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frigate appeared five leagues to leeward ; another was on the coast of Corsica ; and farther off, a ship of war was coming up right before the wind to meet the brig. At six in the evening the brig which bad the Emperor on boaid crossed another brig, which was perceived to be the Zephyr, Captain Andrieux, an officer as much distinguished by talents as true patriotism. It was at first proposed to hail the brig, and make it hoist the tn-coloured flag : but the Em peror ordered the soldiers of the guard to take off their caps and conceal .themselves on the deck, pre. ferrieg to pass the brig without being recognized, and reserving to himself the resource of causing to change its Itig, if obliged to resort to it. The two brigs passed alongside each other. The Lieutenant of our veiel, Taibacie, an officer cf the French navy, was very well known to Captain Andrieux, and spoke him when within hail. We asked Captain Andrieux whether he had any commissions for Genoa ; some mutual civilities passed, and the two brigs sailing in contrary directions, were soon ont of sight of each other, without Captain Andrieux at all suspecting What our frail vessel bore !. During the night of the 27th and 2Sth, the wind continued to freshen. At daybrc.+k a 7 gun ship was seen, which seemed making for St. Florent or Sardinia. It was soon perceived that this vessel paid M 3 attention to the brig. At seven in the morning of the 28th, we discovered the coast of Noli ; at noon, Antibes. At three o'clock of the Ist March, we entered the Guil' of Juan. The Emperor ordered a captain of the guard with 25 men to land before the rest, in order to secure the coast battery, if there was any. This Captain from his own head, formed the idea of making the batta lion which was at Antibes change its cockade. He threw himself imprudently on the place ; the officer who commanded there for the King ordered the draw-bridges to be raised, and the gales shut. His troop•took to their arms ; but at the same time they felt a respect for these old soldiers and the cockade which they cherished. However, the Captain's ope. ration failed, and the men remained prisoners at • Antibes. At five in the afternoon the landing was effected in the Gulph of Juan, and the men bivouacked on the beach till the moon arose. At eleven at night the Emperor put himself at the head of this handful of brave men, to the fate of whom such mighty destinies were attached. He pro ceeded to Cannes, from thence to Grasse, and by way of St. V4lier he arrived on the evening of the gd at the village of Cerenon, having marched (20 leagtes this first day. The people of Cannes received the Emperor with those feelicgs which were the first pre s Age of the success of the enterprise. On the 3d the Emperor slept at l3areme ; on the 4th he dined at Digne. From Castellane to Digne, and in all the department of the Lower Alps, the peasants, informed of the Linperor's march, flocked from ail sides on his route, and manifested their sen timents with an energy which no longer left any doubts. On the sth General Cambronne, with an advanced guard of 40 grenadiers, gained possession of the bridge and fortress of Sisteron. The same day the Emperor slept at Gap with ten horsemen and forty grenadiers. The enthusiasm with which the Emperor's pre sence inspired the inhabitants of the Lower Alps, the haued which they bore to the noblesse, suffi ciently sheeted what was the generai wish of the pro. since of Dauphine. At two in the afternoon of the 6th the Emperor left Gap, and the population of the whole town was assembled to see him pas;. At St. Bonnet the inhabitants seeing the small number of his troop, had some fears, and proposed to the Emperor to ring the tocsin, in order to assem ble the villages and accompany him in a mass.— " No," said the Emperor, '• your sentiments prove to me that I have not deceived myself. They afford me. a sure pledge of the sentiments of my soldiers. Those of them whom I meet will range themselves on my side—the more numerous they arc, the more certain my success. Remain tranquil at your homes." There were printed at Gap some thousands of pro- clamations addressed by the Emperor to the army and the people, and by the soldiers of the guard to their comrades. These proclamations spread with Ilse rapidity of lightning through all Dauphine. The same day the Emperor came to sleep at Gorp. The forty men of the advanced guard of General Cambronne proceeded as far as Mure to pass the night. They met the advanced guard of * di vision of 6000 troops of the line coming from Gre noble to stop their march. General Cambronne wished to parley with the advanced posts. He was answered, that all communication was forbidden.— However this advanced guard of the division of Gre noble tell back three leagues, and took up it position among the lakes at the village of The Emperor informed of the circumstance, re paired to the spot, He found on the opposite line a. battalion of the sth of the line, a company of sappers, a company of miners, in all between 7 and 800 men. He sent. his orderly officer, the chief of squadron, Roul, to communicate to these troops the news of his arrival ; but that officer could not obtain a hearing. He was always answered with the prohibition of all communication. Emperor alighted and went straight up to the battalion, fcllowed by his guard shouldering their arms. He got himself recognized, and said that the first soldier who chose to kill his Emperor might do so; an unanimous shout of Vive PEnirereur was their answer. This brave regiment had been under the Emperor's orders from his first campaigns in Italy. Tne guard and the soldiers embraced. 'I he soldiers of the sth i te meaately to r e off their cockade, a►tid took with enthusiasm and tears in their eyes the tricoloured cockade. When drawn up in line, the Emperor said to them, U I come with a handful of brave men, because I reckon upon de. people 411:1 upon you ; the throne of the Bourbons is illegitimate, because it has not been raised by the nation ; it is contrary to the national will, because it is contrary to the interests of our country, and exists wily in the interest art a few farisi. lies. Ask your fathers, ask all those inhabitants who arrive here from the vicinity—you mill learn !Korn their Mouths the true stale of affairs, they are threa tened with the return of tithes, of privileges, of feu irghtt, and 'of all the abuses from ozhich Our success delivered them : is not this true, peasants ?" “ Yes, Sire," they unanimously reply 46 they wished to tie us to the sod; you are come like the angel of the LORD to deliver ns." The brave men of the battalion..of the sth deman ded to march first upon the division which covered Grenoble. The march was begun amidst a crowd of inhabitants, which increased every moment. Vi. mile distinguished itself by its enthusiasm. " It was here," said these brave people, di that the revolution arose; it was we who first dared to claim the privileges of men ; it is here again that French liberty is resus citated, and that France recovers its honour and in- dependence." F.ttigued as the Emperor was, he wished to enter Grenoble that sameeven►ng. lietweenV►zille and Gre noble, the young Adjutant-Major of the 7th regiment of the line came to announce that the Colonel Labe cloyere, profoundly afflicted by the dishonour which overspread France, and determined by the most no ble sentibsents, had separated himself from the gar rison of Grenoble, and was coming with his regiment in quick march to meet the Lmperor. Half an boor afterwards this brave regiment came a.ad doubled the force of the Imperial troops ; at nine o'clock is the evening, the Emperor made his entry into the Faubourg de --. • The troops had been made to re-enter Grenoble, and the gates of the city were sh.a , . The ramparts which defend it were covered by the thi regiment of engineers, composed of 2000 sappers, all old soldiers covered with honourable wounds ; by the 4th regi• ment of artillery of the line, the same regiment in which five and twenty years ago the-Emperor hpii been Captain ; by two other battalions of the sth of the line; by the 11th of the line, and by the faithful hussars of the 4th. 1 Th::. National Guard and the entire population of Grenoble was placed behind the garrison, arid all made the air resound with cries of Vivte tEsnftereur. They burst open the gates, and at ten o'clock in the evening the Emperor entered Grenoble in the middle of an army and of a people animated with the most lively enthusiasm. The next day, the Emperor was harangued by the municipality, and by aU the autho rities of the department. The discourse of the mili tary chiefs and of the magistrates was unanimous.— All said that Princes imposed by a foreign power were not legitimate Princes, and that they were not bound to any engagemeat with Princes whom the nation did not want. At two o'clock the Emperor reviewed these troops in the midst of the population of the whole depart. ment, to the cries of 66 Down with the Bourbons— down with the enemies of the people—long live the Emperor, and 'A Government of our own choice."— 'rile garrison of Grenoble immediately afterwards proceeded by forced marches towards Lyons. One thing 'could not escape observation, which sires, that in the twinkling of an eye these 6000 men were seen decorated with the nationel cockade, and each of them with an old and worn-out one, fur upon laying aside the cockade tricolour they had concealed it at the bottom of their knapsacks. Not one'llves purchased at Grenoble. It is the sante. said the r, as they passed the Emperor, it is the same that we bore at Grenoble. This, said others. is the very one which we wore at blamer. On the 9th, the Emperor slept at Bourgoiga. The crowds and the enthusiasm, it possible, increased,— .4 Fur a lung time we hAve expected you, ' saitfthese brave peiifrie to the Emperor. Behold you are sat length arrived to deliver France from the insolence of the noblase, fro.si the pretensions of priests, . and from the disgrace of a foreign yoke." From Grenoble to Lyons, the march of the Em peror was nothing but a trinmphl The Emperor, fatigued, was in his open carriage, going at a walk. ing.pace, surrounded by a crowd of peasants, singing songs expressive of all the nobleness of feeling of the brave Dauphinois. 66 Ali," said the Emperor, 46 I recognize here the sentiments which twenty years ago made me salute France with'the name of the great nation. Yes ! you are still the great nation, and you will always be so." However, the Count d'Artois, the Duke of Orleans, and several Marshals, had arrived at Lyons. Money had been lavished among the troops, and promises among the officers. They wished to destroy the bridge of la Guillotiere, land the bridge Morand. The Emperor laughed at these ridiculous preparations : he could not have a doubt of the dispositions of the people of Lyons; still less of the disposition of the soldiers. However. he had - given orders to General Bertrand to collect boats at Mirbel, with the intention of passing over in the night, and of intercepting the routes of Moulins and of Macon, to the Prince who wished to prevent the passage of the Rhone. At four o'clock, a reconnoitring party of the 4 , th Hussars arritred at la Guillotiere, and was received with cries of Jive PAmperetsr! by the immense popti lation of a faubourg which was always distinguished for its attachment to the country. The passage of Mirbel was countermanded, and the Emperor gal loped towards Lyons at the head of the troops which were intended to prevent his entry. . The Count D'Artois bad done every thing to se cure the troops : he was ignorant that nothing is. possible in France to the agent of a foreigner, and when you are' not on tfieSiee of national honour, and; the cause of the people ! Passing before the 13th regiment of dragoons, he said tq a brave man, deco. rated with scars, and three chevrons-4 4 Come, com rade, cry "iv( le Rol." No, Sir, answered this brave dragoon, nu soldier will fight against his father ! can only answer you by crying Jive l'Easpereur.— The Count d'Artois mounted his coach, and quitted Lyoni, escorted by one gen-d'artne. At nine o'clock in the evening, the Emperor pass ed across la Gnirlotiere almost unescorted, but sur rounded with an immense population. The next day, the 1 lth, he reviewed the whole division of Lyons, and the brave General Brayer at their head began his march in advance upon the capital. The sentiments which during two days the inhabi tants of that great city, and the peasants of the vici had testified towards the Emperor, affected him so nmen that he could not express what he felt, ex. crpt by saying, 66 People of Lyons, I love yore"— Ties is the second time that the acclamations e 4. this city had-been the presage of new destinies reserved icr France. On the 13th, at three eclock in the ifitsnoon, the Emperor :arrived at Villefraeulie. a small town of 4000 persons, which at that' moment icontaluesi ' more thee 60,000. He stopped at the Hotel de Vide. A great number.of wounded mili tary were presented to him. He entered Macon at gesso o'clock in the evening, always surrounded by the people of the neighbouring (districts. He testified his astonishment to the inha bitants at the little effort which they had made in the last war to defend themselves against the enemy, and to maintain the honour of Bnrgundians. " Sire, why did you appoint a bad Mayor ?' At Tournus, the Emperor had only praises to be stow on the inhabitants for the excellent conduct and patriotism which under the same circtuustances had distinguished Tournus, Chalons, and St. Jean-de- Lone. At Chalons, which for forty days had re sisted the forces of the enemy, and defended the pas sage of the Saone, the Emperor took an account of every trait of bravery, and not being able to repair to St. Jean-de-Lone, he sent there the decoration of the Legion of Honour to the worthy Mayor of that town. On this occasion, the Emperor exclaimed, " It is for you, brave people, that I instituted the Legion of Honour, and not for the emigrants pen sioned by our enemies." The Emperor received at Chalons the deputation of the city of Dijon, which came to drive from its bosom the Pretect and the unworthy Mayor, whose conduct in the last campaign had dishonoured Dijoa and its inhabitants. The Emperor displaced this Mayor, appointed another, and entrusted the com mand of the division to the brave General Devaux. On the I.sth the Emperor slept at Autun, and from Autun he went to sleep on the 16th at Avallon. He found on this route the same sentiments as in the mountains of Dauphine. He re-established in weir places all the functionaries who had been deprived for having concurred in the defence of their country against the foreigner. The inhabitants of Chiffey were specially the object of the persecutions of a cox comb, Sub-Prefect at Semur, for having taken up arms against the enemies of our country. The gin peror gave orders to a brigadier of gendarmerie to arrest this Sub-Pretech and to conduct hint to the prisons of Avellon. The Emperor breakfasted on the 17th at Verman• ton, and proceeded to Auxerre, where the Prefect Gamot bad remained faithful to his post. The brave 14th had trampled under foot the white cockade. The Emperor learned that the 6th regiment ef lancers had equally mounted the white cockade, and eras advancing upon Montcreau to defend the bridge against a detachment of the Body Guard, who wislit:3 to blow it up. The young Body Guard, not beins as yet accustomed to the strokes of lances, took tiigla at the sight of this corps, and two prisoners were taken. At Auxerre, the Count Bertrand, M:ijor-General, gave orders for collecting all the boats to embark t! :e army, which was already strong with four. divisions, and to transport it the same evening to Fossard, so as to be able to reach Fontainbleau by one o'clock in the morning. &fore leaving Auxerre, the Emperor was joined by the Prince of Moskwa. This Marshal had caused the tricoloured cockade to be mounted in all his government. The Emperor arrived at Fontainbleau on the 20th, •at four o'clock in the morning : at seven o'clock he learned that the Bourbons had left Paris, and that the capital was free. He set off immediately to re pair thither:—hc entered the Thuillerics at nine o'clock in the evening, at the moment when be was least expected. Thus tea initiated, without shedding a drop of blood, without finding any obstacle, this legitimate enter prize, which has re-established the nation in its rights, n its glory, and has effaced the stain which treason, and the presence of the foreigner, had• spread over the capital ; thus is verified, that passage of the ad dress of the Emperor to the soldiers—that the Eagle with the National Colours, should fly from steeple to 'steeple, even to the towers of Notre-Dame. In 18 days the brave battalion of the guard has cleared the space between the gulph of Juan and Paris, a space which in ordinary weather 45 days are taken to traverse. Arrived at the gates of Paris, the Emperor saw the whole army which the juke of Berri command. ed come forth to meet him. Officers, soldiers, gene. cals, light infantry, infantry of the line, larcers, dra goons, cuirassiers, artillery, all came to meet their. General, whom the choice of the people, and the wish of the army, had raised to the empire ; and the tricoloured cockade was mounted by every soldier, who had it in his knapsack. All cast on the ground that white cockade which has for 25 years been the rallying sign of the enemies of France, and of the people. • On the 21st, at one o'clock, the Emperor reviewed all the troops composing the army of Paris. The whole capital was witness of the feelings of enthu siasm and attachment which animated these brave soldiers. All had reconquered their country ! all were relieved from oppression : all had again found in the national colours the recollection rat all those generous sentiments which have always distinguished the French nation. After the Emperor ha . ti pmzeti along the ranks, all the troops were drawn up in square battalions. . 4 Soldiers," said the Emperor," I cane with 600 men into France, because I reckoned upon the love :sif the people, and the recollection of old soldiers.— There not been deceived in the attempt. Soldieis ! I thank you for it. The glory of what we have jug done, is wholly the people's and your's. Mine is reduced to the having known and appreciated you. " Soldiers I the throne of the Bourbons was illegi timate, because it was raised by foreign hands, because it was proscribed by the wishes of the nation expressed by all our national assemblies; because, in fine, it offered no guarantee except to the interest of a small number of arrogant men, whose pretensions are op ' posed to our rights. Soldiers, the imperial throne can alone guarantee the rights of the people. and espe cially. the first of our interest's, that of our glory.— Soldiers, we.will marsh, to chase from our territory these Princes, the auxiliaries of the foreigner ; the nation Will not only second our wishes, but even fol low our impulse. The French people and myself reckon upon you. We wish pot to interfere in the affairs of foreign nations, but woe to them who shall interfere with ours !" This address was received with the acclamations of the people and of the ioldiers., A moment afterwards General Cambronne and the cithcers Of the guard of the Isle of Elba battalion ap peared with the old eagles of the guard. The Em peror resumed, and said to the soldier.: " Behold the -,-- oaken o the battalion which accompanied me in my adversity. They are all my friends. They were dear to my heart ! As often as I saw than, they re. presented to my sight the varidus regiments of the army ; fot among these GOO brave men, there are men of all the regiments. All reminded we of those great days of which the recollection is so dear, for all MC covered with honourable scars received in those me. movable battles ! In loving them, it was you all, soldiers of the whole French army, that I loved ! They bring you back those eagles ; may they serve you as a rallying point ! In giving them to the guard; I give them to the whole army. 66 Treason and unfortunate cirenmstances hart covered them with funereal crape! But, thanks to the French people and to you, they reappear mplen. dent in all their glory. Swear that they will always be wherever the interest of the country shall call them ! that traitors and those who should wish to invade our territory can never support the sighof them I" *, We swear it !" exclaimed all the soldier: with enthusiasm. The troops then defiled to the mumt of music, which performed the air Veilhns Ca :At dr rAn fi irt. The Emperor to-day reviewed several caval,y ra giments of the corps of Count Varmy, and the i• Hussars, the first regiment which rallied to the im• perial eagle, After reviewing the divisions of Gene rah Brayer and Bachelu, the Emperor sp! , :,e to the officers who formed a circle amnia them, and troops defiled to acclamations a thous:at. times peated, of live PE.nftereur ! His Majesty then re-entered, and conversed wi:li the Generals and officers who filled the aparrtnezny, and who arc every moment arriving in th, cap:tal tv offer their services to their Sovereign. n By a decree of the 21st, his Majesty br.t appninted the Duke of Vicenza, Minister tur ForLign (i nOM rue MINOR PAPERS.) PARIS, MARCH Cs. Since his arrival in Paris, and in spite of the f 2. tigue of a long journey, the Emperor has %waked tt• a very advanced hour in the night. The army seems to view with pleasure the aprltit. went to the War Department, of a Marshal, who name recalls the simply of the vim! ies of Alio , _ stadt and E.ckmul.l. , An exact knowlecige-ot t:lt personnel of t!'e ai my, great habits of lahous s.nd ar rangement, the most, !tied probity, and an ackn0.....- led•ged spirit of justice, arc titles which appear rs merit the confidence or the troop fur the new Minister. Yesterday the bronze halt of his Majesty the E.in peror wax replaced above the gate of the Mucesint 'apoleon. The bust or his Majesty, crowned with laurel, b 7 been placed above the doer or the great hail et IL:- School of Medicine. The medical pupils, preceded by a tti-coloured fl4g, and surrounded by surgeons. in unisorm, have presented an address to his Majest ; expressive of their devotedness and attachment to person. The Lyceums of Paris have resumed their °Li names. 'The arms of the French Empire have been replaced on the peristyle. The Students at Law have bees. invited to meet this day to deliberate on an address to the Emperor. "'this, at least," says the invita " will be the frank and loyal expression of the I sentiments of those who shall sign it. The opinior of none is forced, the royalists may remain at home.' General Lemarque is appointed Commandant at P..ris. Count Lobau is Commandant of the division, and of all the troops there collected. All the shopkeepers congratidate thamselves or. being freed from the rigorous obligation imposed upos them, of shutting their shops on Sundays. It was General Excelmans who commanded on the 20th the guard at the Thuilleries, and who first hoist• ed there the tricoloured flag. It is said that the King has been accompanied 61. only a very small number of his Guards. It is as serted also that Marshal Aerthier will not follow hire. beyond the frontiers. The destination of Marshal Victor is not known. The Princess Sadder, of Wagram, on the 17t1‘ passed through Strashurgh on her way to Germany The following is the address of :he Generals, Offi cers, and soldiers of the Imperial Guard, to the Ge : male date d ~ O ffi cers, and soldiers of the army, Gulph of Juan, March 1, 1815 : Soldiers and Comrades—We have preserved for you your Emperor in spite of the numerous snares that , were laid for him ; we hare brought him back to Tot. across seas and amidst a thousand dangers. We have landed on the :accred soil of the country with the na tional cockade and the imperial eagle. Throw unde your feet the white Cockade ; it is the ..ign of disgrace• of the yidte imposed by foreigners, and of treason We should have u-,elessly shed our blood, were we tc .utter the vanquished to dictate the law to us! " During the few months that the Bourbons haw reigned, they have convinced you that they havefou :mien not lung and learned nen Wig. They are always go verned by prejudices hostilz to our tights and then of the people. Those who have borne anus agains , their ionsitry, against us, are bevies! You are rebel: whom they would have pardoned, only rid they weft sufficiently consolidatod by the fortnatsost s i n arm: of emigrants, by th introduction of Swiss guards into Pat is. and by the succc'sive promotion of new Ofiter in your ranks. Then. it would he necessary to hays carried arms against the country, to be enabled to lal . claim to honours or rewards; it would have been ne cessary to be of a birth conformable to their preje• dices to be officers ; the soldier must have reutain e always a soldier ; the people would have had the b ur diens, and they the honour s. Vioniesnel insults the conqueror of Zurich, b) naturalising him a Frenchman,—he who only fount pardon and amnesty in the clemency of the law. A 13rulart, the Chouau assassin of Georges, command: our legions. 44 Awaiting the moment when they could dart tr destroy the Legion of Honour, they have given it I. all traitors, and lavished it in order to degrade it. — They have stripped it of all the political prerogatives which we had wined at the price of our blood. 4. The four hundred 'millions of extraordinary du• mains, on which our &talons were assigned, were the patrimony of the army, and the prize c' our success, they have caused to be conveyed to Enr land. ". Soldiers of the great nation, soldiers of the gre at Napoleon, will you continue to belong to a Nip° 4: •dr, C+ 1 1 i 1 1 a t t 4