Star.
London, England, 1814-03-26 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION:

" At Ecurdeaux, in the Hotel de Ville, March 12, 1814.
44 INHABITANTS OF BOURDEAUX—The paternal Ma-
rstrate of your city has been summoned, by circum-
tar.ccs the most fortunate, to be the interpreter of
'Your tong suppressed wishes, and the organ of your
feelings, in order to welcome, in your name, the Ne-
phew, the Son-in-Law of Louis XVI. i:..hose pre-
sence converts into allies, irritated nations, who, almost
to your gates, bore the name of enemies.
" Already, people of Bourdeaux, proclamations
multiplied by your impatient pens, amidst the subser-
vience of the press, have re-assured you of the inten-
i,tions of our King, and the plans of his Allies.
" It is not to subject your provinces to a foreign
yoke that the English, the Spaniards, the Portuguese
appear there. They have assembled in the South, as
the people of other countries have done in the North,
to destroy the scourge of nations, and replace him by

a Mooateh, the lather otitis people. It is tliroogli
him only that we tan appease the resentment of a
neighbouring nation, against which we were precipi-
tated by the most perfidious despotism.
" If I had not been convinced that the presence'
of the Bourbons, conducted by their generous Allies,
must put a period to your calamities, still I should
not have deserted your city ; but should have bent
my head in silence under a temporary yoke. Never
should I have been seen to wave that colour which
presages a pure Government, had I not been assured
that all classes of citizens would enjoy those blessings
which the progress of the human mind promised to
our age.

" The hands of the Bourbons are free from French
blond. With the testament of Louis XVI. in their

hands, they forget all resentment ; every where they
proclaim, and they prove, that tolerance is the first
wish of their souls. Aware that the ministers of a
religion different from that which they profess, have
lamented the fate of Kings and Pontiffs, they promise
equal protection to every faith which invokes a GOD
of peace and reconciliation.

It is in deploring the horrible ravages of tyranny
engendered by licentiousness, that they forget the er-
rors caused by the illusions of liberty. Far from
wishing them to fall on those who, with an ardour too
severely punished, pursued its vain phantom, they
come to restore that true liberty which leaves at once
the people and the monarch without distrust. Every
liberal institution shall be maintained. Alarmed at
the facility of the French in voting imposts, the pil-
lars of despotism, the Prince will be the first to de-
vise, with your representatives, the most legal mode
of taxation, the most equitable distribution, in order
that the people may not be overwhelmed.
" Those brief and consoling words which the hus-
band of the daughter of Louis XVI. has just address-
ed to you— " No more tyrants !—No more war !
No more conscriptions !—No more vexatious im-
posts !" have already cheered your families.
~ Already his Majesty has twice proclaimed, in the
face of all Europe, that the interest of the State made
it a law with him to confirm the sales, which by in-
numerable changes interested so many families in
estates henceforward guaranteed.
4, People of Bourdeaux ! I have obtained the assu.
ranee that it was the firm determination of his Ma-
jesty to favour industry and to recal amongst us that
impartial liberty of commerce, which, prior to 1789,
had diffused comfort among all the laborious classes.
Your hat vests shall cease to be ruinous ; the colonies,
too long separated from the mother-country, shall be
restored to you ; the sea, which had become well nigh
useless to you, is about to bring back friendly flags
into your port. The laborious artisan will no longer
lie idle; and the mariner, restored to bis noble pro-
fession, is about to navigate the seas anew, to pur-
chase repose for his old age, and to bequeath his ex-
perience to his sons.
4"rhe husband of the daughter of Louis XVI. is
within your walls : he himself will soon communicate
to you the expression of the sentiments which animate
him, and of those of the Monarch whose representa-
tive and interpreter he is.
64 The hope of days of happiness which he assures
to us has supported my strength.
44 I have no need to invite you to concord. Do not
all our wishes tend to the same object—the destrue.
tion of the tyranny -under which we have all equally
groaned ? But each of us must concur thereto with as
much of order as ardour. Amsterdam did not wait
for the presence of her deliverers, to declare herself,
and re-establish the old Government, the only one
capable of restoring her commerce and her prospe-
rity ; it was to the patriotism of merchants that the
Stadtholder owed his reestablishment, and the prompt
creation of the army, which defends the liberty of
Holland.
44 You will have been the first to give a similar ex-
ample to France. The glory and advantage which
our city shall thence derive, will renderke it for ever
famous and fortunate among cities.
44 Every thing permits us to hope, that to the ex-
cess of calamities those times so much desired by wis-
dom are about to succeed, when the rivalries of na-
tions shall cease ; and perhaps it was reserved to the
great Captain who has already merited the title of
deliverer of nations, to attach his glorious name to an
epoch so happily wonderful.
44 Such, fcllow-citizens, are the motives, the hopes,
which have guided my conduct, and have determined
me, if necessary, to sacrifice my life for you. Gon is
my witness, that I have had nothing in view but the
happiness of our country.—VlvE Le Rot I
(Signed) " The Mayor, LYNcH."
The above was printed and circulated on the 12th,
before the entrance of the British troops ; and what
is perhaps still more singular, it was drawn up subse-
quent to the publication in Bourdeaux of BoNAPARTE'S
decree dencuncing death to all who should support
the ancient dynasty. A convincing proof that the
magnanimous Mayor of Bourdeaux at least, has set
his life upon the glorious cast of dethroning " the
Monster," as BONAPARTE is most emphatically, and
most justly denominated, in the above vigorous pro.
clamation.
To the gratifying particulars of the reception of the
Due D'ANGouLEmE at Bourdeaux,contained in the sub_
joined letter, we have to add, from another source,
equally authentic, that nothing c'ould exceed the trans-
ports of joy which electrified the audience at the The-
atre, when his Royal Highness appeared. The beauti-

ful air d 0 kichod, 0 mon /24.1" was immediately
struck up, and secored *ith the mosrloyal vociferation.
Extract of a Letter from an Officer of distinction
who attendeci the Due d'Arsuoui.xma into Bourdeaux,
dated Bourgettisit, March 14th

g, I preceded the Duc d'ANoout.ams into this
town, and acquainted the Mayor with his arrival. It
was immediately published ; upon which the red
cockade was Joule aux pitch, the white one substituted
in its place, and the white flag hoisted. The whole
of the town re echoed the cries of rive le Duc d'iln-
gouleme I immediately assembled about 200 young'

men, mounted and decorated with white sashes and
cockades, and went two leagues out of the town to
meet the Duc, who entered with the cordon bleu, as
Hereditary Prince of the Crown of France. Never
did I see so numerous and unanimous a populace : in
the streets, though very wide and very long, a pin
would not have found its way to the ground. To give
you an exact description is impossible; and without
knowing well the character of the French nation, you
could never conceive the extraordinary enthusiaim
which the whole of the inhabitants displayed.—
if bat le Tyran ! if bar les Aigles 1 Scram: le Monrire!
Vive Bourbon ! St. Louis ! Henri IV. ! Louis X7IIL !
Monsieur le Duc, et Madame la Duelsesre d'aingoulemc !
Immediately on his arrival, the Duc went to the Ca-
thedral, at the door of which he was received by the
Archbishop, &c. Yesterday we were at the theatre,
when an address was presented to the Du:: d'Angou-
leme, together with a crown, which he accepted, and
immediately the music played Vive Henri IV. ! La
vietoire ert a nous ! On pout on etre mieux, qu'au rein de ra
famille, &c. and " GOD save the KING !" We are
now organizing troops as fast as we can."
These important events in the South would proba-
bly be known at Chatillon some days ago ; for it
cannot be doubted that every means would be em-
ployed to transmit the intelligence through France.
Even should every effort of this kind have proved
abortive, the presuMption is, that the news may have
reached that place from London ; for Mr. GUY, the
Messenger, who sailed from Deal on Tuesday morn-
ing, would, if no impediments were thrown in his-
way, reach Chatillon on Thursday.
By the 24th official accounts would reach them,
and we infer that Preliminaries have not been signed,
and that they will not be signed till an opportunity
has been afforded to the French people to declare for
their legitimate Sovereign.
The Paris Papers to which we have alluded, and
from which we have given extracts, present nothing
of importance. The public know pretty well how to
appreciate the accounts in the Moniteur. Had any
ground for real boasting occurred, we know it would
have been seized on with avidity.
The next accounts from the Allies in the North,
will probably inform us of the effects produced by the
knowledge there of the Revolution at Bourdeaux.
We ought to add, that besides the accounts brought

by the Deputies from Bourdeaux, another person 01

eminence, whose name is not mentioned, has reached
London, from another part of France, with dis-
patches for Louis XVIII.

A Dutch Mil arrived this morning, from which
we have Oven extracts in the preceding columns.—
The accounts in the Dutch Papers, from Marsh 41
&manes army, do not come down later than the
12th. On that day he was in position before Laon.

At the Stock Exchange, there was an amazing
bustle this morning, from the hour of opening (ten
o'clock) till twelve. Consols began at 6t3f, and
Omnium at twenty•two and a half. In a short time
Consols were done at 65, and Omnium at 17i ; the
Speculators were giving turns of one and two per
cent. to make up. There is no news to warrant the
fall, but it is supposed that three or four of the large
Speculators have been selling, which the people of
the house perceiving, have forestalled them, by sellim
their own stock.

The band and colours only, of the Wexford Mi.'
litia, lying at Woodbridge, received a sudden rout, a
few days since, for Yarmouth, said to be in conse-
quence of some great personage expected soon to land
at that place.
That fine regiment, the Royal York Rangers, who
distinguished themselves at the capture of all-the West
India Islands, are now quartered at the following
stations : Barbadoes—three Rifle Companies, under
the command of Major STARCK ; three Light Infantry
Companies, under the command of Captain WARR.
S. Vincent's—three Light Companies, under the
command of Major Ewart ; and three companies at
Grenada, under the command of Captain BIRD, All
in good health, and in a fine state of discipline.

The importance of Bourdeaux, in a military point
of view, is very trifling, being built in a semi-circular
shape, following the windings of the river, and com-
manded from the whole of the opposite shore by a
chain of hills, from which some mortars might de-
stroy the whole town in a few hours. Nor has it any
fortifications, the Chateau-Trompette, Fort Louis, and
Fort Du-Ha, built in different parts of the city, to
overawe the inhabitants, having been dismantled pre-
vious to the Revolution. But it enjoys an influence
over the south-west of France, which few provincial
towns in any country poisess. By commanding the
noble streams of the Garonne, the Dordogne, and the
Ile, all accessible to our men of war, Bourdeaux is
the
.general and only mart of all the rich districts of
Gutenne, of Limousin, of pan of Angoumois, and
of Sainton;e. Connected with most of these coun-
tries by a similarity of habits, peculiar to that part
of France, and by a vernacular idiom, totally unin-
telligible to Frenchmen north of the Garonne, Hour-
deans is considered as the only capital of those pro-
vinces, and in it all their mercantile and agricultural
interests center.