‘The day subsequent to the coronation, the people of Paris were entertained upon the bridges, boulevards, and public places, with popular sports, dancing, and other pastimes and diversions. ‘Upon the PLACE DE CONCORDE, still stained with the blood of the lawful sovereign of France, were erected saloons and pavilions for dancing _waltzes_. Medals were given away to the populace; illuminations, artificial fireworks, pantomimes, and buffoons, musicians, temporary theatres, everything was represented and administered that could intoxicate and divert this vain and wicked people from contemplating the crime they were committing. To the profanation of the preceding day, it seems that all the orgies of wantonness and corruption succeeded in the most curious and careful rotation, and that all the skill and science of the DAVIDS and CHENIERS has been exhausted to keep them for four and twenty hours from thinking upon what they had done.’ But not only in leaders did the ‘Times’ pour forth its wrath; it published little jokelets occasionally, which were meant to be very stinging, as, for instance: Monsieur NAPOLEON has distributed his Eagles by thousands. What his _talents_ might be doubtful of accomplishing, he expects from his _talons_.’ The ‘Daily Advertiser’, too, of December 15 contains some pretty sentiments on the coronation, such as, ‘If Modern Europe will, after such fair notice, and a notice so often repeated, by the French Government, still remain in sluggish inaction, in stupid astonishment, at the success of that Ruffian, who now wields the sceptre of CHARLEMAGNE, and has dragooned the POPE to his Coronation, it is evident that nations so besotted are only fit to be enslaved.’ CHAPTER XLI. NAPOLEON’S LETTER TO GEORGE THE THIRD--NAVAL VICTORIES--CROWNED KING OF ITALY--ALLIANCE OF EUROPE--WITHDRAWAL OF THE ‘ARMY OF ENGLAND.’ Very shortly after his coronation, and with the commencement of the year 1805, Napoleon wrote a letter to George the Third, intimating how beneficial peace would be to both countries. The text of this letter, and its answer, are as follow:--