The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-22 00:00:00

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kprivate Letter fionnYaris of the 4th inst; eon._
lain.. the following particulars " I have, with
daculty, procured permission to be present at the
ceremony in Notre Dime of BONAPARTE'S Corona-
don. A friend introduced me as one of the Depu.
ties of the Department of and I occupied
a place Convenient to obserie anti see every thing;
and I can assure you I never have read of, or seen,
any.public fete where less content anti satisfadion
prevailed. BONAPARTE Was pale and sulky, watch.
ing with an anxious and suspicious eye all persons
approaching him ; and, though surrounded hy his
most trusty slaves, started often at the foot of the
altar, as well as when seated upon the throne, as if
iroM apprehension of the secret' presence of some
revengeful or hired assassin, or from the irresistible
pangs of a guilty conscience. He sent General
Douse twice to the Cardinal CAPE ARA, and to the,
Pope, to hasten the ceremony, with an impatient
look, which indicated his great uneasiness and
trouble ; and when, after a space of five hours, the,
Procession left the Church, General Mu RAT received
another message, to be particular in not permitting
strangers to approach the imperial carriages, which
had an escort more numerous th in the coach which
carried the unfortunate Louts XVI. to the scaffold.
Madame BONAPARTE never cedsed to have her
eyes fixed upon her husband, and several times,
putting het handkerchief to her face, seemed, or, I
believe, rather wished the spedators to suppose,
that she cried from tenderness or affeition.—,Ba-
NAPARTE spoke to her three
itimes in an angry
tone, because she did not perform her part exotity
as r iodated by the Grand Master of the Ceremony,
Secont, or because she was not quick enough in •
prrf rming it. BoNAPARTF's brothers were proud
of their precedence, insolent in their manners,
'and acrd as a kind of police ministers, in this
Church; as their Aids.de-camp were continually
employed in carrying messages.to the military, to
place or displace persons from their seats, or to
turn out Iluistt who,Were not dressed well enough,
and therefore., or for some other cause, si.)Epti3nuf.
Or disagreeable. I3uNAPARTS's sisters appeared to
mind little else htit to admire their. rich and elegant -
dresses, and tit court, or rather command, the ad.
mitatton of other,. They seemed the most satisfied
of the whole family, and exhibired themsels
with the same boldness in the Chinch, as report
says, two of them have formerly duce on the Stage.
The Pope, when in Notre Dame, as when in the
Thuillery, surpassed all others in weaknesi, mean.
ness, and servility, and would, with the same
beetle subm ssion, have cr 'sorted BONAPARTE the'
Pr,,vidence of Europe, as an Emperor of the French.
Those who placed the - tiara on the head of. this
weak and ignorant P.,ntifT, did as much harm 14,
as those who tore tair the crown of Louts
IV!. did to Monarchy. With the superstitious de-
votion of a friar, he is as little acquainted with the
true interest of religion and of mankind as a re.
tithe. He is, as all other weak characters, good,
because he is tint under the necessity of being had to
promote his-views. Without ambition, he k fund
of power, and, without any .passion for pleasure,
fond of !thews and processions. He has the pue-
rile vanity to wish to be considered as having
received nie gift of languages since his devotion
to the_ Vicariate of Christ. Wishing to answcr in
the language he is addressed, he commits the most
,lidieulnus blunders. When the Senate complimented
him, he began tootnsiver in French, which caused
even the Senators to. smile, notwithstanding the
gravity of the occasion ; but he was obliged to finish
it in Italian. In a few Words, the only phee he is
fit to occupy, without danger to society, is that of
a Superior of a convent. He has already met with
several insults from BONAPARTE, that +would he
resented by a, man of sense ; but which now prove,
that he is well known to the Corsican, who re-
gards him as his first slave, with whose rank he
Intends to enslave the Catholic States, and tyran-
nize consciences. From Bavaria, Saxony, Wt ar.
phalia, and other parts of Germany, several hun-
dred Priests and Friars had obtained permission
from Press VII. to salute him here, arni to receive
his blessing; but BosrAearte ordered Foi.“:tre to
write to the Prefeds on the Frontiers to stop every
Foreign Clergyman, and, though provided. with .a
written pass-Iron) the POPE, to carry them to the
other side of the Rhine.
" But to stop this interruption of the occurrences.
at Notre Dame, the Constituted Authorities there
seemed not muc!oolore at their case than the Stave.
reign they had made ; they were as glad_when every
• thing was over as he was himself; a rumour being
citculated, that the Military Deputies had proposed
to suspend these Authorities until a Peace, and con.
fee upon BONAPARTE
.the Legislative as well as, the
Execntive Authority. The military mernwho formed
most of the spedators, were as noisy in the Church
acthey would have been in a camp. Though they
had their. places assigned to them, they introduced.
themselves every where, even in the gallery occupied
by tbe Members of the Foreign Diplomatic Corps,
saying NAtioo EON was their Emperor, and they,
therefore, had more right to see his Coronation
than any body else. BONAPARTE, his brothers, and
General MURAT, observed these irregularities, but
either dared not, or would not interfere. The Foreign.
princes, and Diplomatic Agents, with the exception
of half a dozen, who, on account of the length of the
Cereon.ny, or from the heat, fell fast asleep, were
more attentive to the noise of the Officers and Sol.
dices, than to the prayers or mummery (404 Pots
and the Clergy, having heard the same rumounas
the Constituted Authorities, anti were trembling
lest the first signal to a civil war should be given in
the church. Terror, uneasiness, and suspicion, had
eveti extended to the fetnale part of the audience,
one of whom, in sonic iew wards addressed to me,
gave a hiletably good dr,ctiption of the situation
of uii partite on that remarkable day, in saying:
" it n'y a pas de fete, art I s cosur west pas!"

M.jrsty's Ptivt. Council have ordered, that
4nY Perboo who may he lound to have evaded the
law:„f
Iv anramtime, which are necessarm ily enfibrced
4All' ligirkost strianesis, should immediately be
reoseeute,l to cony idion, that they mil' buffer the
veresi
renal!), of the btiittittj viz. Death ivitienut
kencnt of Clergy.