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rem, to meet his Holinefs. They both 
alighted at the fame moment, and em+ 
braced each other. Six of Bonaparte’s 
carriages then came up; and Bonaparte 
entered his own carriage firft, that he 
might place his Holinefs on his right. 
‘They arrived at the Caftle of Fontain- 
beau: through hnes of troops, and amidft 
the difcharge of cannon. His Eminence 
Cardinal Caprara, and the great cfficers 
of Bonaparte’s houfheld, received them 
at the entrance of the cafile; and they af- 
cended the gilt fair cafe till they came to 
the galleries which ted to their feparate 
Se ay, when his Holine:s was con- 
uted, with great ceremony, to thofe 
decives for his: reception. Having refted 
2 litle, his Holinefs paid a vifit to Bona- 
parte, in his clofet, conducted by the 
great ofpcers of the heufhold; and Bo- 
maparte at tended him, cn his return, as 
far as the hail of the great officers. His 
Holinefs paid a fimilar vifit to the Empiefs, 
who atrend:d him back as far as the fe- 
cond room of her apartments. At four 
o'clock Bonparte paid a-vifit to the 
Pope; im his apartments, preceded by 
his great officers of the houfhold. In both 
of ee vilits, the B53 and Bonaparte 
were tocether, alone, during half an hour. 
His Emimence Cardmal Fefch, was pre- 
fented to Bonaparte the fame day. Early 
ia the morning of the firit of December, 
the fenate proce eas in a body, to the pa- 
Jace of the Thuilleries (to which the 
Pope and Bonaparte were now come), and 
were prefented to his Imperial Majefty 
(we ufe the language of the French pa- 
pers} by his Highnefs Prince Jofeph, 
Grand Eledlor. His Excellency the Pre- 
fident, Neufchateau, addrefled his Ma- 
jefy in a long f,eceh, to which his Majefty 
Fepl-ed in the following terms, 
*¢ } afcend the throne, to which the 
wnenimous wfh<s of the fenate, the peo- 
pec,and the army heve called me, with ahcart 
penetrated w.th the great celtinies of that 
people, whom, from the midft of camps, 
} oe faluted with the name of Great. 
‘ From my youth, my thoughts have 
66. folely fixed upon eee ; and I mud 
add here, that my pieafures and my pains 
are derived entirely from the happinels or 
mifery of my people. 
“<< My ceicendants fhall long preferve 
8 throne. In the field they will be 
e firft foldiers of the army, facrificing 
aie lives for the defence of their coun- 
try. As magilirates they will sever for- 
get, that contempt of the laws, and the 
confufion of focial order, are only the re- 
fult of the imbecility and uncertainty of 
princes, You, fenaters, whefe counfels 
and fuppert have never failed me in the 
State of Public Affairs in December, 1804. 
[ Jan. 1, 
moft difficult circumftances, your fpirit 
will be handed down to your facceffors. 
Be ever the prop and firft counfellers of 
that throne, fo neceflary to the welfare of 
this vaft empire.” x 
On the fame day the Tribunate com- 
plimented his Majefty ; and the Senate, 
tribunate, and Council of State, delivered 
complimentary fpeeches tothe Pope. On 
the 2d of December, the coronation and 
confecration were performed by the Pope, 
in the church of Notre Dame; the pro- 
ceflion and ceremony being a with 
every poffible cireumftance of pomp. The 
Emperor bore a {ceptre of filver, with a 
golden ferpent twined round it, and fur- 
mounted with a globe fuftaining a figure 
of Charlemagne. His’ oath. concluded 
with thefe words—* I fwear to govern 
folely with a view to the intereft, the hap- 
pire!s and glory of the French naticn.” 
No accident happened during the whole 
day. The 3d of December was a day 
of rejoicing throughout Paris. -In the 
morning, heralds at arms marched through 
all the principal ftreets, diftributing me- 
dals of various fizes, deftined to comme- 
morate the coronation. Onene fide was 
the fisure of the Empercr bearing the 
crown of the Cefars, with this legend— 
Napoleon Empereur., on the reverie were 
thele words— Ze Seaat et le Peuple. The 
day pafied with fetes in every quarter, and 
clofed with illuminations and fire works. 
The fenate has declsred, that the fuf- 
frages taken on the quettion of the impe- 
rial dignity being hereditary in Bona- 
parte’s family amount to 2,524,254; of 
which, 3, 55215675 voted for it—of this 
latter number 400,000 were foldiers, and 
50,000 failors. 
Bonaparte has made his seer 
embafly to the Court of Madrid as fplen- 
did as poffible. The ambaflador, Gene- 
ral Bournonville, recetved frem him, on 
the occafion, a gold fnuff-box, with Bo- 
Paparte’s orirait, fet round with dia- 
monds, valued at 24,000 livres ; and, from 
the Empress, a diamond ring, rained at 
12,0c0 livres. 
The Moniteur fays, the papers of Sir 
George Rumbold are to be publifhed, and 
prelented to all Courts ; and adds, that 
they will furnifh an intereting comment 
on Lord Hawkefbury’s note. "It has alfo 
publifhed a fuppofed correfpondence be 
tween Mr. Taylor, the Englifh minilter 
to the Ele€ior of Helle, and certain per- 
fons, (the principal of whom are two bro- 
thers, of the name of Thum) inhabitants 
of the French departments, which were 
torn from the German Empire, on the 
left bank of the Rhine. The correfpond- 
ence ftates a confp.racy to fubvert 
the — b 
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