The New Hampshire Gazette

Letters from the Emperor to the Arch-
bishops and Bishops of France.

Paris, June 10--"After the memorable
battle of Eylau, which terminated the last
campaign, the enemy driven 40 leagues
from the Vistula, was no longer able to support
Dantzic. Notwithstanding the rigors
of the season, we commenced the siege, and
40 days after the trenches were opened, this
important place has fallen to the power of
our arms. The efforts of the enemy to succor
it were defeated, and victory constantly
followed our banners. Immense magazines
of provisions and of artillery, and the reduction
of one of the richest cities in the world,
to our power, are the debut of the campaign.
We cannot but ascribe this success,
so rapid and so signal, to that special protection
of which Divine Providence has given
us so many proofs. It is our pleasure
that, on receipt of this, you assemble our
people and offer solemn thanksgiving to the
God of Armies, praying that he will continue
to favor our arms, and to watch over the
happiness of our country; that they may also
pray, that the cabinet which persecutes our Holy
Religion, as much as it is the eternal enemy of our
nation, may no longer influence the cabinets of the
Continent, to the end that a solid and glorious peace,
worthy of the Great Nation, shall console humanity,
and enable us to realize our intentions for the
good of religion and the prosperity of our people.
This letter is only to that end, and we pray God
to have you in his holy keeping.

(Signed)

NAPOLEON.

"In our Camp in Finkenstein, May 28, 1807."

Te Deum was ordered to be performed in
all the churches in Paris, on the 14th, for
the taking of Dantzic.