LON 
of the bayonet; the heights above Belleville were carried 
in the molt gallant manner by the Pruflian guards; thefe 
corps captured 43 pieces of cannon, and took a great num¬ 
ber of prifoners. 
Nearly at the time thefe fucceffes had been obtained, 
marfbal Blucher commenced his attack upon Montmartre. 
The regiment of Pruflian black huffars made a molt bril¬ 
liant charge upon a column of the enemy, and took twenty 
cannon. At the moment of thefe decifive advantages, a 
flag of truce was fent from marflial Marmont, intimating 
a defire to receive any propofitions that it might have been 
Intended to make to him, by a flag of truce which had 
previoufly been refufed admittance. An armiflice was 
sifo propofed by him for two hours; to obtain which, he 
confer.ted to abandon every pofition he occupied without 
the barriers of Paris. Prince Schwartzenberg agreed to 
thefe terms. Count Neflelrode on the part of the emperor 
of Ruflia, and count Paar from prince Sclnvartzenberg, 
were fent into the town to demand its furrender. 
It was agreed, that marihals Marmont and Mortier 
fliould evacuate Paris, with their corps, on the 31 ft of 
March, at feven in the morning;—that all the magazines. 
See. fliould be left in their proper ftate;—that all the na¬ 
tional guards fliould be kept on foot at Paris, or difarmea, 
as it might be arranged ; that the wounded left at Paris 
fliould be prifoners; and that the city fliould be recom¬ 
mended to the generofity of the allies. 
It appears from the French papers, that on the night of 
the 28th Bonaparte came incog, and travelled poll, to the 
very gates of Paris; where he had a fecret interview with 
a general from the city, and endeavoured to concert means 
for forming an army out of the wrecks of the different 
corps which had been beaten and difperfed in various di¬ 
rections. At dawn of day he returned poft-hafte to his 
army. 
Meantime the eyes of molt people were turned upon 
the emprefs. Many propofals were made to this princefs 
to leave Paris, and to throw herfelf upon the protection of 
l-he allies ; but fhe rejected them all, and declared at la ft, 
that fhe defired to be fpared all perfuafion to this and 
flmilar fteps, as fhe was firmly refolved to (hare the fate 
of her liufband, whatever it might be. She abided by 
this refolution ; and, becaufe Napoleon wiflied that (he 
fliould not leave the city except in cafe of the utmoft ne- 
cefiity, flie remained there as long as poflible ; and it is 
therefore not true that lhe left the city by Napoleon’s or¬ 
der. As the allies approached nearer, every hour the dif- 
order and confufion increafed. The real adherents of 
Napoleon fliowed more and more that they knew not what 
to do. Their councils and orders, partly contradictory, 
partly impracticable, only increafed the confufion. As 
the coming of the allies was wiflied or feared, various re¬ 
ports for or againft the probability of it were f'pread. A 
crowd of people affernbled on the Place Vendome, and 
were preparing to pull down Napoleon’s ftatue, when they 
were deterred by another fwarm, who afferted they had 
heard that the emperor would enter the city in the even¬ 
ing as conqueror. On the 28th of March a difiuterefted 
fpeCtator might forefee what would happen. Already 
white cockades were diftributed, and the adherents of Na¬ 
poleon diminiflied more and more. Tfiofe, however, who 
either out of inclination or interefl (till adhered to him, 
ardently wiflied that the emprefs might not leave Paris, 
as they hoped to obtain, by her means, a reconciliation 
with the emperor of Auftria, and through him with all 
the reft of the allies; but the majority, who were already 
gained for Louis XVIII. endeavoured to obviate this re- 
iource. To this end they mixed among the crowd of peo¬ 
ple, ’whom they ftrov.e to convince that any mediation in 
which the emprefs might fucceed would prolong Napo¬ 
leon’s fway, and with that the mifery of France. The 
people flocked to the palace of the emprefs, and uttered 
threats if flie did not withdraw. This princefs had now 
«p choice, and fine left Paris (not on the zUti) 9/ March, 
V©J« XIII. Mo. 913. 
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as was faid by Come, but) on the 30th, not twenty-four 
hours before the allies entered it. 
In the couri’e of the 29th and 30th, the battles which de¬ 
cided the fate of France and of Europe were fought. Bo¬ 
naparte had moved his army from Troyes by Sens, towards 
Fontainebleau. He arrived at Fromont on the 30th; and 
would have been in Paris, had it not been in poffelfion of 
the allies. On hearing what had occurred, he retired to 
Corbeil; and from thence collected his army in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Fontainebleau, which could not amount to 
more than forty or fifty thoufand men. There it was ex¬ 
pected he would make a defperate ftand; and accordingly 
a large part of the allied army was detached to obferve his 
motions. 
On the morning of the 31ft, the emperor Alexander, 
with the king of Pruflia, and prince Schwartzenberg as 
reprefentative of the emperor of Auftria, marched into 
Paris. They were received by all ranks of the population 
with the warmeft acclamations. The windows of the belt 
houfes were filled by well-dreffed perlons waving white 
handkerchiefs and clapping their hands; the populace, 
intermixed with many of a fuperior clafs, were in the 
ftreets prefling forward to fee the emperor, and to endea¬ 
vour to touch his horfe. The general cry was, “ Vive 
l’Empereur Alexandre; Vivenotre Liberateur; ViveleRoi 
de Prufle.” Very many perfons Appeared with white cock¬ 
ades,and there was aconfiderable cry of“ Vive Louis XVIII. 
Vivent les Bourbons ;” which gradually increafed. 
The enemies became the faviours of the city. The 
three chiefs, before they entered any lioufe, remained in a 
fquare, to fee their troops file off before them, to make 
difeipline be obferved, and prevent all diforders. At one 
o’clock, thefe great military and civil cares were fulfilled. 
The chiefs of the three armies entered the lioufe of Talley¬ 
rand prince of Benevento. The emperor of Ruflia went 
to lodge in the houfe of Talleyrand ; the king of Pruflia in 
that of M. Beauharnois; prince Schwartzenberg at gene¬ 
ral Sebaftiani’s.—At three in the afternoon, the emperor 
of Ruffia publiflied the following Declaration : “The ar¬ 
mies of the allied powers have occupied the capital of 
France. The allied fovereigns receive favourably the wifit 
of the French nation. They declare, that, if the condi¬ 
tions of peace ought to contain ftronger guarantees when 
thequeftion waste bind down the ambition of Bonaparte, 
they may be more favourable, when,'by a return to a wife 
government, France herfelf offers the aflurance of this re- 
pofe. The fovereigns proclaim in confequence, that they 
will no more treat with Napoleon Bonaparte , nor with any of his 
family ; that they refpedl the integrity of ancient France, 
as it exifted under its legitimate kings; they may even 
do more, becaufe they profefs it as a principle, that, for 
the happinefs of Europe, France muft be great and ftrong. 
That they will recognife and guarantee the conftitution 
which France (hall adopt. They therefore invite the fe- 
nate to name immediately a provifional government, which 
may provide for the wants of the adminiftration, and pre¬ 
pare a conftitution which (hall fuit the French people. 
The intentions which I have juft exprefled are common 
to all the allied powers. Alexander..” 
The conduft of the allied princes on this occafion was 
really noble. Their own policy, it is true, required what 
they have done; and perhaps a natural f'enfe of the great- 
uefs and power of the nation whole metropolis they were 
entering helped to confirm it; but it is ieldom that 
princes, who have been exai’perated by an enemy’s con¬ 
duct, can reltrain their pafiions in the hour of conqueft; 
and the calm and reafonable proceedings of the Ruffian 
and Pruflian fovereigns, in fecuring the peace and pro¬ 
perty of the city after fo many temptations and examples 
to the contrary, do infinite honour to their characters, 
and call back upon the head of their enemy all the mor¬ 
tifications he had endeavoured to heap upon the one, and 
had actually heaped upon the other. Any punifh- 
ment tlwt could have been inflicted on him,, without 
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