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litary (lores. Asa reward for this Signal fuccefs, the title 
of duke of Albufera was conferred upon marfhal Sachet. 
While thefe things were going on in the peninfula, ive 
find Napoleon contriving to enforce his blockade of the 
British islands by annexing Hamburgh to the French ter¬ 
ritory; a nteafure which, political in itfelf according to 
the plans and views of the French emperor, was (till Seen 
with an eye of jealonfy by his northern allies ; but, from 
a want of understanding among themfelves, they had not 
yet Strength enough to refill thefe peremptory decrees ; 
and the free town of Hamburgh was formally declared 
annexed to the French empire. 
An event of great probable importance, and highly 
gratifying to the mind of Napoleon, took place on $.pril 
the 20th : the emprefs was fafely delivered of a fon. For 
in the young prince has been revived the title, fo many cen¬ 
turies dormant, of King of Rome ; and difplays of public 
adulation not inferior to th.ofe of the ages mod funk in the 
degradation of political fervitude, were made to welcome 
r: the venerable infant,'’ to ufe an expreffion of our own 
Dryden. That this profpeet of edablilhing a dynady of 
liis direct defcendants mud be highly gratifying to the 
ruler of France, cannot be doubted ; but a long continu¬ 
ance of a profperous reign in his own perfon will be ob- 
vioufly reqtiifite for the peaceable tranfmidion of his power 
to an hereditary I'uccefl'or. 
The expofe of the date of the empire, prefented to the 
legislative body by the minifter of the interior on the 29th 
of June, though doubtlefs a flattering reprefentation, con¬ 
tains matter of fail well deferring of attention. It com¬ 
mences with a fplendid view of the late extenfions of the 
French territory: “Since your lad fedion, the empire has 
received an addition of fixteen departments, five millions 
of people, a territory yielding a revenue of one hundred 
millions (livres), three hundred leagues of coad, with all 
their maritime means. The mouths of the Rhine, the 
Meufe, and the Scheldt, were not then French; the cir¬ 
culation of the interior of the empire was circumfcribed ; 
the prod unions of its central departments could not reach 
the Sea without being fubmitted to the infpection of fo¬ 
reign cuftom-houfes. Thofe inconveniencies have for 
rucr difappeared. The mouths of the Ems, the Wefer, 
and the Elbe, place in our hands all the timber that Ger¬ 
many furnifhes. The frontiers of the empire lean on the 
Baltic; and thus, having a direft communication with 
the north, it will be eafy for us thence to draw mads, 
hemp, iron, and fuch other naval (lores as we may want. 
We at this moment unite all that France, Germany, and 
Italy, produce as materials for the construction of (hips.” 
It goes on to touch upon topics, the delicacy of which is 
a proof how firmly bafed that authority appeared to be, 
which ventured thus to agitate them before the nation. 
After remarking on the advantage afforded by the union 
of Rome, as removing the interposition between the armies 
in the north and fouth of Italy, it proceeds, “This union 
alfo brings with it the double advantage, that the popes 
are no longer fovereign princes, and in the relation of 
ilrangers to France. To bring to our recollection all the 
uyils which religion has fudair.ed by the confounding of 
temporal with fpiritual power, we have only to look into 
history. The popes have invariably facrificed eternal in- 
terells to temporal ones. If it be advantageous to the 
Hate and to religion that the pope Should not continue to 
be a temporal prince,itis equally defirable that the bidiop 
of Rome, the head of our religion, Should not be a Stranger 
to us, but that he diould unite in his heart, with the love 
of religion, that love for this country which charaflerifes 
elevated minds. Beddes, it is the only means whereby 
that influence which the pope ought to poffefs over Spiri¬ 
tual concerns can be rendered compatible with the prin¬ 
ciples of the empire, which cannot fuller any foreign bi¬ 
shop to exerciSe an authority therein.” What follows un¬ 
der the head of religion is not lefs obfervable : “ Twenty- 
leven bishoprics having been for a long time vacant, and 
She pope having refuted ?,t two different periods, from 
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1805 to 1807, and from 1808 tip to the prefent moment-, 
to execute the claufes of the concordat which bind him 
to institute the bilhops nominated By the emperor; this 
refufal has nullified the concordat— it no longer exists. 
The emperor has therefore been obliged to convoke all 
the bidiops of the empire, in order that they may deli¬ 
berate about the means of fupplying the vacant Sees, and 
of nominating to thofe that may become vacant in fu¬ 
ture, conformably to what was done under Charlemagne, 
under St. Louis, and in all the ages which preceded the 
concordat between Francis I. and Leo X. for it is of ttie 
eSTence of the catholic religion not to be able to difpenfe 
with the ministry and the million of bishops. Thus has 
ceafed to exift that famous transaction between Francis I. 
and Leo X. againlt which the church, the university, and 
the fupreme courts, fo long protested, and which made 
the publicists and magistrates of that period fay, that the 
king and the pope had mutually ceded what belonged nei¬ 
ther to the one nor the other. Henceforward it is to the 
deliberations of the council of Paris that the fate of epis¬ 
copacy, is attached, which will have fo much influence 
upon religion itfelf.” 
As there existed no other limitation to the extension of 
the territory denominated France, beyond its former con¬ 
fines, than the will of its prefent ruler, no furprife will bo 
excited by the further annexations of districts in Italy, 
declared in an imperial decree of AuguSl the 5th. By 
this decree, the territories belonging to the kingdom of 
Italy fituated on the left bank of the Er.za (a river Slow¬ 
ing between Parma and Modena) were united to France j 
and its courfe, from its mouth to its Source, declared to be 
the future boundary between France and Italy; the 
boundary then proceeding* along the Appenines to the 
prefent frontier of Tufcany. Other alterations u>ere alfo 
announced of the boundaries between the kingdom of 
Italy and the Illyrian provinces of the French empire. 
Further feverities with re Sped: to commercial inter- 
courfe with England were put in practice in the north of 
Germany, by an order of the marfhal duke of AuerStadt, 
governor-general of the Hanfeatic departments, dated 
Hamburgh, AuguSl 6. In pursuance of a decree of the 
emperor, which enjoins every individual with whom is 
depofited, in whatever way, any merchandise, capital, or 
funds in money, appertaining to English commerce, to 
make declaration of the Same to the imperial treafury ; it 
directs that every holder of funds belonging to the enemy 
do make declaration of the Same before tire icth of Au- 
gull in Hamburgh, and before the 25th in all other parts- 
of the 3ad military divifion ; and announces that every 
individual who after the above periods Shall be found to. 
polleS's enemy’s property undeclared. Shall, befides giving 
it up, be bound to furnish triple fecority for its value, in 
order to anfwer for the penalties incurred. 
With a view probably to conciliate the affections of his 
new fubjeCts in Holland, and to haSlen his naval prepara¬ 
tions, the French emperor Set out from Compeigne on 
September 19th, on a tour to the coall. He arrived at 
Boulogne on the 20th ; at which place an incident oc¬ 
curred which mull have afforded him a mortifying proof 
of the infufficiency of his boafted armament in that place 
to cope with even the minor force of the British navy. 
Captain Carteret, of the Naiad frigate, anchored off that 
port, writes, that on the morning of the 20th he observed 
much buSlle among the enemy’s flotiila, moored along¬ 
shore under their batteries, which Seemed to indicate that 
Some great affair was in agitation. About noon, Bona¬ 
parte, in a barge accompanied by feveral officers, was Seen 
to proceed along their line to the centre Ship, which im¬ 
mediately hoifled the imperial Siandard at the main, and 
lowered it at his departure, fubltituting for it a vice-ad¬ 
miral’s flag. By his exprefs orders, as was afterwards 
learned, feven praams, each carrying twelve long 24- 
pounders and 120 men, and commanded by rear-admiral 
Balte, flood out with the flood-tide towards the Naiad, 
which awaited the attack at anchor, with Springs on her 
cables* 
