The National Register. — London, England, 1815-03-26 00:00:00

M 1 THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. ••••••=•••••••-• P4R!$, NfAiten ig. S. itYdAdn'Dtivorr GORIEX---SUNDAT MORNING. dttenaparte pursue* hie march; but as he advances, his troops di triiwistb Ho orr;red no the 17th at Auxerre with less than 6000 men Ile will have inidi.ubtrithr quitted that town this morning to occupy Joigny this evening. ilmninparte precedes his advanced guard iff an &Own carriage, attended ooly by twenty dragoons. He is in general Isa'f a league in advance. Lvoirs opened her gates willingly to Buonaparte, and ell'the troops joined him; that his force increased as it rolled on, and that his advanced guard consists of five thousand cavalry, *hid, was expected to be at Sens, 'half way between Joigny and Melon, on Sunday ; that all the precious moveables of 14e Royal Family were about to be sent err; that Mower had returned from Lisle with the hifornonion that the garrison was not to be depended on ; that Count d'Erion, who had been ordered to be ghat, had been released by the troops, after his eves had been barahsged to receive the fatal fire, and bed been declared tieveracie of the fortress. Monier was sent off to Paris. Ney and Macdonald have returned to Paris with the tidings that their troops akeulattly refused to fight against Buonaisarte-" ANECDOTES OF .lIUOAYA P.I RTE. A German paper gives the following story, as a reason for ‘ Iltionaparte's seclusion during the latter period of his resi dence on the Isle of Elba ; we of course cannot vouch for its truth.-- • After he had attained to the snprcme authority in France, he Vati_pat Ocularly solicitous to erase all traces of the civil wan. in La Vendee and the other north-western ovinces of Franey. fie titerefere entered into negociations with the Royalists, and was so snores tut as to gain over the must of them, and to form arrange ment: with each individually. All of them obtained considerable rell3l4 , iin on certain conditions; one, fur instance, enuaged to exile bitnsclf from France for ever ; another was not to leave La Vendee; a third was to reside constantly at Paris. according as the circum stances of each led Butroaparte to consider it to be most advan tageous " Among those who were copfined to Paris was Brnlart, a zea lons royalist and a good soldier. A considerable time after the corn- Oete pacification of La Vendee, Brulart solicited tOr a friend, who bad str , nlated not to quit La Vendee, permission to visit Paris: and finonaparte, with apparent kindness, replied, that he needed only to invite his friend to come, as every thing was now,settled, and ail apprehension was unnecessary. Upon this, Brulart's friend came to Paris ; but no sooner had he arrived than he was seized and shot, by the express commaild of Napoleon. Brnlart, being ap prised of this circumstance, fled, horror-struck, to Euglaud. From that eiinntry he wrote to Buonapartc, saying, that he had made him the innocent cause of the death of his friend, who had come upon the faith (tithe assurances he had given him : that the shade of the murdered victim hovered incessantly before his eye+. demanding vengeance ; that he was determined to devote himself to his dilly, mud had sworn, to the shade of his Is tend, that Napoleon should die bx his hand. Ot this letter, Brulart had a few copies printed, and sent them, by different chaotic's, to France, so that at last it was handed by the police to Napoleon. He laughed at the menaces of the chivalrous enthusiast, and forget them in the brilliant career of his prosperity ; but when Louis returned to Paris, Brulart also was iu his retinue, and by a singular accident was SOOll afterwards ap jointed Governor of Corsica, with directions to watch the Isle of Elba. For this purpose brolart removed Isis residence from Ajaccie to Bastin, opposite to Elba, from which, with a favourable wind, the passage might be made in a few hours. No sooner had Napo leon received intelligthee of this circumstance, than he again recol eted the letter, and became apprehensive lest Brulart might al;irse the authority entrusted to him by the King, and mindful of has 0314, shont‘i, in spite of the law of nations, listen only to the dictates of personal revenge. From this tune Ile began to seclude himself with the greatest caution from almost cll society.' We nederstaud that a person of rank, who had paid a visit of en ißtlity to the Exile of Elba, met with him again on the banks of the Rhone. linutiaparte there recognised him, accosted him with ranch friendly familiarity - , and amused him-elt with the expressions of sur price or ia.S. personal meeting him ii, that situation. On finding he was gm gto Paris. Buonaparti rs consnientled to him for his own per/moat convenience, to haiku his jountcv. In changing horses at tic of the posts, an Loglish Lady, in her MARCI 4 ..e opposite direction to the post _ not know him, but reel-nested, as she was pressed for time, that lie %nide, permit her to have the first set of horses out. to which he answered, that the object of hie journey was rather dressing ton, but lie must give way to . Lady • and he waited with great patience till she. see out. It was not until she met hit advanced guard, as they neve nailed, though far behind himself, that she learned it wart their Emperor, Buotiapaite. At the great ball which he gave at Lyons, he ordered that the Fa milieu resident there of whatever uationoliould be invited, and it was crowded to an excess When lie leaped on shore on the French coast, he stood erect, and *tamping his tout, exclaimed, " Voila le Gottgres dissout. CITY ADDRESS. To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Regent o f the Visited Kingdom of Great Britain :cod Ireland. The humble, dutiful, and loyal Address and Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of Lon don, in Common Connell assembled. hlay it pleabe pan Royal Higlinesb, We, his Majesty 'a most dutiful mid loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Altharnete Commons of the City of London, in Com mon Council assembled, most humbly approach your . Royal Hihh ness, with no hems inlet than astonishment at the late proceedings in Parliament, relative to a Bill for laying further restrictious on the importation of corn We have seen, that notwfthstanding the voice of the country has been constitutionally and most decidedly declared against that mea sure, by Petitions vehicle in point of namber, anti the number and respectability of the signatures thereto, had not been exceeded iii the history of these realms, the House or Commons has passed the said Bill, and that its proecedings thereon have been market' with a recipitancy and pertinacious adherence to the must obnoxious fea tures thereof, which plainly evinces an utter disregard of poblic feeimg, and of that public opinion, whose organ it ought to be. We have observed in the other House of Parliament the same precipitancy, and the same determination to resist tnrther inquiry or to hear evidence, notwithstanding a Committee of that Right Honourable House had stated in their Report, during the last ses soots, that the investigation was not complete, and that further in quiry would be necessary before any alteration took place in the laws affecting the interests Ilt the growers and consumers of cont. We have observed the Ministers of the Crown. with the si.me disregard of the general voice of the country, and whose special duty it was to watch over the interests, n t merely of the land owners, but of the community at large, leild the sanction of their authority to the support of a tneasnie, which in its operation can not tail of proving most seriously injurious to the . mantitacturiug and commertial interests of the kingdom, in a very high degree oppres sive to the poor, and dangerous to the tranquillity anss safety of the Empire. That thus deprived of that protection which we might reasonably have expeeted trent the representatives of the people and the here ditary legislators of the country., we are compelled humbly to lay our complaints before your Royal Highness, as the only emistitii timed resource we have now remaining. We beg most earnestly to impress upon your !Royal Nighties, that the two Howes of Parliament being composed of landed pio victors ; that having examined such persons only as were land agents, and otherwise catinected with land, and iiasitig instiloted no in quiry into the truth of the allegations of flue numerous Petitions against the said Bill; vor any witnesses having been examined i.n their behalf, appears most partial and unjust, and highly irritating to the feelings of those classes who have buffered such ptivatioos, and made such unexampled sacrifice's. That dnriog a period of nnexampled difficulty and excessive dearness of every article of consumption . your Royal Highness cannot but have perceived that the war which was. the occasion of distress to the industrious and laborious classes of the peaple has, by causiog a progressive rise the rent of laud, been a source of emolument to the laud proprietors. That it is therefore with concern arid disappointment, we have observed that, at a moment when the people were anxiously ex pectiug lime- blessings of peace--a diaiinutidn of their burthens and the cheapness of food ; the laud owners not content with the advan , tages they had thus derived ; nut content with having escaped those losses and misfortunes whi ch had involved thousands of other classes ' of the community iu ruin ; not content with being relieved from the Property Tax, have bought.hy the said Bill to ptotect their pee ' . .' 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