- But the excessive and premature rigour of the winter brought down a heavy calamity on my army; in a few nights I saw every thing change! I experienced great losses! They would have broken The President of the Legislative Body and 25 deputies received His Majesty at the bottom of the staircase, and conducted him to the apartment prepared to receive him. The Deputation from the Senate and Council of State having taken their places, and Her Majesty the Empress being seated on the throne, in front of the Emperor's throne, accompanied by Her Majesty the Queen Hortense, and surrounded by the Officers of her Household, the Diplomatic Corps occupied a Tribune to the right.my heart, if, under such circumstances, I The Emperor, after having rested himself in his apartment, went to the hall of the Legislative Corps, preceded by his suite. On the entry of His Majesty all the Deputies arose. His Majesty seated himself upon his throne, the Princes, Grand Dig-great-her hopes had no bounds; she ofnitaries, &c. having taken their places according to their rank. -The Emperor being seated, the Grand Master of the Ceremonies took His Majesty's orders for opening the Sitting.The Prince ViceGrand Elector demanded His Majesty's permission to present to him the Members of the Legislative Corps lately elected, and allow them to take the oath.- One of the Officers called over the names, and the oath was taken.This being finished, ་ could have been accessible to any other sentiments than those of the interest, the glory, and the future prosperity of my people.- On seeing the evils which pressed upon us, the joy of England was fered our finest provinces as the reward of treason-she made as the conditions of peace the dismemberment of this vast empire: it was, under other terms, to proclaim perpetual war.The energy of my people under these great circumstances; their attachment to the integrity of the empire; the love which they have shewn me, have dissipated all these chimeras, and brought back our enemies to a more just consideration of things.The misfor After the Speech, the Sitting terminated, and His Majesty retired amidst acclamations.-/Moniteur, Feb. 15). tunes produced by the rigour of hoar frosts | manufactures, and of our interior comhave been made apparent in all their ex- merce, as well as the still constant increase tent. The grandeur and the solidity of of our population. In no age has agriculthis empire, founded upon the efforts and ture and manufactories been carried to a the love of fifty millions of citizens, and higher degree of prosperity in France.upon the territorial resources of one of the I want great resources to meet the expenses finest countries in the world.—It is with which circumstances demand; but by means lively satisfaction that we have seen our of the different measures which my Mipeople of the kingdom of Italy, those of mister of Finances will propose to you, I ancient Holland, and of the United De- shall not impose any new burdens on my partments, rival with Old France, and people." feel that there is for them no future hope but in the consolidation and the triumph of the Grand Empire.--The agents of England propagate among all our neighbours the spirit of revolt against Sovereigns; England wishes to see the whole Continent become a prey to civil war, and all the furies of anarchy; but Providence has designed her herself to be the first victim of anarchy and civil war.I have signed with the Pope a Concordat which terminates all the differences that unfortunately had arisen in the Church.--The French dynasty reigns, and will reign in Spain. I am satisfied with all my allies: I will abandon none of them. I will maintain the integrity of their States. The Russians shall return into their frightful climate. Paris, February 13. His Serene Highness the Prince ArchChancellor of the Empire appeared on this day, Saturday, the 13th of February, in the Senate, by order of His Majesty the Emperor and King, for the purpose of presiding at the Sitting. His Serene Highness having been received with the usual ceremonies, caused the Concordat, signed at Fontainbleau, the 25th of January, 1813, between His Majesty the Emperor and King, and his Holiness Pius VII. to be read by one of his Secretaries. CONCORDAT. His Majesty the Emperor and King, and his Holiness, being inclined to put a termination to the differences which have arisen between them, and to provide against the difficulties that have taken place in several affairs concerning the Church, have agreed upon the following articles, which are to serve as the basis for à definitive arrangement: -I desire peace; it is necessary to the world.-Four times since the rupture which followed the treaty of Amiens, I proposed it in a solemn manner. I will never make but an honourable peace, and one conformable to the interests and grandeur of my empire. My policy is not mysterious; I have stated all the sacrifices I could make.- So long as this maritime war shall last, my people must hold themselves ready to make all kind of sacrifices; Art. 1. His Holiness shall exercise the because a bad peace would make us lose Pontificate in France, and in the Kingdom every thing even hope and all would be of Italy, in the same manner and same comprised, even the prosperity of our de- forms as his predecessors.2. The Amscendants. America has had recourse bassadors, Ministers, Charge d'Affaires, to arms, to make the sovereignty of her of Foreign Powers, to the Holy Father, flag respected the wishes of the world ac- and the Ambassadors, Ministers, or Charge company her in this glorious contest, If d'Affaires, whom the Pope may have with she terminates it by obliging the enemies Foreign Powers, shall enjoy such immuniof the Continent to acknowledge the prin- ties and privileges as are enjoyed by the ciple that the flag covers the merchandize Diplomatic Body.3. The domains and crew, and that neutrals ought not to which were possessed by the Holy Father, be subject to blockades upon paper, the and that have not been alienated, shall be whole conformable to the stipulations of the exempted from all kinds of imposts, and Treaty of Utrecht, America will have creshall be administered by his Agents or dit from all nations; posterity will say, Charge d'Affaires. Those which were that the old world had lost its rights, and alienated shall be replaced, to the amount that the new one re conquered them.of two millions of francs in revenue. My Minister of the Interior will explain to 4. Within the space of six months followyou in the Exposé of the situation of the ing the notification of the usage of nominaempire, the prosperous state of agriculture, tion by the Emperor to the Archbishopricks NORTHERN WAR. Armies. and Bishopricks of the Empire and Kingdom of Italy, the Pope shall give the canonical institutions in conformity with the Official Intelligence from the Russian Concordat, and by virtue of this present indulto. The preluding information shall be given by the Metropolitan. The six months being expired without the Pope having accorded to the institution, the Metropolitan, or in default of him, where a Metropolitan is in question, the oldest bishop of the province, shall proceed to the institution of the new Bishop, so that a seat shall never be vacant longer than one year. -5. The Pope shall nominate to the ten Bishopricks either in France or in Italy, which shall finally be designated by mutual consent.- -6. The six suburb bishopricks shall be re-established;-they shall be at the nomination of the Pope. The property actually existing shall be restored, and measures shall be taken for recovering what has been sold. At the death of the Bishop of Anagni and Rieti, their dioceses shall be re-united to the six bishopricks before mentioned, conformably with agreement which shall take place between His Majesty and the Holy Father.-7. With regard to the bishops of the Roman states, who are through circumstances absent from their dioceses, the Holy Father may exercise his right of giving bishopricks, in partibus, in their favour. A pension shall be given to them equal to the revenue before enjoyed by them, and they may be replaced in the vacant seats, either in the empire, or in Italy.-8. His Majesty and his Holiness will at a proper time concert with each other on the reduction to be made, if it should take place, in the bishoprick of Tuscany, and the country of Genoa, as likewise for the bishopricks to be established in Holland, and in the Hanseatic departments.- 9. The Propaganda, the Penitentiary, and the Archives shall be established in the place of the Holy Father's abode.-10. His Majesty restores his good favour to those cardinals, bishops, priests, and lay brethren, who have incurred his displeasure in consequence of actual events.11. The Holy Father agrees to the above dispositions, in consideration of the actual state of the Church, and in the confidence with which His Majesty has inspired him, that he will grant his powerful protection to the numerous wants which Religion suffers in the times we live in. The Commander in Chief of the Armies, Marshal Prince Kutusow of Smolensk, has presented to his Imperial Majesty the continuation of the Journal of military operations, from the 30th December to the 4th January (N. S.) which contains as follows: Dec. 18 (30).-Major-General Prince Orousoff has, on the 15th (27th) inst. joined the army, with five complete regiments, which are under his orders, and are intended to complete it. Major-General Ignateef, on the 13th (25th) instant, caused a battalion of Kourinski infantry, and a detachment of the regiment of Lithuanian Uhlans, to depart from the fortress of Bobrynsk for Lithuania. Dec. 19 (31).-General Count states, under date of the 17th (29th), that Lieutenant-Colonel Teninhan, who was at Ragnet with his detachment, having received advice that a large body of the enemy's cavalry had shown themselves on the road to Tilsit, immediately put himself in motion to meet them. He discovered four squadrons of Prussian hussars, who were immediately attacked and broken by the Cossacks. We took from the enemy three officers and fifty soldiers. Lieutenant-Colonel Tettenborn perceiving that the enemy was reinforcing himself with infantry and dragoons, and that he had artillery with him, retired to Lenken and placed his advanced guard at Upper Erseln. After occupying Gumbinnen and Insterbourg, we took 81 prisoners in pursuing the enemy as far as Wehlau. The Aid-de-Camp General Wassiltchikoff reports, that four regiments of Don Cossacks had, on the 10th (22d) inst. united with his detachment. He likewise mentions, under date of the 15th (27th), that the Austrian corps under the orders of Prince Schwartzenberg had parted at Tikotchine, and taken two different routes; his left wing takes the way of Wisna and Lomza to Ŏstrolenka, and he is putting himself in order to pursue the enemy with all celerity. Col. Joussisowitsch, whom he has in the meanwhile detached with two regiments of Cossacks and Charkoff's regiment of dragoons on the road to Wysokomasowetz, is likewise to pursue the enemy and keep a communication with his corps. Dec. 20 (Jan. 1).-Lieutenant-General Baron Von Sacken reports, under date of the 17th (29th), that Major-General Count |