Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-05-06
Brisino Mendez. Secreta
From the National .4dDoea.e.

FRANcE.-Scarcely ten months are elan.
sed since the triumphal entry Of the Bourr
bons into Paris, until the world again wit
neSses their depariurs from the land of their
ancestors, and the dignifed return of the
banished emperor to that throae which ne
had emhlazoned with the trophies of an
hundred victories, and who welded sacep
tire which, while it awed the world, most
scrupuious'y preserved The pride and honA
or of the nation
The present may well be termed the age
If protigies--the abdication of Bonaparte at
the mon ent when the integrity of France
was invaded by -four powerful armies, and
his Punishment to the little island of Eliza
was not (however unexpected and aStoniSh /.
ing) in any manner. to Compare to his mi
raculous return to his capital, unsullied and
spotless with the blood of p single subject.
There is something so splendidiy great
81 bold. and imposing in the features of this
late occurrence, that the human mind can
sea rely credit the existence Of che fact. or
combine reason with circumstance so eX.
traordinary. An isolated and banished
monarch, with few hundred retainers,
granted him as the mockery of court, in.
aiding his recent territories, Containing thir-
~ millions Of souls, and armies of 200 600
men on foot with handful of 500 men, and
marching, without any DELAY, to the capital.
over a tract of near 1000 miles, and Ia
king peaceabe & quiet possession, is of that
miraculous stamp that credibility might we'll
he staggered. II vain would ancient OF
modern history furnish paralleI-and even
his most bitter enemies, who wished to see
him in adversely that they might discover
his eakness and his cowardce, must now
admit that even difficulty, defeat and dis
grace, have only clothed him with fresher
horors, and elevated him beyond the limits
of comparison.
To the mind of the rejecting and deep
observer of events. his restoration TO the i'm
perial purple Of France, was never consid.
cred otherwise than probable and natural -
They reasoned, that the splendor Of hb reign
wcud soon be furnished and disgraced by
the imbecility Of age and prejudice in the
persons of the Bourbnns and that the feels
ings of his former subjects would, in few
years recall him, with one voice, to preserve
the honor and dignity IF the nation. Bat,
that this event should be accomplished in
ten months--shouId have been the nuTseling
of his own mind, and reared and completed
in the extraordinary manner it has been,
was certainly beyond the conception of the
most penetrating mortal. What will be the
probable result of this unlocked for event,
is question deeply interesting to the civil,
lzed world, and not a little 50 to these Uni
ted States
Whether the scenes of devastation and
death are again TO be opened on the theatre
of Europe, and whether new commissions
and the fresher horrors are again TO distin-
guish the bloody drama of monarchs or
whether this nomentous event is about to
Consolidate and settle Earring and conflicting
interests, is an enquiry which will admit Of
much speculation We are inclined to a
dopt the latter aRd view the return of
this surprising man. to protect the destnies
OF France, as the precursor of solid and las
ting peace To calculate on this event being
produced by the restoration Of the BOur
bons and the old nobility, was TO calculate
on the amalgamatiOn of oil and water, or
the unian OF attraction and repulsioa. PA
cling Europe out Of the question, and the In.
trigues of England out of the sight, the We,
~ introduction of two orders of nobility in
one nation--one rich, warlike and indepen.
dent-the other poor. proud and imbecle,
was a sufficient source of discord to set it in
flames. No permanency was, therefore.
attached to the Bourbon dynasty by any