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pRENCH PAPERS: ACTS OF TAB PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. PECRIIR OW THZ 13TH APRIL, 1814.. 46 The Provisional Government orders all Prussian , priso s ..f war to be set at liberty. (Signed) " Prince of BENEVENTtNI, &C. &C" The Provisional Government; considering how im portant it is to put an end to, the scourge of war, and to repair as much as depends upon them the terrible effect, decree, considering the urgency Art. I. All the prisoners of war detained in the French tern* tory *hail immediately be restored to their respective Powers. This measure shall be commuulcated to the Ministers Pie tipotentiary of th. different Powers, with an invitation to ;us rooter a reciprocity to France. NI. Übe Provironal Commissary for the Department of War shalt towers vet.h the Provisional Commissioners of the Navy and Foreign Reputations the execution of the French Decree. The Provisional Government has passed a decree, ordering a considerable reduction in the Army, arid to discontinue all works tor the defence of the fortresses, except such as are necessary in common times. The Provisional Government has decreed, that all the Dutch Guards of Honour, detained in the cities Of Bruges, Metz, and Grenoble, shall be set at liberty. The Commissary of the War Department is charged with the execution of this order. PARIS, APRIL 15. Bonaparte waststill at Fontainbleau yesterday, the 14th. After several nervous attacks be had fallen into the greatest depression i he had been made to take the bath, and had been put to bed. it seems that he is sick both in body and mind ; his ideas, it is said, are not clear; for the rest he is treated with the greatest care. Besides General Bertrand, they speak of Generals Ornano, Desnouettes, and Colonel Mallet, as aecom panying Bonaparte to the Isle kf Elba. The Marne luke of Napoleon would not follow his master, though strongly pressed by him. It is said that Cardinal Feseh, and the mother of Ponaparte are going to ask an asylum of the Sove reign Pontiff; that Louis Bonaparte retires into Switzerland, and that Jerome and Joseph are to go to America. The Princess Maria Louisa arrived the day before yesterday at Rambouillett, with her son ; she is to be Grand Duchess of Parma and Piacenza. There have been retaken on the road to Qrleans and Blois 44. millions in specie, which had been car. tied off from PAri; by order of Bonaparte. The crown diamonds and plate have also been recovered. Ten waggons laden with precious effects, carried off from Paris. arrived yesterday at LEC Thuilleries, tinder a detachment of gendarmerie. They were.. conveyed to the E;tte of the Crown Treasury, to be unlauesh `The corps of allied troops composed chiefly of Ba ♦arians and Wurtemberg troops, which quirt; Paris a few days ago, have tatcen the road to Chantpagne and Lorraine, which makes us believe they will re cross the Rhine. The following Is the reply of Lord Castlereagh to some one who boasted of the magnanimity of the Emperor Ales:oder towards France- 64 His Majesty has had the initiative in generosity beer us, but Eng land will not . be behind him." He said also, upon SitaitiOn of Europe—" The Nations of Estope.have'proved•their courage sufficiently,. they - must crewed' 'pray who - shall be the aioei tette -. rous antlisdderate."' The Jews have, through their Consistory, offered their full and entire adherence. This act is signed 'IIP7 DvCologna, Chevalier of the Order of the Iron Crown; President, and other Rabbis. M. Maret has given in his adhesion. The Advocate of the Legion of Honour, Raoul, the Chiefs, second Chiefs, and Officers of the second and third divisions of the Grand Charicory of the who, and vhe Officers in the Grand Treasury, have also deserted their founder. • Berthier's Lotter of Adherence is couched in the following terms ; * The Army, essentially obedient, has not deliberated; it ha. liras:Vested ita adherence as soon as duty permitted. Faithful to Itaisells, the Army will be faithful io the Prism which the Fred.ch Nation oak ea the Throne of his Ancestors. For myself and my I adhere to the Acts of the Senate, and to those of the Pro visional Government." Tie Provisional Government has published the fol lowing address to the Army : ••••• Soldiers,--You are no 1. - Inger the soldiers of Na poleon, but you are still the soldiers of the country; your first oath of fidelity was to her, this oath is irre vocable and sacred. 'The new Constitution secures you your honours, yoor ranks, your pensions. The Senate and the Pro visional Government have retognised your rights— they are certain that you will not forget your duties. From this moment your sufferings and your fatigues vvi I cease. Your glory remains entire. Peace will secure you the reward of your long labours. it What was your fate under the Government which is now no more, dragged from the banks of the Tagus ID those of the Danube—from the Nile to the Dnieper —by turns scorched by the heat of the desert or froaiti4 by the cold of the North, you raised uselessly, for' France a monstrous greatness. The weight of which fell back epos you as upon the rest of the world. Lo many thousand brave men lure been but the instill-- mews and the victims of a force without prudence, which wanted to found an empire without proportion. How many have died unknown to increase the re nown of one man 1 They did not even enjoy that which was their doe. Their families, at the end of a campaign, could net obtain the certainty of their glo rious' end, and do themselves honour by their deeds in arms. h All is changed ; you will no more perish 500 leagues from your country, for a cause which is not ht r's. Princes born Frenchmen will spare your blood, for their blood is your's. Their ancestors governed your ancestors. Time perpetuated between them a long inheritance of recollections, of interests, and reciprocal services. This ancient race has produced Kings who were named the Fathers of the People. It gave us Henry IV. whom warriors still call the Valiant King, and whom the country people will always call the Good King. It is to his descendant that your fate is confided. Can you still entertain, any alarm for it 1 They admired in vforeign land the prodigies of French valour ; they admired them whip they lamented that their return was delayed 'by many useless exploits - These Princes are at length it the midst . of you.--they having been unfortunate, • • like Henry IV. they will reign like him. They ate not ignorant that the most distinguished portion ut their great family is that which comprises the army. They will watch over their first children. "Remain, then, faithful to your standatds. Good cantonments shall be allotted to you. There are among you young warriors, who are already veterans in glory Their wounds have doubled their age. These may, if they please, return and grow old in the places of their nativity, with honourable rewards ; the others will continue to follow the profession of arms, with All the hopes of advancement and stability which it can offer. Sou=lts or Flub= I let French sentiments ani mate you. Open your hearts to all family affections. Keep yoer hekism but for the defence of your coun try, not to invade foreign territories. Keep your heroism, but let not ambition render it fatal to your selves ; let it no longer be a source of uneasiness to the rest Of Europe." ' 'rilE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20,1814. PETE OP S POCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Reduced eqi—Cons. 66H—for acc. 67 66H 4 per Ct. 80-5 per Cent. Navy 951(-otunioin, Bank Long ALUM Isf, 16—Exchequer Bills Is. ss. prem. . India Stock—ponds, 6s. 9s. pram. Some further extracts from French Papers will b found in our columns of today. We have also re ceived some private communications from Paris—all the articles respecting the personal history of tbe Ex- Tyrant and his hopeful relatives are amusing. We feel no sentiments of regret whatever at the ruin and disgrace which he has brought upon them; As for JOSEPH and Jenoste, the soi-disant Kings of Spain and Westphalia, they have reason to be thankful that they did not atone with their lives for their match less impudence in assuming the garb of Korth). -They are said to have chosen America as their asylum—with what grace Admiral JERODM will shew his face again at Baltimore we are at a loss to conceive. He has a wife and child there, it is true: but will the great Transatlantic Law-giver, Mr. MA- anon:, pass over the insult which JEROME cast upon the dignity of his nation, whew he became the hus band of a Wurtemberg Princess, in defiance of his previous American marriage ? JOSEPH, we appre. bend, may obtain, if •he pleases, an asylum in Sire' den—the Princess Royal, P.:II Madame his wife, the Ex-Queen of Spain, are sisters It was this family connection which saved the Great BONAPARTE from being shot for cowardice on his return from Egypt. At least so said the CROWN PRINCE in a recent Ma nifesto against him. Old mother BONAPARTE and Cardinal FESCH, her brother, have solicited an asylum from the Pon. His Holiness will thus have an oppottunity of exercising his Christian charity and forgiveness : the papal dig nity owes much truly to the promotion of such-wor thiseitts Cardinals Fee= aid Mss erreo- the Oen- Cla+re ! We gai'sot hhig of the repeated degradations anti imprisonments of the unfortunate Pdpe himsal Louts BONAPARTE goes AO Switzerland : he is nn donbtedly a goo4natured, harmless man, and has been several years an inoffensive resident in Switzer. land. BONAPARTE himself was still at Fontaintican.— He is said to labour under great depression of spirits. He has 5000 men under his immediate cOmmand, who do the duty of guards of honour! He was ex. pected to set out for his ne* Empire on Friday.— Bon voyage/ Several waggon loads of public treasure, which were conveying out of France by order of this pitiful cut-purse, have been stopped its transitu, and sen t back to Paris. Every thing connected with the ex tinction • f his false glory, is nauseous and disgust ing. His " sublime and all-foreseeing genius," was any thing but " light from Heaven." It was the ;gni: fistula of the quagmire after all—and it sets where it rose—in mud and filth at last! The last moments of his political existence were distinguished by an obstinate adhesion to the delu sions, of which he has been so long (and so happily for suffering mankind) the victim. In the convulsive paroxysms of his expiring ambition, he cast a wistful eye towards Italy, and, exclaimed (according to the Dutch Papers), that all its inhabitants " would de clare for him 1" How little he knows of mankind, and bow ignorant of passing events must this man be ! All Italy has joyfully thrown open her. ports to British commerce, and hails the Allies as deli verers I In his retreat in the Island of Elba, he will have an opportunity of putting the dispositions of the Italians to the proof. He may still indulge_in dreami of fancied.popularity ; and he may still delude him self with the idea, that " he had conceived great projects for the happiness of mankind," as he told the French people on his return in disgrace with a beaten army in November last': without some such chimeras td brood ewer in his exile, and without such a monitor as Cardinal MAURY at his elbow, to remind him of his " sublime and all-foreseeing genius," ex istence would be a burden to him.—That he is fur ever deprived of the power to do mischief, cannot be doubted. There was a period of his life when, with youth on his side, he might have made a conspicuous figure in fighting by the side of JAMES MADISON, for the anti-social system ; as it is, a His May of life is fallen into the sear, The yellow leaf And that which should accompany old age— As homy, love, obedience, troops of Meadow. ' Hz came look to have!' FRENCH PAPERS TO SUNDAY LAST. This day we have received Path Papers of Sunday hit, being the 17th. They contain the following im portant ankles of intelligence PARIA, APRIL 16. le His Majesty the Emperor of Austria left Paris yesterday morning to go to Itambouillet► " It is said that Bonaparte set off at length on the 15th, at four in the afternoon, for the Isle of Elba. ‘8 It is affirmed that within this fortnight above 1200 state prisoners have been released in Paris and the departments with which there is a communica tion."—(Jouraal de Path, Altril 17.) 41 Monsieur, Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom, has appointed the following persons to be Members of the Provisional Council of State : " Monsieur the Prince of BENEVENTO ; the Duke of CORNEGLIANO, and the Duke of REGGIO, Marshals of France ; the Duke of DALBERO ; the Count de JAUCOURT, and General Count BauastoNvitut, Se. nators ; l'Abbe de MoNrtsQutou, and General DEssoL Es. ig Baron VITROLLFS, Provisional Secretary of State, will perform the functions of Secretary to the Council. 44 The Members composing the Sections of the Council of State have bad to-day an audience of MONSIEUR. " Count BERGEN addressed his Royal Highness as follows : ' Mr LORD—The Council of State is happy at seeing the return of your Royal Highness to the Ca pital and the Palace of your ancestors. 4 At length the descendants of St. Louis and Henry IV. are restored to us. Our hearts belong to the King, and his august family; and our thoughts, our zeal, our homage, are his due. 4 Our desires, my Lord, are to be serviceable to the Sovereign and the Country—to see the wounds of France healed, which is at last become the com mon country of the Monarch and his subjects—and to behold our august Monarch happy in the happi ness of his People.' " Monsieur was pleased to make a most gracious reply to this speech, in which, among other expres sions, he declared, that he pit took of the sentiments. which the Members of the Sections of the Council of State bad just expressed to him, and that the King and his Royal Highness had never doubted of their attachment and their zeal for the service of the State. ACT OF TilF. GOVERNMENT. ' We Commis PHILIP of France, Son of France, MONSITAIR, Brother to the Kin. IJeutenant-General of the Kingdom, make kaown, . I The circumstances which have passed had made it requisite that we shonld give, in the name of the King our airgost Brother, commissions more or less extensive. Those who were chargeck with them hate rittlfited them honourably—they All tended to the re -1 est•tblishment (4 the Monarchy, of order,. and of peace. This re-establishment is happily effected by' the union of all hearts, all rights, all interest s . The Go-' verumer.t has assumed a regular Course ; all kinds of business must be henceforward done by the Magis trates, or others to whose department they belong. The particular commissions are therefore become useless, they are revoked, and those.who-were invest ed will abstain from making any further use of them e 4 Given and Sealed at Paris, at the jPalace of the Tuilleries, April 16. (Signed) CHARLES PHILIP, 6 By MoNstevit,Lieutenant General of the Kingdom, 1 he Provisiotral Secretary of State, (clgned) • a BUM VITROLLIS: The Princess Charlotte Packet has arrived at Fal• mouth, with a Mail, after a rapid passage of two days. The recent glorious events at Paris were known at Passages, and must have been also known at Lord WELLINGTON'S head-quarters about two days before the Packet sailed. The heavy ordnance which had been landed in the Adour, for the reinforcement of Lord Wm.'Anormes army, has been halted on the march. Great rejoicings had taken place among the French inhabitants and the allied troops, on the com munication of the joyful intelligence above alluded to. Four Gottenburgh Mails arrived last night. By the following article it appears that Prince CHRIS TIAN (or ()tor IV.) was by no means disposed to surrender Norway to Sweden, unless compelled to it by force : lc GOTTENBURCH, APRIL 12. " In eons( inenee of the Prince of Norway refusing to cont- Fly with the orders of his Sovereign. (King of Denmark) to de liver over all the fortresses, dad put Sweden in possession of the whole country, hi. Majesty the King_of Sweden has been neces sitated to order a strict blockade of the coast, and has issued let ten of marque and reprisal, against all vessels bound with pro •isions of auy description to Norway. " The Norwegian Diet commerced on Sunday last, the 10th inst. It is composed of 154 Members, 80 of which are Danish °Seers. Of course, it is expected, they will carry every thing. " The Prince has issued a Proclamation, appointing five of the leading Member' of his party to manage the aff a irs of the State. The Prince's Aide-de-Camp, Holten, Is at their head.— ' For what they do, they are only answerable to him. " The Jahn Adams, American sloop of war, arrived here last night, with the American gegoclators, Messrs. Clay and Russell. A Lieutenant from Long Hope arrived at the same time." CORN MARAEF, APRIL to. We Mashed but little fresh Corn at Market to-day, but the quantity Ylt weer from Monday's arrivals modes pod supply for this miniag, when Wheat sold heavily, having but few buyers. OM saM fltestf at Monday's prices. In Barley, Pass, Beans, attil Misr tit, there Is no alteration. a IMMINNIIMMI ENTRANCE? OF THE BOURBONS INTO LONDON. This day will be celebrated in the annals of his. tory. His Majesty Louts XVIII. made his tr . um. phal entry into London, amid the acclamations of the. most manly and dignified population of Europe. Every avenue leading to Stanmore was crowded a: an early hoof th 6 morning with spectators on f horseback, and in carriages, all dig flaying v hits favours, and eager to testify their joy at the return Of good old times to Europe. Every thing connected with the procession was conducted with the utmost regularity and decorum, l and his MAJeSTY seemed to enjoy, with great satis faction, the generous sensations which Ms presence excited in all around him. The conspicuous mark of attention paid by his Royal Highness the rAINCt REGENT, in meeting his Brother 3 mereign. at Stan more, cannot be too highly praised, nor too loudly ap plauded—it was, in fact, setting Ws Royal hand and Seal to the glorious Restoration for which his Royal Highness has been so steady and so zealous an advo. cate for many years. Never surely can feelings more gratifying enter the human tnipd than those which must occupy the breasts of both Sovereigns. Unhappily for the world, almost all former personal interviews of crowned heads, were brought about f'►r the pur7ove of layit.g schemes for the further subjugation aid degradation .of mankind and weaker Powers. The meeting of the Rival sovereigns of France and England in the Field of the Cloth of Gold, near Calais, fells far short of this meeting of our PRINCE REGENT and Lows ' XVIII. at an obscure village in Middlesex. They have merited, and have obtained, the ap plause of mankind ; and, as far as it is allowable to short-sighted mortals to interpret the decrees of Pao. VIDENCE, we may say their exertions have been crowned by the evident favour of the ALMIGHTY. The King of FRANCE has shewn a royal mind amidst the d rkest eclipse of royalty. The Paisca axonsr has crowded, into a short career, more brilliancy and sr lendour of success than might well furnish out the annals of a long and honourable reign. Perseverance lias given to the cause of both, which is also the cause of human nature, a most magnificent, a most glorious triumph. With hearts elate, we may now look back on the great trials which have been passed thrdugh, not only 'patiently, but firmly, but resolutely, but heroically. Mr. SYLVMER, ihe Messenger, arrived this tn , rn. ing with Dispatches front Sir T. Tvnwittiv, at the Court of Wurtemberg. Mr. Svt.ves•rea is also the bearer of letters from the Queen of Wt raiitacno to the Quc and the PRINCE RscaNr. As Mr. Ss Lvc.rrit passed thrnngh Holland he saw the white flag fl)ing in Middleburg and Flushing. His Royal H;glints slll ... DOke Of CLA RENCZ left w Town this inning trilis carriage and four to join his Majesty's ship JAWS, now at Deal. Przvietts to his departute, he took the usual oath .tt the Board of Admiralty, and was received. by their Liirdshies in their full dress. His ROYAL HIGIIXESS wore the unfi.rm of Admi ral. of the Fleet, two start, white cockade, and boots, bound with gold, and tassels of the lOW'. His Royal Highness's servants also displayed white ribbons I NTERCOCRAC FRANCL+AS COOS; der.ble don , t has arisen with respect to the facility I.f traveding io and from France; particularly as the arrangements usually, on the establiihrnent of peace, hare not as yet been settled by Ministers,:te think it rigltt to ap. prize our readers that the regulations at peat exist ing between the ProiiSibnal Government ot Fl :vice and this Country, is, that all persons, British %objects as well as foreigners. must be provided with p tss. ports from COttlltitt CHATRE, the SCOT Mint r at London. The regular*Packets sai from Dover to Calais, and from Gravesend to Ostend aid Dun kirk : and, until a systein of Alien P•ilice ma% be es tablished under a new act of Paeliansent—no alien can embark for France nadir the present exit mg act but by the establislied ports of clitavestmd, Due Southampton. From the nnumetous appt at old , tf British subjects for passport" to France, to be p. vse• tt at the Coronation of Loins XVIII., we uadetst .nd the number given daily is restricted. FaANce.—We are requested to state, that Mr. CHAALICS POP& has just published an entire new Eli don .of his Work, under the title f A Practical Abridgement of :Ise Custom and Exrise Laws." This Edition embraces the Order Allowing ve.ssAs to 'clear out for the Pr,rts of France. as well as every other Regulation concerning the 'Trade between Great i3ri tain and all parts of the World; mitt only as to the mode in which . Goods may be imported, Escorted, or carried Coastwise, but also the ge,tatiots ot Ditties Drawbacks or Bounties to be paid and alsowed. Tie Book likewiseis interspersed with Reports of Adjr.,l4rti Cases, and various matters of ezzlasive and o.licial Information ; 5.. There is a singular trait stated of B')NA PA RYA'S fa vourite Mameluke. • After sharpening hi: sword with great care, he entered BONAPARTE'S chamber, and addressed him in words to this effect—“ Sir, after 6 , what has happened, of course, yeu will not chose to gs live—l have brought you my sword. Will you Ilse 4g a yourself, or shall I pass it through your body t' •••• / am ready to obey your commands."—NaPoLum answered, that neither of these alternatives was ne cessary.—"" Neither !" exclaimed the Mameluke in surprize—" What, can you endure life atter suit a " reverse?—Then I pray you to dispatch m akb the " same weapon, or dismiss me from your service, fvr " I will not live under such disgrace"—and he ha u t ;h. tily left the room. Grim-visaged war is smoothing his wrinkled front. All the prisoners in France, of whatever n.ti .n, have been ordered to be released. and part of the Allied forces have already left Parts to recross the kb ne. Twelve thousand men of Lord WELLINU I 011 9 11 Bit. tish force in France are to embark for immediate ser vice in America. 1 i i ! I