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which has occasioned many comments. Napoleon is designated as a prince" abandoned by fortune and the national will." The first news of this prince since his departure was given this day in the Moniteur; he was at Tours at eleven o'clock on the 30th of June, and had a short conversation with the prefect, on the state of the national guards in the department of the Indre and Loire. Two days ago there was a current rumour of his still being in Paris, and at the camp; a circumstance now accounted for from the extraordinary resemblance said to exist between Napoleon and two officers of the French army.

LETTER XXXIII.

Thursday, July 6th.

In the afternoon of this day I witnessed, at the barrier de l'Etoile, a sight of which history furnishes no previous example-the surrender of the capital of France to British troops. This took place at half past four, by which hour all the gates of Paris were in the hands of the allies. Whilst this was passing, the criers were distributing a paper dated from the prefecture of police, signed Courtin, stating that the French plenipotentiaries sent to the allied sovereigns had returned, that the conferences commenced at Hagueneau are adjourned until the English minister should have received his powers, and will be resumed at Paris, where the allied sovereigns and their ministers will not delay to arrive. It adds, "That the allied sovereigns, faithful to "their declaration, announce the most liberal "inclinations, and the most decided intention "not to impose upon France any form of go"vernment, but to leave her absolutely free in "that respect. Their plenipotentiaries have

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"given on this head the most positive assú "rances. That the French plenipotentiaries "have found in all the departments which they "have traversed the best disposition, the inha "bitants requiring rather to be contained than “excited; and, lastly, that the tri-coloured flag, "and the national cockade, are every where displayed in the midst of the hostile armies." The plenipotentiaries did not then come back by the way of St. Denis, on the steeple of whose church, whilst I held the paper in my hand, I saw the white flag. A circular of the minister of the interior, in the Moniteur of this day, also announces to the French, "that the enemy has "entered into a solemn engagement to respect

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persons, public and private property, their institutions, their authorities, and their national "colours."

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Before the chamber separated last night, M. Bedoch told the representatives, that he had seen! M. le Comte de Pontécoulant at the Tuileries. "Il a dit que les puissances avaient montré des dispositions favorables, et particulièrement l'Em66 pereur Alexander; qu'il avait entendu souvent "dire et répèter que l'intention des alliés n'était point de gêner la France dans le choix de son gouvernement." This report was confirmed by General Sebastiani, one of the plenipotentiaries,

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who was in the chamber, and who said he had nothing to add to it. Notwithstanding, however, all these assurances, an apprehension prevailed in the chamber, that an attempt would be made upon their national representation. A violent discussion took place on the subject of an adjournment. M.. Regnault moved, that the sitting should not be raised, but only suspended; and M. Bedoch allowed that there was a rumour of a popular commotion, and the insurrection of a party, being about to take place the ensuing day, which the allied generals, and particularly the Prussians, had offered to prevent, by employing their battalions in maintaining the public tranquillity, and protecting the national representation.

The alarm was natural, but was soon overcome. The chamber proceeded to vote, that their commissaries to the army should depart the next day, and adjourned to eight this morning. In the peers there is no appearance, as yet, of desertion and Count Thibaudeau moved, that a message should be sent to the government to know what had induced it to make use of the phrase," a cause abandoned by fortune, and the will of the nation." It seems the words " of a

prince," were omitted in some copies of the proclamation. There is this day a placard of

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Marshal the Prince of Eckmülh, on the walls, by which he regulates the retreat of the army to Orleans; and another of Marshal Massena's, which enjoins, that every member of the national guard, and every person with a cocked hat, shall wear the tri-coloured cockade, under pain of arrest. In the chamber of representatives, this morning, the national colours were hoisted, by acclamation, on the pedestal on which the statue of Napoleon stood yesterday morning. The same standard floats on all the public monuments, and few persons are seen in the streets without this revolutionary emblem; yet all the journals, with the exception of the Moniteur and the Independent and one evening paper, have regained their royalist facings; one of them, the Gazette de France, gives the king's proclamation of the 28th June, from Cambrai; and another asserts, that the plenipotentiaries never saw the allied sovereigus: upon this I remark, that it has not been asserted that they did. The Journal de l'Empire is abusive, and denunciatory of all the patriots, particularly M. Dumolard by name. A perseverance of two days more, on the part of the patriots, will make them recover their tone. They are sunk into the lowest contempt; and a late caricature represents their editors in different attitudes of servility and subjection.

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