have concluded without the consent of the army; but I have simply confined myself to making the necessary protests and declarations, to leave no room of complaint against our court by the French, and to insure the respect due in all circumstancesto the flag and troops of his majesty.

According to these very clear observations, you will yourself see, sir, that the part which I have taken is a measure altogether political, and the only one which circumstances permit, and not a measure in any respect military; which ought to tranquillize yourself and your brave comrades respecting every consequence which you might apprehend from it, to the disadvantage of your reputation, already too well ensured among the army and the public, to be implicated by a measure wholly foreign to military affairs.

By my readiness to enter with you and for you, with all the of ficers, into such details, you will judge of the value which I affix to your esteem and good will, and two lines in answer, which may be directed to me, to the care of the imperial consulat Ragusa, will give me much pleasure. I am, with perfect respect, yours, &c.

(Signed) GHISILIERI.

Copy of a letter written by the marquis de Ghisilieri to general Molitor, governor of Dalmatia and Albania.

Zacortaz, 9th March, 1806. General-The same motives of prudence which induced me to precede the troops destined to occupy the mouths of the Cattaro, under the necessity of ordering the troops of my august master to be withdrawn, not so much to avert new dangers from a brave garrison, who

desired nothing better than to fight. as to preserve from pillage and total ruin a province, which is already the property of his majesty the em peror of France and king of Italy.

The fury with which the Montenegrins, raised in a mass by their chief pontiff, menaced the provin ces, and the enthusiasm entertained, in common with them, among the inhabitants of the mouths of the Catraro, by the sectaries of the Greek religion, who form threefourths of the population, had for some time alarmed the government, when a Russian squadron, which came to anchor at Porte Rose, the 27th ult. in the evening, contributed further to paralyse the little means that might be employed to frustrate the projects of the Montenegrins. The days of the twenty-eighth of February and the first and second of March were employed in inundating the province by some thousands of Montenegrins, reinforced by the inhabitants of Zuppa, Commoni, and Pastrovicchio; and when this horde was already in motion to attack the forts guarded by Austrian troops, the commandant of the Russian squadron summoned, the 3d March, the governor of Cattaro to give up all the forts, or to declare himself the enemy of his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, and he next day reiterated to me the sime summons, in the peremptory terms of half an hour, always according to the principle, that the mouths of the Cattaro were already French territory, from the day that the delay of two months fixed for their occupation by the French troops were expired. At a moment so pressing, persuaded as I was that the valour of the garrison would not have been sufficient against a number of Montenegrins,

infinitely

infinitely superior, nor against the fire which the squadron might have made upon the forts, and likewise persuaded that the devastation of the province would have been the consequence of my refusal, I thought it my duty to yield to the force of circumstances, and not to have recourse to violent means, after having in vain exhausted those of persuasion and protests; and by such a conduct I saved to my august master brave troops, and preserv. ed for yours, general, the mouths of the Cattaro in a flourishing

Note to the marquis de Ghisilieri.

The undersigned commissarygeneral of his majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy, has had the honour to receive from the marquis de Ghisilieri, commissary-general of his majesty the emperor of Germany and Austria, the answer to his note of the 21st of March; in which he announces to the undersigned, that he has dispatched that note to his court; and that he further refers to the answer given to general Molitor respecting "the same grievances.

The undersigned hastened to ask of general Molitor the answer spoken of by the marquis de Ghisi

lieri; it is dated the 9th March, 1806, from Zacortaz,

In that answer, the marquis de Ghisilieri makes known that the garrison of Cattaro wished only to fight; the undersigned is so much the more persuaded of it, that he positively knows that protests have been made by the officers of the regiment of Thurn, against giving up the forts to the Russians, that some officers were put under arrest for that protest, and that generally all the officers and soldiers of that regiment testify their indignation at having given up the forts of the mouths of the Cattaro to a small number of Russians, who would not have made the smallest resistance against the regiment of Thurn, composed of 1,500 men.

But notwithstanding all these protests, the forts of the mouths of the Cattaro were given up to the Russians by order of the marquis de Ghisilieri.

The undersigned has the honour to beg of the marquis de Ghisilieri to inform him, whether he has acted in this circumstance by his own authority, or in virtue of superior orders; for it is essential that he should make known to his court the reasons for which the Austrian commandant and the marquis de Ghisilieri have peaceably allowed entrance, and a residence in the ports of the mouth of the Cattaro, to the armed squadron of a power at war with that to which they were to have given up the forts, and to whose generals they gave no information.

It is also important that the undersigned should inform his court of the motives on which the mouths of the Cattaro have been ceded to the Russians, instead of being given up to the troops of his majesty the emperor of the French and king of

Italy, conformably to the treaty of Presburg.

The reason given by the marquis de Ghisilieri, in his Letter to general Molitor, of the 9th of March, cannot be admitted. He there says, that it is to preserve to his majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy, the mouths of the Cattaro in a flourishing state, that he has given them up to the Russians and Montenegrins.

But only two days after their surrender, the Montenegrins sacked and pillaged the houses; and those very inhabitants which the marquis de Ghisilieri represents as in accord with the Montenegrins, armed them selves and marched against them, and even killed several.

The same inhabitants stretch their arms to the French, and bit terly complain that they have been given up to their most cruel

enemies.

The undersigned expects with impatience an answer from the marquis de Ghisilieri, and persists in the demands which he made in his note of the 21st March. He conceives the marquis de Ghisilieri must be invested with the necessary powers to comply with them, since he had that of commanding the garrison of Cattaro, notwithstanding its protest, to give up to the Russians the forts of the mouths of the Cattaro.

He has the honour to give him the assurance of his great respect. (Signed) AL. LAURISTON. Zura, 25th March, 1806.

ROYAL DECREE,

Louis Napoleon, by the grace of God, and the constitution of the kingdom.

We have decreed, and do decree as follows:

1806.

1. Till further orders be given, no vessel shall be suffered to depart from any of the ports of our king. dom, without our special authority; which, however, shall not be granted by us till sureties be given that the lading shall not be discharged in any of the enemy's ports. The authority for the departure of any vessel shall be signed by our own hand.

2. Every ship that enters any of our ports shall be detained, without any possibility of liberation, but by special authority from us, signed by our own hand.

3. All fishing vessels going out or coming into any port, shall, before their departure, and after their arrival, be examined by the officers of justice, and the commissioners of convoys and licences.

4. No fishing vessel shall be allowed to depart before the commanders of the same shall make oath, that they will have no voluntary understanding or communica tion whatever with any ship or vessel, and they shall likewise be bound to give information of any person sailing therein.

5. The directors and other persons employed at the post-offices are made responsible for any letters coming from or going to England. They shall immediately transmit them to the minister of justice and police.

6. Our ministers are charged with the execution of the present decree, as far as regards their respective departments. The ministers of marine, finances, and of justice, shall transmit to us daily an account of their proceedings.

Given at our palace of the Hague, Dec. 15, 1806, and in the first year of our reign. (Signed) LOUIS.

March 22, 1806.

An act for settling a pension on admiral lord Collingwood.

An act for duties and drawbacks on goods to and from Ireland. An act for settling drawbacks

on sugar.

An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for better pay ment of the army.

An act for regulating the marine force while on shore.

An act for allowing the exportation of grain &c. to his majesty's forces and garrisons.

An act to indemnify persons having omitted to qualify them. selves for employments.

An act to continue and amend an act for executing a treaty of commerce and amity with America.

An act to permit for a time the exportation of wool to the British plantations in America.

An act for the militia service for the year 1806.

An act for the militia' service of Ireland for 1806.

An act to extend the provisions of an act, enabling the subjects of foreign states to enter his majesty's

service.

An act to suspend prosecutions under certain acts relating to the woollen manufacture.

An act for allowing the Greenland ships to complete their men. An act for rendering the payment of creditors more certain and expeditious in Scotland.

June 9.

office.

An

An act for the improvement of the port of London, by making East India docks at Blackwall.

July 16.

An act for collecting duties on spirits and malt in Scotland.

An act for issuing exchequer bills for the service of the year 1806.

An act granting a duty on fish from Newfoundland.

An act for regulating the excise, customs, and port dues in Ireland. An act for rectifying mistakes in the names of commissioners of taxes.

Training act for England.
Militia act.

An act for permitting free interchange of grain between England and Ireland.

An act for the more effectual performance of quarantine.

An act for granting a duty on oil of vitriol exported from Great Britain.

An act for amending certain acts relating to letters and parcels conveyed by the post.

excise in relation to counterfeiting the stamps on paper-wrappers.

An act to permit French wines to be imported from Ireland into England.

An act to amend an act preventing the importation of gunpowder and arms from Ireland into England.

An act to allow certain merchandises to be sent direct from Gibralter and Malta to America.

An act for permitting the importation of timber for naval purposes from America.

An act for the relief of insolvent debtors.

An act for revision of the schools in Ireland..

An act to prohibit for two years certain ships from engaging in the slave-trade.

An act for increasing the rate of subsistence to be paid to persons on whom soldiers are quartered.

July 22.

An act for enabling his majesty to settle annuities on the royal family.

An act for appropriating the supplies of 1806.

An act for granting a sum to be raised by lotteries.

An act for purchasing an estate for earl Nelson.

An act to continue his pension to lord Rodney.

An act for amending the laws of excise upon malt.

An act for the security and expedition of the post in Ireland,

An act for consolidating the several acts for redemption of land-tax.

An act for providing for a more speedy and regular audit of the public accounts.

An act to repeal part of the contravailing duty on Irish hops, and

for