GENERAL HISTORY. 
given that all disturbers of the 
public tranquillity should be ar- 
rested by the national guard, and 
punished according to law. A 
royal order was issued on the 
same day that the white cockade 
should be the only rallying sign 
of Frenchmen, and that every 
other bearing should be regarded 
as a signal of disorder. On the 
9th the King determined upon the 
form of his administration, which 
was to consist of a privy council, 
and a council of ministers. Of 
‘the latter, the following persons 
were nominated :— Prince Talley- 
rand, president of the council, 
and secretary for foreign affairs ; 
Baron Louis, secretary for the 
finances ; the Duke of Otranto, 
( Fouche) secretary for the police; 
Baron Pasquier, secretary for the 
department of justice, and keeper 
of the seals ; Marshal Gouvion 
St. Cyr, secretary at war: Count 
de Jaucourt, secretary for the ma- 
rine; the Duke of Richelieu, se- 
cretary for the household, Of 
those appointed to inferior posts 
were several who had been in 
office under Buonaparte ; a proof 
that it was thought necessary to 
conciliate a party which still re- 
mained numerous and powerful. 
About a hundred of the represen- 
tatives of departments assembled 
at the house of their president, 
M. Lanjuinais, for the purpose 
of making a protest against the 
dissolution of their chamber. The 
capital was, in fact, a focus of 
discontent, and it was manifest 
that the time was not yet come in 
which the throne of Louis could 
be secure without the aid of 
those arms which had seated him 
upon it. 
Paris became more and more 
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in the absolute possession of the 
allies, whose troops so much ac- 
cumulated, that the expectation of 
its being freed from the quarter- 
ing of soldiers could not be ful- 
filled. The inveterate hatred be- 
tween the Prussians and the 
French, fostered by so many mu- 
tual injuries, displayed itself on 
various occasions, and was aggra~ 
vated by an act of power which 
might have been spared. One of 
the bridges overthe Seine, erected 
under the rule of Napoleon, was 
named that of Jena, in memorial 
of the victory which laid Prussia 
at his feet. Marshal Blucher de- 
termined to use the right of re- 
tribution in obliterating this tri- 
umphal monument by blowing up 
the bridge, a fine piece of art, and 
his soldiers had already made ex- 
cavations in some of the piers and 
filled them with gunpowder, and 
stripped the bridge of its pave- 
ment, when an order was given 
for putting an end to this demo- 
lition. The order is said to have 
proceeded from the EmperorAlex- 
ander, after the Duke of Welling- 
ton had in vain interposed 
sovereign, with the Emperor of 
Austria and the King of Prussia, 
arrived at Paris on the 10th. 
The King of France, on. the 
13th, published an ordinance an- 
nouncing the dissolution of the 
chamber of deputies, and regu- 
lating the mode of election for a 
new one. By these rules the can- 
didates were declared eligible at 
the age of twenty-five, the depu- 
ties were to be persons paying at 
least 1000 francs in taxes, and 
the whole number was augment- 
ed from 262, as fixed by the con- 
stitutional charter, to 395. 
Buonaparte, from the period of 
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