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London, England, 1804-12-15 00:00:00

honour of the prefent age t the hope and the Model
of future ages.
° Sire. the fiat rank aotrargll the greateß men
that have done honour to the earth, is refereed for
1 the founders of Empires. Thole, who have ruined
them, have enjoyed bin a fatal glory; thole who
have faltered them to fai to ruin, are every where
objets irk. reproach. Honour to thofe who raiCe
them ! They are not only the creators of nation`
but they fecure their continuance by laws which be-
the inheritance of futurity. We owe this crea-
ture to your Imperial Malay ; and France propor-
tions the meafore of thofe thanks, which the Con.
fervative Senate now prefents to you in its name, to
the magnitude of this bleffing.
0 If a pure Republic had been pollible in France,
we cannot doubt that you would have withed to have
the honour of eltablithing it ; and if it were poflible
we floiuld never be exonerated from the guilt of not
having propofed it to a man having power fufficient
to realile the idea of it ; perfonally great enough not
mps
to teed a fceptre, and generous enough to facrifice
his own interefts to the intercas of his country.—
'Though, like Lycutgus, you Ihnuld have bad to banith
yourfaf from that country, which you would have
organized, you would not have hefitated. Your
profound meditations have been more than once di-
reeled to this great problem ; but this problem was
not to be folved even by your genius.
0 Superficial minds, flruck with the afeendency
which fo much (weal and glory fo happily acquir-
ed for you over the fpitit of the nation, have fancied,
that you had it in your power to give it at difcretion
a popular Government or a Monarchical Regime.
There was no medium : not a foul eased for arif-
tocracy in France : but the Legiflature ought to
take wee fuck as they are, and to give them, not
the men pet feet laws that could be devifed. but like
Solon, the beg they can bear. Though the chifel of
a great artia forms at plealui*out of a block of mar-
ble, either a tripod or a' god, the body of a nation
cannot be modelled on the fame principle. It is true.
Sire, that your life is a tifue of prodigies : but
though you might have bent the nature of things and
the charaller of men to Inch a pitch, as to cafk the
mafes of France once into the mould of democrat,
this wonder would have been but a tranfient Mull:
&cold we have concurred in it, we mould only have
forged chains for poflerity.
" When our Reprefentatives, placed on the ruins
of the throne, believed they could eßablifh a Repub.
lk, their intentions were pure : before fad experi-
ence feinted them from the enchantment. they fut-
cerely wornsiped that delufire phantom which they
took for equality. We can (peak of an error by
which we bad been dazzled for a moment. Alas!
who could avoid it I The popular torrent hurried
along the moll indiferent in fpite of themklves.
.. It is (aid, that the ancient Pertians, in order to
convince the people of the terrible danger of an abate
of liberty. tiled to employ a very extraordinary cul-
tism : they tiled to inoculate themfelves for a (bout'
time with the plague of political bodies. When any
of their Kings died, five days were (pent in anarchy'
without authority. or laws Liccntioufnefs was nei-
ther reftrained then nor puniflied afterwards ;—they
. Were five days given up to the fpirit of vengeance, to 1
ezeefe. to violence, in a word, they were five days of
revolution. This proof, it is laid, ufed to mak' the
people return with much j 46 to fubmiffion to their
Prince.
64 After fluatiztitnn more terrible than thofe of a
troubled lea, it was thought that an infallible remedy
had been difcovered for popular convulfions in a
polygarchy. The depot-icing of authority in the hands
of many. was better than the abfence or the dif-
perfion of this authority : but differing fpirits, and
uppufite wills could not be included in the fame bo-
dy, as the Manichean, tiled to place two contrary
' principles at the head of the Univerfe. The Rruggle
between theft two ptinciplcs would have annihilated
France, if the courfe that has been taken had not
been adopted, to return to a more concentrated
power. This it is that has confeerated to eternity
the epoch of the gth of November.
" It is this, Sire, that bring. back and attaches to
you fuch of the Republicans whole patriotifm was
molt fervent and zealous. They were confirmed in
their hatred againft the throne by their attachment
to the hateretts of the people and their ardent define
of die public good. 'I heir ideas have been realifed
only by your Government : out of conceit with their
chimera' and brought back by you to the reality, they
arc well convinced that it was impoflible to think fe-
riontly of eltablithing a Republic, properly fo called,
amongfl a people, attached to Monarchy by their
want., by indinet. and by the force of a habit, which
nothing can overcome. Yes Sire. on this point
there is but one fentimcnt—yes, the Government of
a tingle perfun is to fo vaR a country what the la-
sue of Pallas was formerly to the Trtlans—by. being
I deprived of it their ruin was accelerated.
66 But dill this is not enough. The unity of the
' Empire is like the humble of twig.. the aggregate
of its power ; but, like the twigs of the untied bundle,
tie parts world lion be difuntted and broken, if the
hereditary focceilion to the aggregate dia not (tears
the bond. An order of fucccffinn, previoully deter-
mined, is the firmed fupport of a Monarchical Go-
vernment. So, by the eleCtion even which made you
Emperor, the Senate and the people have deprived
themfelves of the right of eleeting in future, as long
as duke glorious lines (ball fulatitt, to which they
transfer the exclufive right to the Empire. It is a
great depofit of crud. confecrated by the Law of N 5.
thins, the neceffity of which has been felt by the na-
tion, in order to relieve itself from guarding agaioll
any omifGon, or the apprehcnfion of troubles in this
delegation of its fupreme power.
" Amoogft the happy refults of the law of fucceG
lion, fuch as the French have jai adopted, the fa.
gacity t f the great pe-ple has dittinguithed two prin.
opal advantages: flak, that a dynafty railed by li.
betty will be faithful to its principle; there is no in-
flame of a river flowing back to its fource. Belida
A new fource of flability for public credit, both in-
ternally and externally, is to be expelled from a con
•ittired tradition in !hit paternal and perpetual Go-
vcroment. Amongtt foreign nations alto. upon bow
much more folid a bale will our alliances be fuppor-
lcd ? It is a community of interefts, that conflitutes
all the bonds of this world; the friends of France
being able to rely on her, flue can rely on them ; and
this proud country, reinstated in Europe in the rank,
ti,,rn which weaknets had Coffered her to fall. will.
I.Lucaorth, have it in us power to eseecife a perm-

*fit infloesee en the report of the nations, and on
the peace of the Continent.
" As to our enemies. if they perfill in being fo,
their defpair tuft redouble in contemplating the fcr-
s ice they have done us in fpite of them. We have
been pt•t upon our guard by their atrocious plots.—
As a tall refource they meditated crimes; it was our
duty to render them ureters. Thus,then. in every point
of view, our happinefs is their work. But, Sire, until
their eyes (ball be opened, or our indignant army
tball go to punith their perfidy, our blipping( confli.
totes their punifhment. What a fpe&acle for them to
behold. France that Lame France which they wifhed
to lacerate, and which they mull now know to
he united round its :Lagoa Chief, poircifing the fame
fpirit, forming the fame willies, and tranquilly cele-
brating the fettivals which announce the union of li-
berty, that firft of all moving principles, with this
grand confervative fyllem of nations, hereditary mo-
narchy !
" It was defired previous to the Revolution, that
the Chief of a great State like France fhould prostife
at his accetEon not to be King of Nobles nor of any
other clafs, but the Chief of the Nation, not to main-
tain ufurped privileges, which in an agricultural
country, and among" an indulirious peolde, would
neverthelefs deliroy agriculture, and indudry, to en-
rich with their (polls the accomplices of derpotifro--
but that lie &quid (wear to the people there funda-
mental articles, there eternal bales- of well regulated
focieties
" Liberty of Woretip. this &I right of all meta,
fince authority can never force coiance.—Equa
lity of Rights of all the Citizens, the only rational
and poffible equality.—Refpeß for political and civil
liberty. without which nations are but herds of Haves,
equally indiffefent to the fortune of their maßets.
and to their own deftiny.—The inviolable fecurity
of property, which forbids above all the levy of ar-
bitrary imports, rind permits not any rublidy, dired
or indireB, under what name foever, but according
to law.—Lallly. the general tendency of his govern.
tent, to the fole and primitive end of every govern-
ment, the uttered, the happineib, and the glory of the
people.
" This is the form of the oath which your Impe-
rial Majefty is about to take to the French people ;
there are the terms which you have chorea to be a
law to ',andel/ and to your faccetrors. According
to circumftances, your Majelly annexes to them
an engagement to maintain—The integrity of the
territory of the French Republic, which thould con-
tinue indtvifitde—The acquisition of the national
property, which have been the pay of our inde-
pendence—The fuhlime inftitution of your Legion
of Honour, worthy reward of fervices rendered to
the country. With there additions, this remark
able oath would appear to have been diaated by the
whole nation. It is in consideration of this alfo, that
the whole nation fwears. fidelity to you. There two
oaths correfpond ; they guarantee each other : they
are the reciprocal pledges of an indhfolublz alliance ;
and amida fo many important views, which will for
ever dininguifh the Senatus ConfUltum of the 19th
May (28th Floreal), that which cements the whole
work ; that which imprints upon it the fear of im-
mortality, Sire, is the thought of the title of the
oathi. _ _ .

“ To clofe the charms of the revolution, more
than Cardin was neceliftry : according to the pro•
found idea of a political author, it was neceffary
that a great man thould chore fer; the theatre of his
Government and the materials of his glory, the rains
of that State, which he might prOpore to new model
and re-invigorate. It was neceffary that this man
thould be worthy to give his name, and to communi-
cate his impulfe to a new dynany. It was neeeffary
that he Arnold be elevated above his contemporaties,
by their choice, and by their fulTrAges, without oppo-
fition either from his own countrymen or from fo-
reigners. In the exilling (late of focieties, the want
of being governed is felt, as formerly ; but the means
of governing are become more difficult, becaufe their
°bled is more extended and complicated.
is The Confervative Senate and the French Peo-
ple affure you, Sire, through my voice, that they are
proud of their Emperor. If they have offered you
the crown, if they have made it hereditary in your
defcendants, and in thofe of your two brothers, it is
becaufe there mitts not un earth a man more worthy
to bear the keitre of France nor a family more be-
loved by the French. Governed by Napoleon, or by
his fops or his nephews, animated by his fpirit, form-
ed by his example. in a word, bound by his oath, we,
Sire, and our children's children, (hall defend, with
our lives, this tutelary Government, objea of our
pride as of our love, becaufc in it we !hall defend
or amid; ear properties, our falai/its, and our honour.
” You have chorea, Sire, as the infcription on our
coins thole words, which you jneify : God Irak&
Prover." Oh yes ; Gun does protea France, fines
hs has created you for her. Father of thy country,
in the name of that proteeing Gem, bellow a bleffing
on thy children, and relying on their fidelity, be if.
fured that nothing can either efface from their minds,
or rout out of their hearts, the engagements relish-
ing from the mutual contrail that -has juft• been en-
tered into between the French Nation and the lave-
rial
" In the *Mame of the throne, all the great cha-
rattlers give thensfelves up to failioos. A people is
fo much the more to be pitied, the greater the num-
ber of its ditliaguiffied children ; ail that might con-
liitute pride of nations becomes then the lcoorge of
one. From the moment that a throat is worthily fill-
ed, eminent virtues have a award ; viz, to approach
nearer to it ; and the diflinaion is fu much mare
flattering, as more real dignities bear more impofing
names. The title of Emperor has ever conveyed the
law not of that Royalty before which fubjeas humble
and proflrate themfelres, but the great and liberal
idea of a firft Magitlrate governing in the name of
the law which citizens feel honour in obeying. The
title of Senate indicates alfis an affembly of chofen
Magiftrates, proved by long labours end venerable
for age. The greater the Emperor is, the more auguft
ought the Senate to be."
His Majelfy replied in the following terms :
1-fend the throne, to *bids the 10111111104111 wags Mae So-
mme, the pcopk, sad the army have called ma, with a Part peat-
treed with the gram &finks M slam mar* wham, fern the
Witt of camps, 1 Ott baited wits the same of 0“: at. Prom
my yotoh my dmaihm have been fiddly limed apa them, and I
mutt aid here, that my Moires mid my piss an densaleaeinity
, rum the Isevpiaers oe amino of fa! pee*.
" 464x0445" tart' Passys this them. to the

naps they we be the deft faXereef thettrthy, fat:fades thus/
Hies for thedefetweed their country. *As Magiftrates,lry win
never forget, that contempt at the laws and the median of facial
order, are only the refsk of the imbecility and uncertainty of
Princes. You. Senaton, where counbh and rapport have never
failed me in the molt dilicult eircuntßanees ; your spirit will be
banded down to your riteceffors. Be ever the props and brit coon.
(Oars of that throne Co mere rary to the welfare of this nit Empire."
The Tribunate prelented Wilt in a body at the
Tl!uilleries, on the fame day, at two o'clock. M.
Fasts (de l'Aude), the Prefident, addreled the Em-
peror, in the name of the body :
The added. Mambas nothing worth noticing, ezeept the
abject (nudity with which theTrilionthe avow their joy that
they bad been the litit to conceive the with to give their country
authorired mater, (the qatitics refrirt'Ung the elevation of
Bourke no the Empire was brit hatted In the Tribusate). The
sddrefs concludes with willies thee the new dysaity mar menu
long as the three remedied ones, nuking the days of Ida Ma-
jely may he protsesed beyond the ordinary term of human lift!
Oa the 3oth of November, a deputation of twenty.
five Members from the Senate was relented to his
Handl ; when the Prefulent [poke an addle& in the
name of the Senate.
Its kiss the Pope root Hay Father. He ken by Rating,
that the psalm of cosfeenting CieltW Princes had originated
in France, in imitation of the maths of the leen. The French
always were smiths to have their dank chit ads fandifted by
religion, tiff mess that their geese paged antratha Scald bath.
vdtcd with this parannte. which swam to Ham what km
bent written on lamh...-The mud of his Holinets in costing
sacrecrate in perks the Chief dills DM dynaity, would render
the barna Mao* more vemerable, es it weld/ reader the M-
eow authority at his Hands Non diseeto Pronthnsen...Frosee

merited this talkisAiss. far Mr sand ws• the Aloft daughter
of the "sans Omsk: H 0111wis week' Sim the double fa.
'azalea of suiting ate 0821C110 Omni se die Hal, See, Est of
muting doe conwiesepowst el mew uses Is Frosee, by eosin

to apply the fed of the inane,. lame hi !held& of dm oldie
barmen a great peeplessi the deeme ei tbdr Hoke: dee two
traMa vainetemogois ths Peaditma of the acid GscelLie of St.
Peter. The *potation bad wailed so hie H aa6 to taffy to
him.= behalf of the Senate and tithe swim, deck jtedtade, sod
the deldogoilded bowie tut Asir mot poodoesd nips&
A deputation of eighteen waited on his Moline&
the fame day from the Tribunate ; and their "refl.
dent, M. Fans (de l'Ande),addre&d him as fame
length in their same.
DLCISISIM 7. _ _

The folemnity of the coronation and eonfeeratioa
of their Imperial Majeitits was celebrated this day,
in conformity with the regulations in the different ce-
remonials which have been publithed. IF would be
difficult for us, to-day, to enter into full details, or
even to collet particular eircumflances.
The weather was peculiarly favourable to the pomp
and external magnificence of the proceffion. A fine
winter's day, the iley lightly clouded, a flight frnsl,
facilitated the full difplay of all the great prepara-
tions which had been made; and *as equally favour-
able to thole Who *rude part of the proceffion and to
the (pastors. The canine of his Hounds was, as
Oral, preceded by an F.ccleftuflic upon a mule, car-
rying the Papal Crofs. The Holy Father on the
way gave the Apoftolical benediaion. and in return,
received thofe of gratitude and piety. Their Imperial
Majefiies heard continually, during the whole of the
proceffion, both before and after the coronation' the
moll animated expreffions of the public will ; which
gave a fort of fanaion to this folemn aft. The crowd
was every where immenfe, and the greeted order pra-
vaned.

The Senate were yellerday admitted in a body to
pay their homage to his Holines, as wasbisenaiDence
the Cardinal Archly; Stop of Paris.
- .

The day before yefterday deputations from the
Legiflative Body and the Tribunate were prefented
to his Hohnefs. The Prefidents having addrefed him
the Holy Father replied : he begun his emfwer ip
French, and having apologized, on account of 41
difficulty he felt in ezpreffing himfelf in our language.,
he concluded in Italian.

The evening before, a deputation of the Senate wei
patented to his Hofinds.
The Sceptre which his MajeAy the Emperor car.
tied a$ the coronation, was of Elver, with a golden
ferpent twined around it, funnounted with a globe
bearing a figure reprefenting Charlemagne.—/V.

incsmaaa 3.
We cannot yet give our Readers the expeeed de-
tails of the au*tal ceremony of the Inauguration and
Coronation. fhe grandeur of the folensnity, the or-
der, eclat. and pomp with which they were celebrat-
ed, have impreffed upon all hearts a deep emotion,
which does not leave the mind the requtlite freedom
to defcribe, in fo (bort a time, fo magnificent a (pee-
tacle. Yet we mute point out the God of Day efcap-
ing, beyond all hope, from the Empire of a foggy
and cloudy (talon, to enlighten to fine a day ; and
thofe thoufands and thoufands of lamps. giving
a noon-day brilliancy to a peaceful and joyous to ht,
fun& a juR idea of the moll noble and impoling
proceffion of that religious ceremony, cf that ciril
ad, which have at once united all that human 'aid
divine affairs could prefent molt fublime ; of that con.
condi of people from all parts of the Empire. and
from the moll difiant parts of Europe, to admire in
the bofom of one city, the moll venerable apofiolic
virtues, and the 1110 f allonififing genius crowned by
the atoll brilliant deftiny. We mutt, in limn, con•
municate to the French who were not happy enough
to be prefent, that pious and • civic enthufiafm, that
love, that gratitude of a whole people, whole 'rear-
ports refounded in the fame day throughout the tem*
pies and ever) part of the capital. —.llorisanr.
To defcribe at this moment Cu memorable a day
as yefierday—to depict the public joy—to eminent*
the numerous proofs of love and gratitude which the
Emperor received everywhere, would be to undertake
what the delirium of a n osent will not allow, and
what the few minutes we can fpare to this day's paper
will Rill ifs permit. We muff Confine ourftivea to a
few words.
The weather which; info many circumfbilmmo,imff
roved Co favourable to the fete 'whr in the event of idi
nossallatTl was the hero, was more than ever in uftio
too with the wakes isethe French. A nand. but
tightly clouded day, crowned with complete Wadi
' the immure preparations with which all Paris was
.
Occupied.
The San flume for a &art time—his fit& beams
appeared when the Etnpernr left the Thoilleries, and
from time to time irradiated his path to the moment
of his arrival at Mitre Dame. •
From five .n the morning the Amu way fall of