The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-21 00:00:00

i4vpocritical patience, fA. the moment to throw off
the mask, and to lift up the suit of iron.
" It declares to a brave and generous nation—
( Yon have lust your independence, your liberty,
• and your name, because you would not renounce
' eleaing a Supreme Chief.'
" It unveils that long sequel:of tumults, dissen.
tions, and civil discords, which have preceded or
f Bowed those periods when Nations elected a new
Chief; happy, when not condemned to the shame
still more insupportable than death, of receiving a
Foreign Power, conqueror or corruptor, a contemp..
tible Chief, cowardly enslaved, -or basely perfi-
dious. _ _ _

" It bids us to regard the City of the Cxsars, the
capital of the world, a prey to all the disorders,
eritnes, and furies, which the gold, the sword, and
the poison of the competitors for the Empire could
'create, until an hereditary- power replaced a mon.
strous assemblage of contested elections, ludicrous
sanlions, uncertain decisions, unacknowledged
adoptions, and despised acclamations.
" After the fifteen years which have elapsed since
the year 1789, after all the catastrophies which have
succeeded each other ; after the numberless dangers
which have surrounded the social body, and when
we saw' the abyss opened, into which they seemed
resolved to cast-it, before the Saviour of France was
restored to us, what other Government than that of
single individual, regulated by the law for the
happiness .of all, and .confided to a family whose
destiny is inseparable from that of the Revolution,
could proted the fortune of -so great a number of
Citizens, become holders of landed property, which
a counter Revolution would snatch from them,
guarantee the heads of Frenchmen who have never
ceased to be faithful to the sovereign People, and
even defend the existence of those, who misled in.
the beginning of our political torments, have claim-
ed and obtained the indulgence of their Country.
" What other aegis Haan that Government, can
for ever repel those execrable plots, which, repro.
ducing themselves under every form, setting every
spring at work, one day' overturned and the next
re-appearing, might at length finish by tiring out
fortune; and to which were devoted those blind
zearts, who in their guilty delirium,•conceive they
have means once more to ere& for a family whom
the people have proscribed, a throne composed ,only,
of feudal trophies, and instruments of servitude,
which the national thunder has reduced to dust.
'What other Government, in short, can for ever
preserve that acquisition so dear to a generous Na.
tion, those palms of genius, and those laurels of
tridoryi-wbiath the enemies of France would with
sacrilegious. hands snatch from her august brow !
" This hereditary Government can only be con-
fided to NAPOLEON BONAPARTE and his family.
" Glory, gratitude, love, reason, the interest of
the State, all proclaim NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Hereditary Emperor.
"But, Citizen FIRST CoNsu', the benefit of our
social pad ought to endure, if possible, as long as -
your renown.
se We ought to ensure the happiness, and guaran.
tee the rights of generations to come.
• " The Imperial Government ought to be un.
shaken.

" Let not the forgetfulness of precautions called
fur by wisdom, suffer the storms of an ill-organized
Regency, succeed the tempest of an EleEtive Go-
vernment.

" Liberty and Equality must be held sacred,
the Social Pael must nut be violated ; the Sovereign-
ty of the People must be acknowledged, in order
that at the most distant times the Nation may not
be forced again to sieze its power and avenge its
outraged Majesty.
" The Senate is of opinion, Citizen FIRST Corr-
stn., that it is for the dearest interests of the French
People, to confide the Goiernment of the Republic
to NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Hereditary Emperor.
" It developes in the Memorial which it annexes
to its Message, the dispositions which appear to it
the most proper to give
_to our Institutions the ne.
cessary force, to guarantee to the Nation its dearest
rights, by securing the Independence of the great
authorities, the free and enlightened vote of im-
post, the security of prosperity, the liberty of in-
dividulls, of the Ptess, and of EleElions ; the re-
sponsibility of Ministers, and the inviolability of the
Constitutional Laws.

" These tutelary dispositions, Citizen FIRST
CONSUL, 'will complete!, shelter the French People
from the plots of their Jlnrerries, and from those agi-
tations which take their rise from ambitious rivals,
they will maintain the reign of the Law, of Liberty,
and Equality.
" The love of the French for your person, trans_
mitted to your Successors with the immortal glory
your name, will for ever connect the rights of the
Nation, with the power of the Prince.
"'The Social Past will brave time.

" The Republic, as immutable as its vast terri-
tory, will behold political tempe3t4 gather round it

in vain.

" To shake it the whole World must be shaken,
and Posterity, in calling to recollection the prodi-
gies brought about by your genius, will continually
behold ere& that immense monument of every thing
for which the Country will be•indebted to you.
" The Vi.cep._ rcs.Lent and St.cretaries,
" Sgned, FR ANC Is (de Netifchateau)Vice-President.
.4 MOB ARD DE GALLES, JOSEPH CORNUDET, SC.

cretaries.
" The Chancellor of the Senate (signed) LAP LACE."

MINISTRY OE MARINE.