The National Register.
London, England, 1815-03-26 00:00:00

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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

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dttenaparte pursue* hie march; but as he advances, his troops di-
triiwistb Ho orr;red no the 17th at Auxerre with less than 6000 men
Ile will have inidi.ubtrithr quitted that town this morning to occupy
Joigny this evening. ilmninparte precedes his advanced guard iff an
&Own carriage, attended ooly by twenty dragoons. He is in general
Isa'f a league in advance.
Lvoirs opened her gates willingly to Buonaparte, and ell'the
troops joined him; that his force increased as it rolled on, and that his
advanced guard consists of five thousand cavalry, *hid, was expected
to be at Sens, 'half way between Joigny and Melon, on Sunday ; that
all the precious moveables of 14e Royal Family were about to be sent
err; that Mower had returned from Lisle with the hifornonion that the
garrison was not to be depended on ; that Count d'Erion, who had
been ordered to be ghat, had been released by the troops, after his
eves had been barahsged to receive the fatal fire, and bed been declared
tieveracie of the fortress. Monier was sent off to Paris. Ney and
Macdonald have returned to Paris with the tidings that their troops
akeulattly refused to fight against Buonaisarte-"

ANECDOTES OF .lIUOAYA P.I RTE.

A German paper gives the following story, as a reason for
‘ Iltionaparte's seclusion during the latter period of his resi-
dence on the Isle of Elba ; we of course cannot vouch for
its truth.-- •
After he had attained to the snprcme authority in France, he
Vati_pat Ocularly solicitous to erase all traces of the civil wan. in
La Vendee and the other north-western ovinces of Franey. fie
titerefere entered into negociations with the Royalists, and was so
snores tut as to gain over the must of them, and to form arrange-
ment: with each individually. All of them obtained considerable
rell3l4,iin on certain conditions; one, fur instance, enuaged to exile
bitnsclf from France for ever ; another was not to leave La Vendee;
a third was to reside constantly at Paris. according as the circum-
stances of each led Butroaparte to consider it to be most advan-
tageous
" Among those who were copfined to Paris was Brnlart, a zea
lons royalist and a good soldier. A considerable time after the corn-
Oete pacification of La Vendee, Brulart solicited tOr a friend, who
bad str,nlated not to quit La Vendee, permission to visit Paris:
and finonaparte, with apparent kindness, replied, that he needed
only to invite his friend to come, as every thing was now,settled,
and ail apprehension was unnecessary. Upon this, Brulart's friend
came to Paris ; but no sooner had he arrived than he was seized and
shot, by the express commaild of Napoleon. Brnlart, being ap-
prised of this circumstance, fled, horror-struck, to Euglaud. From
that eiinntry he wrote to Buonapartc, saying, that he had made him
the innocent cause of the death of his friend, who had come upon
the faith (tithe assurances he had given him : that the shade of the
murdered victim hovered incessantly before his eye+. demanding
vengeance ; that he was determined to devote himself to his dilly,
mud had sworn, to the shade of his Is tend, that Napoleon should die
bx his hand. Ot this letter, Brulart had a few copies printed, and
sent them, by different chaotic's, to France, so that at last it was
handed by the police to Napoleon. He laughed at the menaces of
the chivalrous enthusiast, and forget them in the brilliant career of
his prosperity ; but when Louis returned to Paris, Brulart also was
iu his retinue, and by a singular accident was SOOll afterwards ap
jointed Governor of Corsica, with directions to watch the Isle of
Elba. For this purpose brolart removed Isis residence from Ajaccie
to Bastin, opposite to Elba, from which, with a favourable wind,
the passage might be made in a few hours. No sooner had Napo-
leon received intelligthee of this circumstance, than he again recol-
eted the letter, and became apprehensive lest Brulart might
al;irse the authority entrusted to him by the King, and mindful of
has 0314, shont‘i, in spite of the law of nations, listen only to the
dictates of personal revenge. From this tune Ile began to seclude
himself with the greatest caution from almost cll society.'
We nederstaud that a person of rank, who had paid a visit of en-
ißtlity to the Exile of Elba, met with him again on the banks of the
Rhone. linutiaparte there recognised him, accosted him with ranch
friendly familiarity-, and amused him-elt with the expressions of sur-
price or ia.S. personal meeting him ii, that situation. On finding he
was gm gto Paris. Buonaparti rs consnientled to him for his own
per/moat convenience, to haiku his jountcv.
In changing horses at tic of the posts, an Loglish Lady, in her

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..e opposite direction to the post-
_ not know him, but reel-nested, as she
was pressed for time, that lie %nide, permit her to have the first set
of horses out. to which he answered, that the object of hie journey
was rather dressing ton, but lie must give way to . Lady • and he
waited with great patience till she. see out. It was not until she met
hit advanced guard, as they neve nailed, though far behind himself,
that she learned it wart their Emperor, Buotiapaite.
At the great ball which he gave at Lyons, he ordered that the Fa-
milieu resident there of whatever uationoliould be invited, and it
was crowded to an excess
When lie leaped on shore on the French coast, he stood erect, and
*tamping his tout, exclaimed, " Voila le Gottgres dissout.

CITY ADDRESS.
To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Regent of the
Visited Kingdom of Great Britain :cod Ireland.
The humble, dutiful, and loyal Address and Petition of the
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of Lon-
don, in Common Connell assembled.
hlay it pleabe pan Royal Higlinesb,
We, his Majesty 'a most dutiful mid loyal subjects, the Lord
Mayor, Altharnete Commons of the City of London, in Com-
mon Council assembled, most humbly approach your. Royal
Hihh-
ness, with no hems inlet than astonishment at the late proceedings in
Parliament, relative to a Bill for laying further restrictious on the
importation of corn
We have seen, that notwfthstanding the voice of the country has
been constitutionally and most decidedly declared against that mea-
sure, by Petitions vehicle in point of namber, anti the number and
respectability of the signatures thereto, had not been exceeded iii
the history of these realms, the House or Commons has passed the
said Bill, and that its proecedings thereon have been market' with a
recipitancy and pertinacious adherence to the must obnoxious fea-
tures thereof, which plainly evinces an utter disregard of poblic
feeimg, and of that public opinion, whose organ it ought to be.
We have observed in the other House of Parliament the same
precipitancy, and the same determination to resist tnrther inquiry
or to hear evidence, notwithstanding a Committee of that Right
Honourable House had stated in their Report, during the last ses-
soots, that the investigation was not complete, and that further in-
quiry would be necessary before any alteration took place in the
laws affecting the interests Ilt the growers and consumers of cont.
We have observed the Ministers of the Crown. with the si.me
disregard of the general voice of the country, and whose special
duty it was to watch over the interests, n t merely of the land
owners, but of the community at large, leild the sanction of their
authority to the support of a tneasnie, which in its operation can-
not tail of proving most seriously injurious to the .mantitacturiug and
commertial interests of the kingdom, in a very high degree oppres-
sive to the poor, and dangerous to the tranquillity anss safety of
the Empire.
That thus deprived of that protection which we might reasonably
have expeeted trent the representatives of the people and the here-
ditary legislators of the country., we are compelled humbly to lay
our complaints before your Royal Highness, as the only emistitii-
timed resource we have now remaining.
We beg most earnestly to impress upon your !Royal Nighties,
that the two Howes of Parliament being composed of landed pio-
victors ; that having examined such persons only as were land agents,
and otherwise catinected with land, and iiasitig instiloted no in-
quiry into the truth of the allegations of flue numerous Petitions
against the said Bill; vor any witnesses having been examined i.n
their behalf, appears most partial and unjust, and highly irritating
to the feelings of those classes who have buffered such ptivatioos,
and made such unexampled sacrifice's.
That dnriog a period of nnexampled difficulty and excessive
dearness of every article of consumption. your Royal Highness
cannot but have perceived that the war which was. the occasion of
distress to the industrious and laborious classes of the peaple has, by
causiog a progressive rise the rent of laud, been a source of
emolument to the laud proprietors.
That it is therefore with concern arid disappointment, we have
observed that, at a moment when the people were anxiously ex-
pectiug lime- blessings of peace--a diaiinutidn of their burthens and
the cheapness of food ; the laud owners not content with the advan-
,
tages they had thus derived ; nut content with having escaped those
losses and misfortunes which had involved thousands of other classes '
of the community iu ruin ; not content with being relieved from the
Property Tax, have bought.hy the said Bill to ptotect their pee

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