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‘been given of British Officers. 
_ Among the killed, were the Genes 
_ rals Sir Thomas Picton, and Sir 
 W. Ponsonby, and four colonels: 
: among the wounded nine gene- 
rals and five colonels: of inferior 
officers, in both a full proportion. 
_ The killed, wounded, and miss- 
ing of non-commissioned officers 
and privates, British and Hano- 
_verians, were stated at between 
twelve and thirteen thousand. 
The conduct, in this field of car- 
nage, of the man on: whose ac- 
count all these lives were lavished, 
is differently represented accord- 
ing to the different feelings at- 
tached to hisname. It is certain 
that he was present near the scene 
of the hottest conflict; but it has 
been affirmed, that his post was a 
hollow way out of the reach of 
‘shot. When all was lost, it seems 
never to have occurred to him, 
that the field in which an Emperor 
chad ceased to reign, was his 
‘only bed ofhonour. He hastened 
‘back’to Paris, where, during the 
-past four days of successive action, 
emotions of triumph, doubt, and 
despair, had rapidly followed each 
other; and on the morning of the 
20th, it was cautiously whispered, 
“ The Emperor is here !” 
On the arrival of Buonaparte, 
he assembled his counsellors, 
when, it is affirmed, that he pro- 
‘posed proclaiming himselfdictator, 
and that his brother Lucien was 
‘peremptorily in favour of such a 
measure, but that several members 
of the council declared their opi- 
» -nion, that, in the present temper 
of the public, there was no pro- 
bability that it could be carried. 
~Itis further asserted, that M. de - 
Ta Fayette being made acquainted ; 
with what was agitating, repaired 
immediately to the chamber of 
representatives, of which he was a 
member, and that this was the 
cause of the propositions which 
he laid before them.. By these, 
the independence of the nation 
was asserted to be in danger: the 
sittings of the chamber were de- 
clared permanent, and all attempts 
to dissolve it were pronounced 
treasonable... The minister of the 
interior was invited to assemble 
the commanders and chief officers 
of the Parisian national guard, te 
consult upon the means of arming 
and completing it; and the mi- 
nisters of war, of foreign affairs, 
of police, and of the interior, were 
invited to repair to the hall of the 
assembly. The propositions were 
adopted, and being communicated 
to the chamber of peers, that body 
also declared itself permanent. 
Whatever might have been the 
intentions of Buonaparte, it was 
now manifest, that there were no 
longer any hopes of his being able 
to make his: will the law of the 
nation: and after some vacilla- 
tion, on June 22, he published 
-the following declaration to the 
French people :—‘ Frenchmen ! 
in commencing war for maintain- 
ing the national independence, I 
relied on the union of all efforts, 
of all wills, and. the concurrence 
of all the national authorities. I 
- had reason to hope for success, and 
I braved all the declarations of the 
powersagainst me. Circumstances 
appear to me changed. I offer 
- myself a sacrifice to the hatred of 
_ the enemies of France. May they 
prove sincere in their declarations, 
and really have directed them only 
against my power.) My political 
life is terminated, and I proclaim 
my son under the title of Napo- 
