or sooner if possible.-Done and signed at We have approved, and do approve, the above treaty, in all and each of its articles therein contained; we declare, that it is accepted, ratified, and confirmed; and we promise, that it shall be inviolably observed. In faith of which, we have given these, presents, signed with our hand, counter-signed, and scaled with our Imperial Seal. At the Palace of Schoenbrunn, 27th December, 1805. By the Emperor NAPOLEON. The Minister Sec. of State, H. B. MARET. The Minister of Foreign Relations, Ch. Maur. TALLEYRAND. and, if necessary, to do still more than we have done against those who attack our henour, or suffer themselves to be misled by the gold of the eternal enemy of the Contineut. (Signed) NAPOLEON. Proclamation of the Emperor Napoleon to the Inhabitants of Vienna; dated Schoenbruna, December 27, 1805. Inhabitants of Vienna!--I have signed a peace with the Emperor of Austria. As I am about to return to my capital, I must ex-" press to you the esteem I entertain for you, and the satisfaction I have felt at your con duct, during the time you were under my laws. I have given you an example, which hitherto has had no parallel in the history of nations; ten thousand men of your national guards have remained armed, and have guarded your gates; your whole arsenal has continued in your power, while I have fol CONTINENTAL WAR -Proclamation of the Emperor Napoleon previous to his Departure from Schoenbrunn, dated Decem-lowed the uncertain forttine of war. I have ber 27, 1806., pier days will arise for you, and for the Continent.- Inhabitants of Vienna, I have shewn myself little among you, not from contempt, or vain pride; no; but not to diminish the feelings of esteem for that Monarch, with whont I was desirous to conclude a speedy peace. As I am now about to leave you, receive from me, as a present, your arsenal, untouched, which, by the laws of war, had become my property; make use of it, for the maintenance of good order.All the evils you have suffered, you must ascribe to the calamities, inseparable from war; and every kind of indulgence with which my armies have treated these countries, to the esteem which you have deserved. (Signed) NAPOLEON. trusted to your honour, your sincerity, your Soldiers, Peace between me and the integrity, and you have justitied my confiEmperor of Austria is signed. You have, dence. Inhabitants of Vienna, I know that in this late season of the year, made two you consider that war as blameable, which a campaigns. You have performed every minister, devoted to a foreign power, has thing I expected from you. I am setting kindled on the Continent. Your Sovereign out to return to my capital. I have prois informed of the conduct of that minister; moted and distributed rewards to those who he has, in consequence, actéd-entirely achave distinguished themselves most. I will cording to the great qualities which distinperform to you every thing I have promised.guish him; and I hope, that hereafter, hapYou have seen that your Emperor has shared with you all dangers and fatigues; you shall likewise see him surrounded with all that grandeur and splendour, which becomes the Sovereign of the first nation in the world, In the beginning of the month of May, I will give a grand festival at Paris; you shall all be there; and we shall then see, whether we are called by the happiness of our country, and the interest of our glory.-Soldiers, during the three months which are necessary for your return to France, be the example of all armies; you have now to give examples, not of courage and intrepidity, but of strict discipline. May my allies have no more to complain of your behaviour. Conduct yourselves, on your arrival in that sacred territory, like children in the bosom of their family; my people will conduct themselves towards you, as they must do towards their heroes and their defenders.--Soldiers, the thought that I shall see you all, in less than half a year, assembled round my palace, is pleasing to my heart; and I feel, before hand, the most delightful emotions. We will celebrate the memory of those who, in these two campaigns, have fallen in the field of honour. The world shall see that we are ready to follow their example; FOREIGN OFFICIAL PAPERS. FRANCE.Speech of the Arch Chancellor of the French Empire at the Sitting of the Senate, January 14, 1805. Gentlemen; If the Prince Grand Elector were still among us, you would have received from his hands the communication which his Majesty the Emperor and King orders me to make to you. The lets ter his Majesty addresses to the senate has for its object, to inform you of two impor tant transactions: one, the marriage of the Prince Eugene with the Princess Augusta, daughter of his Majesty the King of Bavaria: the other is, the treaty of peace with the Emperor of Austria, concluded at Presburgh on the 20th of Dec. 1805, and ratified the next. day at the Palace of Schoenbrun, near Vienna. In communicating to you the articles of which it consists, his Majesty satisfies, at the same time, the desire he feels to commune with you on all the great interests of the state, and his desire of accelerating the publication of this act, which our constitutional laws require that you should be informed the first. "You will see, gentlemen, Letter from the Emperor Napoleon to the have rendered me so many services, and have shewn me so much friendship, an I whose ancestors were constantly united ́in policy and in disposition with France, this proof of my cousideration and my particular esteem. -The marriage is to take place, on the 15th of January, My arrival in the midst of my people will thus be retarded for some days. These days will appear long to my heart, but after having been unceasingly Senators;Peace has been concluded at Presburgh, and ratified at Vienna, between me and the Emperor of Austria. It was my wish at a solemn sitting to inform you myself of the conditions, but having, some time since, agreed with the King of Bavaria on the marriage of my son Prince Engene with the Princess Augusta, his daughter, and being at Munich at the 'noment the celebration of the marriage is about in the establishment of the Prifice Eugene, a to take place, I cannot resist the pleasure of new testimony of the tenderness of his Ma- remaining with the young couple, who are jesty for him, who justifies so well the fine rhodels of their sexes. I am besides desititle his Majesty conferred on him, by rous of giving to the Royal House of Bavanaming him the Child of his adoption..ria, and to the brave Bavarian nation, who Happy Prince, who, called so young to the administration of a great state, has known how to render himself equal to that difficult task, and to shew himself day after day more worthy to imitate the glorious examples in which his youth has been nourished, and will preserve the goodness, the inheritance of which his angust mother has transmitted to him. This marriage manifests how much the Emperor values the good faith of the ancient Honse of Bavaria, whose attach-occupied in the duties of a soldier, I expement to France has never belied itself in any of the epochs of our monarchy; and how much his Majesty is affected by the courage, and devotion of which the Bavarian nation and its illustrious chief, have given him proofs at the hazard of their dearest interests. As to the treaty of peace, each of the conditions it contains, offers new grounds for admiring the magnanimity of Napoleon the Great, who, forced to take arms, has sought no other fruit from his victories, but the glory of laying the foundation of the repose of Europe, by honouring the fidelity of his allies. Your well founded impatience counts with regret the moments, that interrene between you and that, which will restore to us the presence of our Monarch. Be persuaded, gentlemen, that he also feels the desire of being restored to the love of his people. But the picture of the happiness he has made, was an enjoyment too worthy of his heart, to allow him to refuse himself a last look, which increases their happiness, and insures its duration. I place, gentlemen, in the hands of the president, the letter of his Majesty the Emperor and King, and a copy, by express, of the treaty of peace ratified, and I demand a registry of this Consignment. rience a tender relaxation in occupying myself with the business and the duties of a father of a family. Not wishing, however, to delay longer the publication of the treaty of peace, I have ordered, in pursuance of our' constitutional states, that it should be communicated to you without delay, in order that it may be published as a law of the em pire. Done at Munich, the 6th of Jan. 1806. By the Emperor, NAPOLEON. The' Minister Secretary of State, H. B. MARET. DOMESTIC OFFICIAL PAPERS. Proclamation for a General Fast; from the London Gazette, Jan. 21, 1806. GEORGE R.-We, taking into our most serious consideration the just and necessary war in which we are engaged, and putting our trust in Almighty God, that he will graciously bless our arnis both by sea and land, have resolved, and do, by and with the advice of our privy council, hereby command, that a public day of fasting and humiliation be observed throughout those parts of our United Kingdom called England and Ireland, on Wednesday the 26th day of February next ensuing, that so both we and our people may humble ourselves before Al mighty God, in order to obtain pardon of our sins, and in the most devout and solemn manner send up our prayers and supplications to the Divine Majesty, for averting those heavy judgments which our manifold provocations have most justly deserved; and for imploring his blessing and assistance on our arms for the restoration of peace, and prosperity to us and our dominions: and we do strictly charge and command, that the said public fast be reverently and devoutly observed by all our loving subjects in England and Ireland, as they tender the favour of Almighty God, and would avoid his wrath and indignation; and upon pain of such punishment as we may justly inflict on all such as contemn and neglect the performance of so religious and necessary a duty: and for the better and more orderly solemnising the same, we have given directions to the Most Reverend the Archbishops, and the Right Reverend the Bishops of England and Ireland, to compose a form of prayer suitable to this occasion, to be used in all churches, chapels, and places of public worship, and to take care that the same be timely dispersed throughout their respective dioceses. Given at our Court at the Queen's Palace, this 20th day of January, 1806, in the 40th year of our reign. God save the King. [This Gazette also contains a proclamation for a general fast in Scotland, on the 27th February.]. BERKSHIRE PETITION. On the 23d of January, a petition of the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the county of Berks, assembled at the Town Hall, at Reading, on Wednesday the 15th of January 1806, was presented to the House of Commons; setting forth, "that the petitioners, finding that, in pursuance of an act passed in the 44th year of his Majesty's reign, intituled, "An Act for establishing and maintaining a permanent Additional Force for the Defence of the Realm, and to provide for augmenting his Majesty's Regular Forces, and for the gradual reduction of the Militia of England," eleven men only have been raised in the said county by the overseers, and the enormous sum of 6,620 has been imposed upon the county for penalties, beg to represent their opinion, that this failure in raising the men has not been owing to the neglect of the overseers, but to an impossibility of procuring them by men whose duties and Occupations are inconsistent with such an employment; and they conceive that levy ing fines upon parishes, because the overseers fail in doing what is not in their power to do, is inconsistent with justice, operates as a partial and oppressive tax upon the occupiers of landed property, and increases the parish rates, which are already a burthen severely felt, particularly by small farmers and inferior tradesmen; and therefore praying, that the said act may be repealed." DEATH OF MARQUIS CORNWALLIS.-Extract from the Calcutta Gazette Extraordinary, dated Fort William, October 12, 1805. With sentiments of the deepest sorrow and regret, the government announces the decease of the Most Hon. Charles Marquis Cornwallis, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Governor General of the East India Company's Possessions, and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's, and the Honourable Company's land forces in the East Indies. This afflicting and greatly to be deplored event, took place on Saturday the 5th instant, at Ghazepore, in the province of Benares, where his lordship had atrived, in his progress to join and to assume the personal command of the army in the field: as well for the purpose of accomplishing other important objects intimately connected with the interests of the state.-The flag of Fort William to be immediately hoisted half staff high, and to continue so until sunset.-Minute guns, 66 in number, corresponding with the age of the deceased, to be fired from the ramparts of Fort Wil liam.-Similar marks of respect, with the solemnities, suitable to the mournful occasion, to be paid to the memory of Marquis Cornwallis, at all the principal military sta tions and posts dependant upon this presidency; and copies of the preceding orders to be transmitted to the government of Fort St. George, Bombay, and Prince of Wales Island, and also to the government of the British possessions on the Island of Ceylon. By order of government, J. LUMSDEN, Chiet Sec. to the Govt. COBBETT'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES. No. 123 of the Parliamentary Debates, being the First Number of the SIXTH VOlume, and of the Present Session, will be ready for delivery on Wednesday the 5th inst, and may be had of the publishers, Mr. Bagshaw, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden; or Mr. Budd, Pail-Mall.. Printed by Cox and Baylis, No. 75, Great Queen Street, and published by R. Bagshaw, Bow Street, Covent Garden, where former Numbers may be had ; sold also by J. Budd, Crown and Mitre, Pall-Malt. VOL. IX. No. 6.] LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1906. [PRICE 10D. "If a new ministry should grow out of this, the first thing they should do, is, to make an inquiry, a "solemn inquiry, into the state of the nation; and next, in a concise and striking statement, to promulgate, " in a way calculated to carry it to every cottage in the kingdom, the result of such inquiry; so that no one "may be ignorant of the difficulties which they will have to encounter; for, without this precaution, they "will, in the minds of the people, have to answer for the unavoidable consequences of all the follies and "all the crimes of their predecessors."POLITICAL REGISTER, 24 Nov. 1894. 161] SUMMARY OF POLITICS. NEW MINISTRY.After some time spent in the removing of certain difficulties with regard to the Duke of York's power over the army, the arrangement of the new cabinet was finally settled on Sunday last, and the persons to compose it are the following: LORD GRENVILLE, first Lord of the Treasury, and Premier, of course. MR. Fox, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. EARL SPENCER, Secretary of State for the Home Department. MR. WINDHAM, Secretary of State for the War Department and for the Colonies. MR. GREY, First Lord of the Admiralty. EARL MOIRA, Master General of the Ordrance. EARL FITZWILLIAM, President of the LORD VISCOUNT SIDMOUTH, Privy Seal. LORD HENRY PETTY, Chancellor of the LORD ELLENBOROUGH (the Lord Chief Justice) to have a vote in the cabinet. [162 triguers, who were at once his masters and his slaves? His masters at St. James's and his slaves at Whitehall? Where are we to look for the proof of talent or of character amongst them? Is it in their measures that we are to seek for it? Is it in the force they have exhibited since their leader's decease? Is it in their acknowledged, their openlyacknowledged, incapacity to carry on the affairs of the state; cr in the opinious of the people, which so loudly anticipated that acknowledgment? But, supposing that talent had not been wanting amongst them, Was there nothing else to operate against their participation of power? Were they to act upon the principle of exclusion themselves; to persevere in it to the last possible moment of holding their places; and, when, by no trick whatever, they could hold on another day, were they to say, "come; let us all be This is the cabinet. The other appoint-long been protected and cherished, while ments are, many of them, not yet actually made; and, it will, therefore, be better to defer giving a list of them, until it can be given with a certainty of correctness. Much has been said, in the prints employed by the Pitt ministry, against the principle of exclusion, upon which, they assert, the new ministry has been formed, and which has excluded, say they, all "Mr. Pitt's friends." But, when we disapproved of the principle of exclusion, the exclusion of what was it that we meant? The exclusion of great talents and great weight of public character. This was not only what we meant, but what we distinctly expressed; what we have uniformly expressed; and what has now been strictly adhered to; for, where are the talents, or the weight of public character, to be found amongst the tame and servile followers of Mr. Pitt, or amongst those in every man of real worth has been treated as an outcast. The rejection, the janishment, however, of those who had themselves hung on to a system of exclusion, is, though perfectly just, and though essentially necessary, by way of example, a consideration of much less weight than that of avoiding every thing that would tarnish the character, that would excite suspicions as to the integrity, of the new cabinet; and, I put it to the reader, what he would have thought of a cabinet, that should have been in part composed, or that should have admitted into the offices of state out of the cabinet, any, nay any one, of those persons, who, through thick and thin, supported Mr. Pitt in his measures for the screening of Lord Melville? I put it to him, whether he would have expected any thing just or salutary from such a cabinet? Would he have had any confidence in its honour or |