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London, England, 1815-05-08 00:00:00

NARRATIVE of the DUKE d'ANGOULEME.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE DUKE D'ANGOULEME,
DATED BARCELONA, APRIL 18.
u I have at last arrived here, having done all that
it was in my power to do ; and shall now state to
you, in a few words, what has passed in the South.
On the 30th of March, Amedee Descars repulsed
Generai Debelle before Montelimart ; on the '2d of
April we completely beat the enemy at the passage
of the Drome—two cannon, two colours,. and 800
prisoners were the fruits of the victory—the posses-
sion of Valence, as well as of the course of the Isere,
were its results. On the 3d I learned that Genet-.+l
Ernouf, abandoned by the 58th regiment, had been
obliged to retrograde upon Sisteron, and that Nismes
and Montpellier had hoisted the signal of rebellion.
I was speedily informed that Generals Grouchy and
Pire were marching from Lyons against me, and
that General Gilly was marching from Nismes upon
l'unt St. Esprit :—I perceived that it was necessary
to think of retreat. On the 6th I learned, by the
arrival of M. Ferdinand Berthier, that all was over
at Bourdeaux and Toulouse. General Pire the same
day attempted the passage of the Isere, and was re-
pulsed. The news from Nismes and Montpellier
being disseminated among our National Guards,
made us lose a part of them. I quitted Valence at
hall.past ten at night. I bivouacked with the 10th
regiment, and afterwards marched for Montelimart,
where I arrived at four in the afternoon of the 7th.—
The Colonel of the 1-kb, who had rejoined me the
evening before, informed me that he was no longer
master of his regiment, which, in fact, quitted me,
and proceeded for Valence. It bad been proposed
to me to depart alone from that town; this I refused.
The country people, who were ill-disposed, were
operating much on the minds of the regiment of artil-
lery, which from thartime was of no farther use.—
The proposal of departing alone was renewed ;
again refused it, and sent General D'Aultanne to
General Gilly at Pont St. Esprit, to make a conven-
tion with him for liberty to pass with my corps, in'
order to retire on the Durance ; and on the Bth I
continued my march. General D'Aultanne found
at Pont St. Esprit Colonel Laurent, of the 10th Chas-
seurs, and made an agreement with him, that I
should be permitted to retire upon Marseilles, es-
corted by the 10th, or Colonel General ; but General
Gilly refused his assent : I learned this news at
Pierrelatte. As General ll'Aultanne was detained
a prisoner, I sent the Baron de llamas, who con-
cluded with General -Gilly the convention which I
hereto subjoin.
4, The enemy had made himself master of the road
of Avignon : but I wished to remain as long as pos-
sible, in of tier to secure, as far as depended on me,
the lives :lad sifety of the brave men who had fol-
lowed me. At last I set off, at nine in tke evening,
and was detained at Poat St. Esprit, where I was
kept prisoncr for six days, in contravention of the
signed Convention. I had for ten hour, an officer of
gendarmerie in my apartment; he .had orders not to
lose sight of me; and I did not get rid of him but
by giving him my word of honour that I would not
attempt to escape. It was General Grouchy who
had arrived at Pont St. Esprit, that prevented me
from continuing my journey he himself was watched
by a Generrl Corbineau, Aid-de-camp of Bonaparte.
I forgot to mention, that the Colonel of the 10th re-
giment had acquainted me that a third of his regi-
ment had deserted, and that the rest would not tire.
The artillery were still worse ; there remained to me
only 800 national guards.
On the last day of my captivity General Grouchy
set off fur Marseilles. I was released an the 15th ; I
arrived on the 16th at Cette, and embarked the same
day at eight in the evening. My passage hither was
in thirty-tive hours : in fire, GOD has preserved me,
as I hope, still for the service of the King. I have
done all that I could. I quit France with sadness :
the spirit of the country is very good ; they every
where blessed me ; but the greater part of the army,
and the gendarmerie, are detestable. Those who
guarded me were abominable ; but twenty-five chas-
sears of remained faithful to the last : they
wished to follow me every where, as well as more
than forty officers. We embarked seventeen in num-
ber. When I left Cette, it was said that war was
declared, and that Bonaparte had demanded a levy
en matte of two millions of men and three hundred
millions of money. It is the opinion of France that
the Jacobins have assumed the upper hand, and that
terror will reign. Toulon and Marseilles were obli-
ged to surrender on the 11th and 12th.

THE CONVENTION.
gi His Royal Highness the Duke of Angouleme,
Commander in Chief of the Royal Army of the
South, and the General of Division Baron de Gilly,
Commander in Chief of the first corps of the Impe-
rial Army, penetrated with the desire of stopping the
effusion of French blond, have, in order to settle the
articles of a convention which may secure the tran-
quillity of the South of France, empowered, that is
to say, his Royal Ilighness the Duke of Angouleme
has empowered Baron de Dames, Major-General and
Sub-Chief of the Scat{', and General Gilly, his Adju-
tant Le Febvre, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour,
Chief of the Staff of the first corps ; who, having ex-
changed their respective Powers, have agreed upon
the following articles :
Art. 1. The Rriyal Army is disbanded: the National Guards,
who formed part of it. under w!latever denomination they may
have been raised, shall return to their homes, after laying down
their arms : they shall have the necessary passports, and the Ge •
heral D:vi4on commanding in chief guarantees to them, that
there shall be no question of any thing done or said relative to the
events which have taken place before the present Convention.
The Officers shall preset ye their swords.
The troops e° the line, who make a part of this army, shall
repair to the garrisons appointed for them.
Art. 2. The General Officers, superior Officers of the Staff,
and others of the army, the chiefs and agents of all services, a list
of whom shall be furnished to the General in Chief, shall return
It. heir homes to await the orders of his Majesty the Emperor.
Art. 3. The officers of all ranks who wish to give in their re-
signation, are free to do it : !hey shall immediately be supplied
with passports to return to their homes.
Art. 4. 't he chest of the army and the registry of the Pay-
master-General shall be given up immediately to Commissioners
appointed for this purpose by the Commander in Chief.
Art. 5. the above articles are applicable to the corps corn.
ntanded by the Duke d'Angouleme in person, and to all those
which act separately wader his orders, and which fora; part of
the Royal Army of the South.
Art. 6. His Royal Highness shall proceed post to ;he port of
Cate, where the necessary vessels for hints:Aland 101 suite sball
be forhished to convey him wherever he pleases : posts of the
imperial Army shall be placed at all the relays, to protect the
jourtny of his Royal Highness, and he shall have paid to him
every where the honours due to his rank, if he desires it.
Art. 7. All the Officers, and other persons of the Suite pf his

Royal Ilighnese, who shall desire to follow him, shell be enabled
to embark with hint, whether they wish to depart forthwith, or
require the tinge necessary for the arrangement of their private
affairs. •
Art. h. rite present treaty shall rentals secret until his Royal
Highness has quitted the French territory.

Done in duplicate, and agreed upon between the above named
Commissioners, the Bth day of April, 1815, with the approbation
of the General in Chief, and signed at the heatlivarters, Font
:;t. Esprit, the day and year aforesaid.
(Signed) LE FEBVRE.
• Baron de DAMAS:
The present Convention approved by the Commander in Chief.
(Signed) 1 Baron G11.1.Y.
A correct copy. (Signed) Baron de DAMAS.
• " Sir days after the signature of this Convention
General Corbineau made the further and illegal de-
mand that his Royal Highnesss should engage to
insist on the restitution of the crown diamonds to
Bonaparte."

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, MAY 4.

The deprtrtnre of the Emperor is not, it is said. so
near as is believed ; and probably it will not take
place, at the soonest, before next week.

The Council of State assembled this day at one
o'clock, under the Presidency of the Prince Arch-
Chancellor. The Presidents of the Sections of the
Council of State met yesterday at the Thuilleries upon
some extraordinary business.
Arms and clothing are preparing, by order of Go-
•ernment, for 100,000 men.
The Duke d'Angouleme landed on the 18th at
Barcelna a.

We are assured, that the Emperor has declared that
it never was his intention that the number Members
of the I-louse of Peers should exceed the halt of that
of the Chamber of Deputies.
We are assured that the Prince Talleyrand has
quitted Vienna.
Above one thousand young men voluntarily enrol-
led themselves yesterday at the Prefecture of the De-
partment of the Seine.
Count Sr.bastiani, charged with the organization
of the National Guards of the North, has returned
to Paris.

The Moniker inserted on Tuesday last an article
on the existing situation of France, which had been
sent to it from London, by one of the most distin-
guished persons in England. The same journal rec.
titi:.s as follows, three errors which had escaped its
correspondent :
It was not only 100 pieces of cannon which the
park of the army of Italy restored to us ; that army
brought back 300.
" We have not merely 1000 pieces of cannon in
France; we have more than 30,000, of which 10,000
are on field carriages.
44 It was not merely .500,000 National Guards who
rose to put down civil war; the movement which
took place in the South for the Puke d'Angnuleme
was not dangerous enough to require such a display
of forces but it is a fact, that more than 60,00,)
National Guards are armed with muskets, becall
the late Government, which distrusted the army,
turneA its attention to the National Guards, and la-
vished arms upon them.
,g In short, it is not merely 300,000 muskets whirl
the French manufactories can furnish annually.—
Their produce amounts to more than 400,000, and
the repairing work shops established at Paris, .is well
as the adoption of cast platen, will greatly augment
that number."

WROM TUE MONITZUR.

All is in motion upon every point of France. If
the Coalit'on persist in the project which thoy havo
announced, of making war upon us, and if thq vio-
late our frontiers, it is easy to foresee what will be
the fruit which they will gather from thzir .dtack
upon the rights of the French nation.
All the fortresses upon the i%lorthern frrsnt'er,
from Dunkirk to Charlemont, are a: med and Ivi.
sioned. The sluices are prep •reJ, :tad they will he
opened to inundate the coantry on the first hostile
movement that takes place. Some IA orksghave been
constructed in the forest of lvformale. Measures have
been taken to make entrenchments in the diderent
passes of the forest of Argone. All the fortresses in
Lorraine are ready. Some entrenchments have been
constructed in the five passes of the Vosges. The for-
tresses of Alsace are armed. Orders have bceii given
to defend the passes of Lira Jura, and ail the frontiers
of the Alps. They are preparing the fortresses of tle
Somme, which are in the third line. In the interior,
Guise, La Fere, Vitry, Soissons, Chatean-Thierry,
and Langres, are arming and fortifying. Orders have
even been given to construct works upon the heights
of Montmartre, and of Menil Montant, and arm ti:ern
with 300 pieces of cannon. They will be at first of
earth, and afterwards there will be given them all
the solidity of permanent fortifications.
His Majesty has also ordered, that Lyons shall be
put into a state of defence. A tete-de-pont will he
formed at Brotteau • the draw-bridge of La Guillo-
dere is reestablishing ; the ground between the
Saone and the Rhone will be fortified. Some re-
doubts are preparing to be constructed in front of this
ground. A redoubt will be constructed on the height
of Pierre en Size, to support a work which del.!nds
the town on the right bank. The heights comniaod-
ing the quarter St. Jean, on the right bank of the
Saone, will be defended by several redoubts ; eighty
pieces of cannon, with the necessary ammunition,
are proceeding towards Lyons. Sisteron and Pont
St. Esprit will be placed in a state of defence.
Eight armies or corps of observation are formed,
viz. the Army of the North ; the Army of the Mt,
relic; the Army of the Rhine; the Corps of Obser-
vation of the Jura, which is collecting at Befort ; the
Army of the Alps, which is forming at Chambery ;
the Corps of Observation of the Var, which is form.
ing at Antibes; the Corps of Observation of the
Pyrenees, which is forming at Perpignan and at
Bourdeaux ; and the Army of Reserve which is form-
ing at Paris and at Laon.
Four hundred battalions of Grenadiers and Chas-
seurs of National Guards are organized. A part is
already in march to occupy our troniier places, to
guard the defile; of the Vosges, the luta, the Alps,
and to ensure the protection of Paris and of Lyons.
Before ten days the other battalions of Nation
Guards will be in niarch, and the 51K) battalions of
the active army will be assembled in the camps. The
old military are every inhere in march, animated with
the greatest enthusiasm, and complete these batta-

Eons, which, independently of the depot-battaiinnt,
compose our 120 regiments of infantry. The horse:
of the gendarmerie are given to the cavalry, rind the
purchases f .1- remounts have been rapidly making
this month past, and will soon have completed 4,...tr
70 regiments of cavalry. Regiments of volunteer
cavalry are forming at many points. Already his
Alsace furnished two regiments of lancers on hoot,
back, of 1,000 men each. This example is likely IL
be followed in Brittany, Normandy, and the Lim(
sin, provinces It which the most horses are reared.
Parks of artillery, forming upwards of 15U Litt«
ries, are already on the road to the different armies.
The artillerymen for the defence of. Lyons arc corm
posed of two companies fortnrai at the school of Al.
fort. The artillerymen for the service of the 3Ao
pieces of cannon to be placed on the heights of prop
will be formed of 12 companies of marine artilleq,
two compan;es of invalids, two companies of tl.t
Alfort scho4l, two companies of the Polytet:!e.ic
school. two comprities of the St. Cyr school, ir 1
six comp lilies of tile toot artillery.

Caps of partisans, and free corps, are
in many of tlw departments. An Adjutant-Gewo.!..,
attdclied to each Generel-in-Chief, wid be ;
ssith the correspondence with 6ese corps, w!•i';'.,
should Ow enemy have the tcrne•rity to enter our 1.. r
ritory, will throw th,:niAve:i on his coairnw):,:l,;
in the monntains and ((nests, and support
of the foitressto.

The organizstion of the kry-en-mifre iai Ir”
Lorraine, Messin, Franche Conne, ,
pliiny, and Picardy, is preparing. Licutei.:,iic•GeKu.
rals, Maj ‘r-Generals, antl olier i‘t
are ch ir,;ed with, and will take
the lc s

All the chic-. are arming in orclti- to cit+,ni c
rreeinct% They %%ill follow dice:Ample of
sur-Saone, of Tournua, and of St. kat de I.n- T..-
Every town, even though onfortified, would bt
„-
the n4tionsl honour it it surrendered to ti Dow.
and did not defend itself as far as its means adrnit:-..
until the of such a force in infantry and
lery, that resistance would cease to be dictated
the laws of %%tr.

The 0,000 men of the marine who formed
crews of the ships of war in 1811, will he
'ganised : they will be assembled in rer,iinents coin.
minded by n Iva! captains. A part of mina:
will nrin We sq.:Aron-. ; others will be eliari;ed
the (Liciice of Cie coasts : and the remainder win
serve to augment the army of reserve.
All the Departments will rival in ardour those c:
Alsace, the Vosges. Franche Comte, Burgundy, a..J
the Lyonnais; throughout, the people are animrel
with a patriotic spirit, and ready to make every
fice to maintain the independence of the Nation, and
the honour of the Thrune.—( /Ifs:sitter).
Marshal Mortier has quitted Paris, to fulfil a a.
sion extraordinary with which he has been char:,e..l
by the Emperor.

There are some royalists who play the part of v.....
rageolis Jacobins, 14 the purpose of
Govisrnment, and t4lk of reviving the boinit
but nobody is dupeJ by their tricks.
It is understood that Manfredonia was the
place of the Anglo-Sicilian coops which are
ing upon Naples.
About a o. oath ago certain persons an.:ounce
there would 1):: considerable bank: upicies here; hither.
to we have heard of none.

It is said that Poland is in insurrection, and the
the Ottoman Pm te is miking attempts Against
sia. It is Added, that these two events Lave forced
;he Russian columns which were on their march to
rclograde. _ _

The exportation of horses from the empire is pre
hibiteJ by a decree of his Majesty.
According to letters from Bayonne, of the 22,1
April, there is not at present any military niorei,:e:.
in Simla. The communication across the Bidass
becomes daily more difficult. The Frerchmen w!1
travel in Spain are not allowed to go beyoni
whera the French journals and letters trout that coun•
t; y are stopped and sent to Madrid.
An Imperial Decree annuls the plan for erectirg ;
monum,nt at Quiberons and orders the sums subsc;
bed fur that purpose to be returned.

CAMPAIGN IN ITALY.
The Catrtie de Frame gave yesterday the followinf
article, under the head of Ancona, April 19:
" Our city continues to be the Grand Head•nse,
tern of the Neapolitan army, And that of Italian
pendence. King Joachim directs trom hence ,iii
operations, and seconds with zeal all the cities
have embraced the cause of liberty. lire deta:s
the battle of Ccsena have been published.
4, It took place between the cerps which wt',
coming to join his Ma:esty, and some Austrian u
which were afraid of having a whole division oa
bands.

" The Neapolitans were inferiur in numher t;
Austrians. They reckun the killed and ‘ionc.irdo
2500, and the prisoneis at 5000. The artillery whit
was left in the powtr of the Neapolitans is icekone4
AL '27 pieces. General Mirruhrt (Mohr) was ieneibly
wounded.

" From the moment that an invasion u.,s
hended from Sicily, all the National Gualds
ted to be put into activity.
" On the kith the Queen Regent received a J-r''
tation from the cities of Foggia and bati, abut
assured her Majest) (Vat all her subjects mere reo
to repulse the enemies who should wake nay 414:n1i:
to disturb their tranquility.
It is said that Colonel Dominicn
cornmand of the expedition directed upon the COlllO,
" Couriers have arrived t, assure his Majesty etc
King of Naples that Padua has taken her rank aturnS
the free cities of Italy "
The above-mentioned Gazette of this date hv
however the following paragraph :—" The Ilte"
from Italy of date more recent than what we titre
yestPrday, states that the Neapolitans continue theit
.
concentrating mo”ement. It would appear that,
first reports as to the affair .tt Cesenna ..vere exagge;
rated ; we wait for more exact and circumstant.:,
details."

The Journal de !'Empire of this date furnisLs
following article from Italy s

MODIGLIANA, APRIL 16.

" The Neapolitan army is in full retreat. Its ar-
tillery and baggage were yesterday at Foul', ir
to pass into the Marches, whither General Filangte,r,ll
wounded, with the military chest, preciAed them

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSEL% MAY L.

Vis Grace the Duke of Wellington set off this m0r-
t,;;,.7 to tepair to the head-quarters of Field-Marshal
.1
•) .ire Blucher, at Liege, and Mr. Reider. General
. .
service, is also gone back to the same
2:e3J-qmirters•
.k flinty Hanoverian troops of all arms have
vowd Through this city within these two days.