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wi'fhes to make a grand example, which is demanded by 
the honour of his crown, the interefts of his people, and 
the necellity for eltablifhing in Europe the refpeft due to 
public faith. 
“ The army I command marchesto punilli that perfidy ; 
but you, people, you have nothing to fear ; it is not 
againft you thefe arms are directed. The altars, the mi- 
nilfers of your worfhip, your laws, your property, fball be 
refpeded. The French foldiers will be your brothers. 
But if, contrary to thefe benevolent intentions of his ma- 
jelly, you take tip arms, the court that excites you will 
facrifice you to its fury. The French army is fuch, that 
all the force promifed to your princes, were they upon 
your territory, would be unable to defend you. 
“ People, be tranquil : this war lhatl be for you the 
epoch of a folid peace and permanent profperity. 
“ Joseph Napoleon.” 
The Neapolitan troops and their allies were (aid to con- 
fift of nearly 60,000 men, under the chief command of the 
Ruffian general count Lafcy. They had for fome time 
formed three encampments on their frontier, between the 
great roads leading.to Rome and Abruzzo. Onedivifion, 
tinder the command of count Roger Damas, was polled at 
Tano; another at San Germano ; and a third was pitched 
on the banks of the Tronto. The queen had refolved to 
repair to the army in perfon, accompanied by the young 
king, and prince Leopold; but a hidden fever prevented 
her from adopting this bold expedient. 
Whether it was that the proclamation of Jofeph Napo¬ 
leon had won upon the minds of the people, or that the 
allied troops thought themfelves unequal to the conflidt, 
we know not; but general cbunt Lalcy thought it pru¬ 
dent to decline the battle, and to withdraw his army ; and 
his Sicilian majelly, the queen-mother, the council of 
(late, the houlehold and fuite, embarked for Palermo, 
the capital of the illand of Sicily, leaving the city of 
Naples, and its luxuriant territory, to the mercy of the 
invaders. 
Meanwhile Jofeph Napoleon, in his progrefs into the 
Neapolitan country, divided his army into three corps. 
The right, commanded by general Regnier, marched by 
Terracina and Gaeta; the left, confiding of the Italian 
corps, made its way by Itri ; while he proceeded in per¬ 
fon with the centre, under the immediate command of 
marefclial Maflena, by Germano and Capua. General 
Regnier, upon his arrival at Gaeta, fummoned the prince 
of Hefi’e, who commanded the place, to (tirrender. The 
prince notified his intention of defending his poll to the 
lalt extremity. In confequence of this anfwer, general 
Regnier ordered an attack to be made upon the redoubt 
of St. Andre, which he carried after a flight refinance, in 
which the French general Grigny was killed. Onthei2th 
of February, the centre divifion fummoned Capua, and 
alio met a refufal. On the 13th, however, deputies ar¬ 
rived from Naples, and iigned the furrender of Gaeta, 
Capua, Pefcara, Naples, and the forts that command it. 
Tlie French general, Partonneaux, immediately entered 
Naples, and on the 15th, Jofeph Bonaparte fet out from 
Capua for the fame deftination. The king of Naples, 
when he embaiked for Sicily, left the hereditary prince 
behind him, who was inverted with unlimited powers to 
adt in his abfence. Apprifed of the approach of the 
French at my, the prince lent his brother with propolitions 
to Toleph Napoleon, which being rejedted, the hereditary 
prince put himfelf at the head of the Lazzaroni; and his 
brother, prince Theodore, endeavoured to rail'e the people 
of Abruzzo. Their efforts do not appear to have been 
Seconded by the Neapolitans at all ; but on the contrary, 
the French had a lirong party both within and without 
the city of Naples. -Under thefe circumltances, no effec¬ 
tual relillance could be made, and the capitulation was 
Iigned. As farther evidence of the treachery and defec¬ 
tion of the natives, we find that the Neapolitan officers 
bad agreed to enter into the French iervice; in confe- 
quence of which Jofeph Napoleon formed feveral Neapo- 
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litan corps. He entered Naples on the 15th of February, 
at two o’clock in the afternoon. He was waited on by 
the colleges of regency, whom he received in the royal 
palace ; on the following day, he ported the proclama¬ 
tion throughout the city, which, it is faid, gave great 
latisfadfion to the inhabitants. The French army found 
in the arfenal more than 200 pieces of cannon, and about 
200,000 pounds of gunpowder. 
The emperor Napoleon, in the mean time, having ar¬ 
ranged the affairs of Germany and Italy, fet out on his 
return to France ;. and made his entry into Paris on the 
26th of January 1806, preceded by ninety-fix large calks 
of gold and filver, mounted on military cars, and efcorted 
by a confiderable body of his life-guards. It is afferted 
that nearly the whole of the money lent from England to 
pay the Auflrian and Ruffian troops, had fallen into his 
hands. He was received by the fenate, the conllituted 
authorities, and the people at large, with thofe tindif- 
fembled marks of affedlion, applaufe, and joy, that can 
be much more eafily imagined than exprelfed. 
Soon after the arrival of the emperor Napoleon irt the 
metropolis of France, the news reached Paris of the death 
of the celebrated Engliffi miniller Mr. Pitt, which hap, 
pened on the morning of the 23d of January. This event 
produced unufual lenfations in the feelings of the leading 
parties at the Thuilleries, as well as in all the political 
circles in the vicinity of Paris; for to the adtive fpirit of 
this miniller, and his jealoufy of the riling power of 
France, had been attributed all the confequences of the 
three coalition wars. In the meeting of the confervative 
fenate early in February, the impolicy of this miniffer’s 
interference with the powers on the continent, was in- 
velligated and expofed ; as were likewife the treaties re¬ 
cently laid before the Britilh parliament, on which were 
founded the compadt for carrying on the late continental 
war. The folly of this meafure was let forth in an offi¬ 
cial proclamation, dated February 17, in which it is dated 
that “ England has driven France to conquer Genoa, Ve¬ 
nice, and Naples; that (lie has poured into France up¬ 
wards of two hundred millions of livres, in contributions ; 
that (he has fully eitablilbed this principle, acknowledged 
for more than a century throughout Europe—that the al¬ 
liance of England has always ended in the ruin of thofe 
princes who were fo imprudent as to accede to it—a prin¬ 
ciple, the truth of which was confirmed not long ago, 
by the fate of the ftadtholder and the king of Sardinia, as 
it isalfo, at this moment, by the misfortunes of Auftria, 
and the fall of the king of Naples; while, on the contrary, 
the alliance of France, always favourable for the princes 
who engage in it, brings along with it aggrandizement 
and prolperity ; witnefs Bavaria, Wii temburgh, and Ba¬ 
den. Should England ever excite a fourth coalition, 
Auftria, who loft Belgium by the firft, Italy and the left 
bank of the Rhine by the fecond, Tyrol, Suabia, and the 
Venetian territory, by the third, may, probably, lofe her 
crown by the fourth.” 
It was not however to be diffembled, even amidft the 
lofty lentiments induced by an uninterrupted feries of im¬ 
portant victories, that the Court of the Thuilleries felt a 
pred.iledlion in favour of the new Englilh adminillration, 
which had been formed on the demile of Mr. Pitt, and 
that a latent hope of peace might be cherilhed as the hap¬ 
py refult ; flnee the power of adlion had fallen into the 
hands of men who had conflantly deprecated and oppofed 
the ruinous l'yftems of the deceafed miniller. 
The emperor Napoleon now announced to the conferva- 
tive fenate and council, that he had adopted as his own 
Ion, the fon of hisemprefs Jofephine, prince Beaubarnois, 
by the name of “ Eugene Napoleon and had conllituted 
him viceroy of Italy. And it had been further his will 
and pleafure, that each of his brothers ftiould relinquifh 
the name of Bonaparte, and adopt, in lieu thereof, the 
furname of Napoleon : all which was accordingly re- 
giftered and decreed. It was alfo finally fettled that the 
new calendar, which began with the revolution, Ihould 
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