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peatod disappointments, he ventured on a wild specula-
tion, which he-hoped would retrieve all. The result was
unfavourable to his hopes, and he saw himself dethroned
Tie then offered to take what the Allies were to

allow him before, but be found it was too late to make
concessions when he had nothing left to concede. It
wits clear that to reign himself was a lost.hope, and
he endeavoured to make a bargain with the Allies, that
his son should sit on the throne. Again disappointed, he
considered that a good income and a secure retreat in the
island of lba was better than nothing, and his formal
abdication took place. The vexation which he had ex-
perienced, and the conflicting emotions of interest and
pride had so agitated him, that he fell sick, and for some
days he could not be moved. Reflection at length whis-
pered to him that even now he was better off, than he had
any reason to expect he should ever be, when he set out
from Corsica to seek his fortune, and the consolation
which' he derived from this reflection, contributed to the
re-establishment of his health. Ile then turned over in
his mind the various ways in which he might amuse him-
self. i t app:sred to him that one of the pleasantest ways
of passive.; his time would be to write his life. Doing
this, he ittiew he must again make some noise in the world,
and he fancied ke should be thought to resemble CHARLES
th.s Firm. He had forget for some timethat he was still on
the stage, but now began to collect himself and act again.
He attempted to look big, and to pretend that he felt
.satisfaction, in abdicating the throne, than he should
hnv.• felt I.ad he continued the Ruler of France, if forced
to give up a siogle village of what he had preposterously
called the Frerch Empire. This he hoped would be re-
ceived as a proof of his magnanimity, forgetting that he had
offered to submit to its being curtailed and kept such as
the Allies chose to make it for his son. Finally, he tells
himself, though no longer the chief of a great nation, the
world will admit hlin to have been an extraordinary cha-
racter, and with this he endeavours to soothe his troubled
mind, net considering that our ARVIN:if AW and BELLING-
u.km might have made ,the same unmeaning boast at the
gallows. He then embraces one of his late officers, kisses
an eagle, and shrinking within himself from the contempt
with which every one regards lf,m, commences his jour-
ney to Elba in high dudgeon.
In all this there is nothing greatly to distinguish Buo-
NAPARTE from the mass of mankind. The whole story
goes but to prose what we ought never to have forgotten
(for it has long been known) that those who are called
heroes. &e. differ but little from other men.
Yet there have been wri.+-e.rs and men of great reading
and of considerable talents too, who have suliered them-
selves to be so misled by the successes of this man, as to
believe the time was passed when it was possible for him
who bad frequently conquered, to be at last subdued him-
self. The inflated style of some otherwise well written
articles in the Paris papers, we have frequently taken oc-
ca •ion to notice. Our readers will not fail to compare
tiwm w ith those which immediately succeeded the cap-
ture of ' But perhaps the extracts from a celebrated
work with which we are about to close this article, will
afford them the best theme for reflection. These we
think will enable them to enter into the spirit of the obser-
satiens we have offered in the early part of this essay.
'They m;.ght almost amuse NAPOLEON himself in his exile.
tiglisli—that which is the
ders of their Government,
less is, that they can neither

MAY 1.

make allowance for the times, nor for the greatness of -the
French Empire. The Emperor Napoleon is not a mere
King of France; he is the invincible child of Victory, and
with his power "has begun the real race of the Czsars ; that
which will nevr end: that which will never e an Au-
gustulus nor a Lords le Debonaire.; that which will direct the
fate of the world for a long series of ages.
But the hostile and political revolution on the Conti-
nent is *revocably finished and consummated. The eigh-
teenth of Brumaire is over in Europe. The French Empire
guarantees the destinies and the peace of nations. Tl:e
Napoleon dynasty is seated otrlntinutable hayes.
" The Emperor Napoleon has declared, that the French
Empire must have a fleet : lte wills that it shall recon-
quer at once the rights of nation, the liberty of the seas,
and a general Peace. Who shall dare to doubt of a sue•
cess which is guaranteed by genius. power and riches?
•"The docks of Amsterdam and Antwerp, of Brest, ltocle
fort and Toulon, of Ferrol, Lisbon, Cadiz, Carthagena, Genoa,
Naples, Venice, Porto-rico, &c. will, in a few months be-
filled with ships, at the voice cf the Emperor of the trench.
This was the language held by 111. De Niontgaillaril, in
a work called 6"Fhe Situation of Great Britain, in 1811."
Of all the false prophets that ever existed, perhaps never one
has seen his predictions so woefully falsified as this same M.
Montgailhtrd. We should like to know what he has to say
now on the subject of the race of Cxsars, who will never
have an end, to be found in the dynasty of the invincible
Napoleon.

TO REIG N I NTE L LIG ENCE,.
CONVENTION FOR PLACE.
PARIS, Minn. ::3 —This day have been ratified by his Royal
Highness Monsieur, Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom, Conven-
tions with each of the High Allied Powers. They are as follows :
The Allied Powers. united in the determination to put a period
to the calamities of Europe, and to found its repose on a just distri-
bution of power among the States which compose it ; wishing to
give to France, replaced under a govern whose principles otkr
the necessary securities for the maintenance of Pears, proofs of their
desire to resume amicable relations with her ; ‘rishinfolso to cause
France to enjoy, as much as possible, the benefits of peace, even
before all the tel thereof have been settled, have resolved to pro-
ceed conjointly with his Royal Highness Monsieur, Lieutenant-
General of the I. ingthan of France, to a suspension of hostilities be-
tween their respective forces, and to a re-establishment of the an-
cient relations of mutual friendsl:ip.
His Royal Highness Monsieur, on tile one part, and their Majes-
ties, &c. &c. on the other, have therefore uninitiated Plenipotentia-
ries to agree upon an act, which, without prejudging the arrange-
ments of peace, may contain stipulations for a suspension of hostili-
ties, and which shall be followed up as soon as possible by a treaty
of peace.
[Here follow the designationS of the high contracting Powers, and
of their Plenipotentiaries;'
Who, after having exchanged their full powers„ agreed upon the
following article.; :
Art. I. All hostilities by laud and sea are and remain snspentled
between the Allied Powers and France, namely :—For the land
forces, as soon as the Generals commanding the French Armies, and
strong places shall have made known to the Generals commanding
the Allied Troops who are opposed to them, that they have acknow-
ledged the authority of the Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom of
France; and both by sea, and-with regard to maritime places and
stations, as soon as the fleets and ports of the kingdom of France,
I or those occupied by French troops, shall have made the same sub-
missimr.
H. To certify the re-establishment of amicable relations between
the Allied Powers and France, and to enable the latter to enjoy as
much as possible beforehand the advantages of peace, the Allied
Powers shall cause their armies to evacuate the French territory,
such as it was on the Ist of January, 1792, in proportion as the
places beyond those limits, still occupied by French troops shall be
• evacuated and given up to the Allies:
•111. The Lieut.-Gen. of the kingdom of France shall in con-
serpteuee give orders to the Commandants of those tortresse. V

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