The National Register. — London, England, 1815-03-19 00:00:00

Cl Cl to N Cl gl of or in bc uk of w, tli ill ti an th to I) in et ai o► ag ag t'd wt tit CX of or All to all jilt vil llil tic to o'c ('1 re, of ca en fri to hi f',l to tl. I) gi MARCII 10. i n ma intaining her glory, and who common with her greatness, for one OH hi, throne by gising up her provinces and cities, and had already %added up her last barrier, as the payment for his temporary exal. iation ; that if France, now sensible of her just interests, invited him w i t h a general and unanimous mind to return to his country, there wa s the same burst of discontent with the present state of things all user Europe, which now understood bow its hest interests were sa crificed by the shameless ambition and all-devouring rapacity of the Congress of Vienna; that Italy was deceived, Germany sacrificed, pound enslaved, Saxony extinguished, and Russia, Prussia, and En gland, the dividers of the spoil. There was thus an unanimous burst of holignation thronglout every kingdom and people of Europe; and thus, whilst his success in Freese was certain, and would be immediate, so was there likewise no possible base far any future general coalition; or if such a coalition should be possible, neither agrinst France nor himself could it again succeed. France had now recovered the three hundred thousand whom the cruelty o f the season had rendered prisoners to Russia ; all these men were now disbanded, and wandering over the surface of France, tinder the persecution of the Bourbon government, who, careless of the glory of the French name, and sensible only to the narrow interests of their personal safety, saw nothing in these noble .re- It rans but their well-tried and well known fidelity towards himself;. and endeavoured to stifle this affectionate attachment by sending theta to beggary and rags. Will not these men, think you, return to the General who remembers them as warmly as he is remembered by them; who see him, as he sees in you, his comrades, his fellows in arms, those %%limn he daily and hourly taught, led, and command ed. Fellow-soldiers, comrades in glory and in arms, for such you are about to become, judge of them as you would judge of your selves ; and answer me from your own feelings, whether these my °au soldiers will pass over to my enemy and theirs, or whether again seeing my standard shining iu the MD, and my imperial eagle, again elevated in its own skies, they will reseek their standard, their eagle, and their General, and again conduct them to the throne which belongs to them. What are the Bourbons to them or us? Who is it in Fiance, still in the vigour of his life, who remembers them, or knows any thing of them. but their name,—their mad extravagancies, and their contemptible debauCheries. In the course of three hundred years did they add au acre to the French territory, or an wilt to the lasting glory of the French name. Are these kings for the French? No. comrades,—the age and the people demand mother kind of leaders. %Vint say you,—soldiers, are you prepared to follow me, and to partake my fortune, my glory, and if there be any, my perils and labour !' " This address was answered only by acclamation ; and the imperial chief, a man who wants only some moderate portion of virtue to remind us of the heroes of Greece and Rome, at once put himself at their head, and conducted them to the place of embat ka tion. The whole expedition, amounting at least to fifteen hundred troops, where on ship-board, and without discovery, before nine o'clock of the same evening ; anti as the wind and tide, being a dead cAlni and the tide to aca, were exactly to their necessities and wishes, they itinuediately It is certain, that when the news of Buonaparte's landing reached Ghent, it produced a burst of enthusiasm in favour of the Ex-Emperor; and we hear that this is likely to be the ca,e all over the Netherlands. Our troops will have ample employment in preserving tranquillity in that country. It is stated in a letter from Paris, and which comes from a friend of the Royal family-, that the Duke of Berri was about to set out to join the array, but that Gouvion de St. Cyr told him that his interference would be the death-warrant of his fmnily. This fact, and that from a friend, speaks volumes as to the popularity of the Bourbons with the army. None •of tlir-m, however, have made themselves so unpopular as the Duke of Berth The indiscreet and contemptuou% language Le has held towards the most meritorious of the Marshals has given universal disgust to the army, and he was prudently ad v:bed to stay at home with the National. Guard. CORRESPONDENCE. The following private accounts from Paris give a sketch of the unhappy state of the people of France :--- .PARIS, MARCH 10, 1815.--Still nothing decisive from the seat of action. The four guns of Buonaparte, with his coach, &c. have been taken at Grasse, where- he left them ' probably that his movements might be less incutnbered ; some prisoners have also fallen into the hands of the royalists: The prefect of the department of the Isere mites word from Grenoble, that having dispatched scouts in all directions,.he could not learn what had become of Buoisaparte. This has .given rise to the report, which the friends of govei nrnent circulate with much activity, that the few troops who accom panied him have begun to desert, and that he had taken refuge in the mountains of Piedmont. The King of Sardinia has set a price upon hi s head o f 400,000 franc s . ;hout 16,000 guineas of our money,—an example which the King of France has it is reported, declined to follow. An offer to assassinate Napoleon having been formerly made• to the Duc de Berri, was instantaneously rejected with every mark of horror. I do not mean to trouble you with newspaper accounts, and you must therefore look upon whatever little intelligence reaches me through private channels, as supplementary to the meagre and half fabricated statements of the official press. The public anxiety increases with the want of information, and doubts begin to agitate those, who only yesterday were riotous in their derision of Buonapartc's projects. Upwards of 50 Officers have left Paris since the night before last, and taken the road towards Italy : the names of most of them are known to the police, and at the War-office—but it is too late to stop them, as the hazy weather impedes the working of the telegraphs. FRIDAY NIGHT.—It has been proposed to the King to arm La Vendee, and thus secure by one blew 50,000 brave and devoted soldiers. Louis the 18th, who comprehends his own situation and that of France differently from any of his advisers, repelled the scheme, as offensive to the body of the nation.—" This is, in its essence," said the King, "a contest " for public liberty —you must not narrow it into the quarrel "of the House of Bout bon. The faithful Vendeans might 'I protect my person, but the French people shall defe - cd their own cause." Since the loyal demonstrations of 'he garrison at yesterday's review, attempts have been made to debauch the troops in their barracks : a man has been de• tected in the act of dispersing th. proclamations of Buona parte to the French soldiery, and led away on the ins►ant to be shot. There ate now no doubts that this plan of invading France was a long time prepared, and elaborately c..mhined with machinations in the interior, and with the organization of Italy for revolt. The latter country is represented to be in flames; Murat proclaiming every where the inclepend , ”icc of the Italian people, with the treachery of the Allied Pori ers to him and to Genoa—and marching openly upon Rome and Florence. Genoa, we are assured, is in decided insurrection, and Buonaparte resolved to establish himself amongst the Alps—to receive his partizans, whom he expects to pour in to him from all quarters of this country, and to make large draughts upon the insurgent population of Italy, until be can swell his small band into a formidable army; and improve the limited enterprizes of a partizan, into the elements of a grand invasion. There are, indeed, a great number of persons in Paris who for told his attempt upon France, from the moment when he sus:,ended his buildings at Elba ; and who were confirmed in their first prognostications. by the mission of the majority of his old Ft ench guards to different THE NATIONAL - REGISTER. 4....,.......... 9 had no interests but such u were PRIVATE c who conld only support !dwell 179