- FRENCHMEN,

In the difficult circumstances, when the reins of the State were confided to us, it was not in our power to master the course of events, and to remove all dangers; but it became our duty to defend the interests of the people, and of the army, equally compromised in the cause of a Prince, abandoned by fortune and the national Will

It became our duty to preserve to the country the previous remains of these brave legions, whose courage is superior to reverses, and those who have been the victims of a devotedness which the country now claims.

* It became our duty to guarantee the capital from the horrors of a siege, and the chances of a battle, to maintain the public tranquillity in the midst of the tumalt and agitations of war, to support the hopes of the friends of liberty, in the midst of the fears and inquietudes of a suspicious foresight; above all it became our duty to stop the useless effusion of blood: it was necessary to choose an assured national existence, or to run the risk of exposing the country and all its citizens, to a general subversion, which would have left no hope for futurity.

None of the means of defence which time and our resources allowed, nothing that the service of the camps and of the city required, was neglected.

"While the pacification of the West was finishing, plenipotentiaries repaired to the Allied Powers, and all the documents of their negociation have been laid before your representatives.

"The fate of the capital is settled by a convention. Its inhabitants, whose firmness, courage, and perseverance are above all praise, form its guard.

The declarations of the Sovereigns of Europe should inspire great confidence; their promises have been tos “solemn to excite a fear that our liberties and our dearest interests can be sacrificed to victory.

“In a word, we shall receive guarantees which will prevent those alternate and temporary triumphs of factions, that have agitated us for five and twenty years, which will terminate our revolution, and confound in a Cammon protection, all the parties to which it has given birth, and all those which it has combated.

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"The guarantees which hitherto have only existed in our principles, and in our courage, we shall find in our laws, our constitution, and in our representative system; for whatever may be the intelligence, the personal equa lities of the monarch, they are not sufficient to put the people out of the reach of the oppression of power, the prejudice of pride, the injustice of courts, and the ambition of courtiers.

« Frenchmen! Peace is necessary to your commerce,' to your arts, to the amelioration of your manners, to the developement of your remaining sources; be united, and you reach the end of your miseries. The repose of Europe is inseparable from yours. Europe is interested in tranquillity and your happiness.

(Signed) THE DUKE OF OTRANTO, President. In the Chamber of Peers on July 7, the following mes sage was received.

M. President,

Hitherto we believed, that the intentions of the allied Sovereigns were not unanimous upon the choice of the Prince who is to reign in France. Our plenipotentiaries gave us the same assurance upon their return.

However the ministers and generals of the Allied Powers have declared yesterday, in the conferences they have had with the president of the commission, that all the Sovereigns had engaged to replace Louis XVIHth upon the throne, and that he is to make this evening or to-morrow, 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.

Marshal Prince of Essling, and the Prefect of the Seine, have been charged to watch over the maintenance of the public order, safety, and tranquillity.

I have the honor, &c.

(Signed)

"THE DUKE OF OTRANTO."

COUNT GRENIER.

QUINETTE.

CARNOT.

CAULINCOURT, Duke of Vicenza.

Upon a similar message being read in the Chamber of Representatives, M. Manuel observed, That the House qught to continue its sitting, and wait the result. One of two things will happen, said he; either the enemy will respect your independence, and if the words of kings were not vain, all hope would not be forbidden, or they will forget what they have declared! they will expel the national representation from this place. Let us then repeat an expression formerly employed, and which resounded throughout all Europe, We were sent hither by our constituents: and nothing but bayonets shall remove us."

Bonaparte, prior to his leaving Paris, addressed the following proclamation to the army.

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Paris.

"Malmaison, June 25, 1815, Napoleon to the brave soldiers of the army before

"SOLDIERS!

"While pbeying the necessity which removes me from the brave French army, I carry with me the happy certainty, that it will justify, by the imminent services which the country expects from it, the praises which our enemies themselves have not been able to refuse it.

"Soldiers! I shall follow your steps though absent. I know all the corps, and not one of them will obtain a single advantage over the enemy, but I shall give it credit for the courage it shall have displayed.

# Both you and I have been calumniated. Men very unfit to appreciate our labours, have seen in the marks of attachment which you have given me, a zeal of which I was the sole object."

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"Let your future successes tell them, that it was the country above all things which you served, by obeying me; and that if I have any share in your affection, I owe it to my ardent love for France, our common mother.

"Soldiers! Some efforts more, and the coalition is dissolved. Napoleon will recognize you by the blows which you are going to strike.

"Save the honour, the independence of the French

Be to the last the same men that I have known you for these last twenty years, and you will be invincible.

(Signed)

"NAPOLEON."

Louis XVIIIth having arrived at Paris, the grand staff of the English army, composed of about 300 general and superior officers, with the Duke of Wellington at their head, went to the palace of the Thuilleries to pay its homage to the King. Louis addressed the Duke of Wellington in the following words:

"MY LORD DUKE,

"I owe to you a personal obligation, for the humanity and good treatment of your army towards my subjects. I am happy to have an opportunity of expressing my acknowledgments to you, in the presence of your whole

staff."

His imperial Majesty, the Emperor of all the Russias, issued the following manifesto from Vienna.

"The sense of religion, that rich source of national strength, which has prevailed in Russia from the earliest times, vanquished in the face of the whole world, and for the deliverance of Europe, the destructive infidelity; the mischief-working corruption of morals, the sad deviation from the right path, to which the human understanding is subject.

"This never to be forgotten conquest and triumph, to which history furnishes no parallel, must in justice be ascribed to the generous sacrifices and heroic deeds, by which the faithful sons of our country have testified their love and devotion.

"It united all European nations in indissoluble bonds, and harmonized all views and prejudices, which till then had been at variance, by directing them to the only usetal object, a desired and durable peace, which might be firmly established, in the legal advantages granted to each power, and on internal institutions, protecting the welfare and independence of nations.

"With heartfelt joy we now announce to our beloved subjects, that all conventions tending to the good of the State, have been concluded in conformity with this principle, and the object which we have proposed.

"It is not a vain covetousness which has induced us to seek an extension of our frontiers. Such a feeling would have been unnatural in one who had taken up arms to defend the country, but not to make conquests. The unconquerable strength of the Russian Empire, founded upon religious loyalty and prosperity, cannot be measured by external acquisitions. The union of far the greater part of the late duchy of Warsaw, under our sceptre, has proved to be absolutely necessary for the establishment of a general balance of power and of order in Europe. By this measure, the safety of our frontiers is insured; a firm barrier is erected against interruption of peace, and hostile attempts; and the bonds of fraternity formed between nations united together by one common origin.

"For this reason we have thought proper to fix the fate of this country, and to establish the internal administration upon principles suitable to the language and customs of the inhabitants, and adopted to their local situation. Following the precepts of the Christian religion, whose dominion extends over so many nations, yet maintains at the same time their distinguished qualities and customs, we cherish the wish, while we prepare the welfare of our subjects, to inspire their hearts with sentiments of attachment to our throne, and thus to efface for ever the traces of past misfortunes, which were caused by fatal disunion and the long struggle.

"But at the moment when we thought of returning to our happy country, and of enjoying the peace caused by our painful cares, a new war is kindled, pre-ordained by the impenetrable counsels of the Almighty. His kind providence, which rules over us, which changes even evil into good, permitted the rebellious spirit that was concealed in France to burst forth, just at the time when the sovereigns and people, in a state of powerful preparation, were watchful; that by their united power, wickedness may be wholly extirpated; the harvest cleared from the weeds, and the precious fruit of inviolable peace flourish among the Powers who observe the laws of the Christian faith and truth.

"Russia also, elevated by religion, is called upon to take arms, and attentive to this call, again enters the career of glory. The perfidious plan of Napoleon Bonaparte; the treachery which has favoured his audacions