The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-22 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

[lll,oll2lft MONITEUR.
PARIS, MAItCII lg.:-.-The day before yesterday,
yesterday, and to-day, the troops of all arms des-

I lined to march against enemy left their canton-
N Guiph of Juan, March I. 1815.
.tvotsoN, by the grace of God and the Constitu. ! men I,have taken position at the points assigned
t and
Lion of the Empire, Emperor of the French, &c. to them.
TO THE ARMY. I Tile corps of the King's Household, the volun-
SOLDIERS !—We were not conquered: two men, ' tears,
.the corps of the elite of the National Guards
risen from our ranks, betrayed our laurels, their of vans, with those of the National Guards of the
count heir Prince, their benefactor.
surrounding departments, are now in line under the
Those whom during 25 years we have seen tea- orders of those Generals who hive so 'often conduct-
versing all Europe to raise up enemies against us ;
ed Frenchmen to victory, of Generals so worthy of
who have passed their lives in fighting against os in
confidence, and devoted to the cause of the King, and
the ranks of foreign armies, cursing our fine France,
the defence of the country.
shall they pretend to command and controul our Bonaparte, who left Aatun on the 16th, conti-
eagles, on which they have not dared ever to look ?
ones to scatter' en his route lies, corruption, and
Shall we endure that they should inherit the fruits of .
appeals to perjury and calumny. Sometimes he sc-
our glorious labours—that they should clothe them.
Ma the honour of Marshals whose loyalty is best
selves with our honours and our goods—that they
known and.amared,.aed of whom he dares to pub.
should calumniate our glory ? If
.their reign should lists pretended preciaroatious; sometimes he spreads
continue, all would be lost, eve., the memory of the most absurd stories, such as the departure of the
those immortal days. With what fury d.o they per. Kit/ from Paris, and the rising of the capital ;at
vest their very nsture? They seek 'to poison .what
other times he tries to circulate the rumour that lie
the world admires; and if there still remains any fis supported by some Of those very Powers who have
defenders of our glary, it is.among thoseeigy .
min
wheat
we haTelowelit
we the field
°Hiatt: . . pronowncedlitt stentinice, and who at this
• Soldiers. ! in etyatl. heard you? voice t.•
arrived through ali:4101 lig 41. -AO • ts togettiag at the 'Congress the personal dis-
- • -illitiftons with which they- were occopied, have re-
arrived Refill r/9" . anye.)l with the sole intention of crushing the enemy
General, called to "the throne iiir lime choice of the
of nations, and the scourge of humanity.
people, and educated under your banners, is restored
i
to you : come and join him. Thus he is no longer the man who; in the lament-
I Tear down those colours which the nation has able course of those wars which his ambition raised
up aainst Fran or. to s thg of
proscribed, and which for 25 years served as a rally.
our mg ce, inisfortunes, sough der t
to fascinoaften te oure efeeli n
yes by the
ing -signal to all the enemies of France: mount the
dazzle of his military successes ; he is a man, who,
cockade 'tricolour : you bore it in the days of our
to sustain his detestable enterprise, employs only
greatness.
means worthy of it.
We must forget that we have been masters of na-
But opinion repels him with horror: France sees
lions ; but we must not suffer any to intermeddle in
in him nothing bat the civil war and the foreign war
ou ea trairs.
! which he brings in his train ; it every where rallies
. Who shall presume to be master over us? Who
lima !at the name alone of that King who has .brought to
would have the power ? Recover those eagles
peace and liberty. It joins its Jove to the respect
you had at Ulm, at Austerlitz, at Jena, at Eylan, at
at ft at
of Europe for its august Monarch. It will fight and
Friedland, at Tinlela, at Eekinuld, at Essline, .
at will conquer both for it and for him.
Wagrata, at Smolensk°, at NI otSCOW, at Lutzers,
Vurken, at Montolirail. Do you think that the I
handful of Frenchmen, who are now so arrogant,
will endure to look on thent ? They shall return
whence they came, and there if they please they shall
reign as they pretend to have reigned during 19
years. Your. possessions, your rank, your glory,
the possessions, the rank, the glory of your children,
have no greater enemies than those Princes whom
foreigners have imposed upon us; they are the ene-
mies of oar glory, because the recital of so many
heroic actions, which have glorified the people of
France fighting against them, to withdraw them-
selves from their yoke, is their condemnation.
The veterans of the armies of the Sambre and the
.Meuse,•of the Rhine, of Italy, of Egypt, of the West,
of the Grand Army, are all humiliated ; their honour-
, able wounds are disgraced; their successes were
crimes ; those heroes were rebels, if, as the enemies
of the people pretend, the Legitimate Sovereigns were
in the midst of the foreign armies.
Honours, rewards, affection are given to those who
.have served against the country and us.
Soldiers! come and range yourselves under the
standard of your Chief ; his existence is only corn-
i posed of your's: his rights are only those of the pen.
ple and your's:
.his interest, his harbour, his glory,
:, are smother time your interest, your honour, and your
' glory. Victory shall march at the charged Step : the
leagleP with the nitiotall colours, shall fly from steeple
-(1- • • •
Ito steeple, even to the towers of Notre-Dame.—
Tben.you • will be able to show yotiescais With ho.
1 hour ;„then you Will be able to glory in what you
have done ; you. will be the deliverers of the country.
I . •
In your old age, enrrounded and esteemed by your
fellow-citizens, ther will hear you with respect while ,
1 you recount your high deeds; you will beable to say.
i with pride :—" And I, too, wtts ink of that Grand
Army, which entered trice the walls of Vienna, thrbitt
of )tome, of Berlin, of Al/id-rid, of Moscow; and
which . delivered, Paris ?tom the foul blot which
.tremors, and the presence of the enemy imprinted on I
it.
Honoured be those brave soldiers, the glory of the.
country ; and eternal shame to those guilty Fremch-
• men, in whatever rinkjorturte caused them to be'
bore, who fought • roi 24 yaeri,wkth the foreignerp ;to
tear the bosom of the country.
1
By the Emperor, (Signed) N
The brd wpe
na m shat tr,,neie4
the
rancilase,ot
Majur•Geuerules the Greed Army,APOLEON,
BERTRAND:

" THE KING TO THE FRI'NCH ARMY.

" °Metes ANn SoLntEas,-1 hare answered for
your fidelity to all France ; you will not falsify the
word of your King. Reflect that, if the enemy
should triumph, civil war would soon be lighted up
among you, and that at the same moment more
than 300,000 foreigners, whose arms I could no
longer check, would pour down on all sides of our
country. So conquer or die for it—let this be our
war-c
you who at this moment follow other
stand than mine, I see in you only deluded
childri : abjure then your error, and come and
throw yourselves into the arms.of your father, and
here engage my faith, every thing shall be imme-
diately forgotten. Reckon all of you on the rewards
winch-your fidelity and services shall merit.
March 18. 1815. LOUIS.
Wrintrd (corn the original manuscript in the King's hand-
writing.]

[llOlll VIE GAZETTE OE FRANCE.]
Courier Extraordinary, Sunday Morning.

PARIS, MARCH. 19.—Bonaparte pursues his
march : bet in proportion as. he advances, his
troops diminish. He arrived on the 17th at
Auxerre with less than six thousand men. He
will, without doubt, quit that village this morning to
occupy Joigny this evening. Bonaparte precedes his
advanced-guard in a chariot, escorted only by twenty
dragoons. Eta is usually half a league in advance.—
As no obstacle is to the preseut moment opposed to
his rash enterprise, we must conclude that it is the
intention, of Government to let him advance to the
height oflielun.
It is in fact at Melon, that all the most formidable
military preparations are made. An army of '38,000
men will be collected there to-morrow. It will lie
augmented by all the volunteers, by all the bat-
talions of the National Guards, who arrive succes-
sively and daily from the different departments. The
army which is at Montargis, under the orders of
General Dupont, will thus receive reinforcements.
We are assured, that his Majesty liar declared his
wish of repairing to the middle of the heroes who de-
vote themselves for the safety of the country, awl
of sharing their dangers.
The English, who are in Belgium, and who had
orders to embark, received counter-orders on the
AIM of Boosparte's enterprize.

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