Cabinet of Berlin, the Cabinet of Munich, and other fit and fuitable fituations. His Royal and Imperial Majesty, the King of the French, will make only one farther obfervation. He does not, as he has already ftated, feek to under-rate the value of the maritime conceffion which he demands from Great Britain; but it would be unworthy the franknefs, loyalty, and candour of the French nation, to attempt to conceal from the world the weakness and imperfection of the government which England has exercifed upon the Ocean, and how neceffary it is, that it fhould be committed to other hands. These feveral Potentates, Aufter, Borcas, Eurus, &c. have been, from time immemorial, in a flate of rebellion against England, and have frequently exercifed their utmoft power and ftrength against her. The Beys in Egypt have not been more refractory than the winds, thofe Deputy Governors of England, upon the ocean. During the long time which England has boafted the uncontrolled dominion of the feas, we do not find a fingle ordinance or law for the protection of the property of their feveral inhabitants. The Ocean has been left a neglected wafte, upon which every fish of the fea had a right of common, to live, and feed, and fatten, where it pleased; and if these feveral animals were not of a domeftic difpofition, the Seine and the Thames might be choked with whales, and the banks. of Newfoundland covered with nothing but periwinkles. His Royal and Imperial Majefty, when in poffeffion of the fovereignty of the Ocean, propofes to fupply thefe defects, and to correct thefe abufes. Every fifh fhall be confined within its own longitude and latitude. The flats and gudgeons fhall tick to their native place, along the coast of England; but pikes and fharks, razor-fifh and fword-fifh, and all voracious fish of prey, fhall have the free range of 299 LES ON DIT; OR RUMOURS AT PARIS. DIT; Breft and Toulon harbours, and all the rivers that enter the French dominion. (Signed) CH. M. TALLEYRAND. To be figned by the English Negotiator. LES ON DIT; OR RUMOURS AT PARIS, JULY 30. [From the Morning Poft.] IT Le vrai n'eft pas toujours vrai femblable. T is faid that Napoleon the First, among other Imperial proposals to the Congrefs of Jews, now affembled here, has offered to reftore the children of Mofes the land of their forefathers, Paleftine, and to create one of them a King of Jerufalem, on the payment of five hundred millions of livres in cath (20,000,000l.) to His Majesty's private treasury. This moft gracious offer has been communicated in a circular letter to their brethren all over the world. This is one of the new federal kingdoms in petto. Rumour fays, that our Emperor has threatened Francis II. with the elevation of the horse he rode at the battle of Austerlitz, to be Emperor of the German Empire, fhould the Austrian monarch oppose the revolutionary federation of fome German Princes, the revolutionary fovereignty of Prince Murat, and the revolutionary coadjutorfhip of Cardinal Fefch. If the modern Bucephalus obtains the Imperial diadem of Germany, our politicians beftow on him for Prime Minifters, the Kings of Pruffia and Bavaria, and for Privy Councillors, Count de Haugwitz and Baron de Montgelas. They fay that our Grand Marshal, Duroc, has already inftructions to look for fome German or Italian Princefs as a confort for this HorfeEmperor; and that the Houses of Bavaria and Baden, of Santa-Cruce and Borghefe, are contending for the honour of the Imperial paw. 0. 6. Every Every body knows that our Emperor, with a munificence not known in hiftory, has moft gracionfly conferred on all his natural and adopted relations, male and female (not under his Imperial wrath), his own Christian name Napoleon. Hence we read in our Court Calendar of Jofeph-Napoleon; of Louis-Napoleon; of Eugenius-Napoleon; of Stephanie-Napoleon, &c. &c. It is now faid, that the Emperor intends to extend this Imperial favour, not only to all his federal Kings and Queens, but to other Sovereigns, whom he judges worthy of fuch a fraternity. It is faid, that among other indemnities offered to D'Oubril for his mafter, was the great name of Napo leon; a diftinction, which, for want of inftructions, the Ruffian Negotiator was however obliged to decline. Though Haugwitz has presented a carte-blanche for the neutrality of Pruffia, during life, his request of being honoured with a Napoleon was refufed with indignation, and the world has therefore not yet heard of Frederic William Napoleon Ill. All His Majesty's public functionaries, courtiers, officers, and foldiers, whofe wives or concubines have been bleffed with male or female offspring, have baptized them Napoleon. This Napoleon mania has already procured France feveral millions of petty Napoleons ; no doubt as an abfolution for paft revolutionary crimes, or as an indemnity for future revolutionary mifery. Rumour ftates, that as an indemnity for the lofs of his temporal powers, our Emperor has promifed Pius VII. the converfion of Selim III. and of his feraglio, to the Roman creed. The Divan, it is faid, has already confented to receive a Sovereign of the House of Bonaparte in our Emperor's brother Lucien ; but whether he is to renounce Chriftianity, or the Divan Mahometanifm, is ftill a fecret, and will depend upon. future events. In the mean time, the Cardinal Maury, and and the Senator-Minifter Fouche, whofe orthodoxy Lyons and La Vendée proclaim, are daily deliberating in the College of our Revolutionary Propaganda, where the Turkish Ambassador is often invited to affift. It is faid, that our Emperor hereafter intends to appear in the character of a Prophet as well as, in that of Emperor, and to extend to the heavens his revolutionary regenerations on the earth. Tremble ye! Mofes, and Mahomet, &c. &c.! your reign will foon be at an end, fhould the divine Napoleon not acceptyou for his federal prophets or deities!!! August 15. THE JEWS AND BONAPARTE *. t-of TRANSLATION OF A HEBREW LETTER FROM A. J. St REJOICE with me, my dear brother, in that deliverance, which, after a lapfe of fo many ages, is at length wrought cut for us. The bondage of Ifrael is terminated; the fhackles are burft afunder. A mighty deliverer hath appeared in fplendour, and ftretched forth a powerful arm to minifter to our glory! The great Emperor and King, a chofen scion of the ftock of Ifrael, hath planned our reftoration to the land of our fathers. You have doubtless heard the glad tidings! But few, except the faithful, knew that our auguft Emperor and King was of the Royal feed of David. This our glorious Prince, who defpifeth all forms, and fetteth at nought all human rules of action, hath now permitted us to publish, and proclaim to the *The above, our readers will foon difcern, is a mere effufion of pleafantry. We do not admire the ufe of ridicule on religious topics: this article, however, under all the circumftances, may, perhaps, come within the limits of pardon. Gentiles, Gentiles, and declare his genealogy, which is as follows: From David to Napol, he reckons nine generations from Napol to Jofeph, 17-from Jofeph to Jerome, 23-from Jerome to Lazar, 6-and from Lazar to Napol, who was diftinguifhed in our holy tongue by the cabaliftic epithet of Ben-ab-har, i. e. the Son of the Father of the Mountain, in allufion to Sion-(now it came to pass that Napol Beǹabhar, after the difperfion of our nation, went and fojourned in one of the ifles of the Gentiles, where, in compliance with the prejudices of the inhabitants, and to conceal his Royal defcent, he Italianized Benabhar into Bonaparte :) from him is our Emperor and King defcended,of this doth he now make his boaft, and hath called us together to prove his high defcent, and reftore Sion. And he hath alfo vouchfafed to inform us, that the great Talleyrand is no lefs a perfonage than the Sage Achitophel, refufcitated, to regulate the world by his counfels; who hath, in his turn, made known unto us, that the Emperor and King, with his whole Court, will, in grand Gala, in prefence of the Emprefs and Queen, and all the Princeffes of his auguft House, fubmit to the operation enjoined by our holy law: and moreover he hath commanded the Pope and Cardinals, in full conclave, together with all the Kings of his creation, to fubmit to a curtailment, which will fecure to us a complete triumph over the uncircumcifed! BONAPARTE TO THE JEWS. [From the General Evening Poft.] YOUR promis'd land to you I'll give, Lo! France fhall be your Palestine, My words your milk and honey! SNAP. SUMMER |