The National Register. — London, England, 1815-08-20 00:00:00

AUG. O. were seen on their departure from Paris. We are assured that a great number of them will be enrolled in the Royal Guard, which will consist of the best troops of the army. In an Address to the King, the Members of the General Council of the Gironde express themselves in these terms: 4. Sire, allow us to state the only wish which yet remains un satisfied. We venture to implore your Majesty to moderate the exercise of your virtues, and not to withhold justice by their exercise. impunity emboldens crime. It is a calamity in public order." At Avignon, after the suicide of Marshal Brune, two small images of Buonaparte were carried through the city, and afterwards burned in the public square. Vr ENNA, Jut.l 26.—When the intelligence of Napoleon having surrendered himself to the English arrived here, the Empress went to Baden to prepare the Archduchess Maria Louisa for this new;. She received it with firmness, but after the departure of our august Sovereign, the Archduchess shut herself up in her apartments. IVe are assured that she will soon leave Baden to retu►n to the Castle of Schcen brunn. She has forbid the persons who attend on her son to infolin him of the events which have occurred in France. PAttis, Auc. 14.—Persons who have the opportunity of be:ng well informed, assert very positively that the integrity 0 . the French territory is now on the point of being admitted, and is already regulated by negociations at the Congress of Paris; that if the occupation of certain frontiers of the king dom, for a limited time, by a certain number of Allied troops, is judged necessary, that condition will only he sti pulated to guarantee the execution of the other Articles of the Treaty. It is added, that Russia and England interfere in the af fairs of France, with so much moderation, nobleness, and good faith, that the use which they make of their power is nu less admirable than the lustre of their success. In fine, we are assured that the King of France, reduced as he has been to the mete influence of his virtues, and the moral rower of his name, will soon surmount the cruel trials which his 'heat t has undergone, with a glory the more eminent, in consequence of its being entirely due to the ascendancy of his character, and the strength of mind with witch Le is endowed. The Prince of Echmuld, whose arr ival at Paris the joor pals prematurely announced, is really now here, but only since yesterday morning. It has been reported that Joseph Buonaparte was discover ed and arrested in Paris. A Journal added, that he was guarded by two gees crarmes. The following is another ac count, which we also give, without pledging ourselves for it. accuracy. A letter from Gex, dated Aug. 7, contains the following passage:— " JosepCßuonaparte, who arrived secretly same days ago in the Pays de Vaud, was arrested on the night of the id :nst. at the Chateau d'Allmand, near Rolles.—The order had been sent from Berne, and it was Colonel Brandlin, at the head of a company of the St. Gall Carabineers, who exe cuted it. Joseph had gone nut at a private door tryiug to escape, but perceiving the chateau surrounded, he returned into the house to conceal himself. A soldier groping will) his bayonet in the dark wounded the fugitive, who had squatted down in a corner, in the hand. Joseph lost a con siderable quantity of blood by this accident, which caused him to faint. He is cloiely guarded in the chateau. The Colonel waits for further orders to dispose of him." Yesterday . the Sovereigns dined. with the King. At eight o'clock his IVlajesty and the Allied Monarchs appeared on the balcony. All the Sovereigns were deco.a•eJ with the Order of the Holy Ghost. TILE NATIONAL REGISTER.. Before Marshal Brune killed himself, he tore a great num ber of papers. The fragments were collected and sealed up. ROY ORDIN %NCR. Loniq, by the Grace of God, King of France and Navarre ; Having asceitained that the actual force of onr armies giedtigy exceeded a peace establishment, and was especially disprot.ortionate to the revenue of the kingdom, that the mo,t just, and at the same time the most favourable principle tOr the formation Ida good army, is to make the discharges in the first place fall ' , pot) al - leers, who being no longer in th e v i gour ()faze, are less tit for active service : wishing at the same time, to mitigate the effect of these discharges, with rispect to those on whom they may tall betore they have served the time peescribed by the regulations for of,tain• ing the pension on retiring from service : on tie repot t of our Minister Secretary of State and of 'War, we have ordered, and do order what follows : Art. 1. The retiring from service belongs of right and withont any exception whatever, to Lieutenant Generals, Major Generals, superior officers of the staff and of corps, &e. who be on the first of Septi miter next in the 50th year of Omit service, or in the 35th year of their age ; and also those whom wounds or ihtirmitics render incapable of active service, the General and Staff Officers of Garrisons, who shall be at the.same period in the 34th )ear of their service, or Goth year of their age. Other Officers of the Statfor of sole inspectors of reviews, &c. who shall be in the .3111 year of their service, or 50th of their age. t`. The following may, on their own request or otherwise, be placed on the retired list, viz;—The Chief Inspectors, Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors of Reviews, Commissaries, and Officers of Health, who shall, on the Ist September, be in the 1311 i year of their service. General and Staff Officers of Garrisons in the 30th year of their service. Officers of the Staff and of Corps other than superior Officers, Sublhspectors of Reviews, Commissaries, Otfierrs of Health, &c. who shall be in the '2oth year of their sect ice. 3. the reined pay, according •to the number of year. of service fixed by the preceeding articles, shall be founded on the maximum of seniority. The time of service required shall be tlimini.lied by five years for Officers, Nlilitaty Adndnistrators, and others, who shall have reached the age pointed out fur Ott it class in article 1. 4. Those who, after having 'served ten years, shall he declared incapable of serving, shall obtain, whoever be their age one halt of the maximum of retired pay, except the SO% erity of their wounds entitle them to a higher pension in virtue ulour ordinance of the 17th of August, 1814. 3. Officers who have served less than tea year*, and whose wounds render them uhtil to serve longer, •Isall tcycive at their homes as a gratification o n e veal's p a y on the peace fOoling. - G. Officers who have aatlered amputation, awl arc employed in garrisons, or otherwise, excepting in the flaspital of invalid. and its collateral estapli•liments, snall all he, without exception, itttitled to retreat with the fullest allowance of their respective rank.. 7. Officers awl Military Administrators shall not be requited to prove two ycars'service in their present ranks to entitle them to the retired allowance of that rank. 8, Our Minister Secectary of State for the War Department will carry into effect these arrangements, in the interval between this date and the Ist of September, as far as regards the General an-51 Staff Officers of the runty, and the garrisows. and the y ministration. All other heads at branches shall carry the execution into ellect in their sevei al departments. 9. The arrangements specified above shall apply only to officers in actual employment on the Ist of July, 1315; and they shall cease to be available when the asmv shall be re-organized. The officer& who shall continue to he comlnved will be nattier' to t lti ii,ri th ; eir e F p f• cn retire- merit only on the scale of the established regulation', i to the conditions prescribed by them. All new arrangements of retired allowances, converted to full pay, or other arangements. chargeable on the funds of the army, shall be replaced on the former footing; nor can any maintainairee, but the retired allowance, he granted to ultirers ceasing to he employed. Thee wired allow. nitres cannot, in any instance exceed the maxi 11111111 established for their respective ranks. Peosions granted to witluws and orphans cannot exceed the litni!s fixed by our Ordinance:a the•l4th August, •• 1814. 10. From this date no demand of employment in our household trooos shall bv admissible, alter the person shall have set red , 20 years, or shall have at tante I the age of 50, ori,i 11. Neither shall any person who has served- abor • . )1, or k shove the age ut 60, he eligible for employment On .tlbn - - .~ ~ FB3