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ally c.ppofed to this new fangled
clause, a principle so completely
violative of juflice and common
reason, we would willingly beiieve
an interpolation, or to have ori
ginated in the inadvertency or af
fectation of superior wisdom in
the individual member who fug
gifted it, rather than in the cool
and deliberate judgment of a re
presentative body, having the in
terefl of their fellow citizens at
heart.
8. The grand inquest for the
county of Wilkes, feeling as they
do, and lamenting the injustice
and impolicy of a clause, from
which the difhonefl alone can de
rive advantage, and which, by the
means it holds out, may pehaps
increase the number of that dif
cription, conceive themfeives in
duty, in honor, and in conscience
bound, mod earnedly to reconr
mend to their members in the le
gidature to endeavor by all law
ful and proper means to procure
a repeal of the fame.
We return his honor the Judge
our thanks for his unremitting at
tention to public business, for his
excellent smtl judicious charge,
and recommend that it, with our
prefont mails, be pubiilhed in the
Monitor.
Archibald Simplon, foreman,
John Wingfield, John Heard,
jun. Thomas Grant, Stark Brown,
Spencer Crain, junior, Nicholas
Long, James Anthony, Felix H.
Gilbert. Jonathan Webster, Jo
fen li Heard, John lowing. Benja
min P( rter, Andrew Burns, Rich
ard Heard, Thomas Watkins, M.
Roby, Nicholas Sheets, Lemuel
Wooton, L. Wilson. Micajah Lit- |
tie, Gilbert Hay.
: FOREIGN.
The evening before the surrender of j
the emperor issued the follow - j
ing proclamation .
i
Soldiers! a month ago we were \
encamped on the diores of the o- i
cean Gppofite to England ; but an j
impious league compelled us to ily j
towards the Rhine • • |
It is but a fortnight since we pas
sed that river, and the Alps of ,
Wirtemberg, the Necker, the Dan- j
übe, and the L r, ch; those ceiebra- I
ted barriers of Germany have not I
retarded our march a day, an hour, !
or an instant. Indignation again ft j
a prince whom we have twice re- j
seated on his throne, When it de
pended entirely on our pleasure to
hurl him from it, supplied us with
wings. The enemy’s army decei
ved by our manoeuvres, and the
rapidity of our movements, is com
pletely turned. It now fights only
for its fafety. It would gladly em
brace an opportunity of escaping
and returning home; but it is now
too late The fortifications which
is erected, at a great expence, a
long the filer, expecting that we
fhmild advance thro’ the paiTes of
the Black Fore ft are become use
less, since we have approached by
the plains of Bavaria.
Soldiers! but for the army which
is row in front of you, we should
this day have been in London; we
should have avenged ourselves for
fix centuries of inful ts, and reflor
ed the freedom of t]ie seas.
But bear in mind to-morrow,
that you are fighting againfl the
Allies of England; that you have
to avenge yourselves oh a perjured
prince, whole own letters breathed
nothing but peace, at the moment
when he was marching his army a
gainfl our ally; who thought us
cowardly enough to suppose that
we would tamely witness his paf*
sage of the Inn. his entry into Mu
nich, and his aggression upon the
elector of Bavaria.—He thought
we were occupied eifewhere; let
him for the third and last time
learn that we know how to be pre
fers in every place where the coun
try has enemies to combat.
Soldiers! to-morrow will be an
hundred times more celebrated
than the day of Marengo. I have
placed the enemy in the fame po
fition.
Recoiled, that the moft remote
poflerity will remark the conduct
of each of you on this memorable
day. Your progeny, 500 years
hence, who may place themfeives
under those eagles a round which
we rally, will know in detail every
thing that your refpeQdve corps
fhali atchieve to-morrow, and the
manner in which your courage
fhali confer on them eternal cele
brity. This will conllitute the per
petual subject of their conversation;
and from age to age you will be
held up to the admiration cf future
generations.
Soldiers! if I wished ou!y to
conquer the enemy, I should not
have thought it needfary to make
an appeal to your courage, and
your attachment to the country and
to my per ion; but to conquer him
is doing nothing worthy either of
you or your emperor. It is ne
cessary that not a man of the ene
my’s army flail ejeape; that the
government which has violated all
its engagements, (hill fir(l learn
its catafirophe by your arrival un
der the walls of Vienna ; and that,
on receiving this fatal intelligence,
its conscience, fhali tell it that it
has betrayed both its solemn pro
mises of peace, and the firfi of the
duties bequeathed by its anceflors,
with the power of forming the ram
part of Europe againfl the eruptions
of the Cossacks.
Soldiers; who have been enga
ge! in the affairs of Wert in gen
and Guntzburg, I am fatisued with
your conduct. Every corns in the
j j %
army will emulate vou and I fhali
J j
be able to fay to my people: Your
emperor and yo ir army have done
their duty. Perform vours. and
j j. 7
the 200,0.00 confcnpts wh om I
have Aim mimed will ha den, by
forced marches, to reinforce our
2d line.
NAPOLEON.
Napoleon; emperor cf the French ,
& king of Italy .
Taking into coniideration that
the grand army has, by its cour
age and zeal, obtained nhfults which
were not to be expected but from
a complete campaign; and beino*
desirous of giving it a proof of our
imperial fa tis faction, have decreed,
and hereby decree as follows:
art. !. The month of Vende
rniare, 14 year, fhali be accounted
as one campaign, in favor of all
the soldiers composing the grand
army. This month fhali be so es
timated in all the accounts relative
to the valuation of pensions, and
which refpeft military services.
q. Oar mini tiers at war, and of
the public treasury are charged
with the execution of this de
cree.
(Signed)
” ‘ NAPOLEON )
The Imperial Head Quarters at --- -
chinge /?, OCTOBER 21.
<c Soldiers of the grand Army.
In a fortnight we have fintfhed a
campaign. We have expelled the
troops of the house of Austnra
from Bavaria, and re-eftabn filed
our ally in the sovereignty of his
dates. ‘ That army, which with e
qual oflemadoti and imprudence,
had polled itfelf on our frontiers,
is annihilated. But what does this
fignify to England ? Her purpose is
accompli filed. We are no longer
at Boulogne, and the amount or
her subsidy will thereby be neither
encreafed or diminished.
“ Os 100,000 men who com
posed that army, 60,000 are pris
oners; they will go to take the
place of our conscripts in the la
bours cf cur fields. Two hundred
pieces of cannon (their whole park)
go dands of colours, and all their
generals, are in our hands; there
have not escaped of this army
15 000 men. Soldiers, I have an
nounced to you a great battle; but
thanks to the bad. combinations of
the enemy, I have been able to
obtain the fame success without
running any risk ; and what is un
exampled in the hidory of nations,
so important a result has not di
miniflied our force more than
15000 men.
“ Soldiers, you owe this success
to your unbounded confidence in
your Emperor ; to your patience in
supporting fatigues and privations
of every description, and to your
singular intrepidity.
“But we will not flop here.
-—You are impatient to commence
a second campaign. We are about
to make that Ruffian army which
the gold of England has traimpor
ted from the extremities of the U
niverse, undergo the fame fate.
u In this contefl: is more particu
larly implicated the honor of this
infantry. It is this which will, a fe
cund time, decide the question al
ready resolved in Switzerland and
Holland, whether the French in
fantry be the second or the firit in
Europe ? Here there are no gene
rals, in combating whom I can
have any glory to acquire. All
my cares fhali be to obtain the vic
tory with the least possible effufion
of blood—my soldiers are my
children.
Given at my Imperial ramp cf Elchin
gm, igt'b
(2 isi Oclobety 1 iiGy.J
NAPOLEON.
•Third bulletin of the army
of Italy.
Head quarters at Vago> St/j Brum
aire, year 14. (Ocl 30.)
After the affair of the 7th the
army took up its position at Vago,
2 miles below Galpiero. On the
Bth at 2 in the afternoon it attack
ed the enemy along the whole
line. The divifiori of Molitor for
ming the left, began the action,
that of Gen. Gardanne, attacked
the center and that of Gen. Du
helme tne right. Ihefe different
attacks were well executed and
happily conduced. The village
ot Caldiero was carried amid the
cries of, long live the Emperor!
At hah palt four, Prince Charles
gave orders for his, reserve confift
iig of 24 battalions of urenadie^s
riii al . regiments toPadvance. !
ne action then became hot
tei. His majesty’s troops display
ed their accustomed intrepidity *
the cavalry made feverai charts <
and every time with success; the !
of the mcnadW* r
reserve were engaged at!v'V !
time, and thq bayonet dtrinTO
fore of the day. The enemy A
fed to play on us upward,'oft
picfces of artillery which |; n J ??
entrenchments. But notwhM
ing the oodmacy ot his
he was put to the route atulfA
ed to the foot cf the redoubt’?*
yond Caldiero.
We have taken 3,500 prilbcer
the field of battle is ftrewtd
Andrians: the number cf (h; r i‘ ; | l
led and wounded is at leafc eo*}
■ to that of their prisoners. r,u?’
: Charles has asked for a
bury the dead.
Our iefs is very inconfuVratt
f . . r
m companion to that of the ere
mv.
*
Congressional Registfl,
House of Ref recent a 7;fe?,
Thursday , December 26.
The hopfe concurred in there. !
port cf the committee cf claims cn I
the petition of the late crew cftY
frigate Philadelphia, which is ad.
verse to it.
On the motion of mr. Bichvel! !
the heufe resolved itfelf in to a ccc.
mirtee of the whole —mr. Grqm
in the chair—on the report of ti e
fele£l committee to whom had beta
recommitted the refoluiion rdr:th
ing William Eaton, Esq.
The report cf the fde£l commit,
tee recommend the amendment and
the original refoluiion, so as to con
fer a medal in dead cf a fwerd;
and so to amend it. as to revopciie
the taking of Derne.
After fome debate, the ccTnob
tee rose and reported their apree
ment to the report of the Lite:
committee.
The faoufe immediately took into
conuderaticn the report of the con.-
mit tee of the whole.
Further debate arose on the sirs:
amendment, fubftkming a r,wA\
m lieu of a sword ; merflis. J.
Clay, Jackson and j. Randolph
oppofmg, arid me firs. • Varnani,
Illmer and Kelly supported it.
When the yeas and nays being
taken, the amendment was carried
—yeas 5 8—nays 53.
The other amendment pslfeJ |
without a divjfion.
Mr. Smiiie’ exnrdlcd his regret i
that on a subject, that so eminent')’
called for unanimity, and on which j
there was no difference of opinion j
as to the meritorious services cf
mr. Eaton, there should he fucii |
a diversity with regard to the pto* |
per tribute to be bellowed. |
fidering if highly definable tr at
resolution, before it received a ana* 1
vote, should be foyiiiodified 2s ts I
unite the varying opinions in d-e |
house, lie moved a recommitnicn |
of it to a feledl committee.
In this motion the house concur j
red—ryes 57 —nocs 55 —when f J
resolution was recommitted J° I
fame committee to which it |
been previoufiy referred.
Friday 27*
Mr. J. C. Smith, from the com
mittee of Claims, made a
accompanied by a letter from
secretary or the treasury, on
petition of sundry collectors of [lt
direct tax, praying additional
penfation for services
them, representing that there
not appear to be any fufficicnt tc