dered services to the State. The Prefects are also authorised to add to every College d'Arrondissement ten Members, taken from the subjects who rendered similar services. ADDRESS TO THE KING BY THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE. ADDRESS OF THE PRINCE ECKMUHL TO THE It is for you, Soldiers, to render this submission complete by your obedience-hoist the white flag and cockade. I know that I am asking of you a great sacrifice. We have all stuck to the colours we are now resiguing for the last twentyfive years; but the sacrifice is commanded by the interests of our country. I am incapable, Soldiers, of giving you an order which shoulď not be founded on those sentiments, or which should be contrary to honour. In the last year, under similar circumstances, a change having takes place in the Government of our country. I defended Hamburgh and Harburgh to the last moment in the name of Louis XVIII. listening SIRE-The army, unanimous in its views and affections, in order to be brought to a free and simple submission to your Majesty's Goverument, has no need either of receiving any private impulse, or of altering its spirit or sentiments; it is enough for it to consult the sentiments that have animated it under all circumstances, and the spirit which guided it during the last twenty-to nothing then, as I do now, but the interest of five years of political storms. Its opinion, its acts, the conduct of each of its members, always had for their actuating canse that love of country, ardent, deep, exclusive, capable of every effort, of every sacrifice, respectable even in its errors and wanderings, which at all times com manded the esteem of Europe, and which secures to us that of posterity. The generals, the offiunfortunate country in the name of Louis XVIII. cers, and the soldiers, who now surround their colours, and who are attached to them with the greatest constancy and love, even when they are most unfortunate, are not men who can be accused of regretting private advantages. To other thoughts, therefore, to motives more dignified and noble must be ascribed the silence which the army has hitherto kept. From the lowest soldier to the officer of highest rank, the French army numbers in its ranks only citizens, sons, fathers of citizens; it is intimately connected with the nation; it cannot separate its cause from that of the French people; it adopts with them, it adopts sincerely the government of your Majesty; it will canse the happiness of France by generous and complete oblivion of all that has past, by effacing every trace of dissention, by respecting the rights of all. Convinced of this truth, full of respect and confidence in the sentiments expressed by your Majesty, the army swears to you, with entire submission, a fidelity, proof against all trial; it will shed its blood in fulfilment of the oaths which it this day pronounces to defend the King and France. [Here follow the signatures.] Head-quarters, uear Orleans, July 14, 1815. (A true Copy) The Prince of ECKMUHL, Marshal of France, commanding the Armics of the Loire and the Pyrennees. our country. All my countrymen applauded my conduct-a fine army was preserved to France: not a single soldier deserted from the ranks; knowing that he is bound to serve his country, whatever may be its form of government; and that the army cannot be a deliberative body.Soldiers, continue the same conduct; defend our This Monarch and all our countrymen will give us The Marshal Commander in Chief of the PROCLAMATION OF-PRINCE BLUCHER ON EY TERING FRANCE. The Field Marshal Prince Blucher to Messrs. the Administrators of the Departments, which will be occupied by the Prussian army which has entered France, to maintain the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May, 1814.-Gentlemen; I inform you, that I have appointed persons wor thy of my confidence for the administration of the departments through which I shall pass, having entered France to maintain the treaty of Paris, I have given these persons sufficient power to make their authority respected; and I invite you, gentlemen, in so far as depends upon you, to assist them in every thing relating to the interest vinces. He is the central point of the adminis tration of the Interior, the Finances, Justice. Public Worship, the Police, the Superintendance of the Public Prints, &c. The natives who have remained true to the good cause will be especi and tranquillity of the country. The persons whom I have chosen, not only possess the public esteem and my confidence, but they are tho roughly acquainted with that part of France through which I shall pass. The power I entrust to them embraces the collective civil and finan-ally advanced, and the Prefects and Mayors who cial administration. I shall see that my soldiers commit no excesses. I have published an order of the day, which forbids plundering under pain of death. I shall make war only against Bonaparte and his accomplices. The peasant shall not have to complain of my army. Those only shall feel the burthens of the war, who by their violation of their faith and their oaths, have brought us to the frontiers of France. For the support of my army, magazines shall be formed, and these shall be filled by requisitions, which shall be immediately paid in bons, or assignments upon the treasury of France, which bons are guaranteed by my army. These bons shall be taken in payment of the property belonging to the principal adherents of Bonaparte, which I shall confiscate, and which will be sold without delay. In the purchase of this property no other kind of payment shall be received, and only Frenchmen can be purchasers. This property shall be taken not only from those who follow Bonaparte as soldiers or National Guards, but also from those who support him in their counsels or influence. All soldiers and other persons who follow Bonaparte shall be summoned to return to their homes within a fortnight, otherwise their property will be declared national property, and immediately sold. These bons will be given in payment for all articles which the army may stand in need of. Those bons which are not employed in the purchase of confiscated property, shall be reimbursed after the war. In informing you, Gentlemen, of my sentiments, I wish you to publish them to your fellow-citizens, that they may know for what purpose the allied armies appear again in France. Destroy the opinion which the counsellors of Napoleon have spread; we come only to deliver the French from the most disgraceful yoke, and to fulfil the Treaty of Paris in every thing that concerns their rights and liber since Bonaparte's return have been placed as his especial friends, will be arrested, and their property sequestered. The inhabitants are to be disarmed. All those inhabitants who have been hitherto in arms, and do not return home in eight days, expose themselves to the loss of their property. This sequestrated property forms the military fund, and is designed to indemnify the other inhabitants for the damage sus tained by the war and the requisitions.--The property will be sold, and the bons taken in payment. The army is to be maintained, clothed, paid and armed at the expence of the enemy's country, and the following articles required from the occupied provinces:-150,000 pair of shoes, 150,000 coats, 40,000 pair of boots, 150,000 cloaks, 150,000 pair of breeches, 150,000 pair of gaiters, 150,000 leather caps, 100,000 ketties and drinking vessels, 100,000 horse shoes, 3,000 horses, half saddle half draught horses, and four million of francs to make good the arrears of pay. Any one, who as an adherent of Bonaparte, shall in any measure resist the necessary public regulation, shall be immediately arrested, imprisoned, and, according to circumstances, tried by a court-martial, and punished with death. His property shall be confiscated, and added to the Miliary Fund. ties. The Gazette Officielle contains also several other ordinances of the King, one enforcing the arrangements of the municipality for raising the contributions imposed on the city of Paris for the subsistence of the allied forces, amounting to 9,619,300 francs. One extending to the French tough motives of economy, to all military pronavy the provisions of ordinance, putting a stop, of July, 1816. motions for the space of one year, or till the 1st select battalions taken from the national guards One dissolving forthwith the for active service in the war just terminated ; the veteran soldiers who were placed in these battalions are dismissed absolutely, with such pensions as they may be entitled to by former services; and the conscripts of 1815, who also formed part of them, sent to their homes; the LETTER FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF PARIS, officers ordered to their homes. Another ordi JULY 5. Counsellor Ribbentrop is named by Prince Blucher General Intendant of the occupied Pro nance, dated the 20th of July, disbands the fice corps (corps francs), formed by Bonaparte, and subjects to trial, by military law, all who may resist this dissolution. ARRESTS AND POSCRIPRTIONS IN FRANCE Dejean, Fabre de l'Aude, Gassendi, Lacepede, Latour Maubourg. DUKES OF-Praslin, Plaisance. MARSHALS DUKE OF-Elchingen, Alb ufera, Cornegliano, Treviso. COUNTS- de Barral (Archbishop of DUKE de Cadore. The Paris Papers of Tuesday contain the anuexed Ordinance of the King, enjoining rigorous measures to be adopted against the individuals therein mentioned, who took an active part in the restora-Tours), Boissy d'Anglas. tion of Napoleon. The Courier of last night expresses great "satisfaction" at this act of "vigour and justice on the part of Louis XVIII." which, it adds, "will do much towards strengthening "and consolidating the King's power."We shall see, by and bye, how this system of arrest and proscription will operate.— ORDINANCE OF THE KING. Louis, by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre. To all those who shall see these presents, health-An account has been rendered to us that several Members of the Chambers of Peers have accepted seats in a soi-disant Chamber of Peers, named and assembled by the man who had usurped the power in our States, since the 20th March, until our return into the kingdom. It is beyond a doubt that Peers of France, until they are rendered hereditary, have been able and may give in their resignation; for in that, they only dispose of interests that are purely personal to them. It is equally evident, that the acceptance of functions incompatible with the dignity with which one is invested, supposes and carries with it the resignation of that diguity, and in consequence the Peers who are in the situation above-mentioned have really abdicated their rank, and have in fact resigned the Peerage of France. these causes we have ordered, and do order, what follows: COUNTS-de Canclaux, Cassabianca, de Montesquiou, Pontecoulant, Rampon, Se-gur, Valence, Belliard. Art. 2. May be excepted however from the above disposition those who shall justify not having sate nor been willing to sit in the soi-disant Chamber of Peers, to which they had been called; they taking upon themselves to make that justification in the month following the publication of Castle of the the present Ordinance. Thuilleries, 24th July, and 21st of our (Signed) Louis. reign, (Signed) By the King, Prince de TALLEYRAND. Louis, by the grace of God, &c.-Wishing, by the punishment of an attempt without example, but, graduating the punishment and limiting the number of the guilty, to conciliate the interest of our people, the dignity of our crow, and the tranquillity of Europe, with what we owe to justice and the entire security of all the other citizens without distinction:-We have declared and declare, ordered and order, what follows:-Article 1. The Generals and Offcers who have betrayed the King before the 23d of March, or who have attacked For France and the Government with arms in their hands, and those who by violence have obtained possession of power, shall be arrested and carried before the competent Councils of War, in their respective Divisions, viz. Art. 1. Are no longer part of the Chamber of Peers the undermentioned : : COUNTS Clement de Ris, Colchen, MARSHAL DUKE OF-Dantzick. Ney, Labedoyere, the two Lallemans, Drouet d'Erlon, Lefebvre Desnouettes, Amcilh, Brayer, Gilly, Mouton Duvernet, 3. The individuals who shall be con Grouchy, Clausel, Laborde, Debelle | shall not repair to the place assigned them Bertrand, Drouet, Cambrone Lavalette, by our Minister of General Police. Rovigo. 2. The individuals whose names follow, demned to quit the kingdom, shall have viz:the faculty to sell their goods and property in the delay of one year, to dispose of it, and to send the produce of the kingdom, and to receive during that time the reve nues in foreign countries, furnishing, however, the proof of their obedience to the present ordonnance. Soult, Alix, Excelmans, Bassano, Marbot, Felix Lepelletier, Boulay de la Meurth, Mehee, Fressinet, Thibaudean, Carnot, Vandamme, Lamarque, Lobau, Harel, Peré, Barrere, Arnault, Pommereuil, Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, Arrighi (Padua), Dejean (the son), Garnau, Real, Bouvier Dumoulard, Merlin of Douay, Durbach, Dirat, Defermont, Bory St. Vincent, Felix Desportes, Garnier de Saintes, Mellinet, Hullin, Cluys, Courtin, Forbin Janson (the eldest son), Lorgne Dideville, shall quit the city of Paris in three days, and shall retire into the interior of France,to places which our Minister of General Police shall point out, and where they shall remain under his superintendence, until the Chambers decide upon such among them as shall be sent out of the kingdom, or be delivered over for trial to the Tribunals.. Shall be immediately arrested such as Printed and Pablished by G. HouSTON, No. 192, Strand; where all Communications addressed to the Editor, are requested to be forwarded. VOL. XXVIII. No. 5.] LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1815. [Price 1s. 129] TO THE PEOPLE OF ALL PARTIES, On the necessity of their being prepared Botley, July 29, 1815. Before this reaches you, you will have heard of the great events which have taken place in Europe. Those events, if you seriously look at them, will convince you, that it is high time for you to betake your selves to the means of making your country a durable asylum for the oppressed of all nations; a safe abode of freedom. This is, in no way, to be done, but by arming yourselves; by keeping yourselves constantly armed; by being, at all times, ready to enter the field of battle; and this state of preparation is to be effected only | by wise organization. · [130 views of universal oppression. You will see, that, as the King of France does not appear disposed to shed blood, and to strip the people almost of their very skins, these men are urging the Allies to take the work into their own hands. You will see, in short, that they have now undisguisedly avowed, that England and Europe can never be safe, while one particle of freedom is left in France; while any thing but misery and slavery are left in that populous and extensive country. We are not to believe it possible, that these savage, these murderous recommendations, will be followed; or, if followed, are we to believe, that the wishes of these fiends in human shape would be accomplished. We are not to believe it possible, that any king, or any minister, will entertain the wish, much less attempt the deed, of making neighbouring, or rival nations, wretched "for a century," lest their growth and prosperity should endanger his power and means of living in splendour. We are not to believe it possible, for instance, hat any king, or minister, of England, will ever entertain the horrid wish of If you look into our newspapers of a fortnight past, you will see, that they have now openly and unreservedly promulgated principles, according to which your country might be laudably invaded, your cities laid in ashes, your women violated, yourselves robbed and murdered, even in the hour of peace. You will see," putting you back for a century," that that they recommend the perpetual impri- you may not be able to cope with him. sonment, or the murder, of NAPOLEON, But, while you actually see that there are who has given himself up as a prisoner of public writers, even in this country, who war, whose victories were never stained not only openly avow such wishes, and by cruelty or insult to the captive, and to that, too, with respect to America, as whose clemency so many old reigning fa-well as with respect to France, ought you milies owe the preservation of that power, under the combination of which he has, at last, fallen. You will see, that they recommend the murder of every man, who has distinguished himself by his exertions against the horrible feudal and ecclesiastical tyranny formerly existing in France. You will see, that they almost literally thirst for the blood of every man in France, who has done, or who is suspected of wishing to do, any thing to preserve the liberties of the French nation. You will see, that, now that Napoleon is wholly unable to act against the kings of Europe, these men are directing their malice against all that they think likely to oppose their not to think it possible, that, in some part or other of the world, sooner or later, the principles of these men may possess the minds of those who may be able to endea vour, at least, to put them into execu❤ tion? These writers are men of great weight in the world. You have seen the numer ous instances, in which they appear to have been the dictators of action in mighty affairs. Their writings are never to be despised. They are always to be attended to; and, I beseech you, to attend to them. They hate you mortally, chiefly because you are really free, and because you exhibit to the world the great exam❤ E |