The New Hampshire Gazette

BALTIMORE, AUGUST 24.

The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman belonging to this city, who went from Leghorn to Milan, to be present at the late coronation of Bonaparte.

Milan, June 8, 1805.

"The night preceding the coronation, we had retired to bed sooner than usual, with the intention of rising early the next morning to secure ourselves seats in the Cathedral, to witness the ceremonies of the day. Soon after midnight, four officers of the French Gens D'Armes, with an officer of the Police, entered our chamber, and, after demanding our Cartes de Surete, which were shewn, informed us they were under the necessity of accompanying us to the Police. Thus far we went cheerfully, without the least suspicion of what was after to befall us: Arrived at the Police, I was delivered over to one of the keepers, and conducted to a most loathsome prison, where I found for my companions nearly a dozen of vagabond wretches. Amory's fate was somewhat similar, excepting his company being rather more select. Two days following our arrest, we were re-conducted to our lodgings, our papers taken and sealed, and again returned to confinement. The fourth, fifth, and sixth days we underwent separate examinations, and as I had no papers whatever, that could in the least implicate me, I was informed that I should be released on the following day. For several days after, however, I heard no further of our process, until I was again called and made acquainted with the intention of the French Commandant of Police, to send us both to Paris, to be delivered to the Police there. Through the interest of a friend, this measure, as it respected me, was relinquished, and to him I am chiefly indebted for my liberation here. Amory, very unfortunately, had in his possession a letter which treated freely on Bonaparte, and it was owing to this entirely, we were not liberated after the first examination of our papers. In consequence of having this letter, the Police have ordered him to be sent to Paris, for whence he set out this morning, under escort of an officer. I am perfectly ignorant of the cause of our arrest—I, however, conjecture, with others, that it was on a suspicion of our being Englishmen, and as such denounced by some spy of the Police."