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of that kingdom, during the prefent and any future war. 
2dly, That, in conformity to the fecond article of the faid 
convention, the French government fhal 1 promife to efta- 
blifh immediately fome principle of concert with his im¬ 
perial majefiy, for regulating the balis upon which the 
affairs of Italy fhall be finally adjufted. 3d 1 y, That it 
fhall engage, in conformity to the fixth article of the con¬ 
vention aforefaid, and the promifes fo repeatedly given to 
Ruflia, to indemnify, without delay, the king of Sardinia, 
for the lolfes he has fuftained. 4tlily, T hat, in virtue of 
the obligations of mutual guarantee and mediation, the 
French government fhall promife immediately to evacuate, 
and withdraw its troops from, the north of Germany, and 
enter into an engagement to refpedt, in the (trifled man¬ 
ner, the neutrality of the Germanic body. The under- 
figned has to add, that he has received order* from his 
government to demand a categorical anfwer to thefe four 
points.” 
This note produced a reply from the French govern¬ 
ment, dated the 29th of July following. It is therein af- 
ferted, “ that France is jultified in reproaching Ruflia 
with having negleftcd to perform her engagements, con. 
trailed by the fecret convention of the nth Vende.maire, 
year 10, by having changed the government of the Seven 
Iflands, without any concert or communication with 
France ; and of having affembled large bodies of troops 
at Corfu ; of having patronized the emigrants, and their 
projeffs againft France—uf having even placed herfelf in 
a pofture of direft defiance to France, by ordering a court 
mourning, as a mark of refpeft to the memory of an agent, 
in the pay of England, engaged in a criminal defign againft 
France, after this traitor had been condemned by the juft 
decifion of a tribunal of the French government, and had 
been executed in purfuance of his fentence. That Ruftia 
muft fulfil the ftipulations by which bouh powers were 
mutually bound, before (he could expeft France***) com¬ 
ply with them on her part. That the language of Ruftia 
was that of a conqueror to the vanquifhed. It were to 
fuppofe that France could be intimidated by menaces. 
The hiftory of the war which preceded the peace with 
Ruftia, proves that that power had no more right than 
any other, to aflurrle a haughty tone towards Faance. 
But if, notwithftanding all the (olicifude of the emperor 
of the French, to maintain the relations of peace and 
amity between the two countries, the emperor of Ruftia 
(hot;Id join his armies to thofe of England, the emperor 
of the French, with the abidance of God and his arms, 
was not in a fituation to fear any man.” 
This correfpondence was clofed by a note, dated the 
28th of Auguft 1804, preferred to the French minister 
for foreign affairs, by M. Oubril. The allegations con¬ 
tained in the former Ruftian note were forcibly recapitu¬ 
lated ; the recriminations made by the French govern¬ 
ment were repelled; and the correfpondence concluded 
by M. Oubril demanding the neceflary palfports for his 
departure from France. In the mean time a vigorous 
proteft, dated 27 ih July, was made on the part of the 
king of Sweden againft the conduct of France, in violating 
the neutrality of the Gerpan empire, by the feizure of 
the due d’Enghien, 
In the mean time the period appointed for the corona¬ 
tion of Bonaparte approached. The preparations for 
that ceremony were framed upon an immenfe fcale, and 
to give it the greater folemnity and religious diftinction, 
the pope'was (ummoned to Paris, to place the imperial 
crown upon his head. The holy pontiff, on the 29th of 
O&ober, previoufly to his departure from Rome, ad- 
d re fled an allocution to a confiftory, wherein he extols the 
merits of Bonaparte, for having by the “ Concordat” le¬ 
ttered the catholic religion over his vaftand populous ter¬ 
ritory. “ The fame molt powerful prince (continues his 
holinefs,) our deareft foil in Chrtft, Napoleon emperor of 
the French, who has fo well delerved of the catholic reli¬ 
gion for what he has done, has (ignified to us his (Irong 
delire to be anointed with the holy undtion, and to re- 
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ceive the imperial crown from us, to the end that the 
folemn rites which are to place him in the higheft rank, 
fliall be ftrongly imp re fled with the charadter of religion, 
and call down more effectually the benediction of heaven.” 
The narrow limits of this work prohibit 11s from en¬ 
tering into a detail of the long cereiyiony of the corona¬ 
tion, and of the unprecedented inftances of humility and 
condefcenfion in the holy reprefentative of St. Peter. 
Suffice it to fay, that, on the 19th of November, 1804, 
Bonaparte, attended by a numerous military efcort, and 
followed by an immenfe train of equipages, filled with 
perjons of the higheft rank in the government, accompa¬ 
nied by the pope, proceeded through ftreets lire wed with 
laurel, and lined by a prodigious concourfe of fpeCtators, 
to the cathedral church of Notre Dame, which edifice 
was decorated for the occafion, both within and without, 
with all the fumptuoufnefs which ingenuity could devife. 
There his holinefs performed a folemn high mafs, anoint¬ 
ed the emperor with tlie facred undtion, and placed the 
crown upon his majefty’s head. O11 the ift of December, 
the confervative fenate, at the palace of the Thuilleries, 
addrelfed the new emperor in a complimentary oration ; 
which was delivered by the prefidenc Francois Neufcha- 
teau. To which ids imperial tnajefty replied : 
“ I afeend the throne, to which the unanimous wiflies 
of the fenare, the people, and the army, have called me, 
with a heart penetrated wf it the great deftinies of that peo¬ 
ple, whom, from the midft of camps, I firft faluted by the 
name of Great. From my youth, my thoughts have been 
folely fixed upon them, and 1 muft add here, that my 
pleafures and my pains are derived entirely from the hap- 
pinefs or mifery of the people. My defeendants fhall 
long preferve this throne. In the camps they will be the 
firft foldiers of the army, facrificing their lives for the de¬ 
fence of their country—as magiftrates, they will never 
forger, that contempt of the laws, and the confufion of 
focial order, are only the refult of the imbecility and un¬ 
certainty of princes. You, fenators, whofe counfels and 
fupport have never failed me in the mod difficult circuni- 
ftauces, your fpirit will be handed down to your (uccef- 
fors ; be ever the props and firft cotinfellors of that throne 
fo neceflary to the welfare of this vaft empire.” 
The tribunate, having aflifted at a fimilar folemnity, 
concluded this memorable event, which was one of the 
molt important that diftingui(hed the clofe of the year 
1804. 
This aflumption of the imperial dignily by Bonaparte, 
gave a new intereft to the political concerns of Europe. 
As foon as.that event was notified to the court of Vienna, 
the emperor of Germany refolved immediately upon 
making the dignity of emperor hereditary in the houfe of 
Auftria. The patent for that purpofe, (fated the objeft 
of this meafure to he, “ the prefervation of that degree 
of equaliiy which (hould fubfift between the great powers, 
and the juft rank of the houfe and ftateof Auftria, among 
the nations of Europe.” As the emperor and the Ger¬ 
manic body had acquiefced, with fcarcely an exception, 
in the increafe of title in the French ruler ; fo, on the 
other hand, did the emperor of France offer no oppoii- 
tion to the head of the Auftrian houfe adorning the lame 
hereditary title; but. which, till now, had been elective. 
While, therefore, Napoleon 1 . is dignified by the epithets 
of emperor of France and king of Italy, Francis II. all’umes 
thofe of hereditary emperor of Auftria and Germany, and 
king of Hungary, Bohemia, &c. The once flonriihing 
iiland of Hifpaniola, or French fettlement of St. Domin¬ 
go, was now entirely in the power of the black inhabit¬ 
ants, who confummated the victory they had gained over 
the colonifts, by ihe (laughter of every white perfon in 
that part of the ifland, almofl immediately after the Eng- 
lifli fquadron had carried off the French government, and 
fuch of the inhabitants as could withdraw from that 
dreadful feene. Thofe who remained were all butchered, 
with circumltances of unheard-of cruelty. The negro, 
Dclialiues, who had lucceeded Toullaint l’Ouvemire in 
the 
