Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

From the New York Evening Post.

PARIS.
Conservative Senate.
Sitting of the 10th December, 1810.

The sitting was opened at 3 o'clock in the afternoon; his serene highness the Prince Arch Chancellor of the empire presided.

Their excellencies the Duke de Cadore, minister of foreign relations, the count Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely, minister of state, and the count Cattarelli, councillor of state, were introduced.

His serene highness the prince arch chancellor, president, caused the following message to be read:

Message from his imperial and royal majesty.

SENATORS,

I order my minister of foreign relations to make you acquainted with the different circumstances which render necessary the union of Holland to the empire.

The orders published by the British council in 1806 and 1807, have torn in pieces the public law of Europe; a new order of things governs the universe. New guarantees having become necessary to me; the annexation of the mouths of the Scheldt, of the Meuse, of the Rhine, of the Ems, of the Weser, and of the Elbe to the Empire; the establishment of an internal navigation with the Baltic, have appeared to me to be the first and most important.

I have caused to be drawn up the plan of a canal, which shall be executed within five years, and which shall join the Baltic to the Seine.

Indemnities shall be given to the princes who may be affected by this grand measure, which necessity enjoins and which strengthens the frontiers of my empire upon the Baltic on the right.

Before taking these determinations, I intimated them to England: she knew that the only method of maintaining the independence of Holland was to recall her orders in council of 1806 and 1807, or to return at length to pacific sentiments. But that power has gone deaf to the voice of her own interests, as well as to the cry of Europe.

I hoped to be able to establish a cartel of exchange of prisoners between France and England, and subsequently to profit by the residence of the two commissaries at Paris and at London, in order to bring about an accommodation between the two countries. My hope has been frustrated. I have found in the mode of negociation of the English government, nothing but craft and bad faith.

The annexation of the Valais is a foreseen consequence of the immense labors which I have for these ten years past caused to be carried on in that part of the Alps. At the time of my act of mediation, I separated the Valais from the Helvetic confederation, as I then had in view a measure so useful to France and to Italy.