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homes, after laying down their 
arms, - The Duke was to proceed 
tothe port of Cette, whence he 
was to be conveyed whither he 
‘chose. He was, however de- 
tained for six days at Pont St. 
‘Esprit by order of General 
Grouchy, and in the meantime 
Toulon and Marseilles surren- 
‘dered to Buonaparte’s troops. 
‘The Duke finally sailed from 
Cette, and on the 18th arrived 
at Barcelona. In his report he 
says, “ The spirit of the country 
is very good; they every where 
blessed me: but the greater part 
of the army, and the gendarmerie, 
are detestable.”’ Thus terminated 
all resistance in this quarter. 
In Brittany and La Vendee a 
‘strong attachment to royalty and 
the Bourbons had _ subsisted 
‘through the whole course of the 
‘French revolution, notwithstand- 
ing the many reverses which the 
‘party had experienced; and at this 
‘time the royalists in those parts 
took up arms in defence of the 
‘Bourbon cause, and became mas- 
ters of the country which they 
inhabited, but were not able to 
extend themselves towards Paris. 
‘There was, indeed, a want of con- 
‘cert and combination in all the 
efforts of the Bourbonists, which 
rendered them desultory and in- 
effectual ; and they had little ine 
fluence in diverting the atten- 
tion of the .new government 
from the means to resist the 
foreign storm which was rising 
against it. 
This danger was so imminent, 
that it was become absolutely ne- 
cessary no longer toconcealit from 
the nation, which was to be pre- 
pared for exerting all its powers of 
resistance. On April 14ththere was 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815 
published at Paris a report to 
the Emperor from the minister 
of foreign affairs, Caulaincourt, 
giving an account of the result of 
the applications which had been 
made to foreign courts, and of their 
present demonstrations. . From 
this it appeared that no commu- 
nication was permitted with the 
actual French-government by any 
of the allied powers, and that all 
of them were making prepara- 
tions for war. ‘In all parts of 
Europe at once (said the minis- 
ter) they are arming, or march- 
ing, or ready to march.”’ To this 
report was annexed another from 
the committee of presidents of 
the council of state, at a sitting 
on April 2d. It began with a com- 
ment upon the declaration of the 
allied powers on March 13th, 
which the committee first af- 
firmed to have been tiie work of 
the French plenipotentiaries, and 
then endeavoured to shew its in- 
consistency with all public and 
national rights.. It proceeded to 
enumerate the breach of engage- 
ments made with the Emperor 
Napoleon, and the violation of the 
constitutional rights of the French 
nation by Louis; and concluded _ 
with an attempt to prove thatthere 
had been no change effected by 
the restoration of Napoleon which 
ought to induce foreign powers 
to interfere in the affairs of 
France. This paper was signed 
by the Counts Defermon, Reg- 
naud, St Jean D’Angely, Bou- 
lay, and Andreossy. 
Not long before this report of 
the French council of State, a 
treaty had been concluded at 
Vienna, dated March 25, between 
Russia, Austria, Prussia,: and 
Great Britain, by which these 
