The National Register.
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this momentous occasion was a continued succession of
• errors) after having thrown into the public journals a cry
of alarm for which it had not prepared the public, adopt.
ed measures that seemed dictated by .the most perfect se-
curity. The gates of Grenoble were open to the Em-
peror, and the 'Princes still deliberated upon the-plan- of
defence it was necessary they should adopt, not perceiv-
ing that in such circumstances it was much further from
.the gulf of Juan to Grenoble, than from Grenoble to
Parii. The departure of the coolie d'Artois • for a mo.
ment encouraged theroyal party, for it was seasy.to see
there were two in France, one of which hid the eitecu.
tive power on its side, and the other the force of public
opinion. The King's Household weye• all called from
their cantonments. These brave and noble youths, among
whom the Hero of the Isle of Elba reckoned so
many friends, did not. heiitate between their duty
and their affection ; their zeal was as active and
sincere as if their tievotion had been more entire.
But what could be expected in the state of these
cempanies, many of whom were not mounted, and com-
manded by officers, for whom the,art of war, and the pro-
fession of arms were merely the confused remembrances of
another age ? In proportion as Napoleon advanced, by
an indistinct kind of foresight for which no one could
.account, the opinions of the people appeared toconcen.
trate, and their anxieties to coalesce. The hopes of one
party less expansive, as they became more certain, pru-
dently spared.the despair of the other.. the Royalists,
•endcavouring to deceive themselves, placed all their con-
fidence in the public opinion, which they fancied was most
decidedly expressed, by the shouts of a multitude of idle
and disordered people, that daily assembled in the courts
and upon the terraces of the Thuilleries ; and trembled
the next morning at finding themselves mentioned in the
Journals as having demanded, on the preceding evening,
to die in the cause of. the BOurbons. The precipitate re-
turn. of the Count d'Artois spread alarm through the
Thuilleries. Its inhabitants now felt, but too late, the
necessity of relying for support'upon that Constitutional
Charter which, for the last year, had been devoted to the
contempt of the staunch Royalists, and the insults of the
netrspapers.

- .The same -absurd policy that had removed the army, at a
time when it would have been so advantageous for it to
lmw.been near the King's, person, which was entrusted
loth, Swiss Guards, the same policy,. I say, now called
forth humiliated and discontented tirOppslor the defence
of the Monarch, and flattered itself tit direct their arms
against a chief whOse iter,y name recalled to them such
glorious remembrances, and awoke. such noble expecta-
tions. That, which a silty Minister alone did. not fore-
see: and which ought.to have been feared, took place ;
the forces of the Emperor were augtne.,Thted by all the re-
giments that were sent against him. , in the appeal to the
Constitutional Charter, and the solemn ceremony with
which the Royal Family swore to its the feu-