we rested upon the same foundation.marriage with the house of Austria tually to have turned his brain. He solent. He spoke of the people in a haughty, more disdainful, than any of vereigns ever had done. Even when the frontiers of France, he still pre-+ insolent style in speaking of the peo Arch-chancellor of the empire, an om he had entitled the Count de FoN-de a report to him, in which, after g of other acts of hostility committed ed sovereigns, he complains of an ich those sovereigns had made to the d of the democratical principles inculhat appeal. The words are ever methe utterance and promulgation of APOLEON: this at once base and in merited the fate which he finally d; only he should have received that e hands of the people. One would the man must have been mad; but reflects on the thoughts and feelings engendered by long possession of abso, one can account for even these most * words, promulgated to the world by a PITT had truly called the "child and ion of jacobinism;" that is to say, of' and generous and just principles of' . This man owed all his riches, all 2 his power, all his rank, all his glory, to the people of France. He possessed not a shilling or a hem of a garment which had not been bestowed by them. They ordered him forth, or rather they led him forth, for the purpose of crushing all the old despotisms; all the glory achieved their wondrous valour, and their still more wondrous disinterestedness, they heaped upon him. Even now, when his own cormorant appetite for fame, and for personal and for family aggrandizement, had brought him back almost a fugitive to their froutiers, they were still ready to rescue him; but, the Allies having made an ap peal to the people of France, he, as will be seen by the following words of the report, resented that appeal; not because it was an act of hos tility to him, but because it had a tendency to encourage the people to be refractory and disobedient to sovereign sway!" In the interval," says this audacious report, "a Gazette, now "under the influence of the Allied Powers, "published to all Europe a declaration, which is ❝ said to be furnished with their authority: it "would be melancholy to believe it. This de"claration is of a nature unusual in the diplo macy of kings. It is no longer to kings, like "themselves, that they explain their grievances, "and send their manifestos: it is to the people "that they address them; and from what mo❝tive do they adopt such a new method of pro ? It is to separate the cause of the From that of their governors, though rest of society has every-where united May not this example be fatal? Should iven, especially at this period, when s minds, agitated by the diseases of re so averse to bending under the auwhich protects them, while it represses dacity? And against whom is this inttack aimed? Against a great man, who the gratitude of all kings; because, stablishing the throne of France, he has up the volcano which threatened them ever did Austria, Prussia, Russia, or even Algiers, put forth any-thing so insulting ple as this. In vain did the insolent man, ed in Paris a few days after the issuing port, issue his decrees for the raising of ▪r the raising of levies en masse; in vain -ut and supplicate at the same time; the came disgusted with his vanity and inthe Allies pushed on towards Paris; and aving the courage to leave his dead body tch of that city, fled to Fontainbleau, y a treaty in the following words, he abis imperial and all other titles and claims, sented to be sent a tame prisoner to a ignificant spot in the Mediterranean sea, ne Isle of Elba! This treaty is a docu ment which will be memorable in the history of ARTICLES OF THE TREATY BETWEEN THE AL Art. 1. His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon renounces for himself, his successors, and descendants, as well as for all the -members of his family, all right of sovereignty and dominion, as well to the French Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy, a over every other Country. Art. 2. Their Majesties the Emperor Napoleon and Mari Louisa shall retain their titles and rank, to be enjoyed during their lives. The mother, the brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces, of the Emperor, shall also retain, wherever they may reside, the titles of Princes of his family. Art. 3. The Isle of Elba, adopted by his Majesty the Em peror Napoleon as the place of his residence, shall form, du ring his life, a separate principality, which shall be possessed by him in full Sovereignty and property; there shall be be sides granted, in full property, to the Emperor Napoleon, an annual revenue of 2,000,000 francs, in rent charge, in the great book of France, of which 1,000,000 shall be in reversion to the Empress. Art. 4. The Duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, shall be granted, in full property and Sovereignty, to her Ms. 'jesty the Empress Maria Louisa; they shall pass to her son, and to the descendants in the right line. The Prince her son shall from henceforth take the title of Prince of Parma, Pla centia, and Guastalla. Art. 5. All the Powers engage to employ their good offices to cause to be respected by the Barbary powers the flag and territory of the Isle of Elba, for which purpose the relations with the Barbary Powers shall be assimilated to those with France. Ait. 6. There shall be reserved in the territories hereby ɔ his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, for himself ily, domains or rent-charges in the great book of lucing a revenue, clear of all deductions and !,500,000 francs. These domains or rents shall Il property, and to be disposed of as they shall he Princes and Princesses of his family, and shall mongst them in such manner that the revenue of in the following proportion, viz. ces and Princesses of the House of the Emperor hall retain besides their property, moveable and ,of whatever nature it may be, which they shall ndividual and public right, and the rents of which mjoy (also as individuals). "he annual pension of the Empress Josephine shall to 1,000,000, in domains, or in inscriptions in the of France: she shall continue to enjoy in full proer private property, moveable and immoveable, to dispose of it conformably to the French laws. There shall be granted to Prince Eugene, Viceroy suitable establishment out of France. The property which his Majesty the Emperor Naesses in France, either as extraordinary domain, or omain attached to the Crown, the funds placed by or, either in the great book of France, in the Bank in the Actions des Forets, or in any other manner, his Majesty abandons to the Crown, shall be recapital, which shall not exceed 2,000,000, to be in gratifications in favour of such persons, whose |