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the city of Naples waited on the Prince, and 
’ figned the furrender of Gaeta, Capua, Pefcara, 
Naples, and the other forts. 
FRANCE, 
On the fecond of March, Bonaparte 
made the following puffing fpeech to his 
dumb Legitlature. It records his views 
and his feelings on the late events: 
“<Gentlemen, the Deputies from the De- 
partments to the Legiflative body 3; Gentle- . 
men, the Tribunes, and the members of my 
Council of State. Since your laft Seffion, the 
greateft part of Europe has-entered into a coa- 
lition with England. My armies have never 
- ceafed to conquer, excepting when I ordered 
them to combat no longer. I have avenged 
the rights of the feeble States, oppreffed by 
the ftrong. My Allies have increafed in 
power, and in confequence. My enemies 
have been humbled and confounded 3 .the 
Houfe of Naples has irrecoverably loft its 
crown; the whole of the Peninfula of Italy 
forms a part of the Great Empire. I, as Su- 
preme Fiead, have guaranteed the Sovereign, 
. and the Conftitutions that govern the diffe- 
rent departments. 
** Ruffia only owes the return of the wreck 
of her army to the advantages of the capitula- 
tion which I granted it: Able to have over- 
turned the Imperial Throne of Aufiria, I have 
confirmed it. The condué& of the Cabinet of 
Vienna will be fuch as will prevent pofterity 
from reproaching me for any want of forefight. 
I have yielded an entire confidence to the pro- 
teftations which have been made to me by its 
Sovereign. Befides, the high deftinies of my 
Crown do not depend upon the fentiments and 
difpofitions of foreign courts. My people 
will always fupport my Throne againft all 
the efforts of hatred or jealoufy; no fa- 
crifice will be painful to them to fecure that 
Art intereft of the country. 
** Bred\in camps, and in camps that have 
always been triumphant, I-ought te acknow- 
ledge that, in the late events, my foldiers 
have exceeded my expectations. It is pleaf- 
ing alfo to me to declare, that my people have 
alfo fulfilled the extent of their duties. In 
the heart of Moravia, I never ceafed for an 
inftant to experience the effect of their love 
and cnthufiafm. ‘Never have they given me 
ny marks of their attachment, which have 
“‘penctrated my heart with fweeter emotions. 
** Frenchmen! 1 have not been deceived in 
my hopes. —Your love, more than the ex- 
tent and the riches of your territury 3. coniti- 
tute my glory. Magiftrates, Clergy, Citi- 
gens, all have fhewn themfelves worthy of 
the high deftinies of that admirable France, 
which, for two ages paft, has been the ob- 
. Je& of the Jeagues and the jealuuties of its 
Beizbbours, ~ P 
_(¢ Ay Minifter of the interior will inform you 
of the events which have taken place in the 
tourfe of the year. My Council of State will 
Jay before you plans ot laws to amelicrate the 
gifcrent branches of the Adminiftration. 
State of Public Affairs in March, 1806. 
[April 1, 
«¢ My Minifters of Finance, and of the Public 
Treafury, will lav before you the accounts 
S b] ¢ J . 
they have prefentedto me. You will per- 
ceive by them the profperous ftate of our fi- 
nances. Since my return, I have been incef- 
fantiy occupied in giving to the Adminiftra- 
tion that {pring and activity which gave life 
to the qxtremities of this vaft Empire. My 
people will have no new burdens to bear, but 
new plans will be propofed to you, refpecting 
the fyftem of the finances, the bafis of which 
was eftablifhed laft year. I intend to dimi- 
nifh the immediate impofitions which bear 
upon the land alone, ‘and to replace a part of 
thefe charges by direct duties. 
«< Through the elements we have loft fome 
fhips, aiter an engagement imprudently com- 
menced. . F cannot too much praife the great- 
nefs of foul, and the attachment which the 
King of Spain has fhewn in thefe circamftan- 
ces fer the common caufe. lam defirous of 
Peace with England. On my part, I shall 
hever retard that moment: I fhall always be 
ready to conclude it in adopting for its bafis, 
the ftipulations of the Treaty of Amiens. 
** Gentlemen, Deputies tothe Legillative 
Pody, the attachment you have fhewn to me, 
the manner in which you have feconded me 
in the late fittings, leave me no doubt of your 
afliftance. Nothing fhall be propofed to yony 
but that which is neceflary to guarantee the 
glory and fafety of my people.” 
WEST INDIES. 
This quarter of the world has been dif~ 
tinguifhed by a naval victory, the parti« 
culars of which are delcribed in the fol-— 
lowing difpatches to the Englifh Admi- 
ralty ; 
Superb, to leeward of the Town of 
St. Domingue, about 12 leagues, 
Fetruary 7. 
Sir—As I feel it highly momentous for his 
Majefty’s fervic-, that. the Lords Commifii- 
oners of the Admiralty fhould have the ear- 
lieft information of the movements of the 
fquadron under my command, and as I have 
no othe? veffel than the Kingsfifher that I 
feel juftified in difpatching, 1 hope neither 
their Lordthips nor Vice Admiral Lord Col- 
lingwood will deem me defective in my du- 
ty towards his Lordfhip-by addrefling you on 
the happy event of yefterday; and as you 
will receive my letter of the 3d inftant here= 
with, I fhall oaly fay, I loft not amoment 
in getting thruugh the Mona Paflage, -and 
on the sth in the afternoon was joined by the 
Magicienne, with a further corroboration — 
from various veflels fpoken, of an enemy’s 
force of ten fail of the line, with as many 
frigates and corve:tes, being in thefe feas. 
I therefore continued uncer eafy fail for the 
night, in my approach off the town of St. 
Domingue, having given orders to Captain 
Dunn, of the Acaita, whofe zeal and acti- 
vity I have experienced fora feries of years, 
to make fail with the Magicienne, Captain 
is Fis: M‘iSenzies 
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