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traitor, LEFEBVRE DESNOULTTES, who, three weeks be-
fore the landing of Buonaparte at Cannes, reviled him
at all public assemblies, in a manner that disgusted
even the Royalists themselves, they swear that they abhor
him, and that the " infamous culprit should be put to
death by the British Government, if Louis XVIII. dares
not do so, after due trial and conviction, for the murder
of Captain Wright." But their views are unmasked ; and
The wisdom of that Go.ernment which they wished to
mislead, has disappointed their hopes. Conscious that he
i 3 not amenable to our laws for any act proved to have
been committed when he was recognised as the Emperor
of France by all the Powers of the Continent, and by us
as the sovereign of that country , both at the Peace of
Amiens, and in the negociations which took place at dif-
ferent times, down to the 18th of March, 1814, our Mi-
nisters have treated him as a prisoner of war, whose free-
dom is incompatible with the general interests of mankind.
They have secured the world against the possibility of fu.
ture dangers on his account : they have consialted the dig.
nity of our national character, for

" The Lion prep, not upon caraulsrp."
And they lune fulfilled the ends of justice, by inflicting
en the greatest of offenders the greatest of punishments
—life.

Extract of a private letter from Paris, dated July 29.--" The
Parisians appear to have recovered from the consternation
into which they were thrown by the ordonnance of the King,
denouncing those who aided the momentary restoration of
Bonaparte, which is attributed, with every other act of
severity, not to the King's personal desire, but to the Allies.
It now appears, that arrests had not taken place, in conses
quence of it, to the extent, I was led to suppose. Sault ha-
addressed a memorial to the King, in explanation of his con-
duct, which has proved far from satisfactory; and Ney has
it is said, succeeded in obtaining for himself a degrading im-
punity. His reputation, indeed, is hacked and trampled upon
by all parties with merciless abhorrence ; but if these men
vere to be tried by a military commission, according to the
military code of Bonaparte, there could be little donbt of
their acquittal. The French do not seem to feel much in-
terest for the fate of Bonaparte, whether from the total ab-
sorption of their feelings in their own distress, or from his
loss of reputation since his return from Elba. Ile has lost

Lis reputation with the multitude, and even with the army,
since his defeat. But still, as far as I have been able to col-
lect, the opposition to the King's Government is far from
being weakened by the fall of Bonaparte ; on the contrary, it
may, perhaps, have gained strength. The ceremony of the
Champ de Mai has given a new jacohinicalimpulse through
the country. Even in the French army, the cry of rive la
Libcrle, has been much more frequent than rice an/pew/P.
But all Frenchmen do justice to the wise and paternal con-
duct of the King. From the Paris Papers nothitb, can be
known of the real state of Paris. It is generally understood
that the King is dissatisfied with the measures of the Allies,
and that he is perpetually assailed by the discontented intri-
w.tcrs about his person. lie is about to complete and con-
r,olidate his administration, now that the arrangements be-
tween him and the authorities of the Allied Powers arc
distinctly settled. It is reported that Marshal Davoust,
when he arrives in Paris, will be received by the King. The
Fiend' army will not, it is said, be disbanded. The whole
blame of thcii defcction from the King is thrown upon the
office's, and the °films at c to be, fur the most part, rc-

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