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

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MARCH 96, 1815.
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poLITICAL DISVPSITION. favour. The mild sway of the Bourbons war forgotten.
' —Napoleons past
—asse--- glories broke, like sun-beams from
ON THE RESTORATION OF BUONAPARTE. b'hind a cloud, upOn the nation, and every mini ays-s
fired with hopes of revived grandeur, of exteoded con.
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Will it still be doubted that the decrees of Providence , quest, and universal empire. Those parents aihose chil-
ase gone forth, and that her hand is fast- unravelling the dren he dragged to the field and sacrificed to his arabi-
destinies -f the world ? Where is the unbeliever ? Let him tion; those widows whose husbands' corpses had paved
• appear ! Let him read events, and say, whether man, with his way to fortutte; those veterans whOrti he had left to
all his boasted faculties, could be the sole author of what perish amidst the snows of Russia, and who had been
has passed ? Battles may be gained, cities ravaged, and saved only through the hematsity of their &terns-, new
kingdoms overthrown by the mere force of arms, withoot hailed him with universal shouts as a benefactor and e !:0.,
the apparent intervention of a Superior Powers for physical ther. No sword was raised to oppose him: every hand
means are sufficient to contend with physical strength. But waved, every mouth spoke, welcome to " Napoleon the
when have the hearts of twentx-six millions of people been Great." • Cities opened their gates, and yielded all their
changed at once by the upassisted influence of man ?—of a stores to supply his wants and augroent his strength. The
nsaa, fallen in power, stripped of empire, chained to a bar, ! peasantry rallied round his eagles, arid violence was wily
ra rock, and loaded with the scorn and execrations of ' olfered tQ those who were thought adverse to his cause.
mankind ! A felon may sometimes .break his bonds, and got a shot was fired, not a drop of blood she it. Ile a
range aii hile at liberty; but lie is not followed, admired, march of 800 miles he only found friends, and toile almost
and placed at the head of that society from which his grimes I unattended through ensiles collected to oppose him, and
had banished him. Declared the enemy of Europe, yet whom he led against those by whose (sisters they had ea'.
spared through inscrutable purposes, Napoleon's prison lay i,embled. The capital at last received him, and he lc-
ia view of the whole world. Had it been.an obscure duns entered his palace with as much east and tranquillity as
neon, whose gloom and solitude prevented his being oh- though he had merely returned from an excursion to lon-
served, he might have Secretly worked his deliverance, and, talubleau. The only differende was, that his receptii'm
his escape might have passed unnoticed. But his least , was far more enthusiastic. Thus has the throne of the
actions were exposed to the eyes of those whose greatness, Bourbons, which seemed fixed on the affections of a
and perhaps whose very existence depended on the coati- people, grateful for the blessing, of peace vitich they i;::1
nuance of his captivity, and whose watchfulness must have never enjoyed ender their predecessor, been a sccosid
Leen unremitting. The sea heaved around him; and, in.. time subverted. A breadth has been sufficient to sweep
stead of fleets to divide its billows, in flight vessels of war away one of the 91d.est Houses in Europe. Nut one ata
kept an anxious guard around his island. Who, then, was raised in its defence, and yet in his fall, Louis 'llqll.
could burst Napoleon's chains ? If blast, who could pro- was respected by those who had abandoned him ; Whilst,
tact his flight? That atchiewed, who could secure hinl a in his brightest days of prosperity, ,hose
had the tti.:-..
favorable reception? 'Were these preliminary steps, for iu 'Oration, but never the esteem of his foitowers. La stia
fact, supposing them aecompiished, still did the main dilli- we should open the annals of history : we should noi.- firers
ray and danger of the enterprize retnairt untouched, With- A parallel to his present restoration,. consciome keitiar,.
in the power of a man situated litte Napoleon ?BO the host at last, that he was led by Providence to prove once pure
its minister ,upon earth, he SCeMS to have disdained the
of perils was removed .: an armo which nothing can resist,
dosed the eyes of the vi apart smoethed the seas,
the
and assistance of ;nen. Armies rose .to join hint, but he left
wafted the adventurous Chief and his little band to
them behisid hien, and marched in advance, with .110 othcr
snores sv here he had lately reigned. There every man had I force than the influence of his name to enco-seter and over..
come p
City of oaths was disregarded erils. The monarchs of the i; orld Are now await. -
sworn to be his &lenity, On A Suaclen, howeyer, the sanc-
ing from their trance. Each feels the eccieisitions he hi
—the -plighted suPPGrters of
tn3tie as the . heavy weight which mfrs: slop: him in the
the new Government forsook it. Napoleon 11,0 landed at
contest. Each regrets that cassia is a& free, that thy
the head of 11(X1 men : a single re&irtle4lt vo**lllll4re suf.'. noble enthusiasm by which they, were anietated wharf
liced to annihilate hth
is little band, and gra; him to e
they
.overpower.ed the common enemy has peen suffere4
''caffeld denounced against him ; bait ,every .corps sxsat
to mth, only served to atrengthe4 him.--The Aeapts 1t• evaporate, and that he can pco longer he relieved h.f.t
a the • •
. military and the 'people ,opened we owe • • •
j 4. .. . ' lor*A- . dons that he fights for their lrt4pendence.
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