enemy's column, which had come forward "Sire, The Senate hastens to present at to support the former, and, forcing in on the foot of your Imperial and Royal Majesit, cut every thing down before them. ty's throne, the offering of its congratulaGeneral Konowinzegn, by command of the tions on the happy arrival of your Majesty Field-Marshal, formed the troops on the among your people.The absence of left flank, with the Iscnernosubou regi- your Majesty, Sire, is always a national cament of Cossacks in the van, and com-lamity, while your presence is a blessing manded them to watch the enemy's mo- which fills the whole French people with tions from the town of Krasnoi to the pas-joy and confidence. Your Imperial and sage of the river at Syrokchenge, and to Royal Majesty has laid all the bases of the do him all possible damage. Colonel organization of your vast empire; but many Tschinoushon executed these orders with objects yet remain to be consolidated or exthe greatest success. When towards even-ecuted; and the smallest delay in the coming he saw the enemy approaching, he fell pletion of our institutions is a national missuddenly upon them, took 14 cannon, and fortune.While your Imperial Majesty, did him much damage, by cutting down a Sire, was at eight hundred leagues from considerable number; many were drowned your capital, at the head of your victorious or taken prisoners, and the remainder were armies, attempts were made to disturb dispersed in the woods. The cavalry un-public order in this great capital, by men der command of Adjutant-General Koff, pursued the enemy further, and cut down a number of men. At five o'clock other columns of the enemy came on, intending to force their way through, but twentyfour pieces of artillery caused great havoc among them, whilst the cavalry, having turned them, forced them to send a flag of truce, and ask for quarter. At twelve o'clock at night, the whole enemy's corps laid down their arms, and were made prisoners. In this action the enemy has lost in prisoners, 100 officers and 12,000 men, as likewise 27 cannon, two pair of colours, and two standards. From the 15th to the 19th we have taken prisoners eight Generals, one of whom is since dead of his wounds; as also 300 Officers and 21,170 men, and taken in the whole 209 cannon, exclusive of those left by the enemy at Krasnoi; and 800 ammunition chests, which the Cossacks blew up.ments of our ancient dynasties, Sire, the Petersburgh Gazelle.

FRENCH PAPERS.

who had escaped from prisous, in which your Imperial clemency had saved them from a death, merited by their past crimes. They have paid the penalty of their new offences.Happy France, Sire, whose monarchical constitution places her beyond the reach of civil discord, of the bloody feuds to which party gives birth, and of the horrible distractions which revolutions engender. The Senate, first Council of the Emperor, and whose authority only has existence when the Monarch calls it forth, and puts it in movement, is established for the conservation of that monarchy, and of the hereditary succession to your throne, under our fourth dynasty.- -France and posterity will find it, under all circumstances, faithful to this sacred trust; and all its Members will be always ready to die in defence of that palladium of national security and prosperity.In the commence

Monarch has been more than once seen to ordain, that a solemn oath should, by anticipation, connect the French of all ranks with the heir of the throne; and sometimes, when the age of the young Prince permitted it, a crown was placed upon his

Paris, Dec. day, Sunday, December the 20th, 1812, at noon, the Empe-head, as the pledge of his future authority, ror, being seated on his throne, surrounded and the emblem of the perpetuity of the by the Princes, Grand Dignitaries, Cardi- Government.The affection which the mals, Ministers, Great Officers, Great Eagles whole nation feels for the King of Rome, of the Legion of Honour, and attendants of proves, Sire, both the attachment of the his Majesty, received the Senate, who were French to the blood of your Majesty, and conducted to this audience by a Master and that internal sentiment which re-assures Assistant of the Ceremonies, introduced by every citizen, and which points out to him, his Excellency the Grand Master, and pre-in that august infant, the security of his own sented by his Serene Highness the Prince children, the safeguard of his own fortune, Vice-Grand-Elector. His Excellency M. and an insurmountable obstacle to those inthe Count Lacepede, the President, deli-testine divisions, those civil agitations, and vered the following Address:those political revolutions, which are the

greatest scourges that can afflict nations.
Sire, your Majesty has waved the
French eagles over the towers of Moscow.
The enemy could neither arrest your success
nor thwart your plans, but by resorting to
the frightful resources of despotic govern-
ments-creating deserts on all his frontiers,
carrying conflagration into his provinces,
and delivering to the flames his capital
the centre of his riches, and the growth of
so many ages.-
-Those, Sire, who re-
newed these barbarous tactics of their sa-
vage ancestors, were ill acquainted with
the heart of your Majesty. It would have
voluntarily renounced the trophies which
were to be purchased by so much blood,
and so many woes to humanity.The
ardour with which we see arriving from all
the departments of the empire, under the
colours of your Majesty, the numerous sol-
diers called forth by the Senatus Consultum
of last September, furnishes an example of
what your Majesty may expect from the
zeal, patriotism, and warlike spirit of the
French, to snatch from the influence of our
enemies the various portions of the Conti-
nent, and to conquer an honourable and
solid peace. May your Imperial and
Royal Majesty accept the tribute of the gra-
titude, love, and inviolable fidelity of the
Senate, and the French people.

His Majesty replied as follows

"Senators, What you have said is very agreeable to me. I have at heart the glory and the power of France; but my first thoughts are engaged by every thing that may perpetuate internal tranquillity, and place my people for ever in security against the rage of faction, and the horrors of anarchy. It is upon these enemies of the happiness of nations that, with the consent and love of the French, I have founded this throne, to which henceforward are attached the destinies of the country. -A timid and cowardly soldiery ruin the independence of nations; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and social order itself.

lying cry, The King is dead,—long live the King! These few words comprehend the principal advantages of the monarchy. I believe I have deeply studied the spirit which my people have shewn in different ages; I have reflected on what has happened in different epochs of our history; I will still think of it.--The war which I maintain with Russia is a war of policy. I have waged it without animosity; I could have wished to spare her the misfortunes which she has caused herself. I should have been able to arm the greater part of her population against her, by proclaiming liberty to the slaves; a great number of villages demanded it of me: but when I perceived the brutality of that numerous class of the Russian people, I refused to accede to a measure which would have devoted many families to death and the most horrible punishments. My army has sustained losses; but they arose from the premature severity of the season. -I accept the sentiments which you express towards me."

After this audience, the Council of State, conducted and introduced with the same forms, were presented to his Majesty by his Serene Highness the Prince ArchChancellor of the Empire.

His Excellency M. the Count Defermon, Minister of State, President of the Section of Finances, spoke as follows:

"Sire, the first wish which the Mem bers of your Council of State feel, in common with all your faithful subjects, is to lay at the feet of your Majesty's throne their congratulations on your happy return; and to express the sentiments of gratitude with. which they are inspired, on learning that your Majesty is come to crown by your presence the hopes and wishes of your people. -Whilst in the absence of your Majesty we were employing ourselves in those labours with which you deigned to intrust us, and whilst every moment of our time was occupied in the execution of your orders for the happiness and prosperity of The noblest of deaths would be that of the the empire, we were far from conceiving soldier who falls in the field of honour, that any Frenchman could forget those sawere not the death of a magistrate, perish- cred and protecting principles which have ing in defence of his Sovereign, the throne, extricated us from anarchy, and which and the laws, more glorious still.-When should ever secure us from it.Sire, it I undertook the regeneration of France, I was with the most profound grief that we entreated of Providence a determinate num-witnessed the crime committed by a maniac, who, for a previous offence, had deserved punishment which your Majesty was so generous as to remit; but his attempt has only served to convince our old enemies of the fruitlessness of similar plots, and to

ber of years. Destruction is the work of a moment, but one cannot build up again without the assistance of time. The greatest want of a State is that of courageous magistrates. Our fathers had for their ral

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ideal system, to those dark metaphysics,
which, in pursuing with subtlety the search
after first causes, seek to found upon their
basis the legislation of nations, instead of
accommodating laws to the knowledge of
the human heart, and to the lessons of his-
tory, that we must attribute all the misfor-
tunes which our favoured France has expe-
rienced. These errors necessarily, and in
reality, did lead to the regime of men of
blood. Who proclaimed the principle of
insurrection to be a duty? Who flattered
the people by proclaiming a sovereignty
which it was incapable of exercising? Who
destroyed the sanctity of and respect for the
laws, by making then depend, not upon
the sacred principles of justice, the nature
of things, and of civil justice, but solely
on the will of an assembly composed of
men, strangers to the knowledge of civil,
criminal, administrative, political, and mi-
litary laws? When a man is called to re-
generate a State, he must follow principles
directly opposite. History paints the hu-
man heart; it is in history that he must
search for the advantages and inconveni-
ences of different modes of legislation.
Such are the principles which the State
Council of a great empire should never lose
sight of; it must unite to them a courage
superior to every trial; and, after the ex-
amples of the Presidents Harlay and Molé,
be ready to perish in defence of the Sove-
reign, the throne, and the laws.
-I ap-
preciate the proofs of attachment which the
Council of State has given in circum-
stance. I accept its sentiments."

prove anew the sincere attachment of all the functionaries of the empire to the constitution which your Majesty has given to it. All parties in the empire exhibited proofs of their attachment; and all your subjects have rivalled the public functionaries in respect for principles, and in attachment to your sacred person, and gust Majesty.God, who protects France, will long preserve her from the greatest of misfortunes. But, in such an event, every heart would rally around the Prince who is the object of our hopes and prayers; and every Frenchman would renew at his feet the oaths of fidelity and of love for the Emperor whom the constitution would call to the succession.We have been touched with the recitals contained in the last Bulletin of the Grand Army. What admiration must not be excited by the developement of the most august character during that month of perils and of glory, when the sufferings of the heart could take away none of its vigour from the intellect! What sentiment must not be inspired in a nation truly generous, by the faithful picture of its unforeseen losses, on perceiving that the tutelary genius of France has known how to prevent their effects, and to make them the occasion of new glory! Your Majesty never appeared more fully at the summit of your destinies, than in those moments, when fortune, by arming the elements, seemed to endeavour to remind us that she could be inconstant. -Let our enemies exult, if they please, in the material losses, which the rigour of the season, and the severity of the climate occasioned; but let them calculate our forces; let them Berlin, Jan. 5.-Our Monarch has exlearn that there are no efforts or sacrifices, perienced the most lively indignation at the of which, after the example of your Ma- treason of General D'York, of which he jesty, the French nation is not capable, in yesterday received the afflicting intelliorder to realize your glorious plans.gence. His Majesty the same day ordered return, Sire, for your labours and your pa- the following measures:- -All means shall ternal cares, we can only offer to your Ma- be taken to seize General D'York and send jesty, in common with your whole empire, him to Berlin, where he shall be judged the expression of our sentiments of respect, and punished according to his crine.admiration, and love. We venture to General Kliest is appointed Lieutenant-Gehope, that your Majesty will deign to ac-neral Commandant of the Prussian contincept this tribute with the same goodness with which you have invariably honoured the fidelity and devotion of your Council of

State."

-In

every

gent, in place of General D'York.—He will adopt all the necessary measures for collecting the troops, and conducting them under the orders of his Majesty the King of Naples, into such place as this Prince shall have designated.- -M. de Natzmer, Aid-de-Camp to the King, set out this morning for Konigsberg, charged with a letter, by which his Majesty, after having declared that he could not ratify the Convention concluded by General D'York, con

sidering that the dispositions to be taken in
respect to his troops, belong, according to
the treaty of alliance, to his Majesty the
Emperor, and afterwards to the King of
Naples, as his Lieutenant-General, invites
this Prince to give his orders to Lieute-
nant-General Kliest, and to express them
to Major de Natzmer, who will make
known to the Prussian corps the wishes of
their Sovereign.An Order of the Day
shall be published in all the States of his
Prussian Majesty; and the King of Naples
will be requested to give orders for a simi-
Iar notification to take place in the French
army, to promulgate by all possible ways
the disavowal of the King, and the expres-
sion of his indignation. If General
D'York cannot be arrested he will be tried
for contumacy.-
-We are assured that
Prince de Hatzfeld will immediately pro-
ceed to Paris, to convey to his Majesty the
Emperor the expression of the sentiments
of the King, and to prove these same sen-
timents to the whole of Europe by this bril-
liant mission.

Here follows the Convention which General D'York made with the enemy.

CONVENTION.

from his Majesty the King of Prussia; but.
they engage in the event of his Majesty or-
dering them to rejoin the Imperial French
troops, not to fight against the Russian arms
for two months from the present day.
ART. 3. In the event of his Majesty the
King of Prussia, or of his Majesty the Em-
peror of all the Russias, refusing to ratify
the present Convention, the Prussian corps
shall be at liberty to march wherever the
King shall call it.ART. 4. All strag-,
glers shall be given up to the Prussian
corps, which shall be found on the great
Mittau road, and likewise every thing
which forms a part of the MATERIAL of the
army. In respect to the provisions and
train of the said corps, and every thing be-
longing to it, shall pass without obstacle past
the Russian armies to rejoin from Konigs-
berg, or further, the Prussian corps d'armee.

ART. 5. In the event of Lieut.-Gene

ral D'York's orders being still able to reach Lieutenant-General Massenbach, the troops, which are under the command of the latter, shall be comprehended in the present Convention.-ART. 6. All the prisoners which the Russians, commanded by Major-General Deibetsch, shall make, from To-day the undersigned, viz. the Com- the troops under the orders of General de mander-in-Chief of the Prussian Auxiliary Massenbach, shall likewise be compreCorps, Lieutenant-General D'York, on the hended in this Convention.ART. 7. one side, and the Quarter-Master-General The Prussian corps shall retain the power of the Imperial Russian Army, under the of concerting about every thing which reorders of Count Wittgenstein, Major-Ge- lates to its provisioning, with the provinneral de Deibetsch on the other, after ma-cial Reginurs of Prussia, not even excepting ture deliberation have agreed to the follow-those provinces, which may be occupied by ingthe Prussian arms.. -Done at the Mill of Paschernu, the 18th (30th) Dec. 1812. (Signed) D'YORK,

CONVENTION.-ART. 1. The Prussian Corps shall occupy, in the interior of the Prussian territory, the line along the frontier from Memel and Meminertat to the road from Woinecta to Tilsit. From Tilsit, the road which passes through Schellapeschken and Melanken to Labiaw, and comprehending the towns which it touches, shall determine the extent of the country which the said Prussian Corps is to occupy. This territory shall be bounded on the other side by the Curisch-Haff, so that all this extent shall be considered as perfectly neutral, as soon as the Prussian troops shall have occupied it. It is well understood that the Russian troops are to be allowed to pass and repass upon the great road (Rocites) prescribed; but they shall not take up their quarters in the towns of this arroundissement.- -ART. 2. The Prussian troops shall remain in perfect neutrality, in the arroundissement designated by Art. 1, till the arrival of orders

Lieut.-Gen. in the service of Prussia.
DE DEIBETSCH,
Major-Gen. in the service of Russia.

CONSERVATIVE SENATE.

Sitting of the 10th January.

The Sitting opened at three o'clock in the afternoon, under the Presidency of his Serene Highness the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire. His Excellency the-Minister for Foreign Affairs was present at the Sitting.- -Their Excellencies Counts Regnaud de St. Jean D'Angely, and Deferman, Ministers of State and Counsellors of State being introduced, his Serene Highness the Arch-Chancellor spoke in these terms:

" GENTLEMEN-The nation is of itself disposed to adopt measures which it judges necessary for the maintenance of its glory,