The Sun.
London, England, 1815-04-25 00:00:00

JOURNAL, OF LOUIS XVIII.

. ,
We heve reteived Cle Fit st and Second .Numbers
-of the "-Journal £7itivtrsel,: a Pourer published at
under the authority of Louis - XVIII.—
'The First Number is dated Friday, April 14-. We
g;ve the following extracts

ORNNANcEs or.THE KING OP PRANCE.
Donis,-by the (Grace of God, King of France

N tvaire

To all. those who shah see these presents,

r:•ct i 1 :

• Considering the urgency of circumstances,
ithe'diity ohicb they impose on us to exercise in al
their extent the rights of our Royal power, eon-
,lforrnAly to the 14th Article of the Coustitutiona
'Charter, we have ordained and do ordain as fol•
lows : •

- Art. 1. It is forbidden to alf our subjects, -who shall find
2theuseives momentarily under the rule of Napoleon. Buona•
.loarte, to pay to the Government, called Imperial, any species
tax, direct or indirect, under whatever denomination, at
-Nehatevt,r "perio,! the tax has been imposed, whetheflegally
tie the coutu-rrence of the two Chambers, and of our autho.:
-•-yity, or by any other, political body 111cgally assembled, or hy.
trot violence
.of arbitrary authority, whethercivil or military.
2. li'is-eqmoly, forbidden to all Prrfects, Inspectors of Fi-
nances, P.eceini:s-gClieral and particular, Collectors, Ma-..
• ungers-of.Catitribtztiwis direct or indirect, of Customs and

Registries, and kentrally to all Accountants connected with
,the Finance Department, to pay the funds which they shall
-raise or have in hand into the chests called Imperial.
The above na,ned agents who, having cognizance or our
'present order, shah -neglect to conform t f) it, shall forfeit the
',securities which they -have furnished, or shall he obliged to
pay a second time to one treasury the funds delivered by them
'to Napole,ot Buonapartet and all quittances and receipts
-given by:the Authorities of the Government called Imperial
-shall" be null and of no•effect, with respect to those agents. •
; 3. The sale of timber and of tha public domains, authorised
.'ley the last budget, is suspended in the departments invaded
by Napoleon IltionapaTte. Any sales :Dade 'subsequently to
the date of thisQidinance are declatednall and Void.
' •4. 'ln the provinces whare the treAsob of souse corps of the
-army, and the tyranny of Napoleon, 13uorapatte, have not
yet put down the agents of the royal authority, they shall
f,ilow for the payment of the taxes, the instructions_ of our
Finance Minister, dated the 12141 of this month.

5. Oar Ministers, Secretaries of State, oi Finance, and of
our Housi-buld, arc charged, each as far as concerns him,

wit' the execution of the presnt ortlinanc.
Give, at Lill., the 33d day of Match, in the year of grace,
Z,1313, awl of our reign the 10t11.

(Signed)
And lower by the King,'
(Signed) BLACAS D!AULPS.

LOUIS.

Louis, by the Grace of God, King of France
and NRvarre—To all who shall see these presents,
greeting :

- The treason of almost all the corps of the army
destined to defend the country, rendering it indis-
pensable to change ' entirely the measures which
we thought it our duty to take ;
the vpsw tailamitic3 with
which our people are menaced by the presence of
Napoleon Btionaparte on the French territory;
Considering that the conscription was'abolished
by the 12th article of. the Constitutional Charter,
and that the recruiting of the army by sea and
laud has not yet ..en detennined bylaw-; , •
-.Having reterred to the 1,,1th article of the said
Charter, wilieli puts at our disposal all the land
;

..:ottsidering that by the same article of the
Charter, it belongs to us to make and-publish,or-
dinances and tegulations necessary for the safety
of•otti• ki;lgtlom ; that Aye have been salemnly in-
vited by the Chamber of Peers, and the Chamber
of the Deputies of the Departments, to make use
of this authority in all its extent :

Considering-, in tine, that to all the powers with
which in ordinary times we are invested by our
royal titre, and the Consitutional Charter, are
united, in a crisis au perilous, all 'those trhich
danger, -confidence, the will of the nation, and
the wishes expressed by its representatives, itn-
pose -on us the dniy of exercising
Fur these reasons, we have ordained, and do
6rd:►iu as f'n!lows :
Art. I ''•

is forbidden to Every Frenchman, whether he
h previously belonged to our troops, or has not hitherto
secved, tW obey any pretended law of conscription, or re-
orni:ing, 'or au+• illegal order whatever, which shall ems,
nate from *:apoleon Baoaapartt,. from all bodies or au-
th:wities, political, civil, and which he shall call to-
getLer orirstabiish, or which shall have obeyed Gin since the
Ist of March, 18i5, or shall obey him in fature.

f 2 like nivnier forbidden to all G'orrenors and'Ge-

ncral o;fieer3 rommanditig in our military divisions, and in
the departal::;:.; of our liing,dom, to the Officers of our royal
gen d'armeric, and to every individda! gen d'arme, to every
cohmel, Major, or Chief of a corps, as also to all our Ad-
mirals and other °dicers of our Royal Maine, to the mari-
tire.,Prefects and to the Commanders in our parts and at-
to alt Prefects:Sub-Pi-erects, Mayors, or Assistants of
the Mayor, to execute; or cause to be executed, any of the
pre:e:3(l.:(l'lar.-s of conscription or recruiting, or any of the
acts or 04z:71.15i-tiers mentioned in the preeediag article.
:3. Every Freochman whom they shall attempt to'force to
enlist under the banners of Napoleon linonaßartf is autho-
rised to withdraw himself, even by main force.;
4. Every Governor, or General Officer commanding in obr
talilitary diviiions, or in the departments of our kingdom,
every Colonel, Major, or Chief of a Corps, every Commander
i!1 our. Fortresses, or military positions, every Officer of our
jtoya: Corps of Engineers and of Artillery, every Admiral.
Viet-Admiral, or other Officer of our Royal Marine, Mari-.
time Prefect, and Commander in nor ports and arsenals, who
In contempt of the oath which he has give to us, shall have
!Whered to the party of Napoleon Buotiaparte, shall bere-
moved an 3 deprived- of all full or half-pay, unless after having
c.rgnizance of our present Ordinance, hointinediately returns
to his duty towards us.

5. We discharge by the present.ordinance all officers and
soldiers of land and sea forces, who, being seduced by the
ehiefs.who havo betrayed us, have participated in the revolt,
and hay:: p43sf;dixol;letitarily unti.r the cownianti of Naitileoil

lluottariertt, 6t of vs aaheren'ts, and the order the sa,,a,
oihcers and soldiers to repair immediately to their hone:.
6. Our Ministers of War and the Interior are charged,
each in what:cot-kerns himself, with the execution of On
present I:trrlinanCe. •

Given at Lille, Or 23(1, of March, id the year. or grace
1315, and of oar reign thse,2oth.
(signed)
And To*er by the King,

(Signei!)

LOUIS.

FRANCON DE JAITCOURT,
and the Duke of FELTRE.

Then follows the Protest of Mr. Laia, which
ha 3 already appeared in 'fuc SUN. •
Next is a Declaration from the same, as follows :

" As the Duke of Otranto, calling himself ;Minister of the
Police, outrages toe so far as to tell me that I mav rest in
safety at.Bourdeaux, and pursue my professional labours, I
declare, that if his master and his odious agents do not re-
spect me sufficiently to cause roe to die for my country, I des-
pise theta tno touch to adopt their insulting advice. Let
them know that after !timing, on the 20th of. March, read
in the Hall of Session, the Proclamation of the King, at the-
moment when the soldiers of Buonaparte entered Paris, I have
arrived at the city which deputed ine : that I am there at my
post, tinder the orders of Madame the Duchess d'Angouletne,
• occupied it preserving the honottr and liberty of a par! of
France, waiting till the rest shall be delivered front the mutt
disgraceful tyrannir ---
which ever-threatened a great people..
No.l will never sul-)atit to Napoleon floonaparte; and he who
has been honoured with the quality of chief of the Represen-
tatives of Fraure, aspires to the lions:int-40f being in his own
country the first victim of the enemy of the King,of the coon-
try,aud of nberty, if, what will not happen, he should be re-
ducedfo the impotence of contributing to defend them.
. (Signed) « LAINE."

• The following are extracts from the Observa-
tions on the Report or BUONAPRRTE'S soi-disant
Council of State, on the Declaration 'issued at
Vienna on the I th of March
Human society has, rejected from its bosom,
and its 'communion, hint to whom life had -been
allowed after so- many assassinations, to whom
treasures after so many spoliations, to whom even
a remnant of Sovereignty after a mass OF such
and who, arming himself
'monstrous usurpations,
with the clemency of Sovereigns and of nations
against themselves, would punish them for having
spared him, and a second time undertakes the
misers- of the world.
Branded with the burning mark of this uni-
versal, proscription, of this final reprobation, the
guilty ...lie felt how much his power would be
shaken by it, with what eyes be would be regard-
ed by his victims, his slaves, even his accomplices,
and those whom he deceived yesterday, and those
whom lie crushes to-day, and those. whom he
threatens for to-Morrow, and those too whose aid •
he implores with the' intention of ridding himself -
of them, when he shall have used them, as they
of their part demand from him portions of his
power; with the design already formed of build-
their existence on his destruction.
" With reference to the idea, so preposterously
indulged by some persons, that Buonaparte's hav-
ing got possession. of Paris would induce the Al-
lies to abandon their avowed policy, it is oh.
served, " that it is_ mere insanity to suppose that
the same Powers who put the enemy of 'the world
out Of the law because he meditated the greatest
of all crimes, would restore him to the law be 4
cause he had consummated that crime."
" The King of France is still on his throne.
Far from having renounced the defence of his
Crown and of his. Country, he has sworn on the
contrary to defend them even to death. He will
defend them as soon as loyalty shall restore the.
Means which treachery has taken away, and the
period of that return to order and justice is not .
distant."

France has been really invaded by Buonaparte.
" Against this invasion the French nation calls
ttpdn its King and its Children, its National
Guards and its Allks. The French nation calls
upon ail'that can save it, avenge it, restore it ;
for at this moment, torn from its King, deprived
of its representatives, betrayed by its army, at the
mercy of a Corsican adventurer, of Polish lancers
and Egyptian Mamelnkes, the French nation is
given up without defence to all kinds of disasters.,
of torments, and of disgrace."
" It is much more than' the public trangaillity
of 'France, it is the general tranquillity of the
world which is disturbed : there is no question
here of interference. The phrase of "Foreign
Powers" is almost without meanings There are
no foreigners in the cause of humanity. All men
are fellow-countrymen to fight against a Power
whiCh dissolves all 6ountr.ei, and tramples upon
all men. Ilorno sun; soch is the rallying cry of
all who enlist against universal tyranny."
" All Governments must stand or fail with the
French Government. It is the stability efall thrones
which is connected with the throne of the reigning
Family of- France. It is the liberty of all people
which Is connected with the preservation of the
charter sworn- bet Ween the King of France and
the French People." -
" What is a throne," said Buonaparte, on that
strange morning of ,Tautthry,.lBl-1, in the middle
of his torrent of insults on the Legislative Body,
before he dissolved then), and after having
wished to shoot them -1 " What is a thrtine ?
four planks, and a bit of .velvet."—The material
throne is in fact nothing
.the,—that we give up
to him; but the moral Throne, the national suf-
frage which gives it, the love of thv people which
consecrates it, the legitimate inheritance which
transmits it, the right of sitting there to govern
men, and the virtues there to be displayed to.
Make them happy,—this is the tht•orle. whicit ive
tlaint,—this is the throne. of which Louis XVIII.
is in', full and uncontested possession, and the
throne on which Buonaparte can never sit even
as a pretender !

This pretended election to the Empire by
four millions of votes, in a country which. has 28
millions of inhabitants; this juggling of yes and
no, which, history will give up to the decision of
posterity; these lists of votes ranged in bundles
in the home offices, like the packets of an empiric
on his shelves, one labelled 20,000 voices for,
17,000 against, another 36,000 for, and 3,000
against, even to the last rhapsody, that which is
called by the name of prillciples, by those who are
denominated Council of State : what becomes of
all this, in comparison with the dethroaement,
Pronounced nut merely by the Senate, but by the
whole nation? . It was the general sentiment of
France which'pronounted the fall of fitionaparte
it was that which proclaimed Louis XVIII. on
the _shore where he disembarked; it WBS that
Which re-conducted biiu every tykere amidst be-

nedictions on his person, and mlitledictions against
his enemies, has protested against his drparture,
and has decreed his return. It is that which has
declared all the faithless divisions of the army
.guilty'or infamous treason and parricidal tebel- •
lion against their King aid eountry.' It is that
which" will find
,the.rneans of preventing in thecentre of Europea'n civilization the establishment
of a corps of .Tanizaries, to -dispose of the posses
sion of Thrones and theliberty of the people."
" I am in full amd uncontested possession," says
Buonaparte.—:-Flow ! DOes._not the King contest
it with you ? France, its Representatives, its
Peers, all its population, even your accomplices,
do not they contest it with you ? Europe, its
pOwers, its nations; its Congress—do not they
contest it with you ? Those heroes of your old
army, who will preserve their titles and their
glory, because they have kept their faith ; those
Colonels and Officers of all ranks who every day
brlng to you their resignation's with a courage so
noble ; those sdiliers who, in order to punish you
for having deceived and disgraced them, break an
engagement which you have given them a right to
break, and abandon in crowds your standard
those Nlngistrates,those Administrators, who with
heroic conscience, firmness, and disibtereStedness,
have declared to.you that they cannot serve you
not all_these contest your possession ? The
Victims whom you proscribe in multitudss, do not
they contest with you the power to assassinate
them ? Are you not in contest even with many of
your.comrades ? Has there not 'been. already one
who has rejected the por)tolio, -sayin4 to you,
" this is not my business ; 1 am not the man to
.sign a volume of fitTIS Ney, after having con-
sommnated his disgraceful treachery, did he not
say, word for word, fo word, 81tonapatte promised us that
he would be prudent ; if he is not, we will kill
him.

I am in a condition already stable and tran-
quil," says the Usorptie. " Stable—you tviil soon
Judge bf that ; tranquil in the midst of proscrip-
tions ! tranquil, when the doctrine and language
of 1793 reappear ! tranquil, • when the te7d.cap
Glared to chew itself again on the 7th inst. in the
streets of Paris, and escaped with difficulty the
fury of the citizens !
In like Manner the -Usurper adds, " It is by
disputing my possession that they will bring back
calamity and disorder." Really, a commodious
doctrine for brigands and robbers ! A baud of
plunderers assemble, they go by night, sword and
torch in hand; to 'take possession of a farm or a
mansion. By their perfidy they have removed all
defensive arms. They expel the proprietors who
are too feeble to resist them. They fix and fortify
themselves there. , Day-light finds them in full
possession. The lawful owners, however, ;hew
themselves ; the illagiStrate of the place protects
them, the neighbouring village lends 'them aid ;
tlte besieged robbers cry out,'" We are in
posiession., all here is now stable and
we will not overleap our bounds, unless you pene-
trate here ; if you'dispote our possession with us,
it will be you who bring.back disorder.",
Of Ney, it is justly said, '' that the enormity of
his infamy and wiekedness was such that no oue
could foresee; anti,, indeed, any one must have.
blushed even to suspect. it. This Man,, loaded,
during a whole year with distinctions and favours
by his Sovereign, ,reirerated to him on every new
favour the oath of his fidelity and the expression
of his 'gratitude, received all at once the most ho-
nourable of missions. Ile was scut to save his
country,' and reed an invasion. At the moment
of his departure, .1;s King, instead of any in-
structions, said to him, '' I confide myself to you,''
and held out his hand. lie kissed that royal
and paternal hand, and said to' the King :
``go to endeavour to take him, and will.
bring hint to you in. an iron .cage :" This was
more •than the King asked. He wrote while on
his route, he wrote when he reached his army,v he
wrote when he put himself in motion, anti always
the same protestations. He pretended to be full
of hopes and Of zeal ; he said that his army was
iti the best condition, that he was pursuing the
enemy, and ready to come up with hint ; he came
up with hint in fact, but it was only to sell him-
self and his troops to that enemy. He was not
drawn on by the troops, for they resisted his.trea-
son ; they were corrupted and delivered up by
him. It was this moment which decided the fate
of France; it was this criind which consummated
the triumph of all the other crimes. Reason Was
confounded by it in every way ; BUONAPARTS if;
the first enemy of the world, NEY the second.
The Rebels 'affect to say, that the King's Go-
vernment " hail neither basis nor foundation,"-
Buonapartc then had an excellent basis of govern-
ment, in that herd of litotes 'ridiculously called le-
gislators, who, on trifling questions, or measures
already executed, were in, the habit of throwing
into an urn which decided nothing, balls whose
colour was still marked, by espionage : but thiS
same assembly, raised from its abject state' to the
digaity of acknowledged representatives and free
organs of the Feench people, is too feeble to sup-
port the fabric
.of a GOvernment. Thus, also,
Buonaparte, could solidly built) his political edi-
fice on the foundation of a Conservative Senate,
which be never employed, but to destroy. (and
to destroy men as well as things !) : But this
solid foundation, became a 'worm-eaten prop the
liniment the same, senate, purified, increased,
invested with the first political magistracy, exer-
cised the nobte function of balancing and uniting
the rights and privileges, the interests'.and affec-
tions-of prince and people ! Thus, then, he was'
not fit to govern,—that King, the , heir of
thirty-five princes, of the wisdom of one, the
goodness of another, and the rights of all ; that
whose virtues issued more pure from the
crucible •of adversity, whose understanding
was improved by the torch of eqterience, and
whose mild humanity was increased by all the
emotions of compassionate pity ; who 'esta-
blished public liberty as the first basis of happi-
bess who, as the pledge of that liberty, gave
6 charter applauded by all natiOns ; -who in short,
.
dining 11 months, never once shewed himself,
but his looks, his words-ConreyCd with them that
confidence, love,
coaiadnd religious respect, which
rebels themselves
tint help feeling, whether-I
mixed with Ws great family,- as he called it, he
oCcoto• nutt'rtineVrosne:ll:l:l‘;iiitcilct throne,olielsc‘trvi
ani
ttth his
chictil affability:liebydiy:e.hislits't:s
d
ed

and►
t. expressed the purest sentimetts id the
ii(11.11(;eosi•
lattvviinerileraWintbeimiaelneremnatill:(si
at
destruction hsaavtielr,ritaliieialln;,
anti most touching language. Au d a
caprice ostfipfoportritintehteo twheeigsuhitinontit
hoifs 1110;c0.stivirtirlitg
ncrushed the world with it ; who l''':(1. of bd:
choicema to he the benefactor or the Scou'" o'li°'
of ruin
to. safety and conservation,
nitY, and who preferred the -latter tilie;iiisce'
whilefins he had it -in his power to, eansecriate•°i'lls
Sinovoerrdeeigrnt,W,ll"eis:l:3l
°tiler " rieff
beievre, between his nation and
t"en himself and the Whole hPllfilea 11:
who, though the child of victory ► destr crier'
to C"110 pi?
wihonour of those who enabled h'ito
virtue to
was constantly in • search of
scribelo
it, and of„,•rime to place it in his e°`coiiio
who,thi making sport of the life of allInfl: 0%,
own_ institutions,
li t. his own remain sacred ; who, in li orl'eri
who lighted up oltioo,i.
Tribujildief
his) destroy, dashed in
hisl__a Senate, and now his Senate for I i,i.5 , bIOW
31 !/, his constitutional magistrates 1,11,, ofetr;
%gameii magistrates ; fed-his people %vitl) kept rd-1
svisie filed his servants with • outrages, 'icebt)''
taen:_:(citltilo'y'la(ol
a thento knowsoie
suspended over every-representobvipiri.ri;
that
s hold enough to utter the least ecia,/flio'
na'tullyeaisnt hisho Afvut(illneCv‘°votaLeitltoirtiirferr
pieces, one nheisafterAlici.. Pr
linen en famille."

10°14
The same Papers inform us, Under tbelb
Gbent, April 18, that the Kim '1,2 Col
three of his Ministers, the Duke 01. f Feltr"tf 131
Blacas, and Count Jaueourt. His Al}4l,oli‘
lately caller 4 to his Councils Count LAO` P:
dal and M. de Chateaubriand. The 001'65'10d'
E
gust and Belluno were also at Ghent-
oo IVI ie of -L
health was quite re4stablished., t P`l'°
household trps were at Most, under fm-
of Berri.

MAILS. ,water'l":c,
AnalvE9-1 Holland, 1 Coramia, I Dublin, '
Dut—l Lis'oun, t Gotteuburgh, 1 Guernsey n“
Sot /P
St. MAag..—Holiday at the Bank, Exchegnero
and South Sea Mouses.

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num WATER.A'r LONDON BRIDGF. TO'"3tl,°ll:ifteliCry'
Morgitig, 43 minutes after S. I Evening, 4 luind

Tiii474 sus.

BOLEN% QVIS DICERK FALSVM

LONDON.
rtiEsDdY, APRIL 25, 109'

• ser
tad
The Austrian Declaration, which We ,thltse,
day, contains a cOmplete exposure of the Isl'
, met,
ness and double dealing of Monsieur 311.1.-
ion
nast ta
taipon thatpearecl be
han ex traordiArto of
could blind
f
our contemporaries to the views of tll $'
whose every act shewerl the trullenabreeresd.tiaijugil 0;l
e.
B6ONAP ARTE school, and who, by gritos'l-Poo°.
fession, was ready to espouseny ca"'"
into any stipulation which might CO'
his usurped throne. When the Allies o'er% bet b 1
fill,- be informed them that be was reoCbrt 'fiSithe
800 APARTS; whets the tide of war so° ".
Allies, be was among the most active ill be t 64
buting to what he no doubt hoped W°°d
tbe ocer
establishment of universal despotisab ri
held
thror of every Government or throne Rhin
legitimate tenure. The Allies crossed to•°C‘f
and threatened Paris. MURAT was i.°(bY igl)(°
gociate again. Generous even hi the libor
success, they stooped to treat with hies °cite"
tertns.—MultaT, however, could notbelieg there'
Bible that the conduct of the Allies %:ra,9 tr-,1
hat
snit of any thing but weakness, .ontitW
could at any time he made his dupes. .13,1e014,11
as he thought sure tliat. when he chose "I,;ro''
maintain his Throne 45, an alliance ?cc'
be conceived he had another opporttoi(Yrcoebee'
serving it by more congenial means/ 90(1cors011;
ously continued to aid -and abet the Of 1)t
re
The Allies, however, were perfectlY 6:;: tins'
tergiversation, and when, after the abun-iii 00.
,0 fci
BUONAPARTE, he sought the Ratifieati-° therro
Treaties which he had basely vi°l'atede:ss, tebeto-;:t
fused. Admitted however to the C°llgl.- toper jo-
his rights were even recognised, s°l.3l.°,(letils of
his occupation of one of the finest K'°o
r e'SirLt
Europe, be was-not- content to-abide11C t vc-
en-
those negotiations, which were corgi
nct,
eat to
sta 411,
itileielapirdinpclipanleso: new Rtgerilti offisecuriitoolitniol
ntshaant
110 II
1
quests. So far back as February ;e
/3SE) broov
oe t tbe
impudence to demand of Austria a Pass' 011 j
Upper Italy for an army into Fratic% droge
news of the landing of the Corsica'''reStr°;'
tliu mask—sent an Aid-de-Camp Cot
t°
rile ty~s.
N4YARTE 'of his support—declared (0 IL 'ls
n ,15;
Of ROII4C that the Cause of Napo- ° •ot')
bis "
own, and demanded a passage lor efl
tit')
foremost in the cause of infamy lie "se be
it, '.
first to disturb the tranquillity ot t'rl~lOf
draw the sword in the cause of Usur?''t ileag°
has been the conduct o • • 11!Ytc;105'
t tio7s w°'
kcrd
tiONAPARTE, an additional fro°t; g
c;;Eti:llias rr:lese•clo'r'trl:txis,(•)iitl'hottilltaltp:un•lin°gdeir:tti:•ineies fit
Princes of the new French Dyn3st2".
'lloo4'. il°
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n
woncier that we hear tt?-day 11.-°) •

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