GENERAL HISTORY. _ [Bt 
CHAPTER VIIi. 
Russian and Austrian Troops arrive on the borders. Their advance.— 
The Chambers remain sitting.— Declaration of that of Representatives. 
—Message from the Provisional Government, and the Chambers dis- 
solved.— Entrance of the King into Paris.— Ministry appointed.— Paris 
occupied by the Allied Armies.—Animosity of the Prussians.— Arrival 
of the Sovereigns.—Election of new Deputies.— Proceedings of Buona- 
parte-—Goes on board an English Man of War.—Brought to Tor- 
bay, and ebmarked for St. Helena.— Progress of the Alhes, and sub- 
mission of the French Generals.— Royal Ordinances, and Proceedings 
against the culpable and disaffected.— Restrictions on Periodical Publi- 
cations.— Disbanding and re-organization of the army.— Proceedings 
against Traitors.— Labedoyere condemned.—The Peerage rendered he- 
reditary.— Disturbances in the South of France.— Protestants perse~ 
cuted at Nismes.—Royal Proclamation.—Change in the Ministry.— 
Opening of the Chambers.—The Museum of the Louvre stript of the 
Sruits of conquest.—Letter to the King by the late Ministers.—Re- 
Sflexions.—Law for the suppression of Seditious Cries.—Cour Royal 
opened, and speech of the President.—Ney’s Trial and Condemnation. 
Further Outrages at Nismes—Final Treaty between the Allied 
Powers and France. 
esr military convention of 
Paris effected no more than 
putting the capital in the hands 
of the allies, and still left a consi- 
derable body of French regular 
troops at liberty to act as inclina- 
tion or interest should prompt 
them in the differences of their 
country, besidesanumberof others, 
either in the field under separate 
leaders, or in garrison at the for- 
tified towns on the borders. It 
was therefore necessary, in order 
to bring France into that state of 
submission which was thought 
requisite for securing the peace of 
Europe, that the whole stipulated 
force of the confederates should 
be brought to action. The two 
great powers of Russia and Aus- 
Vor. LVII, 
tria, though their remoteness from 
the first scene of action had pre- 
vented them from contributing to 
the successes already gained, were 
by no means slack in hastening 
their troops to the frontiers, and 
-commencing warlike operations. 
Towards the end of June it was 
announced from Germany that 
Prince Wrede had attacked the 
Frenchnear Landau, and defeated 
them with great loss; that Prince 
Schwartzenberg had routed a 
French corps near Besancon, and 
had invested that town and Be- 
fort ; that Marshal Frimont had 
passed the Simplon, and that hos- 
tilities had commenced on the 
whole line as far as Basle. The 
Russian troops were at this time 
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