GENERAL HISTORY. 
spoke of the difficulties and ob- 
stacles he had met with on his 
first re-appearance among them. 
My government, said he, was 
liable to commit errors: perhaps 
it did commit them. He men- 
tioned, asa mere calumny, the 
intention of restoring tithes and 
feudal rights, and appealed to his 
own proposal to the chambers for 
thesecurity of the sales of national 
property. He concluded with 
promising pardon to all misled 
Frenchmen from the time of his 
quitting Lisle to that of bis return 
to Cambray; but reserved for 
the vengeance of the laws, the 
instigators and authors of that 
treason, which had summoned fo- 
reigners into the heart of France. 
The armies under Wellington 
and Blucher were, in the mean 
time, continuing their advance on 
the capital, no regard having been 
paid to the proposal for a suspen- 
sion of hostilities. On the 28th, 
the Prussian advanced guard was 
attacked at Villars Coterets, but 
the main body coming up, the 
assailants were repulsed with loss. 
Quesnoy surrendered on the 29th 
to Prince Frederick of the Nether- 
lands. Wellington crossed the 
Oise on the 29th and 30th: and 
on the latter day Blucher passed 
the Seine at St. Germain, the in- 
tention being to invest Paris on 
two sides. The heights about the 
capital were strongly fortified ; 
and the troops within it were es- 
timated at 40 or 50,000 of the 
line and guards, besides national 
guards, a new levy of tiralleurs, 
and the Parisian volunteers, called 
Federés. Blucher was gtrongly 
opposed in taking his position on 
the left of the Seine; but the 
Prussians at length succeeded in 
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establishing themselves on the 
heights of Meudon, and in the vil- 
lage of Issy, on July the 2nd. 
The French attacked them at Issy 
on the 3rd, but were repulsed with 
considerable loss. Paris being 
now open on its vulnerable side, 
and a communication established 
between the two armies by abridge 
at Argenteuil, a request came 
from the city for a cessation of 
the firing, for the purpose of ne- 
gociating a military convention, 
under which the French army 
should evacuate the capital. This 
was concluded on the 3rd at St. 
Cloud, between Prince Blucher 
and the Duke of Wellington on 
one part, and the Prince of Eck- 
muhl on the other, being con- 
sidered as merely referring to 
military questions, and touching 
none that were political. By its 
conditions, the French army was 
on the following day to commence 
its march for the Loire, with all 
its materiel, and completely to 
evacuate Paris within three days ; 
all the fortified posts round the 
city, and finally its barriers, were 
to be given up ; the duty of Paris 
was to be performed by the na- 
tional guard and the municipal 
gendarmerie, and the actual au- 
thorities were to be respected by 
the allies; public property, with 
the exception of what relates to 
war, was to be respected, and the 
allied powers were not to inter- 
fere with its management; pri- 
vate persons and property to be 
respected; and all individuals con- 
tinuing in the capital to enjoy 
their rights and liberties, without 
being called to account, either for 
the situations they may have held, 
or as to their conduct or political 
opinions. This convention was 
