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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