680 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



ed of ; the above answers this ob- 

 servation. With satisfaction the 

 sublime porta shall always regard 

 every •mcasurej which confirms its so 

 foriunalely subsisting friendship 

 with France. 



Profeyi of Louis XVIII. King of 

 France^ dated U^ar.^aw^ June 6, 

 1 804, against the Usurpation 'of 

 Buonaparte. — From the Moniteur. 



In assuming the title of emperor, 

 and aftempHna; to render it heredi- 

 tary in his IVimil) , B.ionaparte has 

 pu( the seal to his usurpation. This 

 new a6t of revolution, where every 

 thing from its origin has been null 

 and void, cannot weaken my rights; 

 but being accountable for my con- 

 du(5t to all sovereigns, whose rights 

 are not less injured than mine, and 

 whose thrones are shaken by the 

 dangerous principles which the se- 

 nate of Paris has dared to publish. 

 Accountable to France, to my fa- 

 mily, and to my own honour, I 

 should consider myself as betraying 

 the common cause, were I to keep 

 silence upon this occasion. I de- 

 clare then, after having renewed my 

 protestations against all the illegal 

 a6ts, which, from the opening of the 

 states general of France, have led 

 to the alarming crisis in which 

 France and Eurojje are now involv- 

 til. I declare, in the presence of all 

 the sovereigns, that far from ac- 

 knowledging the imperial title that 

 Buonaparte has received from a 

 body which has not a legitimate ex- 

 istence, I protest as well against that 

 title, as to all the subsequent afts to 

 ■which it may give birth. 



Official Account of the Proceedings 



on the Coronation of Bonaparte^ 

 as Emperor of the French.^ 

 Paris, December 1, 1804. 



The senate, in pursuance of a re- 

 solution passed in its sitting of the 

 26th of November, presented itself 

 in a body at eleven o'clock this 

 morning at the palace of the Thuil- 

 lerics. " Having been introduced in- 

 to the chamber of state, they Avere 

 presented to his imperial majesty by 

 his imperial highness prince Joseph, 

 grand elector. His excellency M. 

 Francois (de Neufchateau), the 

 prv'.'idcnt, addressed his majesty in 

 the following terms : — 

 Sire, ,1, 

 The first attribute of the sove- 

 reign pow er of a people is the right 

 of suffrage specially applied to fun- 

 damental laws. It is this that con- 

 stitutes real citizens. Never has 

 this right been more free, more inde- 

 pendcut, more certain, nor more 

 legally exercised by any people, 

 than it has been amongst us since 

 the happy 9th of November (18 

 Brnniaire). One plebiscitum placed 

 the reins of government in your 

 hands for ten years ; a second en- 

 trusted them to you for life. The 

 French people has now again, for 

 the third time, expressed its will. 

 Three millions five hundred thousand 

 men,' dispersed over the surface of 

 an immense territory, have simul- 

 taneously voted the empire heredi- 

 tary in your majesty's august fa- 

 mily. Their a6ts of suffrage are 

 contained in 60,000 registers, which 

 have been verified and scrupulously 

 examined. There is not a shadow 

 of doubt either respecting the state, 

 or the number of those who have 

 put forth their voice, neither as to 

 the right of each to give his vote, 

 nor as to the result of this universal 



suffrage. 



