during his‘own Reigns \ > 
‘Meanwhile Moulins went: daily be- 
tween eight and*nine’o’clock | ‘to ‘the 
house of Napoleon, toorequest his ad 
vice on the business’ of the day. He 
always had military intelligence, or civil 
matters, on ’whicl he wished: for in- 
structions’) On what related to military 
affairs, Napoleon replied as he felt; but 
with respect to’civil concerns, ‘thinking 
that he ought not to disclose his private 
opinions to him, he only answered ina 
Vvarue manner. 
'Gohier came also'occasionally to visit 
Napoleon, for the purpose of making 
proposals to him; and asking his advire. 
The officers of the Garrison, headed 
by General) Moreau, commanding the 
citadel of Paris, demanded to be pre- 
sented to Napoleon; they could not suc- 
eeed in their object, and, being put off 
from«day to day, they began to com- 
plain of -his manifesting so little desire 
tosce his old comrades again. 
Phe ‘forty adjutavts of the national 
guard of Paris, who-had ‘been appointed 
‘by Napoleon, when he commanded the 
army) ofthe Interior, had solicited as a 
favour to see him. He knew almost all 
of thems but, in order to conceal his 
designs,| he on off the time for receiving 
them. 
»The eighth and ninth regiments ‘of 
dragoons, which were in garrison at 
Paris, were old regiments of the army 
of Italy’; they longed to muster before 
‘their formerfgeneral. “Napoleon ac- 
cepted the offer, and informed them 
that he would fix the day. 
»/The~ twenty-first ‘light-horse, which 
fiad contributed’ to the success of the 
day of the 18th of ‘Vindemiaire, was 
likewise at Paris: Murat came from 
this corps, andiall the officers went daily 
to him, to ask him on what day Napoleon 
would review it. They were as unsuc- 
-césstul as the rest. 
“The citizens of Paris complained of 
the general’s keeping so close; they 
went to the theatres, and to the reviews, 
where it was announced he would be 
presevt, but. he came not. Nobody 
could account for this conduct ; all were 
becoming impaticnt, People began to 
‘murmuragainst Napoleon: “ Itis now,” 
they observed, “ a fortnight since his ar- 
rival, and-he bas yet done nothing. Does 
*+he mean to beliave as ‘he did on his re- 
turn from Italy, aud suffer the Republic 
to-be torn to pieces by these contending 
factions.” 
But the decisive hour approached. 
On the 15th of Brumaire, Sieyes and 
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Napoleon’ had'\an ‘interview, ‘during 
which they resolved ‘on the measures for 
the day of the! eighteenth. “Tt owas 
agreed that ‘dhe Council of “Aneients, 
availing itself of the 102d article*of the, 
Constitution; should decrce the removal 
of the Levislative Body to Saint:Cloud, 
and) should appoint Napoleot Com- 
mander-in-chief of? the guard belonging 
to the Legislative Body, of the troops 
of the military division of Paris, dnd 
of the national guard. 
This decree was to be pasied on the 
eighteenth, at seven o'clock im the 
morning : at eight, Napoleon was-to ‘go 
1o the Tuileries, where the troops were 
to be assembled, and there to ussutne 
the command of the capital. 
On the seventeenth, Napolcon in- 
formed the officers that he would receive 
them the next day at six in the morniny. 
As that hour might appear to be unsea~ 
sonable, he feigned being about to set 
off ona journey; he gave the'same in~ 
vitation. to the forty adjutants of the 
national guard; and he informed the 
three regiments of cavalry thathe would 
review them in the Champs-Elysées, 
on the same day, the eighteenth, at 
seven in the morning. He also inti- 
mated to the generals whohad returned 
from Egypt with him, and to all those 
with whose sentiments he was ‘ae~ 
quainted, that he should be glad to see 
them at that hour. Lach thought that 
the invitation was confined to himself 
alone, and supposed that Napoleon had 
some orders to give him; for’ it was 
known that Dubois-Crancé, thé minister 
at war, had taken the reports of the 
state of the army to him, and hadadopted 
his advice on all that was to be done; as 
well on the frontiers of the Rhine ‘as in 
Italy. 
Moreau, who had been at the dintier 
of the Legislative Body, and whom 
Napoleon had there, for the first‘ time, 
become acquainted with, having learned 
from public reportthat a change was’ in 
preparation, assured Napoleow that he 
placed bimself at his. disposal, that he ° 
had no wish to be adinitted into’ any 
secret, ‘and that) he required ‘but one 
hour’s notice | to’ prepare > himself. 
Macdonald, who happened then to beat 
Paris, had rhadé the same tenders of 
service. Attwoo’clock in the morning, ' 
Napoleon let them know that he wislied 
to see them at his house at seven O'elock, 
and on horseback.) He did not apply! to 
Augereau, Bernadotte, &ev; however 
Joseph brought the fatter. 
General 
