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"M. LE COMTE.

"Head-quarters, June 28.

"I had the honour of receiving the letter of your excellence, of the date of the 25th. I have already written to the commissaries named "to treat for peace with the allied powers, upon "the proposition of a suspension of hostilities; an "answer to which your excellence has seen, and "to which I have nothing to add. As to what regards a passport, and safe conduct for Na"poleon Buonaparte to the United States of "America, I am bound to inform your excel"lence that I have no authority from my go"vernment to give any answer to such a de"mand. I have the honour to be, with distin

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guished consideration, M. Le Comte, your "excellence's very obedient servant,

"WELLINGTON."

The first answer, to which the duke alludes, is reported to be, that he had received orders from his government to march to Paris, and must continue his progress until further commands. His continued advance at least makes some such answer probable, and so the free choice of a sovereign is to be allowed to France when her

capital is in possession of the allies. His grace has received no instructions to the contrary; and perhaps he may help Louis to the throne, having received no instructions to allow the French to elect any body else.

The Princess Hortense, his daughter-in-law, saw Napoleon as he got into his carriage: he was calm, she reports, and in good spirits, at his departure. I saw the princess this morning, and must say, that she was entirely so.

On the 25th Napoleon addressed a letter to the army, which has been carefully excluded from the Moniteur, and has appeared only this day, in an evening paper, at the request of M. Campuy, a secretary attached to Prince Joseph. I give it you.

"Malmaison, ce 25 Juin, 1815.

"Napoleon aux braves de l'armée sous Paris,

"Soldats-En obéissant à la nécessité qui "m'éloigne de la brave armée Française, j'emporte «l'heureuse certitude qu'elle justifiera par l'emi"nent service que la patrie attend d'elle, les eloges qui nos ennemis, mêmes n'ont ри lui refuser.

"Soldats Je suivrai vos démarches quoiqu'ab"sent. Je connois tous les corps, et pas un d'eux ne remportera un avantage signalé sur l'ennemi, que je ne lui tienne compte de la bravoure qu'il

"aura deployée. On nous a calomniés vous et moi. "Des hommes peu faits pour apprécier nos travaux, ont vu dans les marques d'attachement que

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vous m'avez donnés, un zèle dont j'étais le seut objet. Que vos succès futurs leur apprennent que c'était la patrie sur tout que vous serviez en m'obéissant, et que si j'ai quelque part à vos affections, je la dois à mon ardent amour pour la "France, notre mère commune.

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"Soldats-Encore quelques efforts et la coali"tion est dissoute. NAPOLEON vous recon"naîtra aux coups que vous allez porter. Sauvez "l'honneur, l'independance des Français. Soyez “jusqu'à la fin les hommes que j'ai connus depuis vingt ans, et vous serez invincibles..

(Signé)

"NAPOLEON Ier."

Encore quelques efforts? Alas, such efforts as the battle of Waterloo!!! Although it may be true, that greater intrepidity and heroism were never displayed than by the French armies, in that disastrous campaign of a week, that lost Napoleon his crown, yet there is wanting that one thing, the absence of which gives to any recollections of these gallant struggles an air of boasting and ridicule, and convinces one by the proof of contrary, how well founded is that say. ing of Louis XI.: " Où est le profit? là est la

gloire." It seems that Napoleon expects a protracted resistance will be attempted by the army; which, indeed, from the reports of the commissaries of the chambers, who visited them last night, appears well disposed to make every exertion for the salvation of their capital and the country. The commissaries confess, that the acclamations of Vive la nation, vivent les representans, were loud and frequent; but that the cry of Vive Napoleon deur was that which seemed to employ every tongue.

Yesterday, in the chamber of representatives, the president reported, that the committee of constitution had prepared a project, which was ordered to be printed: a Mr. Lantrac made a motion, that an address should be presented to the nation by the chamber, which was adopted, and referred to a commission of five. After hearing the various messages of the government, M. Crochon moved, that a committee should be named to provide for Napoleon and his family, according to the invitation contained in the message, which was adopted by acclamation.

The project of the new constitution was this morning distributed to the members of the chamber. The first chapter, intituled, Rights common to all the French, insures all the political rights recognised by the preceding constitutions. The second chapter treats of the exercise of civil

rights, and ends with this article-too wise (says the Patriote de 89) to be generally adopted. "The ancient and new noblesse are abolished; "titles and feudal denominations are abolished." The third chapter designates the mode of government. It is monarchical and representative, containing provisions calculated to establish the national freedom. At his majority, the monarch is to take an oath of fidelity to the nation and to the law, and swear to employ all the authority delegated to him to maintain the present constitution. The guard of the monarch shall be composed of troops taken from the army of the line; no foreign corps can be employed in that service; neither the monarch nor the presumptive heir to the crown can command the army in person. In the second section, the organization of the ministers is provided for, and it is proposed, that when the ministers or commanders in chief are accused, the chamber of peers shall exercise, both in characterising the crime and inflicting the punishment, a discretionary power. The legislative power is confided collectively to a monarch, a chamber of peers, and a chamber of representatives, composed of deputies of departments. The peers are named by the monarch, and their number is unlimited. In short, the merit and character of this constitution may be well understood from a sentence just passed

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