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of the two countries."” To pafs by the 
injuftice of charging the Emperor of Rut 
fia with a difregard to decorum in this 
difpute, it-is a novelty to find the Court 
of St. Cloud in fo mode a fit as to ac- 
knowledge any of its errors. 
We may take this opportunity, as there 
is very feanty intelligence refpecting the 
affairs of Ruflia that falls within this 
mouth, to fay, chat the Emperor Alexan- 
def is reinforcing his troops in the Medi- 
terranean with ai poflible exped:tion, and 
has ordered preparations to be made 
for the reception and fupport of a large 
Ruffian ferce in the Adriatic. Feur- 
teen thoufand men are on the eve, it is 
faid, of failing from the Black Sea for 
the Mediterranean. 
Here alfo we may fpesk of the Porte, 
which has fhewn a decided alienation from’ 
France, and a profound deference to the 
wilhes of Ruflia, Marthai Brune, the 
French Ambaflador at Confiantinople, 
had eagerly, but ineffectually, laboured to 
induce the Grand Seignor to acknowledge 
Boniparte as Emperor of the French ; 
and had even thrown out confideratWe 
threats, in the cafe of his delaying to do 
fo. He had aifo influenced the minifters 
of feveral other courts to urge the fame 
fubje&t with the Sultan, and to lay be- 
fore him the dangerous confequences of 
his delaying to comply with the French 
Minifter’s demand. ‘Fhe reply of the 
Grand Seignor to the French Ambaflador 
was—~ That, iz virtue of a fitpulatien be- 
tween him and the Emperor of Ruffia, he 
was bound to confuit Alexander on the fub- 
jedi. tis true that he added, he fhould 
endeavour to maintain his-neutrality, if 
there thould be a war between France and 
Ruffi2a. But it is fufiicieatly evident, 
thai this by nc means counterbalanees the 
preceding and unequivocal declaration ; 
nor does it feem rafh to conclude, that 
France and Bonaparte have much altered 
their pofition ot jate. It is alfo matter 
of curious forculation, and will be of 
great anxiety, for masy weighty confider- 
ations, to endcavour to penctrate the many 
ehanges that will refu't from this unex- 
pected relation between the Porte and 
Ruffia. In the mean time, Marfhal Brune 
has demanded and received his paffports. 
He is ftated to have fet forward on his 
return to France on the r2th of latt 
menth. 
The coronation of Bonaparte, as Em- 
peror of the French, 1s now pettponed till 
the 25th of December (Chriflmas-day) ; 
and preparations are making to celebrate 
he coronation with circumftances of great 
State of Public Affairs in November, 1804. 
{ Dec. 1, 
ponp. The Pope, who is to confecrate 
the felf-made Emperor, betrayed extreme 
reluctance to perform that ceremony, till 
Cardinal Fefche (Bonaparte’s uncle) ob- 
ferved to him, that perhaps it might be 
agreeable to his Holinefs to retire from the 
Jatigues of bis efice. This intimation 
produced the effect intended by the Car- 
dinal—the Pope preferring a journey to 
Paris to a cloifter; and his Helinefs was 
to leave Rome on the 3d of this month. 
The Pope traveis with a very (plendid 
retinue, in which are the following per- 
fons of diftinttion—thé Cardinals Hu- 
tonelli, Borgia, de Pietro, and Caffelli ; 
the Archbifhops Bertazolli and Mennc- 
chio; the Prelates, Gavotti, Majordam, 
and Altieri; the private Chamberlains, 
Tefta, Caldinin, Mancurti, and Fontana ; 
the private Chaplains, Frediana, Brafa, 
and Socronij the Matters of the Cere- 
mones, Zucche and Fornice; the Com- 
mandants of the Bocy-Guard, the Duke 
of Braichi and Prince Altieri; the In- 
tendant of the Journey, the Marchefe 
Sacchetie ; the Secretaries, the Abbé 
Maure and Dr. Secker; and the Body- 
Phyfician and Bedy-Surgeon. His Holi- 
nefs is efcorted by a ftrong guard of 
French troops, and 250 French huflars 
have received orders to meet him on the 
frontiers of France. He travels ina car- 
riage prefented to him by Bonaparte, 
which was built by Simecn of Bruffels, 
and ccft s500l. The Cardinal Arch- 
bithep of Paris has ordered prayers to be 
offered up in all the churches, for the 
profperous journey of his Holinefs Pope 
Pius VIE. on this occafion. 
Os the 20th of Ogober, M. Cham- 
pagny, Counfellor of State, Ambaffador 
Extraordinary to the Court of Vienna, 
delivered his credentials to the Emperor 
of Germany, at Prague, where his Ma- 
jetty then was, on the occafion of Bonae 
parte’s acknowledging hs Majefty here- 
ditary Emperor of Aufria. On the 22d 
of the fame month, his Majefty perfonally 
ftood fponfor for the fon of M. Cham- 
pagny, who was baptized with great | 
pomp, by the Prince Archhiflhop of 
Prague, in prefence of the high nobility 
of both fexes, the dignified clergy, the 
great officers of fate, and a number of 
general officers. In the midf of thefe 
{plendid follies, France feems to have for- 
gotten that England is ftiil unfubdued ! 
Two letters have been intercepted,. 
written by M. Decrees, the French Mi- 
nifler of Marine: one addrefled to M. 
Pichon, the French Minifier to the United 
States ; and the other to Jerome Bona-' 
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