The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-16 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL Rr.GISTER.

I MIT, 16.

nerved in Spalll, in rtivosia, and in Germany, and whirls threatened
frielittitl catastrophe which it was necessary instantly to prevent.
" A strange :,ad mournful fatality prevented oar deriving from
the return of the House of Ronrbon all the advantages which were
hoped from it for Fronee; lint, however, we owe to them the 'speedy
end or II fatal asp,the deliveratiee of the capital and of the king-
dom. so adminiatration mild .and paternal, anti a tranquillity and li-
berty which were unknown to t Some days more and this liberty,
so dear, so necessary for all Frenchbvien, had been cousolidated for
Ever.
a 'Clue foreigners, it is said, were lost withont reannree, and it is
win, an arettsed of having /laved them. lam their aarionr 1 who
a;vrays fought them with as mach energy as constancy, whose zeal was.
Bev cooled for a moment. I who, alter having attached my name
to the nun-t brilliant successes of the campaign, bad already once
rerp .e veil Paris by the combats. of ,Ileanx and Lissy. Let as tell
• him oho gave such powerfot aid to the foraignera Ni their initiations,
and rendered useless the devotedness of so many good .ohlieis and
intelligent officer., he was that pet son, he who with SOO,Ono men
• to guard and occupy native from the Vistula to the Cat.
taro and the Ebro. while f: ranee had for its deflate? scarcely 40,u0u
soldiers h —toy colleted, anti the deliverers of Flatter ate those
ut.), a., I; mil acle, saved it front the crusade direettat against it, awl
terare:i .he 'Twist of I.50,0:,0 wen seattured throughout Europe,
aril uf 130,000 prix nets who now contititte its force and power.
" I have served itie Emperor Napoleon with zeal. constancy, and
05,,„.“11.e5s during alt my career, and I only separated myself from
him to save France, and when one step farther would have preci-
pitated it into the abyss whieli he had opened. No sfierisces were
ton ere it, where the question was the honour and aafety of my
country ; and yet how malty cirmirnstances render them sometimes
;pal melancholy I Who has shown more than I have, a de-
radt of personal interest, and has been more governed by the genes
rai interest ? Who ever has eehibited a greater example in coffering,
in danger, in privations! who has shown in all hislife more disisn-
terestaalnese that' I have ? My life is pure, it is that of a good eiti-
rill, and they at nub/ attach infamy to it ! No: so many lionoaratile
actions in so long a course of years, falsify to such a decree flat ae-
'nation, that those whose opinion is o€ arty value will always refuse
to lo !i!.%e it.
if!latever be the destiny reserved for me, whether my whole
s11:11, NSA muter proscription, or I shall he permitted lan to
erne run country ; whether I !dual he recalled, or whether I shall
be thriven from its bosom, my wishes tar its glory and its happiness
will tit'Vcr vary, for the love of my ronntry has been and will al- II
•1,;!. he the pas.-ion of my heart ; and the King has well understood
may sentiments and done justice to the rectitude of my intention.,
la en he deigned to add to my arm! the ' Patrive total et
ul i.pie,' which in a tew worda describes the history of my whale
fr.

and another,, which was very small, was covered on the
back with green silk. When Mr. Play-fair and I left, I was
very anxious to know the whole that the Italian had told him.
Mr. P. then informed me, that there was a plot to assas-
siaate the Bourbons, and that Buonaparte would raise his
standard in Italy, and would End plenty of followers; that
the Italian had told. hint Buonaparte's cypher and kt.‘. He
then spewed rue the paper covered with silk, which I had seen
the Italian give him; it waa a table of letters curiously dis-
posed. Mr. Mayfair then gave it me, with another paper
which he said was Buonaparte's address to Frenchmen in
cypher, and requested that I would that evening take a con•
rect copy of both, as he most return theta next day (I think-)
to Caraman. Both these I copied, and our jointly decypher-
ing it by the key-words Carman had told him, we found it
to contain an address to the French.
Caraman was a dark middle-aged thin man.

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