STATE 
how many of your brave warriors 
and virtuous patriots have been 
torn from their native soil! how 
many groan in dungeons! how 
many are victims of unheard of 
exactions and humiliations. 
Italians !—You must put a pe- 
riod to so many calamities; arise, 
and march in the closest union. 
At the same time that your cou- 
rage shall assert your external in- 
dependence, let a government of 
your choice, a true national repre- 
sentation, a constitution worthy 
of you and the age, guarantee 
your internal liberty and protect 
your property. [ invite all brave 
men to come and combat with me; 
I invite all brave men who have 
reflected on the wants of their 
country, that, in the silence of the 
passions, they prepare the consti- 
‘tution and, laws which must in 
future govern happy and inde- 
pendent Italy. 
Joacuim Napoleon. 
By the King. 
Mitiet De VILLENEFUVE, 
Chief of the Staff. 
Letter from M. De Caulaincourt 
to Viscount Castlereagh, dated 
Paris, April 4, 1815. 
My Lord, — The expectations 
-which ‘induced his Majesty the 
‘Emperor, my august Sovereign, 
to submit to the greatest sacri- 
fices, have not been fulfilled ; 
France has not received the price 
of the devotion of its monarch; 
‘her hopes have been lamentably 
deceived. After some months of 
painful restraint, her sentiments, 
concealed with regret, have at 
length manifested themselves in 
an extraordinary manner; by an 
universal and spontaneous im- 
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pulse, she has declared as her de- 
liverer, the man from whom alone 
she can expect the guarantee of 
her liberties and independence. — 
The Emperor has appeared, the 
royal throne has failen, and the 
Bourbon family have quitted our 
territory, without one drop of 
blood having been shed for their 
defence. Borne upon the arms of 
his people, his Majesty has  tra- 
versed France from the point of the 
coast at which he at first touched 
the ground, as far as the centre of 
his capital, even to thatresidence 
which is now again, as are all 
French hearts, filled with our 
dearest remembrances. No ob- 
stacles have delayed his Majesty’s 
triumphal. progress; from the 
instant of his re-landing upon 
French ground, he resumed the 
government of hisempire. Scaree- 
ly does his first reign appear to 
have been for an instant inter- 
rupted. Every generous passion, 
every liberal thought, has rallied 
around him; never did any na- 
tion present a spectacle of more 
awful unanimity. 
The report of this great event 
will have reached your Lordship. 
Iam commanded to announce itto 
you, in the name of the Emperor, 
and to request you will convey 
this declaration to the knowledge 
of his Majesty the King of Great 
Britain, your august master. 
This restoration of the Empe- 
ror, to the throne of France, is 
for him the most brilliant of his 
triumphs. His Majesty prides 
himself, aboveall, on the reflection 
that he owes it entirely to the 
love of the French people; and 
he has no other wish than to re- 
pay such affection, no longer: by 
the trophies of vain ambition, but 
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