Alexandria Daily Advertiser

DAILY ORDER.

From the Imperial Camp at Posen, Dec. 2.

Napoleon Emperor of the French and king of Italy, have decreed and do decree what follows:

Art. 1. There shall be established upon the ground of la Magdelaine of our good city of Paris, at the expense of the treasury of our crown, a monument dedicated to the grand army, bearing upon the frontispiece: The emperor Napoleon to the soldiers of the grand army.

2. In the interior of the monument shall be inscribed upon tables of marble, the names of all the men by corps of the army and by regiments, who assisted at the battle of Ulm, Austerlitz, and Jena; & upon tables of massy gold the names of all those who died upon the field of battle.

Upon tables of silver shall be engraved the recapitulation, by departments, of the soldiers which each department has furnished to the grand army.

3. Round the hall shall be sculptured bas-reliefs, representing the colonels of each of the regiments of the grand army with their names: these bas-reliefs shall be made so that the colonels be grouped round their generals of division and of brigade by corps of the army. The marble statues of the marshals who commanded corps, or who made a part of the grand army, shall be placed in the interior of the hall.

4. The armors, statues, monuments of all kinds captured by the grand army in these two campaigns; the colors, standards, and symbols conquered by the grand army, with the names of the enemy's regiments which they belong to, shall be deposited in the interior of the monument.

5. Every year upon the anniversaries of the battles of Austerlitz and Jena, the monument shall be illuminated and a concert shall be given preceded by a speech upon the virtues necessary to a soldier, and by an eulogium of those who died in the field of battle in these memorable engagements.

One month before a competition shall be opened for receiving the best piece of music analogous to the circumstances.

A gold medal of 150 gold double Napoleons shall be given to the authors of each of those pieces which shall have gained the prize.

In the speeches and odes it is expressly forbidden to make any mention of the emperor.

6. Our minister of the interior shall, without delay, open a competition of architecture, in order to choose the best plan for the execution of this monument.

One of the conditions of the prospectus shall be that the expense shall not exceed three millions existing.

A commission of the class of the fine arts of our institute shall be charged to make a report to our minister of the interior before the month of March, 1807, on the plans sent to the competition.

The work will begin on the 1st May, and be finished before the year 1809.

Our minister of the interior shall be charged with all the details relative to the construction of the monument, and the director general of our museums with all the details of the pictures, bas reliefs, statues and.

7. A hundred thousand francs shall be purchased in annuities on the great book, in order to endow the monument and keep it up annually.

8. When the monument shall be erected the grand council of the legion of honor shall be specially charged with its preservation, and with every thing relative to annual competitions.

Our ministers of the interior and the intendant of our crown lands, are charged with the execution of the present decree.

(Signed) NAPOLEON,

By the emperor,

The minister secretary of state,

(Signed) H. B. MARET.

The prince de Neuchatel, minister of war, major general,

(Signed) MARSHAL BERTHIER.