60] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
cility ; and he knew that it must 
occur to every Frenchman capable 
of serious reflection, and would 
give confidence to the royalists in 
every part of the kingdom. It 
was therefore one of his first at- 
tempts to inculcate the belief that 
the allied powers would not in- 
terfere in this new revolution. 
He at first boldly asserted that he 
had brought a twenty years truce 
in his pocket ; and when this im- 
portant paper could not be pro- 
duced, expectations were raised of 
the immediate return of the em- 
press and young Napoleon, as a 
pledge of the pacific intentions of 
Austria ; and reasons were asign- 
ed why England and Russia were 
likely to remain neuter. These 
hopes, however, were fatally de- 
feated by a declaration made pub- 
lic at Vienna on March 13th, by 
the plenipotentiaries of tlle powers 
who had signed the treaty of Paris. 
It was said in this manifesto, that 
Buonaparte, by breaking the 
convention which — established 
him in the island of Elba, 
had destroyed the ouly legal 
title on which his existence de- 
pended, and had manifested to 
the universe that there could be 
neither peace nor truce with him ; 
and the powers consequently de- 
clared, that Napoleon Buonaparte 
had placed himself out of the pale 
of civil and social relations, and as 
an enemy and disturber of the 
tranquillity of the world, had ren- 
dered himself liable to public ven- 
geance. They further affirmed, 
that if there should result from 
this attempt of his any real dan- 
ger, they would be ready to give 
to the King of France, and to the 
French nation, or to every other 
government that should be’ at- 
tacked, all the assistance requisite 
to restore public tranquillity, This 
declaration was signed by the mi- 
nisters of Austria, Spain, France, 
Great Britain, Portugal, Prussia, 
Russia, and Sweden, and _pre- 
parations were every where mak- 
Ing to support its resolutions, Its 
authenticity was called in ques- 
tion at Paris, but the reception 
Buonaparte’s fraternal letters to 
the allied soveriegns niet with, 
and the approach of their armies 
to the frontiers, gave conyincing - 
proof of their determinations. 
Meanwhile the new revolution 
was strengthening itself in France, 
the greater part of which seemed 
to adopt with enthusiasm the tri- 
coloured flag and the’sovereignty 
of Napoleon ; but the latter, only 
under the form of the head to a 
popular government. This idea 
was explicitly declared in the 
different addresses presented to 
Buonaparte in his imperial ca- 
pacity at the Tuilleries on March 
27th. That of the ministers led 
the way, signed by Cambaceres, 
the Dukes of Gaeta, of Bassano, 
(Maret), Otranto (Fouche), and 
Vincenza (Caulaincourt), the 
Prince of Eckmuhl (Davoust), 
Mollien, and Carnot. The whole 
strain of this address corresponds 
to the following passage: ‘* The 
cause of the people, the only le- 
gitimate cause, has triumphed. 
Your Majesty is restored to the 
wishes of the French: you have 
resumed the reins of government 
amidst the blessings of your peo- 
ple and your army. France, Sire, 
has for the guaranty of this, its 
will, and its dearest interests. 
She has also the expressions of 
your Majesty uttered amidst the 
throngs that crouded around: you 
