CONTENTS. 



CHAP. XI. 



Affairs of France. — Retrospect to 1803. — Probable Victv^ of Bonaparte, in 

 a Rupture with England. — Flattering Slatancnts of Jifairs. at the Com- 

 menc€7nent of the Ycar^ by the Governmejit. — Vlot against the Govern- 

 ment of Bonaparte detected — Generals Moreau, LoJoUais, ' ' ' •• C'">- 

 spiraiors, arrested and imprisoned — Report on this Ti'ansaction — Ad- 

 dresses to Bonaparte on his Escape from, the me?iaced Danger — his Reply — 

 General Fichcgru arrested — Consideration of the Government toxcards 

 Moreau — and why— found guilty — pardoned and transported. — Arrest of 

 the Duke D^Enghien in the neutral Territory of Baden — his high Cha- 

 racter and Reputation — -conveyed to Paris — hurried before '>a Tribunal of 

 Bonaparte''s Creatures at Vincennes — Trial — Cruelties exercised to- 

 wards him — Condemnation and Death ! — Indignation excited in Europe 

 by this Transaction — Conduct of Russia thereon — Resentment of Bona- 

 parte — angry Correspondence between those Potcers. — Fresh Conspiracy 

 (igaint France announced by her Government — England accused as fer- 

 menting it in foreign Courts. — Messrs. Drake and S7nith obliged to quit 

 Munich and Siutgard, at the Requisition of France. — Fresh Accusations 

 agai7ist the English Government — Reply of Lord Hankesbury, on its Part, 

 addressed to the different Courts of Europe. — Death of General Pichegnt 

 in Prison, supposed to be by Assassination. — Execution of the other Con- 

 spirators. — Tionapartc^s Vicxcs upon the Crozun of France. — The Senate 

 propose to elect him Emperor — his Answer — Addresses of different Bodies to 

 the First Consul, on the same Subject — Proceedings in the Tribunate on this ■ 

 Point — Carjiot opposes his Elevation to that Dignity — Replies to him — the 

 Measure of electing him Emperor carried — Decree to that Effect — adopted 

 by the Senate — '^ Scnatus Consultum" thereon — Bonaparte Emperor — an- 

 nounces his Dignify to the Courts of Europe — Declaration of the Courts of 

 Russia and Sweden upon this Occasion. — Fresh Violation of the Germanic 

 Empire, by Bonaparte. — Seizure of the British Minister, at Hamburgh, 

 hy the French — and carried a Prisoner to Paris — confined in the Temple — ■ 

 released upon his Parole. — French Treaty with Genoa — highly advanta- 

 geous to the former Power. — Bonaparte orders the Pope to attend his Co- 

 ronation at Paris — Allocution of that Potentate, addressed to his Prelates 

 — arrives at Paris — and crowns Bonaparte — great Festivities at Paris 

 ■upon that Occasion. — Annual Report of the State of the Nation on the 

 lust Day of the Y&ar . — Conclusion. . . . \b% 



CHAP. XII. 



Situation of the greater Part of Europe at the Opening of the Year. — Great 

 Power of France. — Magnanimity of Russia. — Dispiitcs in the Empire of 

 Germany on the Subject of the Equestrian Order. — Bavaria and Austria — 

 iitrminatei,-~Effiitt prodiKed by the Murder of the Duke D'Enghien on 



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