pating every prospect of happiness from a was rejected by a majority of One!strong natural similarity of disposition, Thus these men, who had been, for so which they discovered to exist between long a period, adding injury to injury, them, a match was hastily concluded on, upon this most oppressed nobleman, find, and the happy pair entered the silken on the very day of his taking his seat,. bonds of hymen; the lady, as I have al- that his first vote is to save his country ready said, for the third time. Neither the sum of 6000 pounds per annum. of them are, however, absolute chickens. What a triumph is this to innocence! to a His Royal Highness, the Duke, being 45 man who, after being sentenced to the scanyears of age, and her Royal Highness, dalous and disgraceful punishment of the the Duchess, 34-However, a most laud- pillory, which, by the bye, for certain able custom has for some time existed, that reasons, was not inflicted; after being conwhen any of the branches of our most be fined in prison in a leathsome dungeon; loved and numerous Royal Family deign fined one thousand pounds in money to the to gladden the hearts of this happy and king: disgracefully removed from that serflourishing country, by entering into the vice in which he had attained such high homatrimonial state, the people are called nors, and rendered to his country such upen to provide them with an additional essential services; his escutcheon kicked sum out of the taxes, to support the ne- out of Westminster Abbey; his Order of cessary splendour of the new establish- Kuighthood, the well merited reward of ment; so, on this occasion, his Royal his distinguished gallantry, taken from Highness, the Prince Regent was advised him; in short, after having had every to send down a message to Parliament, possible indignity, which the most macalling on his faithful Commons to add a lignaut imagination could invent, leaped trife to the 20,000 pounds (some say upon him, iu every way, his single vote, £25,000) per annum, which the Duke on the very first day of his returning to of Cumberland at present receives from his parliamentary duties, is the means of the public. This gracious message was obtaining a signal victory over those received with all due decorum, and the under whose persecution he had been so Ministers of his Royal Highness the long suffering! And this in a cause in Prince Regent proposed the sum of 6000 which the whole Court was concerned; pounds sterling per aunum, to enable the wherein every engine and influence was other Royal Highness the Duke of Cum- brought into play, and employed to obberland, to enter upon the marriage with tain the desired purpose; where the additional comfort and maguificence. To Royal name was used to carry the point, this proposal some of, what are called, which, it was openly avowed, was a fathe independent members of the House vorite object even of the Regent him of Commons demurred. Several very self! This is certainly then a triumph! impertinent questions, as appears by the In the course of the different debates, reports in the Times newspaper, were many dark and mysterious hints were asked relative to the character and claims thrown out against both the Duke and his of the lady and gentlemen, and, in the new Duchess. For my part, I should course of the debate, it came out, that much rather have preferred that the ho Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen norable Members had spoken out. had been pleased to say, she would not should rather that they had given their receive her Royal Niece, and daughter- reasons, openly and fairly, for not think. in-law at Court.-These family quarrels ing the Duke of Cumberland worthy of are sad things, particularly among such this grant. I know little about him; great folks. Many other disrespectful but I confess my curiosity is excited, insinuations be informed were thrown out against and I should like to these royal personages; and, on the first what all these insinuations mean? I division, ministers had a majority of 17 remember, that a few years ago, Ilis for the grant. On the second division, Royal Highness was understood to have it was reduced to 12; and, on Monday been attacked in his bed by his Germau last, thanks to the honest and uprightvalet, a man named Sellis, or some such member for Westminster, the persecuted name, and that the Duke received some Lord Cochrane, ministers received a most awkward blows in the affray, which end decided and conclusive defeat, for the bill' ed in Sellis being found with his throat

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having taken the village of Aubervilliers, on the Commandant, and endeavouring by

or Vertus, on the morning of the 30th June, that means to excite to revolt the Namoved to his right, and crossed the Seine at tional Guards and inhabitants, who are St. Germain as I advanced, and he will said to be well-disposed toward us.this day have his right at Plessis Pique, his From the information collected as to the left at St. Cloud, and the reserve at Versail- fortifications, there appeared to me no les. The enemy have fortified the heights of reasonsble chance of taking it by escaMontmartre and the town of St. Denis lade, the ditches being filled with water, strongly and by means of the little rivers in addition to the inundation which had Rouillon and a Vielle Mar, they have been made. At eleven o'clock at night, Í inundated the ground on the north side of ordered five howitzers and six 6-pounders that town, and water having been intro- to open on the town, and I continued the duced into the canal de l'Oureq, and the fire until three o'clock at day break. The bank formed into a parapet and batteries, town was at one time on fire in three they have a strong position on this side of places, but the fire was shortly extin Paris. The heights of Belleville are like-guished. Some men were killed in the wise strongly fortified, but I am not aware town and several wounded, which appears that any defensive works have been to have produced exactly the effect which thrown up on the left of the Seine. Having collected in Paris all the troops remaining after the battle of the 18th, and all the depots of the whole army, it is supposed that the enemy have there about 40 or 50,000 troops of the line and guards, besides the national guards, a new levy called Les Tirailleurs de la Garde, and the Federes. I have great pleasure in informing your Lordship that Quesnoy surrendered to his Royal Highness Prince Frederick of the Netherlands on the 29th June. I enclose the copy of his Royal Highness's report upon this subject, in which your Lordship will observe with satisfaction the intelligence and spirit with which this young Prince conducted this affair.

TRANSLATION.

Petit Wargnies, June 28, 1815. On the day before yesterday, I had the honour of receiving your Grace's letter, dated Joncourt, 26th inst. sent by your Aide-de-Camp, Captain Catheart, whom I have requested to inform your Excellency, that Marshal Count Rothallier had arrived this morning to summon the place in the name of Louis XVIII. He entered into a negociation with Lieutenant-General Desprax, Governor of Quesnoy. The only result, however, produced by this was a very singular reply from the Governor, from which it appeared to me that he might possibly be induced to capitulate, and I determined at once on firing some shells and shot into the town, and of advancing our tirailleurs to the very glacis, to annoy them in every quarter, with a view of making some impression

I wished. Last night General Anthing, who commands the Indian brigade, sent an officer with the proposals to the Com maidant, according to the authority which I had given to him, and coupled with a threat of bombardment and assault. Upon this a negociation was entered into, which ended in the signing of the follow ing capitulation, this night; that is to say, that he would send an officer, with an Aid-de-Camp of General Anthing, to Cambray, to ascertain the fact of the residence of the King of France in that town, and the abdication of Bonaparte in favour of his son, and that, thereupon, he would give us this night at six o'clock possession of the Porte des Forets, to be occupied by a company of artillery, and that the next morning the garrison should march out of the town; the National Guards to lay down their arms and retura to their homes; the Commander, and that part of the garrison who were not National Guards, were to go and receive the orders of Louis XVIII. in whose name we shall take possession of the town.

Gonasse, July 4, 1815. MY LORD-Field Marshal Blucher was strongly opposed by the enemy in taking the position on the left of the Seine, which I reported in my dispatch of the 2d instant, that he intended to take up on that day, particularly on the heights of St. Cloud and Meudon, but the gallantry of the Prussian troops, under General Zie, then, surmounted every obstacle, and they succeeded finally in establishing themselves on the heights of Meudon, and in

the village of Issy. The French attacked them again in Issy, at three o'clock in the morning of the 3d, but were repulsed with considerable loss; and finding that Paris was then open on its vulnerable side, that a communication was opened between the two Allied Armies, by a bridge which I had had established at Argenteuil, and that a British corps was likewise moving upon the left of the Seine, towards the Pont de Neuilly, the enemy sent to desire that the firing might cease on both sides of the Seine, with a view to the negociation, at the palace of St. Cloud, of a Military Convention between the armies, under which the French army should evacuate Paris. Officers accordingly met on both sides at St. Cloud; and I inclose the copy of the Military Convention which was agreed to last night, and which had been ratified by Marshal Prince Blucher and me, and by the Prince d'Echmuhl, on the part of the French army. This Convention decides all the military questions at this moment existing here, and touches nothing political. General Lord Hill has marched to take possession of the posts evacuated by agreement this day, and f propose to-morrow to take possession of Montmartre. I send this dispatch by my Aide-de-Camp, Captain Lord Arthur Hill, by way of Calais. He will be able to in form your Lordship of any further particulars, and I beg leave to recommend him to your favour and protection. I have, &c. (Signed) WELLINGTON.

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This day, the 3d of July, 1815, the Commissioners named by the Command-ers-in-Chief of the respective armies, that is to say, the Baron Bignon, holding the Portefeuille of Foreign Affairs; the Count Guilleminot, Chief of the General Staff of the French army: the Count de Bondy, Prefect of the Department of the Seine, being furnished with the full powers of his Excellency the Marshal Prince of Echmuhl, Commander-in-Chief of the French army on one side; and Major-General Baron Mufing, furnished with the full powers of his Highness the Field-Marshal Prince Blucher, Commander-in-Chief of the Prussian army; Colonel Hervey, furnished with the full powers of his Excellency the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief of the English army, on the other side, have agreed to the following articles:

Art. 1. There shall be a suspension of arms between the Allied Armies commanded by his Highness Prince Blucher and his Excellency the Duke of Wellington, and the French Army under the walls of Paris.

Art. II. The French Army shall put itself in march to-morrow, to take up its position behind the Loire. Paris shall be completely evacuated in three days; and the movement behind the Loire shall be effected within eight days.

Art. III. The French army shall take with it all its material, field artillery, military chest, horses, and property of regiments, without exception. All persons belonging to the depots shall also be removed, as well as those belonging to the different branches of administration, which belong to the army.

Art. IV. The sick and wounded, and the medical officers whom it may be necessary to leave with them, are placed under the special protection of the Commander-in-Chief of the English and Prussian armies.

Art. V. The military and those holding employments to whom the foregoing article relates, shall be at liberty immediately after their recovery to rejoin the corps to which they be long.

Art. VI. The wives and children of all indivi

duals belonging to the French Army, shall be at liberty to remain in Paris.-The wives shall be allowed to quit Paris for the purpose of rejoining the army, and to carry with them their property,

and that of their husbands.

with the Federes, or with the Tirailleury of the Art. VII. The officers of the line employed

National Guard, may either join the atmy or return to their homes, or the places of their birth.

Art. VIII. To morrow the 4th of July, at mid-day, St. Dennis, St. Ouen, Clichy, and Neuilly, shall be given up. The day after tomorrow, the 5th, at the same hour, Montmatre shall be given up. The third day, the 6th, all the barriers shall be given up,

Art. IX. The duty of the city of Paris sha!! continue to be done by the national guard, and by the corps of the municipal guard.

Art. X. The Commanders in Chief of the English and Prussian armies engage to respect, and to make those under their command respect, the actual authorities, so long as they shall exist.

Art. XI. Public property, with the exception of that which relates to war, whether it belongs to the Government, or depends upon the Municipal Authority, shall be respected, and the Allied Powers will not interfere in any manner with its administration and management.

Art, XII, Private persons and property shall

ged to-morrow, the 4th of July, at six o'clock in corps this day at Crespy, with detach

the Commissioners above named, the day and army under my command has this day its

Approved and ratified the present Suspension of Grouchy, have not yet retired upon Paris;