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11iiin;rail the goo 4)i which yonhavedone, anti all
vil which you• hive prevented." His Majesty
_d embraced him, and Marshal Moncey was deeply
affected.
Cardinal Maurits obit' ibate, and will not give bp
is Archbishopric.
A great number of Englith Merchants have'arrived
Paris—several of thenthive made large purchases'
'diamonds, which are cheaper here than in England.
The prisoners of war of the Allied troops at Ant-
werp have been set at liberty : befoie their departure
they were supplied with clothes and money by the
iberality of the Governor and inhabitanit.
LIMOS rat menyval:l4
The Marshals of France have presented their re-,
;pecTs to •the K;ug at Compeigne. The Prince of'
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Teufchatel addieised his Majesty nearly as follows
" Atter twenty-five years of vicissitudes and storms,
yreach people have again transferred the care of
latching over their destinies to that dynasty which
eight centuries of glory have consecrated in the history
the world as the most ancient which ever existed.
As warriors and citizens, the Marshals of France
•,,Ve been induced, by every sentiment of their souls,
second the burst of national enthusiasm. Your
Stainer has already witnessed the transports of the
'thole army at Your return. How shall I paint the
emotions with which the soldiers were penetrated *hen
they learned with_ what touching interest your Majesty,
forgetting yodr own misfortunes, seemed to have
teen occupied with those only of the French prisoners?
—" It it of link eonsegaasee," your Majesty said to the
biagnenimotts Alexander, ,s wider what colours these
150,000 Arbour: have served : they are wfortuaats, and
j view thew in the light of my children only." At these
seeltiorable words, which were handed from soldier
to soldier, they recognized the spirit of the great

Henry
, The Bing replied with the.utmost condescension.,
vlbeti lie reset-and putting his arms into those of
, two of the Marshals who were nearest to him, said,
• -.rich much feeling, 44 It is upon you, Gentlemen, that
. I wish always to support myself : come near me s
toe have always been good Frenchmen : I hope that
France will no lodger have occasion for your sword.
If ever fait 'mirth:es ere-again required, (which GOD
• forbid) -gouty as I am I will.march with you."
Afterwards the Marshals dined with the Royal
fami , aed billtdajesty gave as a toast, 4. the French
" which was drank amid loud acclainatioas.
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ANECDOTES or BOFAPARTZ.
trios Tug )0131131NAL Drs Dlll4lll
Nothing .can be More carious than the accounts we
daily frearpf s.ehls passed at the sittings of the Cowl.
kilof Stase over which BDII.43PAATII presided. Some:
times heaffected a kind of good nature (boa kaotosis),
impla•-liberty to their ditcussions, and even
penviskiagthe oteeritice of sentiments directly the re-
verse ontilkien bat it was only in trifling matters
tls4 fill antiaised so much boldness. If Measures
connected with the religion, the conscription, or the
Iljaitquate were under discussion, his physiognomy
Winne sombre hack ferocious: Lii voice emitted
~ lento, and..avernous sounds, terrifying every tier-
'. kintailend the profound silence which ensued was only
interripted .bf short and hasty sentences, always of
• *,-Singular and ektraordinary statute, and which fell
frets him atbroken intervals. He was like the Py-
rhenisse dietetics the Oracles from the tiipod.,—
When 'the meeting broke up, -the base and servile
letterer's; of whom he always nominated ahundance
to fill his various Councils, eiclaimed--', Surely this
- it not* man, but *god trho has addressed us !" The
few men of integrity and wisdom whonrhe employed
were of corn* silent.
After 'the dreadful reverses in Sa*ony, in 1814, he
:116taned to Paris on the 9th of November, and on
• lith be held a Council of State. One of theft
present (Biresi de 11—), who took minutes of the
proceedings, has traniniiited to its the folloiring de-
: *ills, for the aceuracy of which we pledge oUlselees:
•• 44 Impatient to see what kind of a face the
Empe-
ror wore *after bil disasters, the Members of the 'Coon_
01.,ceovrded into the. lakkin adjoining 'the Council.
chamber. To artici 'in keine measure the embers's-
merit of a first intertietv, the Empeter abruptly sent
for the Goveraisi of the Dank to come to him' first
he bitterly eiclaidieflagainst the wise saeasnrel;Which,
at a critical Meters), had saved ibis natioital Mob!:
lisissneit, and secured the public.credit r bespoke half
' an hour, without giving the Governor tittle to la in
a.-single Word.: he tan round the same circle of ideas
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three or font ibises, without even changing the lan:
• page, emplogOg ridiculous images, and very often
the most galling expressions of .scorn and contempt.
When Bonaparte had done speaking, the doors
of dre Coasted Chatnber were thrown open, and the
sittings commenced
by the reading of a decree of fi-
nance, under the imperial authority, setting aside the
r,anctiott of the Legislative body, which Vrasneverthe-
. less convoked for the DeceMber. reqeired,
by this'deeree, nettling less than an augmentation of
one-half on- the contlibutions.. The decree passed
without any direct opposition to its principle, and
Were!, after a desultory discussion, iu the course of
which the Emperor uttered various contradictory and
• absurd opinions t "The contribution (he said; among
ether things,) has no bounds 3 it pesents, generally,
the idea of one-fifth, but it may,-according to the Or-
ient,' of circumstances, be raised to one-fourth, one:
third, one-half, &c. Not the
,rniributiott has no li-
ft:Us ► If there are any laws Ala &dui the con=
tray they are bad laws."' •• '
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old eon tioaC alretlidy Adam:4 lilseraitid and ex. bale .rant! 'Kett as Bonaiiwire' - * '
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haunted. The merit Pinloond silence Mince?: Even the Helots of- the *inane sOiietimos rebelled,
the hired 'sitophanti 6i:tailed Mate'. ' A member. and 'We batik mutinies otenalaitillY among the 'slaves;
nevertheless, ;eis heaisi:to s,:,
.... Sire—ithe safety of in mir Wes t India Colonies. ioitn. *Attu tight have'
the empire muss be coOiolted." Another blamed the toldhisCchtncillorsof Suitt svithinuchmoretrtith than
expression of 64 invaded frontiers," as too alarming. be did the Germans, 'that it was Water and not blood
-a •-•% What.' (said the Emperor in a sage,), Is it not whith flowed in their vei:nt.
best to speak the 'truth ? Hai not Wellington entered One of the French Isapere contains the l'olloWing
the South of Frances and the Russians the North !-- letter from Btissess dated April tea :
Do not the Austrians end the Bavarians threaten the "The four Cahiatis whith hive guarariiied the pos-
East ?—Wellington in France !—What a disgrace ! session of NorWay:tO Sweden, viz. those of Russia,
And there has been no rising en mass 4 to drive him Austria, Great Britain, and Prussia, have sent con•
Flat! The English laugh at the good nature of our fidential persons to the King of Denmark to invite
Piasantry. But the English have no ships with them! him to adopt die most prompt and efficacious mea-
Naval manoeuvres will be of no and to them where sures for putting in force the stipulations of treaty
they are.—They are upon our tervitory—they must of Kiel. These agents will proceed afterwards to
'be beaten and driven back. Norway to Pante Christian, to declare to him that
" All my allies have abandnned'me—the Bavarians the Allies of Sweden, being determined to fulfil their
are traitors—the scoundrels ! (les Lashes) they planted engagements to that prver, the Prince bad only to
themselves in my rear, and attempted to cut off my reflect on his situation, to see the abyss of misery
I retreat ? And how were they treated f Alt, how into which he would plunge a people whom he had
finely they were massacred I I killed Wrede, and led astray by fallacious promises, and which he keeps
all his relations with him I No, No, no peace until under by Were force of arms."
I have burnt Munich. A triumvirate is formed in
the North—it is the same which partitioned Poland
a—no Peace until it is broken ! Let the next year
come and we shall sm. I demand 'three hundred
thousand men. I shall form an army of 100,000 at
Bourdeaux, another at Lyons, and another at Metz!
With this levy, and what I have already, I shall have
a million of men under arms—that will be sufficit nt
for the moment ! I demand 300•000 men, but I
must have meta (hemmer faits.) .Of what use are
young conscripts, but to encumber the hospitals and
'die upon the highways?
46 The French are always brave—so are the Pied-
montese and the Italians, and they fight well—as for
all 'the men of the North (the Germans) they are
good for nothing !—lt .is not blood-;-it is water,
which flows in their veins : I can depend truly upon
none but the inhabitants of Old France I"
. s 44 Sire—(said a Member) the Belgians"—" Aye 1
'Aye I the Belgians. (answered the Emperor) Per-
haps they do love me ; but what signify all those ad.;
dresses which they have been made to send me t T,lt.
is the height of ridicule !" 64 Sire— (said another-
-1 Member) Old France must be kept entire by us"—" And-,
Reiland too ! (replied the Emperor abruptly)—.
rather than abandon Holland, I will throw it into the
race agala I As for Italy, if it is not subject to France,
it must be declared independent: -
46 Gentlemen, there must be a general rising !---;
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Evety person must march.,—Monsieur CambAceres !
-you also shall march, and you, and you (to various
members).—You shall be made Chiefs of, Legions !
41 Councillors of State ! yOu are fathers of families
.you are the heads of the nation—it is for you so
give the spring (elan).—(No symptoms of applause.)—
I know it, you are soft—you are pusillanimous—you
talk of Peace !—Peace !—Peace ! Idu not under,;
stand the word—while the air ought to resound with
the cry of War!"
44 After thisharingue the Senams Consultum was,
adopted, the Emperor bloke up the meeting. and they
members retired, secretly agitated with various senti-
ments. For my parts penetrated with an indignation
which I could scarcely repress, I hastened to pot to
' pa:ler what I had witnessed, being convinced that
poise day or other the communication which I no.
Jain to the public would be highly interesting."
- • BOURDEAUX, APRIL VT.
The Due d'Angouleme left this place on the 25th
Tor Tot.qtause and.the adjacent departmen%
• VIENNA, APRIL 22. . ...
The Court dandle, after mentioning the abdication
of Bopaparte, adds :---64 The duchies of Parma, Pia-
cola, and Guastalla, will be transferred at the next
peace. en toxic propriete, to the Empress Maria Louisa,
who shall.transfer it to her sot, who will assume the
name of Prince of Parma and Placentia."

In the Cortes, one of the M.mbers premed,
when they heard of the captureof ?Oh ;1 send a.
Commission to that Capital to realm tlaaPictures,
Books, &c. carried away from Spain.—On 'what
principle should the stolen goods now treasured up
in Paris be allowed to remain there ? The rightful
I.ciwners ought all to recover their own property.

A Bremen Mail arrived this morning. Hamburgh
and Magdeburgh are now delivered from their op-
pressors. Of DAVOUST persolally we hear nothing,
but that he was extremely unwilling to declare for
his lawful Sovereign. If the ladies of Hamburgh,
who have been so often scourged v, ith rods by this
fellow's order, allow him to escape, ha must transfer
his Head-quarters to Elba.—No Gentleman—no
Frenchman, surely, can associate with this cowardly
enemy to the fair sex.
• s BREMEN, APRIL 26.

•i An express has brought us, from the neighbour-
hood of Hamburg. the following pleasing intelligence:

When Lieutenant-Colonel Aubert first offered
to Dav Oust the p tpers sent him from P.irls, here-
fused to attend to them : rpon which General Ben"
nigsen made immediate preparations for a vigorous
attack, and had twenty whte flags planted round
about Hamburg. Immediately atter (on the 24th),
Davoust sent out an Officer, effeting to evacuate thei
place—probably compelled to it by his Officers. His
Excellency the Russian General is by turns in Bias-
kenese and Altona to settle the terms."
" BREMEN, APRII. 17.
ge We have received to-day, from an authentic
source, the news of the surrender of the important
fortress of Magdeburg.
A French Officer, who passed through this place
yesterday to Hamburg, carried to Davoust letters
from his wile and from Marshal Ney. The deliver-
ance of Hamburg seems very near at hand.
" The Ratiication of the Treaty between Great
Britain and Denmark did not reach Copenhagen till
the 19th of April."

a BREMEN, MAIL fa.
le It is reckoned that Bonaparte has debts to the
amount of two milliards. The allies have laid upon
France a contribution of 1500 millions ; fifteen French
f3rtresises remain as security in their hands; one or,
which is to be restored at each payment of 100 mit
lions, so that the whole is tcrhe paid and the fortresses
restored in fifteen years."

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Atrium. Also Called shoot ten sill 'of nierchantthen •
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for Spaie, tans to join a fleet expected off this pore
from Plytnontli .'Me Manchester paint, with is
Mail for Malta aid Gibraltar, is gone into the toads.
P.S. Since writing this evening, he Diana packet
with a Mail for the West Indiei, the Tvro Friend:
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for Smyhri, and the Tittle for the Mediterranean',
have sailed.-a-Wind E. :rear 'fine weather.
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The Link man of war with the honteivard-lsound
'East India lire are now eft this port, hearing to
windward, with tie wind at East. •—. Arrived the
Royal. Oak man of war train a cruise. - .. - • , . •
• PORTSMOUTH', MAY 4.
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knitted the kolla,GnAr, from the Meditiiititienie, ,
and the Nautilus, hotind to Grenada. Sailed the
CIACRen with a convoy for Cork' and the West In-
,slies, Geowum and Miskarok for Plymouth. The
Zak India fleet are expected. to drop down to Saint •
Helen,7ll.o-morrnw.—Wind Eisterty.
..APJI OF GOOD HOPE, IMBRIUM*. it.
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• The Hboakit 'Agile arrived here the7th insn front
Waits. we team that the IfellltLlxo man of
iiiWer
war, .ibith the India fleet undri coaftoy, any be ex
petted here daily. The Hussite will sail in Onus
ten days for England.
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FASHIONABLE PAITIEL
the Fad of Jersey enteritis= the Mae 111 011111iiiitt la s
large'party co dinner yeset‘y. at his :stun. is Sedreley-egosees
In the evening her Ladyship Mee lap bilikeehle p,'y.
Lady Shetßaid give 4 greed kaput last lligis. St her residents.
io Portland-place.
Mr. Mitchell had a Omit &peer petty raid* nap basin
In Charles-street. Berkeley me.
Lady Salto= aid a large MsaerttJ last Agit. net bar hes= In
Park-place.
The Duke of tifirielk gave a &peer to a amiereas_eany r- so_-.
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Tuesday, at his hosiat.in tit. Jameersta.
Tie Marchioneas Camden'stest algle, la ilis*Ois• •
street, was attended by nearly all thelsakideltlsateles la emirs.
The Marchioness of klertford's necroses*, maim is
Manchester-4=re, was atteaderd be upwards et SOO pareilii d
the first distinction. ... ..
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The departeres for Paris still continue neuittent.
Lord and Lady 0.-SIASTON, Sir GCOROIt TALIKIT.
Mr. and Mrs. XVELta,ester Pour, the, Marquis whit •
Marchioness of LANIDOWNr, with some of the FITS-
PATRICK% the Hon. Mr. FRAZIIR, &C. &e. Lord and • •
Lady Cuva left town on their route for Dover last .
night.--Many of the rating Isfemberi have taken
French leave of et* several Clubs and departed for Pa- P.
, ris • the f Mowing swim yestenday'l *torn of ai-
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grant: trom eachl Fross Whites, 27; Brookes's, 12;
Scavitihr Vive, 0; Cocoa 'Tree, o.—Pueperaticts for
splendid Fetes ate making at each. '
Captain COLT'S. Ws of Lady Cosvatt, had his
right leg carried away by /I cannon shot. and was
otherwise severely wounded, in the attion at Toulouse.
On Ttiesd2riset, •Dles .9-771. draws • Prrust
112,000, likewise No. 7,768, entitled so Teo
Tickets in the Nest Lottery, were both 'plain Shares
by Pronto° and Co. No.-1, Combat, and No. X Chi.
sing-Cross ; the former in One Half and Eight Six-
Weighs, the litter in One Quarter, Three Eighths,
and Six Sixteenths I and it is not improbable but the
Als,ooo,•which will belong to the First drawn Prise
above 417 Nest Tuesday. Maylo, will also be sold
at Old Guy's Lucky Corner, No: 1, Cornhill, where
Tickets and Shares continue on ask, warranted Un.
drawn.
Theint Four Numbcra of a Voyage round Great
Britain are just published by LONGMAN and Co. con-
taining Views of Ilfracombe; Ilfracombe from Has.
borough; Hartland Pier; and Clovelly, North De.
von ; the Land's End; the Long-ships Light-house
rwtse
off the Land's-End ; the entrance to th ;
and iloscastle Pier, on the Coast of Cantwell. The -
Voyage is written by Mr. RICMAILD ATTOllvand illos-
trate& with coloured 'Prints, engraved b 7 Mr. Was.
DANIIILLI from his own Drawiags,-made during tise
Voyage. It is published in Monthly Numbers, se"
Number containing Two Plates, coloured, with kite.
teen pages of Letter-press, prieo 10s. 6d.
- The CHANCELLOII of the EkCIIKQnse stated in the
House of Commotts,•on Monday, that a more liberal
offer had been made by Sweden to Norway than had
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ever been made. to any Ceded country. We now
subjoin a copy of the Declaration on this subject,
dressed by the King of Sweden to the No=
Without approving of the principle which a t
mit the legitimate right of Sovereigns to barter away
their subjects, we are ready to admit that the docu-
ment holds out brighter prospects to the people of
Norway than they valid ever have hoped from the
Government which has bartered them away for the
recovery of Holstein and Sleswick, itnd the acsistiej..
tion of Swedish Pomerania : .
DECLARATION.
ft His Majesty the King of Sweden having declared
to the people of Norway, by the Proclamation ads
dressed to them, that he reserved to them all the' en.
sential rights which constitute public liberty, and
having engird himself expressly to leave to the no.
tion the faculty of establishing a Constitution anala-
'gous to the wades of the country, and founded chiefly
upon the two bases of national representation and the
right of taxing. cbetnaelves s• these promises are now
renewed is the most formal manner. The King will
by no means interfere directly in she new,Constitu-
tional Act of Nos-wire, whichpatist, koweedi be sub-
mitted for his acceptance. He wishes only to trace
the first lines of its foundation, leaving to the people
the tight of erecting the rest of the -building. His
Majesty is alb invariably determined not to tonal-
gamate the financial systems of the two countries. In
consequence of this principle, the debts of the two
crowns shall remain always separate from each other,
and no tax shall be collected in Norway for the per.
pee of payingithe debts of Sweden,. and vies versa.
The intention of his Majesty is not to suffer the Re.
venue of Norway to be sent out of the o unary. The
expeoce -
shall '

" BRUNSWICK, APRIL 211.
" Last night an express brought the official news
that the Prussian troops have occupied the gates of
Magdeburg, and that the French troops march away
on the 30th of this month.

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