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London, England, 1814-04-20 00:00:00

pRENCH PAPERS:

ACTS OF TAB PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
PECRIIR OW THZ 13TH APRIL, 1814..
46 The Provisional Government orders all Prussian ,
priso s ..f war to be set at liberty.
(Signed) " Prince of BENEVENTtNI, &C. &C"
The Provisional Government; considering how im-
portant it is to put an end to, the scourge of war, and
to repair as much as depends upon them the terrible
effect, decree, considering the urgency
Art. I. All the prisoners of war detained in the French tern*
tory *hail immediately be restored to their respective Powers.
This measure shall be commuulcated to the Ministers Pie-
tipotentiary of th. different Powers, with an invitation to ;us-
rooter a reciprocity to France.
NI. Übe Provironal Commissary for the Department of War
shalt towers vet.h the Provisional Commissioners of the Navy
and Foreign Reputations the execution of the French Decree.
The Provisional Government has passed a decree,
ordering a considerable reduction in the Army, arid to
discontinue all works tor the defence of the fortresses,
except such as are necessary in common times.
The Provisional Government has decreed, that all
the Dutch Guards of Honour, detained in the cities
Of Bruges, Metz, and Grenoble, shall be set at liberty.
The Commissary of the War Department is charged
with the execution of this order.
PARIS, APRIL 15.
Bonaparte waststill at Fontainbleau yesterday, the
14th. After several nervous attacks be had fallen
into the greatest depression i he had been made to
take the bath, and had been put to bed. it seems
that he is sick both in body and mind ; his ideas, it
is said, are not clear; for the rest he is treated with
the greatest care.
Besides General Bertrand, they speak of Generals
Ornano, Desnouettes, and Colonel Mallet, as aecom-
panying Bonaparte to the Isle kf Elba. The Marne-
luke of Napoleon would not follow his master, though
strongly pressed by him.
It is said that Cardinal Feseh, and the mother of
Ponaparte are going to ask an asylum of the Sove-
reign Pontiff; that Louis Bonaparte retires into
Switzerland, and that Jerome and Joseph are to go
to America.

The Princess Maria Louisa arrived the day before
yesterday at Rambouillett, with her son ; she is to
be Grand Duchess of Parma and Piacenza.
There have been retaken on the road to Qrleans
and Blois 44. millions in specie, which had been car.
tied off from PAri; by order of Bonaparte. The
crown diamonds and plate have also been recovered.
Ten waggons laden with precious effects, carried
off from Paris. arrived yesterday at LEC Thuilleries,
tinder a detachment of gendarmerie. They were..
conveyed to the E;tte of the Crown Treasury, to be
unlauesh

`The corps of allied troops composed chiefly of Ba-
♦arians and Wurtemberg troops, which quirt; Paris
a few days ago, have tatcen the road to Chantpagne
and Lorraine, which makes us believe they will re-
cross the Rhine.

The following Is the reply of Lord Castlereagh to
some one who boasted of the magnanimity of the
Emperor Ales:oder towards France-64 His Majesty
has had the initiative in generosity beer us, but Eng-
land will not.be behind him." He said also, upon
SitaitiOn of Europe—" The Nations of
Estope.have'proved•their courage sufficiently,. they
- must crewed' 'pray who- shall be the aioei tette-
-.
rous antlisdderate."'
The Jews have, through their Consistory, offered
their full and entire adherence. This act is signed
'IIP7 DvCologna, Chevalier of the Order of the Iron
Crown; President, and other Rabbis.
M. Maret has given in his adhesion.
The Advocate of the Legion of Honour, Raoul,
the Chiefs, second Chiefs, and Officers of the second
and third divisions of the Grand Charicory of the
who, and vhe Officers in the Grand Treasury, have
also deserted their founder.
• Berthier's Lotter of Adherence is couched in the
following terms ;
* The Army, essentially obedient, has not deliberated; it ha.
liras:Vested ita adherence as soon as duty permitted. Faithful to
Itaisells, the Army will be faithful io the Prism which the Fred.ch
Nation oak ea the Throne of his Ancestors. For myself and my
I adhere to the Acts of the Senate, and to those of the Pro-
visional Government."
Tie Provisional Government has published the fol-
lowing address to the Army : •••••
Soldiers,--You are no 1.-Inger the soldiers of Na-
poleon, but you are still the soldiers of the country;
your first oath of fidelity was to her, this oath is irre-
vocable and sacred.
'The new Constitution secures you your honours,
yoor ranks, your pensions. The Senate and the Pro-
visional Government have retognised your rights—
they are certain that you will not forget your duties.
From this moment your sufferings and your fatigues
vvi I cease. Your glory remains entire. Peace will
secure you the reward of your long labours.
it What was your fate under the Government which
is now no more, dragged from the banks of the Tagus
ID those of the Danube—from the Nile to the Dnieper
—by turns scorched by the heat of the desert or froaiti4
by the cold of the North, you raised uselessly, for'
France a monstrous greatness. The weight of which
fell back epos you as upon the rest of the world. Lo
many thousand brave men lure been but the instill--
mews and the victims of a force without prudence,
which wanted to found an empire without proportion.
How many have died unknown to increase the re-
nown of one man 1 They did not even enjoy that
which was their doe. Their families, at the end of a
campaign, could net obtain the certainty of their glo-
rious' end, and do themselves honour by their deeds in
arms.
h All is changed ; you will no more perish 500
leagues from your country, for a cause which is not
ht r's. Princes born Frenchmen will spare your blood,
for their blood is your's. Their ancestors governed
your ancestors. Time perpetuated between them a
long inheritance of recollections, of interests, and
reciprocal services. This ancient race has produced
Kings who were named the Fathers of the People.
It gave us Henry IV. whom warriors still call the
Valiant King, and whom the country people will
always call the Good King. It is to his descendant
that your fate is confided. Can you still entertain,
any alarm for it 1 They admired in vforeign land
the prodigies of French valour ; they admired them
whip they lamented that their return was delayed
'by many useless exploits- These Princes are at length
it the midst. of you.--they having been unfortunate,

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like Henry IV. they will reign like him. They ate
not ignorant that the most distinguished portion ut
their great family is that which comprises the army.
They will watch over their first children.

"Remain, then, faithful to your standatds. Good
cantonments shall be allotted to you. There are
among you young warriors, who are already veterans
in glory Their wounds have doubled their age.
These may, if they please, return and grow old in the
places of their nativity, with honourable rewards ; the
others will continue to follow the profession of arms,
with All the hopes of advancement and stability which
it can offer.

Sou=lts or Flub= I let French sentiments ani-
mate you. Open your hearts to all family affections.
Keep yoer hekism but for the defence of your coun-
try, not to invade foreign territories. Keep your
heroism, but let not ambition render it fatal to your-
selves ; let it no longer be a source of uneasiness to
the rest Of Europe." '

'rilE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20,1814.

PETE OP S POCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Reduced eqi—Cons. 66H—for acc. 67 66H
4 per Ct. 80-5 per Cent. Navy 951(-otunioin,
Bank Long ALUM Isf, 16—Exchequer Bills Is. ss. prem.
. India Stock—ponds, 6s. 9s. pram.

Some further extracts from French Papers will b
found in our columns of today. We have also re-
ceived some private communications from Paris—all

the articles respecting the personal history of tbe Ex-
Tyrant and his hopeful relatives are amusing. We
feel no sentiments of regret whatever at the ruin and
disgrace which he has brought upon them; As for
JOSEPH and Jenoste, the soi-disant Kings of Spain and
Westphalia, they have reason to be thankful that
they did not atone with their lives for their match-
less impudence in assuming the garb of Korth).
-They are said to have chosen America as their

asylum—with what grace Admiral JERODM will
shew his face again at Baltimore we are at a loss to
conceive. He has a wife and child there, it is true:

but will the great Transatlantic Law-giver, Mr. MA-

anon:, pass over the insult which JEROME cast upon
the dignity of his nation, whew he became the hus-
band of a Wurtemberg Princess, in defiance of his
previous American marriage ? JOSEPH, we appre.
bend, may obtain, if •he pleases, an asylum in Sire'
den—the Princess Royal, P.:II Madame his wife, the
Ex-Queen of Spain, are sisters It was this family
connection which saved the Great BONAPARTE from
being shot for cowardice on his return from Egypt.
At least so said the CROWN PRINCE in a recent Ma-
nifesto against him.
Old mother BONAPARTE and Cardinal FESCH, her
brother, have solicited an asylum from the Pon. His
Holiness will thus have an oppottunity of exercising
his Christian charity and forgiveness : the papal dig-
nity owes much truly to the promotion of such-wor-
thiseitts Cardinals Fee= aid Mss erreo- the Oen-
Cla+re ! We gai'sot hhig of the repeated degradations
anti imprisonments of the unfortunate Pdpe himsal
Louts BONAPARTE goes AO Switzerland : he is nn
donbtedly a goo4natured, harmless man, and has
been several years an inoffensive resident in Switzer.
land.
BONAPARTE himself was still at Fontaintican.—
He is said to labour under great depression of spirits.
He has 5000 men under his immediate cOmmand,
who do the duty of guards of honour! He was ex.
pected to set out for his ne* Empire on Friday.—
Bon voyage/
Several waggon loads of public treasure, which
were conveying out of France by order of this pitiful
cut-purse, have been stopped its transitu, and sent
back to Paris. Every thing connected with the ex-
tinction • f his false glory, is nauseous and disgust-
ing. His " sublime and all-foreseeing genius," was
any thing but " light from Heaven." It was the
;gni: fistula of the quagmire after all—and it sets
where it rose—in mud and filth at last!
The last moments of his political existence were
distinguished by an obstinate adhesion to the delu-
sions, of which he has been so long (and so happily
for suffering mankind) the victim. In the convulsive
paroxysms of his expiring ambition, he cast a wistful
eye towards Italy, and, exclaimed (according to the
Dutch Papers), that all its inhabitants " would de-
clare for him 1" How little he knows of mankind,
and bow ignorant of passing events must this man
be ! All Italy has joyfully thrown open her. ports
to British commerce, and hails the Allies as deli-
verers I In his retreat in the Island of Elba, he will
have an opportunity of putting the dispositions of the
Italians to the proof. He may still indulge_in dreami
of fancied.popularity ; and he may still delude him-
self with the idea, that " he had conceived great
projects for the happiness of mankind," as he told
the French people on his return in disgrace with a
beaten army in November last': without some such
chimeras td brood ewer in his exile, and without such
a monitor as Cardinal MAURY at his elbow, to remind
him of his " sublime and all-foreseeing genius," ex-
istence would be a burden to him.—That he is fur
ever deprived of the power to do mischief, cannot be
doubted. There was a period of his life when, with
youth on his side, he might have made a conspicuous
figure in fighting by the side of JAMES MADISON, for
the anti-social system ; as it is,
a His May of life is fallen into the sear,
The yellow leaf
And that which should accompany old age—
As homy, love, obedience, troops of Meadow.
' Hz came look to have!'

FRENCH PAPERS TO SUNDAY LAST.

This day we have received Path Papers of Sunday
hit, being the 17th. They contain the following im-
portant ankles of intelligence

PARIA, APRIL 16.
le His Majesty the Emperor of Austria left Paris
yesterday morning to go to Itambouillet►
" It is said that Bonaparte set off at length on the
15th, at four in the afternoon, for the Isle of Elba.
‘8 It is affirmed that within this fortnight above
1200 state prisoners have been released in Paris and
the departments with which there is a communica-
tion."—(Jouraal de Path, Altril 17.)
41 Monsieur, Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom,
has appointed the following persons to be Members
of the Provisional Council of State :

" Monsieur the Prince of BENEVENTO ; the Duke
of CORNEGLIANO, and the Duke of REGGIO, Marshals
of France ; the Duke of DALBERO ; the Count de
JAUCOURT, and General Count BauastoNvitut, Se.
nators ; l'Abbe de MoNrtsQutou, and General
DEssoL Es.

ig Baron VITROLLFS, Provisional Secretary of
State, will perform the functions of Secretary to the
Council.

44 The Members composing the Sections of the
Council of State have bad to-day an audience of
MONSIEUR.

" Count BERGEN addressed his Royal Highness
as follows :

' Mr LORD—The Council of State is happy at
seeing the return of your Royal Highness to the Ca-
pital and the Palace of your ancestors.
4 At length the descendants of St. Louis and
Henry IV. are restored to us. Our hearts belong to
the King, and his august family; and our thoughts,
our zeal, our homage, are his due.
4 Our desires, my Lord, are to be serviceable to
the Sovereign and the Country—to see the wounds
of France healed, which is at last become the com-
mon country of the Monarch and his subjects—and
to behold our august Monarch happy in the happi-
ness of his People.'

" Monsieur was pleased to make a most gracious
reply to this speech, in which, among other expres-
sions, he declared, that he pit took of the sentiments.
which the Members of the Sections of the Council of
State bad just expressed to him, and that the King
and his Royal Highness had never doubted of their
attachment and their zeal for the service of the State.