The National Register. — London, England, 1815-07-02 00:00:00

No. 599. POLITIC AL FISQUIS ..., . . . SECRET CAUSES OF BITO I; RTE'S SECOND sCA'ER. THROW. The glories reaped by our ilarriors have not proved barren. If they have cost us more blood, they have pro duced greater advantages than any triumph recorded in our history. At llockstedt and at Blenheimthe pride of the Great Monarch was quelled;the I3ourbobian dream cti universal empire dispelled, and the throne of the Lilies shaken, but not overthrown. The blow struck at Water loo has been felt with equal power at Paris, and whilst it broke the military force, it also destroyed the monarchy of Napoleon: After detailing his defeat; we enquired in our last, whether the French peoPle would continue to shed their blood in his cause for the ruin of their country ? That question was already decided. itt the trine our pen traced it, Napoleon had dropped the sceptre, .n second abdicatibn had relieved him from the terrdrs of dissolvin g empire, and the rights -Vainly transferred to his son; were left to the mercy of tumultuous parties. It may be said that investigation into the causes ot such might`• events is premature : that when a mountain giTes way, vtie must let the wide ruin settle, before we can yen. tare to explore its scattered fragments. This is corroct when the crash has riot been foreseen•; bait riot when trace . ; of impending destruction have previously been marked. • We have often stated, that high as Napoleen might *appear in dignity and in power, he was in a great measure the tool and the skive of a faction, who had raised him for interested purposes, 'and Would remove him as soon as they should find their strength equal to the enterprize• The occurrences of the last eVentful week have Conlin - fled that opinion, and we shall now unfold the reasons on which it is founded. Suspicion is the conAtant attendant of guilt. If par doned criminals could forget that they have offended, the'r conduct would prove them worthy of the forgiveness which they have obtained. But, conscious of the punish nick they deserve, they .eonider mercy as a mere sus pension of vengeance, vhich.policy may require, but whiCh cannot outlast its neressitv. Such was the situa tion of the Jacobin; ❑ocher Ow wild govcrnwcut I r a 1 lI, Nu. CCCXCiI. C . . - ^ IA- , Out Iting, Consigtutton, aub tabs. t: ,* PUBLISHED AT Sl'O. 14, NEWpASTLE-STREET, STRAND. eif Pt PRifeß fiet. • NAL REG . ISTralgit. • fti 446 4' T .14 UNDAY, .1 UI,Y 2, 1815. X VIII. They • retained their lives, and even their for tunes and their titles ; but they also retained the fatal re collection that they had voted the death of Louis XVI. They could not believe that the magnanimity displayed to wards them had any other source than policy, a sense of weakness, and a dread of rousing general alarm, by thl punishment of the chief criminals. Every step the Go vernment took towards Consolidation, seemed to them a presage of their ruin, and they had no doubt that wheat the hopes and differences of parties should have subsided, when the restored monarch shoed have enthroned him self in the affections of his subjects, he would cast off his assumed lenity, and let justice take the place of mercy. The time, they thought, was fast approaching, and they determined to anticipate its arrival, and rid themselves of their fi.ars by the overthrow of the reigning dynasty. Such zn enterprize could not he effected without the assistance of the army : but the army, they well knew, would not take up arms in their cause. They were men of no weight will the soldiery, who, accustomed to look up to princely honours as the reward of braveryt and talent, disliked and despised those Republicans who wished to abolish all titles and distinctions. The soldiers wouJd even rather have fought for the King, in case a revolution should have been attempted to create a Republic, than for those who con cealed the accomplishment of their private vi. , ws, under tho mantle of patriotism. The only means of securing their support was, therefore, to incite them to rise for a malt whose memory they still cherished, and whose return to the throne grey considered as connected with their own interest and glory. Napoleon was recalled, and the effect answered their expectations. Not a single regiment re mained faithful to Louis X.VIII. not a single hand was put forth to sustain his throne. This unanimity on the !.part of the military, created in the Jacobin-. fresh alarm. They felt that Na'poleon had also just grounds of comp!ait;t against them for their past pusillanimity and treachery, and they feared that if he regained his former power, he would both call them to account for their conduct, and prevent the execution of their plans of political freedom. They had imposed conditions on his recall, which he re fused to fulfil, when he found how warmly he was sop ported by the army and the population of the Eastern de -'pAstinents. A Rcpublit; was to have been formed and ha IV