The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-23 00:00:00

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sing ciecnneiteinces, whoa the firmest sonl has need of looking fur
• consolatlau and support to the bosom of its family, and domestic
Seepagly—The ptfely. of Napoleon, of his imperial family, and
of Mei! attendants, was guaranteed (14th article of treaty), by
all the Powers ; and bands .of assassins have been organised in
France ,under the eyes of the French Government, and even by
its orders,. as will soon be proved by the solemn process against
the •iietti. Demontbrettil, for the purpose of attacking the Em. .
pertly and his brothers and their wives :. in default of the success ••
which was expected from this first branch of the. plot, cam°,
lion had been planned at. Organ, on .the Emperor's road, to
attempt an attack on his life by the hands of some brigand.: they
sent as govenioy to Corsica an assassin of George'., the Sieur Brit,
tart, raked purposely to the rank of Marshal.de•Comp. known
in Britauy, in Anjou, io Normandy, in La Vendee, in all England.
by the blood which lie bad shed, that he might prepare and make
sure the crime : and in fact several isolated assassins attempted, ,
in the Isle of giba, to gain by the murder of Napoleon the giiiity'
and disgraceful salary which was.promised to them. .
Thirdly—The Duchies of Parma and Placentia were given
in full property to AfariaLoniso for herself, her soil, aid het
descendants; and after loug refitsals to put her in pos....sine. they..
gave the finish to their injustice by an absolute spoliation, meter
the delusive pretext :of a change without valuation, without pro.
.portion, without sovereignly. without consent : awl docuwents
existing in the Foreign-office, which have heeit sabinitted to os,
prove that it was on the solicitations; at the instance, and by the
trignes of the Prince of Beneveut, that Maria Louisa add her:
son have been plundered.
Fourthly—There should have been given to the Pririce Eugene, '
adopted son of the Emperor, who has done honour to France,.
wide!), gave him birth, and who .has cantered the affection of i
• Italy, which adopted, him, a suitable establishment out of France,
•and'he has' obtained nothing.
Fifthly—The _Emperor, had (art.. 9, of- thetreaty) stipulated .
in favour of the heroes ot the army, for the preservation of their.
endowments on the Monte Nape:time : he bad reserved on the ex-
• traardinary'd.dmaiiis, 'and oil the funds .1 the civil lisr, means of
recompeiring his servants, of paying the soldiem who attached
titemsacres holds 'destiny: all was curried' away and kept back
by 'the Ministers' of the 'Bourbons. An • agent for the French '
Military, M. Breseen. went in vain to Vienna, to.claim for then
Hie .most mgred Or. properties-the 'price of their courage and
blood. • 4".- • ' '" ' • ' • • . _

i.lll4ll—"The -presartatipts of the *goods, moveable and • ins•
moveable, of the family or the Emperor, is, stiOillated by the same
treaty (art. : and they have been plrindered,Of:este and of
Abe other ; that is to say, by main' ferce in France, *by commis-
; iiotleJ
brigaisda; In 'ltaly, by. the violence of the military chiefs.;
in the twit Countries', by dequestratiehs, 'atid seizures solernhily
decreed. . .
Serengtly-, -The Emperor Napoleon was to have• received
2,000,n0, and his family 2,500.000 francs per annum, according to
thearratigenieut established in the 6th article of the treaty : and
the, 7fritaiicaliviimilint has constantly refused to fulfil this engage
mcnt,
_.end Napoleon would soon have been reduced to dismiss his .
taittful gnaid for Want of means to secure their pay, if he had not
faliiid In the .gmatifid recollectiods of the bankers, and merchants
oir Genes end of .ItaV, the honourable resource of a loan of' it
which wag offered to him. •
short, it was not without a reason that they wished
by ;It ineasis• to separate from Napoleon those companions of his
•lery. modeller devotedness and , constancy, the unshakeu
rentees of his safety and of his The island of Elba was
seared,- to him in fog properly Orr. 5, of the treaty) and the
resolution- to spoil him of it, mhich writ desired by. the Bone.
bins,
,and soltcited by their agentsk; had been taken at tbe Con-
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An 4 if Pravidence bad • not in its justice provided for him, En-•
:rope would.have Koh an athwk made on the person, on the liberty,
of 'Napoleon,paelahed for the &hire in the mercy of.his. enerniesvtia
from Iris (wok', zed separated from-his servant% either to St. Lucia,l
or Alt. Helena, which was intended for his ph isou. And when the
Allied Powers, yielding to the imprudent wishes, to the cruel int.'
portimities of the House of Bottrbon, had condescetnicd to violate'
the solemn contract, on the faith of which Napoleon had teleased,
the French nation from its oaths ; when himself and the mencbers of
his family se* themselves threatened, at tacked in their. person, in•
tbeirproperty, in their affections, in the rights stipulated ier their,
favour, is Primes, even in those rights teetered by the laws to situ%
pie citizens, what could -Naksolaiu de f Ought he, after hiving "inJ