pied du trône du_ Grand Napoléon, _et les filles de_ Sion _ont fait retentir les voûtes des temples de ces cantiques célébres que répétaient les échos du_ Jourdain, _lors qu’au retour de sa captivité le peuple_ Hébreu _célébrait les miséricordes du_ Seigneur. _La gratitude des_ Israëlites _français ne s’est pas bornée à de simples démonstrations, ils prouvent chaque jour qu’ils sont dignes des faveurs du Souverain par leur attachement à son auguste personne et par leur soumission à ses loix._ _A Paris, au Bureau de l’Auteur des_ Fastes de la Nation Française, M. Ternisien d’Haudricourt, _Rue de Seine N.º 27 F. Sᵗ. Germain._ ♦ Shown as given in illustration without correction “... If the _Sanhedrim_ were to consult only on what was domestic, why invite the co-operation of all the Jews in Europe? The time was not come for the design to be exposed at full length. What grand scheme is developing, and whether Napoleon is devising the commercial aggrandizement of France, and the ruin of the English interest in the East, by the re-settlement of the Jews in their own land, time will discover. But it needs but little discernment, when, besides all this, the state of things both in Europe and in the East, and the character of the extraordinary man who has taken this people under his protection, are taken into consideration, to perceive, that something is intended more characteristic of the vast grasp of Napoleon’s ambition than that of squeezing out of the Jews a few millions of livres....”