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!FRE NCH PAPERS, FROM THF. EPHEMERIDES.-NO. I. Account of what has happened at Paris from the 28t h of March to the 31 of April ) followed by the 'official documents: I%!Ancti 28th.—The Empress and King of Rome leave Paris, by order of the Emperor Napoleon. 28th, Evening.—Proclamation of Prince Joseph, 'Who says " I :had not quit you." 30th.—Order of Prince Joseph to defend Paris. 'and fOr the National Guard to march. At ten o'clock he renews the order. At eleven he flies. At half-past eleven he sends his Aid-de-Camp to repeat lam with you, defend yourselves." Tfie National Guard, full of courage, take arms, At noon the most experienced General's ace that Paris is about to be taken. General Marmont, full of honour and goodness, • resolves to avoid useless evils, and makes the most f nourable armistice that circumstances could allow. During be armistice a eapitulation is made. Alst (Morning).—Paris hears no more the sound of Cal)nnn. the morning passes in reflection en the dangers of the preceding day—on the desertion of the Sovereign—on the flight of his brother—on a plan of defence founded on the destruction of the city-on the intended pillage of the houses. While people's minds were thus disposed, the Al lied Sovereigns, the Emperor of Russia, accompanied by Prince Schwartzenbertr, as representative of the Emperor of Austria, and the King of Prussia, enter the city. The enemies become'the saviours of the city. The three Chiefs, before they enter any honse, remain in the square to make their troops file off before them, to make discipline be observed; to prevent all dis orders. At one o'clock these great military and civil cares are fulfilled. The Chiefs of the three armies enter the house of the Prince of Benevento. Sovereigns born for the throne, instead of taking pleasure like Bonaparte at Vienna, Berlin, and Moscow, in Impe rial and Royal Palaces, ask for private houses. The Emperor of Russia lodges in the house of the Prince of Benevento. Tice King of Prussia in that of M. de Beauharnois. Prince Schwartzenberg at General' Sebastiani's. Paris is full of the following address : [Prince Schvrartzeaberg's Proclamation, alrea,! ) , published.l • Security increases. DECLARATION OF HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. 4t The Armies of the Allied Powers have occupied the capital of France ; the Allied Sovereigns receive favourably the wish of the French Nation. " They declare, that if the conditions of peace ought to contain stronger guarantees when the ques tion was to bind down the ambition of Bonaparte, nr:►y be more favourable, when, by , a return to :, 0.132 government, France herself offers the assur ance of this repose. 44 The Sovereigns proclaim in consequence, that t l hey will no more treat with Napoleon 'Bonaparte, nor with any of his family. K That they respect the integrity of ancient France, as it existed under its legitimate Kings : they may even do inore; because they profess it as a principle, that, for the happiness of Europe, France must be great and strong: That they will recognise and guarantee the Constitution which France shall adopt. They, there fore, invite the Senate to name immediately a Provi Government, which may provide for the wants 416 f the Administration, and prepare the Constitution which shall suit the French people. Gs The intentions which I have just expressed, are common to all the Allied Powers. (Signed) !‘ ALEXANDER. " Park, March 31, three o'clock In the afternoon." This piece opens the eyes of every body ; it chews on whom war is made, and on whom it is not made. There is only one enemy in the world. On the Ist of April, Igl4, at liall.past three, the Members of the Senate met in consequence of an ex traordinary cenvocation. His Serene Highness the Prince of Benevento, Vice Grand Elector, President. His Serene highness the Prince Vice-Elector, Pre sident, then spoke a%follows " SENATORS !—Tlie letter which I have had the honour of Ackrebsiog to each of you to inform you of this extraordinary con‘ocat;on, acquaints you with the object of it. I; is ir.tended to lay proposals before you. This one word sufficiently points out the liberty which each of you brings into this assembly. It gives you the mears to give a generous flew (essor) to the zentiments with which the s , ,ul of each of you is filled —the desire of 'aving your cuuntry, and the resolu tion of hastening to the assistance of a forsaken " Senators! Circurhstance.s, however difficult they may be, cannot be above the firm and enlightened patriotism of all the Members of this Assembly. You have doubtless all felt the necessity of a delibe rati•on which may'shut the dcr,r against all delay, and which may not let a day pass without re.estab balling the action of the Administration, the first of all w..nts for the formation of. • a . Government, whose Aguirity.foundetl an the rieqs.ittrs of the moment, ... sannot but re-assure people's minds." The Prince Viee-Elector having ceased speaking, m yrral proposals were made . .by diliersnt Members. The question being put, the Senate deciees : “ 1. That there shall be * stablished a Provisional Government, charged to provide for the wants of the Administration, and to present to the Senate the • . , plan of a Constitution which mail suit the French People. 44 2. That the Government shall consist of five Members, and then procuring to their nomination the Senate, elects for Members of the Provisional Government, M. Talleyrand, Prince of Benevento ; Count de Beurnonville, Senator ; Count de Jaucoor, Senator; Duke of allberg, Councillor of State ; M. de-Montesquiou, ancient Member of the Conti.; tuent Assembly. 44 They are proclaimed in this quality by the Prince Vice Grand Elector, President." His Serene Highness added -44 That as one of the first cares of the Provisional Government ought to be the drawing up of the plan, of a Constitution, the Members of the Government, as soon as they shall employ themselves on this plan, will give notice of it to all the Members of the Se-. nate, who are invited to contribute by their wisdom to the perfection of so important a work." Some Senators demand that this act shall crntain an account of the motives which have determined the Senate, and rendered its meeting indispensable. Other Members on the contrary demand that these motives shall form part of the address, which will be published by the Members of the Provisional Go vernment. • The Senate adopts this last proposal. A Member proposes to lay down a-s a principle, and to charge the Members of the Provisional Go vernment to comprehend in substance in the address to the French People : " 1. That the Senate and Legislative Body.. are declared integral parts of the intended Constitution, subject to the modifications which shall he judged necessary to ensure the liberty of the suffrages and opinions. _ _ _ " 2. That the army, as well as the retired officers and soldiers, shall retain the ranks, honours, and pen sions which they enjoy. S. That the public debts shall be inviol.eble. " 4. That the . sale of the national domains shall be ititvocably "5. That no Frenchman shall be ma-.le answer. able for the public opinions which he may have ex pressed. " 6. That the liberty of worship and of conscience shall be maintained and proclaimed, as well as the liberty of the press, subject to the legal repression of the crimes which may arise from the abuse of that liberty." The different proposals, seconded by several Mem. bens, were put to the vote by the Prince Vice Grand Elector, President, and adopted by the Senate. A Member demanded— 4 6 That, to reconcile the adoption of these propo sals with the confidence due to the Members of the Provisional Government just establ;sred, the Ad dress to the French People which this Government is to draw up, shall announce, that they are charged to propose a Constitution, such, that it shall n:a in any manner violate the principles which are the basis of these propositions.” The Senate adopts this amendment. The Sen.ite adjourns till nine o'clock this evening, .to hear and adopt the definitive publication of the Proces-verbal, and to sign it individually. Senator Count Barthelemy, Er President of the Senate, is appointed Pietid'ent, in the absence of the Prince Vice Grand Elector, who cannot be present at this sitting. It is decreed, that the extract of the proces-verbal containing the nomination of the Members of the Provisional Government, shall be immediately made out under the signature of the President and Secre t.tries. The Senators, who for want of being informed in time, have mot been able to attend the sitting, are to he convoked for the sitting this evening. These de liberations being finished, the Prve Vice Grand Elector put an end to the sitting. The same day, April the first, 1814, at nine o'clock in the evening, the sitting is resumed, Senator Count Barthelemy, President. The Senate hears the Proces-vcrbal of this day read, and adopts it with some amendments. It is demanded that this Ptoces-verbal shall be printed, and six copies distiibuted to each of the •Members. This proposal is adopted. • The Members then proceeded to sign the Process Vet bal as follows Abvial, Bathe de Alachnes, Barthelemy, M. le Cardinal .de Bayonne, Belderbusch, 13ertholtt, General Count Bournon ville, Buonacersi, General Count Gliassilouche Laubat, Chute', General Cebaud, Covuet, Davous, De Gregory, Mazorenr, General Dernbaricre, De Pere, Destutt de Tracy, General d'i-larville, d'Haubersaert, General d'Hedouville, Dubuii, Dubay, Ernmery, Tabre (de l'Aude), General Ferino, Font . tanes, Gat a , , Gregoire, Herwin, de Jaucour, Tournu Auberr, General Klein, Lejras, Lanisreschts Laujuinais, Larthoy, Le , brun, de Rechement, Le Mercier, Geuerals Lespinosse, Mal leville, Meerrnann, Monbadon, Pavoret Pere Poitteeeulant, Portlier, Riga!, Roger Discos, Saint Martin de la Moire, Ge neral St. Suzanne Saur, Sliemntelpennesick, MarolialSerurier, General Saulit, Tascher, Generai Count deValence, Marshal the Duke of Vainly, Vandiden, Vandipoll, General Vautiais, Vilietai, Vinsar, Volney, the President and Secretaries, the Prince of Benevente, the Count de Valenci, Pastoret. The Members absent on account of indisposition have sent their assent. The Senate meet again on Saturday, April the 2d, at nine o'clock in the evening. Letter of Mr. Senator BARTHELEMY, on the (De cheance) forfeiture of the Throne : " Gentlemen, Members of the Provisional Government, 44 The Senate commissions me to request you to sig nify tothe French people to-morrow that the Senate, by a decree passed in its sitting this evening, has declared that the Emperor Napoleon and his family have forfeit: ed all right to the Throne, and consequently absolved the French people and he army from their oath of allegiance. This act will be sent to you to-morrow, with the motives and reasons of it. " I have the honour to salute you, (Signed) 44 BARTHELEMY, • The President of the Senate." PARIS, APRIL 2.—[Half-past Nine in the Evening Nothing is more interesting and more affecting than what has passed this evening at the andienve which 1 - the Emperor of Russia has given to the Senate. After having received the homage of this body ; 6 , A man who called himself my Ally," said the Emperor ALEXAVIDER, "entered my states as an un just aggressor—it is against him that I have made war, not against France—l am the -friend of the French people—what you have just done redoubles this sentiment—it is just—it is wise to give to France strong and liberal institutions, which may be conform able to the present state of knowledge—my Allies an niyself Conte only to protect the E l bert* of your decisions. - • [The Emperor stopt a moment; then his Majesty continued with the most affecting emdtton.] " As a pr6of of the durable alliance which I mean to contract with your nation, I restore to it alt the French prisoners who are in Russia (1.) the Provi sional GovernMent had already asked this of me: I grant it to the Senate, in consequence of the . Resolu_ tens which it has taken to-day." The Senate withdrew, penetrated with sentiments of gratitude, and of the highest admiration. (I) The number of the prisoners amounts to near 200,000 men' GOVERNMENT OF PARIS. The public is informed that the audiences of his Excellency the General in Chief, Military Governor of the place of Paris, Baron de Sicken, will not take place in future until nine o'clock. PROVISORY GOVERNMENT. The Provisory Government decrees that the Mo niteur is the only official Journal. PARIS, APRIL S. GENERAL ORDER ISATED BY MARSHAL COUNT BARCLAY DE TOLLY, GENERAL IN CHIEF OT THE COMBINED RUS SIAN AND PRUSSIAN ARMIES. " Soldiers !—Your perseverance and bravery have delivered the French nation, oppressed by a Tyrant who acted only for himself, and who forget what he owed to an esteemed and generous people. The French nation has declared itself for us ; our cause is become their's ; and our magnanimous Monarchs have promised them protection and support. " From this moment the French are onr friends: let your arms destroy the small 'limbot of unfortu nates who still surround the ambitious Napoleon : but let the cultivator and peaceable inhabitant be treated with consideration and friendship,- as allies united by the same interests." " Given at Head-quarters, Paril, April 2,1814." The General of Division, Count LEGRAND, has no tified- to the Provisional Government his adherence to all the measures that have been taken by the Se nate.—The persons employed at the Treasury, and in several other public departments, who had not re ceived any salary for three months, were paid yes- years. terday. The body of market-women, according to ancient • custom, this morning presented themselves at the hotel of the Prince of Benevento, and solicited the honour .of presenting a nosegay to the Emperor Alex ander. That Prince was gone out; he was traversing on horseback the different quarters of the capital, every where receivint the benedictions of an immense population, who flocked around his course. On his return, his Majesty condescended to receive the homage of the market-women, and accepted their nosegay with the most. graceful and touching affa bility : in the intoxication of their joy and happiness, they made the air resound with prolonged shouts of ". Long live the Great Alexanuer I Long live the Allied Sovereigns! Long live Louis XVIII.! Long live the Bourbons !" A great number of young men, both on foot and on horseback, with cockades in their hats, and bear ing while 11;s, had yesterd ty the honour of being admitted to an audience of the King of Prussia. 'They departed full of veneration for the virtues of that illustrious Sovereign, so beloved by his brave subjects, and so worthy of being so. Versailles has followed the example of the Pari sians. No sooner was it delivered like {hem, than it recollected that it had been the residence of Kings. It will send a deputation to the Provisional Govern ment, to express to it its wishes. We learn Irorn all the districts adjoining the capi tal, that the conscripts who were on their match to join the army of Bonap irte, are returning to their homes. A great number of others daily abandon his standard. Many villages have already presented the affecting spectacle of mothers embracing with tears their sons whom they believed to be dead : they re-enter their homes, with boe„Jis in their hands, covered with ribbands, and shouting Vive le Roi !" " Down with the tyrant !" Paris is daily receiving within its walls soldiers who will no longer shed their:blood for the firccions am bition 01 a single man. They are received with ten derness ; every one hastens to supply their wants, and to efface the long sufferings which they have experienced. A crowd of distinguished youth was repairing the whole of yesterday, to the house of M. Charles Noailles, in the faubourg St. Honore, to enrol their names in the list of Royal Guards. 1 t is M. the Senator Lambreschts, and not M. Ga rat, as some Journals have announced, who is charged Kith drawing up the plan c.f the new Constitution. The following addresS, signed by a great number of the inhabitants, was this day posted up on all the walls of Paris : TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AND THh KING OF PRUSSIA. " Sums —Paris is occupied by your triumphant armies. " Receive the homage the most flattering to gene rous conquerors—the retiard of victory, the most pleasing and the most rare--the benedictions of the vanquished. " The vanquished—ah ! that appellation, which does not, however, exclude every idea of glory, can not belong to us ! " Our wishes invited you ; they seconded your holy crusade against the scourge of nations, against that monster, an alien to our country, who, raised by a good fortune of which he was unworthy, to the helm of a State torn by factions, had perverted the energy of a generous people—had abused that energy in order fooli%hly to declare war against the liberty of the "world, and even, so to speak, against the human race itself;—against that monster, to whom by way of eminence it was given to dispeople and destroy ; who, from the Baltic to the Pyrennees, tore children from their parents to make them the instruments or the victims of his devouring tyranny, and compelled even father: to put up prayer: against the success of the arms of their son:. " These payers have been heard by PROVIDENCE, and realised-by your brave armies. You triumph, Sires, but we are not vanquished ; we are delivered, and your triumph shall be the eternal object of our gratitude. " Delivereis of our unhappy country, deign to ac complish your work, and to fill up the measure of your benefits I " France calling enjoy repose—abe cannot resume .'4 her place in the rank of the 'other Ettropeninafiens. -she cannot ('we say it frankly) impire•them with co'n fidence in her treaties, but udder the tutelary shade of legitimate authority. "Ah 1 at last, amid long and culpable errors, this justice Shall at least be done us, that no Frau-Amax ieu dared to :eat himself oh the Throne of Louts X VI. " The brother of that unfortunate—of that sainted monarch—his legitimate successor, the descendant of the good Henry, the Sovereign of the French, is not yet among us. " Permit, Sires, that under your auspices, a depu tation of faithful Frenchmen go to throw themselves at his feet—to offer to him an expiatory homage—to beg him to restore to France the presence of her King, and to tir with your Majesties in his henceforth tied capital the un Aterable basis of the tranquillity of Europe."— Five lc Roi. [Here follow the signatures.] ACTS OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. ADDRESS TO TII FRENCH ARMS& " Paris, April 2, 1214. Soldiers,—France has just broken the yoke tin der which she has groaned with you for so many 4. You have never fought but for the country ; you can no longer figtt, unless against it, under the co• lours of the man who leads you. " Behold all that you have suffered from his ty ranny ; you were lately a million of men ; nearly all have perished, they wete delivered up to the sword of the enemy, without food, without hospitals ; they were condemned to perish of misery and hunger. " Soldiers ! It is lull time to end the calamities of the country : peace in your hands. Will you refuse it to desolated France ? Your enemies themselves demand it of you ; they regret to ravage these fine countries, and wish only to take arms against your oppressor and ours. Shall you be deaf to the voice of the country which summons and entreats you ? It addresses you by it, Senate, by its capital, and above ail, by its misfortunes ; you are its noblest children ; and cannot belong to him who has ravaged it, who has delivt red it up without arms, without defence ; who wished to render your name. odious to all na tions, and who would have compromised your glory, it A man, who i 4 not even a Frenchman, c , ,uld h.tve wealtenedwdre glory of our arms, and the generosity of our soldiers. " Yon are no longer the soldiers of Ishpoloon ; the Senate s and all France, absolve you from your oath!. (Signed) Princt: of BZNEVZNTO. 44 FRANCOIS DZ MONTBSQUIOL. DALBIRG. BETRNONVILLt. 16 JALCOURT. ADDR " Conqueror?. had not yet been sufficiently hated HEAVEN pturfitted the too long successes of Bona. parte, in order to inspire Ibr e'er A hatred or them. It determined that this conqueror should possess nu resemblance even to those who dizzied whilst they alarmed mankind. It gave him a degree of militat skill,. but without the recornmend.a.ion of personal bravery.; an activity pio.figious„ but Without airing a will untameable, but without discernmea:t. All his disasters, all the disgraces with which Lc has been overwhelmed, have sprung from the same causes which produced his triumphs. Neither the most un precedented Etyma' s of fortune, nor the most tearable lessons of disappointment, nor the confidence of a rm.• ti , n, which, h iv;ng been tormented by a hiticous anarchy, had hoped to find in him repose—nor the councils of enlightened men, who would have directed him to the path of true glory, nor the devoted attach; ment of valiant warriors—nothing was able to soften the character, to correct the false judgment, or to ele vate the corrupted soul of this Corsican soldier. If one is confounded at his obstinacy in causing so many men to perish, one is not less so at his obstinacy in continuing to ex i st. He has shewn ns what selfish ness is in the human heat : never has he been able to naturalize himself amongst Frenchmen. Was lie a Frenchman, he who, placed on a throne which had been embellished by the goodness, the grace, and the gallant manners of our Kings, was always insulting in his conduct towards females, and even rallied them in a rude and unfeeling manner on the decline of their beauty ? Was he a Frenchman, who never made a present but with the hope of a return ?—who made a base abuse of his power, in order to address, in the - midst if his Court, degrading expressions to an amia ble minister, to a respectable judge, or to an honour. able warrior ? Nay, even in his camp, does he heap insults on our warriors, admired as they are by all the rest of Europe. What torrents of invectives in his bulletins ! When he has himself committed a military blunder, he pitches on the name of any General at havird, to accuse him of it. He invents fables that no one.can beliet?e : if we would listen to him, it was the ignorance of a corporal, which by blowing up a bridge, occasioned the greatest disasters that France has ever experienced. lie knows not where to place his best Generals bUt in positions where they must be sacrificed. • He makes the choicest of his troops, and even the whole mass of his army, march and counter. march 20 times with an unfeeling rapidity, through impracticable roads, and in the most inclement season. Meanwhile two or three Generals remain charged to defend' important posts against forces tremendously disproportionate. lie occasions the performance of the most heroic acts of bravery, in order to cover his checks; and yet it is often from the enemy that we first learn their performatwe. What a savage charac ter is there in his pretended greatness ! What a rusti. city in his magnificence ! What a contrast with the noble and touching picture presented to us in the twe Sovereigns, who have become in one day the allies of the French people I Bonaparte wished to reside in All the palaces of Europe ; these Monarchs abstain even from entering the palace of the absent King of France. A si-asple apartment suffices for them. Since the sim plicityouse w of h Lor ich n e well sp a becomessgiven the the Throne , the conu-. tion between Kings and their people has been ren d er. ec the example of that ed more intimate. We now know wh y these Sove reigns are loved. We long to see that Emperor of Austria who has so fully c oncurred in their views ; and to soften , if p ossible, the pain whi s ch our deliverance has cost his heart. Why should we not generou speak to these Monarchs, the friends of our own, in that language of love, of which the Tyrant had made us lose the pleasing habit,l This is the day of re-union to the Great Fatnay of Europe.." (Signed) g , C. LAciurrs‘as.". it