240 ANNUAL RE G 1 S T E R, 1809. 



this display confined to tiie united 

 kingdom. It was seen in the most 

 distant parts of the empire. And 

 it was in one of our foreign depen- 

 dencies that the Jubilee was cele- 

 brated with the greatest judgment, 

 taste, splendor, and effect.* 



The legislative assembly of France 

 convened on the 3rd of December, 

 when Buonaparte stated with his 

 usual brevit}', the conquests he had 

 made since their last adjournment, 

 and what had been done, and was 

 further intended for the good of 

 the empire. Among other parti- 

 culars he observed, that three 

 months had seen the origin and the 

 result of this fourth punic war. 

 That the genius of France had 

 conducted the army of England, 

 which had terminated its projects 

 in the marshes of Walcheren. — 

 The conquest of the Illyrian pro- 

 vinces had extended the limits of 

 his great empire as far as the river 

 Save, by which means he was en- 

 abled to watch over his commer- 

 cial interests in the Mediterranean, 

 the Adriatic, and the Levant ; and 

 to protect or to punish the Ottoman 

 Porte according to the relations it 

 should maintain with England. But 

 the most remarkable feature in this 

 address, is the change of style in 

 speaking of this annual account of 

 the state of the nation. On former 

 occasions this statement was term- 



ed an expose, a declaration or eX' 

 hibition ; which migl^t seem to im- 

 ply, that it was a comple rendu, 

 that they before whom it was laid, 

 might naturally conceive that it 

 was submitted to them, as the king 

 of Britain's statements are to the 

 British parliament, and that they 

 had a right to judge of it. In the 

 speech containing a retrospect of 

 the affairs of 1809, Buonaparte 

 makes use not of the term expose, 

 but " lliistoriqiie a narrative of the 

 legislation and finances of the pre- 

 ceding year." The heads into 

 which this annual expose was di- 

 vided were, public works; charitable 

 establishments ; public instruction, 

 comprehending religion ; agricul- 

 ture ; manufactures, and industry ; 

 mines; commerce; finances; ad- 

 ministration of the interior ; and of 

 war; justice; and politics. Under 

 the head of public works, we find 

 canals, the junction of rivers, the 

 draining of marshes, bridges, esta- 

 blishments for the poor, and a hall, 

 or, as we would say, a dispensary 

 for vaccination. On the subject of 

 wrar, intimation was given of an 

 intended change in Holland, by 

 which it would become a part of 

 the French empire, to which in- 

 deed it naturally belonged, as it 

 was nothing else than an allusion 

 of the Rhine, the Meuse and the 

 Scheldt, the great arteries of the 



empire, 



• At the fete here alluded to, a description of which will be found in Chronicle 

 J). 645, several vakeels or ambassadors, as well as navigators from all parts of India, 

 Persia and all the East, were present. These, and all the natives of the country, 

 from the Indies to Cape Comorin, considered the long reign of the sovereign, 

 whose beneficence had extended its influence even to them as a peculiar mark 

 of the favour of providence to the People of his empire, and of all its dependencies. 

 — Here we shall take occasion to correct an error, not of the press, but that had 

 slipt into the copy from which the celebration of the jubilee at Bombay was printed 

 in the Chronicle. 



Append. Chron. p. 647.'column 2d. L 3. 



For " Celebris in flamis, Celebris Gibraltar in imdis," 

 Read " victrix in flamis, victrix Gibraltar in undis. 



