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French empire: a decree which has obtained the sanction of the people, and in virtue of which a deputation has been appointed to lay before his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, the wishes of the whole nation. His excellency has resided sufficiently long at Genoa to be satisfied of the impossibility under which this country laboured, of preserving its independence amidst events which have changed the face of Europe. Too weak to protect our commerce and navigation, we have constantly seen our flag insulted, and our coasts exposed to the pillage of the Barbary powers. While the great powers were occupied in making their flag respected, they abandoned the weaker ones to the outrages of the enemies of the Christian name. Our interior police also was so difficultly circumstanced, that a band of robbers, who had taken refuge in the mountains, were become an object of terror to the neighbouring parts. On the other hand, England in the negotiations which preceded the treaty of Amiens, would not recognise the existence of our new state, nor the changes which we had thought proper to make in our constitution, by abolishing the aristocracy, and by preferring to all other advantages, that equality of rights, on which the prosperity of every commercial nation is founded. She has, in spite of our efforts to the contrary, included us in all her wars with France, and our maritime commerce has always been the prey to her tyranny. On the land side, we were so surrounded by the territory of the French empire, that if our city still possesses any commerce, we owe it to the Emperor, who has treated us with so much goodness, that he has made sacrifices in our favour to the possible 'prejudice of Nice and Marseilles. We had every reason to apprehend, that in the course of time, his Majesty would not be able to continue to us these advantages; and then, surrounded on all sides by the French custom houses, without territory, marine, or commerce, we should have been the most weak and miserable nation. The decree which united Piedmont to France, had already pronounced the union of our territory with the French em

pire, and of our city, which is only a part of Piedmont. In this state of affairs, by an unanimity of opinion, which is unexampled in any nation, anxious to show ourselves worthy of our fathers, and unable, when left to ourselves, to give our flag that splendour and glory which our ancestors have obtained for it under different circumstances, we have resolved to recover that splendour, and that glory, by incorporating ourselves with a great nation, and by submitting curselves to the laws of a great prince, who has always inanifested towards us sentiments of friendship, and has honoured us with his particular protection. The deputation, who carry the voice of the senate, of the doge, and of the people, depart this evening; and when they shall have passed the frontiers of our territories, we shall consider our independence at an end. The government has thought it proper to communicate these circumstances to his Excellency the Baron de Giusti, and to assure his Majesty the Emperor of Germany and Austria, of their gratitude for the concern he has evinced on several occasions; and at the same time to acquaint his worthy representative at Genoa that his mission is hereby terminated. In placing ourselves thus under the laws of the French empire, we do not in the least add to her continental strength. Our population, few in number, is far from warlike. The produce of our finances will be entirely absorbed in the expenses of the defence of our coasts, and the establishment of our arsenals. France, by this union, will obtain an augmentation of naval force; and we cannot but think that we are doing what is the wish of all the continental powers, namely, to enable her to contend with the enemy of all nations, and the tyrant of the seas. The undersigned has the honour to reiterate to his excellency the minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary, the expression of his entire esteem, and distinguished consideration. (Signed) ROGIERI. Dated Genoa, June 1, 1805. ANSWER OF NAPOLEON to the Deputies, upon receiving the Decree of the Ligurian Senate.

You, the doge, and deputies of the se

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nate and people of Genoa. Circum- | ritime power, which is necessary for the stances and your wishes have often called upon me, for the last ten years, to interfere in your domestic concerns. I have always endeavoured to procure peace for you, and

to introduce those liberal ideas which could alone confer on your government that splendour which it formerly enjoyed. But I early had convincing proof of the utter impossibility in which you were placed to atchieve any thing worthy of your forefathers. A great change has taken place; the new priniples of maritime law, which the English have adopted, and compelled the greatest part of Europe to recognise; the right of blockade, which it is in their power to extend to places which are not blockaded, even to whole coasts and rivers, and which in effect is nothing else than to control at their pleasure the commerce of the world; the increasing depredations of the Barbary powers; all those circumstances presented to you only a nominal independence. Posterity will be grateful to me for having endeavoured to establish the freedom of the seas, and to compel the Barbary powers to refrain from molesting the weaker flags, and to live at home as agriculturists and honest men. The welfare and the dignity of the human race were my only objects. At the treaty of Amiens, England refused to co-operate in those liberal ideas. Since that time a great continental power has shewn as much repugnance to the same principle. Alone to maintain those principles, I should have had recourse to arms; but I have no right to spill the blood of my people, except for their own peculiar interests.- -From the monrent

that Europe could not obtain from England, that the right of blockade should be restricted to places really blockaded; from the moment that the flag of the weak was unprotected, and at the mercy of the piracy of the Barbary powers, there was no longer any maritime independence; and from that moment every sensible man must have foreseen what is now come to pass. Whenever a commercial nation has no maritime independence, it becomes incumbent on it to place itself under protection of a more powerful flag. I will realize your expectations; I will unite you to my great people. I shall thereby acquire additional means of rendering that protection more powerful which I have always been so well disposed to extend to you. My people will with pleasure receive you. They know, that at all times you have been friendly to their armies, and that you have assisted them with all your force, and with all your means They find, moreover, in your territory, ports, and an increase of ma

support of their lawful rights against the tyrants of the seas.- -In the union with my people you will find a continent; you, who have only ports, and the sea before you, will in this union find a flag, which, whatever may be the pretensions of my enemies, I shall support throughout all the seas of the universe, free from insults or attacks, and against the right of blockading, which I shall never recognise, but in such places as are really blockaded by land as well as by

sea.

In short, in it you will find yourselves protected against that shameful slavery, which, contrary to my wishes, I am obliged to suffer weaker powers to endure, but against which I shall always protect my subjects.- -Your people will always find, in the regard I have ever had for them, and in the parental sentiments I shall feel for them henceforth, the assurance that every thing which can contribute to their welfare shall be done for them.- -Doge, and gentlemen of the deputation of the senate, and people of Genoa, return to your country; I shall be there ere long, and will confirm the union which you and my people are about to form, These barriers which separate you from the continent, shall be removed for the common interest, and things will soon be in their natural order. The signatures of all your citizens, subscribed to the request which you now make to me, dispel every objection I might have had to make. They constitute the only right which I consider as legitimate. In causing that law to be respected, I shall only establish the independence which I have promised you.

KINGDOM OF ITALY.-The following articles are taken from the French Official Paper of the 5th of May, 1805.

The solemn expression of the wishes of Liguria to be united to France, has been already followed at Milan by new ceremonials of the most important character. The first having taken place on the 4th instant, the Emperor and King presided in person on the 7th, at the opening of the legislative assembly of the kingdom of Italy. This event has been rendered remarkable, by the communication of a third constitutional code, which completes the monarchical government; and, as an additional support, confers upon it the Order of the Iron Crown. The meeting of the Italian legislature was also distinguished by the presentation of Prince Eugene Beauharnois, as Viceroy of Italy. His Majesty the Emperor and King, addressed the assembly in the following terms:

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INDE X.

A.

A. B.'s letter on Lord Melville's places, 719
A. D., on the Irish Commissioners, 804
Additional Force Bill; strictures on, 121
Agricola, on the refusal of bank notes, 3
Aletheia, on Roman Catholic soldiers, 775
Alliances, Continental; on, te8, 423
American Finance; report of the secretary of the
treasury of the United States relative to, 321,
327
American President's inaugural speech, 632
Antigotham's letter on black regiments, 285
Asiaticus, on the affairs of India, 513

Asiaticus' second letter on the affairs of India,
639

Asiaticus, on the conduct of Messrs. Dundas, Pitt,,
and Benfield, relative to the debt due to the
Nabob of Arcot,

Atonement; observations of Mr. Pitt's, 415

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-See Spartan Virtue.

See Upstart.

Lycurgus' letter on the Spartan

virtue of that gentleman, 599

Mr. Cobbett's first letter to him, on
a threat thrown out by him in the House of
Commons, against all persons conducting the
press of this country, 673

Mr. Cobbetts' second letter to him,
on a threat thrown out by him in the House of
Commons, against all persons conducting the
press of this country, 705

Cape of Good Hope; on the reported insurrection
10, 332

Catholic Claims; the British Observer's second
letter on, 33

Catholic Petition; observations on the debates
in both Houses of Parliament on, 726
Catholics; Mr. Burke's letter, relative to the Irish,
123
Christenings and Burials; table of the number of
from December, 1804 to May, 1805, inclusive,

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Family Epistles; Epistle 1. From battalion the
second in England to battalion the first in the
West Indies, 251

Family Reconciliation; Rusticus on the, 6
observations on, 13, 62

Field Officer, A.; his letter on our military sys-
tem, 356

Finance American; report of the secretary of the
treasury of the United States, relative to, 321,
327

Finance, Dutch; opinion of M. De langer Van
Wyngaarden in the Dutch legislative body, re-
lative to, 280

Finances; on the present state of our, 109, 223,
351, 958

-, French; report of a discussion and
statement in the legislative body, relative to
the, 395

Financial Abuses; Verax's first letter on the re
form of, 635

Verax's second letter on the

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Financial Abuses; Verax's fifth letter on the re-
form of, 801

form of, 922

Verax's sixth letter on the re-

Verax's seventh letter on the

reform of, 940
Fleets French; observations on the sailing of,
331, 409, 817

Fleets, French and Spanish; on the sailing of the,
734, 785

Foreign Official Papers, 80, 149, 260, 321, 393,
632, 739

French Annual Exposés, in opening the session
of the legislative body, 149
French Fleets; observations on the sailing of the,
331, 409, 817

account of the proceedings of the
French fleets in the, 806
French and Spanish fleets; on the sailing of the,
734, 785

French Finances; report of a discussion and state-
ment in the legislative body, relative to the,

395

Fund, Sinking; on the, 351, 358

Fund; on the surplus of the consolidated, 811
Funding System; N. D.'s defence of, 125

G.

Genoa and France; abstract of a convention con.
cluded between, 353

H.

Habeas Corpus Suspension Act; observations on
the Irish, 338

Harrowby, Lord; intercepted letter from him to
. Lord Grenville Levison Gower at St. Peters-
burgh, 738

Heathcote, Sir W.; on the conduct of, relative to
the Hampshire petition against. Lord Melville,
821

Henry VI.; T. M.'s seventh letter on the incapa-
city of, 65

Holland; sketch of the plan of the new constitu-
tion of, and an account of the successive pro-
ceedings relative to the adoption of the said
plan, 751

speech of M. Schimmelpenninck, at the
opening of the session of the states general un-
der the new constitution of, 924

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from C., on the inequality of the income
from C. S., on the source of taxes, 423
from Asiaticus, on the ailans of India,

from Scoto Eritannicus, on Scotch pa-
tronage, 519

from General Prevost, relative to the
capture of Dominica, 521

from Lycurgus, on the Spartan virtue of
Mr. Canning, 599

from Verax; on the reform of financial
abuses. Letter 1,635

my, 638

from X. X., on Somerset House econo-

from Verax; on the reform of financial
abuse, Letter 11. 637

from Mr. Cobbett to Mr. Canning, on a
threat thrown out by him in the House of Com-
mons, against all persons conducting the press
of this country. Letter 1. 673

ftom Verax; on the reform of financial
abuses. Letter III. 689

from Mr. Cobbett to Mr. Canning, on a
threat thrown out by him in the House of Com-
mons, against all persons conducting the press
of this country. Letter II. 705

from A. B., on Lord Melville's places, 719
from Asiaticus, on the conduct of Messrs.
Dundas, Pitt, and Benfield, relative to the debt
due to the Nabub of Arcot, 720

from R. B., on the collectors of taxes, 723

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