1809.] 
pounds; and of which he had been tenant one 
year. 
7. That all boroughs, that at present 
send members, continue so to do, provided, 
after the above regulations, there are 500 
electors ; if less than that number, and more 
than 200, either to send one member, or to 
add one or two surrounding, or adjoining 
hundreds, to form a district, as local circum- 
stances may direct, or the 200 electors may 
request. 
8 That populous towns, that do not at 
‘present send members, in future do so, in 
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interested persons be set aside, as the law in 
no other case allows a man to be a judge in 
his own cause, therefore the House requires 
them to withdraw before a division. ! think 
it would prove their cause to be a very bad 
one, if they durst not trust it with the rest of 
the House. 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
FE pleased to acquaint your corre- 
spondent, Capel Lofft, in answer 
the proportion of one member for every 400 
electors; the number of members and elec- 
tors to be regulated every five years. 
If any public-spirited member could be in- 
duced, from a principle of duty, to bring for- 
ward the above, or any more suitable proposi- 
tions, and then move, that all representatives 
of boroughs, where, for the two last general 
€\ections, a less number than 1:0 electors 
had possessed, or then possessed, the right, 
the proof to rest with the members, and to be 
made within fourteen days, that their vote as 
to bis question in the Monthly Magazine, 
that I have in my possession a square 
piano-forte, made by Zumpe, in 1768, 
and which, for a small one, is a very 
good one; the keys act in the common 
manner, and strike two wires; it has the 
mark xvill. upon it, which I have always 
understood to be the number he had then 
made. Your's, &c. 
Lendon, R.K,D. 
September 21, 1809, 
CORONATION or NAPOLEON, 1n rue CHURCH or NOTRE DAME, 
aT PARIS, DECEMBER 2, 1804. 
WHE total interruption of communication between England and France, for several 
years pust, has prevented our recerving, till lately, an accurate representation of 
one of the most extraordinary events of modern times. We have, however, at length 
Fecewed the anneved engraving, which is not less interesting, as a representation of this 
coronation, than us containing portraits of six personages, whose names will always con- 
tinue to be fumous in the History of Eurepe. 
Lhe drawing was made at the mément when Napoleon placed the crown on his head. 
Lhe Empress is kneeling to receive the crown, which stanas on the Altar, from his hands ; 
and the Pope, seated at the Altar, is pronouncing tke holy benediction. 
The brothers of Napoleon, Lovts, since King of Holland ; and Josrpu, since King 
of Naples aad Spain, are prominent figures in the ceremony. Murat, now King of 
Naples, and then Commandant of Paris, stands to the right of Napoleon; and behind, 
are Cardinal Fescn, since Coadjuter to the Prince Primate of the Confederation of the 
Rhine; and Cardinal Carrara, the Pope’s Legate: all of them are striking likenesses. 
The grand throne on which the Emperor, Empress, and Pope, afterwards took their 
seats, is represented in the back ground, The body of the church, filted with all the 
authoreties and dignitaries of France, is more to the left. 
Further particulars of this ceremony, were given in the Monthly Magazine, published 
January 1, 1805. Aé that tame, considering the dreadful sacrifices which France had 
made to establish a government of liberty, we could not treat this ceremony other, than 
as a scene in the drama of the Revolution, destined lo glitter for an hour, and be Sor- 
gotten, The genius of Buonaparte has, however, given it a degree of solidity and con- 
sequence, which renders it, in an historical and political sense, the greatest event of 
these eventful times. Since that time, France has extended its domiuion to the shores 
of the Baltic, to the Adriatic, the Tagus, and the Pillars of Hercules; she has cone 
guered and overturned all the ancient monarchies of the European Continent ; and 
whatever may be the justice of her cause, or the final destiny of Napoleon, and the 
Buonaparte family, these events will live in, the page of history, and never cease to 
possess considerable interest with mankind. Ati ; X 
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