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as by his Fiats the hereditary 5c vereig:,

of France. •
It is reported in our diplomatic circles, that Tal-
leyrand has written to his consul, the Prince de
Chahis, that the coronation of Bonaparte n a shill
the Temple of Jaous for an oge, and from this
it is concluded, that the war will soon be over. Un-
fortunately the language in the official papers, the
violent expressions Bonaparte makes use of when-
ever he mentions England; the augmentation of
Our army, now said to amount to 560,000 men ;
the unusual activity in our dock-yards and arsenals,
and the late purchase of naval stores to the amount
of SO millions of livres, in Russia, rather prove
the intention of our Government to command,
than to negotiate a peace.
Murat, Bacchiochi. Talleyrand, Berthior, and
Jourdan, it is said, will be proclaimed at the coro-
nation, with some other civil and military persons,
Princes of the Empire of the Gault, or, as some
will have it, of the Franke. The former, or Murat,
is, besides, to receive the staff of Constable of the
Empire. The coronation will not take place as
formerly at Beim-,. hut in the church of Notre
Dame here. It is ever. reported that the Pope
has been ittreted to perform the ceremony, and that
his Holiness, during his stay here, is to occupy the
apartments in the Thuilleries, lately inhabited by
the Third Consul, who, with Cambaceres, is not
only to be a Prince of the I..nyi.e, but a President
for life ing,the Tribunate ; whilst Cambaceres has
the same rank in the Senate.
Whilst the brilliant feasts and amusements, which
will be the consequence of the coronation, amuse
tle imagination of the gay and giddy. all true
patriots lament that Government should find it
necessary to continue five hundred ant fire special
military corm:6'sl:lnm, now sitting to try and con-
demn here, as well as in every part of France,
persons accused of aels, which, in former times, our
laws did not even notice, but which now are pu-
nished with death ; and that Bonaparte should
march to his new throne between prisons crowded
and scaffolds standing en permanence from Nice to
Antwerp, and from Bayonne to Mentz ; and that
thousands of families ate wretched, under the

daily fear of imprisonment or transportation.
On the other hand, though many executions have
lately taken place, both here and in tl.e provinces,
it is said, that, with some few exceptions, all the
other imprisoned persons, or state prisoners, will. at
' the coronation, be pardoned, on condition of residing
for the future in our colonies, where their rights
of citizens or subjeas will be restored to them with
their property.
The late eomplaints of the inhabitants of the
suburbs have been listened to, and the price of bread,
meat, and wine, is diminishedt though, accord-
ing to the letters from the departments, the lung
rains and late frosts have injured both the corn lands
and the vineyards, aad that to supply our nume-
rous armies with meat. five thousand bullocks hare
' been purchased in Holland, severs thousand in Ger-
many, fifteen hundred in Suitzerland, and ten thou-
sand sheep in Spain.
In the army on the coast, the discontent has eer.
tainly been great, but by ordering to :le interior,
and to Italy, the corps ••••ist dissatisfied, and by
changing 'heir (misters, who.e attachment to Irthe-
glue or Moreau was s..- -cted, tranquillity is se-
stored for the moment ; but the imparteace of the
I soldiers, in remaining inactive upon the defensive,
whilst your cruisers insult them, even in their en-
campments, and their ansiety.to possess those riches
which, for the last twelve months, they hare been
promised, by the conquests in England, is beyond
belief, and will certainly break out in mutiny,
should not Benaparte soon, either attempt the inva-
sion of England, conclude a peace, or begin a con-
tinental war.

AU trade is at a stand, and new bankruptcies,
here, 'at Marseilles. Bourdeaux, Lyusi, Nantes,
and Rotten, have destroyed what little remained of
commercial credit, as thirty of them were regarded
as capital houses. Government has prevented the
emigration to America of several hundred families,
who, with the imp:eincnts of their trade, and their ca-
pitals, had engaged fsr the:: passage at Bourdeaux,
Nantes, and Bayonne. A Peace, and a Cominer.
cial Treaty with England, are the universal wi.!ees
of the nation, with the sole exception of some few
revolutionary fanatics.

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LONDON,
MONDAY, MAY 7.

At 4 o'clock yesterday, aotleng Slue was stte..,7(l
in the business of the new Ministevinl arrangemew.
The Poiitkii Corps wag, bowever,divided And sub-
divided into dinner parties, for the evening; and ;t
was expected that so:ne steps would have been taict.n
in th cz.arte of the night, towards an adj..stment
of this mo.t ig and Mycosis= subject.
Procrzsti-.At,,:n If ev:dentlr the best policy which