The National Register. — London, England, 1814-05-08 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. it is composed wilt alight (ram their eariages to accompany the iii;ng. After the Te Deum the procession will move to the Thuilleries in the same order as before. He will there be conducted to the throne, upon which he will se.it him Sell, surroended by the Pri h nces of t ee B.lood. Marshals, Minister s, and Chief O ffi cers. All te othr persons who formed the procession, will meet in the gallery of Diana and then pass through the hull of the throne before his Majesty, making their obeisance to him. The Grand Master of the Ceremonies of France, The MarquisDE DREUX BREZE. ' IMPORTANT OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION. Vienna, April 22. The Corot Gazette of this day contai►s the following article : In virtue of a convention between the Ministers of the allied Courts and the Envoy of Napoleon, furnished with powers to which the Provisional Government accedes, the ei-derant Emperor re• Pounces formally all kind of pretension to fire Crowns of France and Italy, and shall enjoy, in exchange, dining his life, the Isle of Elba, where a pension will be paid to him and the members of his family. '' The Duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Gnastalla. will be ceded at the approaching peace, in Sovereignty to the Empress Maria : she will transmit them to her son, who is henceforth to be sty!ed Prince of Parma and Placentia." MAY S. " When he had done speaking, they passed into the Council Room. The sitting was opened by the leading of a decree of finance to be passed by imperial authority, without the sanction of the Legislative Body, which was, however, convoked for the 2d of December. The decree was . for nothing less than to raise the taxes one half. It passed without any objection to the principle, end solely after a short necessary discussion, in which the Emperor expressed various contradictory or absurd opinions. " Taxes, .he said, " have no limits—in general they present the idea of a fifth : but they ma ac c o rding to circumstances, be raised to a q uarter . a Hind, half, &c. 'No—Taxes have no limits. If there be laws to say the contrary, they are laws bad l y made." After this Decree, the project of a Senates Consultuns was read, to place at the disposal of the Minister of War 300,000 men of the ancient conscriptions, solemnly liberated or exhausted. The most profound silence reigned in the Assetubly. The flatterers were in terrogated, remained silent for some time. A member, however, at length said—" Sire, the safety of the empire." Another blamed the expression in the projet of frontie rs invaded, as being alarming. " Why ?" replied the Emperor, " it is better to tell the truth now. Is not Wellington in the South, the Russians in the North ? Do not the Austrians and Bavarians menace the East ? Wellington in France !—What a shame ! and they did not rise in a mass to drive him out !—The Eeelish will lentil at the simplicity of our peasants. Bnt the English have no ships there, tl;ey cannot practice their na• val Maineurres ; they are ou our seri itory ; we must beat them and drive them out. " All my Allies have abandoned me ; the Bar variant have betrayed me I Cowards ! they would place themselves in my rear • they pretended to cut off my retreat, but they were well paid for it, they were mowed down and massacred : I killed Wrede and all his relations with him. No : no peace till I have burned Munich! A triumvirate is formed in the North, the same that divided Poland. No peace till it be broken. Vienna next year ! We shall see ! I demand 300,000 men. I will form a camp of 100,000 at Bordeaux, another at Lyons, and a third at Metz. With the former levy and what remains, I shall have one million of men under arms ; that will do for the moment. I demand 300,000 men ; but I mnst have men, grown men. What are these young conscripts good for? to croak up the hospitals, or die on the roads. The French are always brave—so are the Piedmontese and Italians ; they fight well ; but these men of the north (Germans) they ale good for nothing—lt is not blood but water that flows in their veins! I cannot really rely but on the inhabitants of ancient France." " Sire, the Belgians," said one Member—" Yes, the Bel gians," replied the Emperor,' they love me perhaps. What signify all these addresses they make them send? It is the height of ridicule !" Sire," said another Member, " ancient France must remain to —"And Holland," said the Emperor, turning short upon him ; rather than give up Holland, I would bury it in the sea. As for Italy, if she be not under France, she must he independent. "Gentlemen, we must have an impulse ; all must march. It may not come to that, but, in short, if it should, M. Cambaceres, you too shall march ; you shall be Chief of a Legion. " Counsellors of State, yon arc fathers of families; you are the chief of the nation. It is you that should give this impulse. I know it—you are effeminate, cowardly. They speak of peace — peace ! peace ! I hear no other word than peace ! whilst all shout,' cry out for war. After this speech, the plan of Senatus Consultum was adopted. The Emperor broke ep the Sitting, and every body withdrew, agitated with different sentiments. As for myself, fill' of indignation which I could scarcely conceal, I sat down to write this account, sure, that in a short time, 1 should re-peruse it with pleasure. ANECDOTES OF BUONAPARTE. Rims, MAY Q.—The era of revealments has arrived; anecdotts are every day published, which people durst hardly whisper for. Upon 13nonaparte's return from Dinseow, on a sudden, the whim seized him of making up :ratters with the Pope, and terminating eeclesiastical affairs after his own way. He suddenly repaired to Fontainblean, and feigned the most affectionate and even pious sentiments, he conjured his virtuous prisoner to yield to his ardent prayers. Pins VII. who knew him well, replied merely with one ssord—comeedia Buonaparte, finding himself unmasked, flew into a violent passion, and forgot common decency so far as to strike the Pope ; but the Holy Father, with Oa same coldness and coolness of resigned virtue, merely answered him in one word—fru:4mila. litionavat.• was often in the habit of using menaces even to the principal officers of his army. One of them, well known for his intrepidity. replied to him one day," I fear you as little as I do a cannop4thill." BUONAPAnTE'S CONDUCT AT THE COUNCIL OF STATE, Nothing can be more curious than the accounts we daily hear of tt-bat passed at the sittings of the Council o! . Stale, ove r which &map:tile presided. Sometimes he affected a kind of •good no tore (bon hownsie), giving ample liberty to their ilisenssions, and even plovoking the utterance of sentlineets directly the ie...et:ze of own:his but it %1 as only in trifling matters that he authorised so much boldness. If measures connected with religion. the conscrip tint', or the haute police were tinder discussion, his physiog nomy be came sombre and ferocious; his voice emitted hoarse m id cavern ous SOMAS, ttrritying eve) y person—and the profound silence which ensued was ouly interrupted by shaft and hasty 4cattwes, always of a singular and extraordinary nature, and ..v!tieh ft II from him at broken intervals. He wa: like the Pythoness ilietatinst the Oracles from the ttiroil.—When the meeting broke up, the flatterers ex claimed- 0 Surely this is not a man, but a god who has adth,ssed us !" The few omen of integrity and wisdom were of course silent. After tile sangoinary reverses in Saxony, in 1813, he returned to Park on the 9th of November and on the 11111 be held a Council of State. One of those present i 1::aron de who took minutes of the proceedings, has transmitted to us the following • details of them : • " Impatient to see what kind of a face the Emperor wore after his disasters, the Members of the Council etr,wdel into the saloon adjoining the Council Chamber. To avoid in tome measure the cndiarrassment of a first interview, the Emperor abruptly called for the Governor of the Bank. He bitterly exclai red against the wise measnres which, at a critical moment, had saved. that national es tablishrnent, and revived the public credit ; he spi'ke half an hour witheout giving the Governor time to put in a singie word ; he ran luud the same circle • of- ideas three or four h.nes, without even ‘mploying images of ridicule, and very often ions of scorn and contempt. changing the tignage, en :r • 1 citilnes9tl \ A 77 1 f.: tz : *elk f , I , BUON IPARTE'S LAST GENERAL ORDER. The hutch Papers contain a curious document,. which appears to be PAionaparte's vindication of himself, in reply to the charge!' 00 which the Senate founded their docree of forfeiture. It is stated to have been published at Fontainblean, In the folloWing form ORDER OF THE DAY. " Fontainblean, April 4. " The Tmperor thanks the army for the attachment it has shown to m, hi and, above all because it acknowledges that Trance resules in him, and not in the people in the capital. The soldier tollows the fortune of his General, his honour, and conscience. The Duke of Raguga has not inspired his brothers in arms with those feelings ;he is gone over to the Allies. The Emperor cannot al'- prove the conditions on which he has taktit this step ; he cannot accept his life and liberty as a boon from a subject. The Senate has allowed itself to dispose of the Government of Fins et.; it has forgotten that it is indebted for the power which it now Abuses, to