by Buonaparte.-An expression he used in his speech is selected by M. Talleyrand, as proper for the consideration of Mr. Fox.Vide France; also Negociation Papers, p.

873.

13. Capture of the Marengo of 80 guns, with the French Rear-Admiral Linois, and the Belle Poule, of 40 guns, on their return from India, where they had cruized very successfully. They were taken by the squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren 28. In the H. of Commons Lord Henry Petty opened the Budget, or Ways and Means of Supply for the current year. For the principal features of his plan, vide the state of the Public Finances for 1806.

APRIL.

3. In the H. of Commons, Mr. Windham gave the outlines of his plan for a new organization of the army. He proposed that, The Regular Army should not have any present increase of pay. The pay of the officers is left for future consideration. Soldiers are hereafter to be enlisted for 7 years, at the end of that period they may claim their discharge; may follow any trade in any place. If they choose to enlist for 7 years more, to receive 6d. per week additional pay; and at the end of this term, a small pension, in addition to the advantages of first 7 years. If they enlist a third 7 years, to receive additional is. 'weekly pay, and at the end 1s. a day pension for life. The present army to enjoy the bounties, but not the right of claiming discharge. Chelsea allowances also to follow the same principle.— The Militia to be lowererd nearly to 40,000. The ballot to cease. Vacancies to be filled up by recruiting at a limited bounty.-The Volunteers to have clothing for this year, but no longer: no pay or allowances. Govern ment will find arms, but not contingent expenses. No rank higher than captain. No Volunteer officer to command a regular offi cer, unless below the rank of captain.-Armed Inhabitants. The population of the country to be trained to the use of arms. To include those not in any of the former classes: not clothed; not embodied; but to leam to shoot, or handle a pike: to be taught 26 half days in the year, and allowed for each half day, 1s. To be divided into four ages, from 16 to 40. One year's training deemed suffreient. The King in Council to judge of the ages to be trained. Supposed 200,000 persons enough at first. 16. Rupture with Prussia announced by embargo laid on Prussian vessels, in reprisal for King of Prussia having taken possession of the Electorate of Hanover, and excluded British vessels from the northern ports. 20. Declaration and protest of George III. of Great Britain: Elector of Hanover,

On the American station, a shot fired from H. M. S. Leander, Capt. Whitby, off Sandy Hook, killed a man on board an American sloop. This incident was the more unfortunate, as the Americans were urging a course of complaint against the pressing of American sailors by British ships of war. Submission to this practice was refused by the Americans; and, in the non-compliance with signals for the purpose of this vessel's being examined, as to whether she had any British seamen on board, this man was killed The French party in America used every art to inflame the minds of the populace on this occasion. Great clamour was raised against the captain of the Leander, (who, it is understood, was at dinner on board another vessel, at the time). The grand jury of New York found a bill for murder against Capt. Whitby and the president of the United States issued a proclamation for apprehending him, &c.

29. Lord Melville having been impeached by the H. of Commons, for sundry misde meanors in respect to his personal use of the public money, in his office of Treasurer of the Navy, the proceedings on this impeachment commenced this day. It may be proper to hint, that his Lordship was supposed to have had more money in his office tharr the law allowed, as balances; to have borrowed part of this money from time to time, for which accommodation he paid no interest; and to have permitted a confidential servant in the office, Alexander Trotter, Esq. to have derived improper advantages from such money. As Mr. Trotter was the

MAY.

12. Message from his Majesty to the H. of Commons, recommending that an annuity of £5000 be settled on the present Earl Nelson (brother to the late Admiral Lord Nelson) and to accompany the title: with £120,000 for the purchase of a mansion and lands, to be annexed to the dignity, as the seat of the earldom.

14. Motion in the H. of Commons, by Mr. Jeffery of Poole, criminating Earl St. Vin cent; negatived. Mr. Fox moved directly contrary propositions; carried.

-Ships belonging to Hamburgh, Oldenburgh, Bremen, and Papenburgh, relieved from embargo, &c. (Vide Panorama, p. 141.)

News arrived of peace in India, with Scindiah, one of the Marhatta chiefs. 22. In H. of Commons; Lord H. Petty moved for leave to bring in a bill for more speedily examining the public accounts. He stated the amount of the accounts unexamined to be £455,600,000.

14. Order of council for general reprisals against the vessels, &c. of Prussia.

JUNE.

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5. Louis Bonaparte, with great ceremony, proclaimed King of Holland, by his brother Napoleon, at St. Cloud. Vide Holland. 10. Mr. Fox moves in the H. of Commons a resolution for the abolition of the African slave trade. (Vide Panorama, p. 706.) 12. Lord Melville's trial terminated: quitted by majority of his peers.-Lord Melville was impeached of converting to his own use, in 1786, £10,000 of the public money, he being then Treasurer of the Navy. This he refused to account for in the H. of Commons, June 11, 1805. Not guilty 121, guilty 15.-2. Of permitting Mr. Trotter to deposit the public money at Coutts, & Co. private bankers, in violation of the act, which directed it to remain at the Bank, where, when it was paid, the service it was paid for was specified. Not guilty 83, guilty 53.-3. That after passing the act, 25 Geo. III, the same conduct. Not guilty 84, guilty 52.-4. That his Lordship and Mr. Trotter, on the commencement of the sitting of the commission of enquiry, Feb.

1803, mutually agreed to burn all books, memorandums, and vouchers. -5. That Lord Melville received loans of large sums of money from Trotter, which he knew to be public money, in the hands of Coutts, and Co. bankers. Not guilty 89, guilty 47.6. Among these sums one is specified of £22,000 without interest. Not guilty 85, guilty 51.-7. Repeats the sixth charge.8. That Trotter, though poor, was always in advance to Lord M. 10 or £20,000, which, therefere Lord M. knew to be public money. Not guilty 122, guilty 14-9. That Trotter made these advances to Lord M. in consideration of his connivance at Trotter's profit made on the public money. guilty 123, guilty 13.-10. That between 1784 and 1786, Lord M. had appropriated £27,000 of the public money. Not guilty, 124, guilty 12.

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18. Lord Grenville in the H. of Lords, moved sundry resolutions for amending the 24. Concurrence of the H. of Peers in the mode of administering justice in Scotland. resolution of the Commons for abolishing the slave trade. (Vide Panorama, p. 706.) 24. Intelligence from India of peace with Holkar, the last of the inimical Mahratta chiefs. Signed Dec. 24.

JULY.

2. Message from His Majesty to increase the incomes of certain of the Royal Family. Lord H. Petty moved that there be granted out of the Consolidated Fund to the Dukes of Clarence, Kent, Cumberland, Sussex, and Cambridge £6000 per Ann. making their incomes £18,000 per Ann.-Princess Charlotte of Wales £7000, Duchess Dowager of Gloucester £4000, Duke of Glouces ter £14,000. Princess Sophia of Glouces ter in lieu of £4000 on the aggregate fund £4000, making in all an addition of £51,000.

4. Victory of Maida, in Calabria. (Vide Panorama, p. 181.)

12. Treaty signed at Paris between France, Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Baden, and several other smaller German states, by which the latter renounce their connection with the German Empire, and place themselves under the protection of France, under the title of" the Confederation of the Rhine." Vide France.

20. Treaty of peace between France and Russia signed by D'Oubril on the part of the 23. Parliament prorogued by commission, latter. Vide Negociation Papers, p. 879. after a speech in His Majesty's name, hinting at the negociations for peace.

28. Surrender of Buenos-Ayres to the English, (Vide Panorama, p. 187.)

AUGUST.

2. Lord Lauderdale departs for Paris, to conduct negociations for peace with the [French government.

7. The Emperor of Germany resigns his title and station, as head of the Germanic body, in consequence of the Confederation of the Rhine. Having about two years before assumed the title of Emperor of Austria, he now retains this as his principal title. Vide Austria. 13. The Emperor of Russia holds a grand council, which advises a refusal to ratify D'Oubril's treaty made at Paris. The inAuence of this refusal on the negociations for peace between France and England is considerable. (Vide Negociation Papers, pp. 879, 884.

20. Lord Holland and Lord Auckland appointed by His Majesty joint commissioners to treat with the American commissioners, Mr. Monroe and Mr. Pinckney, for the termination of disputes between the two countries.

25. John Philip Palm, bookseller at Nuremberg, shot by a French military commission, for selling publications in opposition to Buonaparté. Five others condemned at the same time, but escaped.

30. Russian Manifesto against France.

SEPTEMBER.

9. Tremendous hurricane at Dominica and Martinique.

12. Death of Lord Thurlow. (Vide Panorama, p. 391.)

13. Death of Mr. Fox. (Vide Panorama, p. 395.)

14. French squadron dispersed in a storm. L'Impeteux, 74 guns, destroyed in the Chesapeak by the English.

17. Order of Council for opening the trade with Buenos-Ayres, diminishing the Import duties, &c.

20. King of Prussia, with his Queen, joins his army against the French.

21. Bonaparté addresses circular letters to the Confederation of the Rhine, ordering their contingents against Prussia

25. Bonaparté leaves Paris to join his army in Germany.

30. The Archduke Ferdinand of Wurtzburg, brother to the Emperor of Austria, accedes to the Confederation of the Rhine.

OCTOBER.

1. Lord Morpeth sent to the Court of Prussia. 5. Louis Bonaparté, King of Holland, accompanies the Dutch troops intended to cooperate against Prussia.

8. Changes in the British administration in consequence of the death of Mr. Fox. (Vide British Ministry in a former page.)

9. King of Prussia's Manifesto against France. (Vide Panorama, p. 321*.)

12. Lord Lauderdale returns to England, negociations for peace with France having failed.

14. Battle of Auerstadt between the French and Prussians, the latter defeated with im▾ mense loss-leads to the defeat of Prince Hohenlohe, with the left wing of the Prus sians, loss of Stettin and Custrin,also of Berlin 24th.

22. His Majesty's declaration of the causes of the rupture of the negociation with France. (Vide Panorama, p. 317.)

24. Parliament dissolved by Proclamation. 25. Bonaparté establishes his head quarters at Berlin, holds levees, &c. in the Palace there,

31. The Spanish general, Miranda, formerly in the service of France, lately adventuring on his own account, having fitted out in North America a small fleet, for the purpose of effecting an insurrection in the Caraccas, a province of Spanish South America, after several fruitless attempts fails of his purpose, and returns to Trinidad.

- A revolution in the black Empire of Hayti, i. e. that part of the island of St. Domingo which formerly belonged to the French. After the transportation of Toussaint from this island, in 1804, the government was assumed by Dessalines, a negro chief, who caused himself to be crowned Emperor of Hayti, by which name this island was called by its natives when first discovered. This Emperor being killed, Christophe, a negro general who headed the insurrection against him, assumes the government in his place. Manifestoes, &c. calumniating the memory of the late Emperor, are printed and dispersed; together with general invitations to all foreigners to trade with the island; which had been (unwisely) restricted and limited by Dessalines, to the injury of the inhabitants.

NOVEMBER.

1. Lord Morpeth returned from the continent; the battle of Auerstadt having rendered his mission unproductive.

3. Proclamation in Poland from the French head-quarters, calling on the Poles to resume their ancient establishment as a people; signed by General Dombrowski.

6. The Electors of Saxony, and of Hesse, accede to the confederation of the Rhine. 7. Lubec taken by assault. The French overcome the opposition of the Prussians, who had retreated thither, under General Blucher, from Auerstadt. The citizens suffer extremely from the cruelty and licentiousness of the victors: the city being pillaged, &c. for a considerable time.

Jan. 14. The Arch-Chancellor gives notice of the marriage of Prince Eugene (Beauharnois) with the Princess Augusta, daughter of the King of Bavaria.

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March 3. Bonaparte, on opening the session of the legislative body, used the following expressions concerning England. "I ar desirous of peace with England. On my part, I shall never retard that moment. Í shall always be ready to conclude it in adopting for its bases, the stipulations of the treaty of Amiens."This passage was extracted by M. Talleyrand in his correspondence with Mr. Fox, and led to the negociations for peace between France and England.

Annual Exposé, at the opening of the session of the legislative body,states a project of navigation of the Seine from Paris to Chattillon,-improvements on the Saone at Chalons, Tours, and Maçon, with a cathedral at the latter place,- -pays great attention to Lyons, as the " capital of French industry.". -Savoy,- -Piedmont: a brother of Bonaparte will govern and reside at Turin.-Genoa, "her wishes are to be French she is half so already"—has solicited the honour of adoption by France: this wish has been accomplished.- -The ancient kingdom of the Lombards is restored. --Italy, her power is our own. Roads are repairing; bridges building; canals forming; basins digging ports cleansing; weighing machines for the roads, in number 125; telegraphs. New cities in La Vendée Cruizers and privateers" It was Bonaparte's chief aim, by getting Dalmatia into his hands, to be ready to protect the independence of Turkey" Let England be finally convinced of her imbecility.

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Message from Bonaparte to the French Senate; -has "married the Princess Stephanie, neice of our dearly beloved spouse, to Prince Charles, hereditary Prince of Baden" and has adopted the said Princess Stephanie.

May 27. Ragusa taken possession of by the French.

May 30. Bonaparte issues an edict, announcing an assembly of the principal Jews, at Paris, for July 15. The number appointed from the whole of France is 74.

July 12. The act of the Confederation of the

Rhine signed at Paris. It comprises France, Bavaria, Wirtemburgh, Baden, Berg, HesseDarmstadt, Nassau - Weilburg, NassauUsingen, Hohenzollern-Ochingen, Hohenzollern-Siegmaringen, Salm-Salm, SalmKyrburg, Isenburg, Birstein, and Lichtenstein, Aremberg, and Leyin; who determine to be for ever separated from the Germanic body, to abolish all laws of the empire by which they have been hitherto bound; to assume titles of higher rank than heretofore; to meet in congress at Frankfort; to enter no service of foreign powers; and not to alienate any part of any Sovereignty, except to the confederates, &c. &c. Contingent of France, 200,000 men, Bavaria 30,000, Wirtemberg 12,000, Baden 3,000, Berg 5,000, Darmstadt, 4,000, Nassau, Hohenzollern, and others 4,000. Aug. 4. The assembly of the Jews deputed to represent that nation held sittings at Paris several questions proposed to it, this day; but, they are extraordinary, only by their little importance.

Oct. 6. The Jews address a letter, from this assembly to those of their nation and religion, announcing Buonaparte's intention of convening at Paris, a Grand Sanhedrin, and inviting "our dear brothers to choose men known for their wisdom, friends of truth and of justice, and capable of concurring with us in this great work," that all the Jews in Europe may co-operate in the regeneration of their brethren, under the inspection of Napoleon the great.

10. Message from Bonaparte informing the French Senate of the War with Prussia, including a note from M. de Knobelsdorff, the Prussian minister, in which he says, "But above all, what proves the spirit of this measure [the Prussian armaments] is, that his Majesty has concerted it with no person whatsoever, and that the intelligence respecting it arrived sooner at Paris, than at Vienna, St. Petersburgh and London."

Bonaparte heads his army againt Prussia, which he leads from France, to Berlin, &c. and to Poland, &c. after the battle of Auer. stadt.

The chief observables in France internally, arc. 1. The attempts made to give importance to ordinary occurrences, such as the repair of roads, bridges, &c. with the planning of canals, improvements in the ports, dock-yards, &c.-2. The general deadness of mercantile adventure, and adventurous trade, &c. notwithstanding the annual exhibition of goods at a kind of fair in Paris.-3. The prevalent use of English commodities, notwithstanding all endeavours of Bonaparte to prevent it, [The English language is so prevalent in France, that besides there being already a news-paper printed in this language at Paris, M. Gagliani, a bookseller, came to London, a;