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it; though he was doubtlefs well informed of the whole. 
The marlhal then gave him the Paris papers, which he 
feemed to read with attention ; but he was only feeking 
to gain time to form an anfwer. Meantime came marfhal 
Lefebre, who, addrefling his late emperor in a feeling tone, 
faid, “You are undone! you would not liften to the 
Counfels of your fervants; and now the fenate has de¬ 
clared that you have forfeited the throne.” Thefe words 
made fuch an impreflion on him, that he burft into a flood 
of tears. 
It was not, however, till the 4th, two days after the 
decree of exclufion, that Napoleon difpatched Ney, Cau- 
lincourt, and Macdonald, to Paris, offering to abdicate 
in favour of his fon. He feems to have carried his blind- 
nefs the length of a thorough perfuaflon that this offer 
muff be accepted ; for on the 5th, in the morning, he no¬ 
tified publicly to his army, on the parade, that fuch was 
the propofal which he had made to the allies. In the early 
part of the morning, feveral of the generals fent to the 
duke of Baflano, who was moflly alone with the emperor, 
to diffuade him from appearing on the parade. But he 
would not refrain from it. About half paft eleven he 
formed a plan, which he made the duke of Baflano write 
and fign, to repair with 20,000 men, that he had (till with 
him, to Italy, and join the prince Eugene-Napoleon. He 
repeated feveral times, “ If I choofe to go there, I am cer¬ 
tain that all Italy will declare for me.” On the parade he 
looked horribly pale and thoughtful, and his convulfive 
motions fhowed his internal ftruggles; he did not flop 
above eight or ten minutes. When he got into the palace, 
lie fent for Oudinot duke of Reggio, and afked him if the 
troops would follow him? “No, fir,” anfwered the duke; 
“you have abdicated.” “Yes, but upon certain condi¬ 
tions.” “The foldiers,” refumed the duke, “don’t com¬ 
prehend the difference; they think you have no more any 
right to command them.” “Well then,” faid Napoleon, “this 
is no more to be thought of; let us wait for the accounts 
from Paris.”—The marfhals returned in the night between 
twelve and one. Ney entered fil'd. “ Wei), have you fuc- 
ceeded ?” exclaimed the emperor. “Revolutions do not 
turn back,” anfwered Ney; “this has begun its courfe; it 
■was too late. To-morrow the fenate will recognize the 
Bourbons.”—“ Where {hall I be able to live with my fa¬ 
mily ?”—“ Where your majefty fiiali pleafe, and, for ex¬ 
ample, in the Ifle of Elba, with a revenue of fix millions.” 
“ Six millions ! that is a great deal for a foldier, as I am. 
I fee very well I niufl fubmit. Salute all my companions 
in arms.”—Here Napoleon ceafed fpeaking; and Ney re¬ 
tired to reft; but again entered his matter's chamber foon 
after daylight, and obtained from him the following un¬ 
conditional abdications 
“The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor 
Napoleon was the only objlacle to the re-ejlabltjhment of the Peace 
of Europe ; the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his Oath, declares, 
that he renounces for Himfelf and his Heirs the Thrones of France 
and Italy, and that there is no ptrfonal facrifke, even that of life, 
which he is not ready to make to the interejl of France. 
Done at the Palace of Fontainebleau, 
the — April, 1814.” 
It is not poflible to deferibe in adequate terms the 
triumphant joy which was teftified by all clafles, when 
this unlooked-for intelligence was officially announced in 
London. The fatisfaftion was rendered complete upgn 
finding that this was a revolution without bloodlhed ; and 
that the people of France were permitted, by their humane, 
generous, and difinterefled, conquerors, to choofe a gover¬ 
nor, and to frame a conftitution, for themfelves. 
Napoleon’s aft of abdication was publiflied in the London 
Gazette Extraordinary on Eafter-eve, the 9th of April; and 
thus the ufual civic fete on the following Monday was 
rendered uncommonly joyous by the memorable events 
which had recently occurred.—About eleven in the morn¬ 
ing, a confiderable number of the aldermen of London, 
the fheriffs, chamberlain, recorder, town-clerk, remem¬ 
brancer, comptroller, &c. aflembledat the Manfion-houfe, 
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to accompany the lord-mayor to Chriftchurch, Newgate- 
ftreet. The proceflion was led by the city-marlhals and 
other proper officers, who were followed by the bluecoat- 
boys (about 700 in number), with their mailers and bea¬ 
dles; the lord-mayor and the two fheriffs, in their date- 
carriages ; the recorder and aldermen in their carriages, 
—the horfes decorated with white ribbon; and feveral 
private carriages with the ladies and friends of the aider- 
men. Before the fermon, which was preached by the bi- 
fliop of Ely, an anthem for the occafion was fung by the 
boys ; and after the fermon an account of the progrefs of 
the different hofpitals was read. The company then re¬ 
turned to the Manfion-houfe, where they retired to the 
Chinefe parlour and other fplendid apartments, till the 
dinner-hour. The Egyptian-hall was illuminated in a 
fiyle of great fplendour. At half.pad fix, dinner being 
announced, the lady-mayorefs was condufted to her feat 
by the duke of Sufiex, who fat on her left hand ; the duke 
of Devonfhire on the lord-mayor’s right; and the foreign 
ambafiadors, miniders, and ladies of diflinftion, on each 
fide. Befides the great table, there were four long ones; 
all laid out in the mod fuperb dyle. The entertainment, 
confiding of every delicacy of the feafon in profufion, was 
ferved up with much regularity, and was equal, if not fu- 
perior, to former occafions. The fideboard at the bottom 
of the hall was graced by a dupendous baron of beef, a 
prefent from Mr. Sheriff Magnay. It weighed twenty- 
fix done ; and was part of a Highland ox, fent to the fherid’ 
by his friend James Gibfon, efq. on whofe edate, at In- 
glifton, near Edinburgh, it had been fed. 
Dinner being ended, the lord-mayor, after a very im- 
preffive introduftion to the health of our venerable fove- 
reign,and a high complimentary addrefs on propofing the 
health of the prince-regent, paffed a juft eulogium on the 
illuftrious prince who had honoured the city and himfelf 
perfonally- with his prefence at their fead on that day. 
His royal highnefs (he faid) was no lefs diftinguidied for 
his indefatigable exertions in advancing the caufe of na¬ 
tional education, than in promoting every ufefui and hu¬ 
mane inditution for the relief of the induflrious poor. He 
therefore propofed the health of “The Duke of SufTex 
which was drunk with the warmed and mod heartfelt ap- 
plaufe. The duke returned thanks in an eloquent ad¬ 
drefs—in which he made a beautiful eulogium on the 
liberal charafter of the city of London, which was ever the 
fird to dand forward in the relief of fud'ering humanity. 
No man, he obferved, could contemplate the iflue of the 
druggie in which Europe had been fo long engaged, with¬ 
out feelings of gratitude to the Difpofer of all human 
events; and he milled that the example of the horrors 
with which the French people had been fo long affiifted, 
and with which their defpot had been allowed to fcourge 
all furrounding nations, would make a deep impredion 
on the minds of all; and on thofe the mofl, upon whofe condudl 
the happinefs of others mujl depend. In the courfe of this fa¬ 
tal period of anarchy and perfecution, there had been two 
diltinftand memorable dages—the one, that of unbridled 
licentioufnefs, arifing from popular fury—the other, that 
of intolerable oppredion under military defpotifm. He 
truded that thefe would produce an awful warning to the 
royal family now recalled—fo as that, by deering the mid¬ 
dle courfe of a lenient government on the balls of a free 
conllitution, they would maintain with a juft authority 
the peace, fecurity, and happinefs, of their people. The 
duke, after other appropriate obfervations, concluded with 
a high compliment perfonally to the lord-mayor, whom 
he was happy to attend as an old acquaintance, and whofe 
virtues in private life did honour to him in his high pub¬ 
lic lfation. 
The lord-mayor, previous to giving the healths of the 
allied fovereigns, dated, that his mind was fo overcome 
with the fuccelfion of events that had taken place within 
the lad few days, that he was fearful he fhould not be 
able to give correftly what he meant to fay ; but he was 
fare that he fliould find, in the entlnujafm which filled 
every 
