Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-11-01

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foreigners, were seated on their throne,
where they had distributed their trusiy
servants, military and civil, throughout
the whole of the country. He proceeds
on to that capital, nat only unopposed by
any part of the people, but amidst unani-
nous acclamations. One garrison alone
marches forth to oppose him He leaves
his followers behind him at distance;
walks up to them alone ;bareshis breast at
the point of their muskets says. /" if there
be Frenchmen, If there be single
Frenchman, to whom my return is not
welcome, here is my heart, let him pierce
1T, and spare the eifusion of French blood"
The soldiers throw away their arms and
embrace the handful of their comrades
who are found in his suite.
Is 1T thus my lord, that Louis made his
entry into France Is it thus that he has
put the love OF the French people to the
test lis 1T thus that he has made his an
peal to them !? Is it thus that he has OIL
ven them their choice ? No. He has no,
entered France alone :he has not barred
his breast to the first Frenchman that re-
Jected him ; he has not even ventured to
goln the company he and his followers
.''>' ''N NttolCu W iONul themselves In
battalion of the victorious and oyerwhelm-
ing foreign invaders. No He comes in
the rear OF those overwhelming foreign ar
mics, who have first cut road for him
through, the bodies of those whom our in
famous writers have the audacity to call
his faithful and loving subjects. Louis
and the BOurbOns, seated at Parls IN tbe
plentitude of power, with two hundred
thousand men in arms, and with all tbe
treasures of the country at their command
are unable to prevail upon one single man
to oppose the progress of Napoleon. who
is hailed as the deliverer of his country.
and who enters Paris after Journey n :
cross threefourths of France, without hav-
ing caused one drop of French blood to
De she'd. do not say, nv Lord. that
Louis has actually caused French blood
to be. shed by the hands of the foreign in
vaders OF France but this know. that
our newspapers tell us that rivers of
! French blood have flowed on account of
the opposition to the Bourbons. These
papers tell US, that numbers of French
people, IN towns, as well as VILLAGES. have
been put to death, by the Aust1ans, the
Russians, the Bavarians. That town and
villages have been burnt, and that the nun.
ishment in the way of plumber has been
enormous and for what. ? because the
people thus punished, endeavored TO de.
| tend their country against its enemies
whose object was the restoration of the
Bourbons.
Mt last, Louis arrives at Paris. But under wba,
circumstances Paris hid prerared for n =; q
against the armies under whose protect ap he
came Paris IS surrendered 10 those arm. !, bv a
convention, The French army retires to tax c up
| a Posltoh behind the Loire, protecting against
the e toration of the Bourbons The assemble
| CHOSEN by the French people continue to prote.,
gainst that restoration till foreign soldiers mr.
round tie very hall in Which thev are assembled
Inc trl-colored flag and cockad, are hoisted by
tpe national guard themselves till the last mo-
rnent' These colors are still flying every where.
"here force has not pulled them down In the
p p OF ihnumerabie hosts of enemies, patroling
me country, aud pouring intO il, in every d;rec.
ton, those colors, the symbols of unouench bic
hatred TO fendai and ecclesiastical tyranny, are
noisted, and exciting the spirit of the pe,pIe e
ven after the Bourbons and the invading armies
c well known 10 DE in possession of ptr,s itself.
ana 1he bourbons remOunt the throne of Their
ancestors, as they valniy call it, while the prO-
tests against them, by the assembly, By tn ar
my, and by the people are ringing IN tbeirears
Was i thus that Napoleon re-entcred Paris. q.
midst the exclamation of all ranks ofpeopie. No
| convention preceded his re-entryi No battles
were necessary to clear the way for him. M
to"ns-peoPie or country-people were put TO
death No murder, no plumber, no brutal vio.
ience We're his arbingers. He entered Paris
AMIDST the joyous shouts ola people who, not
withstandng his faults, felt grateful to him for
ms services felt that he was entitled to their
love ON many accounts but, above All, for having
delivered them, as they thought and hoped. for
ever, from the sway Of that Family, under which
their torefathers bad groaned for so manv ares
Snd who, as the people reasonably feared. had
brought IN their train that system OF fe,,dal ard
Priestly tyranny, those grinding expressions. that
degrading superstition those hellish persecu
tons, under which the French nation had lived
covered with so much misery and dishonor.
such IS tie contrast which the return of Napo-
leon and that of the Bourbons exhibit. And not
witistanding all the songune bopss now enter.
tanned, and express ed by the sons md daughters
Of corruption, the friends offeedom, who have
Alright 20 triumph in this contrast, feel no hesita
ton III predicting, as Inow predict that the Bour.
bos Will never be able to restore all, nor even a.
ny cons derable part of the fcudal and prestlv tv
rames, formerly existing in France and that ali
Tue armies OF Europe VIII not be able Il keep
mem Niother eleven months upon the throne, If
they dare essentially 20 violate that code of laws
and hose principles OF government, which the
revolutionary assemblies enac ed, which Napoleon
continued and established, and which he immor.
isiIzed BY his name.
u IS very difficult for one, not present upon
the spot, TO Iudgs Of The conduct Of The sctc-, =.