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in maintaining her glory, and who
common with her greatness, for one
OH hi, throne by gising up her provinces and cities, and had already
%added up her last barrier, as the payment for his temporary exal.
iation ; that if France, now sensible of her just interests, invited him
with a general and unanimous mind to return to his country, there
was the same burst of discontent with the present state of things all
user Europe, which now understood bow its hest interests were sa-
crificed by the shameless ambition and all-devouring rapacity of the
Congress of Vienna; that Italy was deceived, Germany sacrificed,
pound enslaved, Saxony extinguished, and Russia, Prussia, and En-
gland, the dividers of the spoil. There was thus an unanimous burst
of holignation thronglout every kingdom and people of Europe;
and thus, whilst his success in Freese was certain, and would be
immediate, so was there likewise no possible base far any future
general coalition; or if such a coalition should be possible, neither
agrinst France nor himself could it again succeed. France had
now recovered the three hundred thousand whom the cruelty
of the season had rendered prisoners to Russia ; all these men
were now disbanded, and wandering over the surface of France,
tinder the persecution of the Bourbon government, who, careless of
the glory of the French name, and sensible only to the narrow
interests of their personal safety, saw nothing in these noble .re-
It rans but their well-tried and well known fidelity towards himself;.
and endeavoured to stifle this affectionate attachment by sending
theta to beggary and rags. Will not these men, think you, return
to the General who remembers them as warmly as he is remembered
by them; who see him, as he sees in you, his comrades, his fellows
in arms, those %%limn he daily and hourly taught, led, and command-
ed. Fellow-soldiers, comrades in glory and in arms, for such you
are about to become, judge of them as you would judge of your
selves ; and answer me from your own feelings, whether these my
°au soldiers will pass over to my enemy and theirs, or whether
again seeing my standard shining iu the MD, and my imperial eagle,
again elevated in its own skies, they will reseek their standard, their
eagle, and their General, and again conduct them to the throne
which belongs to them. What are the Bourbons to them or us?
Who is it in Fiance, still in the vigour of his life, who remembers
them, or knows any thing of them. but their name,—their mad
extravagancies, and their contemptible debauCheries. In the course
of three hundred years did they add au acre to the French territory,
or an wilt to the lasting glory of the French name. Are these kings
for the French? No. comrades,—the age and the people demand
mother kind of leaders. %Vint say you,—soldiers, are you prepared
to follow me, and to partake my fortune, my glory, and if there be
any, my perils and labour !'

" This address was answered only by acclamation ; and the
imperial chief, a man who wants only some moderate portion of
virtue to remind us of the heroes of Greece and Rome, at once put
himself at their head, and conducted them to the place of embat ka
tion. The whole expedition, amounting at least to fifteen hundred
troops, where on ship-board, and without discovery, before nine
o'clock of the same evening ; anti as the wind and tide, being a dead
cAlni and the tide to aca, were exactly to their necessities and
wishes, they itinuediately

It is certain, that when the news of Buonaparte's landing
reached Ghent, it produced a burst of enthusiasm in favour
of the Ex-Emperor; and we hear that this is likely to be the
ca,e all over the Netherlands. Our troops will have ample
employment in preserving tranquillity in that country.
It is stated in a letter from Paris, and which comes from a
friend of the Royal family-, that the Duke of Berri was about
to set out to join the array, but that Gouvion de St. Cyr told
him that his interference would be the death-warrant of his
fmnily. This fact, and that from a friend, speaks volumes as
to the popularity of the Bourbons with the army. None •of
tlir-m, however, have made themselves so unpopular as the
Duke of Berth The indiscreet and contemptuou% language
Le has held towards the most meritorious of the Marshals has
given universal disgust to the army, and he was prudently ad-
v:bed to stay at home with the National. Guard.

CORRESPONDENCE.

The following private accounts from Paris give a
sketch of the unhappy state of the people of France :---
.PARIS, MARCH 10, 1815.--Still nothing decisive from
the seat of action. The four guns of Buonaparte, with his
coach, &c. have been taken at Grasse, where- he left them
' probably that his movements might be less incutnbered ;
some prisoners have also fallen into the hands of the royalists:
The prefect of the department of the Isere mites word from
Grenoble, that having dispatched scouts in all directions,.he
could not learn what had become of Buoisaparte. This has
.given rise to the report, which the friends of govei nrnent
circulate with much activity, that the few troops who accom-
panied him have begun to desert, and that he had taken
refuge in the mountains of Piedmont. The Kingof Sardinia
has set a price upon his head of 400,000 francs. ;hout 16,000
guineas of our money,—an example which the King of France
has it is reported, declined to follow. An offer to assassinate
Napoleon having been formerly made• to the Duc de Berri,
was instantaneously rejected with every mark of horror. I
do not mean to trouble you with newspaper accounts, and
you must therefore look upon whatever little intelligence
reaches me through private channels, as supplementary to
the meagre and half fabricated statements of the official press.
The public anxiety increases with the want of information,
and doubts begin to agitate those, who only yesterday were
riotous in their derision of Buonapartc's projects. Upwards
of 50 Officers have left Paris since the night before last, and
taken the road towards Italy : the names of most of them are
known to the police, and at the War-office—but it is too late
to stop them, as the hazy weather impedes the working of
the telegraphs.
FRIDAY NIGHT.—It has been proposed to the King to
arm La Vendee, and thus secure by one blew 50,000 brave
and devoted soldiers. Louis the 18th, who comprehends his
own situation and that of France differently from any of his
advisers, repelled the scheme, as offensive to the body of the
nation.—" This is, in its essence," said the King, "a contest
" for public liberty—you must not narrow it into the quarrel
"of the House of Bout bon. The faithful Vendeans might
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protect my person, but the French people shall defe-cd
their own cause." Since the loyal demonstrations of 'he
garrison at yesterday's review, attempts have been made to
debauch the troops in their barracks : a man has been de•
tected in the act of dispersing th. proclamations of Buona-
parte to the French soldiery, and led away on the ins►ant to
be shot.

There ate now no doubts that this plan of invading France
was a long time prepared, and elaborately c..mhined with
machinations in the interior, and with the organization of
Italy for revolt. The latter country is represented to be in
flames; Murat proclaiming every where the inclepend,”icc
of the Italian people, with the treachery of the Allied Pori ers
to him and to Genoa—and marching openly upon Rome and
Florence. Genoa, we are assured, is in decided insurrection,
and Buonaparte resolved to establish himself amongst the
Alps—to receive his partizans, whom he expects to pour in
to him from all quarters of this country, and to make large
draughts upon the insurgent population of Italy, until be can
swell his small band into a formidable army; and improve
the limited enterprizes of a partizan, into the elements of a
grand invasion. There are, indeed, a great number of
persons in Paris who for told his attempt upon France, from
the moment when he sus:,ended his buildings at Elba ; and
who were confirmed in their first prognostications. by the
mission of the majority of his old Ft ench guards to different

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