The National Register. — London, England, 1814-04-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. been unfortunato like Henry IV.; they will reign like him. They are not ignorant that the most distinguished portion of their great family is that which composes the allay : they will watch ovet you as over their firstchildren. Reinain. then, faithful to your standards. Good caufonmentP shall be allotted to you. There are among you young warrio•s, who are already veterans in glory. Their wounds have doubled their age. These may, if they please, return and grow old in the place% of their nativity, with honourable rewards. The otters will continue to follow the career of arms, with all the hopes of advance• anent and stability which it can offer. Soldiers of France I—Let all French sentiments animate you. Open your hearts to all family affections. Keep your heroism, but for the defence of your country, not to invade foreign territories. Keep your heroism, but let not ambition render it fatal to France fatal to yoarse;ves; let it no longer be a source of uneasiness to the rest of Europe. The Princess Maria Louisa arrived the day before yesterday at Rambouillet with her son; she is to be Grand Duchess of Parma and Piacenza. It is said that Cardinal Fesch, and the mother of Bnonaparte, are going to ask an asylum of the Sovereign Pontiff; that Louis Biro naparte retires into Switzerland ; and that Jerome and Joseph are to go to America. linonaparte was still at Fontainebleau yesterday, (i.ttli); after oeveral nervous attacks, he had fallen into the greatest depression, He had been made to take the bath, and had been put to bed. ft seems that he is sick both in body and mind ; his ideas, it is said, are not clear ; for the rest lie is treated with the greatest care. THE CONDUCT OF BUONAPARTE AT FONTIINBLEAU. ROTT ER DAM, APRIL lt; —The following accounts of what passed at Fontainbleau are considered as authentic, coining from one of the most respectable officers of the French army : " On the 4th of April, in the morning, Buonaparte reviewed the troops which lie seemed to consider as his own. The Marshals and Generals who had learned ffom the papers the resolutions of the Se nate and the Provisional Government, conversed together on the subject loud enough to be heard by Napoleon, tint he appeared to pay no attention to what they said, and the review passed quietly. 'When it was over, Marshal Ney, as had been settled, entered the palace with him, and followed him into his cabinet ; where he asked him if he was informed of the ;peat revolution that had taken place' at Paris? He replied with all the composure he could assume, that he knew nothing of it; though he was doubtless well informed of the whole. The Marshal then gave him the Paris papers, which tie seemed to read with attention ; but he was only seeking to gain time to find an answer. Meantime came Marshal Lefebvre, who addressing his late 'Emperor in a feeling tone, said,' You are undone: you would rent listen to the counsels of any of your serrants, and nom the Senate has leclared that you hale forfeited the throne." These words made such an impression on him who was used to comider himself above all laws, that he immediately burst into a flood of tears, and after some minutes reflection wrote au act of abdication in favour of his son. " Another officer, who was likewise a witness of what passed, relates, that on the sth, about eleven o'clock, several Generals went to the Duke of Bassano, who was mostly atone with the Em peror, to request him to dissuade him from appearing on the parade. But he would not refrain from it. About half-past eleven. lie t'orm- IA a plan, which he made the Duke of Bassano write and sign with him, to repair with 20,000 men that he had still with him to Italy, and join Prince Eugene. Napoleon repeated several times, ' 1/ I Choose to go there, 1 am certain that all Italy will declare fur me.' On the parade, lie looked horribly pale and thoughtful, and his convulsive motions shewed his internal strukgles : he did not stop above eight or ten minutes. When he got into the palace he sent for the Duke of Reggio, and .asked him if the troops would follow him ? • No, Sire,' answered the Duke, you have abdicated,' ' Yes ; but upon certain condi e tions.'—` The soldiers,' resumed the Duke, don't comprehend the difference; they think you have no :Imre any right to command them.'—' this is no more to be thought of; let us fer the accounts from Paris!' II The Marshals returned in the night between twelve and one. ;Vat:dial Ney entitod first—' Well have you succeeded?' exclaimed the Emperor. Revolutions do not turn back : this has begun its 'nurse : it was too late ; to-morrow the Senate will recognise the itoorbons.' Where shall Ibe able to live wills ply t ily?' rinteir. yew APRIL 0. Majesty shall please, and for example in the isle of Elba, with a revenue of six millions!' 4 Six minions ! that is a great deal for a soldier such as I stn. I see very well I must submit. Saluto ail my companions in arms.' . [Here Napoleon ceased speaking]. The following circumstances may be arhle.' :—Four days ago Na. poleon thought of passlns , a decree, inflicting a penalty of death upon any one who should be found to have a newspaper in his pocket. The evening before his dethronement he made a Colonel a present of an estate in Westphalia. The indisposition of Buonapartc had at first appeared very serious, and Dr. Corvisart repaired to Fontainbleau ; but the - patient is doing better, and he was decidedly to have set off to-darto the place of his destination. He is accompanied by the English Colo nel Campbell, the Unssian General Schowaloff, a Prussian and au Austrian General, and an escort of 1300 of the allied troops. FONTAINEDLEAU, APRIL 15, in the morning —llnonaparte. though sick, reads every day the Paris papers. His hand trembles while lie reads them, anel his unsteady eye rapidly runs over them. He seems still to look for the extravagant and ridiculous praises with which they did not cease to load him. Alas! he finds there now only tardy and painful truths. His physical and moral deice tiOß spews with what anxiety he supports the burden, and how int. patient he is under it. Sometimes foicetting that he has acted his part, and that he has ceased to be the hero per excellence, he flies into a passion, and threatens with the N 'let of his anger the auda• eions wretches who dare to speak of him so disrespectfully. Then coming to himself, and recollecting that he is no longer' the redoubt able Napoleon, he exclaims in his agony, " If I had been told three yea's ago, an hundredth part of what I hear now, I should ba still upon the throne." What a distressing reflection for those tile flatterers who surroundA hint ; for those functionaries without en ergy, and without virtue, who, constantly prostrate at his feet, shamelessly -sold the interests of the people ; for those mercenary poets, those hired pamphleteers, whose mean productions, whose corrupting hymns, exatiiited the utmost rorms of the most servile adulation ; indifferent to the public miseries, if with a base band they could go and receive the gold witu which their meanness was rewarded. PARIS. APRIL 17.-ller Imperial Highness the Arcliducheft Maria Louisa of Austria had an intervie‘N yesterday with her augnst Father, at Petit Trianon. This Princess, illostrions for her virtue and heroic denouement, will never cease to be dear to the French. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria returned to Paris yesterday at two o'clock. At five o'clock his Majesty, accompanied by Count Metternich, paid a visit to Monsieur, Lieutenant-General of the kingdom. This morning Rnonaparte at last set off from Fontainbleau. It is affirmed, that he yesterday demanded three libraries ; that of Fontainbleau, that of the Council of state, aad his private library at the Thuilleries ; and, b:sides, all his carriages, to the number of 160—to go to an island where there is no travelling except on foot or en horseback. The Emperor of Russia, immediately en his arrival at Paris, rode on horseback to the Thuilleries, examined every thine, and praised the taste with which it was adorned. ' I have found Paris very fine,' said his Majesty, lint I shall leave it in a much more flourishing condition.' Being shewn the saloon of peace, he said, " what use could Buonaparte make of this saloon ?" When lie came to the great gallery of the Museum, he said, 'ten days are yeeessary to see this fine collection.' Observing that some pictures were removed he said, his character must have been quite [ misunderstood, if any fear has been entertained for the Mmenin. The Emperor laughed, though not with bitterness, at the fear which had been attempted to inspire into the Parisians. The monument of the Place Vendome is under the protection of the High Allied Powers ; the statue of Bnonaparte at the top of it is to be replaced by that of peace. As the Emperor Alexander rode by it, he said, • I should be afraid of becoming giddy if I stood so high. ' Your Majesty's arrival at Paris has been long expected and de. sired,' said somebody. I I should have been here sooner,' replied the Emperor : ' attribute my delay to the French valour.' His Majesty goes every morning and evening, with some staff officers. to attend divine worship iu his chapel, made at the Bureau of the Marine. • It is affirmed, that the fate of the Roman States. and of Tuscany, is de:ermined ; the former are to be given back to the Pope, and Tomo? ./. 11 W nittted to the WSW Duke of Wurtzburk