The National Register. — London, England, 1815-07-09 00:00:00

I JULY' public till the latest moment. The greatest efforts appear to have been made by Davoust to induce the Duke of %Veiling ton and Prince Blucher to consent to an armistice. Ile ‘...rote a letter on the Soth ultimo, urging the heavy respon :ibilitv they would take on themselves by refusing such a proposal. It does not appear that this letter was ever honoured with an answer. Suchet had agreed to an armistice on the side of Chambery: and this M. Davoust urged as a precedent for the Duke of Wellington, but without effect. The debates in the two Chambers appear to have been very warm and tumultuous, but to have lcd to little or no result. A letter from Davoust and a number of other Officers to the 'Representative Body, contained the following passage:--" It is wished to impose the Bourbons upon us, and these Princes are rejected by the immense majority of Frenchmen. If their return could be subscribed to, recollect, Representa tives, that you would sign the testament of the army which for €2O years has been thevalladium of French honour." This letter is stated to have been received with the liveliest applause, and was ordered to be printed and sent to the_ar- LETTER FROM HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER AT WAR TO LORD WELLINGTON. Head-quarters at La riktte, A*so 1815. MY LORD—Your hostile movements continue, although, accord ingto their declarations, the motives of the war which the Allied Sovereigns make upon us no longer exist, since the Emperor Na. polcon has abdicated. At the moment when blood is again on the point of flowing, I receive from Marshal the Duke of Albufera a telegraphic dispatch, of which I transmit von a copy. My Lord, I guarantee this armistice on my honour. All the reasons yon might Dive had to continue hostilities are destroyed, because yon can have no other instruction from your government than that which the !Instil:to Generals had fi um their's. I make the formal demand to your Excellency of ceasing all hostilities, and that we proceed to form an armistice, awaiting the decision of Congress. I cameo the heve, my Lord, that my request w 'ill remain ineflectual ; you will take upon yourself a great responsibility in the eyes of your noble fellow-countrymen. No other motive but that of putting an end to the elinsion of blood, and the interest of my country, have dictated this letter. If 1 present myself on the field .01 battle, with the idea of your talents, I shall carry thither the conviction of there co. l ,:iating for, the most sacred of causes, that of the defence and botependence of my country ; and whatever may be the result, I shall merit your ,elteem. Accept, I beg you, my Lord, the as surance of my highest considermion. Thu Marshal Prince of ECKMUHL, Minister M War. The same letter was written by his Excellency to Marshal Blucher. • It was yesterday reported on 'Change that the late Go vernor Heullin has been reinstated as Governor of Paris; that Davoust, the Prince of Echmuhl, was appointed Commandant. and that Louis XVIII was to he proclaimed on the 6th. The Duchess of A ngouleme is expected to embark imme diately for Bordeaux. A ship of war is waiting for her Royal Highness at Portsmouth. The urgency for reinforcements of cavalry to Lord Wel lington's army, has induced Government to apply to the Light Horse Volunteers to undertake the town duty, to this they have consented ; the depot of Life Guards has in conse quence already marched. The 14th Light Dragoons now on duty at the Horse Guards, will be relieved by the Light Horse Volunteers on Tuesday next. Formerly the Duke of Wellington beat the French Mar shals from South to South, now he has beaten them North to South, and yet they do not seem satis d either way. A boat is in froth . Dunkirk, where the White flag was hoisted on Thursday, and a Royal salute aced. At Bolougne the flirliers were obliged to keep guard day and night, .{tic inhabitants beint; all in kivolr c,f l'? U. NATIONAL REG IST ER . There is a vessel in from Dieppe with passengers.—The White Flag flies there. Captain I,old Arthur 1-1111, who brought the last dispatches from the Duke of Wellington, has been promoted to the rank of Major. This meritorious youug Officer is brother to the Marquis of Dowushire. Murat is noticed in the Paris papers as follows:—" learn from Marseilles that Murat quitted Antibes to t ike the waters of Greauls, in Savoy. It is also reported that he (lied at Lyons, in the house of the President of the Imperial Court." The towns and villages near Paris are said to have been pillaged. Iklalmaison, the favourite residence of Josephine and of Iluonaparte, has been completely sacked. The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesea are on their re turn to London. Ilis Lordship bore the amputation of his thigh with the greatest courage. The garrison of Cambray at first held out against their Sovereign, but they were shortly compelled to surrender. In a few hours a party of them applied to a royalist regiment offering to enter into their ranks; "for," said they, "it is a matter of indifference to us." To which the others replied. " if it is a matter of inditTerence to you, that is a very suffi cient reason why you should not be allowed the honour of marching under cur banners. We desire no such compa nions." Murat's wife (the other day Queen of Naples) has been sent to Prague. It is reported she carried with her an im mense sum of money. Theta is a man of fashion, it is said, now sweeping the streets of Vienna, with an iron collar about his neck. Ills crime was forgery on the Government Bank. Buonaparte promised his friends to dine at Brussels on Sunday, the I Bth, but it now appeats that 4 4 his Majesty'. had a previous engagement! Upwards of 500 persons, driven from their farms, em barked last week on board four transports, at. Greenock, to be conveyed to Canada, as settlers.—horn. Chron. Nearly 3000 French prisoners arrived from Ostend last week, in ships of war, and proceeded afterwards for Ply mouth, to be marched from thence to Dartmoor. Though bearing the most evident marks of their total discomfitare (many of the officers, even to the rank of Colonel, not having a hat to wear, only one shoe, (Src. and scarcely any two of them belonging to the same regiment) they still preserved their military hauteur. They acknowledged being most completely beaten in the battle of the 28th, and say, our red cootie' Dragoons (Dragoon Guards) exceeded, in strength. boldness, and militar y science, all other troops they had ever seen in a field of battle. It was impossible to withstand their attack, or for any part of the army to re-assemble wlsre they were. A Brussels paper states that the humanity of the Engliih soldiery, after the battle of Waterloo, was such, that they were the first to assist the wounded French, 500 of whom were thus preserved by their generous enemies. The French Cuirassiers of the Imperial Guard were all arrayed in breast and back plates, which would resist a musket shot—none of the men wee under six feet high, had served three cam pa:gns, and been twelve years in the service. Notwithstand ing they were so protected, they were nearly all destroyed— three waggon loads of cuira , siers were taken from the slain, and car, ied into Bru s sels. By the She!drake sloop of war, accounts have been re ceived from La Vendee, by which it is fully ascertained that tbeltoyalists in that quarter bad completely defeated tbe• Bunnapartistsi the conflict was despera , e. The Roya lists a( 1 :: 1 !!. a k's of 400 C killed, wouuded, Src. vu TIT 443 .~.ac