The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-04-13
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
PARIS, 4th Ee,,r1Iar,

The fenate attended this day in grand cot
tune. under tbs proficiency of his ferene high
NETS the arch-chancellor of the empire.
His excellency M. Talleyrand, mihifter of TO-
reign relations, was introduced, and prefented
the following report go
M 7aheyrana. The national foemnity of
the coronation, that noble and neccGary com
pletion Of our focal inltitntons, attached to if
ientiments too profound and too univerfaI not
10 occupy the whole attention of all claf1es of
the tate; at the near approach of this great in
ternal event, which has juf afTured for ever the
deftinles OF France, in confecrating by the voice
OF men and heaven all that we have ACQUIRED of
glory, of greatness, and of independence, the
lntereft of all other events WAS generally, as If
by one common imprefiion, felt to diminifh and
grow feeble; even the thought of war feemed
10 vaniih from the tofom of nation which owes
10 mich to its victories.
All is accomplished the empire is founded ::
and in re-affuming the cares of the exterior, and
recalling genius to the interets of war, the frft
ientfment of the Emperor has been to elevate
hImielf above all the pafions, and to iuftfy the
great deftiny for which Providence referves him.
by fhewiDg himfelf inaccefible to hatred to am
biton, and revenge.
IF there exit men who have conceived the
project of combating us with the weapons of
CRIME; who have, as much as lies in their DOW
er, realized that cruel thought who have hired
ailailins; and who, even at this moment, fubIi
dive our enemies, it is over thefe very paIlions
that the Emperor has wifhed to triumph. The
more natural and common it is to men to be ir-
ritated by perfonal attacks, and to fhew fenti-
ments of refentment, 70 much the more he has
felt that 1t was the part of a great foul to rife
hyperion 70 them.
This determination prevails in every infance,
but 1T is far removed from the ordinary rules |;
and in 70 lingular a cafe, muft forget, for mo-
ment, the principles of courtefy which at anv
time would forbid me from offending by enco-
miums the fovereign to whom have the honor
OF being miniitef. Here. cannot explain the
ftepS of generoiity which fqppofes a forgetfii.i,
neis or the common laws of prudence, witfioi,f,
juitifying Them and, without intending it, NV
Qualifications are euogiums.
The Emperor has made the frft advances TO-
wards government which has the guilt of be-
ing the aggrellor; which has manifehed, with
out motive and without reierve, towards him
and towards us, fentiments of an inveterate ha.
tired. To comprehend well this moderation, it
will be necehary to retrace the events which are
palled, and to follow the march of our aueuG
fovereign to the extent Of his noble career. Men
who have hudied his character, have they not
acknowledged by the bodnefs of his concSpti-
ons and the vigorous and confiant execution of
all his enterprises, a calmDefs Of mind and
prudence by which they were tempered, a re-
ierye which prevented all aIufe, an effrrvef-
cence, in ihort, of iuace and of humanity " :.ich
tended iucefantly to moderate the effects and to
cut fllort tie term of necendry violence
Thus, after train Disadvantages obtained up-
on the borders of the Draye, FAR from abandon
ing hifnfeh to hopes which the mott liberal for
tune feened to hold ont for his intoxication, he
calculated that it would be.more ufefulto France
and TO her enemies to underitand each other.
He coinbatted the great allurements of glory
with the ftiil greater interefs Of humanity. He
heard the Cries OF the victims who were fpeedly