The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-08-04
Forelgn hteMigcnce.
TraaGated far tie Mercantile HdUcrtiEr, from
late Paris and BORDEAUX papers.
FRENCH EMPIRE.

PARIS, % FloreaI May 10. J
The Senate in body went yefcrday, as .we
have already noticed, TO Saint Cloud, foethe
purpoie of pretending the organic SenatuS Con-
fultum to the Emperor; the retinue was &C.
Companied by feveral bodies of troops. The
Senate was, Immediately on itSarrival, admitted
to an audience of the Emperor. Conful Cans
baccrcs, Prefdent of the Senate, fpohe in theie
terInI
aSIRE,
6" The decree which the Senate has iuf rem
derec' and which it haRens to preient to your
lmperialMa iefty, is but the authentic eyprefiion
ola will already manifefted by the nation. This
decree, which confers upon you anew title, and
which INJURIES the inheritance of it, after you, to
your race, adds nothing to your glory, nor to
your rights.
/" The love ard acknowledgment of the French
people have, for four years pat, confided to
your Maicity the rens ofthe Government and
the Contributions of the State already trufted to
you for the choice of 4 fucceiIor. The fill
higher denomination which is decreed for you
is, therefore, nothing more than tribute which
the nation pays to her own dignity, and TO the
delire fhe feels Of giving You every day teGino-
MES Of a reipeGt and an attachment which in
create daily.
"Ah how could the French people find
do not put any ~ yuur cares AN, 80. e.i,Ii-
tude for them? How could they, preiervine
the remembrance Of the hardffips they have
undergone when abandoned to themfelves,
think: without enthuiiafm of the happinefS they
experienced fnce they were inlpired by Provi-
dence TO throw themfelves into your arms The
armies were defeated the finances in diforder !;
public credit annhated factions diiputing be-
tween themielveS the remains of our ancient
fplendor; ideas OF religion and even of morals
had become obfcure the habit of giving and
taking back power, would leave the magitrate
without importance, and had even rendered obi
ouB every kind Of authority.
80 Your maiety has appeared. You have re-
called victory to our itandards; you have eta
bhhed regulation and economy in the public
expenditure the nation, encouraged by the ufe
you have MADE of Il, has recovered confidence
in its own reiOurces your wildom has Gained
the rage OF party; religion has feen its affairs
RATED anew ideas of jultice and iniuitice have
awakened in the minds of the citizens when
they have heheld the punifhment follow the
crime, and honorable difin6tons reward and
iignalize virtues. In fhort, and this doubtlefs is
the greatef of the miracles wrought by your
genius, that people whom civil efferveicence had
rendered refractory to all reftraint and at enmi-
ty with all authority, you have known how to
mahe them cherilh and refpect a power which
exi(ted only for their glory and their repofe.
The French people pretend not to fit in
judgment on the contribution of other ftateS !;
they have criticifms to make, no ex-
amPles to initiate their leflon hencefor-
ward is dsrved from Xperience-They
have for ages refhed the advantages attached to
hereditary power they have made lhort, but
painful experiment of a contrary fyftem they
return, bv the effect ola free and mature deli
beraton, to path conformable to their genius.
9" They make free ule of their rights, to de-
iegate to your Imperial Ma;cfy a power of
which their own interelts forbid them the excr-
Cife. They covenant for generations to come /;
and, by folemn compact, they confde thehap-
pntts of their nsphews to the branches of your
race. The latter will initiate your virtues; the
former will inherit DIR love and our fidelity.
Happy the nation which, after TO many
troubles and incertitudes, finds in its bofom a
man worthy to appeafe the tenpef of the PAT
hong, to conciliIte all utereil5, and to unite all
voices
".appy thePrin who holds his power from
The will, the confidence, and the affection of the
citizens! If it is within the principles of our
nG;'ution land already ieveral jInlar exam
les have been fyen) to fubmt to the fanGion
Of tie people that part of the decree which
concerns the enabliihment Of hereditary 90
verument, the fCnate has thought fit to fiIpp-
cate your Imperial Maieny to agree that the
organic dipofltoas fhOuld be immediately car
lied into execution and for the glory as well
as the happincfs of the Republic, it now pro-
claims NARoLEoN, Emperor of the French.
The Enpetor made the following reply:
Whatever can contribute TO the good ofthe
country, is efTentially connected with my hap
pinets. accept the title which you think uic-
tu for the glory of the nation. iubmit TO the
1an6tion Ct the people the law Of heritage. I
hope that France viii never repent of the ho-
hours with which ihe eGcirCles my family. At
all events my fpirit will have ceated to animate
my poterity whenever they fhall ceafe to de-
icrye the love and the confidence Of the Great
Nation.'
The Senate had then an audience Of her I'm
rersi A1aiefty, 60 whom the Couful CambacCres