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

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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