The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-03-22 00:00:00

I F i •t, in like manner, quitted th e 0-q r . !net . Atl it, sflicers remained ;• the nto , 'i,factio the st.:.iier, s monao t. 'end: ••• brapar. At five o. 4 1 , ~r. r. ler! , r rai: ri}ige la Guillotiere, • • the Emperor. A t half-past six, y which 'rom Grerrohle bega.nlisis es A it t ra s s e t y c e e u 0,00 14: k ali; !.! , t 7!t a e nt s s am ot e i ac y cla ; ,ad on the happiness of again sees.- . oc. ,, ssislng the cniperor of .he French, and of ..t:ittono. et: ho new rtrks of their fidelity and affection. A,t,-I.lv this rat monarch, always indefatigaial.: i.• 4c , , r ic ,„,i e d with his good city of Lyoftit, on lie I nc to heap new benefits. He will review b. ,:my i„ t h e morning; and we know that several re titeents will arrive this evening within our walls,. t o order to join their brethren in arms. In our next n , l „,h er we shall give the addresa which Count r,rgues, the Mayor of Lyons, has this moment caused t o 1:00 basted up, and in which the Lypuese recognise Cie true expression of their sentiments. We stall 2 1 ; 0 g;ve other interesting documents, which want ef room prevents us from inserting in this first num hJr. GRENOBLE, MARCU 9, EFLtTION Or TOE EVENTS WHICH DATE PASSED AT cduNolitE, SINCE THE 4Til OF MARCH. estafette who crossed through the city on the n ight of the 3d and 4th had attracted and occupied the public attention. A courier who arrived on the 4th exeitcd it still more; and next day it was ut.ireretlly known that the Emperor had landed on eh.. Ist of Match, near Frejus; that he was aceom psqied by his faithful guards: that he at first oc cupied Grasse; and from the 2,1, had proceeded tonards the Upper Alps. Successive accounts no loner left a doubt that he meant to make our city the pee of his first residence. A numerous garrison was there assembled. The brave soldiers who must have found campanions in glory in the same guards which brought back Na polenn, at first hesitated whether they should consider them as enemies, and this first thought of their hearts became the rule of their conduct. Some attempts to engage them in an enterprise, in which those who ve t e elisrged to give the orders, probably only joined with regret, were unavailing; and appeared to obtain en success. Ihe garrison was augmented ; the 7th an d 11th regiments of the line arrived on the 7th from Chambrey ; the 41h hussars soon after entered the cite, quitting the garrison of Vienne. The whole population crew Hell to the ramparts and public places, led by their willies and hopes. • The Emperor was at IA More on the evening of the 6th; early on the 7th, his advaticed posts occupied Vitille; this last town being only three leagues from Grenoble, it was not doubted that his Majesty would eater it toe same day. His entrance was too long delayed for tare wishes of his soldiers; at•foue in the afternoon the '7th regi mens Weilt out of the town, having at head Colonel !leery de la Hreleyer, who ran to offer the Emperor person and his regiment. • A party of the sth had already joined his Majesty the same day, live leagues in advance from the city; and the rest of the garrison no longer held out. — Night arrived,and the result of••these events appeared to be postponed till the next day, when at half-Nst eight, all advanced guard of Polish lancers . made their appearance at the Bonne gate, which was shut, sad demanded that it should be op:med. The troops occupying the ramparts, answered with shouts of rice Empereur! the gate was opened; the ad raced-guard entered ; all the citizens flocked out to the light of flambeaux, and almost imniedintely the Emperor appeared alone, at the head, and in ad vance of his army. An immense crowd threw them selves in his way ; all were mixed, soldiers and citi zens, and all mingled their shouts and their enttiu 7 . si:lstn, inspired by the presence of their Sovereign,— Li Majesty proceeded to the Hotel of the Three beophinc, which the multitude constantly surround ed, rending dui air with their joyful shouts. The Mayor of the city, and several other politic func tionaries, immediately waited on his Majesty. At the same moment She following proclamation was dis persed through all quarters of the city : Be,• of Joan, March 1,.181b. NArorrom, by the grace of God awl the Constitu tion of the Empire, Emperor of the• French, &c. dc. Sm. TO THE PRF.NCII PEOPLE. FRENCIISIRN !—The defection of the Duke of Castiglione delivered up Lyons, without defence, to our enemi es; th e arms , of which I confided to him the command, was, by the number of its battalions, the bravery and patriotism of the troops svllich corn posed it, fully able to beat the Antriait corps op peed to it, and to get into the renr•of the, left wing of the enemy's army, which threatened Paris. The limories of Champ Aldred, of M out mirail, of Chatea u Thierry, of Vauchamp, of Mormons, of Monteresa, of Craone, of !Minis, of Aray.sur. l Auhe, and of St. Dizier the rising of the blots pea.anis of Lorraine, of Champagne, of Alsace, of F'sllehe Comte, and of Courgoitt, and the position nikh I had token on the rear of the enemy's army,' /) separating it from its magazines, from its parks or reserve, born its convoys and all its equipages, Lad placed it in a desperate situation.. .The Freoch were never on the point of bring more powerful, and the dower of th o enemy's army was lost ;without re. source: it w o uld b a s e (mind its grave in those vast countries which it had mercilessly ravaged, when the s n'n'oa of the Duke of Ragusa gave up the capital an d disorganised the army. The unexpected comfort of those two Generals who betrayed at . once . their their Prince, and their benefactor, changed the destinv of th e war. Ter disastrous situation of the enemy was such, that atythe conclusion of the affai r which took place befor@ Pavia; it was without ammunition, on account of its separation fro,ts its parks of reserve. Under these new and important circenistances, my heart was rent, hut my soul remained unshaken. I consulted only the interest of the country. I exiled *mil on a rock in the middle of the sea. My life "I I and ought to be, still utefel to you. I did not, prsmit the great number of citizens, who wished to are :Nutty me, to partake my lot. I thought their, tv4efill to France ; and I took with me only ;.,,trot of brave men, necessary for my gbard. ii ;,ell to the Throne by )our choice j 'all that has THE STATESMAN: 'l, tin done without you is illegitimate. For 25 years silts has had new interests y new inititetieus,' and r glory, whickeneld only bewared by a national jrivegornenti•aild. %Oil. Dynasty created under these new .eirannstancei l A 'Prince who 'should reign over, who should be seated on my throne by the power of those Der; armies which' ravaged our terri. tory, would in 'vtiin atteinpt to support himself with, the prineiplea offends! Jaw 3 he would not be able to recover the honour and the rights of more than a imailnnettsgr of indivicimals,.enemies.of the people, • *, - for - 2 51eirs condemned' theM in all mkt Anal - reurtnidesillisi at home, and •r eonsigiatiltrialiroati, wouldbe Witt for ever. Feettcniscwl—ln •My exile I heard your com plaints and yopr Avishes; you demanded that Go. vernmeut.of your chnime,which alone was legitimate, , You accnied L mx longCluniber : you reproached tae for sitrigcing to my rtpose the great interests of the Caen*: • " • •* • I have crossed the sets in the midst of dangers of every kind : I arrive amongst you to resume my rights, which are /our's. All that individuals have done, written, “or said, since the capture of Paris, I will be for, ever ignorant of : it shall not at all in fluence the recatlectlotis which I preserve of the im portant services Which 'fitey'have performed. There 'are,circumstances of. arch a eaters as to be above bUtiilll3 04433jAalioii. ' FRA/1F4114311--,- c there it no nation, however small it may be , • whichlas not had the right, and which may not - withdraw itself from the disgrace of obey. ing a Prince imposed oil it by an enemy momentarily victorious. When Charles VII. re-entered Paris, and overthrew the ephemeral throne of Henry V.; he acknowledged that he held his throne from the valour of his heroes, and not from a Prince Regent of England. It is thus that to you alone, and to the brave men of the army, I account it, and shall always account it, my glory to owe everything. By the Emperor, (Signed) NAPOLEON. The Grand Marshal performing the functions of Major.Getteral of the grand Army, ' (Signed) Count BERTRAND. Yesterday, the Bth, the Emperor worked all the morning, and received the Municipal Body. His Majesty held a genera retiew, which lasted from eleven till four o'cloCk, and afterwards received the Imperial Court, the Clergy, the Council of the Pre fecture, the Civil and Commercial Tribunals, the I Academy, the Staff, the Officers of the Suite, and other Civil and Military F.nctionaries. A number of citizens heard from : his Majesty's mouth, the expression of the satisfaction which he condescends to testify, and received the assurance of his devoted ness to the happiness and prosperity of France. The Emperor has, in some measure, laid open the bottom of all his thoughts, by repeating :—We must forget that we have been the, matter: of nations— my tights are only those of the people—every thing that individual: may have done, said, or written, since the capture of Paris, I shall always be igno rant of. In the different audiences granted . by his Majesty, he has declared his full conviction; that• the destinies of France could only be fulfilled-hr the home of t liberal Government.; that the French . were born to furnish the E.:ample eta nation happy by , the conser ' ratios of equality, "of r l g hti; Ind dudes'. Ills Ma jesty enquired with particular selicitide into the state of the peasantry, and vaid, "lE ematrio banish from them' for ever the recollections of the feudal system of servitude to the suit; I bring them nothing bet benefits." Every where on his route, since he left the Isle of Elba, the Emperor has found only submission, re spect, and devotedness. All the departments he had traversed have flocked around hie eagles; and this second -return to Frenchmen, as unexpected es r that which brought him from the sands of-410o t has sf. forded his Majesty .a new oppostunfly of collecpng the homage of their admiration and love. The Prussians have approached Thi on vill e , w hi c h r ihey will respect, if Bonaparte is dettroyed ; but they will infallibly attack it, if he should succeed. The Austrians on the side of Geneva have equally assumed the same military attitude, and with the same intentions. N. B. A new Messenger, inbred front 'Vienne this morning, announces, that the Emperor Alex ander has declared that, to cause the Treaty. of Paris to be respected, he *ill put In march six hun dred thousand men. On the lt2rh, the Austrian ar mies were in march for Italy and France. On the 16th, the Prussian,' Bavarian, and Wirtemberg ar mies were to be' equally on their march. Prince Eugene Betiubarnois declared 'at the Congress, that he would he the first to march igainst Bonaparte, the violator of treaties. The Duke of Wellington is named Generalissimo of the European Armies. PARIS, MARCH 18.—The Prefect of Lyons repairs ed this, evening to the King to announce to him that that city had re-entered under the authority of Louis XVIII., and that every where was mounted the white cockade. Many rich landed proprietors of France and some of the first commercial houses of the capital have of fered to the King considerable succours in money and goods. One of these offers alone amounted to five millions in specie. His Majesty, much affected with these marks of attachment, thanked those (alit , fol Frenchmen, -- and ordered it to be written to theni that he had not at present 'any need of pecuniary as sistance. It is said, that the Minister of Finance told dui, King, that there were in the public Treasury a horitttic drdmillions at the disposal of his Majesty for the.._ neces9itles of the country. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. -.+~- ''- . . PART!, MARCH . sterna. iR. was to entrap Fouche that they circulated the inpDrt of his being to be made Minister of - Police. The fact-is that they wilted to arreAbitn; but as he po , ;sessei a great deal more cunning than those with whom he has to de, he had already withdrawn himself from the search of the Police. Yesterday about ten o'clock in the morn ing, an armed force proceeded to his house, but they did not find him. We do not know whether they afterwards contrived tb discover him. Carnot was also to be arrested. Perhaps he had already con. sealed himself, as many otltshigicides have done.— It is also affirmed that the .C.eantess of St. Leo (ci- . devant Queen of Holland) Ain a state of arrest itt her own house, because ther4 , :ifere meetings in her house. She l odges Rae Cerute, quite dose to the houses of Fouche and Savary, who, it is said, is already with Bonaparte. Among the persons arrested is mentioned the piti. Al La Borde, who principally contributed to Ow failure of the 'noble and courageous undertaking of General Malet. The present Government had had the imprudence to employ this infamous man, who, no doubt, merely thrust himself jetzt,lite Polico.of the Bourbons, ta be moreilieful to Bonaparte. A great deal was said here yesterday, respecting the return to Paris of Marshal Mortier who corn. mends at Lille, and it was added that there were dis turbances in that town. if this Is true, it has un doubtedly been in consequence of the arrest of Count d'Erion. The Chancellor proposed lately in the 'Chamber of Peers a law for a lerpen.rnasse, and to bare the re. frictery part of the army tried in a revolutionary manner. As these measures appeared more calculated to, aggravate than to diminish the evil, they were re jected with indignation. Soult, the Ex-Minister, is always looked upon at a traitor, because, it is said, he had disposed every thing to assist 13ouaPartcju the execution of his un. deitakings • • Napoleon has given a ball at Li, . 13e has received ss most flattering recepti • • nked full of people from the surrouudihr: 2 :l..*:' ocked to see the Emperor. We are sorry to add to all this, that the news in general Are had. Neither the Muni/cur nor the other Journal's have yet said that any army has yet fought against the army of N•tpnleon ; this is ithe most evi dent prouf that an be given, that the soldiers of the King do not wish to fight against Napoleon. P. S. It is just now said that Ney is at Paris, that Napoleon was to sleep last night at Setts, and that he will be this e►ening at Fontainbleau. Toulon has hoisted the tri-coloured flag. P•ess, Maim' 18.—The Thuilleries were pro. vided yesterday evening with several pieces of cats non. It appears that there are fears as to the popu lace of the Fuuxbourgs. When the troops of Napoleon arrived nt Lyons they made prisoner • garde du corps. Napoleon set him at liberty, but baje him tell the King that he should be on the 25th, at furthest, in Paris. The state in which the Go vernment is at present is such that they are obliged to whiten (blanehV ~oust, the author of false tele graphic dispatches, stgc. &c.—Alas ! The soldiers of a regiment which went out the other day to fight against 13onaparte, cried loudly " rive l'Empercur!—What good en n be hoped from such soldiers ! The French Journals give to day only news, which if not entirely good, %re at least consolatory. Un fortunately, however, very had news ace circulated here. it is said, aliaong othv flings, that Des nouettes, who commands the advice(' guards of Napoleon, cotivibting of nearly 5000 cavalry, was to be yesterday evening it Sons ; all the precious moveables are packed u 2 at the fait!eries and at the houses of the other Pr! .es—the order is only ex pected for them to be .serf off. 'We saitt something '.to.you yesterday as to the suspicions which we enter. tained respecting. the Moen to Paris of Mortier who commanded at Lille. Unfortonately they are but too true, if we believe what is said hors with-the uta most confidence. This is the fact :—Count "nylon had been condemned to death, and had bee . O.,:is t i to the sqnare of the citadel to be shot. Ile alieady had his eyes bandierd, and the rival word was oily expected to !ire on him, when the soldiers rose against Mortier, and declared d'Frlon commander ,of the fortress.—Mortier was arrested, but d'Erlen sent him to Paris. k • '-, I.IIIIIIICU. 'ere re- spon ever, • his on. Ise hes oked Vocked news in • he other fought inst e►i- •s of the ris e that that he on has repro. of cag- e popu- sops of sorer a ty, but le 25th, .he Go. obliged be tele. out the loudly ..m1 from , which • • . Un- 41 4 . F culAted .t Des- ►r,ls of y, was recious I at the dy ex. leth'ing ?enter- er who .re but .the ut• Milan :lid 'to beady s orly Against of the . a bent • FRENCH PAPERS. [lll,oll2lft MONITEUR. PARIS, MAItCII lg.:-.-The day be fore yesterday, yesterday, and to-day, the troops of all arms des- I lined to march against enemy left their canton- N Guiph of Juan, March I. 1815. .tvotsoN, by the grace of God and the Constitu. ! men I,have taken position at the points assigned t and Lion of the Empire, Emperor of the French, &c. to them. TO THE ARMY. I Tile corps of the King's Household, the volun- SOLDIERS !—We were not conquered: two men , ' tears, .the co rps of the elite of the National Guards risen from our ranks, betrayed our laurels, their o f va n s , with those of the National Guards of the count heir Prince, their benefactor. surrounding departments, are now in line under the Those whom during 25 years we have seen tea- orders of those Generals who hive so 'often conduct versing all Europe to raise up enemies against us ; ed Frenchmen to victory, of Generals so worthy of who have passed their lives in fighting against os in confidence, and devoted to the cause of the King, and the ranks of foreign armies, cursing our fine France, the defence of the country. shall they pretend to command and controul our Bonaparte, who left Aatun on the 16th, conti eagles, on which they have not dared ever to look ? ones to scatter' en his route lies, corruption, and Shall we endure that they should inherit the fruits of . appeals to perjury and calumny. Sometimes he sc our glorious labours—that they should clothe them. Ma the honour of Marshals whose loyalty is best selves with our honours and our goods—that they known and.amared,.aed of whom he dares to pub. should calumniate our glory ? If . their reign should lists pretended preciaroatious; sometimes he spreads continue, all would be lost, eve., the memory of the most absurd stories, such as the departure of the those immortal days. With what fury d.o they per. Kit/ from Paris, and the rising of the capital ;at vest their very nsture? They seek 'to poison .what other times he tries to circulate the rumour that lie the world admires; and if there still remains any fis supported by some Of those very Powers who have defenders of our glary, it is.among thoseeigy . min wheat we haTelowelit we the field °Hiatt: . . pronowncedlitt stentinice, and who at this • Soldiers. ! in etyatl. heard you? voice t.• arrived through ali:410 1 lig 41. -AO • ts togettiag at the 'Congress the personal dis - • -illitiftons with which they- were occopied, have re arrived R e f i l l r/ 9 " . anye . )l with the sole intention of crushing the enemy General, called to "the throne iiir lime choice of the of nations, and the scourge of humanity. people, and educated under your banners, is restored i to you : come and join him. Thus he is no longer the man who; in the lament - I Tear down those colours which the nation has able course of those wars which his ambition raised up aainst Fran or. to s thg of proscribed, and which for 25 years served as a rally. our m g ce, in isfortunes, sough der t to fascin o a ften te our e e feeli n yes by the ing -signal to all the enemies of France: mount the dazzle of his military successes ; he is a man, who, cockade 'tricolour : you bore it in the days of our to sustain his detestable enterprise, employs only greatness. means worthy of it. We must forget that we have been masters of na- But opinion repels him with horror: France sees lions ; but we must not suffer any to intermeddle in in him nothing bat the civil war and the foreign war ou ea trairs. ! which he brings in his train ; it every where rallies . Who shall presume to be master over us? Who l i ma !at the name alone of that King who has .brought to would have the power ? Recover those eag les peace and liberty. It joins its Jove to the respect you had at Ulm, at Austerlitz, at Jena, at Eylan, at at f t at of Europe for its august Monarch. It will fight and Friedland, at Tinlela, at Eekinuld, at Essline, . at will conquer both for it and for him. Wagrata, at Smolensk°, at NI otSCOW, at Lutzers, Vurken, at Montolirail. Do you think that the I handful of Frenchmen, who are now so arrogant, will endure to look on thent ? They shall return whence they came, and there if they please they shall reign as they pretend to have reigned during 19 years. Your . possessions, your rank, your glory, the possessions, the rank, the glory of your children, have no greater enemies than those Princes whom foreigners have imposed upon us; they are the ene mies of oar glory, because the recital of so many heroic actions, which have glorified the people of France fighting against them, to withdraw them selves from their yoke, is their condemnation. The veterans of the armies of the Sambre and the .Meuse,•of the Rhine, of Italy, of Egypt, of the West, of the Grand Army, are all humiliated ; their honour , able wounds are disgraced; their successes were crimes ; those heroes were rebels, if, as the enemies of the people pretend, the Legitimate Sovereigns were in the midst of the foreign armies. Honours, rewards, affection are given to those who .have served against the country and us. Soldiers! come and range yourselves under the standard of your Chief ; his existence is only corn i posed of your's: his rights are only those of the pen. ple and your's: . his interest, his harbour, his glory, :, are smother time your interest, your honour, and your ' glory. Victory shall march at the charged Step : the leagle P with the nitiotall colours, shall fly from steeple -(1 - • • • Ito steeple, even to the towers of Notre-Dame.— Tben.you • will be able to show yotiescais With ho. 1 hour ;„then you Will be able to glory in what you have done ; you. will be the deliverers of the country. I . • In your old age, enrrounded and esteemed by your fellow-citizens, ther will hear you with respect while , 1 you recount your high deeds; you will beable to say . i with pride :—" And I, too, wtts ink of that Grand Army, which entered trice the walls of Vienna, thrbitt of )tome, of Berlin, of Al/id - rid, of Moscow; and which . delivered, Paris ?tom the foul blot which .tremors, and the presence of the enemy imprinted on I it. Honoured be those brave soldiers, the glory of the. country ; and eternal shame to those guilty Fremch • men, in whatever rinkjorturte caused them to be' bore, who fought • roi 24 yaeri,wkth the foreignerp ;to tear the bosom of the country. 1 By the Emperor, (Signed) N The brd wpe na m shat tr,,neie4 the rancilase,ot Majur•Geuerules the Greed Army,APOLEON, BERTRAND: " THE KING TO THE FRI'NCH ARMY. " °Metes ANn SoLntEas,-1 hare answered for your fidelity to all France ; you will not falsify the word of your King. Reflect that, if the enemy should triumph, civil war would soon be lighted up among you, and that at the same moment more than 300,000 foreigners, whose arms I could no longer check, would pour down on all sides of our country. So conquer or die for it—let this be our war-c you who at this moment follow other stand than mine, I see in you only deluded childri : abjure then your error, and come and throw yourselves into the arms . of your father, and here engage my faith, every thing shall be imme diately forgotten. Reckon all of you on the rewards winch-your fidelity and services shall merit. March 18. 1815. LOUIS. Wrintrd (corn the original manuscript in the King's hand writing.] [llOlll VIE GAZETTE OE FRANCE.] Courier Extraordinary, Sunday Morning. PARIS, MARCH. 19.—Bonaparte pursues his march : bet in proportion as. he advances, his troops diminish. He arrived on the 17th at Auxerre with less than six thousand men. He will, without doubt, quit that village this morning to occupy Joigny this evening. Bonaparte precedes his advanced-guard in a chariot, escorted only by twenty dragoons. Eta is usually half a league in advance.— As no obstacle is to the preseut moment opposed to his rash enterprise, we must conclude that it is the intention, of Government to let him advance to the height oflielun. It is in fact at Melon, that all the most formidable military preparations are made. An army of '38,000 men will be collected there to-morrow. It will lie augmented by all the volunteers, by all the bat talions of the National Guards, who arrive succes sively and daily from the different departments. The army which is at Montargis, under the orders of General Dupont, will thus receive reinforcements. We are assured, that his Majesty liar declared his wish of repairing to the middle of the heroes who de vote themselves for the safety of the country, awl of sharing their dangers. The English, who are in Belgium, and who had orders to embark, received counter-orders on the AIM of Boosparte's enterprize. ..•- rd. flu 111.6 OW t7t. ft. nor 1 5 ; of test rapt all it it ar- eco to ~~; s „:h vu~ fly t nd 744 tvt. U