The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-03-27 00:00:00

,r war was coming right before the vied, in the track of the brig. At six o'clock in the evening, the brig. which had on board the Emperor, met with a 1)6,1, which was recognised to be i.e Zephir, com manded by Captain Andrieux, an officer di.tinguished a. much by his talents as by his true patriotism. It was proposed to speak the brig, and cause it to hoist the tri-coloured flag. The Emperor, however, gave orders to the soldiers of the guard to take off their caps and conceal themselves on the deck, preferring to pass the brig without being recognized, and re serving to himself the mensure of causing the Hag In he changed, if obliged to have recourse to it. The two brigs passed side by side. The Lieutenant de Vaisseau Taillade, an officer of the French marine, was well acquainted with Captain Andrieus, and from this circomstatice.was disposed to speak him.— Ile asked Captain Andrieux, if be had any com- sniscions for Genoa, some pleasantries were ex • Changed, and the two brigs, going contrary ways, were soon nut of sight of each other, without Cap. tain A ndrieux haying the least knowledge of who was on board this frail vesiel. During the night between the 27th and 28th, the Wind continued fresh. At break of day we ob s,,r% ed a 71 gun-ship, which seemed to be making for St. Florent, or Sardinia. We did not fail to per- Ceive that this vessel took no notice of the brig. The 48th, at seven in the morning, we discovered the coast of Noli ; at noon Antibes ; at three on the Ist of March we entered the Gulph of Juan. The Emperor ordered that a Captain of the guard, esith 25 men, should disembark, before the troops in the brig, to secure the battery en the coast, if any oae". as there. This Captain took into his head the idea of causing to be changed the cockade of the battalion which was at Antibes. Ile imprudently threw himself into the place ; the officer who com manded for the King caused the draw-bridges to be drawn up, and shut the gates ; biti troop took arms, but they respected these old soldiers, and the cockade which they cherished. This operation, however, of the Captain failed, and his men remained prisoners at Antibes. • At five is, the afternoon the disembarkation in the Golph of Juan was effected. We established a bi vouac on the sea-shore until the moon rose. At elms at night the Emperor placed himself at the head of bib handful of brave men, to whose fate `leas attached such high destinies. He proceeded to Cannes, from Thence to Crane, and by St. Vallier; he arrived on the evening of the 2d at the village of Uretion, Iwviug advanced 20 leagues in the course of the first day. The people of Cannes received the Emperor with senrments which were the first presage of the ..necess of ti.. en:orprize. The 3d the Ewp.•ror slept at Bareme ; the 4th be dined at Digne. From Caste Mine to Digne, and throughout the department of the Lower AlpS, the peasants informed of the march of the Emperor as sembled from all sides on the route, sand manifested their sentiments with an energy that left no longer any doubt. The sth, General Camhronne, with an advanced guard of 40 gtetiadiers, seized the bridge and the for tress •f Sisteron. The some day the Emperor slept at Gap, with 10 wen on horseback and 40 grenadiers. The enthusiasm which the presence of the Emperor inspired amongst the inhabitants of the Lower Alps, the hatred which they evinced to the Noblesse, suffi ciently proved what was the general wish of the Pro. since of Dauphine. At two in the afternoon of the 6th, the Emperor set oat from Gap, accompanied by the whole popu. lotion of the town. At Saint Bonnet the inhabitants seeing the small number of his troop, had fears, and proposed to the Emperor to sound the tocsin to assemble the villages, and accompany him en masse ;—" No," said the Emperor, 44 your sentiments convince me that I am not deceived. They are to me a sure guarantee of the sentiments of my soldiers. Those whom I shall meet will range themselves on my side, the more there is of theta the more nay success will be secured. Re main, therefore, t 'anvil at home." A: Cap werP ',rioted several thousand Proclama: tions, addressed by the Emperor to the army, and to the people, and from the soldiers of the guards to their comrades. `Deese Proclamations were spread, with the rapidity of lightning throughout Dauphina. The same day the Emperor tame to sleep at Gory. The 40 men of the advanced guard of General Cm: bronne went to s!eep at More. They fell in with the advanced guard of a division of 6000 men, troops of the line, who had come from Grenoble to atiost their march. General Cambronne wished to' 'peak wrth the advanced posts. Ile was answered that they were prohibited from communicating with him. This ad vanced giant!, however, of the division of Grenoble, fell back three Legge's, and took a position be tween the lakes at the village of . The Emperorbeiuglubstatedof. this circumstances went to Cie place, end found there a battalion - of the btb of the lino: a company of sappers; a company of miners, in all from sever to eight hundred men.— Re sent an °nicer of ordeance, the beef d'Escadron Road, to make known to ` these troop<" thfintelligence of his arrival, but that officeecould not obtain A hear ing, the prohibition being itill orgerlagainst : having any communication. The Emperor alighted and went to the right of the battalion, followed by the guard with their arms reversed. He made himself known, and said that the first soldier who wished 'to kill his Emperor might do it; an Unanimous cry of Vioe r!i'mpercur was their answer. This brave Re giment had been under the orders of the Emperor 'from his first campaign in Italy. The guartland•the soldiers embraced. The soldiers of the sth immediately tore off their cockade, and requested withenthusiasm and tears in their eyes, the tri-coloured cockade. When they were emirate(' in order of battle, the Emperor said to them—" ?' l come with a handful of brave men, because I reckon on the people and on you—the throne of the Bourbons is illegimate, because it has not been raised by the nation, it is contrary to the na-' tional will, because it is contrary to the interests of our country, and exists only for the interest of a few families. Ask your fathers, ask all the inhabitants who arrive bare from the environs, and you will learn from their own moyths the true situation of affairs; th.y are ineitacetrWith the return of tithes, of privi-, loges, of feudal rights, and of all the abuses froth which your successes had delivered them. Is it net . 'toe peasants:" --" Yes, Sire," answered all of them, ~~ I i 11IE I'AT ESMA N. . , with an unanimous cry," they wish to dais es to the oil ways surrounded by the people of the neighbouring soil— you come as the angel of the Lord to save us." districts. He expeteHs4.l his astenishmentto the natives. The brave soldiers of the bartalion of the sth de- of Macon at the slight efforts they inside in the last mantled to march the foremost in the division that co- war to defend themselves against the enemy, and sup er.' ed Grenoble. They commenced their march in port the honour of Burgundy. " Sire, Why did you th e midst of a crowd of inhabitants, which aug- appoint a bad Mayor?" merited every moment. Vizille distinguished itself At Tournies the Emperortha only praises to bestow by its enthusiasm. " It seas here that the Revolt' , I upon the inhabitants, for their ekcellent behaviour tion was born." said these brave people. 64 It was iand patriotism, which under'the same Circumstances we who were the first that ventured to claim the have distinguished Tournies, Chalons, and St. Jean. • privileges of men ; it is again here that French Ii- i de-Lone. At Chalons, which during4odays resisted betty is resuscitated, and that France recovers her i the force of the enemy, and defended the passage of honour and her independence." the Saone, the Emperor took notice of all the in ! Grenoble the same evening. Between Vizille and Fatigued as the Emperor was, he wished to enter stancs of 'alone; and not being able to - visit St. Jean-de-Lone, he sent the decoration of the. Legion of Honour to the worthy Wayne of that city. On Grenoble, the young Adjutant Major of the 7 th of the line, came to announce that Colonel Labedoyere, that occasion the Empe r o r e xc l a i me d, " It i s f or you • deeply disgusted with the dishonour which covered brave people, that I have i ns tit u t e d th e L eg i on o f Honour, and not for emig r ant s p ens i o n e d by our ene - France, and actuated by the noblest sentiments, had , detached himself from the division of Grenoble, and miss te• had come with the regiment by a forced march, to iThe Emperor received at Chaloivs the deputation of meet the Emperor. Half an hour afterwards this the town of Dijon, who came to drive from among brave regimeut doubled the force of the Imperial . them the Prefect and the wicked Mayor, who during troops. At nine o'clock in the evening the Emperor ; the last campnign, had dishonoured Dijon and its in made his entry into the Faubourg de —. ! . habitants. The Emperor removed this Mayor, and The troops had.re-entered Grenoble, and the gates . appointed another, confiding the command of the di. of the city were shut. The ramparts which defend vision to the brave General Devaux. the city were covered by the 3d regiment of engineers, On the 15th the Emperor slept at stilton, and consisting of 2000 sappers, all old soldiers covered from Arthur he went to Avelino , and slept there on with honourable wounds; by the fourth of artillery , the n ig ht ' of the 16th. He found upon this road the of the line, the same regiment in which, 25 years be- ' re fore, the Emperor bad been a Captain ; by the two ,same sentiments as among the mountains o f Dau other battalions of the sth of the line , by the 11th of PilinY' He re-established in their o ffi ces all the the lbw, and the faithful hussars of the 4th. I functionaries who had been depri v ed f or h av i ng I united to defend their country against foreigners.— The National Guard and the whole population of I The inhabitants of Chiffey had been peculia r ly th e Grenoble were placed in the rear of the garrison, and object of persecution by an upstart . Sub-prefect et all made the air ring with shouts of Five l'Emperear.' ! Semur, for having taken up arms against the enemies They opened the gates, and at ten at.night the Em of our country. The Emperor gave orders to a peror entered Grenoble, in the midst of an army and ! brigadier of Gendarmerie to arrest this Sub-prefect, a people animated by the most lively enthusiasm. . and to conduct him to the prison'of A.:allon. The next day the Emperor wds addressed by the ' Municipality and all the Departmental Authorities.' On the 17th, the Emperor breakfasted at Ver ! wanton, and went to Auxerre, whe r e the Prefect The Military Chiefs and the Magi s t r ates wer e unit e niinous in their sentiments. All said that Princes i remained faithful to his post. The noble 14th had trampled under foot the white cockade. Th e Ern imposed by a foreign force were not l eg itimate any en- peror, likewise heard, that th e 6th reg i men t o f Princes, and that they were riot bound by gagernent to Princes for whom the nation had no . lancers bad likewise mounted the t r i- co l oure d wish. I cockade, and was gone to Montereau to protect that At two the Emperor reviewed the troops, i n t h e : point againsf a detachment of the body- g u ar d, who i . wished to pass it. The young men of this midst of the population of the whole d e pa r tment, body shouting A bar les Bourbons, a bat les c n n e m i s d u 'guard, unaccustomed to the e ff ec t s o f l ancers , t oo k night on the first appearance o f this corps, which people, Woe l 'Emperear, et an Guavernement de ' noire choir. The garrison of Grenoble immediately made two prisoners. • afterwards put 'itself in a forced march to advance 1 At Auxerre, Count Bertrand, Major-General, I Istem Lyons. gave orders to collect all the boats to embark the It is a remark that has not escaped observers, that . army, which was already four divisions strong, and every one of these t;',,00 men, provided with a tie- to convey them the same night to Fossard, so 'that Itionel cockade, and each with an old and used cockade, they would be able to arrive at one o'clock in the for in discontinuing their tri-coloured cockade, they morning at Foritainbleau. bad hidden it at the bottom of their knapsacks: not ' Before lie left Auxerre the Emperor was re-joined 1 i one was purciroed, at least in Grenoble. It is the by the Prince of NI osh wa. This Marshal had mounted ' ! same, said they, in passing before the Emperor, it is the tri-coloured cockade am ong ell the tracers under ! the same shut we wore at Austerlitz. This, said the his , :ooltunrid. ! others, we had at Marengo. i The Emperor reached Fontainbleau on the 20th, The 9th the Emperor slept at Bourgoing. The at four o'clock in the morning. At seven o'clock crowd and the enthusiasm with it, if possible, ie. he learned that the Bourbons had left Pars, arid creased. 44 We have expected you a long time," that the capital was free. He immediately bet off said these brave people to the Emperor, " you have thither, mid a , nine o'cleck at night he eotered the at length arrived todeliver France from the insolence Thuilleries, at the moment e!.sir he was least ex- of the Noblesses, the pretensions of the priests, and pected. the shame of a foreign yoke." From Grenoble to" Thus has terminated without the shedding of one ; Lyons the march of the Emperor was nothing b u t a drop of blood, vv ithout the finding of a single oh triumph. The Emperor fatigued, was in hiscarriage, Mole, this legitimate enterprize which has re-este- ! going at a low pace, surrounded by a crowd of . blished the nation in its rights, and in its glory, and peasants, singing songs, which expressed to all the has effaced that blot which treason and the presence Noblesse the sentiments ofthe brave Dauphinois.— of a foreigner had cast upon the capital : thus is . i " Ah," said the Emperor, " I find here the seriti- i verified that part of the Address of the Emperor to ! mews which for 20 years induced me to greet France his soldiers, that " the eagle with the national no. e ith the name of the Grand Nation; yes, you are still lours, shauld fly from steeple to stetple, even to the l the Grand Nation, and you shall always be so." , towers of Notre Dame." I 4 The Count d'Artois, the Duc d'Orleans, and se- 1 to 18 days the fine battalion of the Guard has ! r t veral Marshals had arrived at Lyons. Money had freed the space between the Gulf of Juan and Paris, ; . beets. distributed to the troops, and promisei to the a distance which, in ordinary times, would have re.; i Officers. They wished to break down the bridge de quired 45days for its accomplishment. la Guillotiere, arid the bridge Moraud. The tin.i. Arriving at the gates of Paris, the Emperor beheld peror smiled at these ridiculous preparations.—lle approaching to meet him the whole army, under the could have no doubt of the disposition of the Lyon- . orders of the Doke de Berri; officers, soldiers * ge nois, still tins of the disposition of the soldiers.— - nerals, light infantry, infantry of the line, lancers, slit gave orders, however, to General Bertrand to dragoons, cuirassiers, all came in front of their Ge -1 aiseisble the boats at Misbel, with the intention of : neral, whom the choice of the people and the vows passing in the night, and intercepting the roads o f i of the army had raised to the empire, and the tri i °alias and of Macon, to the Prince who wished t o coloured cockade was mounted by every soldier that I I prevent him from passing the Rhone. At four a re- had it in his knapsack. All trampled under foot connoiaance of the 4th hussars arrived at la Guillo. that white cockade, which, during 25 years, has been tiere,. and were wceived with shouts of Vine l'Eon. the rallying signal of the enemies of France, and of perenr ! by the immense population of a faubourg the people. which is st;'l distinguished by its attachment to the On the 21st, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the 'cuuntry. The passage at Misbel was countermanded,, ! Emperor held a review of all the troops that corn end tine Emperor advanced at a gallop upon Lyons , , posed the army of Paris. The whole capital wit. i , ' . at the head uf Alm troops which were to have defended , 'nested the sentiments of enthusiasm and attachment it against him. i that animated these brave soldiers. All had re ! The Count &Artois had done every thing to secure conquered their country—all had escaped from op ilfirielabps. —lle was ig!rorant that nothing is possible ' pression !—All found in the national colours the re in France to air agent of a foreign Power, and o n e membranee of every generous sentiment that has who is not on the side of national honour and the always distinguished the'French nation ! After the cause of the people. Passing in front of the 13th Emperor had passed through the r anks, all th e t roo p s regiment of drageons, he said to a brave soldier co. ` :were ranged in square battalions. Wel ill with scars and dec or ated w ith three•clierrons, " Soldiers," said the Emperor, 64 I arrived in let us mare ccigkeigk, shout, therefore, nee le France with 600 men, because I calculated upon the .Roit " No, goilierir;" replied this brave dragoon, love of the people, and on the remembrance of the yes ." no soldier will lielt inst his father. I can on ly te ran soldiers. I was not deceived in my expectation. ! answer you by c r yi rive l'Ep nereur!" The Soldiers ! I thank you: Gl or y like th a t w hi c h we f ( a ' Count D'Artois mom ed his carriage and quitted • ere about to acquire is every thing to the peosle, arid Lyons, escorted ' by a single Geri d'Arme. ;to you! My g l or y is, th a t I h ave known an valued 'i ' At nine o'clock at night the Emperor traversed the you! • Guillotiere almost alone, but surrounded by an im- . " Soldiers, the Throne of the Bourbons was ille- Mense population. i gitimate, because it was built by the hands of The following day, the Ilth, he reviewed the: straugers, because it was proscribed by the vow of whole division of Lyons, and the brave Gea. brayer ! the nation declared in all our Aiationai As - eenhlies ; at their head, put them in march to advance upon the because, in short, it offered a guarantee only to •tbe capital. interests of a few men whose arrogant pretensions The sentiments Which the lehtbitants of this great were opposed to our rights. Soldiers, the Imperial. city and the peasants of the vicinity, during the space Throne can only secure the rights of the people, and of two hours, evinced towards the Lepers*, so above all the first of our interests—our glory !---r - Sol- I touched him, that it was impossible for him to es- diets, we are now to march to hunt from our territory press his feelings otherwise than by sayi n g, " People. •these Princes auxiliaries to strangers ; the nat i on s of Lyons, I love you." This was the second time will not only second us in our protestations, but wilt that the acclamations of this city had been the pre. follow 'our impulse. The French people and I cal. sage of new destinies reseried for France. alai, upon you. We will n o t i n t er f ere w ith t h e On the 13th, at three in the afternoon, the Em- . affairs of foreign nations, but woe to those who shall peror arrived at Viltefranche, 4 little team of 1000 . '3.'0;1m with ours!" , souls, which included at thet moment more then This speech wan received with acclamations by the 60,000. He stopped at theliotel de Ville. A'gritat people and soldiery. • number of wounded soldiers were 'presented to M 1AI( 'Aft instant afterwards Gen. Cambronne and the Ile entered Macon at seven o'clock in the evening, officers of the guard of the battalion of the Isle of Elba appeared, With the ancient eagl The Emperor con ti nue d, and said to " 'fnese•are the Officers of the ha accompanied me in my misfortunes my friend. Thoy are dear to my time I beheld them, they brought be.l different regiments of the army, for r noble fellows are men from every have recalled to my memory those which even the memory is so den all covered with honourable scars gained ble battles! In loving them, it W.: the whole French army that I loved you back your Eagles. Let them ser point ! In giving them to the guard, the whole army. " Treason and unhappy events h• with a melancholy veil, but thanic people and to you, (hay now re-appe; all their glory !—Swear that they wherever the interest of the•coutit them! That traitors and those w our territory, shall never be able sight !" • " We swear it !" cried every soldi of enthusiasm. The troops then deli!, of music, the hands playing—." Vedi c l'Empereur !" This day the Emperor reviewed of cavalry of the corps of the Count 4th Hussars, the first regiment that Imperial Eagle. Having reviewed the divisions of and Bachelor, the Emperor spoke to had formed themselves into a circle the troops marched off with acclamai times repeated of Vire l'Entpereur' His Majesty afterwards entered t:. gaged himself with the Generals and filled the apartments, and who ars ar meet in the capital to offer their services vereign. Decree of the 21st instant, appointed the Doke de Viceoce Mioi Affairs. NATIt)NAL GUARD NOTICE. " Upon all subjects that relate Guard at-Paris, the General Count is to be addressed as Commander i iwial Tourtou, as Chief of the Stal C uard. " Upon all subjects that respect Guards of the Departments, his E ulster of the Interior is to be addres! (lent office of the Staff 11Iajor of the of France, they will be engaged or that concern it, and other objects of silent until the 20th of March. PAnts, MARCH 21.—Iiis &Nem and King, bra Decree of the WO, ink Genera! Carnot a dlstinguisbil Fait isfactinu. for the defence of Antw, him Count. of the Empire. By a Decree of the same date; Gel has been named Minister. or the Inv By a Decree of the came date, the created by the Ordonaboe of the 9th abolished. The volunteers of the same body bodies from which they were drawn, The equipments shill he restored from which they were taken. Another Decree of the some date. traortiinary Session of the General D.l)a r I men IP, convoke/114 the Ordoi March, to cease; end all the instrocti given to them are annulled. Directions are giving for holding the Long Champs, and for regulating ' just in the some manner as in the time perfect tranquillity. This great fete the 2211, 23d, and 24th inst. with al eclat. 'l'he Dowager Duchess of Orleans The inscription on the front of hundred Swiss, destined to the lmpei placed by the words " Quarticr tics MARCH 22.—A Commission, CM! Bassani), the Comte Deferment, Boalt de St. Aujely, were occupied in digest State. The Empress Maria Louisa, and son, will arrive at Paris on the 4th of The Comte de Montesquiou is al superior command of the National G , General of Division IA Harpe, is wander of all the troops of the lisle They are now effacing on all the nn all the establishments the inscripi which recal to our eyes the late Gov( Immediately after the departure of the Thuilleries en Sunday night, there immense quantity' of papers burnt, chimnies caught fire, but it was soon The bust in bronze of the Etopero, the gate of the Museum, and in Ii bust crowned with laurel is placed au the School of Medicine; and in like emblems of the Emperor are to be rei There was a banquet on the 22d rateur, Mint's, of an hundred cove, Generals, Colonels, and other sui most of them on half-pay. Couplet the hero, dear to their hearts, wer' rited the most lively enthusiaam. T' l'Pmveretir was given with en rst %hit+ they have not felt nor Witneio r . .t.drAll the merchant% rejoice that the! :obliged to shut their shops on Sunda , no Inttgorbe shackled, and the wort no other day bat this to coke his I will no longer he obliged to sacrifil time, devoted to labour, far this purl I'rice of the Funds on the '22d, 7. The annual income of the Marsha► r t,tITE, accompanied with all the prii circumstance of war, was upward: it-year,. English money. Their incur did not exceed 90001. a-yesr, rot4noN • Primost sewl istsblialw4 by D IhraTzsrhy Orrice, 87, F:at4 - • , • , ent eagles oT the paid, said to the soldie r :„_ f the battalion %lilt inq 'ortunes. Erery Milli is to my heart I : Is e " ught before my eyes th fy, for among these filth f every regiment. Th ey those glorious days of so dear, for they ar e ;cars gained in memo, h . n, it was you, soldie rs• t i ltern l"edt serve a'srialeryalll;li4 se guard, 1 give them to vents have covered then, thinks to the French re-appear, glitterin g i t , .t they shall be pre;?..t e • country may require hose who would invad e c able to endure their cry soldier, with a bent he n defiled to the sound • leillons au sets de iewed several regiments Count de Valmy and the at that rallied round the one of Generals Brayer coke to Cm Officers, who circle round him, and . acclamations a thousand 1 vreur!" tered the Palace, and en. ierals and Officers, who to are arriving every mo. teir services to their So- a a. nstant, his Majesty has • ice Mioister for Fortiga WARD. E. relate to the National Count de Montesquine ender in Chief, and Ge- f the Staff of the said q t respect the National his Excellency the Mi.' addressed. At the an- of the National Gear& aged only opals matters ro ects of interior arrange. r. Majesty the Emperor e 20th, desirous of giv. lgulshing mark of his Antwerp, has named ste,'Clen.Coant.Carnot hi ' be Interior. te r . the Natio:lel Guard ' the • 9th of Msrelt,As Ls body shall re-eater the drawn. stored to the etagasines di! le slate, orders the et. r eneral Councils of the aei Ordonanceinf the 1110 eh. instructions and powess wk siding the promenade of s oh ulating the procession, all the time of the most in Pat fete took place on with all its customary irleans remains at Paris. ant of the Hotel of the or e Imperial Gafford, is re. wit 1!.-; icr des Brow." n, composed o f Dec de fro t, Boulay, and Regnaud n digesting a Council of ate Pt' and the Prince, her e 4th of April. 5:4 1 lOU is appointed to the !ional Guard of Pari4. ai m srpe, is appointed Com. set, le lisle in Paris. all the hsonuinents anti ; inscriptions and sign, to Government. Pm lore of the King from ha , th•• mut .7( 1 4 ,11a h se t eis , n; l 0l h ani e bk re oeevxe w mt i l ti l aht s greiunigesirh;e:ll: sire t b . : l 7 )e t :or th i a s t re o p n l e a su c o:f: in like manner, all tae In be replaced. f t he 22d at the 'IPSO''' . hi( eel ed covers, cninpoierle,l r. titer suprrior Office , ate Couplets in honour 0L ooi „ a, were sung, end es' c o . 'gm. The cry of fiatnra an expression of .1 0 Y T, witnessed for a 130 g o ur „ e hat they are no lour tv ' Sundays. Trade w i ll Ne !:2 workman, who •ws :oho .i • 0 hi: li tt l e purchases, if oun sacrifice a part of his s o his purpose. ,frt, 731. ali t ' id larshals ander BOY . 1". lo e the pride, Pornr - upwards of 3 .- ..0u it inM by c a-yearome, . .