1801 paper: NAPOLEON BONAPARTE proclamation! Treaty of Luneville; Fort Mifflin

Description

The Philadelphia Gazette
&
Daily Advertiser
May 1,
1801
This is a Philadelphia newspaper which was
published over 220 years ago
! It measures 13 x 21 inches in size, and is 4 pages long. The paper’s two sheets are mostly separated at the spine, and the issue has some typical age browning; but it is still in very good overall condition, and remains easily readable.
It will be shipped folded once
, in a poly bag to help preserve the paper in the future.
The paper’s front and back pages are devoted to interesting advertisements placed by local Philadelphia merchants, businesses and residents. There are ads for land sales, a long one for a medical elixir, and even a reward ad for the return of a runaway indentured servant, and another offering a reward for the capture of two army deserters (Jacob Green and William Skiff), placed by Capt. Fyfe of the 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, from the garrison at Fort Mifflin!
The inside pages include national and international news, with the highlight being a printing of a Proclamation which is signed in type by
"The First Consul, (Signed) BONAPARTE."
His announcement is about the signing of the Treaty of Luneville, in which Austria surrendered to the armies of Napoleon, after the Austrian forces had been thoroughly vanquished by the French at Hohenlinden.
His speech takes up 8 column inches of text in small print, and in the Proclamation, Napoleon addresses the French people by saying, in part:
[Note that this newspaper uses the spelling rules of the day, in which the letter “s” was replaced by “f” in many places in the text.]
“A glorious peace has terminated the war of the Continent. Your frontiers are extended to the limits affigned to them by nature. People for a long time feparated from you, again join their brethren and augment your population, your territory, and your force . . .
“You are indebted for thefe fucceffes to the courage of our warriors, to their patience in enduring fatigue, to their paffion for glory . . .
“. . . . Be eternally united by the remembrance of your domeftic misfortunes, and by the conviction of your greatnefs and force. . . .”
Etc., etc.
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