The National Register. — 1815-08-06 (London, England)

XVIII. dares not do so, after due trial and conviction, for the murder of Captain Wright." But their views are unmasked ; and The wisdom of that Go.ernment which they wished to mislead, has disappointed their hopes. Conscious that he i 3 not amenable to our laws for any act proved to have been committed when he was recognised as the Emperor of France by all the Powers of the Continent, and by us as the sovereign of that country , both at the Peace of Amiens, and in the negociations which took place at different times, down to the 18th of March, 1814, our Ministers have treated him as a prisoner of war, whose freedom is incompatible with the general interests of mankind. They have secured the world against the possibility of fu. ture dangers on his account : they have consialted the dig. nity of our national character, for  " The Lion prep, not upon caraulsrp." And they lune fulfilled the ends of justice, by inflicting en the greatest of offenders the greatest of punishments —life.  Extract of a private letter from Paris, dated July 29.--" The Parisians appear to have recovered from the consternation into which they were thrown by the ordonnance of the King, denouncing those who aided the momentary restoration of Bonaparte, which is attributed, with every other act of severity, not to the King's personal desire, but to the Allies. It now appears, that arrests had not taken place, in conses quence of it, to the extent, I was led to suppose. Sault haaddressed a memorial to the King, in explanation of his conduct, which has proved far from satisfactory; and Ney has it is said, succeeded in obtaining for himself a degrading impunity. His reputation, indeed, is hacked and trampled upon by all parties with merciless abhorrence ; but if these men vere to be tried by a military commission, according to the military code of Bonaparte, there could be little donbt of their acquittal. The French do not seem to feel much interest for the fate of Bonaparte, whether from the total absorption of their feelings in their own distress, or from his loss of reputation since his return from Elba. Ile has lost  Lis reputation with the multitude, and even with the army, since his defeat. But still, as far as I have been able to collect, the opposition to the King's Government is far from being weakened by the fall of Bonaparte ; on the contrary, it may, perhaps, have gained strength. The ceremony of the Champ de Mai has given a new jacohinicalimpulse through the country. Even in the French army, the cry of rive la Libcrle, has been much more frequent than rice an/pew/P. But all Frenchmen do justice to the wise and paternal conduct of the King. From the Paris Papers nothitb, can be known of the real state of Paris. It is generally understood that the King is dissatisfied with the measures of the Allies, and that he is perpetually assailed by the discontented intriw.tcrs about his person. lie is about to complete and conr,olidate his administration, now that the arrangements between him and the authorities of the Allied Powers arc distinctly settled. It is reported that Marshal Davoust, when he arrives in Paris, will be received by the King. The Fiend' army will not, it is said, be disbanded. The whole blame of thcii defcction from the King is thrown upon the office's, and the °films at c to be, fur the most part, rc E NATIONA L