The Sun. — London, England, 1815-04-11 00:00:00

I I R I nu I , , {~ F ~~ ,~ ME my was already there, and it was in the. wood of. Tiottaluville that the battle commenced. The en,.tny extended himself on his right and left •;. he VT a s every where checked and repulsed, but his ttimbers were constantly increasing. Several in fantry charges had taken place, and a number of soldiers had been -killed at my side with the bayonet, - 'at the entrance of the village of Belle ville, when Joseph sent the authority, in writing, to capitulate, which authority I - still have in my possession. This was at ten o'clock ; at eleven Joseph was already Kir from Paris, and at three o'clock I was still fighting . ; .but at ,that hour, having long had the whole of my: force - engaged, and - observing that there were still 2(1,000 men about to enter fresh into line, I sent /Efferent Officers to Prince Schwartzenherg to ac quaint him that I was ready to enter into arrange ments. Only one of my Officers could reach him, and certainly I had not sent hint too soon ; for when he returned,.General Compans having eva cuated the heights of Patient, the enemy was' ad vancing in the street of Belleville,...my only point of retreat. I drove him out of it by 'charging the, head of his column in - person, at the head of 40 men, and thus securing the return of my troops, but I found myself forced. almost close up to the walls of Paris. Hostilities were suspended, and the troops re-entered within the barriers. :The written arrangement which,was published at the time was not signed till midnight. 'On the morning of next clay the troops eva cuatcd Paris, and I proceeded to Essonne, where took a position. I went to see . the Emperor Napoleon at Fontainbleau. He seemed to me at last aware of his situation, .and disposed to fermi 'nate a contest which he could no longermaintain. lie resolved on the plan of entrenching himself, - of uniting the little force which remained to him, of endeavouring to increase it, and to negOciate. • This was the only reasonable course he could pur sue, and I was completely of his opinion. I im mediately set off to order the commencement of those defensive works which the execution of this • plan rendered necessary. The same day,. April the I st, be came to visit the position, and there be learned, by the return of some Officers whom I had .left to give up the -barriers, the prodi g i ous fermentation of Paris, the declaration- of the Etn , peror Alexander, and the revolution - which was in progress. At this moment the resolution of'sa crificing the remains of the army to his vengeance was taken he talked of nothing but a desperate attack, though there was not a single chance of success in his favour, with the means which re mained to him: From that moment all his orders, all his instructiocs, all his discourse wasin con fortuity to this plan, the execution of which was jived_ for the sth of April. Accounts front Paris arrived in rapid succes sion : the decree of forfeiture reached me. The situation of Paris anti of Fiance was deplorable, andthe future presented the Most gloomy pros , pests, unless the fall of the Emperor changed their -destinies, by making their moral peace with all turope, anti thus extinguished the hatted which Le had excited. The Allies, supported by the insur rection of all the great towns of the kingdom, mas ters of the capittO, and only having only opposed to them a handful of brave men who had stir i'iced so many disasters, and every whereproclaini ed that they, made war on Napoleon alone. It was necessary to put them at Once to the trial, to take them at their word, and to compei them to re nounce the vengeance of which they would have made France the victim : it was necessary that the army should again become national by adopting the interests of almost the - whole of the inhabi tants, who declared against the Emperor, and .loadly, called for a salutary revolution which should produce their deliverance. Was it not the duty of every good Frenchman, however situated, to contribute to a change which saved the coun try, and delivered it from a crusade of all Eurufte in arms against it—that portion of Europe even, which was possessed by. the ,family of Napo leon Had it been possible to reckon upon the union of all the heads of the Army, if it had not been probable that the private interests of some would have clashed with the. most generous and pattiotic measures, if the moment had not been so pressing, since the 4th of April had already ar riced, and it was - on -the sth that that desperate actie7 was to hare taken place, of which the object was the destruction'of the last soldier and of the.ca pital,—it was to a concert among the Chiefs of the army that it would have been prover to re . sort ; but in the actual state of timings, • it became necessary to confine efforts to the free departure -of the different corps of the army, in order to • detach them from the Emperor _and neutralise his projects, and to unite them to other French troops which st ere at a distance from him. Such, then, was the object of the conferences which took place- with the Prince. of Schwartzenberg. While. I was making dispositions to inform my comrades of the situation of things, and of time part which I thought it my duty to take, the Duke •f Tarentitm, the Prince if Musk wa, the Duke of Vicenza, and the Duke of Treviso, arrived at my quarters at Essonne. The three. first told me that the Em peror had been compelled to sign the promise of his abdica tion, and that they were going with this condition. to nego date the suspension of hostilities, I made them ;, - equainted with the arrangements with. Wince Schwartzenberg, but which were not complete, because I had not yet received the written guarantee which X had demanded and I then de -ciared to them, that since they were agreed :upidn a change which the safety of the State required, and which- W as th e 'sole object of m y proceedings, t would never separate mys e lf from them. The Duke o f Vicimoz.is expressed -a desire to see me accompany them to Paris, thinking that myjunction with them after what had happened, wou ld b e of great weight. I yielded to his desires, leaving the command of my corps to the oldest General of Division, giving bin) orders nut to make any movement, and announcing to him uiy speedy re turn. I explained the motives of my change to Prince Selmwartzenberg, who, full of loyalty, found them legiti mate and unanswerable, and I fulfilled the promise - whii.mh I luol its to to my comrades in the interview which w e h a d with the Emperor Alexander. At 8 o'clock, one of my hides-do-'damp arrived, and told me that, contrary to my direct order, and in spite of his most urgent representations, the Generals had put the troops in motion for Versailles at 4 o'clock in the morning, terrified as they were at the per :tuna! dangers with which they thought they were threatened, and or which they had conceived an idea from the arrival and depart ure of several °dicers of the Staff who had come from FnutainbleaU. The step was taken, and the thing was irre- r4rable. Such is the true and faithful account of this event, which kt , bad, and Will have so great an influence on all my life. The Emperor, by accusing we, wished to save his own glory, th e opinion - of his talents, and the honour of the sol diery. As to the honour of the soldiers, therew_as no need of any care_ for that : it never shone with more lustre than in that campaign ; but as to what concerns himself, he will de iro no' dispassionate 7rnan, for it woad iv: ialpossible to We are without foreign arrivals to-day, and have therefore little to add to the stock of infor mation already before the Public. The Duke of WELLINGTON did not arrive at Brussels till Wednesday . last, the Gth, though some of our Newspapers have been publishing accounts of his reception at that" place for a week past, and even in second editions, as unfounded in inference and addition's as in the main fact. A private letter of the above date mentions that our Hero was going to dine with Lot“s XVIII. and that in the evening the town was to be illuminated. h e fol lowing is a paragraph of its contents : " The Duke of IVELLINoroN arrived this morn ing at two o'clock, and this moment he is pa ss . ing by in the King's carriage, accerupaniecl by hi s MAJESTY, to the City house, as there is a Grand Fate given to the KING ; there is also a grand lamination." It trust inspire the virtuous Monarch Avith a happy presage of being :Soon re-seated •on his Throne, when he sees a IVELLINGTON by his side, and a gloriotis Biltish Army under him en- gaged in his holy cause. Other private letters which we have received state, that an advance of Cossacks, the quondam rough and hardy saviours of civilized Europe, has reached Frankfort. We trust, therefore, to hear very shortly of the re-appearance of these warriors, where their very name may strike a terror into the souls of the guilty partizans of the. Rebel Corsican. It is further stated to us,_,but we are not suze of the fact, thal the - CitowN PRINCE of S tvEoE has left Stockholm to take the command of the Swedish Auxiliary Contingent, and put his force in march towards the French frontier. Our letters from Holland are of the most gra tifying kind. Never, perhaps, did the euthusi asm of the Dutch people reach a higher pitch— they are unanimous in their hate of the revolu fiodnary Bands , of France, and in their determina tion to defend their newly acquired Liberty and Independence. - We learn from unquestionable authority, that even in Paris as well as in many towns in the North of France, so far are the Population from being faourable to the Brigand and his Janis saries, they treat bi's Proclamations with contempt, and no sooner does a secure opportunity offer than all his arias, &c. posted on the walls and public places are torn down or rendered illegible with nnul.—The inhabitants of Lisle are represente'd as entertaining sentiments diametri cally opposite to those of the soldiery, by whom they,are erithralle'.l. The Report that BUONAPARTE bad been fired at in Paris is very current in the Netherlands, %where it is also affirmed that Duels are as prevalent in the Capital as they were said to be when the Al , lies were there. It seems that the 'friends of the BoultioNs arc not yet broken in under the reign of terror or new police of Fouche.- - The Cotieehouses ring . with alter Cations and' disputes ; Five le Roi is a sound not yet banished, and.a half a dozen rencontres in.thc Bois de Bo logne, are the almost daily result. While Loins XVIII. resided at Ghent his apart ments were opened at the dinner hour, as they were wont to be in the security of Hartwell, and strangers were admitted to walk round the table where .the Royal . Party sat. An immense con course of people, - and especially Ladies, daily availed themselves of this indulgence. His Ma jesty lived in the Hall -street, in the house of a Mr. STONEHOUSE. A Mr. PLAyFAIR having picked up some gossip • from a strolling Italian, who:u he encountered at an Eating-house, ii as thought proper to bring, a grave charge_apinstMinistersfor4mt ha . ving done what he would have thought right upon receiving this important information. Mr. Pt.mrrma isa great character in his own eyes, but be was not the only Solomon who so long ago as last Whiter gave intelligence of the machinations of the Emperor of Elba : and Ministers acted •'upon such intelligence as far as they were-warcanted, either by our relations with France or .the other Powers of Europe. , Mr. PoyFAsie would not pay any regard to ;tech considerations. He would have seized BUONAFARTE at Oifee, possible or impossible, taken all the responsibility of stop ping an inchoate plot on his - own head, and placed Great Britain qn a pedestal as the most hlssy and. impertinent nation in the universe. So much for Italian Eating-house politics, and for Cyphers, which are flattered, by being called Conundrums, for they are absolute unintelligible nonsense, which require that you, should a priori, know the translation, in Order to he . able to nicke them out By reference to our Report of ParliamentarY proceedings, it iti ill be seen that Lord CAsiq.E REAGII gave CL.oorz a very proper castigation in the House of Commons last night. We .have often enquired, but could never yet obtain a sa tisfactory solution of the enigma, how it came to pass that the occupation of patriotism, and the trade of public virtue should have been so materially perverted from 'their original nature as they have of late years been. I'the olden time, a patriot was a man jealous of the ho n Our of his country, even furious against those •a'lto dared to impeach it ; and in those days, public spirit was held to consist in being more ready to Sustain the," national character against its -slan dererq, and protect the common real from the attack of foreign enemies, than in being the_ constant calninniator of one's native Land, and • the zealous Abettor of every assault with which an adversary might batter at its peace and security. . We most solemnly declare, that to us it is an incomprehensible thing to unriddle by what per versity-- of intellect such a man as Mr. WHIT BREAD can imagine himself justified in obstinately pursuing the course lie has chalked out for himself. Though not a brilliant genius, be is - not an Idiot, and the very lowest exercise of understanding must bring the conviction to his heart, that never to stand forth in any other light than as the busy, meddling, guardian or advocate of NA - rox.coN BUOtiAPAHTE—tiIe premature, partial; and "un grateful impugner of his own Government and his country's Allies, is at best s but an odious political employment, and a suspicious and disgusting mode of displaying patriotism and public 'spirit. There is "generally much force as well as truth in our ancient saws, and this factious Gentleman, although be seems to despise it, is-probably acquainted with one which pronounces it to be " an ill bird that beWroys its own ntst." lie is ever bewray. ing ; tt our nest in a manner which well merited be r description ,of the Noble Secretary f or no t Affairs, when . : he' told him, in a lang nage g o easily misunderstOod, though Mr. Vir/0113' his accuses hirri li of being very ambiguous hil dn et phraseology, that "-in' his .opinion the - F ° : s i s t , of the Honourable Gentl em an vva",f the eat with his own honour, or the honour "n' country—since it went to lower the cliartlct.so,' the Government in, the eyes of the peoP le ° f e d rope. His premature censures resting 01110. '4 foundation, would, of course, go 61 10 0 c og part of Europe, and m us t -necessarily Pr° most mischievous effects." , cold 'Will the non; Gentlem an pretend tha t ` .l that not understand this definition ; say ' sot the Noble. Lord inapt himself up in duW°tl diplomatic terms, when he thus set before ll"--„,'di, the picture of himself, the plain and homelytrog that he was dish onou ri ng hi s cou ntry an d ser i , is its enemies ; or will be d en y the fact th at 5 '1. 74 , the dein. and necessary tendencti oftis cit tire • f iat liamentary course, whether shaped in logs nisit9" inuendos or anti-British harangues. ati° ll° We declare th a t w e m a k e t h es e obser y teal - with shame and sorrow. We have der e° o f the mischievous career of this degraded P °ll4)l osi the English Opposi t i on , who were on FridaY nt claimed by the sound er part of those with `tli t db • u th, they generally ?let, and we have been fool' ro , :to hope that a sense of w h at was due t° tie u o f selves and th e ir coun t r y, a t this most mottle lli e I El l crisis, would hav e i n d uce d t h em , at lea sttil o c storm blew past, to relax in, rather than t° beep rnent their unnatural activity.' But we ha ve mistaken, and the path of our duty, howe ver ged and painful, is obvio us b e f or e us. Ive r l oi r not, and will not shrink from' it. While 1i 4er . — IV BREADS speak, and such apostates as the b. biers in the Morni ng Ch ron i c l e wr i t e, we sli ' °fl beir . . 0 , pose them to the co n t em pt an d i n di g nation e y f w zens and of the honest partf EJ Au d pulation of Europe, by declaring how false 0 4 calumnious are their assertions, -how imP ure indefensible th e i r _motives,' how injuri ntls t conduct, how infamous their object. „ „ a ttil We arc accused of using strong langu a g e ' i our plead guilty to the charge. We only 'c is ' ) oil pens could more forcibly, depict our fec lings' foti t then when we saw, as we now d o , t he rui' l cl o t. Country and the d eso l a ti on o f t h e World/ t f br 0 5, cued by the wicked i n d us t ry o f unwo rtbYr 3r ek e the impassioned e xp ress i ons o f ou r abb °/le c of should be equal to• the Theme, and the “" f i er i o c tintb be heard in thunders of energy n °C to the blessed cause it was wan t e d to 1061111-si il o' An explanation of th e re p or t o f A secalit' bf or .„ tempt baying been made o n N e w Orie‘- -5 troy troops, bas been afforded by private let ter3 ol l New York, dated the 15th ultimo. I t °j oie that Mobile and not N ew Orleans, Was the cor of action, and that the result has been tili „ n orl i Lure of Mobile by the B r iti s h force.--The is given in the following communication NEW YORK, MARCH 15.--The ship baring beeP..egiiaro pectedly detained; lam enabled to add a few lines. bAc e very intlanch'oly news from th e S ou th. The Eu5 . 1 ; 511 c(e° made a most violimt att ac k upon M o bile, and ‘ —tb :o 4.4 ' slaughter cave succeeded in acquiring possession of the lard Intelligence to'this eff ec t h as j ust arr i ve d, but th e p art .4 are not known." „ l OW / , The substance of the intelligence eff' cated by the New York Papers to the 15 no 05 is, that Mr. Mursutoe resurnes his situate. Secretary of State, and is to be' Succeeded, b e log Secretary at War, by Mr. DALLAS/ tijiyArlsl sence of Mr. CRAUFORD, the Minister '3t o ne' who has been appointed ,to the War J)e t P rtn t ye Vigorous preparations are m aking ag ait3s- ~ A,lgerines. • e frig. Commodore R ODGERS , With the G atri a t At gate, was to join the expedition fitt in g ' °- New York against the Algerines. da te ` ; An official Getter from G e neral JAclcs°"' tte the 10th of February, announces the dep artk the British force from Ship Island. Je re‘l 132EAD.-Tliis day the Lonr 'NlAY° r ' ;; ,: r( o '' f ti an advance of one' farthing in the Pr— cl 'I The artel. o l :t3 l o e a rt f ;r for an and h es ensuing otlle of t l' l l i ' e ee i k:ll ' 14°E- - ° I' s. ' cs 5 ° 4 14 expected in town to-day, previous t 9 tile ° ing-room. c$ 1 0 The ' Duke of ORL EANS v i s ited the P lll5-- ; . G . F. , , , t 4 t Yesterday, at CarltOn-house. fe l bo s i; nesxs elsvtietii•idanyleLpoßrllNCCEAsirilaGaLAToxfotrrf CO' t . ii y e .gs t e t ( l ay his Excellency the French Al ? AO' dor h l i thd a long interview with Lord C401 .4 '"" . at . 's house in St. James's-square. - CO S ; This day her Royal Highness . Pri nces tt s r ov ir t Li ]louse, of WALES is expected twarrive at le a f the e" .. e t l ouse, from Cranbourne Lodge. .A" n e t roti,!' new entrance is formed on the left of Carlton House, and that of Warwick'str' to be shut up. - , t i 0 9 1: At Ostend, it was stated on Saturday -- 1 -39 l - ° ' -`1 kirk had declared for Louis the XV -11 : t i j i ltli cr i that ju twp British regiments had been se"' - 11 . 1 0 14- Ol'a: ; Al. 13.2N - ; , ,scx has -When the eC I . ISI . of thi orison at Genoa, Justify that series of opratiotas snarled the last years of his reign. - He acmes rat of treason ! I ask where is its reward? I re:ieoled with contempt every sort of personal advantage 1 Which was offered to we, .and placed myself voluntarily in the situation of the whole army. Had I any particular at r eetion for the House of Bourbon ? Whence could I derive it,—l who only entered or. active life a short time before that family ceased to govern France? Whatever opinion I might have formednf thesuperioi mind of the King, of his goodness, anp of that of the .Princes, it was very far from the reality: this chants which is foimd when near them was unknown to site, and could' not give birth to those sacred engagements which now bind me to thern, and which theirpresent misfortunes, so little merited, bind still closer-1 sacred engagements, for to 1 1 men who have hearts testimonies of regard and esteem are a thousand times more valuable than 'gifts and beacfactions.— What was, then, the motive of ray actions? Ass ardent love of ins cuttatry, which has all my life been the master of my heart and alisorbed alt 11,y ideas. I wished to save France from destruction; I wished to preserve it from cOmbinations, which would have brought on its ruin: frosts those so fatal combivations, the fruit of the most strange illusions of pride, and so often renewed in Spain, in Russia, and in Germany, and which threatened a ft ightful catastrophe' which it was necessary instantly to prevent. • A strange and mournful fatality prevented our deriving from the‘return of the house of Boarbon all th e a d van t ages which were hoped from it fur Prance ; but, however, we owe to them the speedy end of a fatal war, the deliverance of the capital and of the kingdom, an administration mild and pa ternal, and a tranquillity and liberty which were unknown to us. Some days more, and this liberty, so dear, so necessary fur all Frenchmen, had been consolidated for ever. The foreigners, it is said, were lost without resource, and it is I who ant accused of having saved theM. lam their sa viour! I who always fought them with as much energy as tonstancy, whose zeal was never coofed for a moment. I who, after having attached eny name to the most brilliant suc cesses of the campaign, had already once preserved Paris by the combats of aleaax and - Lisy.. Let us tell him, him who gave such powerful aid to the foreigners in their operations, and rendered useless the devotedness of so many good soldfers_, and intelligent Officers; he was the person, she alto whit 300,000 men wished to guard and occupy Europe froni the Vistula to the Cattaro and the Ebro, while France had for its defence scarcely 40,000 soldiers hastily collected,—and the de liverers of France are those who, as by miracle, saved it from the crusade directed against it, and secured the return of 230,000 men scattered throughout Europe, and of 150,000 prisoners who now constitute its force and power. I have served the Emperor Napoleon with zeal, constancy, and devotedness during all my career, and I only separated myself from hint to save France ; and when one step farther would have precipitated it into the abyss Nvhich he loal Open ed. No sacrifices were too great where the question, wag the honour and safety of my country; and yet how many circum atarees.render them sometimes painful and melancholy ! Who has shown mote than I have, a denial of personal inte rests, and has been more governed by the general interest ? Who ever has exhibited a greater example in suffering, in danger, in privations ; who has she'wn in all his life snore disinterestedness than I have ? My life, is pure, it is that of a gOod citizen, and they would attach infamy to it.! No; sa maityhonourable actions in so long a course of years, falsify to such,a degree this accusation, that those whose opiuion is of any value will always refuse to believe it. - - Whatever be the jestiny reserved fur me, whether my whole life shall pass tinder proscription, or I shall' be permit ted still to serve my country; whether I shall be recalted,"or whether I shall he driven trolls its bosoni, my wishes for its glory and its happiness will never vary, for the' love of soy country has been, and will always be the passion of my heart: • and the King has well understood my sentiments, and done justice to the rectitude of my intentions, wheys he ,deigned to add to my arms the device Putriw lotus ct ul iquc, which in a few words descrihLs the history of my whole lite. Ghent, April 1, 1815. "Marshal - the Duke of,RAGUSA, LOTTERY DRAWS - NEXT SATURDAY MORNING, AT NINE O'CLOCK:THREE PRIZES OF3o,oOI.—THREE THOUSAND GUINEAS IN GOLD IMMEDIATELY. MAILS. Annryzu-1 Waterford. Du e- , -1 Lisl►on, I Tiamburgh, 2 Dublin, 2.W.a.terfurd. Pit ICE OF STC CW.S Tula' uzlY .tit TWELVE O ' CIA)CIi. Bank Stnck, natni L. - Aim. T:4 r1..1* 7-163 3 per Cent. Red. 55iii Ii lndia I.lnnds, 33. 43 - . pr. 3 per Cent. Cons. 5'4M Excheri. Bills, 3g. 55. pr. •Jiier Cent. Cutts. 73 z cii ()minim 5 per Cent. Navy AIM. atilitij Con for Account, 571 HIGH WATER .Vl' LONDON BRIDGE TO - MPIIROW. Mornint.r, 4E minutes ;,,fter irmittutes atter 4 1 1 1'11 1 ITN. SOLEM !.!'IS DICER E FA 1..r.:N1 AUDEAT LONDON. 7'UESD..-IY, .APRIL 11, 1815. ~•-