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POLICY OF EO:4AI'A:ITE..

When BON 411 A art had &throned his benefaelon
of the Direaory, in a Proclamation of the 12th
November, 1799, addressed to the French Nation,
he solenr.iy declared, 4, that the form of Govern-
ment he intended to establish, was one, founded on
the Sovereignty of the Polde, on Lahetty, end on Fgun•
jay." Even the insolent letter he had the auda-
city immediately afterwards to write to our beloved
Sovereign, began with these very words. The Con-

stitution which he swore to preserve and rcsneft, was
founded on the same basis. Such w?re his public
and official acts—his underhand doingc, and seem

transactions, were, however, totally opposite.—
From the instant that he was proclaimed a Fitter
Cossut., he evinced clearly that he would neither
suffer an equal, nor a superior—and, notwithstand-
ing what his slavish Senators, or base Tribunes,
have lately announced, that the safety of France
demanded an hereditary Emperor, and that this in-
novation was required by circumstances, and not

premeditated—every step of BONAPARTE since his
usurpation has proved, that in 1799, when he swore
to respeet liberty and equality, an Imperial Throne,
crushing them both, was then as much his objea
and desire, as in 1804. To the pacified Royalists
and Chousns, he then promised the return of Mo-
narchy, which was one of the causes of their easy
pacification. And, to skew them how little be in-
tended to regard the Republican Consular Constitu-
tion, be recalled the exiled Priests, and the pro-
scti'led Emigrants, excluded by the same Constitu-
tionfoe ever from rettirsing to France. The ur.con-

sti:utional anti-Republican institution of a Council
of State, evinced, that like otbm hereditary Sore-
regns, he would leave to his disposal an interns,-
cli.ue body of experienced men, between bim and
tl Cor.,ervai;ve Senators, the elective Legislators,
a.id the Constituticnal Tribunes. No Ruler over a
Repub!ic, before him, except the King of POLAND,
ever bad such an aristocratic Council of State, dic-
tating equally to the Senate, to the Legislative
Corps, and to the Tribunate) determining equally
all political, military, civil, or financial acts or per-
formances.

The successes of the ..tmpaign of 1000 farther
discovered his outrageous ambition; and those
C.houans, whom he had duped into a pacification,
no longer doubted that he would destroy the repub-
lic, and create a monarchy ; but they were at the
same time convinced, that he would not desert his
duty, or betray his old accomplices, to eleitate any
man bat himself. The pamphlet which Fon., Ames
wrote, and Looms B aasigned as a minister
of the interior, in 011ober that year, in which a pa-
rallel Was drawn between C SSA R. CROMWELL, and
&MAP A RTE, and the latter ridiculously extolled
above the two former, w.:s an impolitic prods Rion,
which prematurely etposed the intents of the.
Usurper, and caused the double plot of the Royal-
ists, and of the Saeobius, who, IQ the following
winter, bran infvriial machine, attempted his life.
The pace with Austria, its February 1101, the
esticordat with the Port in &co:ember, the pacifi-
cation with England on the first of alober, and
soon after the peace with Turkey and Russia, were
all efts, sheaving, in the Fs e4r Comet, who nego-
ci ttcd as as equal with these Sovereigns, the pre-
tender to an hereditary throne, that would really
place him ice that situation. This pretension is par.
titularly remarkable in his treaties with the two
Emperors. In that concluded with ALEXANDER,
" the respeaiot audjaiis of Rasna and F►aeer are es-
'rawly oweatoortd ;" and m that with Fs ANCIi 11.
a Grand Duchy is swindled to make a revolutionary
king; and when an outrageously ambitious Usurper
has the power to bestow kingdom, and to force
lawful Princes to acknowledge this power, one must
be imbecile politician indeed, not to foresee, that
11 take for himself an imperial crown.
_ 1802, the peace of Amiens was signed,
the concordat published, and a consulate for life pro-
claimed, many expelled then, that BONAPARTE
would have seised on the imperial dignity. But the
facility with «high he hitherto had advanced to-
wards supremacy, made him hope, that he should
meet with little obstacle from the legal heirs to that
throne, upon which successful clime had seated
him ; and his reign would have been more quiet,
and his rank more respelled, could he, with the
commanded voice of an enslaved nation, have
mired the assent and claims of its hereditary
Sovereign. By the kingdom which he had sold to
Bova sou, he had told all the others,
_ could do for them ; and by ti,e humiliating
allociation with Louis XVIII. which the King of
testa undertook for the Corsican, in lebruar

)3. be told the other Donations what he expelled
return. It is to be remembered, :hat when this
id impolitic transaaion took place, France
a profound peace with all the world, neither
nor external plots disturbed the usurped au-
'itY of Boa , who, in tyrannising over
Ince, Italy, Switzerland, and Holland, oppress-
and Pm:gal, humiliated Attsv'a, insulted

Engiami, and cajoled Russia, that he might, under
its cloak, as a guarantee of the German Constitu-
tion, unopposed, govern and plunder the German
Empire ; and this ambitions and audacious attempt
could therefore not be said to be provoked by any
necessity, but was a barefaced avow?tl of h:s preten-
sion to hereditary sovereignty over the French Re-
public. An attentive observer must then, as well
as since, have seen, in every regulation or decree of
the Usurper, by the etiquette which he regulated in
his palaces, as well as by the laws of precedency,
which he gave in favour of his military and civil
funaionaries, by his Legion of Honour, by his Car-
dinals, by his Senatories, &c. that he intended them
as revolutionary supports to his revolutionary throne,
which he had determined to make hereditary, as,
since the Consulate for life was conferred on him,
he was certain never to cease to reign, before he
ceased to live. We have stated these particulars,
only to convince our readers of the falsity of the de-
claration made by the French Senators and Tri-
bunes, that this change of Government and dynasty
was necessary, and determined on only in conse-
quence of the late pretended conspiracy ; whilst the
fael is, that the degradation or death of Yic tuner
and Moatsu was necessary to silence or terrify
other military rivals, before the Senate and Tribunate
dared to create thi, foreign adventurer the heredi-
tary tyrant of the French ; a place to which he has
never ct- iseci to aspire, ever since the 9th November,
1799, the day that he usurped the throne of the
BuLattoss.

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prrraly aerator!
a Cran3 Duch
king ; and whe
has the powe
lawful Princes
be an imbecile
he soon will
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