The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-26 00:00:00

THE FREI,CH ItO:YALiSTSi

Extract t,f a letter from an .Officer of Distinc-
tion who tended `ttie Duc D'ArtGout.Emt into
Bonrcleaux, dated Bourdeaux, "March 13 :---

" I prece4ledthe- Due D'ANGouf.EME into this
town„ and acquainted the•Mayot withiils at rival.
3t`was_immeldiately published ; upon . which the
red cockade was foule au pieds, the white one
nubstituted in its place, and the white flag hoistecl.
The ‘.'hole of the town fe7echoed ' the. cries of
Yive ie Dzic D'Angoulemei :1 immediately asseri-.
bled about 200 young men, mounted and decorated
with white sashes and cockades, and went two

leagues out of the town to .neet the Dile, \vivo en-
tered Witl) the cordon as Heriditary:Ptinee
of the Crown of France. Never did. I .see so nu-

merous and unanimous'a populace in the streets,
though very wide and very long, a pin would not
have found its way to the ground. To give you
an exact description is impossible ; and without
knowi.ng well the character of the French.nation,
you could never conceive the extraordinary en-
thusiasm which the whole of the inhabitants dis-
. played. 4 has le Tyran! A bas.les.Aigles! Ecra-
sons le Monstre! Vive Baurbon ! St. Louis' Henri:
IV.! Louis XVIII. ! Monsieur le Duc et Mada»ze
la Duchesse d'Zogouleme'!
" Immediately on his arrival the Duc went to
the Cathedrals at the door of which he was received
by the Archbishop, &c.
" Yesterday we were at the Theatre, when an
Address was presented to the Due d'ANGoimeme,.
togeOer with a Crown," which he accepted, and
immediately the music played—Vive rlenri IV.!
La Victoire est a Nous ! Ou peut on etre mieux,
-qu'au sein de sa Farnille? &c. and Got) SAVE THE
KINTG

We are now organizing troops as fast as we

cam"

PR 0 C LA MATION.

MAYOICS OFFICE OF THE CITY OF BOURDEAUX,
The Mayor of Bourdeaux to his Fellow-citizens

" INHABITANTS OF BOURDEAUX

r°' 'The paternal Magistr.ate of your City has
been summoned, by circumstances the most for-
tunate, to be the interpreter of your long-sup-
'pressed wishes, and the organ of your feelings,
in -order to welcome, 'in your name, the Nephew,
the Son-:in-Law of Louis XVI. whose presence
converts into allies, irritated nations, who, al-
most to' your gates, bore the names of enernjes.
" Already, people of Bourdeaux, proclamations
multiplied by your impatient pens, amidst the sub-
servience of the press, 'have re-assured you as to
the intentions. of our King, and the plans of his
Allies.

" It is not to subject your provinces to a fo-
reign yoke that the English, the Spaniards, the
Portuguese appear, there. They have assembled
in the South, as the people of other countries
have done in, the North.), to destroy the scourge of
nations, and replace him by a Monarch, the father
of his people. It is through him only that.we can
appease the resentment of a neighbouring nation,,
against which we were precipitated by the most
perfidious despotism,

If thad not been convinced that the presence
of, the Bourbons, conducted by their generoui
Allies, must put a period to your calamities, still
J should not have deserted your city; but should
liave bent my head in silence under a temporary'
yoke: Never should I have been seen to wave
that colour which presages a piure government,
bad I not been assured that all classes of citizens
would enjoy tnost blessings which the progress
of the, human mhAl promised, to cur age.

"The bawls of the,Bourbons' are free from
French blood. With the testament of Louis XVI.
in their hands, they forget all resentment ; every
where they proclaim, and tilcy prove, that toler-
ance is the first wish of their souls. Aware that
the- ministers of a religion different from that
;which they profess have Ihmeated the fate of Kings
and Pons ifs, they promise equal protection to
.every Kith which invokes a God of Peace and re;.-

condi;lati.on.

" It is in cieplor;og the horrible ravages of ty-
ranny, engendered by licentiousness, that they for-
get the errors caused by the illusions' of liberty.
Far fro.rn wishing, them-to, fall on those who, with
an ardour too severely punished, pursued its vain
phantom, they come to restore that true liberty,
which leaves at once.the People. and the Monarch
Without distrust. • Every liberal institution shall
be maintaitled. Alarmed at the. facility of the
French in votibgiuTosts, the pillars of despotism,
the Prince 'trill be the first to devise, with your
representatives, the most legal mode of taxation,
the most equitable distribution, in Order that the
people may not be overwheimed.'

" Those brief and consoling words which the
husband of the daughter of Louis XVI. has just.

addressed to you—" No more tyrants ! —No
wore !—No- more conscriptions !—No more

stsl", bare already clitrtd !;61!

familie4.

" Already his MaYesty has twice 'proclaimed,
in the face of E`U'ope, that the interest of the
State Matle it a I.aw with Idol to confirm tht--
which, bylunutrierable changes, interested So
Many families in estates henceforward guaranteed.
" People of Bourdeanx !.1 haVe4)btained the
assurance that it was the firm determination of
his Majesty to favaurindtis;. y„arid to recal,atOonot
Its that impartial liberty of commerce, which
prior. to 1789 tad diffused comfort among all the
.laborious classes,. Your harvests 'shall cease to
be ruinous ; the colonies, too long separated from
the mother country, shall be restored to you; the
sca,-tvhich had become well nigh usekss to you,
is aboiii to.. bring back friendly flags into your
port. The laborious artisan will no. longer lie
idle ; and the mariner, restored to his noble pro-
fession, is. about to navigate the seas anew, to
'purchase repose for his old age, and to bequeath
his esprience to his sons.

" The liusband Of.the daughter of Louis XVI.
is within your Is : he himself- will soon com-
municate to you the expression of the sentiments
which animate him, and of those of thellNkonarch
Whose representative and interpreter he is. .
" The hope.ofidays of happiness which he as-
sures to us has supported my strength,
" I have no need to invite you to.. coneora.---
Dd not all our wishes tend to 'the same object ;
the destruction of 'the tyranny under Avhich we
have all equally groaned ? But -each of us-must
concur thereto with as. much of order as ardoue.
Amsterdam did not wait tor the presence of her
deliverers to declare herself, and re-establish the
old government, the only one capable of restor-
ing her commerce and her prosperity ;`it was .to
the patriotism of merchants that the Stadtholder
owed his re-establishment, and, the.prompt crda.
tion of the army which defends the liberty of
Holland.

"'You will have been the first to, give a similar
example to France. The glory* and advantage
Which our city shall thence deriVe, ivilleender it
for ever famous and fortunate among
" Every thing permits us to 'mope,' that to the
excess of calamities those times so much ileired
by wisdom are about to succeed, when the rival-
ries of nations shall cease-; and 'perhAps'
reserved to the great Oaptairi, who has already,
merited the title of Deliverer of Nations, to attach
his glorious name to au epoch so happily won-
derful.

" Such, fellow citizens, are the motives, the
hopeS, which have guided my conduct,• and have
determined me, if necessary, to sacrifice. inylite
for you. God is my witness, that I have
.bad no-
thing in view but the happiness of our country.
" Vtvt: LE ROI I'
" The Mayor; _SYNCH.
"At Bourdeaux, in the Hotel de Ville, March 12, 1314."