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arms. They had communicated the abdication of Napoleon, and the declaration that the war was national. At Soissons they had met Marshal Grouchy, who intended marching on Compiegne, but had fallen back towards Nanteuil. 7000 of the imperial guard had been rallied at first; but great desertions had taken place; 2000 had again joined their standard, and an equal number had come to Paris, whence they had again departed to join the army. Marshal Grouchy's head-quarters were transferred, at five in the evening of the 27th, to Viller Coterets; and his corps, amounting to 45,000 troops, with a numerous train of artillery, was perfectly equipped. By addressing the soldiers," continued the general, "by paying them, by providing for their wants, every thing may be recovered."

M. Lacoste demanded a tribute for those who fell in the last fatal battle, a motion which gave rise to a proposition for an address to the army, which was referred to a committee of five, read, and adopted by the assembly in the same sitting. A further proposition of General Mouton-Duvernet occasioned the appointment of five commissaries, to communicate between the chamber and the army. During the preparation of the address, M. Garau cried out, "No Bour"bons!" and a tumult ensued; but notwith

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standing General Sorbier insisted on the necessity of naming to the army the prince that might be raised to the throne, no such positive mention was made. The preservation of the national colours was made an article of the address, and the commissaries were charged to wear a tricoloured scarf. In this sitting the chamber rejected the amendment proposed by the peers in the law of arrests, which rejection, being communicated to the other chamber, occasioned the adoption of the law, such as it had passed the representatives.

The peers adopted the address to the army, voted in the other chamber, and named the Marshal Duke of Dantzig, and General Gazan, joint commissaries with those appointed by the representatives, to communicate with the troops. The letter written to Lord Wellington by the Duke of Otranto was read to the representatives nothing in the shape of a petition can be more spirited, or conceived in terms more honourable for the composer. It speaks the language of truth, as far as any individual may be

allowed to make such an assertion, and the duke is perfectly justified in saying, "The "French nation wishes to live under a monarch.

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They desire also that this monarch should "be himself subject to the empire of the laws.

"The republic has made us acquainted with "all the evils incident to an excess of liberty; "the empire with those attached to an excess of 66 power. Our wish, and it is unalterable, is to "find at an equal distance from these extremes, "the independence, the order, and the peace of "Europe. All eyes in France are fixed on the English constitution; we do not pretend to be "more free, we will not consent to be less so, "than your countrymen. The representatives. "of the French people are employed upon their "social compact. The powers will be sepa"rated, but not divided. It is, indeed, to their "separation that we would owe their harmony.

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As soon as this treaty shall have received the "signature of the sovereign that may be called "to govern France, that sovereign will receive the sceptre and the crown from the hands of the nation*."

If the Duke of Wellington be general in chief in execution of the treaty of March the 25th, amended by England, which leaves the French free in their choice, after the removal of Napoleon, he cannot continue hostilities; but we shall see whether Lord Castlereagh intended that the monarch of France should receive the

* See Appendix-No, 29.

sceptre and crown from the hands of the nation, or from the hands of himself and his coadjutors of congress. You see, by the inclosed address, that no mention is made of Napoleon the Second.

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M. Otto has been sent on a mission to the English government, but by the last advices he was still at Boulogne, not having yet received his passports. That gentleman said, at leaving Paris, that, if he could once communicate with our cabinet, he had no doubt of success. asks, for the justice of his cause, or the skill of his address, only the mollia tempora fandi, being in no way abashed at his former diplomatic defeat from the noble secretary who crept in at the chink at Vienna whilst the French ambassador was guarding the door.

Every preparation is making for to-morrow's battle. I have just seen several small detachments of the old guard and of the line, marching through the square of Vendome to their posts. They shouted "Vive l'Empereur!" as in the days of Napoleon's triumph. The boys of the polytechnic school have marched to their posts on the heights. The riflemen of the national guard were a few of them engaged in some trifling affairs which took place the other side of St. Denis, at Pierrefitte and la Pate d'Oie, in consequence of a movement made by the

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Prussians on the right of the line, which occa sioned a corresponding disposition on the part of the French. The English cavalry have made their appearance in the plain of Vertus; and the Duke of Wellington is said to have arrived with his whole army-of English, Hanoverians, Brunswickers, and Belgians, which, with the Prussians, Saxons, and Hessians of Marshal Blucher, compose the army in front of the capital.

Judge of the connexion of the monied interest and the honour of a nation. The actions of the bank have risen 25 per cent. since the battle of Waterloo, and the funds, which were at 53 on the 23d, are now at 64, having risen from 63 this day!!!

The most contradictory reports prevail respecting Napoleon. The Journal du Soir positively asserts that he left Malmaison at half past ten o'clock this morning, escorted, and that all reports to the contrary are circulated to make the allies believe that the chambers are insincere in their proposal of peace; but a physician of his household left him at three o'clock at that place: he adds, that 600 of his guides of the guard were in waiting, and that it is expected he is to command the army to-morrow. They are now actually crying about in the

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