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London, England, 1806-02-11 00:00:00

ttowerful slimy. Oa the seeesd day of the year, I
ho ad.lreend h.sisself in the language of r-ace, im.
menet-1y to tin Broish Sovereign. Through oho
medi-ira of Lord .lelgrave, the S2cretary of State
foe Foreign Alairs, George 111. returned an an-
sorer, which destroyed the nope of the restoration
of tranluillity, and rejeftel the overtures of his
antagonist, before he knew what were his inten-
tions, or the terms of rovinciliatiun. The war
nne assuasad a fiercer charaftJr. Spain became
involved in it, an.l new Trench fleets, which Na-
p“leos had built, left their oorts, and put to sea,.
troteslested on the part of Britain. The prepara.'
Cons at Boulogne were meanwhile augmented.
While Napoleon fixed one eye on this point, he
directed the other so the fair Italian Peninsula.
fee •nty.tbree Depaties of the Italian Republic, who
veer• assembled at Paris, carried to the Emperor
N amid the acclamations of the French,
t. „,1 the iron crown of the Lom')ards, bltt Cie
t*.siden .tiai-m of the whole Pennsuta of I:3Ty.
• Bonaparte was the first that ever enj,:yed
est. new dignity : on the 17th of March it was
'mired on his head with the' Imperial Crown of
France, and was declared to be hereditary in the
malt line of his direct and legitimate descendants,
either by marriage or adoption. From Faris, the
se)ne of this extraordinary spectacle was removed
so Mn,ae to which city Napoleon, surround-d by
his go irds, mai attended by e brii:i.int retinue,
' peneeeJeJ by way of Lyons and Turin. It was
rh•rs tint the Gernwan Empowers once-visited Italy.
• 461131 of May was not Ins splendid than the id
atiripat nber of the pres.rding year On that day,
• • die Cementation of Napoleon, as Kin. • Italy. was
perforated in the Cathedral of Milan ; on which oew
Inlielk the Emperor himself, placing the Iron
Cl4,wareabia head. exclaimed Wre to him who
shall attempt to deprive me of it !" He had made
a house provision. for his security than the Chhos of
reviser ages. He nominated his step-son, Prince
tiskime Dirmsbaraois, Viceroy of It-ly ; and, left
behind s, large army, which he had himself mus.
Ned in the plains of Marengo.

Rot Wore Napoleon returned to ,he bench em-
pires be aogmented it with a Republic, the pos.
Seaalell of which, had, for centuries, been coveted by
Trance; a country ccataining ninety geographical
spice, miles, a population of more thin four
hurdled tho and inhabitants, with fine harbours
uctuk
*nd resources far the navy, and for commerce.
Duren.), the last Doge of Genoa, at the head of
**potation. n the si.:h of June, conveyed to the
Emperor, e wi.h, that Liguria might he made an
j,
ismorral part\ of the French Empire. Napoleon cc-
soloed the ssitteneers offer t and, on the 30th of June,
**paired to 4:eisoa, whete he ratified the union.....
_ Thies- Iles-stined three new departments. At
the same chilli, laic Duchies of Parma, Piacenza.
and Guastalla, ere mo.tified after tie French man.
net, and were a zed to the 23ils military division.
Froin'Ttaly. il Emperor of the French hastened
to the coasts, whe 150,000 warriors were assem.
Sled. On this gra d theatre he passed the month
silrki.
of Anguet, and ex cited the troops in the neigh.
bourhond of Smiltigne. Evety thing seemed so
denote that the important moment had now arrived
Inv striking the decisive blow, and the demi-official
Paris Journals already announced that the long-
expected tragedy was on the point of commencing.
Napoleon, however, was at that moment sur-
prised by the speedy consequences of his conduct
in Italy, and the extension of the limits of France.
, The Cabinet of Berlin had foreseen them, and ex-
pressed its concern on the subject, stating, at the
same time, that in consequirece of the late change.
in Italy, and particularly the incorporation of the
litzur I o nltepublic with France, the Russian Pleni-*
..n:iasy Novesikaoff, who had been dispatched to
. ....
negotiate a genera, peace, had received orders not
to continue his Journey to France. This was soots
followed by declarations on *the part of Austria,
rcl.stive to the fate of (lenesa, and ether measures ;
and these gave o:casion to a farther alive diele-
MilAtie correspondence. Scarcely bad the French
Minister at Ratistion declared, that any step
against the Gertran Ernpiie, and especially ayainst
Bay wi s, would he considered by Napoleon as a
declarallost of war, arb-o an Austrian army as..
sealahlest at Welt. on the nth of September crossed
the lass, Inkier the command of Central Mick, ad-
mated into Bavaria, and continued its rr.nrch
thentigh Mankh WWI other places, to the Lech and
en Swiskia, in order to remove the theatre of war
frems the Austrian hereditary dominions.
Fate d.-ere-of eche, wise. A little month trans-
ported the forroidable French array from the shares
at the rcean to the T".ine. Napoleon, who, ate.
g.,ged in she e:pediti ot of invasion, bad nut ex.
peled sash A 'pee is, appeal to 01-ms, took a solemn
lesive Willi. :reach `senate, on the `23d of Septem-
ber, s•-t••+,, t'te C.l;osst irag day fur Strasburg, to join
the ire„, v,,,,,,, ha,x,:le aokmented by the most AC—
tivc exertions to •:to(*.t/G4. mess, and coodusac.l it to
Vicilna and to 11::lau.