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i Extractfrom' the'Registers of the Sec ■ jfauBil g; retary of State. - COUNCIL OF .MINISTERS, ’# v ■' Sitting of Sunday12d ofApril. ‘wPjMr^^Tr-li 00 WOtPDED.) . “ The treaty" of Fontainbleaiu has KPtl • been violated by the allied powers, and by the house of Bourbon, in what respects the emperor Napoleon and his family, and in what respects the in- tercsts and the rights of the French na tion, K 1. The empress Meria Louisa and her son were to obtain passports, and an escort to repair tb the empe ror; but far from performing their promise, the husband and wife, father and son, were separated under painful circumstances^ when the firmest mind lias-occasion to seek consolation and Support in family and domestic affec- ’* ■* \ 1 * .. “2. The security "of Napoleon, of If his imperial family and their suit, were ♦ guaranteed (art. 14 of the treaty) by all die powers ;tyet bands of assassins were Organized in France under the eyes bC we French government, and and even by ij;s orders, as will soon be proved by the solemn proceedings against Sieur Demonbreuil. for attack* * Jng the emperor, his brothers, and their wives. In default of success hoped for from this first branch of the plot, an insurrection was prepared at Orgon, on the emperor’s route, in or der that an attempt might be made on jji his life by some brigands. The Sieur BAilart, an associate of Georges, had been sent as governor ao Corsica, in order to be prepared and make sure of the crime; and, in fact, several de tached assassins have attempted, in Isle of Elba, to gain,; by the murder of the emperor, the. base reward which Was promised them. “ 3. The Duchies of Parma and Placentia were given in full property to Maria Louisa, for herself, her son, and their decendantsii - After long re fusal to put her into possession, the in justice Was completed by a complete ^poliation. under the illusory pretext ©fan exchange, without valuation, pro position, or sovereignty, and without her consent. And the documents in the office for foreign affairs prove that it was on the solicitations, and by the intrigues ofthe prince of Benevento, that Maria Louisa and her son were despoiled. ‘‘4. Eugene, the adopted son of Napoleon, was to have obtained a 'suitable establishment out of France, but he has had nothing. “ 5. rThe emperor had , stipulated f.>r the army, the preservation of their rewards, given them on Monte Napo leon.^.; He had-- reserved to himself, first, to recompense his faithful fol- lowers." F.very thing has been taken away, 6nt reserved by the ministers of the Bourbons. M. Bresson, an ageivtfrom the arinv, was dispatched $o-Vienna to assert their claims, but in waitt. -iKfc'x “ 6. The. preservation of the pro- tty; moVeable and immoveable, he wing to the emperor’s family, was prjyidedTor, but all was robbed—-in France cburmissioned brigands, in Ita ly by the violence of the military followers, cither to St. Lucie, or St. several, tlie degradation of the 11 sol Helena, which had been pointed out as his prison. “ And when the allied powers, yield ing to the imprudent wishes, to the cruel instigations of the house of Bour bon, condescended to violate the so lemn contract, on the faith of which Napoleon liberated the French nation from its oaths; when he himself and all the members of his family saw themselves menaced, attacked in their persons, in thrilr properties, in their af- diers, the suppression of their endow- to interfere with her internal affairs* ^ ments, the.depriving themof their pay or their pensions, the reduction of al lowances to the legion of honor, the spoil of their honors, the pre-eminence ofthe decorations of the,feudal mon archy, tire contempt for thebitizeiis, designated of new under the name of the Tiers Etat, the spoliation prepared and already commenced of the pur chasers of national estates, the actual depreciation of the • value of those fections, in all the rights stipulated in ' which was brought to the market, the their favor as princes, in those even reinstatement of feudality into its ti- secured by the laws to private citizens ties, its privileges, its available rights, —what was Napoleon to do ? the re-establishment of ultramontane “ Was he, after enduring so many principles, the abolition of the liberties offences, supporting so many acts of ofthe Gallican Church, the annihila- injustice, to consent to the complete tion of the Concordat, the re-establish- violation of the engagements entered ment of tithes, the reviving intoler- into with him, and resigning himself ance of an exclusive worship, the do- personally to the fate preparedfor him mination of a handful of nobles over a to abandon also his spouse*, his son, people accustomed to equality—this his family, his faithful servants* W-their is what the Bourbons have done or frightful destiny ? . V ^ ’ wished to do for France. ’ : * *« Such a resolution seems .beyond “ It was under such circumstances the endurance of human nature ; and that the emperor Napoleon quitted the yet Napoleon would have embraced it, i island of Elba ; such are the motives if the peace and happines of France had! of the determination taken by him, been the price of this new sacrifice. 1 — A —* •'»- He would have devoted himself for the French people, from whom, as he will declare in the face of Europe, it is “ 7. Napolobrl wasL tQ have received two ihillkms. and hi^fimiUy two mii- lions five hunurra'Siousaiid franks per annum. Tlfe^Fretfch government has constantly refused to^discharge its ciw gagements^amd Napoleon would have soon been obliged to disband his faithful guards for - want of the means of paying-them, had he not found an honorable resource in the conduct of spme bankers and merchants of Genoa and : Italy; r who advanced twelve mil lions, which they had offered to him. “ 8 In fine, it was not without a cause that it was desirable by every means to remove from Napoleon the Ions' of his glory, the unshaken i of his safety and of his exis- •teiica Th« island/>f Elba was assign fA iu ifftiiift* Nnf ^‘Pcdto'him iit pefpctuity, but the reso lution of rit’.'bing him of it was at the ,T.m of fhe Bourbons, fixed . T ^ :..e congress.,,;not Pro- - acne prevented it, ^Europe--would hftvc sfen aafiattempt make on the per-, son and lil>erty of Napoleon, left he ' 1 , | aficffL^ mercy of his enemies, and transported far from fiis friends and Plk.. ~ * his glory to hold every thing, whose good shall be the object of his endea vours* and to whom alone he will be answerable for his actions, and devote his life. “ It was for France alone, and that it might avoid the evils of an intestine war, that he abdicated the crown in 1814. He restored to the French peo ple the rights which he held from them, he left them at liberty to seek a new master, and to found their liberty and their happiness on institutions for the protection of both. “ He hoped for the nation the pre servation of all that it had acquired in twenty-five years of combats and glory, the exercise of its sovereignty in the choice of a dynasty and in stipulations of the conditions on which that dy nasty would be called to reign “ He expected from the NeW Go vernment the respect for the glory of the armies, the rights of the brave, the guarantee of all the new interests, ol those interests which have been in ex istence and supported for half a centu ry, resulting from all the political and civil laws, observed and revered dur ing that time, because they are idem tified with the manners, the habits, and the wants of the nation. “ Far from this, every idea of the sovereignty of the people was set aside. “ The principle on which the whole political and moral legislation has rest ed since the revolution, has equally been set aside. “ France has been treated by the Bourbons, as a revoked country, re conquered by the arms of its ancient masters, and subjected again to the feudal domination. “ Louis Stanislaus Xavier has mis understood the treaty which alone ren dered the throne of France vacant, and the abdication of which alone entitled him to ascend it. “He pretended to have reigned nineteen years; insulting in this man nerthe government established since tlifnime, the people who consecrat ed them by their sufferages, the army which defended them, and-'even the sovereigns who acknowledged them in their numerous treaties “ A charter drawn up by the senate imperfect as it was, has been consign ed to oblivion. “They imposed on France a pretend ed constitutional law, as easy to be eluded as ’ to be revoked, and in the form of simple Royal Ordinances, with out consulting the nation, withont ev en listening to those illegal bodies, the phantoms of the national represen tation. “ And as the Bourbons have issued ordinances without rights, and pro mises without any guarantee, they have eluded them without sincerity* and ex ecuted them without fideliyty. | ^The violation of that, pretended charter-was restrained only byihelini- idity ofthe government, the extent of * e abuse of authority was only limit- l by its weakness, jp^^e ’di^lpeatic^ dJ dispersion of ib officers. n&gS ~ • *% i itfW® and not the consideration of his per sonal interests, which weighs little with him compared to the interests of the nation to whom he has consecrat- edhis existence. - - - ~ “ He has not carried war into the bosom of France ; he has on the con trary, extinguished the war which the proprietors of national estates, form- ing four fifths of the French proprie tors, would have been forced to carry on with their spoliators; the war which the citizens oppressed, degrad ed, and humiliated by the nobles, would have been forced to declare against their oppressors ; the war which the protestants, Jews, and men of different religious professions would, have been forced to maintain against their persecutors. “ He has come to deliver France, and as a deliverer he has been every where received. “ He arrived almost alone ; he ad vanced for 220 leagues without ob stacles, without combats, and ha¥ re sumed, without resistance in the midst of the capital and of the acclamations of the immense majority ofthe citi- zens, the throne abdicated by the Bourbons, who in their army, in their household,, in the national guards, in the people, could aot arm a single per son to endeavor to maintain them in it. • - “ And now, replaced at the head of the nation which had thriee already made choice of him, and which has a fourth time designated him - by the reception which it had given him, in his rapid and triumphant march and arrival; what does Napoleon wish from this nation—by which, and from the interest of which, he wishes to reign ? What the French people wishes ■—the independence of France, inter nal peace, peace with all nations, the execution of the treaty of Paris of the 30th of May, 1814. “ What is tlie change, then, which has taken place in the state of Europe, and in the hope of repose which was promised to it ? What voice is raised to demand assistance, which, accord ing to the declaration, ought only to be given when called for ? Nothing has been changed ; if the they do not wish to inipo&laws on her ( to assign a form of government to heri to give masters to her, to satisfy the t pleasure or passions of her neigh- -. 4 bors* ■ “Nothing has been changed; if * when France is occupied with prepar- -; ing the new social pact which shall guarantee the liberty of her citizens, > £ the triumph of; the ’generous ideas which prevail in Europe, and which cah no longer be suppressed, they do rioi force her to withdraw herself for hostilities from those pacific thoughts and means of internal prosperity, to - which the people and the chief wislk to consecrate themselves in a happier accordance.' “ Nothing has been changed ; if when the French nation only demands to remain at peace with all Europe, an unjust coalition does not force it to defend, as it did in 1792, its will anA'^ its rights, and its independence* and the sovereign of its choice. - - - “ The Minister of State, Preside: of the Section of the Finances," The Count Befekmojt. “ The Minister of State, President of the Section ofthe Interior, The C. Regnaud de St. Jean de’Angely. “ The President of the Section of Legation, • ■■ •.? • k ntijmjjt,; The Count Boulaev ^ “ The President of die Section of War. The Count Airnaipssvr. T> (Certified) : r • j g, ** The Minister Secretary of Spate"*’ The Duke de Bassano.'*’ . ‘ \* they will do, to just and moderate sen timents ; if they acknowledge that the existence of France in a respectable and independent state, as far from con- quering as from being conquered, from dominating as from being subju gated, is necessary to the balance of great kingdoms, aud to the guarantee of small states.- “ Nothing has been changed: if re specting the rights of a great nation which wishes to respect the rights of all others which, high-minded and generous, has been lowered, but never degraded, they allow it to retake a monarch, and give itself a constitution and laws suitable to its manners, its interests, its habits, and its new wants. “ Nothing has been changed; if they do not endeavor to constrain France to submit again to a dynasty which she dislikes, to the feudal chains which she has thrown off, tb the seign - -r ^Eiystad, - . April 22,1815: •. Napoleon, by the grace of God and the constitutions, emperor of ihtr French. ■ * We have decreed, arid do decree as..^ follows : • •* ; ■ -f"..', •' •' Art; 1. For the execution of tlie 33d article, of the supplementary act to tlie constitutions, relative to the re^fW presentation of the commercial and' manufacturing industry and property, France shall be divided into thirteen districts, conformibly to the schedule - here annexed, No, 2. v- w 2. For every district, S23 deputies shall be named ; chosen " first front among the merchants, importers oy bankers; and second, from among the manufacturers or artisans, accord ing to the divisions designated in .the same schedule., v ..' g 3. The duputies shall be named io#i the first place by the electors of the department, pointed out in the first column of the same statement. 4. The deputies shall always > be& chosen from a list ofeligiblecandidai made out by the joint members of chamber of commerce- arm chambers * of commercial consultation ofthe whole commercial circle, who shall choose,' by a majority, a president, vice-presi- . dent and secretaiy. "'•I*' . <■» 5. The assembly dunged forming that list, shall insert M it the merchants who have d^tingiiished. themselves the most by their probity 7 and talents, and who gty the greatest portion of the contributions, whostf tirade is the most considerable in » France or into foreign countries, oiv who employ the most workmen ; and distinguishing thenv by tiie nature of * the commercial operations to which they are devoted. « ^ " « 6* This list shall contain tiO per- r -l, j* x allied powers return, as it is -expected sons for each commercial district,_aijd 120 for the district of Paris ; - upon each list there shall be at least one- third of manufacturers and one-third merchants. .. ., ~ r i 7. It shall be renewed entirely every fifth year, at the end of each legisla-, ture, or in case of the dissolution cm the house of representatives. *- 3. The present act shall be annex^ ed to the additional act tv the constitu tion, bearing this date* Bv the emperor, Napoleon. The minister secretary of state. The Dvkb of Basseho. SCHEDULE, MO. 21. Division of France into 13 circles fqr the election of deputies to represent commercial and manufacturing in- 4 •» 1 tdr orial or ecclesiastical prostration from p: -hich.she has deliberated herself;'if Si ■ *. .4 Lille (Nord, Aisne, Pas-de-Calai) 1 merchant, importer or banker— 1 manufacturer or artisan. Rouen, (circle of, contains the dc-lft^ partments of (Lower Seine, Eure, Somme, Calvados^ Omc5 Manchcj ij I ■wrm f