The Sun.
London, England, 1815-04-08 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FRENCH PAPERS.

We have this morning- received French Papers
to the fith'inst.. An article from Bourdeaux, dated
the 2d, announces the arrival of Gen. CLAUSEL
at St. Andre-de-Cubsac on the 3lst nit.
Gentiarmestnt from Bourdeaux to guard the
passage of the Dordogne joined his" troops.__
Tile fort of Blaye hoisted the tri-coloured flag.
Some volunteers and national guards posted in
the tete-de-pont of St. Vincent, on the right batik
of the river, fired two cannon shot and then fled,
while Gen. CLAustt. caused a flying brislgc to be
brought up. Next morning the volunteers who
had retired to the B'tstide passed the Garrone,
and took tip a position on the quay of Botirdeaux.
General CLAusEL arrived at the Bastide at noon.
‘g In the mean time, the Duchess d'ANootnEmE

" The

was going- aliout in all directions, endeavouring

t.) excite resistance,

She %vent from one paid-

room to another: harraligniag the trooPs of the
intreating and el: hortHg tlieot to fight.—
Having got nothing but a general and positive re-
fusal, she returned, frantic, to the Quay, to pass
in review the Vohoiteers, ranged in order of bat-
tle, opposite the Bastide. She caused one volley
to be tired against Gen. CLAUSEL, and seeing that
our troops did not. regard it, hearing at the same

time murnuns near her, and the crier of-t pc.o-
- she disappeared. Tl►e Volunteers then, by a
movement, oldie cause of which we are i
rant, fired upon each other. S.,.veral were wound-

et! ; a Captain wii-s killed by hi 3 own Hier'.

CLAUBEI. bad' not a single priming burnt.

Gen.

" Iu the mean time, the Duchessd'ANGov-
.LEME-, in despair at the failure of her efforts, re 7
lease,l her partisans front their paths, quitted the
city at eight o'clock in th, evening, kind em-
barked at Panillae."

[Then trollukvs a &script ioa of the rapture With
which General CLAUSEL is S;tid to have been re-
ceiyed by the garr;s4u and inhabitants.]
" A Letter from the Die d'ANGouLantE has
been intercepted, in which he complains, of not
havin4 been seconded by the population. It is
at this nimhent reported that he has fled, disguised
as a miller.**

6.' G Eistort,c, 31.—Armed men, calling
themsetves the National Guard of Marseilles,
have, reappeared in the Upper Alps ; the National
Guards ot the Department of the Isere have again
assembled to oppose evety attempt. Already
some companirs have joined the artillery and
. -
troops of the line, who, whatever be the result,

have taken up a position across• Corps,
noble, many National Guards have .presented
tl►eruselves to the G~ner.tl• St,iff of toe Division,

At Gre.

to form companies of Voltigeurs des tined for active
service.---;Journal de l'here.)

" LYONS, 24.—Pcirsuant to the orders
of the Duke d'Evxmuzir. (DAvousT) Minister of
War, the division coininAnded by the Baron

MOUTQN-DifVERNET, is to rem in at Lyons for
the present. These troops \VW be employed to
preserve order, to keep, down the enemies of

France, to check and preve►►t the plots of the
malevolent.

"R DFz, MARcil 28.—The volunteers who
have been called together by a circuLe front the
Duke tl'Aucout.Eme, are to meet to-day at the
chief' place of the Department. The authorities
will tualie them return to their homes. The news
of the Emperor's haring reached Paris will arrive
ns soou as them in all the districts, where it will
bring consolatioo..

IMPERIAL DECREES.
A Decree,
.dated the 28th Aiarch, abolishes
the otrices.iii Directors-General, Commissaries-
General, and Special Officers of Police, and sub-
stitutes se yea riieutenants of Police attached to the
General Ministry, anti at the disposal of the Mi.
'lister, to be einployel. on any extraordinary ser-
vices that may he necessary. They are vigilantly
to watch taer the different Functionaries, and to
dispateh.instant information of any negligence or
misconduct which they may observe .---they are
A,tio to make Hp and transmit a detailed and tni-

/Hoe aceonnt.of.every thing they observe within
the n:‘,;rict to which they are appointed. Whea

CREUZOT.

vite ;ill)] to take the chief conon;'11-y4 of the Pros-

shin troops on the
,Lower Rhine. There is a detail
ot. the territorial arrangements made by Congress,
from which it appears, that the House of Austria
would stequire a population of 2,703,210, heyomi
Whit she% had in ISO;.---The King_ of 11'-rt.,.m-

B:,:i1G iii ConipHi-MCC %yid) the request of the Ent-

perm. ALEXANDER, has ordcrl'd his contingent to
the frontier: It is reported this State; 13d.-
varia, and Switzerland, wish to estiblish a sys:-

tem of nelitrality ! ! !
The Piussiau Minister to France (Count. de
GoLTz) has pissed throngh Strasburgh in his way
to Germany, and a hitlt is given :that a distin-
guished Persunage has done the same, in his road
from Park to Vienna. .

They are furnishing the Empress's nppartment
i►t the Thailleries ! Many corps of troops kW-Pa-
ris daring eight of the 3d. The conouiviica-

tions with Germany, 1,;(t Frankfoit, are broken
off: they arc: tontinued by-Manlieirn and-Stras..

burgh.
The Courier Extraordinary, in the Gazette de
France, states, that CLAUSEL entered Bourdeaux
at 11 o'clock on the2d, the Duchess of ANGOW-
LR,MC having left that place on the 9:11:—reports
that I'AtoNAPARTE had appointed a Commission to
revise all the Ordonnabees of the King, to the in-
jury of the Proprietors of National Domains
that a great crowd had assembled abont the Thuil-
leries, on a ktnour of the arrival of the Em-
press :—that ale Regiments which Ii U! recently
left Paris :TtioK. TH^ ROAD TO FONTA/NBLEAU

aud that six corps-Warm6e had bear organized,
which %rould be commanded by Marshal N€y.

ArrISLiENA'S %vife dined with BuoNAPAnTE on

the 3d.

OVDINOT has arrivied in Paris; and
_bad
an audience of the Usurper. The' Deputies FLAN-,
GERGVES, BEDOCN., RLYNOIJAIID, and others (the
French Oppositioit) have liven _well rccfived by
BOONAPARTE4 4! General Giioi/cITY it”.s set out

with a corps for Lyons to disperse the small num-
ber of insurgents who agitate the tanks of the Rhone
with gross lies. • They intercept all the dispatches
from Paris, forge Bulletins that the Emperor had
hist a battle at Tarare, and that the troops of the
North were marching with the BOUtilio NS to Paris.
Their spirits wilt be calmed as soon as the truth
is known-, and .it is hoped that force will be tin..
necessary"! !..!

Suety arc the gratifying cowents of ,the French
Pipers of Wednesday last. The l;111 11 di ft ying
fallen more than t‘vo per cent. betv.-ven Munch),
and Tuesday, and the Bank Actions being, de-
pressed more than 5t.) tc:ithin the sarne.,-ieriod.—
After au action, in w:hirli the Ditches's of ANGou.

LE ME displayed the heroism of a BoADICEA, and in-
spired the brave Citizens of liourlleanx to a loyal
resistance; the traitor, Gen. CLAD sci., aided•by,tlte-
defectiou Of the klegnla►•s withi►; the city,,socceeded
OVeremning resistance and emtered the place. Her
Royal ilighness craharked at Pouillac, helotv the
fort of MA ye, which had hoi,ted th tri -coloured
ensign. It is 'evident that tlie whole South iuf
trapce, al3c lwob ably Lyons, is in aruts-•-Dv-Csi

ciictiffistancet regnive it, the 7fTiniste'r is chi.;
povvere4 to inVest theni (vith 'the snie powers
foriiierly Colifeiri•ed On the RiteCtors-General of
Police. the second section of the Decree divi.les
the Ettipit.e into .set'en Arrondissements of .Police;
in which the different DtpartnientS Comprehended
by each of there are Specified.

" A Decree of the 31st of March appoints the
foncming to be Lieutenants of Police. SasErn
TUROT, LECOINTRE, PUYRANEAU, CAILLEMER,
H. LASSALLE, MOREAU, GAILLARD, and Du-

" A Decree 'Of the 3d of April enacts, that the
individuals composing the-:corps of ItovAL Vo-
LUNTEERS, and others of that kind, shall forth-
with deliver up the arms, accoutrements, equip-
ments, and CLOTHING which they have received
either from the State Magazines, or at the ex-
peace of the Departments and Communes.
" These articles tp be delivered up are to be
employed by the Prefects, according to their or-
ders, in the equipinent and clothing of the corps
of National Guards.—Persons who neglect the
first part of this Decree are to be considered
as embeizlers
.of Military goods, and punished
according to the rigour of the laws." '
" MILAN, MA zzeu 22.—The Naples Moniteur
and litters are to this effect :
" All the troops arc in motion in every direc-
tion.' The disposcable force amounts to 70,000
men, the provincial legions being sntlicieut to
guard the interior. The King is ready to get out,
but we do not know whether his route. will --be
towards Gaette or. Abruzzio."
The following is a suunnary of the prinr:ipal
contents of Minor Journals. All the Hanoverian
troops, the troops of the. Elector of HESSE, aial
those of the Doke of .11EusswicR, have, been put
iu motion for Belgium., It is reported, that the
King of PRussLt has written to BLUCHE a to in-

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the gttriltifi of.l aril lino)iey; TTfATClintt Irrl fit''
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nem': th'e €iurrtli t,•
state Of things in tia:>: crr id-qyincCs
which W.':osAnit-ii atiJrds
atifi.Ct(i:y proof that Ili9 success dePc101?"
the boldness and stldenn'ess of tlt
and trot On the wishes of the t
l'.ePy
We shall see. What *Paris Brill tic wheel InutiJ"•
tho
relieved from Militat.y Occupation. veu
nindifig'Police whie!i the Rebel lias
—even the disarming Of the Citiens, „t
ordered—even suet acts as thete, the fist
the liberty he has determined to give Fhitice,
we trust be impotent in keeping dOWn
The. French Papers at last notice•the '3.0
Declaration of the Allied Potrers at. Vi~'ll''li
tell
it is in a mutilated was', for they dare die
the whole truth. The following is iron?

Gazette de France:—
" It is pretended that the sr,
of , ,
op
f 04,
on the I3ch March, on hearing the rielvs:`) tit
entrance of NAPoLEorI into France, decl,ko (/
all the Powers arc ready to give to r
VIIANCE, and the French natior„ or iii3Y “tb°l
9overninent attacked, upon beif fi4'l°;)p
ed, the succour necessary to re-estahlish I 't
tranquillity. There are won reaSons t~i
flit'
liere that these Powers, %a ho hare nenbcc
imelinatiOn nor the right to interfere in "1.,114i
terual concerns,
they hear of the tri"ll4
march of the -Emperor across -Fmmicc, cn(l3l'lf
into- Lyons and Paris, amidst accla.wtino,
respect our independence, and hioigc
gnage ; if it should be othervise, the FletiCh sttii
is ready to accept the de,iorace"! 1 I