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DEPARTINF,NT FOR FOREIGN AFFAI"II.

CIRCULAR ADI►REtsEO TO AMBASSADORS, MINISTERS,

AND OTHER AGENIN OF FRANCE AIDOAD.

Pans. March 50, 1815.

SlR,—The wishes of the French nation never
ceased to recal the Sovereign of its choice, the only
Prince who can guarantee to it the conservation of
its liberty and independence. The Emperor appear-
ed, and the Royal Government no longer exists.
—At the sight of the universal movement which
carried both the people and the army: towards
their legitimate Monarch, the family of the Bour-
bons perceived that there remained no other course
for them but to take refuge in a foreign coun-
try. They have quitted the French soil, without a
single musket having been fired, or a drop of blood
shed in their defence. The military household
which accompanied them has collected at Bethune,
where it declared its submission to the orders of the
Emperor. It has given up its horses and arms: more
than half of it has entered our ranks; the rest, few
in number, are retiring to their homes, happy to
find an asylum in the generosity of his Imperial Ma-
jesty. The most profound tranquillity reigns throogh-
out the whole extent of the empire. Every where
the same cry is heard ; never did a nation present
the spectacle of mope complete unanimi♦;y in the ex-
pression of its happiness and joy. This great change
has been only the work of a few days. It is the
finest triumph of the confidence of a Monarch in the
love of his people ; it is. at the same time, the most
extraordinary act of the will of a nation which
knows its rights and its true duties.
the functions entrusted to you by the Royal Go-
Ornment have terminated ; and I am about to take,
without delay, the orders of his Majesty the Em.
peror, in order to accredit a new legation.
You must immediately, Sir, assume the tri-coloured
cockade, and cause it to be taken by the Frenchmen
who are about you.
If, at the moment of quitting the Court where
you reside, you have occasion to see the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, you will inform him that the Em-
peror bas nothing more at heart than the maintenance
of peace; that his Majesty has renounced the plant
of greatness which he might have anteriorly formed ;
and that the system of his Cabinet, as well as the
whole of the direction of affairs in France, is upon
a totally different principle.
I cannot doubt, Sir, that you will consider it as a
duty to make known to the'Frenchmen about you,
the new situation of France, and that in which, ac-
cording to our law., they find themselves placed.
(Signed) CA ULINCOURT, Mite of Vireasa.

The Monitcur also cootains a report from Giulio-
court, relative to the Swiss regiments in the ser►ice
of France. It states, that at the moment of the
Emperor's return to Paris, the officers of these
regiments thought it their duty to apply for orders
to the Swiss Diet. Toe Diet returned for answer,
that it required them to return to their country.
Caulincourt complains of the whole proceeding
as an irregulur act, inconsistent with the capi-
tulations of 1802 and 1812, which had not been
abrogated by any succeeding stipulations. By these
capitulations, Co °Hilton' t contends that the Swiss re-
giments could only have been recalled by a formal
application to the French Government, stating, that
Switzerland was in danger of invasion. Or at any
rate, it is added, if the Diet tuck this resolution from
motives of prudence, and to guard against events,
the same measure should have been extended to all
countries which have Swiss troops in their pay.
Then follows a decree, dated the 2d of April, dis-
banding all the Swiss regiments in the ser►ice of
France, and ordering the Minister at War to take
charge of their arms, magazines, stores, &c. fur the
interests of the Treasury. By another article, the
Swiss officers and soldiers who had formerly served
under Bonaparte are permitted to volonteer into a
regiment to be created and organized for that pur-
pose.

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LONDON:
THUILIDAY. APRIL 13, 1815.

Brussels Papers to the 11th, and Frankfort to the
7th instant, 'robed this forenoon. Thom were also
arrivals last night of Brussels GaZ4Ollll, . Paris
Papers to the 'llth, and Malls tram lissabargke—

They furnish a mass of information, which we can
only give in substance. It is chiefly composed of
accounts of the preparations which are every where
making for war. As we hear that our Government
are anxiously waiting for the determination of the
Austrian Cabinet, and to see what may be
the conduct of the Powers who continue to pro-
long their deliberation in the Austrian capital,
we still eagerly torn to the advices from Vienna.
Though it is evident from these that the Allied So-
vereigns have been issuing their Declarations of
hostility against NAPOLEON', in utter ignorance of
the circumstances under. which lie has ascended the
Throne of France : the preparations which they are
making to soppOr..e their Declarations, leave no
doubt that war will take place—the issue of
that war is rather more doubtful.—The So-
vereigns composing the Congress bad not given
up their conferences, in which they were inces-
santly employed, on the 30th ; but their abode at
Vienna was not expected to be prolonged another
week. The news of NAPOLEON'S entrance into
Paris bad had an astounding effect at Vienna, where
the public mind had been kept in great ignorance of
the real state of public affairs, particularly in
France. As if by magic, however, all had been
changed within a very few days: the silence of the
Cabinet had been succeeded by the din of arms, and
war and NAPOLEON was again the universal subject.
Austria deems it necessary to arm with the rest of
the Allied Powers, but it is very uncertain how
she will act, now that affairs are so much
changed since the proscribing Declaration was issued.
We do not find in the Papers received to-day any
confirmation of the statement that the Allies had de-
clared that they would not 'evade France. Very
large bodies of troops, it is said, continually pass
through Vienna. On the 27th, it is computed that
50,000 men were quartered in that city and neigh.
bourhood. Artillery continues also to be sent off to
the army, a great part of which is destined for
Italy. The King of PRUSSIA was to set out imme-
diately for his army on the Rhine. The Duke of
WELLINGTON had returned on the 9th to Brussels,
from Ghent, where his Grace had met the Prince of
ORANGE. The French Royal Family were moving
to Malian. It is stated that emissaries of BONA-.
PARTE are very busy among the Dutch troops ; and
insurrections in favour t NAPOLEON are appre-
hended in Poland.

GHENT, Aram 6.—111 s Royal Highness the
Prince of Orange is expected here ; his horses ar.
rived yesterday at Alost.
The Duke of Beret is gone te.day to Most with
the King's household troops, whence it is said they
will go to Malines. Among them are 100 students
of law, who had taken arms for the King, and were
made prisoners by the rebellious garrison of Bethune;
but these brave young met' have found means to
escape, and join the faithful French here. Thirty-
three of the 100 Swiss, who were prisoners at Be-
thune, have likewise joined the King's troops.
Bitussets, Aram o.—Some squadrons of the fine
regiment of Belgian Carahiniers set off this morning
for Nivelles. Several battalions •f our national troops
are also on the march to join the Army of Reserve.

The Duke of Wellington returned this morning
from Ghent. In the last 24 hours a great number
of couriers have passed through this city from Vienna
to Ghent and London, and others from London to
Vienna and Hanover.

Lot/VAIN, Amts. 7.—To-day there arrived
here four hundred men of the first regiment of
Dutch carabiniers, from Amsterdam, on their way
to the frontiers ; to-morrow 300 more are expected
—this fine regiment is almost wholly composed of
veterans. An emissary, sent to seduce the troops to
Bonaparte, has been taken and sent to the prison
in this city—this agent cried continually, " Vive
Napoleon!" He had been pursued from Maseyck,
where he had excited some soldiers to join him.
A courier, sent by Napoleon to Vienna, has been
stopped in Wirtemberg, and not permitted to pro-
ceed, except with an escort.
IketiN, Aram l.—Official accounts from Neuf-
chatel state, that three of Bonaparte's emissaries
have been taken by the peasants, and immediately
hanged upon trees.
Some days ago a French General, who was like-
wise a spy of Napoleon's, was seized here ; and
three days ago a French Captains The latter had
papers tending to excite insurrection in Poland.
Three other French spies have been taken at Magde-
burg.

The discussions in the House of Lords last night,
on the subject of the Treaty of Fontainbleau, and
BONAPARTeII escape from Elba, are exceedingly in-
terestiog. Marquis WELLRSLEY made his Motion
for Copies of cectain Instroctiq,ns and Communica-
tions relltting to it, which were refused—for the best
of ell Oossible reasons, because none had been
given, and none were to give. The Noble Mar-
quis, in reviewing the conduct of Ministers
in relation to the conclusion of the war, and the
defenceless way in which they had left the peace of
Europe, after the intervention of lb may favours
from Heaven, and sn many opportunities of securing
it, emphatically observed, that Ministers had by
this conduct, and voluntarily shutting their eyes
to its probable result, exhibited the greatest proof
of incapacity that ever had been shown by any
Administration. The systole of defame which Mi.
nisters have cow adopted, is redo* Dowd oo their
part—it it a oonfoomina of their own weakness. Any

likeift
one who compares the admissions which they lie
now obliged to make by way of justification, with
the pompous boastings which they made when Lorf
1, LIVERPOOL, in the letters of light placed In front of
his house, at the time of the illuminations in honour
of the peace, gave thepublic to understand, that the
glorious termination of the war was the result of his and
his colleagues' perseverance—any one who compares
these and the past and present situation of the world
must experience emotion? very little flattering to the
pride of Englishmen. " Soldiers," said IV tPoLcox.
when he started from the couch of indolence, in tile'
vigour of his renewed strength, 66 we were not con.
quered"—and our Ministers now admit this to be
the fact. The situation of the Allies, when the
Treaty of Fontainhleau was concluded, is allowed
to have been extremely critical. Ministers can now
give us a list of risks which they and the Allies
would have ten had they not allowed NAPOLEON to
dictate his own terms.—" At that period,"says Lord
LIVERPOOL, " except the force for the protection of
Paris, under Marshal MARMONT, no portion of the
French military had deserted the standard of 80.
NAPARTE. At Fontainbleau he retained a large
body of forces ; and the armies of Svcnur and Sour
were still faithful to him. Another most material
circumstance was, that he retained possession of
every fortified town in France and Rolland, and a
great number of those in Germany. The entire of
the fortified places on the Rhine and Elbe were is
his possession, and all the fortified towns in Italy
were occupied by his forces." His Lordship also re.
collects the army of Italy, " on which," he says,
66 NAPOLEON might have implicitly relied, and which
was, in its qualities and appointments, more formidable
than any other which be could have brought into tie
field,"—and he adds with great cousideration,"gen.
der such circumstances, the Treaty had been rejected,
and if a failure, on the part of the Allies, afterearsis
took place, the result would have been fatal, not
merely to France, but to Europe.. What would
this country, what would Europe have said, if, is
consequence of a determination nut to treat Wilk
BONAPARTE, a revulsion had been occasioned!"
And what, we may exclaim, must this country sod
Europe say, if, in consequence of a daterminatioa
not to treat with BONAPARTE again, now that Jte is
stronger than ever, and it is officially admitted that
300,000 of the bravest troops haaa.keen,atided to
his power, a more terrible revulsion shalt take plea;
and t lie Continent shall again be inundated with blood
and slaughter ! After also it is so publicly ilechrai
by the Ministers who guaranteed to NAPOLEON lie
freedom of action, and an independent Sovereignty,
that we bad no controls' ever Mm, why Pe
the wretched and infuriated took of that Ad.
ministration allowed, as the Times of yesterday
did, to malign the character of British Mart,
and accuse them of treachery, of neglect of the
most important duties, and of receiving bribes fro
the Emperor NAPOLEON, to allow him to mops
when they had no power or instructions to prey
such an event ?

Lord HA RROWSY, Mr. WELLESLEY Pott, end
Co. have returned from Broguelv. or Ghent, having,
we are told, brae Ministerial Prints, accomplish
the object of their missies, which appears to hal
been to confer with the Blake et WELLINGTON is
the other Personages there, oh the conduct advi

able and necessary to be pursued in the Rena.
crisis. We understand the Pertotteges were ►ery
glad to find that It was our Mat-0%the.41141
that we had sent ever to them, sod money!
money ! was all the talk and the want. Hoe
much of this has been granted •r promised ift
know not. Two reports are in circulation as to the
result of these conferences.--According to est
story, war is resolved on by the Allies; by the
other, it is said, that the Allies stated their necessi
ties to be so great, that they could not move eilM
out subsidies, so enormous as to alarm the Earl of
!IA RAO% BY ; and that the consequence is, the Dub

of WELLINGTON is gone to Vienna to hold far.
ther communications with the Emperors sod Kills,
while Lord ihattowsir is returned to report pro.

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grew to kis Colleagues at home.
Prussia is trying to raise a loan. She will or
tainly find great exertions necessary to keep her ne'
acquisitions. Vigorous hostilities are expected ti
commence almost immediately on the Lower Rhine
and it is reported that they have already commence
in Italy: this, however, we do not believe.

M RG %TR, APRIL 12.—Arrived the Venus parks
Claw', from Ostend, which place she left yesterds]
about noon ; the Captain brings teal intelligence
moment from thence, except tt isai reported that to
privateers had put to sea from Dunkirk; he state
that on his passage across, he heard a very hear
firing in the direction of Dunkirk yesterday en

noon. The packet, after landing Ler passeni
proceeded to Ramsgate Pier to take on board In
to Ostend.

MIURY-LANE.—Mr. BRO.TLEY, who, we ballet
was some seasons ago an actor on these boards. 1
appeared last night in the arduous character of Faisal
We confess we were very agreeably surprised by
exhibition : it is the best personation of tae human,
Knight that. we have ever seen. Mr. BiIItSLEY seem
to know what no other representative of that part see'
to be aware of, that Falstaff is as much distinguish,
by his intellectasby his waggery ;and, consequent]
that buffoon gesticulations, vulgar grimaces, and
tones, would but poorly pourtray the man gih"
Sitastsecans has gifted with all those combing's,
of fancy and line sense, as well as gaiety, which
most justify the Infatuated attachment of the nobil
minded Prince. Mr. BARTLEY gave to the chants
its full power of entertainment, and at the same to
redeemed it from the contempt which foolish sc.ol
have made foolish spectators feel for it by that'll
over it an air of good sense and knowledge .1
world. The Hotspur of Mr. S. PENLSY wu4'l
ably spirited.

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