Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-05-24
From the L9nden Courier.
IMPORTANT pARTiC,IIA ss

ihTo0l AN AK N bAhS.
We have heen favonred with the following
particulars by an officer of rank, who left
Pals last Thursday night, and upon whose
information we are told we may implicitly
RELY
From the moment Bonaparte landed in
France he adopted a system of falsehood,
asserting that his enterprise was known to
and favoured both by England and Austria.
How could have escaped from Elba"-
he said, {" but with the consent of the En-
glish, whose ships lowered on every side,
and whose commissioner as my daily COM
panion." With Austria, he added, he had
made a truce for twenty years---asserting
that the Archduke Charles was actually
with him. and that the Empress Maria Lou
iss and The young King of Rome were on
their journey to France. These statements
he spread every where, asserting in add.
ton that the Allies were not sorry to see the
Bourbons deprived of the throne, on &C :
couot of their unwillinguess TO abolish the
Slave Trade.
STAGE has arrival at Paris he is said to
have more than onoe exclaimed, Je suis
aHrive trop tol"--au exclamation which
has been thus explained that he ought to
have delayed his expedition until the Mon.
archs had gone home and put their armies
on the peace footing.
At first he styled himself Emperor of the
French, BIC. &c. and Joseph Bonaparte
King Joseph. But on a sudden he left out
the &c. and. called Joseph merely, Prince
Joseph. He sent for Louis Bonaparte's
wife So, after his arrival The Huisster
announced her as Princess Hortense. She
turned to him to rebuke him, when Bona
rarte said, -" 1t was by NY orders You
are only Princes and Princesses. We re-
bounce all dominion out of France"
He is destitute Of battering artillery, and
of money. The villages round Paris are
crowded with troops, who are neither cloth
ed nor paid. The officers who were on half
pay, and are to be employed again, are
quartered on the inhabitants of Paris. The
Royalists have the greatest number. AT
present he could not bring into the field at
the utmost more than ninety thousand eff
fective hrelocks. The garrisons are i'll pro>
Vided With necessares.
Ney is forming an army, General Pass
inge is his chief 'E,at Major---and Generals
Brayer, Lasoile, and Brachelu, generals Of
division. Many have refused to serve un,
der Ney--at Paris his conduct is acknowl.
edged to be IN fue troft fort. Some of his
old companions have reproached him for
his taseness, and he has been heard to ex :
claim, " j'ai herdu qucrarte ans dion
err" Seventeen Colonels have resigned
vheir regiments. Money and St. Cyr, have
refused all overtures from him. Others
whose names have been published as going
to visit him. Lecourbe refuses employment.
Marescot, a general of engineers, had been
imprisoned four years by BouaParte-"We
shall forget and forgive" he said to him.
Msrsecot replied, there have heen many
follies committed within these ~ years.
c..N III aekn
hugsreau's Proclamation is forgery.&
he himself is believed to have gone 70 Swift
zerland His wife has been exiled frons Pa.
ris by Bonaparte. Marsha's Soultsn Mar,
Chand, have also been exiled.
The Chancellor D'A Rbray's property, is
said to have been confiscated.
Massena is detained in Marseilles by the
people, who are all for the Bourbons.
There was report, that the people of
Lyons had risen on the garrison.
Bonaparte orders all the shops at Paris
20 be opened on Sundays. They would not
shut them during the Bourbons--but the
moment 3onaparts ordered il, they shut
them all.
The Churches of Paris are full. and the
trieries Se guardnte heures, for the Kings
safety, are said in all.
There is gloom throughout Paris. and If
Ron2parte leaves 1t Wth the troops, the
white cockade will be again displayed.
An English gentleman from Normandy,
OF an impartial and Intelligent character.
assures Us. all the seaport towns are in de,
lection at the appearance OF war-and that
generally the people Of the interior are nine
In ten for peace much irsdisposed towards
Bonaparte. They dislike the ancient no
sles, whr have returned, and are not very
fond Of the Ptiests-but they still more dis
like the military, most ofthe officers being
vulgar, ihsolent, upstart fellows, very disa-
greeable in ~ell.brCd society, into which
they have not been invited since the return
Of the Bourbons. This neglect the military
feel and resent. Hence their desire OF the
return Of Bonaparte, through whom they
expect to regain their Importance, The
gentleman observes, that the military and
the whole orgaDck force of the government,
the constituted authorities in all the de-
partments, being essentially in favour Of Be-
baparte. by whom they were created add
put into power the revolution which has
taken place is not surprising-but he is de
cidediy Of opinion that nine in ten of the
population. particularly of the upper and
middle classes, lament his return.
The communications between France and
Brussels is cut off by the troops in Belgi-
An. 1t is reported that some diminishing
has already taken place.