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upon it to me, by a devoted royalist: "No king would think it worth while to reign upon such "terms."

The transactions of this morning show the house of representatives in no disadvantageous light, when it is recollected that the last hopes of France are now ranged under the walls of the capital. The General Laguette Mornai and M. Garat reported, that at ten o'clock on the evening before they had visited the lines under arms from La Vilette to St. Denis, and had seen the divisions Lambert, Meunier, Alix, and the corps of General Reille. Marshal Grouchy had recovered his alarm, and the Prince of Eckmühl regained all his confidence, by the arrival of General Vandamme, which, he said, had rendered the defence of Paris much less difficult; not a single man had deserted from the corps of General Reille; and of the 15,000 deserters returned from the army to the capital, nearly the whole would be immediately brought again into the field. When the commissaries mentioned the enthusiasm with which the army repeated th cries of Vive Napoleon deux," a similar acclamation was heard in many parts of the assembly. General Mouton Duvernet moved, that the chamber should open a subscription for the relief of the wounded in the capital; when the whole assembly arose, without hearing

his proposal in form, carried the measure by acclamation, and instantly appointed commissaries to examine the hospitals. It augmented, also, the number of the representatives appointed to communicate with the army to twelve, and dispatched them to visit that portion of the troops which they had not seen. M. Garreau, in supporting these measures, took occasion to notice an address which had been circulated yesterday, written by M. Malleville, a representative, proposing to invite Louis XVIII. to the throne. He called him a slave, and moved, that a penal law, which he had proposed eight days ago, against whoever cried " Vive le roi," and his present proposition, should be printed in opposite columns. A loud tumult ensued; one voice cried out, "hors la loi," but the majority of the assembly conducted itself with moderation; and though it condemned the tergiversation of this wretched fellow, passed to the order of the day, on the grounds of the inviolability of the representatives of the people*. After naming the commissaries to the hospitals, the assembly took

* Malleville's father had received unnumbered favours from Napoleon: he expected to be made a peer by himhe was not; and his son was the first man to desert to the Bourbons, who deserve such supporters. Since the king's return he has been impudent enough to assert, that his law against sedition was to mitigate the punishments, not to augment them.

into consideration the order of the day relative to the constitution; and M. Durbach, ascending the tribune, made a speech replete with patriotic energy, averring, that no one could doubt that the continuation of hostilities after the abdication of Napoleon was sufficient to prove, that a counter revolution, and the dismemberment of France, were the now sole object of the allies; and yet, in spite of this extremity, in the face of a triumphant enemy, did this deputy declare, "that "the Bourbons, who for a quarter of a century "have carried on war against France, are the ene"mies of the French people; that they are pro"scribed from their territory; that, conformably "to the sixty-seventh article of the constitution "accepted by the people, no proposition of peace "can be made or listened to, unless the perpetual "exclusion of these princes from the French "throne shall be a preliminary indispensable, " and a condition sine quâ non of all negotiation; "that the French are resolved to fight, even unto "death, for their liberty and independence, and "that they will perish rather than submit to the "humiliating yoke intended to be imposed upon "them: finally, that the representatives of the "people, faithful to the mandates of their con"stituents, swear to maintain this declaration, " and to die at the post confided to them by their "countrymen; they swear to die as becomes

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the representatives of a great people, placing themselves, disarmed, and wrapt in the national colours, between the cannons of the enemy "and the intrenchments allotted to the brave "defenders of the capital, and the national re"presentation."

Let me ask you, whether you would not, though an Englishman, have joined in the universal acclamations which followed the instant adoption of this declaration? It is ordered that the speech should be printed, and placarded in Paris and the departments. If the representatives should do all they say, one would be anxious to see what course Lord Wellington would take, commanding an army of Englishmen, the slaves of liberty and a parliament. His grace may have received no instructions relative to an apparition of a French house of commons in front of his lines, and could admit, perhaps, of no such obstacle or interference. His continued advance animates the royalist party, and caused, I suppose, the daring treason of M. Malleville, which, however, has only given rise to that expression of the general sentiments of the assembly which you have just read. However averse the chambers may be to the Bourbons, and whatever acclamations may follow the cry of the imperial. ists, it does not appear that the opinion favourable to the Napoleon dynasty approaches to

unanimity. On the contrary, M. Gamon, a decided constitutionalist, in his speech of the day before yesterday, spoke of the king which the French might elect; and M. Manuel, one of the most independent and able members of the assembly, proposed, this evening, a proclamation to the French people, in which no mention is made of Napoleon deux, and he defended the omission in this address, which was referred to a committee. Not a voice has dared to hint at the recal of Louis; and, on the whole, the royalists begin to suspect that their cause in the chambers is desperate, and that they have counted upon a division of opinions in the national representation, which does not exist in any degree that can favour their cause. None of the shades yet are faded to the white.

News arrived this

morning, that La Vendée is pacified in consequence of the late victories of General Lamarque, who has concluded a convention with Augustus Laroche Jacquelin. Thus the co-operation which Lord Castlereagh promised the allies in the heart of France has been crushed at once by the vigour of the imperial government. His lordship no more calculated on the conclusion of the campaign of his western auxiliaries after fifteen days, than on the events of the week in the north. He is certainly not the artificer of

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