Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-04-10

ness Prince Joseph, brother OF the Eufe-
ror to the throne of Lombardy -I{iate The
Cisalpine Rcpublic.) The Emperor's jour
ney TO Italy viii be connected With the
new monarchy and it is said his Holiness
will on his return 10 Rome. perform the
coronation of the new King Of Lombardy.
The Arrangements for new organixa
ton Of the Kingdom Of Elruria, are MOI
yet ripe for execution.
A division Of the grenadiers and ctns-
seurs of the Imperial Body Guards has
marched to- Lyons, from thence they pro.
coed to Milan; whittier q detachment
from the corps of MameIukes is already
gone.
There are now in thi. city depu,ies
from the Italian (Cisai pine Republic. with
Instructions 70 offer the crown 10 Bone
par,e, as king Of Lombirdy.
LONDON, Feb. 6.
Bonaparte IS on the point Of again cross
Ing The Alps; and to IKE another visit
to Italy. Let Austria bewarel She neg
leSled this caution before the battle of Ma
rengo, she lost Italy. Bonaparte's Ma
melukes and his guards have already left
Paris, ard are, Immediately to be followed
by his Imperial Majesty. The elevation
Of his brother Joseph to the throne Of
l-ombaedy, which has been offered by q
deputation from the Italian Republic, Is
alledsed to be the sole cause Of hi. Jour.
ney--it is only one of the causes.-For
some time past troops have been filing of
from the Eastern and Sodth Eastern parts
of France to Italy--it is even said, that
the Italian detachments which formed
part Of the encampments at Bolougne and
along the Western Coast Of France, have
broken up, and returned 10 Italy, under the
pretence that the cold weather was injuri-
Gus to troops used to warmer Climate.
The increase Of the French troops in TIA
ly, and the position they took along the
Adriatic shore, and on the Neapoiitan
frontier, was supposed 10 be with a view
of occupying Naples, and of defeating any
attempts that might be made by the Rus
sian troops in Corfu. Whether Austria
saw that so large force could not be re.
CURED to defeat the designs which the
Russians in Corfu might entertain. or to
over-run and occupy the whole kingdom
OF Naples, we know not, but she began to
form Gordon upon her frontier from the
Tyrol to Venice. She mas alIedged the
epidemic distemper in Tuscany as The
cause Of this cordon--a pretence which
does not deceive Bonaparte, who certainly
perceives that so large force Can only be
tor the purpose of observation. II IL evi
dent that Austria suspects him. He has
endeavored soquiet her approximations by
an express condition tina, the new King of
Lombardy shall renounce all claim tn the
sdccessionto the Imperial clown Of France,
and that the titles of Emperor of France
and King OF Lombardy shall never be u
n'ted in the same person. Bur these az
surances have not produced the effect Of
removing the approximations of Austria, or
OF inducing her to withdraw her Gordon
she has recently increased IL. Hence he
alteration at the levee between Bopapar-
lie and the Count Co,entzel, to whom.,he
former poke in The language of insult and
defiance.
The aggrardisement Of his family, an
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT for which they shall be in
debted solely to him, is the vast obi, ct of
his ambition. To give his family a pow
CT and consequence which none ever
possessed before; 10 be Emperor, reicninc
over dependent Kings--Kines bearing his
name, and created by himself; is the
grand scheme and determination Of his
mnd--Kings ofltalv, s OF Holland, Swift
zerland, and Of Spain. all stripped from
the same tree and planted in The 0iss!= s..;S ..
soils of Europe by hiinseiE.-The Pope is
conveniently absent from Rome, aud al
ready do we hear il insinuated that hi. re-
sIdence may be fixed elsewhere, by The in
tended changes in Italy. The kingdom
of Etruria is sckly, and is has ening to
ITS dissolution. In This kingdom of Lom
hardy will be merged the Republics of liz
guria and Lucca, the kingdom of Etrutia,
ard even the territories Of the church.
Naples will be the last part Of Italy seized
and added to il. That such are Bouapar
te's gigantic desig seem to b, suspect.
ed by Austria and this is the motive or
her having assemblies s, large a Gordon.
We shall not be surp ised to lind that
bonapsrte's objg6 in passing The Alps. is
not to seat his brother on the throne Of
Lombardy in the FIRST instance. but 10
place himself al the head Of his army. at