repose of Europe, I must therefore except from soil of my country, I take pleasure in speaking, throne, the interest of my people, and for the confidentially of my people. When I re-appeared among them, I found their minds agitated, and burried away by contrary passions. The eye beheld on every side only difficulties and obstacles. It was probable my Government might commit faults-perhaps it has done so. There are times when the purest intentions do not suf fice to guide, when they sometimes even mislead. Experience alone can warn-it shall not be lost. I desire every thing that can save France. My subjects have learned by cruel trials that the principle of the legitimacy of Sovereigns is the son of the fundamental basis of social order, the only one on which a wise and well regulated li berty can be established among a great people. This doctrine has just been proclaimed as that of all Europe. I had previously consecrated it by my Charter, and I intend to add to this, Charter the guarantees which may ensure its benefits. The unity of the Ministry is the strongest which I can offer. I intend that it shall exist; and that the free and firm conduct (marche) of my Council shall guarantee every interest, and calm every apprehension. There has been much said of late of the re-establishment of the tithes and of feudal rights. This fable, invented by the common enemy, has no need of refutation; it will not be LOUIS. The Minister Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Prince TALLEYRAND.. Louis, by the grace of God King of France and Oavarre, To all our faithful subjects, health. At the time when the most cruel of enterprizes, seconded by the most inconceivable defection, compelled us to quit momentarily our kingdom, we informed you of the dangers which threatened you, unless you hastened to shake off the yoke of a tyrannical Usurper. We were not willing to unite our arms, nor those of our family, to the expected that the King of France should demean instruments which Providence has employed to himself to calumnies and falsehoods. The suc cess of the treason has too clearly pointed out their sources. If the possessors of national property have conceived apprehension, the Charter ought to have sufficed to quiet them. Have I not myself proposed to the Chambers and caused to be executed sales of these estates? This proof of my sincerity is unauswerable. In these latter times my subjects of all classes have given equal proofs of love and fidelity. I will have them all know how sensible I have been to them, and it is among all the French that I shall take pleasure in choosing those who ave to approach my persou and my family. I shall exclude from my pre sence those men whose renown is a subject of grief to France and of dread to Europe. In the plot which they have framed I see many of my subjects misled and some guilty. I promise (I who have never promised in vain, as all Europe knows) to pardon to the misled French all that has passed since the day that I quitted Lille, amid so many tears, till this day that I have entered Cambray, amid such acclamations. But the blood of my children has flowed throngh a treason, of which the annals of the world afford no example. This treason has called the foreign ers into the heart of France. Every day reveals 10 me a fresh disaster. For the diguity of my punish treason. But now that the powerful efforts of our Allies have dissipated the satellites of the Tyrant, we hasten to re-enter our States, there to re establish the Constitution which we have given to France; to repair by all the means in our power the evils of revolt, and of the war, its necessary consequence; to reward the good, to put in execution the existing laws against the guilty; in short, to call round our paternal throne the immense majority of Frenchmen, whose fidelity, courage, and devotedness have brought such pleasing consolations to our heart.-Given at Catean-Cambresis, 25th June, in the year of Grace, 1815, and our reign the 20th. govern you. as agreeable to me, that I have only to recal the remembrance of your ancient exploits to auimate you to new ones. The victories of Culm, Leipsic, Brienne, and Paris, are so many illustrious garlands that crown your standards; continue worthy of your glory by combating, as you did formerly, and by adding fresh laurels to those you have already gained. Great things have been already performed; your brethren in Italy have, with their arms, opened themselves a way into the heart into the enemy's country, and their victorious banners wave in the capital of the kingdom of Nrples. Those in Flanders gained on the 18th instant, one of the most memorable victories recorded in history. Those victorious armies have their cyes fixed upon you, and summen you to similar exploits. Let the recollection of what you have been on so many a hard-fought day-let the feeling of what you owe to your selves animate you to become constantly more worthy of your ancient glory, by embarking for your Emperor, your honour, and your country. SCHWARTZENBERG, Field-Marshal. LETTER FROM HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINIS- not adhere to his canse, as friends. We have consequently the order to protect them, to leave them the peaceable enjoyment of what they possess, and to support the laudable efforts whic Head-quarters at La Vilette, June 30, 1815, they shall make to replace France in the relative MY LORD-Your hostile movements continue, situation which the Treaty of Paris had re esta- although, according to their declarations, the motives of the war which the Allied Sovereigns blished between her and all the European notions make upon us no longer cxist, since the Empe God, Justice, the wishes of all, nations, second us, ror Napoleon has abdicated. At the moment Frenchmen, come to meet us; our cause is your's; when blood is again on the point of flowing, I. your happiness, your glory, your power, are still receive from Marshal the Duke of Albufera a tenecessary to the happiness, the glory, and thelegraphic dispatch, of which I transmit you a power of the nations who are going to combat for you. (Signed) Marshal Count BARCLAY DE TOLLY. General in Chief of the Imperial Russian Armies. Head quarters, Oppenheim, June 23. Order of the Day. Head-quarters, June 24. Soldiers of the Austrian Army of the Rhine! Napoleon, whose ambitious plans and lust of conquest aimed all Europe against him, was conquered by you and your Allies. Returning from the exile into which the generosity of the victors had sent him, he again attacks the repose, the welfare, the peace, the security, of all states; provokes, by his guilty arrogance, the armies of United Europe to combat for the inviolability of their frontiers, the honour of their country, the happiness of their fellow citizens; these most sacred of all possessions, which this man, whom nothing is sacred, and who has become the scourge of humanity, has been attacking and en. deavouring to destroy for so many years. Thus, brave soldiers of the Austrian army, a new and vast career of glory is opened to yon. I know, that you will distinguish it by new victories, and that your new needs in arms will render still more dear to me the proud satisfaction of calling myself your General. It is as honourable to you to copy. My Lord, I guarantee this armistice on The Marshat Prince of ECKMUHL, The same letter was written by his Excellency to Marshal Blucher. PROCEEDINGS OF THE FRENCH LEGISLA TURE. Although little doubt remains in my mind, that the Allies will be able, by. force of urms, to replace Louis the Eighteenth on the throne of France, notwithstanding all the solenin professions, 66 and protestations which have been made," to contend against the re-establishment to induce the world to believe, that force" of an individual as the head of the would not be employed to accomplish French Government, whose past conthis; although from the tenor of the dis-" duct has invariably demonstrated, that patches of Lord Wellington, relative to "in such a situation he will not suffer the towns which have surrendered to the "other nations to be at peace-whose Allies, it is very clear, that it is the wish" restless ambition, whose thirst for foof our government, at least, to restore "reign conquest, and whose disregard for the Bourbons; and although Louis le de- the rights and independence of other siré has distinctly stated, in one of his "States, must expose the whole of Europe numerous proclamations, that it is his in- "to renewed scenes of plunder and detention to dissolve the two Chambers, cal- "vastation. However general the feelled together by Napoleon, and to assem-"ings of the Sovereigns may be in favour ble two others, more subservient to his" of the restoration of the King, they no views, we yet find the Duke of Welling-"otherwise seek to influence the proceedton, and Marshal Blucher, acknowledg-ings of the Frenchin the choice of this ing the authority of the present Cham-"or of any other dynasty, or form of Gobers, by entering into a Military Conven- "vernment, than may be essential to the tion with them, the 10th article of which "safety and permanent tranquillity of engages1 s" to respect, and to make those "the rest of Europe: such reasonable se"under their command respect, the actual “curity being afforded by France in this authorities, so song as they shall exist."— respect, as other States have a legitimate Connecting this fact with the silence, uni-"right to claim in their own defence, formly maintained by all the Allies, in all their object will be satisfied; and they their prociamations, issued, even since" shall joyfully return to that state of the battle of Waterloo, respecting the "peace, which will then, and then only, claims of the Bourbons, one might sup-" be open to them, and lay down those pose, that Great Britain alone had pledged "arms which they have only taken up for herself in support of their cause. Whe-"the purpose of acquiring that tranquilther there is any thing to warrant this "lity so eagerly desired by them on the speculation, or whether the mission" part of their respective Empires."-The of Lord Castlereagh to the Continent countenance which has been given by us, be not, as some suppose, to overcome, and by Prussia, to Louis XVIII. seems by certain weighty arguments, any scru- to belie these professions; at least in so ples of conscience that may be enter-far as these two powers are concerned. tained by our high Allies, time alone can disclose. For my part, I am quite satisfied, that the arguments, with which Lord Castlereagh has been furnished, are perfectly sufficient to reach conviction to the minds of those for whom they are in-licy. In that view the proceedings of the tended. They have convinced before. I see no reason why they should not convince again. So late as the 6th of May, Lord Clancarty, in a letter from Vienna to Lord Castlereagh, gave the following as the "general sentiments of the Sovereigns and their Ministers" in the war which they had resolved to renew against France: In this war, they do not desire "to interfere with any legitimate right of "the French people; they have no design to oppose the claim of that nation to "choose their own form of Government, 66 or intention to trench, in any respect, upon their independence as a great and free people: but they do think they have a right, and that of the highest nature, It is a possible case, however, that the other powers may not concur, and circumstances may induce our minister, as they did before, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, to adopt a different line of po two Chambers, composing the present Legislature of France, may be considered highly interesting, as from the complexion. of their discussions a tolerable idea may be formed of the nature of that government which is likely to be established in France. It will be seen by the report of the proceedings, which I have annexed to this article, that even at the moment when the enemy was under the walls of Paris, a letter, signed by the Minister of War, by Vandamme, General in Chief, and several other celebrated general officers, denounc ing the Bourbons, in the strongest terms,. as unfit to govern France, was read in the Chamber of Representatives, and received. with the "liveliest applauses.'* CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES-SITTING | At one in the afternoon I renewed the OF JULY 1. Some grenadiers of the 11th Legion, under arms at the barrier of La Villette, beg the assembly to order that the well inclined men taken from the National Guard be sent by detachments to the posts which they can occupy. The letter contains some reproaches of the chiefs of the petitioners, for delay in the execution of the orders given.-An address was read from the Federates of the town and district of Chalons-sur-Saone. In this they say: "The constitutional law which we have accepted, proclaimed, and sworn to execute, interdicts to us all the power of reculling, and even of thinking of the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne; and if the French constitution had not thus decreed, the happiness and glory of the country would command this ostracism, as politic as merited." They conclude with declaring their resolution to defend the country against foreign and domestic enemies, Honourable mention in the minutes. proposal for an armistice, which was aecepted. In pursuance of this armistice I have consented to return within the limits of the treaty of Paris. I sent at the same time a flag of truce to the General in Chief, Frimont, near Geneva: he has replied to me, that animated by a desire to anticipate by preliminary arrangements those which may take place between the Allies, he consents to an armistice to the 2d of July, the period when I hope to have received the answer of the government. M. BLRY DE ST. VINCENT then gave an account of the visit of himself and his colleagues, Garat, Mornay, Bugnet, Hellot, to the army at Vilette. He described the soldiers as animated with the greatest enthusiasm, though some of the National Guards complained that they had not been supplied with arms and ammunition. General Diricau was at the head of 7,000 tirailleurs of the federates. The enthusiasm of the army was at its height, and that of the whole population of Fauxbourgs was not less ardent. A Secretary read the following letter: "Representatives of the people,-We are in presence of our enemies we swear before you and the world to defend, to our last sigh, the cause of our independence, and the national honour. It is wished to impose the Bourbons upon us, and these Princes are rejected by the immense majo A letter was then read from M. Bardier, Ex-librarian of the Emperor Napoleon, stating, that his Majesty, some days after his abdication, testified a wish of taking with him into his retreat, the library of the palace of Trianon, consisting of about 2,200 volumes, with the grand descriptions of Egypt, and the Greek Iconography of M. Visconti. The print-rity of Frenchmen. If their term could ing of these two latter works was due to the magnificence of the Emperor, and it was very natural he should wish to preserve a copy. As to the library of Trianon, it formed only a very small part of the books collected by his orders in the Imperial palaces."--The letter was sent to the Commission charged to report on the fate of Napoleon and his family. The Commission of Government communicated by the following telegraphic dispatch from the Duke of Albufera, transmitted from Lyons on the 30th of June: be subscribed to, recollect, Representatives, that you would sign the testament of the army which for 20 years has been the palladium of French honour. There are in war, especially when it has been long conducted, successes and reverses. In our successes we have been seen great and generous; in our reverses, if it is mished to humiliate us, we shall know how to die. The Bourbons present no guarantee to the nation. We received them with sentiments of the most generous confidence; we forgot all the calamities they had caused us, by their rage in wishThe Duke of Albufera to the Ministering to deprive us of our most sacred rights. at Wor. On the 27th the Austrians attacked on all the line; they were repulsed with a loss of 250 men, killed, wounded, and prisoners, and I in vain endeavoured at an armistice with General Bubna. On the 28th the enemy attacked upon Confians and Aiguebele; he lost 1,500 men, and we took 500 prisoners. Chambery, June 29. Well; what reply did they make to this confidence? They treated us as rebels and vanquished. Representatives, these reflections are terrible, because they are true. Inexorable history will one day relate what the Bourbons did to replace themselves on the throne of France; it will also tell the conduct of the army, of that army essentially national, and pos- | My left wing was attacked on the march terity will judge which best deserved the esteem of the world. Count PAJOL, commanding the 1st Count D'ERLON, commanding the Count ROQUET, commanding the Gre General PETIT, commanding the 1st Baron CHRISTIAN, commanding the regiment of grenadiers of the Baron HEURION. Major-General BRUNET CHARIRAIN, CAMBRIELLE, Count VANDAMME, General in Chief. The liveliest applauses succeeded to the reading of the above letter, which was ordered to be printed and sent to the armies. CHAMBER OF PEERS. SITTING OF THE 1ST OF JULY. at two points: some pieces of cannon were taken; the soldiers deserted their ranks, and I was less satisfied with the troops of this left wing, than with those I brought from Namur. No consideration shall make me conceal the truth, especially when the safety of the capital requires the best considered measures of defence. The Marshal concluded with claiming credit for having brought 40,000 men to Paris, whom he had resigned to hands more able than his own. After some, conversation, this appeal of the Marshal was ordered to be inserted in the minutes. In the sitting of the 3d two letters were read; one from General Vandamme, the other from General Lacroix. Vandamme solicits the favorable attention of government to his corps, which, he says, has supported the national honour, and whose arrival under the walls of Paris must necessarily contribute to the obtaining of more advantageous terms from the enemy, if it should be necessary to treat. He says that his army has been constantly victorious; that their retreat, compelled by events, has been protected by brilliant successes, and forced the enemy to respect them; and he concludes by observing, that all his troops are ready to second the intentions of government, and that they would never act except for the interests of the country. The letter is dated from Petit-Montrou, July 2. Thanks were voted to Vandamme and his army, and the President was directed to address a letter to him explanatory of the satisfaction of the Chamber. The other letter from Lacroix, Chief of the Staff to General Reille's corps, contradicts in very pointed terms a report, that the division of Reille was demoralised. He states, that this corps had been particularly and strenuously engaged on Marshal GROUCHY expressed his regret at the language which had been used with respect to his account of the situation of the army of the North. That he had never ceased to write, that it contained a mass of more than 20,000 infantry and 5000 cavalry, with 100 pieces of cannon. He demanded a publication of the reports which he had made of his march from Namur to Rheims. When he arrived there with his brave army, he received orders to conduct it to Soissons, (where the Duke of Dalmatia was re-organising the wreck of the army which fought at Waterloo), there to take the command of the army of - the north and to march on Paris. Com-the 16th and 17th; that it cut in pieces a piegne, Creil, Pont St. Maxence, had not been occupied. The enemy was master of them he was nearer to the capital than I was. I could not arrive there in time execpt by the most rapid march, and exposing my flank for 18 hours to the enemy. I determined, therefore, to file off the troops which I brought from Rheims, covered by the troops which came from Soissons. By this arrangement they arrived at Paris without firing a musket. Scotch regiment, and the troops of Brunswick Oels: that it killed the Duke of Brunswick, General Picton, and many other officers of rank, and wounded the Prince of Orange. Its own loss, out of 25,000, on the first day, was 4,125. Its 4th division, which had been detached under the orders of General Girard, lost its brave chief, two major-generals, and a fourth part of its forces. On the 18th, the same corps is stated to have begun the |