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eons of the State reposed in you the choice of a suc-
cessor. The more august denomination decreed to
you is then only a tribute which the nation pays to its
own dignity, and to the necessity it experiences of
giving you daily testimonies of respea and of at-
tachment, which every day increase.

" How could the French illeople find bounds to its
gratitude, when you place none to your cjre and so-
licitude for it ? Preserving die remembrance of the
evils which it suffered when abandoned to itself, how

could it rale& without enthusiasm on the happiness
it has experienced, since Providence inspired it with
the idea of throwing itself into your arms ? Its armies
were defeated ; its finances were in disorder ; public
credit was annihilated ; factions were disputing for
the remains of our ancient splendour ; every idea of
morality, and even of religion, was obscured ; the
habit of giving and resuming power left the Magis-
trates without consideration, and even rendered :;di
UM every kind of authority. Your Majesty ap-
peared ; you recalled viaory to our standards ; you
established order and economy in the public ex-
Fences ; the nation, ein.ouraged by the use you
made of your authority, resumed confidence in its
own resources ; your wisdom allayed the rage of

party ; religion saw her itharr, raised up ; ideas of jus-
.,tice and injustice were awakened in the minds oldie
citizens, when they saw ciinies followed by punish-

ment, and virtues signalised and rewarded with ho-
nourable disiinflions. In the last pl icr, and it ;s no
doubt the greatest of the rturacles operatc•.l by your
genius on that ',topic, whose tivii rtlitrc rrncc h id
Tendered them impatient of every restraint, and hos-

tile to every authority, you were by your means
made to cherish and repect a power which was ex-
ercised only for their glory and repose.
The French people do not pretend to establish
elemselves judges of the Constitutions of other Stan a;
they have no critical remarks to make ; no examples
to follow; experience in future will become their
guide. They have tasted for ages the advantages at-
tached to hereditary power ; they have made a short
but painful trial of the contrary system ; they return
by the effedt of free and mature deliberation to a path
suited to their genius. They male a free use of
their rights, to delegate to your Imperial Majesty a
power which your interest torbids you to exercise by
yourself. They stipulate for future generations, and,
by a solemn compae, entrust to the cffspring of your
race the happiness of their posterity. The latter will
imitate your virtues, the former will inherit our love
and our fidelity. Happy the nation, which, after so
trouble and uncertainty, finds in its bosoms
a man worthy of appeasing the tempest of the pas-
sions, of concili.iting all interests, and uniting all

voices ! Happy the Prince who holds his power by
the will, the confidence. and the affection of the
Chi:ens I

a. If it be in the principles of our Constitution.
and already several examples of this kind have been
given, to submit to the sanetion of the people that
part of the decree which concerns the establishment
of an hereditary government; the Senate have
thought that it ought to intreat your Imperial Ma-
jesty to consent that the organic dispositions should
be immediately carried into execution ; and that.
for the glory as well as the happiness of the Repub-
lic, Napoleon may be immediately proclaimed Em-
peror of the French."
The Emperor replied in the followiag terms :-
0 Every thing that can contribute to the good of
the country is essentially connected with my happi-

peas. I accept the title which you think necessary
to the glory of the nation. I submit to the sanCtion
of the people the law of hereditament. I hope

France will never repent of its having surrounded
with honours my family. In all cases my spirit
will cease to be present with my posterity, the day
on which it shall cease to deserve the love and con-
fidence of the great nation."

The Senate being then admitted to an audience
of Her Majesty the Empress, the Consul Camba-
ceres, the President, said—
" Madam,—We have just presented to your
**gust spouse the decree which confers on him the
title of Emperor, which establishes the government

hereditary in his family, and associates future gene
rations in the happiness of the present race.
" A very agreeable duty remains to be per-
formed by the Senate—that of off ring to your

Imperial Majesty the homage of its respell, and
an erpreision of the gratitude of the French-1 es,
Madam, lime proclaims the good which you a.c
continually doing; it says, that being always ac-
cessible to the rnfortnaate, you employ your in-
fluence wirh the Chief of the Senate only to re-
lieve d'..;tress, and that to the pleas.ire of oblig-
ing, your Majesty adds that amiable delicacy which
renders gratitude sweeter, ar.d the tincLiess more
valuable.

of This dispositicn presages, that the name of the
Empress Josephi.l.k •
.vill be the signal of consolation
and of hope ; and AS the •:Jltlell of Napoleon will al.-
ways serve as an example to his successors, to teach
_ern the Art of governing n4tions ; the lining :e.