airs might require. A sum, not to exceed L3,500,000 was instantly
voted by the commons, for the purposes stated in the message.

DISSENSIONS IN THE CABINET.

Soon after the Easter recess, Lord Sidmouth had suggested the propriety
of removing Lord Melville from the privy-council, but Pitt imagined that
the country would be satisfied with the resignation of his office, and
therefore refused to comply. Lord Sidmouth was also offended by the
premier's refusal to place his friend, the Earl of Buckinghamshire, at
the head of the admiralty; and expressed his intention of retiring from
office, together with the Earl and Mr. Vansittart. This intention
was delayed by the erasure of Lord Melville's name from the list of
privy-councillors, and the vote of impeachment which followed; but
the breach made was too wide to be thus healed. Two days before the
prorogation, Lord Sid-mouth and the Earl of Buckinghamshire resigned,
and were succeeded by Lords Camden and Harrowby, while Lord Castlereagh
obtained Earl Camden's place of secretary for foreign affairs. These
dissensions, as well as the loss of so able a colleague as Lord
Melville, occasioned deep anxiety to Pitt, and contributed to oppress
and wear down a constitution already on the decline. His anxiety was
further increased by the un-certain state of affairs on the continent.

NAPOLEON CROWNED KING OF ITALY

An Italian historian, writing of Napoleon's character at this period,
says: "The nature of Napoleon was restless, disordered: constant only in
ambition. He never remained long at the same point, changing continually
to rise the higher. It appeared, and it was even solemnly, and with
magnificent words, said by him, and by Melzi, the vice-president of the
Cisalpine republic, that the regulations made at Lyons with the Italian
consulta, were to be unchangeable and eternal; but before two years
those regulations were described as defective, insufficient, and not
conducive to anything good or lasting. All this signified, that he who
had made himself an emperor in France, must be made a king in Italy. It
was not without a design that so many Italians of note had been invited
to Paris, to attend, in the name of the Cisalpine republic, the imperial
coronation and ceremonies. Melzi, the vice-president, the councillors
of state, together with deputies from colleges, &c., obeyed the summons,
and remained some considerable time in France. They were given to
understand, th