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ri;ir lay le published, elegantly printed in One huge Volume, C:owa OcSs,o, en a fine Woven Peeper, Hot-pressed, price, in hoards, (lb be continued Annually), ZSUE POETICAL REGISTER, mid REPOS!- TORY of FUGMVE POETRY, for the Year 1604, being the Fourth Volume of she Series. Printed for F C. and J. Runiviton, No. 61, St, Paul's Church-yard; sold alto by J. Hateliard,. No. 190, Piccadilly. The Poetical Register comprises Original and Fugitive Poetry ; and Criticisms on the Poetry of the Year; with a Catalogue. Of the above-mentioned Booksellers may be had, The Stronil Editions the Volumes for 1801, 1802, and ma, being the three first of the Series, price 9.. each, iu boards. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LOItDS, TOCIDAT, St...acid le. The Lord Chancellor did not come down to the House till nearly five o'clock. Immediately after prayers were read, Lord Collingwood's Annuity Sill was read a third time, and passed. Several public and private Bills were brought up from the Commons, by Mr. Alexander, Mr. Fel town, and other gentlemen : Among the former were, the American Commerce Bill, the Irish and English. Militia Pay and Clothing Bills, and the Militia Officers' Bill. The Order of the Day, for the third reading of the Bill to declare the Law with respeft to 'Witnesses being liable to•attsaver, being read, Earl STANHOPE rose, and moved, " that the proviso added to the Bill, be left out." Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, he had a clause to propose, which would render the motion of the Noble Earl unnecessary ; it was of such a nature as had the approbation of a Noble and Learned Friend, then absent, and was what he thought would meet the ideas of the Noble Lords upon the subjed. L.:Stead of stating the objet generally, Isis provision went to specify cases in which the wit. *Ms 'should be preteeed with respeft to his an swets; these were entirety of a civil nature, and ex tended net to criminal considerations ; such as in cases of mortgages, or where purchases for a valua ble consideration were involved, the demurrer should he allowed, or where forfeiture of estate, or lands, or pecuniary losses of a certain nature, &c. What he should propose was, that his clause be engrossed upon the NU ; and the third reading thereof be post poned till to-vorrOw. The LORD CHANCELLOR made a few ob servations in support of the proposition of his Noble and Learned Friend, which he conceived would do away all ambiguity in the Bill. After a, few words between Lords Ellenborough Ind Stanhope, the Clause was agreed to, and or dered to be engrossed, and the Bill to be reed a third time to-morrow. The Bill: brought up from the Commons were then read a first time, and those on the 'fable to:- warded ; after which, the !louse adjourned. tioUSg OF COMMONS. • A person from the Stamp Office presented an Acconnt of the Arrears and Balances in the hands of the Colleftens of Stamp Duties.—,Ordcred to lie on the table. Mr. BROOKE gave notice, that our Monday nest he should submit a Motion relative to the Contras far Spirits for the supply of the Navy. Mr. Williams Wynne brought in a Bill for the better Lighting and Paving the City of Dublin ; and, rid the Motion that it he read a first time, Mr. ALEXANDER said, that he did not wish to oppose the Bill ; but apprehended, that by the appointment of a new and temporary Commission, by the Lord Lieutenant (Hardwicke), a slur had been thrown on the former Corporation. Mr. W 1 NNE replied. teat the buiness washe foie so badly executed, that it became necessary for the Lord Lieutenant to exercise the power given him by Aft of Parliament, of appointing a Cornmittee of Rev isi,.n. And issiting 20,0001. for the purposes men tioned in the all. Lord 1)E BLAQUIF.RE admitted, that Lord Hardwicke did not exceed the powers vested in him by law, but thought the meth rd he took was a harsh one towards the other Commissioners. The Bill was then read a first time, and, on the motion for its second reading, Mr. LONG observed. that though the measure adopted was not meant to convey any she on the Corporation; yet it was eirelispensible; as those at all eirgestitited with tplOcity of D4blie must know, that for some tiritilieigie. •the streets were unsafe, and at manYtiines impassable. After sense observations from Mr. Ormsby and Lord De Magni:AV; the Bill was ordered to be Mid a second siAlsf.plit - Tlillyidity next, and to'be priist . ed. Mr. WINPI-IAM, partisans to notice, moved, that the House should resolve itself into a CNN mitt** on the regulations for the trade and coed.' metre of the Oval Of Good HOpe," which, be gala ? did not dill& tram the legislations adopted on fox. , trier occasions. The Haase accordingly resnlved itself isto-she entinitteo, when the resolUtion proposed by Mr. Windham was agreed to, reported, And leave giveritei bringin a Bill upon it. Mr • W. POLE deferred his intended motion fur India Papers, to Friday next. . The American Wool, and American Treaty Bills, were read a third time, and passed. The Scotch Creditrirs' Rill was reported, and or dered to be read a third time'to-morrow. Mr. N. Van6tiart brought in the NeWfoundland, Judicature :end Trade Continuance Bill, which was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. A (serum from the Fechequer presented Accounts of the net produce of the Permanent Taxes ; of the Public Debt of the Country ; of the produce of the Consolidated Fund ; and the sums applied to the reduftion of the National Debt for the last two years.--Ordered to lie on the Table. The Felon's Transportation Bill was read a first, and ordered to be read a second tinse to-morrow. The House west through a Committee, on the Irish Militia Service Bill.—llepost to-morrow. Mr. H. ADDINGTON observed, that in the East India Papers, ordered last night, the proposed addition of *. as far as may be consistent with the public service," was, by mistake, omitted ; amithere jore gave notice, that he should te-morrew move for these words to be added to the said Order. • littircii;_, ~~ ~ ~ r. ~,; y.e FOREIGN lATEurtaNck. :Oa iCHe Li - xptx Oarrra. v•itts. MARC,. 6. the 'interest 'et the aseetiogs of tee tegiiletive Body, after their solemn opening, was cot:tined to the results of the scrutiny for the nomination of Vice-Presidents ani Sreretaries, till the Minister of the Interior yesterday came to graily the impatient expeetation of the assembly and of the public, by ad dressing them more at length on the important sub jefts, briefly touched upon in the Imperial speech. The above-mentioned Minister, M. de Champagny, accompanied by the Ceunsellorsiof State, Crete and Bigot Preameneu, appeared at the last meeting of the Legislative Body, and traced, with some detail, the events that have occurred since the Emperor's coronation. We shall subjoin this interesting Ex pose, to which the great number of LOU has given a greater extent than usual : EXPOSE OF THE STATE OF THE EMPIRE. Messirrirs the Deputies if the Legislative Beilip.-1 am charged by His Majesty the Emperor to give yogi an account of the state of the Empire during the vast year. Its destinies had just barn fixed on an iinny Table basis; a ceremony, the recolledion of which will form an einalt in its annals, had raised the Chief of the State, arid his august fl u Iy , to the 11 , g..ity which the wishes and the wants of France required, when you last year met iii tlits place, which was con. Ist:rated by Ins piesetim. In the mid tof you shone the first rays of that immortal lustre, with which the homage of the people, and the benedigion of Heaven, have i vested hint—a happy omen for the labours you were about to undertake Accordingly, your opirations have answered his expectation, for they have is 3 been useful. Love for the public weal, and the inspiration of genius, have guided your steps, and the unity established in the empire, and so solemnly proelaimed, has appeared to infuse still more harmony into your sentiments and your deliberations. The Emperor, in his turn, had announced to you, that he looked upon his new honours as a teat debt. To acquit Himself of this debt, every moms at ef his life has bete devoted. You know whether he has fulfilled Iris promises, and how far he Iltl has surpassed your expectations ; you know with what events, perhaps you win say with whist mollies, a >ear, scarcely claps. ed, has teemed. These 1 wll recapitulate, without pretending is give a complete acensat of them, or to describe their im mense results. Europe, still motionless with astonishment arid terror, and Franey, transported with admiratrun and lov-, render it unnecessary for me to say what I should in sato an. tempt to express. Scarcely were your labours concluded, whet the Em peror resolved to visit a part of France. If he were every where greeted with the most lively and the most novel. mous testimouies of public alkv.tion, if the of the city and of the country ran to meet hire, cunning the bormige of their gratitude and of !-eve, lie Pas not ex perienced a pleasure Its. gratece o liis heart, is be/bolding, with his own eyes, the reset , an Adniiiii•tration, incesssotry animated, int the last s:s years, by the rest generry;s sr.%••.ude fur the welfare of the people, and the resterar:r,o of puluig order. He has seen the traces of our misery I, Ind their memory of them almost extingir:shed; the lasts respected, tits Magistrates zealously devoted to tiara . Tomah preyed, religious ideas honoured, French or', t•:o.r restored to its former delicacy. If some ameliorations ruin remain to be effected, they were net such rrTarations as succeed great this. liters, but improveineuts wbrelt belong to a period of tran quillity and of prosperity; yet the Emperor wished to be mad* acquainted with them, and to accomplish there. He sent for all those who, by their functions, or their intelligence, wee cspable of seconding his views; admitted all those who had favours to solicit; gave a favourable reception to their de mands; provoked and listened to their observations; rewarded services, inspected, in person, the minutest details; and, where. aver he went, he left, in the measures of his sublime wisdom, durable monuments of his passage. Troyes was first honoured with his presence, and obtained his first beauty ; this bounty promises an existence worthy of ib ancient celebrity, The prcjiel olalfMiigatirei of the Seine, . by the seise vessels, front Paris to Chatillen.net far from its seoree, is conceived ; the details of it are completed, The im provement of tbat of the Saone is proMEled . ; the towns whiles It bathes are reeettinieMhollishments; the quiyi of Chalons, Townes, and Macon, are to be improved and enlarged. Ma con will have a cathedral erected within its walls, mire beau tiful than that whiles destruction it regrets; the Emperor eon ' libelee to this edifice a considerable sum from his private morns s. The Smile, rendered navigable, will be a new be ' I;efit for the Department of the Saone sad Loire; the Depart. silent of L'Ain awakes at the sight of its Servemrigri, who essay thing, and who manifests art ardent desire to inert ase its in4ustry, and to correct the insalubrity of a portion of its territory. Lyons, already hurled with the bounties of him who re built as edifices, and re-pc,ipled its manufactoaar, has no far- . the? wishes to form, and is anxious only to pour forth its just transports to the deliverer whom it laves. Hut the solicitude of the Emperor, for this capital of French indurtry, is not ex hausted; and when his subjects are filled only with gratitude, his eye discovers farther means of accelerating the progress of a prosperity continually increasing since the commencement of his reign. The southern provinces of the city will be tendered salubrious; the Rhone will be restrained within its banks, arid brought n the city, which it seems inclined to abandon ; wise regulations secure fidelity in the manufarterier, and the confidence of the foreign colisomer, without injuring the li berty of industry ; rewardr, decreed by the Emperor himself, re- I disable the emulation of the workman ; a drawing-scliimal will insure the improvement of the art. Lytin‘, communie.iting with the sea towards the. South, very soon with the Rhine by the Canal Napoleon; with the Oscan and the Channel by the Saor.r, the Loire, and the Seine; with Swdzerland and with Piedmont, will become a mart, the liappy , iitilatiwa of which cannot (61 to realm it the centre of a widely-extended corn- merre. The ancient Savor, luny opprzssed by the p...fitics of it. 5... vereigno, happy its being ua r..t r b/ its laves, to a country to t VCi) it ihr3fll.l). - 1011alt by t its triennia, peewits to the Em peror, hearts, wh9te fideli,y has already been tried. flyer/ thing is in motion its its sallies, forme.), almost ittac;essibie, and which will speedily be opened to the ine.t productive com munications; bat the gre;; .. utiv.rations, of which it is the theatre, do not cause its minutest interests to be negl.!cted. The palace of Chain!very is rising again from its adies; sertud calthem are restored to public utility; midmost are open ed for indigence; resting.places are afforded co the traveller; the greeds of industry are scattered ov..r a sal to which thzy ap peared to be sttangets. The Emperor crossed the Alps, by the route which his i genius had planned, and which his power has executed. litre a new scene presented itself to his view ; Piedinout still ex hibits some vestiges of a revolution, less terrible, but more re cmit than mut. It appears trot to be entirely French, either y the sentiments which prevail in it, or by the advantages it enjoys. The Emperor, who had twice appeared under the walls of Turin, at the herd of a viEtorious army, but did mt enter that city, from repeet jot misfortune, or weaknees, en tered it for the first time ; he there appeared as the father of his new children, without soldiers, without guards 3 , attended oily by the benefits he brought with him,, greater and mere powerful for this noble security. The affection to which he confided was. displayed on every side, The Piodusontese thawed themselves worthy of the confidence with which he honours them. The public homage supplied hint with a m tiout; the wealthy individuals, in a separate body, premed amend him; unsteady administrations, borrowine:lightitrem his genius, proceeded with a mere firm and more regular step; abuses are reformed, laneuishing commerce is revived, new markets are promised it; uncertainty is fixed ; opinions are re conciled 3 those whe, in difficult times, devoted themselves to the interests of of Francs, are assured that faithful Frince w sal not forget their services; those who, impressed with the bounty of their former mastersoliought that misfortune added to the duties of gratitude, learn that their new sovereign is too generous, to remember any thing, but that seal, of which they have shown ti.emselres capable; services are rewarded, be their date what it may, and the new cottony to which it is annexed, acquits debts of the old. The principal families admitted to the imperial Throne, diffuse around them the lustre of the he• nours they have received ; the great laid-owners, without hoping ler the restoratMii ofany prhilege, have no exclusion to fear; every thing assumes the place assigned to it by wisdom and justice; Piedmont, formerly conquered by arms, is new natur.dised by bm,.ty. Eve-y part of Piedmont ail! owe to this period important institutions. Turin, C-isal, Alexandria; Twin, formerly the residence of a Court; Caen, the ancient capital of Monument, long naturalised by affections avid by manners; Alexandria, around which, as on their pivot, have revolved great military operations. Turin, widowed of her Icings, is consoled by an august promise ; a brother of the Emperor will govern that be rutiful country, and his well. known character guarantees the happiness which he will canie it to enjoy ; he will reside at Twin ; an amiable and brilliant Court will restore to that city much more than it has lost; its magnificent Palace will be the abode of beneficence and of the Graces. Formerly, a glesteoy forams, surrounded by enemies ; now opened to France soil Italy , of iv hichit seems to be the bowl, it is encircled only by amcable nations, and commerce and the arts hastening to resort to it, will lavish upon it their bleating:. Canal, forgot ten to this day, but zealously devottd to the Mel of the Ern- ' pire, has greeted him with acclamations, arid not uttered a sin gle complaint. The Emperor his anticipated ell its wishes-- a Lyceum, a Bishop's See, and Tribunals, restore life to that handsome city; concessions enrich it. These benefits will give a rapid developemern to the advantages it derived from its - happy situation, front a favourable climate, and all the gifts of • nature. Alexandria, proud of receiving within its walls the same brave men whose victory it beheld, and by whom it was conquered, celebrated their arrival as • triumphant festival; they were a:sembled within its walk. The Conqueror of „Ma rengo was surrounded by the companions of his glory, in that plain which was the illustrious theatre of it. The prizes of valour were distributed by the same hands that directed their exploits; a monument ism...crated to the menu of those who sacrificed themselves/sir their country. The people of Italy, assembling to this spectacle, celebrated, with the French soldiers, the anni versary aa ria! which Axed their destinies, by coltirmitigthir• of Trauce. to such places the French will always be sure to conquer; there will be established the bulwark of the empire, there will rise the first fortified town in Furope. The rivers are turned to protest its circumference ; the most profound combinatioes of art direfi immense operatious, on which more than twelve ntilliens of francs have been expended. The Em peror hes traced the plan, amt followed all the details ; it renders Alexandria the sat of all the great military establish , mints; but, by assigning so it such high import ince in war, he will ennfer upon it all the blesiings of peace ; lie establishes its internal administration ; he creates for it a comineree of staple and transit, destined for it by the rivers that bathe it, said the cowireensiestions of whist' it it the centre ; its plains, formerly desolated by banditti, am delivered from the scourge, by which, for ages, the" hare been devastated. The blessings whieh accompany U. Emperor have bran heard along the while chain of the Apennines Genoa has heard them—she has hastened to present to the Enspemr hi r homage and her wishes—her wishes are to be French—she is half so already, by her affeetions, by her habits. The interest of her own existence commands her to be so entirely. Inclosed between the ma, which formerly nourished her, and& which our elem los, who arc her enemies, have strut the pa...ages, and those mountains, of which oar laws, wisely prohibitory, makes barrier for her, Genoa, in want of every thing, without troops, with out laws, almost without government, solicited the honour of an adoption, which has united her to a great people, and ad witted her to a ..hare of the blessings which they enjoy, and of the first of all, their government. This wish has been arrom plashed. It was that of all classes of citisens, and th r ninon has been to al: a benefit. The Emperor has consnraird it by his preserve. It has been received with the transports which a Deliverer ha+ excited. Genoa, French, receives the com modities ref Fledmont ; furnishes France with the produce of its industry; lives and enriches itself by her; and promises her, in lier turn. an increv.e of maritime force, and of com mercial riches. Several of her intim'', already known to the F.nrperor, have received from hies flattering distinflions. The French laces are introduced there, without hurting any of the interests 'Web formerly fl,urishsithc.c. The public debt is. eons:ilidAted; its territory egerandiied. It is divided into I ',armada, add the clepaitment nearst to France bas rett.e.vet: a name which recoils to the memory one of the fuss victor,: of the Hero of France ; one of the tir.t crowns with Ifigter c r adorned that,forehearil, s tatics se covered with laurels. The land on which this first laurel, the presage of so man, immortal successes, was gathered, well deseived to he Frt•Fv.A. The benefit of this organisatitm is .secured to Genus by the choice of a Grand Dignitary, neinitiateol W estahlish it. Parma and Plaisance, long uncertain of their destinies, still snhjected to arthic institutions, have also possessed the Chief of the Empire, auddate from hi: passage a cede of laws, s system of administration, suited to this enlightened age. If false alarms have excited a momentary distorlmont in state rallies of those states, prompt, but villd measures, have sown restored order morn/ the misguided shepherds, incapable themselves of assigning the rause of an agitation almost purr. ile, and which ceased, the moment it became the object e a• tenger ottentioat,. holeaawhile Italy lass changed it. foce, and the ancient kingdom of the Lombards is renered at the voice pf Nepotsm,. reposing wider the shade of the tasO. nareby, Irons its long convulsions, has no longer a: a envy France. The same tussah aisimate, it ; the saw- posrr protects if ; the same spirit forms its new institutions, dating them to situation aril its n11:411 .11. 14 all i s . sainted, in the name of its Lime, bin whore at had c& sea deliverer. Mantua received with transport him who was ender it; wills the vanquisher of care armlet*, sent to delerid it at Castiglione. the French suldicrs tricot to trion• memory the successes of the army of Italy. lit whatever part of Europe the genius may conduct them, who has an often led them to victory, they annalist themselves mill Lome tea, tram su:cenes. Italy is proud of receiving laws from a new Charlemagne, and fancies that she sees springing up oath het ancient gh..rr, all the prosperity which her climate srd her soil entitle herb. A Prince, taught by his lemma, ariaptrd early by his affeetions, as he has been sines by his Jr trees, caatinues lar. work, in forming hitosolf opera this model.— Italy attaches herself with enthusiasm to he steps. Dis,ilsri. , g a new character, she hopes to prove, that her 141 W. Welk.ll6 Was the vice of het institutions, and not the fault of her in. habitants. France, who receives with aridity the &tail f these grand cruatio.•, sd:yoscs the Emperor still racelipi; I accomplishing them, wheat he is already at the gate of h.er capital to give an account of the intemal situation of the en. pint. In a few days after, England, astonished, hears resoorid ing upon the coast of Boulogne, the report of the cartoon which announces his pretence. It is there, in the roilit of the chosen troops of his array, in the List cares of there g:.:11 prepar lions, that he comer to taste repels. fits !wig c:• eulations are just on the point of execs:) ion : Tie army, ::e• patient, fancies the moment arrir ait, which will retompenrc tt long labours; but Englaqd, tie•tbling not for its glory or its commerce, but for its very existence, has prepared upon tha Continent, a prnirroful divers:on. She has sent forth a cry of terror; at this cry th' Continent is in commotion. Its tau nters have taken arms. From all parts, they a Ivan(' against France. Already they menace her frontiers. U,ron this ere expeded aggression, the Emperor changes his plans of raw , paign ; England triumphs in hating poured upon the c Contie neat all the evils which she had dreaded. Vain triumph! She hare soon learned, that she has only precipdated ruin ups those whom site roes:ded as her supports, and dug as abyss, that must swallow them up. In a few days, the Emperor hal carried his army from the Musks of the Clannel, to the hauks of the Rhine. Ile had taken leave of the Senate, of the Nation. He had paned the Rhine. He was at Ulm, at Vienna, u Ansterlite. I •di all attempt to recount exploits really wonderful, which CIA roll he related in suitable terms, by him who has performed them. Exploits, which we all know; which we will teach our clad dren, the moment they are capable to listen to them; wish* our grand.children will relate with pride, and which can't tete, fur ever, the glory of the nation,;alniost at seeded as its locovie parable Chief. As Minister of the Emperor, I disappoint ti 4 intentions, in holding this language; bast I sin a Petri..., happy to be an; and I am unable to speak coldly of him, WA.) constitutes the glory, and the prosperity of my country. I have commence I this sketch of so many events, at there of the consolation. Yoe know how glom our is bee ime, at toe end of one year, this memorable epoch ; and his: t , ..t crown, given by a great people, has been confirmed, by G'4 ard Victory, upon a head so worthy to carry it. —That with which you are less acquainted, and upon which it become me to say more, is, that in the midst of these inninente 354 painful labours, when the Emperor, giver up to the chasms and vicissitudes of war, underwent all its fatigues a corn /Don soldier, eeposed to ail the sevenity f a rig nous testae, having often for his bed nary a bundle of straw, i, fur Iris one tering the heavens, from which all the fire of his ge,iiii; mores to emanate ; even then, at the distance of three hundcd leagues, he held all the threads of the Administration of 1 rime, took care of its most minute details, attended to the lantern of his people, as to those of his soldiers, ass entry thirst knew every thing, like to that invisible Spirit, which rimer the world, r , ..J which is only known by its power .1: 1 betaatty.- 7 AS evidences of this, you bare the numerous!, trees dated from Ulm, Munich, Vienna aud Austerlitz The interior was stripped of troops—Paris had not a r •, diet, and yet never wee public miler more strict:, ntailitaier i —never were the laws better executed. France ob”cd name of its Sovereign, or rather the sentiment of lose arid ae miration which she felt. It was this sentiment which bet end the progress of the conscription, and made its prha ° " thro..tilil before the time when the contingent was etpstkd be raised. by it is formed this long rampant of 'to:unto:y* 3 diem, which line our frontiers from the Charted to t:ie a new army, almost spontaneously formed, and soh c h tth noences to Europe, that, at the voice of its Chief. To o* ' Min become a great army. It it this sentiment of eie and military ardour, which aiitmates dime young mei. • press to enrol themselves in the Emperors Guard of II and who alone, in all France, may regret the rap d,ty exploits, in which they had no part. Peace was c.included, before, in many put. of Frame'. was scarcely known that the war was begun a eat mi . long as your annual Session, and the consiquences of w must embrace future ages, larol.e, and the tithe . • world. ty If courage and genius have made war, Eznzro; dention have concluded peace; a Sovereign, ode t war, has recovered, by peace, a great portion of Th tinisk ninitn comp • This i These upon Joy th be gii the whole signs the gi brillia the pi ►een /SPAM Mt hi ly clop the sa •bout the et forms thstur posahl thew, the Is worth T:v it dad been 11:0:!en a dotal Mare) •ice. Th r« & 4 C t ttsu lon a prodi i ;hits c,,,lce •re si P=3Ce Ceis6 , OftllT etterr, lieres4 Pure asci i I therm Lid d th«. and si tSe ri mvni.