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• .4; w ely end instancaseetish. applied to the lectuetive z.ttempts daily made o 0 osr brave armies to withdraw 6en) Irafti their ditty. 4, Fur these cattses, and .with the advice of Our Comicil, we have decreed, and do decree as follow : I. The lair of the 4th Nivose, year 4, will con. t'r.L:e in force according to its form and tenor : there. t. re, such agents fer the enemy, or the rebels, shall punished with death: 3. Thassiba be considered as such, who, by n r net, spokb. we the distribution and publication of "cdndiari artiisige, shall attempt to withdraw from I t , •ir duty soldiers or citizens called upon to repel the my, or to make them go over to the rebels. - •J. Those Soldiers or Citizens called upon to ,Ir.ferd their country, who shall desert their colours, 0 ; rho shall refuse to join them, and go ova to the filx) y. 4. There sball be established With every, toms of the army, and in all the principal places of the Department, as we shall deem proper, Councils of War, speci.illy charged to adjudge those guilty of the Awe delinquencies. The decisions of the Councils of War, shall be exec u t ed within twenty.four. with regard to culprits taken in arms, or arrested in attempting to seduce hem their duty soldiers and officers of our .armies. • is 5. The present decree dtall be 111111 isuibutrd whesetteamity tell*, :a the bulletin of Laws to ,be addressed to a e• :"ects, Sub-Prefects, Courts, Tritminals, and MI litlitir.b of the Kiugdin. •b Given 4 Pans, the 11th March, 1815, and the 32uth year of our reign. (signed) ORDER OF THE DAY OF MARCH 12, IHIS. . 4 Louise" I , The King having confided to Monseigneur the 0 ; - Demi the command of all the corps stationed r Paris and in its environs, his Royal Highness con. ratulaces hinaaclf on having, as the first act of his amatand, to testify to the troops his satisfaction of weir present conduct, and appeals with confidence to 'tench honour, as a pledge of the conduct they will .saintain fu future. "Toe reginient cf royal horse chasseurs of France 4a,s on its route to Paris. Having reached Corn• .tipe, the corps, being informed that this step was :a opposition to the wishes of the King, sent a depu. •itton to renew at the foot of the Throne its oaths of °Aimee and, fidelity. General Lions, Major of the nzunent, took the command, and conducted it back utkegarrison of Cambrai.." Thus the honour of this brave corps remains Unsullied ; and the attempts of, Feisty hare merely tended to afford it an occasion a striking proof of its fidelity." PARIS, MARCH is. (stun rss MONITILIPO hon: the instant that the Proclatuation of the '.dog made knows openly and without disguise the texpectid doturvithiththrei*i Pr Acme, and that Averuismisit which Whim, , eyeaved whip so Much in usiasin and unanimity, crowds of citizens press ;ward to lay at the foot of the Throne the testima sof their devotion and fidelity. Every day their _yen and acclamations are addressed to that au -4 Monarch who has given liberty to France, and exercise of their dearest rights to every Frenchman. raiud will never require strengthening, but his - ist devoted subjects find that it may be necessary clicr it consolation, and the court of the Palace is .icy thronged with people, who express with equal ero and enthusiasm the sentiment of all. The me of the King is the object of their lively and un• .singesclAmations. Lists for volunretsrs are open, and an infinite num ..; of the young National Guards vie with each other 1 r the liortoui of inscribing their names to march for 7.14 defence of their country. The same opinions are heard in the Theatres. 'aterclay, at the French Theatre, there was a most :markable instance of them. Never did Metope irr sentiments so generally well applied and under. god. The party is the Clete of Henry IV. added to :if nutther I often did the Pit and Boxes sponta• Dusty rise to the cries of Live the ging. The coup s in honour of Henry, ant) that added, offering Iyers it,r the continuance of the Dynasty, were )rated in Choru s by the audience, and were I°l , ~ed by reiterated aczlamationr. The mument :::e ; ..tr squadrons cf Royal Hine asseurs, alluded to in the Order Of the - Day of the suspected tl,t fiJelity of their Commander, Ge rd Lefevre, they ins;tted on coming to 'spline, ti With him, and finding that he was proceeding to iris without the King's orders, divested him of his nunand, which they bestowed on Major General ins. Count Talhonet, who commanded the Chase ::5 of Berri, quartered at the same place, Corn 'Po, perceiving the treachery of General Lefevre, •1 was then tampering with his troops, put himself t%e head of his regiment, which was fire to its and conducted it back to Bourget. telegraphic dispatch from Metz states that Mar -4 Oudinot, Duke of Reggio, on first learning the ' l4l g of Bonaparte, assembled all the troop which 'commands, amounting to 13,000 men, addressed • . ! 1 :1 in the f o ll ow i ng terms : that he had never de v,y.:ed th em s i nce they fought together ; and then, ' 1 his usual frankness, t be declared himself willi ng ' . ; tv e Passports to all those who wi s h e d to j o i n 8 0 . Paste, but that he might rely on all those who ildrltarily remained with him. He was answered ° 111 ) , one Vire le Roi 1 Vire noire Ge• • - . _ natal i" The Duke of Treviso (garish :A Moeier), has again received at Lisle the fealty of the gartiseir.' His t Majesty has given the Cross of at. Losiis 'to three Officers. of the regiment of dosed Leferte . esnouette's, who presented themselves to take the, of fidelity. 4 .111 CHAMBER OP PEERS, gIARCH It. AbCOIINT GIVEN TO THE CHANISKII IT THE CHANCELLOR BY THE COMIAND OX TUX KING. 44 1 n conformity with the wish of the Chamber cr Peers, I waited upon the king, and his kajesty has I authorized me to communicate to you freely, and without reserve, all the proceedings connected with Ithe subject which I made known to you yesterday. " It was on Sunday the sth instant, that we re ceived the intimation of the disembarkation effected by the enemy. From reports, upon the accuracy of which we can rely, he had only 700 men of the Old Guard, nearly SOO Corsicans, and 140 foreigners, ,rho-went with him to Elba, i. e. in all about 1,140' men. " It was with this handful that he disembarked on the lit at Cannes, near Antibes: he landed without resistance, because there were net sufficient troops to oppose him from the circumstance of these points not being menaced. Bonaparte seems to have failed in his attempts upon Antibes= "ha then advanced to• wards Digne, where he was on the 4th, without re ceiving any new reinforcements. T* Prefect of the"Vir has dispatched Couriers ro all the neighbouring Prefects, and particularly to . `Lyons, to communicate these events. It was by one F r* these Couriers that the Prefect of Lyons received thejiws of the landing, which he transmitted to us on sth by a telegraphic dispatch : a second on the same day, rectifying the firsr, reduced to a thou. sand or eleven hundred men the number of troops which had been at first estimated at 1600. " On this intelligence, Monsieur, brother to the King, set out at midnight between Sunday and Monday. " Couriers were sent off in every direction to order troops to assemble under the orders of Monsieur, to form an army of 60,000 men, one-third or one-fourth of which should be cavalry. a Orders were sent at the same time tp the Doc d'Angouleme, to proceed from Bourdeaux to Nismes, and there to take under his command, with the Mar shal de 'farentum under him, the army of the Gard, the principal nucleus of which consisted only of three or 4000 then, but which could be augmented to 13,000 by adding the troops scattered over the 3th and 9th military divisions. " These arrangements occupied the whole of Sun day and Monday, and part of the night. On the 6th we received a telegraphic communication which contained but little news : but a courier arrived in the night of the 6th, and brought us letters direct from the Pdfect of thelNr, ffom_ which we obtained th e facts schittiG tar the dcst.cas =Mile 117 a nnapirite . asu i his match upon Di neared upon Gap. " It WV immediately upon the arrival of this cou rier that the King issued the Ordonnance which con tains the measures of general safety, and the Procla mation calling together the two Chambers. " The Telegraphic Bulletins succeeded each other slowly. The Minister of War continued to dispatch couriers relative to the march of the' troops. The service of the Estafettes was immediately re-esta blished. We received some on the 7th and Bth, which brought us letters from the Prefect of the Var and that of the Lower Alps, all of which announced die best spirit, the firmest determination to resist the enemy, and pledge themselves for good dispositions on the part of the troops. u We have no intelligence whatever that Bonaparte has received any - reinforcements : we bad therefore every reason to hope that his mad enterprise would have no other effect than that of securing the legici. mate authority by ridding France of the eternal enemy of her repose and her welfare. u What was our astonishment therefore, when the telegraphic dispatch of the Bth informed us that he was expected at Grenoble the same night ; and a se cond, of the same date, informed us that Grenoble must have been surrendered. " This last dispatch, in consequence of bad wea ther, did not reach us until the 9th in the evening. •. Yesterday, the lath, we received that of Lyons of the Bth, dated at half-past eight in the morning, bearing these words only—• The Princes are this in stant setting off—Bonaparte is expected at Lyons this evening—l am off for Clermont.'—(lt is the Prefect who speaks). u No mention was made of Grenoble in this letter, and we flattered ourselves that it still held out : bat this hop. was destroyed by a letter from Monsieur, dated in the evening of the Bth, which his Majesty only received this morning by a courier, and which he has permitted me to read, that 1 may communi cate its contents to the Chamber of Peers.' 44 His Royal Highness begins his letter by the details of his journey, and of the incredible activity with which, on his arrival at Lyons, lie had corn mcnced, by collecting the troops and National Guards, , and receiving, with their new oath of fidelity, the most unequivocal testimonies of devotion. The Prince had . given notice that he would march at their head at night to the assistance 'of Grenoble, but be learned a few hours afterwards that that City had surrendered almost without resistance, and he then confined his attention to the defence of Lyons. for which be took all commie:3 measures -• • -? • )t to bit too probable t4t &if warn all frUideri, lista 'the distMtib cff yeiterday announced so forniialy ' the Oeparktuo date Mien, and even of the Prefeet, ' will was tun oral to absenrhimself withottt a for ordert Here. Gen ache% ends our intelligence from gouth r we expect fresh news every hours but it 'it scarcely possible We can reecirtsany before ni3l*. 44 This instant a letter has been brought me froo. the Prefect of Laon, dated yeteerday, the 10th t the evening, which announces a new act of Treason, attempted at La Fere ) and happily defeated by the 'firmocts and courage of the Commandant of the School of Artillery, Count D'Aberille t 1 shall lay before you the whole letter, which will tranquillize oar with respect to the., ate of one of oar greatest of artillery, at the urns:time that it will prove so you the defection of a General who has succeeded In seducing four or fire squadrons of Royal Chat. lours. wbb have been obliged to abandon their guilty enterpriae, but who dare to march upon Paris. " Seth then, Clentlemen, is the present situation of Prance—lionaparte. with eleven hundred men, has made Most rapid progress. We do not know pre sSely how much his band has been increased by de gortions, but these desertions cannot be doubtful' slisse Ire see Granoble occupied, and cite second city Kingdom toasty to falfgtertirttokr fallen iofetherisicelf the enemy. ' ' 4 " 4- 4-- I Numerous Emissaries of Bonaparte hover about our regiments —many of them are actually in the ranks. It is to be feared that many deluded men will yield to their perfidious insinuations, and this fear alone will weaken our means of defence. 's We can scarcely stop the effect of the bad dis position which alarms us, but by relying greatly on the good and faithful national guard, generally com posed in such a way as to put all danger of seduc tion at defiance. The King has thought it his duty to put it requisitiOn'tbroughout the whole king. dent. General Desolles, who commands them, will I lead to you an Ordonnance of the King to this effect. A second Ordonnauce establishes permanently the Councils-General of the Departments and Arron dissements to regulate this grand movement. gg Here also we have an Ordonnance of the Mi nister of War, who calls to our standards those who have already served, and has associated with then. those numerous youths who burn to defend the throat: and the country. 44 Such, Gentlemen, are the measures of defence which the Government has thought necessary for ef luting the security of the State. It exercises at the same time the Stricteg vigilance as to the traitors who shall attempt to seduce or corrupt our tr cops and a Council of War shall bring them to speedy justice. "We shall take particular care to prevent the pub ' icntion and disttibotion of incendiary pamphlets. The Chamber conceives that this is not the time to 'etarcise indnigasee to thole what, abusing the liberty of writing, endeavour to raise a 'murderous arm against public liberty. We had first thought it ne cessary to propose to you a provisional law on this head, similar to the law for repressing abuses of the press, which should enable us to anticipate all the arts and intrigues of conspirators ; but the inevitable slowness of legislative forms will not allow us to post pone measures which the safety of the State demand ;1 and no Minister of the King will hesitate to order, on his personal responsibility, whatever such a pressing interest may require. u I come now not so much to propose measures as to submit to you those which have already been adopted, and to request for them your vote of appro bation which will strengthen the courage of Minis , ters, without being able to add any thing to their zeal and their devotion to the public cause. Yes, Gentle men, it is your vow, it is the vote of the two Cham bers *bleb will give to the Government that moral energy it requires; it is the union of the Chambers with the Government which will constitute the com mon strength, the despair and overthrow of our ene mies, the glory and safety of the nation." After hearing this discourse, and the reading cf the accompanying documents, the Chamber directed their President to renew to the King the homage of their devotion, and to thank his Majesty for the cum. Of the wise measures which he had adop ted for the security of the State. Extract of a le t ter from Laon, dated the 10th of March, in the evening. " An infamous attempt has been made upon the arsenal of this city. Troops, led on by two traitors, one of whom command* the department, came to lodge yesterday in the town of La Fere, at nine in the evening, with a route from the Commandant of Lille. These troops had come in one day from Cam bi ay I—their object was to seize the arsenal, and then to match upon Paris. The firmness of General Abo ville, and of the Mayor, Pion, commanding the 2d legion of artillery, defeated this aiminal attempt.— Officers, Sub•officers, and soldiers—all did their duty. 0 , The gates of the Arsenal and the Town were se cured with Cannon. The rat of the Garrison was drawn up on the Esplanade ; their arms were loaded, and the guns were placed en kr:eerie. The traitors did not dare to execute their project, and they withdrew. Their force consisted of four 'squadrons of Chasseun Royaux of France, 150 dismounted Chewers, and ISO Infantry, Grenadiers and Chas , sears. On going off they attempted to make the cannoneers cry Vise l'Empererr, but these brave and good moo sposuancoully exclaimed rive 4 Bpi I". - T - 31 'PH. _rl i .V l 7• i`l'A . 14UN 1)t PN. , • . THIJ IIitUAY. MARCHE ?ma OF TFITS DA? 41 ;IV 111 .vi Treys Reduced rtit b. shot =.s* Cr. N 44? h tuittAnis of aketioilt 0111 el 110tiiii t Omn.7# 87f --Bank Lismg All/111..a1ut.:4404340 pay • • Varhequer bile 4s. is. dle.--1 tom ry Tihketa Art Ts. One &Clock. —This %harlots in Lie City Is beyond ad 10-1111/6 conception. ildoke ten setdock the *Chaage Ina full, waiting to hear whSE bad cane, as at thin date It 'Me *eh histlten thit farm tspresses had arrived. The A•Selts tipmed at 111, aid suddenly fed to (!di, and are row itl e: (Minium Is from to &count, and the market as beset sit iyoLlohle. We are now enabled to lay befoie ner Readr•ft the coatents of the French NJ:kart to ti•e 18th io. stint, Monday last, inclusive. It is c-rtittnAi !hat BoRAPARTa had advanced to Lyons without nitv.ii•g with all interruption. The return of the Duke D'Oftt.rax: to P.tris, frortft that city; is announced in the Moniteur of the 130. in the notice of his arrieal, the imp rssibility of el.& leeting a sufficient force in time to p: eVent BONtoPA from ginning that thy, is:frankly stdted i but it is added that his force Was radier dilitinithing • than in. creating. . . We cannot disgu ise the iniprepsion which such a paragraph is calculated to pi -educe. It •pfaki a vo lume.—What BONAPARTE enter Ilyons Without having obtained any accession of strength ! Enter lyons, a City containing a populations of upwards of HOMO% aid furnished with a large garrison! Either be nowt hei6' Stott& with bins hoo t Elb a a wi g knot could not be the case; itTie mast hive formed au army after be landed—that is, been joined by softie French troops and a portion of the population s or the garrison of Lyons • and pro bably the people of that city have declared for him and hoisted his standard . The last %appositions are probably both cotrect. But in a Proclamation by the King to the People, dated the 11th, they are informed that measures have been taken 4 4 to arrest BONAPARTS in hie adv.:nee from Lyons towards Paris." Will this be possible ? We sincerely wish it may: but it would be folly to disguise the tact, that there is much cause for alarm on this pOint. The man who could advance to Lyons, and gain possession of a garrisoned place, where one of the Royal Dukes was present to animate the people and the troops to oppose him, must still possesa the means, whatever they were, which gave him that suc cess s nor need we add, that success must have in creased his force. Several vessels, we believe about 16, of one der T: p. Lion or another, reached I)over yesterday fron the • opposite coast—filled with passengers. A Gene:. -• I man, who left Dover last night at twelve ffelNelilf' 2 -`" . 1 informs us, that 400 of our countrymen hi AV . t •. there in the most distress e d cirenrnstaneees . torly them having been obliged to travel d* fiat; t' • (such the hurry of their departure) withoeihav .. had time to provide thcinselves with money. Apia* 900 more were left at Calais in a still mtre RIOCS. sinksituation, being alarmed with the- tear iif riot getting away. i Every boat in Dover 'went over la' iii7ht to-C , lais, to aid in bringing over our tourist ^r , :•suryriitan ; and arch was the state of same of CI, ct ,tiotiti wit . ployed, that considerable alarm is entftairolerferlik: • tine oftlfhte Who; atitto to the 41ter,;:,',.. rgokiit c . :, -a choice of evils, may ti not themselves ott ttioth vessels. 116 , .rrf • ' i Atixiiig thertmengers who haveo4 :teed* we . tre . happy to announce, the Duchess of Arttrltintroel ; and, if there be no mistake as to the pc . ison, i sinothtn• lady of high rank, the Duchess I)'Arrnocz.Utitl- . The report brought by :hese passengers re , piritiog the cause of the surrender of Lyons is, that 1 1 ,,e arlii in that quarter had joined BONAPARTE, ' WlSOfee.fritOe • was stated to have increased to 90,000 men. IVirh this force he was understood to be advAthipg tairita the capital. He had issued some Pr'icltosstiorma s in. one of which he states, that he has come into P:Vaitee to secure the throne for his son, to make.the lErtifsrAss Regent, and to act himself in the capacity oi p un k._ ralissimo of the French armies, and to ressvra tbi _ glory of the Einpire. • a . •• The private rumours respecting the Fretteb Gene. nerals ate so very contradictory as to destroy, .en.. 'i tirely, their credibility. One of them, it.k eariptife , General Lefebre Desnouettes, had endeavogoilittoli seduce his corps, but bad failed in his attentptvqqA art/ Lome, it is said, acts with great flrmneswatte4t.st• declared that he will die on his throne rather it.i. ,, leave Paris. It is satisfactory, however, in the midst of all the alarm excited by the enterprise of the enemy of Europe, to observe, that notwithstanding the admitted desertion of numbers of the troops, a large portion of the army, and the best French Generals, ifad maintained their allegiance. Let us hope that nothing may shake it. should these remain firm in their duty, the conflict, however severe it may be, will not be of long conti. nuance. In the mean time, the public anxiety is, and must continue, as great as ever, till the issue of this daring attempt shall be known. It was generally understood that on Thursday nig' t upwards of fifty disaffveted Military Officers le t Paris—of course to juin BONAPAP tr. An att:mot was made to corrupt the troops in the barracks at Paris, and one man had been shot in the act. 1.),4 vousr is said to have secretly issued orders to some of these troops in the name of Narot.aon. Sour it is said was tried by a Court Martial on Thursday, and cashiered, though orders are still issued in his name. —sA part of MARCHAND'S division had turned out to join BONAPARTE, and himself was mortally wounded in opposing them.—Much Indeceut exultation at the progress of BONAPARTS had been exhibited in the Coffee-houses.--Such are some ct the reports. Three Messengers arrived th s morning trom the Continent—one came tram Holland and two others from France. Captain BARCLAY was the bearer of the dispatches from Holland, and Mr. fiII.ITER of those horn Paris. The Marquis of BRETONS also arm rived from Part s this morning express with dispatches. The Dutchesrelf ORLEANS is on her way to London. A French Messenger, with disgaches, is also .ar rived at the French Ambassador's,(n Portman-square. Among the latest repotts, one states, that l.ouis XVIII. was on his way frolu Paris to Cal Os, and tl—t the mmoss bustle and confusion prevails in me French Capita'.. It is reported in the City that the Toulon Fleet bas quitted that port and declared fur BusArititre. w I 1 i „ I . - ~~ i• ! .. 1