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

NW THE NATIONA' points of the Southern coast—a circumstance already stated in all the papers. Some people assert that he has come too soon, and ought to have let the discontents of his former sub , jects ripen into a more regular and active substance : but he seems to have feared that the attachment of hia.friends might wear out, and the resentment of those who wet e displaced by the House of Bourbon might be gradually weakened; and he has thus been influenced to select the period of all others, when the passions which were likely to operate in his favour would he felt in their utmost force Nor are we to suppose that his partizans arc confined to the military, who have been checked is their career by the " restoration ;" or to the civil officers who have lost their employments. We roust add a third class, more power ful than either of those—the whole body of proprietors of. confiscated • estates, and of land holders deriving under the •revaution. Every man.of these is persuaded that the policy of the House of Bourbon is ulti mately. however cautiously, to oust them from their posses sions, and to reinstate their ancient o ncrs. They are, in a body, for Buonaparte—as arc the non-descripts of vat ious orders, who hate the ecclesiastics, and fear the return of tithes—who fear the revival of ancient pi ivileges and prero gatives, and therefore hate the noblesse-- , or who, in the en joyment of revblutionary ribbands and titles, feel themselves eclipsed and ridiculed by those of former ages ;—and theee fore would expel every species of eminence which did not belong to the revolution. For Louis, are the Chiefs of the army—the corps of royalists—the civil employes—the Nati onal Guards, whose general interests are those of tranquility and commerce—and the few at dent, enlightened, - and virtu ous lovers of constitutional freedom, whose business is medi tation mote than action; whose sphere is the closet, or the senate, not the field ; who can refute and vanquish the doc trines of arbitrary government, or shame away the panders of corruption ; and therefore prefer the most arduous combat with Ministers whom they reprobate, under a Monis-eh whom they respect, to the terror of lying mute and powerless under the bayonets of a military despot. Such appear the actual distribution of feeling at the present crisis amongst the peo ple of France,—and until events shall move forward to cor rect the errors of human reasoning, such are the ground works of the hopes and fears which offer themselves most fie quently to my imagination. Curiosity is on the rack to find out how Buoearatte could escape from the Island, with I British Commissionets and British frigates to attend him. Ingenuity is still more painfully at work, to guess why he was plaCed in a spot so dangerous; why its danger was so dread fulls enhanced by the abominable insults, injuries, and vio lations, offered to Italy, from Genoa to Naples; why, when fortuee had emptied all her treasures, and prodigally outran the most romantic wishes of her favourites, by putting the very existence of their terrible enemy at their own disposal, they thus perverted the over flowings of victory into a spring f fresh disaster, making the successsful conclusion of the late var, the engine of a new and immediate contest, instead of the foundation of a lasting peace—and gathering no better fruit from the valour of so many artniesrand the unobstructed svistrom of so many negociators, than a second crop of dart gets and political embairassments, which will cost another mass ofsubsidies and armies to resist ; and another Congress to work up into the materials of still further tense, ics. Bee tweets this prospect, and that of Wit- Corn Laws—and your rivalship with French matitsfactures—and your peace csta- Nishment of nineteen millions; turned into a war establish mew of thirty-six millionsand your new loans, and sub tidies, and the state or vour sinking fond, &c. &c. —we, who have stone of these good thing s atPasis," except ft mn tt) B 11 a most suiilind rem tribn, by the titan Buo- t ~j -♦ i 11;, 'Co /MOISTER. MARCH I§. naparte shall have handed us across the Channel. If any thing should arrive before the post hour to-morrow, 1 will resume my pen. _ SATURD - 12 o'cLocx.—lt is no longer time to specu late. Events have indeed overtaken us—and he who would keep pace with Buonaparte must borrow the wings of a de mon. On Wednesday last he reached Lyons at the head of only .600 horse. Monsieur and his staff retiring to Cler mont. Orders have been already issued to several regiments in Pat is by Marshal Davoust in Napoleon's name All in roar of Lyons is hi., own. A regiment at Antibes declared for " the Emperor ;" two at Briancon followed ; Iwo of in fantry, and the attillery of Grenoble joined the colours of Napoleon. i.e Comte de Labedoyere, with his regiment. was among the first to abandon the King's service. There is no doubt as to the extent and maturity of the organiza tion of this dreadful movement. At Orleans, on the Ist inst. it was universally reported that the King was dead, and that Buonaparte would come to succeed him. The consternation amongst the friends of Government at Palk beats all de scription ; the Palais-Royal, the Fasitbousgh, the coffee houses, &c. ringing with shouts of ferocious and vindictive joy, as in the wildest moments of the Jacobin revolution! deep gs id is painted in the eyes of every friend so peace and order; confusion and terror in every English c'.untenance; astonishment, mina led with a sort of desperate incredulity, in those whose plans of We for themselves and their fami lies are thus on the point of annihilation for ever. Buonaparte is said to offer a general pardon, excepting qnly Au clean, who called him a coward :—Marmont, whose convention saved Pads from being but nt ;—and another, whose name is reported differently. Sault was tried by a Council of War, at 4 o'clock on Thursday, and cashiered; though orders are still issued in his name. Two o'CLocK.—We go frenn bad to worse. Buonapatte has traversed the country with an escort seldom exceeding half a dozen men, Le Comte de Boutilliers, Prefect of the Var, bad written almost daily to the Abbe de Montesquiea for the last two months, to apprise him of the comtuunica tions going on with Elba, and requiring orders bow to act. The sagacious minister paid no attention to his letters. The legislative bodies are all in confusion, only think of such a time to impeach the whole of the King's Ministers. But the Ministers are in equally good condition :---only think again that five out of six of these ministers are natives of Provence, which is full of their connexions, and that not an individual of them had received, or at least had listened to, any news of what was passing and preparing, in their own country until the government couriers arrived, five days after the fact. THREE O'CLOCK.—The greater part of Mai chand's d:- vision turned out to join Buonaparte :—the General, in at tempting to recal them to. their duty, was mortally wound•ed by his own soldiers. -Buonaparte, it is said, has got possession at Grenoble of 150 pieces of cannon. Ile rode into the town with an escort of only two men. I have just been assured at the Thuilleries that the sets off to night, whether towards Flanders or La Vendee is not yet made public. SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 10 O'CLOCK A. hit.—The King has chaaged his mind, and does not yet move The Duke de Berri marched last night with two regiments of cavalry, to at tack Lefebvre Desnouettes, who has the command of a corl.s of.Soo horse, a few leagues to the north of Paris. Disposed as the other troops have shown themselves, we expect the re sult of this enterprise of the gallant Prince, with a melan choly inquietude between compassion and despair. A fatality or in other word:, an inconeeivablestupidity---may we not say at once, the basest treachery —has hung upon the royal Cause front the tirA inomea,l 0 tlYs invasiou. When the ... • -