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 terlor; and victory, which, for more

 than year, had taken part with the Ieneny, recalled fer moment On the plains of Zurich, by the brave Massena, returned to fix, for a long time on the Trench standard, and signalized his re- turn from Egypt, by the astonishing day of Marengo. But the first place in a republic could not satisfy the ambition of this new Cesar. Without passing the Rublcon with rapid decision, like the Roman hero, Boaaparte prepared With tardiness, adroitly calculated, the routs which should conduct to empire; and he encountered no Pompey, to con test with him on the feIdof battle. We shall see mother articles {Enghien, Mo- reau, Pichegru, Cardonal, Ae. under what auspices the consulate finished and the imperial regime commenced, Nov. 3oth, 1894. Bonaparte caused the iope to come from Paris, to be conse- erated by him, Dec. I'd. During his reign, the dream of political liberty ceased to be cradled in good faith, in the imagination of the French. But a great part of the nation was still to re- main, for nine years, bound under the spell Of the charm of military glory, purchased by rivers of blood, sbed in foreign wars necessarily renewed. The i feaeh troops, led by the conqueror of Lodi, Areola, Rivoli and Taeliamento, triumphed at tilm, Austerlijz. in Aus tria al.d iH Russia. The new emperor added a new crown to that of Gharle- magne. Recognised king of Italy by the treaty of Presburg, Dec. 9, 1895, he raised 10 the same dignity the Dukes of Bavaria and Wurtelnburg, his allies, with all increase of fterritory, taken from the house of Austria. He united Yen ice to the kingdom of Italy, and Tusca- ", Parma and Placentian to the French empire. Two days afterwards, Dec. 21, he called his brother, Joseph Bona parte, to the throne of Naples, from which he had expelled the family of the s3ourbons by a simple proclamation. At the same time, he created his brother in-laW, Mufat, grand Duke of Berg. The Eth of Jan. of the following year, 1856, he married the son of the first marriage Of his wife Josephine, Eugene Beaaharlais, with the princess Amelia, daughter of the new king of Bavaria, dopted him IS his son, and named him yieeroy of Italy. The 5th of June he created a throne in Holland, on which to place his brother Louis. The 18th of July, he signed at Paris, with all the German soYereigas of the second order, a treaty, which separated them from the sermanic empire, and united them, un- der the denomination of the eonfedera- tion of the Rhine, of which he declared himself the protector. The conquest of Prussia was the fruit of the battle of Jena. The victories of Eulan and Friedland, 1907, were followed by the famed interview at Tilsit. It was there on boat in the middle of the Niemen, that the Emperor Of Russia and the king of Prussia presented themselves before the crowned soldier, who had vanquished them, and who, two years before, hadreeeiyed the emperor of Ger many in tie same attitude, in his bivou- ac at Austerlitz. They recognized his three brothers, Joseph, Lucien and Je- rome, as kings of Naples, Holland a d Westphalia; and they aeceded to all his measures, relative to the continental blockade.

 Napoleon (Bonaparte had taken this patrohymic name, in ascending the im- perial throne) almost always signalized his return from his army, at the end of a campaign, by the abolition of some one of the liberal institutions, which he had not dared completely to destroy at his advent to the throne. 1t was so, that he suppressed the tribunate, Au- gust l9, 1907. The I'd of February, 1908, he created general government of a department situated beyond the

 Alps, formed from the ancient Pied mont, the marquisite of Salucco, &c. to l invest his brother-in-law, Camille Bor- ghese, with them. The lst of March, 3 decree of the Senate gave 9 nohlesse

 to the imperial monarch; and re-estab-

 lished the grandees, suppressed by the

 constituent assemblies, l7S0,. with all

 the titles armorials and insignia of feu- daiity. The same year, 1908, Napole-

 on committed the greatest of iniquities in wrestling another of the most impor tant crowns of Europe, that of Spain from ifs legitimate Possessor, to give i to his brother Joseph, who was to oedt