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continued equivocal. On July 
16th, however, he issued an order 
of the day, by which he commu- 
nicated to his army the submis- 
sion of the generals and officers to 
the government of Louis XVIII. 
and called upon the soldiers to 
hoist the white cockade and co- 
lours; acknowledging at the same 
time that he demanded from them 
“a great sacrifice.” This example 
wastollowed by Gen. Clausel, who 
had held out Bourdeaux against 
the desires of the people, and on 
the 22nd the white flag was hoist- 
ed in that city. The remaining 
suspicions of the affections of the 
army were manifested by an 
order issued at Paris July 22nd, 
from the governor of the first 
military division, enjoining all 
officers who had not followed 
and remained with the King, 
or were not born or domicili- 
ated at Paris, to quit the capi- 
tal between that time and the Ist 
of August, and also acquainting 
all non-commissioned officers and 
soldiers, under the same circum- 
stances, that they should be sent 
back to their families free of ex- 
pense; further directing that every 
military man in future arriving in 
Paris should make his appearance 
at the general staff of his division, 
and state his motives for coming. 
‘Two royalordinances were pub- 
lished on July 24th, which de- 
noted an increase of vigour and 
confidence in the restored govern- 
ment. By the first, a number of 
members of the former chamber 
of peers, who had accepted seats 
in that summoned by Buonaparte, 
were declared to have abdicated 
their rank, and no longer to form 
part of that chamber. By the se- 
cond, a list was given of generals 
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and officers who betrayed the 
King before the23rd of March, or 
who attacked France and the go- 
vernment by force of arms, all of 
whom were ordered to be arrest- 
ed and brought before courts- 
martial; and another list, ‘more 
numerous, of persons who were 
ordered to quit Paris within three 
days, and retire into the interior 
of France, to places to be indicat- 
ed to them, where they were to 
remain under inspection, until 
the chambers should decide as to 
which of them ought either to de- 
part the kingdom, or be delivered 
up to prosecution. In both these 
lists were many names frequently 
occurring in the accounts of past 
transactions. About the same 
time the minister for the depart- 
ment of justice, who was also 
provisional secretary for the inte- 
rior, addressed a circular to the 
prefects, which implied much 
disorder and faction still subsist- 
ing in the provinces. It autho- 
rized the prefects to suspend from 
their functions, such of the sub- 
prefects, mayors, secretaries-ge~- 
neral, and counsellors of prefec- 
ture, whose retirement they might 
deem necessary for the public 
tranquillity, and to appoint others 
provisionally to fill their places ; 
this power, however, only to con- 
tinue for a month. 
The freedom of the press, from 
which a royal ordinance of August 
2nd had removed all restrictions, 
was soon found by the govern- 
ment to be too dangerous an in- — 
strument to be committed to the 
hands of the disaffected in the pre- 
sent conjuncture; and on the 8th 
the Duke of Otranto made a re- 
port to the King on the subject. 
He observed, that ‘¢ at all times, 
