The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-05-21
CORONATION CEREMONY,
- OF MIS- IMFKRIAL MAJESTY
NAPOLEON TIE EXIST,
(Ci,Devant Bru,us Ally Bonapare,

| (C''Devant Bru,us Ally Bonapare.)
15 '0' Grace et toe Bersae's Emee,or Of sie irsae5
| kss 81 Re Lomta,as, Sc.
FROM THE BRITISH rRxs.1
The feilivi'y of the day was announced ,y the e.
ring OF the cannon oppoii,e the c!i.rch CT ST. Roob
and afterwards proclaimed by Herals, drcaci in fivs
co'onred jackets IN honor of the five contribution,
winch France has fworn prei-rve within thelc la.
twelve years. That the gooc Pariias might diil;na.
" fee the ceremnnv, the Preea of the Police had or
deFed general Illumination for twenty-four hours
from funrifc of day to the iunr. of the next IN
Read Of Aix-la Chappee Of Rheims, To avoid eiv
ing offence either to the fades of Charlen,asne, or
70 tno'e OF the Boubons the Covrvrfis. Senate had
ueo'eeo that the coronation fhould be performed at
bere, the ancient family refdence of the Bonsparte
family -
The protection fet out from the Thuilieries in the
following order: Eight running footmen. a French
ran Dntchr1an, Swifs, an Italian 4 Spaniard 4
Portugue'e, Pruflian and Bavara:, each LEADING
an ais richly caparifoned; Fix Lords in waiting. an
Auitran, Rntiian, Swede, Dane, a Saxon, and an
American all packed up in the fame ftats carrisqe
Oh when' in"ead oil coat OF arms, painted the
e;nPis in peripeGive; FIVE bannerets, General La
fayete, dreiied Pantaloon carrying an urn with
the aihes OF the Rights of Man, genera! Charles La
neth' dreited la Ha,ieqnin carrying the Tree of
Liberty reduced to walking flick; the Senator Fou-
che drelied Ia San, Cniotte, with a wooden balp
containing the aihes of the Bible burned by hin, in
iI9S, at Lyons, in republican auto da 6. the 'rr;
ounate Carnot, dreGed IA Ca,suaerol, with cloak
"a IlrfI6e decorated with Ja,obin cap, covered
with black Grape, with the INTERRUPTION Pe.rpo- and
citizen Barrere, dreed in Corcan livery, CARVING
gni'lone frefh painted with the blood of the Duke Of
Enghien. ="
Seven banner carriers, each having in his hand
bamboo pole, with paper flag nailed to it, on which
were painted the dates of the REFLECTIVE republican
contributions. with tieie words, Fi5ty TO he Cs.ev
lIou' or DEATH; the Senator Able Sieyes carried the
contribution of 1871; the Senator Bifhop Grenoire
that of 1898; the Senator Bodily dAncias. that o.
1875; the Senator Francois de Neufchateau, the
Constitutional variations of 1907; the Senator Vol
ney, the Contribution of 1899; the Senator Ruter.r
the Conttitutional variations Of 1902; and the Sepa
tor JoePh bonaparte, the Imperial Republican Con-
(itution of SO4.
The Mameluke RoRan carried the Swords of State
ara OF luitloe: h=lc:e Grand Judge, Regnier, who
was attended by numerous flute of one hundred
opecai Military Con,mifioners; fifty thoufand Jail-
ors; twenty five thouiand Rxecu,ioners and fifteen
"hundred thoufand Spies; headed by Citizen Mebc.
spy 'n-Chief OF the French Republic
len millions of members of the Legion of Hononr.
carrying with them nine millions nine hundred and
nnefy-nire repreves from the gallows from the GAL
ies from the huks. from the pories, and from the
VI e'iiSSt'oh. iiicy oil wore TIE new Iulue-
rial Order of s.. Guillotine, fufpended in trcoIour
ed rihband. The collars of this order wer. chains
highly iinithed, interviewer with gulotines daqgers
and bayonets the robes of the order red ecuieu, s
lang lined with the kins OF tigers, foxes, and mon
kIes
General Abdallah Menou, in full regimentals, car
RED the Aicoran, eicorted BY corps of Msmeukes
ana Arabs; and the Biihop OF Autun, Taleyrand, in
his epcopal dreis, carried the Bible ecorted bv be
Italian Coniular Guard.
His Imperial Majelty, Napoleon the Firf, then fol-
lowed; having in one hand domiglobe in the form
OF bowl, and III the other fceptre with two l,arn
points, one of which was poifoned. The bowl. a,
well as the icePtre, was of the Jaffa mandatory.
Ills MaJeity's carriage was drawn by lie horfes re-
pretending the l6 departments of his dominions and
mounted by dePutations of the Senate of the Tr;bu
nate, and one of the Legislative Body drened ike
Mountebanks. General Berthier acted as eoachman:
the TWO Confu' as lacqueys; and Cardinal Caprara.
with the four French Revolutionary Cardinals as pof
tillions
immediately after the Emperors coach, followed
in balloon, Her Imperial Majeny the Fmprel, To-
iePhine La Pagerie, Beauharnois Barras, Bonaparte
&c. She accompanied By battalion Of maids Of
honour on horfeback
Arrived at Bieef,e,@ Their Maefties were met bv
deputation of Muities, Chicks, and of the other re-
evolutionary clergy, repeating Domino, Ealqyz far Inn
persfOyem aoi bnDS; which all the 0e7ive citizens
of Bicetre anfwered, Amm!
After the Mul1ulmen had inifhed their rcad;p,, of
the Acoran, Able Sieyes Attended the pulpit, and de-
livered pathetic fermon informing the audience of
the great honour and eminent fervices which the new
Emperor had done the French nation during the mai
facre' at Toulon in 1898, in thofe at Paris in 1898
in thoe in Italy during 1877, and in thofe at Ja in
1899
In the abfeuce of the Pope, the Bifhop Taleyrand.
performed the coronation ceremony. To preferve
the republican fimplicity, the Imperial Crown had
been made at Luxembourg, of gilt paper and received
the blefiings of Bihop Gregoiret and Abbey seyes
Madame Talleyrand performed the coronation ce-
ren1ony on Madame Bonaparte Her crown was &
mlar to that of her Imperial with the excep
ton that Madame Fallen and Madame Recauier.
had read prayers over it.
To crafty the curoiity of the people, the pro-ec
lion returned on foot. But the confpiracies of the
Chouan are nor yet at end their accomplices in
the clouds poured down bail ftorm which waited a.
way the Imperial Crowns & the ConG,utional Codes
and wetted, befides their Imperial MajeRes to the
kin.
Except this accident, every thing pafIed ON with
the greatea regularity.
TIE Biesfre is b,jon fzoo iles fran Paris, qvbe,s
Iaf H. III