The National Register.
London, England, 1814-04-10 00:00:00

THE NATION AT, REGISTER.

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will untameable, but without discernment. All f.is disaster'--all the
disgraces with which he has been overwhelmcde-heve sprung In in the
same causes which produced his triumphs. Neither the most unpre-
cedented favours of fortune, nor the most terrible lessons. of. alisttps
pointtettitter the confidence of a nation, which, having beets tor- r
imented by a hideous anarchy, had hoped to find in hint repose—nor
the councils of enlightened men, who would have directed him to the
path of true glory--nor the devoted attachment of valiant warriors-- !
nothing was able to soften the character, to correct the false jutgnien!,
Of to elevate the corrunted soul of this Corsican sohrier. .i 'one ss
confounded at his oh-is.. icy its caieltee so many men to perish, ouc is !I
lint less so at his olissitaley in cool:ming to exist. 11' Ira's gheWl) Its
what selfishness is in the human heert : never has he been able to na-
turalise himself amoestst Frenchmen. 'Was lie o Frenchman, he %%Ito,
placed-on a throne which had .been embellished by the goodness, the
prace, And the gallant manners of our kisses, wits always Iw:silt:lig in
his conduct towards females, and eat n tellied them in a rude and sm-
. feeling manner on the decline of their Leauty ? Was he a Frenchmen
who never made a present but with the hope of a return ? -.vim mode
a base abuse of his power, in order to address in the midst of his Coma
degrading expressions to sin amiable nsinister--to a respectable judge—
•or to an honourable watri•ir ? Nay, even in his camp does he heap
insults on our warriors, admired as they are by ::11 the rest of Europe.
What torrents of invectives in his bulletins I' When he has hitusilf
committed a military blunder, he pitches on the name of any. general.
at hazard, to Beelike him of it. He invents fables that no ore can be-
lieve: if we would listen to them, it was the ienwauce of a cirpersl,
which by blowing up a bridge, oceesioncd the greute“ disasters that ,
France has ever experienced. He knows net where to place his te'st
Generals, but in positi,ns where they most be sect ifieed. lie makes
the choicest of his troops, and even the whole mass of his army,. march
and counter-march with an unfeeling rapidity, Oil-Duels impracticable
roads, and in the most inclement- season. Meanwhile two or three
Cenerals remain charged to defend important poSts againit forces Ire-
-incuriously, dispropottionate. lie occasions the performance of the
most heroic acts of bravery, in order to cover his checks ; and pct it
is often Iron the enemy that we first learn their performaece.
What
a savage character is there in his pretended greatness! %Villa a resti-
.eity,in his muenificence ! What a centrist with the !whit. atld touch-
ing picture presented to us in cite two Sovere:ens, who love become in
c.i:e day the sillies of the French people ! Buoirtourte ‘6,tted to tr.
stde in u:! the palaces of Europe: ttlese Monarchs ab-gain even item
entering the palace of the ate;ent king of France. A simple apartment
suffices for them. Since the I tense ofTOrraille has given the exaeiple
of that simplicity which so well becomes the Throne, the co:mecum)
Itetween Kings awl their p?ople has been rendered toore.in'imato.
We now know why these are loved. We 10.,g to see t11:4 booperf.r
of Austria who hoe so tally cencnrred in the': geerfoui views ; and to
soften, it possible, the pain which our deliverance has vest' hislicarf.
NS hy should we not speak to these Monarchs, the friends dour ownein
shut fanenaen of love, of which the y rant had mad; us lose the !It
log habit ? This is the day of re union to the Great retells:- of Eerope.
By whet benefits has not the inexhaustible mlegnenimity of the Emoe-
Tor Alexander signalised itself on this day ? Two her dred thousand. of
c'nr countrymen are about to be restored to our embraces; never did
a Sovereign make to a King, his friend, so magnificent a present.
The sane compact which is about to give us renme, 1611 else) brine
hack to us that liberty of which we had so imprudentlyl passed the
Ih and of which the most treacherous of tyrants had no longer left
tt trace in any of our institutions. No guarantees would have been
ettfnuient with one who mocked at al! '
treaties and in. premises ; but
the spirit of ct,r,vorrl has dictated real guarantees which a ill coefound
all piirlieS in one common sentiment ; anti we mny once retire behold
public Eberly newish under the sacred shade of Movarehical power.
(STgned) C. LACRETELLE.

ACTS OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

A PRI!, 10.

prestior end out's. you he deaf to the voice of the country
which summons and entreats you? It addresses yota by its Senate,
by its capital, and above all, by its misfortunes; you are its noblest
children, and.. cannot belong to bins who leas ravaged it, who has
delivered it iv' without eras, without (Terence; who wished to
render your name odious to aft nations, and who would hare rom.
promigeci vonrglOrY, if man, silo is -not e% ell a Frenehm:in, could
have weaiened the glory of our arinl, end. the generosity of our
soldiers. -
Yon are no !muter the .roltller. of Napoleon ; the Senate and all
Monee absolve van i'tiau your oaths. .
(Signed) -Prince Bhs EVENT'), Va mcCOTS MONTFS GCIOU,
DALLEIIG, Je 1, COURT.
(OYERNMENT OF PARIS.

The public is it:formed, that the arrilience* of Luis Excel!envy the
General in Chief, Military .Grovernor of Pa.i4, Baron Saclei?, %%ill
henceforth take place mi:y betweeu 9 and i 1.•.

IYROVISIONAC GOVERNMENT.

The Provisional Government decree, that The filoniieur is the only
offieil journal. • -
April 3. DOUX LA BORIE, Secretary-GcneraL

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

ADMIRILTf-OFFICE, APCIT 5, 1814.

Lieutenant Collins, Ilau-Lieutcliant to Rear4Adtniral Penrose, ar-
rived here this morning,. with a truer front Admiril Lord Keith, tot
John V.11,0n Ctoher, l'sq. transmitting one to his
!tear-Admital, dated its the Gironde, Point of Taltrintit, E. S. E. r.h..tit
three wiles, the !7th of 'March, ti. ing an tccont.t of his Ittiv'tt:.l ;hat
day enteret! the river, and proceeded up to tivit ~itie!torituse
Majesty's ship Eumont, the Andretulche and B 1 Pt•tde frigates,
and some smart., ve,selF, alwr teceiving the fire ot- forts
batteries at the month of the river; but aithciut sustaitting any loss
from it.

On appronel)7...-;! Po:.nt Cluldre, thv eneo;ys of sLip
w:Ch Ci7er br.voc w::r. no() some e!la,se marees; di.covore,l
prcparini: to oft IlAy •11. 'l'he siprar!lon rove &oils, to
vessels sho.tl of T.Wwnit, where tilt. OR;
pas3ed thiuovrh ti,e vev narrow eh.lim.l 10. th,.• a;):„.1.
rentlybuoyrd for thu uu(!er 11t,,t(17;.0.,1 01 Coe h it.
teriei on each side of Ow I:ay of Tako.):,t auti.:he squadron
inv-hortql outs;de 012 Shop!.
ltelr•Aduilial (.0,611164.1.i this f' rtims of Ow 0173.. c-s
under his ordcr-4, in sticec,,ll:ll,iy risAng through the o:ye's this

navigation.
rhi, ero•.ing. f!!{.. Aitickc of C;;:Titiii•ltion, r..t' (ter ~n
Captiin Iluste's letter,
which appearel iu the titiZCLIC Of the (.!ii 111Sti1111.]