as the cause of
those measures which the nation afterwards resorted to, we are
originally indebted for the blessing of the Bill of Rights.

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_E_ (_page_ 159).

I allude here more especially to an address presented to Buonaparte
(October 27th, 1808) by the deputies of the new departments of the
kingdom of Italy; from which address, as given in the English journals,
the following passages are extracted:--

'In the necessity, in which you are to overthrow--to destroy--to
disperse your enemies as the wind dissipates the dust, you are not
an exterminating angel; but you are the being that extends his
thoughts--that measures the face of the earth--to re-establish
universal happiness upon better and surer bases.'

* * * * *

'We are the interpreters of a million of souls at the extremity of
your kingdom of Italy.'--'Deign, _Sovereign Master of all Things_,
to hear (as we doubt not you will)' &c.

The answer begins thus:--

'I _applaud_ the sentiments you express in the name of my people of
Musora, Metauro, and Tronto.'

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_F_ (_page_ 163).

This principle, involved in so many of his actions, Buonaparte has of
late explicitly avowed: the instances are numerous: it will be
sufficient, in this place, to allege one--furnished by his answer to the
address cited in the last note:--

'I am particularly attached to your Archbishop of Urbino: that
prelate, animated with the true faith, repelled with indignation
the advice--and braved the menaces--of those who wished to confound
the affairs of Heaven, which never change, with the affairs of this
world, which are modified according to circumstances _of force_ and
policy.'

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SUSPENSION OF ARMS

_Agreed upon between Lieutenant-General_ SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY, K.B. _on
the one part, and the General-of-Division_ KELLERMANN _on the other
part; each having powers from the respective Generals of the French and
English Armies_.

_Head-Quarters of the English Army_, August 22, 1808.

ARTICLE I. There shall be, from this date, a Suspension of Arms between
the armies of his Britannic Majesty, and his Imperial and Royal Majesty,
Napoleon I. for the purpose of negociating a Convention for the
evacuation of Portugal by the French army.

ART. II. The General