versal amnesty; and all the autho rities of the kingdom, civil and military, were requested, for the present to remain at their posts. Madame Murat sailed in the Tre mendous for Gaieta, to receive her children, who had been sent thither for safety, whence she was to be conveyed to Trieste. On the 23rd, the English and Sicilian expedition, consisting of about six thousand troops, under the command of general Macfarlane, appeared in the bay of Naples. The remains of Murat's army dissolved of itself, so that not a single division was to be found complete.

On June the 17th, the king of the Two Sicilies, after an absence of nine years, made his entrance into Naples, and was greeted with a popular enthusiasm, which apparently was not the mere temporary homage paid to existing power. His manners, however void of dignity, had always.ingratiated him with the Neapolitan people; and the vices of the Government were not attributed to him, who, in fact, took little part in it. What will be the future character of that Government, time must discover; but the Neapolitans will scarcely be losers by changing a soldier of fortune, ambitious, without abilities, for an hereditary Sovereign, under whom they will probably enjoy quiet at home and peace abroad.

Murat made his escape to Toulon, where he remained, till finding his residence there becoming daily more insecure, he determined to try his fortune in Corsica, where there was still a strong attachment to the cause of Buonaparte. An asylum had been

offered to him by the Emperor of Austria in his dominions, with honourable treatment, on the con→ dition that he should not quit his place of residence without the Emperor's consent; but the pro jects he had formed, probably induced him to decline the proposal.

Having purchased a boat at Toulon, he embarked with two naval officers, but had not pro ceeded far before he was overtaken by a violent storm, in which his small vessel was reduced to im minent hazard of sinking. In this state he was taken up, with his companions, by a ship which landed them in Corsica. He then repaired to the country-house of general Francescetti, who declared to the authorities of Bastia, that Murat had a sure retreat among the mountaineers, in which he would remain, till his negociations with Austria should permit him to rejoin his wife in that country. Intelligence was received at Leghorn from Bastia, dated September 18, that he was at the head of about one hundred and fifty armed men in one of the most refractory districts in Corsica. He fixed his head-quarters at Vescovato, where he was resorted to by all the Corsicans who had served under him at Naples ; but in consequence of a proclamation from the commander of that military division, Verrier, declaring his partisans rebels, he took refuge at Ajaccio, where he continued to hold six hundred men in pay. He quitted that place on the 28th, and adopted a design which appears to have been suggested by the success of that of Buonaparte, but which the dif

ference of men and circumstances rendered in him the height of folly and desperation. Although the Neapolitan coasts were guarded by a line of armed vessels, he ventured to embark with six small vessels, two of which, on October the 8th, reached the coast of Pizzo, in the Ulterior Calabria, where he landed with thirty persons, among whom were General Francescetti and marshal Natali. Proceeding to the village, he attempted to raise the people in his favour, by crying, "I am your King, Joachim; it is your duty to acknowledge me." The effect, however, was only to bring

upon him the whole armed neighbourhood; to avoid whose attack, Murat and his followers threw themselves into the mountains, whence they attempted to make their way back to the vessels which were in waiting. Being surrounded in their march, after a sharp conflict, some were killed, and the rest made prisoners. A military commission was assembled, which condemned Murat and his followers to be shot, and the sentence was executed on the 15th. The whole of his rash enterprise was disapproved by his family, and his death appears to have been little regretted.

passing incessantly through Mentz and Frankfort. Alsace and Lorrain were presently overrun by the allied armies, against whom there were no French forces in the field capable of making a stand. The peasantry of Alsace, however, shewed a spirit of animosity against their Austrian invaders, which brought upon them some severe chastisement.

At Paris the chambers remained assembled after the signature of the convention, and flattered themselves with the idea that they were still invested with the authority of the nation. That of representatives issued a declaration, in which it announced the intention of continuing to sit where the will of the people had called them, and made a solemn appeal to the national guard for their protection. It then declared its full confidence in the honour and magnanimity of the allied powers, and in their respect for the independence of the nation, so positively expressed in their manifestoes, that the government of France, whoever be its chief, ought to unite the wishes of the nation, legally expressed and that a monarch cannot offer substantial guaranties without swearing to observe a constitution deliberated on by the national representation and accepted by the people. At subsequent sittings the chamber passed votes of thanks to the French armies, and occupied itself with discussions on the plan of a constitution. This display of independence was, how ever, short-lived. On the 7th the following message was received by both chambers from the committee of provisional govern

ment:" Hitherto we had believed that the intentions of the allied sovereigns were not unani

mous

upon the choice of the prince who is to reign in France. Our plenipotentiaries gave us the same assurances on their return. But the ministers and generals of the allied powers declared yesterday in the conferences they had with the president of the commission, that all the sovereigns had engaged to replace Louis XVIII. on the throne, and that this evening or to-morrow he is to make his entrance into the capital. Foreign troops have just occupied the Thuilleries where the government is sitting. In this state of affairs we can only breathe wishes for the country; and our deliberations being no longer free, we think it our duty to separate."When this message was read in the chamber of peers, the members rose spontaneously, and retired without deliberation. The chamber of representatives refused to consider their mission as terminated, and resolved to continue their sittings till separated by force. Both the chambers were, however, shut up on the following day by order of general Desolles, commander of the national guard.

On July 8th the King re-entered his capital, and was received, according to the authorized accounts, with demonstrations of joy and attachment, which proved that the mass of population were well affected to the restoration of the Bourbon government. Paris, however, was no longer her own mistress. The military points of the city were occupied by the allied troops; and orders had been

given that all disturbers of the public tranquillity should be arrested by the national guard, and punished according to law. A royal order was issued on the same day that the white cockade should be the only rallying sign of Frenchmen, and that every other bearing should be regarded as a signal of disorder. On the 9th the King determined upon the form of his administration, which was to consist of a privy council, and a council of ministers. Of the latter, the following persons were nominated:-Prince Talley rand, president of the council, and secretary for foreign affairs; Baron Louis, secretary for the finances; the Duke of Otranto, (Fouche) secretary for the police; Baron Pasquier, secretary for the department of justice, and keeper of the seals; Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr, secretary at war: Count de Jaucourt, secretary for the marine; the Duke of Richelieu, secretary for the household. Of those appointed to inferior posts were several who had been in office under Buonaparte; a proof that it was thought necessary to conciliate a party which still remained numerous and powerful. About a hundred of the representatives of departments assembled at the house of their president, M. Lanjuinais, for the purpose of making a protest against the dissolution of their chamber. The capital was, in fact, a focus of discontent, and it was manifest that the time was not yet come in which the throne of Louis could be secure without the aid of those arms which had seated him upon it.

Paris became more and more

in the absolute possession of the allies, whose troops so much accumulated, that the expectation of its being freed from the quartering of soldiers could not be fulfilled. The inveterate hatred be. tween the Prussians and the French, fostered by so many mutual injuries, displayed itself on various occasions, and was aggra vated by an act of power which might have been spared. One of the bridges over the Seine, erected under the rule of Napoleon, was named that of Jena, in memorial of the victory which laid Prussia at his feet. Marshal Blucher determined to use the right of retribution in obliterating this triumphal monument by blowing up the bridge, a fine piece of art, and his soldiers had already made excavations in some of the piers and filled them with gunpowder, and stripped the bridge of its pavement, when an order was given for putting an end to this demolition. The order is said to have proceeded from the Emperor Alexander, after the Duke of Wellington had in vain interpoɛed. That sovereign, with the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, arrived at Paris on the 10th.

The King of France, on the 13th, published an ordinance announcing the dissolution of the chamber of deputies, and regulating the mode of election for a new one. By these rules the candidates were declared eligible at the age of twenty-five, the deputies were to be persons paying at least 1000 francs in taxes, and the whole number was augmented from 262, as fixed by the constitutional charter, to 395.

Buonaparte, from the period of