Star.
London, England, 1815-03-31 00:00:00

FROM THE " NAIN MUNE"

" Determined to reduce the Powers of Europe
within the limits which they had before the Revolu-
tion, the Cabinet of the Thudieries would have car-
ried back civilization itself towards those past times,
when people lived under the influence of prejudices
which had become ridiculous. The antiquated ideas
of a Ministry and a Prince who were each behind
their age, disgusted all the classes of society, and the
hostileparties, sprung from our long revolutionary d
sentions, restrained, or rather annihilated, under the
empire of Napoleun,had revivod, recovered their fury,
and were every where drawn op in array against one'
another. The Bourbons seemed to reign only for a.
small number of families, whose pretensions grew
daily more and mon insupportable.
Humbled France had lost one-fourth of her ter-
ritory, and the imposts which crushed her were as.
heavy in peace as they had been during the wan.
The army was disorganized, and attempts were made
to introduce into it those who for twenty years had.

bees its enemies. If It was treated with any show 4'
indulgence, it was on ucoont of the dread that was
entertained' of its patriotism and its fidelity. The
most enlightened Administrators were deprived of
the posts which they had long fined with honour, and I
were replaced by wretches whose tides to the fivoun
of the Prince were an insult to the natiwn.
46 These innovaticnis were extended to the very
sanctuary of the sciences. Dismal ceremonies, and
the factitious appearance of the most profound re-
gret, every day called the dagger upon whole classes
of citizens. The money that was wrested from the I
Civil Officers, served to pay debts contracted out of 1
France, and to excite troubles in it, when not destined I,
to enrich the privileged friends of the Monarch. No.{
thing more was warning to efface all the traces of our'
glorious Revolution, than to annihilate the tides of
our victories, and to reverse the sale of the national I
property ; and two Ministers were already preparing I
the means of accomplishing this.
66 Such was the situation of our unfortunate
France, when the Hero, who had placed her in the I
first rank amongst nations, heard the groans of his
people, and formed the project of restoring to her
her glory. Whether there was any arrangement er
not with any other Prince of Europe to deliver us
from a degraded Government—he did not, at least,
call for foreign assistance, in order to return to France.
He embarked with a handful of brave men, and
landed on the Ist of March, at three in the after-
noon, on the shore of Cannes.
46 The most disgusting epochs of our delirious
Revolution do not offer mdre iiiplorat4e proofs ofl
stupid measures, gross falsehoods, and revolting acts,
of injustice, than were suggested by the fear, the
weakness, the hatred, and the fury wavering . be.
tween menaces and concessions of a Court, sustained
by vile fools and assassins against him for whom the
voices of the people so loudly called ; it proclaimed
respect for a charter which it had violated; it was
prodigal of gold to all those who promised to defend
it—officers and soldiers were caressed, and received
the most ridiculous offers, and whilst maledictions
were lavished on die regeneration of France, the
Hero entered Lyons.
a Such was the folly and blindness of the Royalists,
that they regarded as a mark of despair, the most he-
roic of all has actions, and they had no doubt that
Bonaparte would soon fall into their power. Mon-
sieur, brother of the King, had set out toelterminate
him ; a telegraphic dispatch announced his arrival in
the second city of the Empire, and answered for the
disposition of the army—but soon he was seen return-
ing, a fugitive, whilst he whom he went to conquer,
WAS the favourite of victory; his ream confirmed the
telegraphic dispatch, by which bad been learnt the
Arrival of the Emperor at Lyons, oo the 10th, and
it was also known that he would set out from thence
ou the 12th.
64 Tile enthusiasm which his preemiee bad excited,
left to the Bourbous no longer any doubt as to the
fate that awaited them, and from that moment all
the measures of the Government were directed to
civil war—the greatest efforts to light it up were
trade—the Princes were sent out on all sides—La
Vendee was the hope of the Royalists, and vagabonds
were collected in Paris, to shout for money, 17 k
Roi. It is remarkable that from the Bth to the ‘2oth
of March, it did not cease to rain, which considerably
cooled the zeal of the shouters, and contributed, with
the firm conduct of the National Guards. to disperse
the groups wne:hciosueilwltheiot;&,ldsitrf hetantvree. become dangerous to
the public
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as Louis XVIII. proceeded to the Legislative Body,
to declare his attachment to the Charter, which his
Ministers had treated with contempt, and his desire
for the maintenance of order, whilst they were orga-
nizing intestine war. The Comm d'Artois swore, tor
the first time, to respect the Constitution, as it such.
a crisis were necessary to induce him to take this step.
—ln vain the Princes chewed themselves to the Na-
tional Guards—in vain the Police paid soma men to'
enrol themselves—in vain the King swore he would
not gait the capital—Monsieur ceased to skew him-
self—the Ministers declared that they saw no means
cf resistance—and Louis XVIII. accompanied by
the cavalry at his household, set out the 20th of
March, at one in the morning, the anniversary ot the
birth of the King ot Rome."