form and execution. In the former, he combined sound policy and brilliant effect; in the latter, he surpassed every thing of the kind on record. He knew, that many would consider him an usurper of the throne of the Bourbons. To defeat this argument, he caused the crown to be placed on his head by the very fountainhead of the church, by "Christ's vicar on earth, and the successor of St. Peter." The effect hereby produced was very imposing in itself, and was, at the same. time, a stroke of deep-laid policy, as it established him on the throne of France with the sanction of their high-priest.
But we have said, Buonaparte :delights to surprize. When the Pope was at Paris, he was invited to visit, amongst other theatres of art and museums of curiosities, the imperial printing-office. As his Holiness was shewn over the different apartments, he was presented from each of the presses with a sheet pulled off in his presence. The number of sheets were one
