lessly for France, a monstrous greatness, 14.-Monsieur has received to-day, at the weight of which fell back upon you, eight in the evening, the Senate and the as upon the rest of the world, So many Legislative Body-The Senate was prethousand brave men have, been but the in-sented to his Royal Highness by the Prince struments and the victims of a force with- of Benevento, its President, who said out prudence, which wanted to found an Monseigneur-The Senate brings to your empire without proportion. How many Royal Highness the offer of its most rehave died unknown to increase the renown spectful submission. It has invited the reof one man! They did not even enjoy turn of your august House to the throne of that which was their due. Their families, France. Too well instructed by the preat the end of a campaign, could not obtain sent and the past, it desires, in common the certainty of their glorious end, and do with the nation, for ever to found the themselves honour by their deeds in arms. Royal authority on a just division of power -All is changed; you will no more pe- and on public liberty, which are the only rish 500 leagues from your country for a securities of the happiness and liberty of all.. cause which is not her's. Princes born-Monseigneur-the Senate, in the moFrenchmen wills I spare your blood, for. their ments of public joy, obliged to remain apblood is yours. Their ancestors governed parently more calm in the limits of its yours. Time perpetuated between them, duties, is not less a partaker in the univer and as a long inheritance of recollections, sal sentiments of the people.-Your Royal of interests and reciprocal services, this Highness will read in our hearts, through ancient race has produced Kings, who were the reserve of our language-each of us, named the fathers of the people. It gave as a Frenchman, has joined in those of feelus Henry IV. whom warriors still call the ing and profound emotions, which have valiant King, and whom the country peo- accompanied you ever since your entrance ple will always call the good King. -It into the capital of your ancestors, and is to his descendants that your fate is con- which are still more lively under the roof fided. Can you entertain any alarm for it? of this palace, to which hope and joy are They admired in a foreign land the prodi- at length returned with a descendant of St, gies of French valour; they admired while Louis and Henry IV.-For myself, my they lamented their return was delayed by Lord, allow me to congratulate myself on many useless exploits. These Princes are being the organ of the Senate which has at length in the midst of you; they have chosen me to be the interpreter of its senbeen unfortunate like Henry IV.; they timents to your Royal Highness. The Sewill reign like him. They are not igno- nate, knowing my attachment to its memrant that the most distinguished portion of bers, has been pleased to reserve for me a their great family, is that which compose delightful and honourable moment. The the army; they will watch over their first most delightful, in fact, are those in which children.- -Remain then faithful to your we approach your Royal Highness, to restandards.-Good cantonments shall be al-new to you the expressions of our respect lotted to you. There are among you young warriors who are already veterans in glory; their wounds have doubled their age. These may, if they please, return and grow old in the places of their nativity with honourable rewards; the others will continue to follow the profession of arms, with all the hopes of advancement and stability which it can offer.Soldiers of France! let French sentiments animate you-open your hearts to all family affections-keep your heroism for the defence of your country, not to invade foreign territories; keep your heroism, but let not ambition render it fatal to yourselves: let it no longer be a source of uneasiness to the rest of -Europe." In the Moniteur of the 14th inst. the following detail is given of what took place that day in the Senate:-"PARIS, APRIL and our love."- The following is the ther. I have not received from him the | his talents, but I am sure of having his power to accept the Constitution; but I know his sentiments and his principles, and I do not fear to be disavowed by him, when I assure you, in his name, that he will admit the basis of it.-The King, in declaring that he would maintain the actual form of Government, has then acknowledged that the Monarchy ought to be balanced by a Representative Government, divided into two Houses. These two Houses (Chambres) are the Senate and the House of the Deputies of the Departments; that the taxes shall be freely granted, by the Representatives of the Nafion, public and private liberty secured; the freedom of the press respected, under the restrictions necessary for public order and tranquillity; the liberty of worship guaranteed; that property shall be invioLable and sacred; the ministers responsible, liable to be accused and prosecuted by the Representatives of the nation; that the judges shall be for life; the judicial power independent, no one being liable to be tried by any other than his natural judges; that the public debt shall be guaranteed; that pensions, dignities, military honours, shall be preserved, as well as the new and the ancient nobility; the legion of honour maintained, the King will fix its insignia; that every Frenchman shall be capable of military and civil employments; that no individual can be called to account for his opinions and his votes; and that the sale of national estates shall be irrevocable.These, Gentlemen, are, it seems to me, the basis which are essential and necessary to ensure all rights, trace all duties, secure the continuation of all existing institutions, and guarantee our future situation.". After this discourse his Royal Highness added I thank you in the name of the King, my brother, for the share you have had in the return of our legitimate Sovereign, and for having thus secured the happiness of France, for which the King and all his family are ready to sacrifice their blood. -There can be no longer any difference of sentiments among us; we must no more recal the past; we must from henceforward be a nation of brothers. During the time that I shall have the power in my hands, which time I hope will be very short, I shall employ all my efforts in labouring for the public happiness"-One of the members of the Senate crying out, "He is a true descendant of Henry IV." "His blood," said Monsieur, really flows in my veins: I should wish to have heart and love for the French."-After the Senate, the members of the Legislative Body who were at Paris at the time of the happy event which restores us our King, and the deputies of the neighbouring departments, who have eagerly repaired to Paris, were admitted to an audience of his Royal Highness. Mr. Felix Faulcon, the Vice-President, spoke as follows," My Lord-The long misfortunes which have oppressed France, have at last reached their period; the throne will now again be filled with the descendants of that good Henry, whom the French people are proud and delighted to call their own; and the Legislative Body is happy in expressing this day to your Royal Highness, the joy and the hopes of the nation; the deep wounds of our country cannot be healed but by the tutelary concurrence of the will of all. NO MORE DIVISIONS, your Royal Highness has said, at the first step you took in this capital; it was worthy of your Highness to pronounce these sweet words, which have already re-echoed in every heart."Monsieur expressed his happiness at being in the midst of the Representatives of the French people. We are all Frenchmen,' said his Royal Highness; we are all brothers. The King will soon arrive among us; his only happiness will be to secure the happiness of France, and to make its past misfortunes forgotten. Let us think only on the future. I congratulate you, Gentlemen of the Legislative Body, on your courageous resistance to tyranny, while there was great danger in it. At length we are all Frenchmen.'- -The speech of his Royal Highness was followed by universal acclamations. The Deputies of the departments will relate to their fellowcitizens the lively impressions which they have experienced in addressing, for the first time, the wishes of France to a descendant of our Kings, in the Palace of Louis XIV." After Monsieur had taken upon himself the exercise of the Royal Authority, the Moniteur of the 17th gives the following particulars "Paris, April 16.-Monsieur, Lieutenant-General of the kingdom, has appointed the following persons to be members of the Provisional Council of State; Messieurs to Prince of Benevento, the Duke of Cornegliano, Marshal of France; the Duke of Reggio, ditto; the Duke of Dalberg; the Count de Jaucourt, Senator, General Count Bournonville, Senator; L'Abbe de Montesguiou; GeneralDessolles-General Vitrolles, Provisional Secretary of State, will perform the func-Bonaparte is not only to retain his title of tions of Secretary to the Council.-The Emperor, but, it would seem, that there Members comprising the Sections of the has been some misunderstanding between ・ Council of State, have had to day an au- the Allied Powers and us respecting the dience of Monsieur.-Count Bergin ad- final arrangements with Napoleon. It dressed his Royal Highness as follows: :-is said, that on the 14th instant, the date "My Lord-The Council of State is happy assigned by the Paris Papers to Bos A at seeing the return of your Royal High-PARTE's act of abdication, a treaty was ness to the capital, and the palace of your actually signed between him and the ancestors.-At length the descendants or Allied Powers, England excepted, by which St. Louis and Henry IV. are restored to us. he is to keep, notwithstanding his abdica Our hearts belong to the King and his tion, the title of Emperor."-I am inclined august family, and our thoughts, our zeal, to think there is some truth in this staté: our homage, are his due. Our decrees, ment, which is only a repetition of what my Lord, are to be serviceable to the appeared a few days ago in a morning paSovereign and the country, to see the per. Well, then, the Emperor Napoleon, Wounds of France healed, which is at last be- as we are again permitted to call him, has come the common country of its Monarch at last set out for the island of Elba, The and his subjects, and to behold our august | Empress, had an interview with her father Monarch happy in the happiness of his at Little Triannon on the 16th, but whether people." Monsieur was pleased to make she is, or is not, to accompany her hus a most gracious reply to this speech in band in his exile, has not yet transpired. which, among other expressions, he de- It is said that she is to retire to the Duchy clared that he partook of the sentiments of Parma, which she is to receive as a par which the members of the Sections of the trimony, and to which the young king is to Council of State had just expressed to him, succeed on her decease. But if, as I have and that the King and his Royal Highness been informed, she really entertains a sias had never doubted of their attachment and cere attachment for Napoleon, I do not their zeal for the service of the State.suppose that any consideration will unluce On the same day, the following act of the her to give him up. government was announced:-" We, Charles Philip, of France, Son of France Monsieur, brother to the King, LieutenantGeneral of the Kingdom, make known; The circumstances which have passed, had made it requisite that we should give in the rame of the King our august brother, commissions more or less extensive. Those who were charged with them have fulfilled them honourably; they all tended to the re-establishment of the monarchy, of order and of peace. This re-establishment is happily effected by the union of all hearts, all rights, all interests. The Goy but few or none of them are willing vernment has assumed a regular course: all kinds of business must be henceforward done by the Magistrates, or others to whose departments they belong. The particular commissions are therefore become useless they are revoked, and those who x were invested, will abstain from making any further use of them.-Given and sealed at Paris, at the Palace of the Thuilleries, April 16.-(Signed)-CHARLES PHILIP. MONSIEUR,-Lieut. Gen. of the Kingdom. The Provisional Secretary of State,(Signed)-Baron VITROLLES." THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.If the following article, which appeared in the Courier of the 21st instant, is correct, OCCURRENCES OF THE WAR.-I did not.. expect to be again obliged to adopt this title; but some circumstances have occur red which still render it necessary. At Thoulouse and Bayome several serious affairs have taken place between our troops and those under the command of Marshal Soult, and, although the official accounts have not arrived, the loss on both sides seems to have been very great. A good deal is said, in our newspapers, about these contests having been occasioned by treach to admit, that the determined mammer in which the French troops have so recently fought in this and other quarters, affords a proof that Napoleon might have succeeded in rallying another powerful army, and perhaps have overcome his opponents, had he not preferred the interests of France to the glory of continuing to reign over her, acquired at the expence of a civil war. NOTICE. Several Gentlemen having.complained that they are not regularly served with the Register, the Public are again respectfully informed, that it is published every Saturday Morning at 10 o'clock, and that all unnecessary delay in the delivery, may, in future, he prevented, by ordering the Register from MR. MORTON, the Publisher, No. 94, Strand. Printed and published by J. MORTON, No. 94, Strand. COBBETT'S WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER. VOL. XXV. No. 18.] LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1814. 545] ADDRESS [Price 1s. -[546 this same metropolis rejoiced at the arrival of the embassador of Napoleon at the peace of Amiens; with what delight they TO THE KING OF FRANCE. After twenty two years of exile, of slight, of abandonment, your Majesty is, I per-attended his steps; how chearfully they ceive, receiving congratulations, applauses, drew him in his carriage, supplanting his shouts of joy at your approach; your way horses in their functions; how they enis strewed with garlands and with laurels, twined his tri-coloured flag with the flag and your smile and your nod sought after of Great Britain; how they exhibited his as amongst the choicest of blessings; and portrait in the attitude of shaking hands all this in a country, where you have been with our King; how the Lord Mayor of suffered, for many years, to live in obscu- that very City of London, who has lately rity as if you had been no more than an addressed you in terms of such ardent unfortunate manufacturer or merchant. friendship, had, at his grand annual festiYour Majesty's late entry into, and depar- val, the flags of Napoleon and of Great ture from, the capital of this kingdom, Britain waving over his head, while "Namust have given rise, in your mind, to re-poleon" was the second toast at the festive flections and sensations to possess which board. It will not be necessary to remind upon paper, and in an authentic form, your Majesty of these things, nor, surely, would be a treasure to the world. Your of the circumstances, more closely affectprocession in the royal carriage, drawn by ing yourself and family, arising out of that our King's eight cream-coloured horses; treaty of amity with Napoleon, Your your being accompanied by the Prince Majesty will not want to be reminded, Regent and his great officers of state; the neither, of the treaties of Campo Formio; splendid guard of honour attending and Vienna; Berlin; Tilsit, and others. Your surrounding you; the numerous and gal- many journeys from country to country; lant nobility and gentry on horseback, who your observations on the actions, motives, thought it an honour to be permitted to and characters of men, and of women too, move in the cavalcade; the thousands of must have rendered unnecessary any en carriages, and the hundreds of thousands of deavour to awaken your recollection to the people, assembled in and near London, past. It is, as to the future, upon which I the object of which assemblages was to am about to address you. Addresses of hail and congratulate you; the white congratulation you have received, and will cockades and white flags and fleur de lis, receive, in abundance. It is my object to which, as it were, in forests, met your eye offer you my advice; and, especially to in all directions; your entrance into the caution you against being led into mea palace of our Queen, the embrace, à la sures, which would produce misery Françoise, of our Regent, and the truly amongst the numerous and brave people, kind and cordial reception by his royal whom you are now called to govern, and mother; all these must have produced who deserve well of all the nations of upon your Majesty's mind an effect pro- the earth for the sacrifices which they portioned to the astonishing greatness of have made in the cause of freedom.→ the contrast between these circumstances, A great soldier has been conquered; the and those which have attended your exist-most skilful and brave captain that ever ence so many years last past. But, your lived has had a crown torn from his brow Majesty, who have now had a great deal he has been bereft of his power; but, the of experience in the world; who have had principles of freedom have not been extinan opportunity of appreciating the real value of congratulations and applauses, will not need to be reminded of what has passed. It will not, therefore, be necessary for me to relate how the people of guished, and have undergone no alteration or change. If your Majesty resolves to govern upon those principles, your restoration will be a blessing to the world; if you do not, it will be still a greater mis S fortune to yourself and your family than to any thing the most cowardly and contemp- -You return to a people very different in disposition and character from that people whom you formerly knew in France. Before the revolution, the French people were an object of our scorn and mockery. anted to represent in human shape the |