5S8 LON 
Monfieur, as Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom, ap¬ 
pointed the following perfons to be members of the Pro¬ 
vifional Council of State :—Talleyrand prince of Beneven- 
to; Moncey duke of Cornegliano, marflial of France; Ou- 
clinot duke of Reggio, ditto; the duke of Dalberg; the 
count de Jancourt, fenator; Gen. count Beurnonville, 
fenator; 1 ’abbe de Montefquieu ; Gen. Defl'olles. Baron 
Vitrioles, provifional fecretary of ftate, and fecretary to the 
council. 
t On the 15th, the emperor of Auftria entered Paris, and 
was received, among others, by Bernadotte, the crown- 
prince of Sweden, who of courf’e had preceded him, and 
whofe previous vifit to Monfieur had been formally re¬ 
turned. What ftrange feelings muff there be among thefe 
princes, new and old ! 
On the fucceeding day, the emperor of Auftria had an 
interview with his daughter, the ex-emprefs of France, at 
Petit Trianon, the favourite refidence of the other unfor¬ 
tunate Auftrian princefs, who preceded her on the French 
throne.—When his majefty vifited the palace of the legif- 
lative-body, his attention was caught by a full-length 
portrait of Maria-Louifa, executed by one of the firft- 
rate painters. “ I fliould requefl to carry with me this 
excellent picture,” faid his majefty, “if it did not belong 
to fo refpedtable a body as the legiflative body.” “ Sire,” 
anlwered the .officers who conducted the monarch, “the 
princefs who is here reprefented has merited in fo many 
refpeffs the gratitude and veneration of the French, that 
the legiflative body could not parr with her image.” “I 
fhall feel a pleafure,” rejoined his majefty, “ in reporting 
to my daughter this mark of attachment.” 
In refpedft to the terms upon which the ex-emperor Na¬ 
poleon gives up his dignity, the following is copied from 
the Vienna Court Gazette : 
“Paris, April 15. —In virtue of a Convention between 
. the Minifters of the Allied Courts and the Envoys of Na¬ 
poleon, furnifhed with powers, to which the Provifional 
Government accedes, the ci-devant Emperor renounces 
formally all kind of pretenfion to the Crowns of France 
and Italy; and fhall enjoy, in exchange, during his life, 
the Ifle of Elba, where a penfion fhall be paid to him and 
the members of his family. The Duchies of Parma, Pla¬ 
centia, and Guaftalla, fhall, at the approaching peace, be 
ceded in full property to the Emprefs Maria-Louifa, who 
fhall tranfmit them to her Ion, to whom the title of 
Prince of Parma and Placentia is granted from this time.” 
Here is one of thofe antithetical freaks of fortune, in 
"which Voltaire would have delighted.—A gentleman is 
horn in a place in Italy, and goes to be an emperor over 
France ; the f'on is born a king in France, and he goes to 
■reign over a principality in Italy. Now the late emperor 
and emprefs will thus become neighbours; and it might 
not be eafy to fhow, that the renewal of their intercourfe 
would be unlikely, or that any thing was intended by 
their feparation in the firft inftance but to fave the princefs 
the firft fight of her hufband’s mortification. It is diffi¬ 
cult however to fpeculate upon either fide of the queftion. 
—It is o'ofervable in this convention, that Maria-Louifa 
is ftyled “ the Emprefs;” and that, although Bonaparte is 
not ftyltd the Emperor, he is called the “ late Emperor” 
and “ Napoleon.” The report therefore is a probable one, 
which fays that he is to retain the title of Emperor by 
courtefv ; and, if fo, his brothers, we fuppofe, are to be 
called Kings, or at lead Princes, for their pretenfiens to 
both thefe titles have been acknowledged by all the allied 
powers but England 5 and England, it feems, is not a 
|sarty to this convention, though the term “ allied powers” 
is tiled without referve, the exception not being mentioned 
in the extract from the Vienna Court Gazette, publifhed 
in the Paris papers ; neither is the date of the treaty given. 
It is not a little lingular, that this article, taken from the 
Vienna Court Gazette of the 22d, is dated from Paris the 
13th, although the Paris papers had not publifhed a word 
of this treaty, except in the ffiape in which, it is here 
£iven. 
D O N. 
Owing to fome unfortunate delays in fending off cou¬ 
riers to the different parts of France, Spain, and Italy, 
not lefs than ten thoufand lives have been loft in the va¬ 
rious feats of war.—Thus a battle took place, near Tou- 
loufe, on the loth of April, which coft the allies only, 
4650 men killed and wounded ; an affair before Bayonne, 
on the 14th, which coft them 1000 more; and in a feries 
of operations, from the 13th to the 17th, before Genoa, 
(which at length capitulated,) a lofs was fuftained on our 
tide, in killed and wounded, foldiers and failors, to the 
number of 224. 
On Wednesday the 20th of April, Louis XVIII. king 
of France, made his public entry into London.—Soon af¬ 
ter four o’clock in the morning, the royal carriages and 
horfes intended to form the proceffion, left London for 
Stanmore, there to meet the king. The prince-regent 
left Cariton-houfe in his travelling carriage, forStanmore, 
at balf-paft twelve, attended by the duke of Montrofe and 
vifeount Melbourne. His R. H. was drawn by four beau¬ 
tiful bays, driven by poftillions in white jackets, white 
hats, and white cockades in them ; with three outriders 
in the royal liveries and white cockades. The grand du- 
chefs of Oldenburg lent invitations to the queen, prin- 
ceffes Elizabeth, Mary, Charlotte of Wales, and Sophia 
of Gloucefter, to come to Pulteney Hotel to lee the royal 
proceffion; which they all accepted, except her majefty. 
The prince-regent arrived at the Abercorn-arms inn, at 
Stanmore, about two o’clock, whence the proceffion was to 
proceed in ftate. The town of Stanmore exhibited a moft 
novel fight : there was hardly a houfe but exhibited the 
French colour—fome actually difplayed ftieets and pil¬ 
low-cafes. The principal part of the gentry of that part of 
the country went on horfeback a mile out of the town to 
accompany Louis into Stanmore ; and, when the king had 
got within a (hort diftance of the town, the populace, who 
had become extremely numerous, took the horfes from 
his carriage, and drew him into the town. On the arri¬ 
val of the carriage at the Abercorn-arms, the king was 1 
fo infirm that he was lifted out of the carriage by his fer- 
vants ; the prince-regent was at the door of the inn in 
readinefs to receive his majefty. The king was dreffed in 
the uniform of a marflial of France. The prince-regent 
was dreffed in a field-marflial’s uniform, with his Ruffian 
and Engliffi orders. The proceffion began to move in the 
following order, at twenty minutes pall three o’clock* 
One Hundred Gentlemen on horfeback. 
Horfe Trumpeters, in their fplendid gold-lace drefs. 
A numerous party of the Royal Horfe Guards. 
Six Royal Carriages, the Servants with White Cockades, 
An Outrider to each Carriage. 
A party of the Royal Horfe Guards. 
Firjl Carriage. —The great Officers of the French Crown, 
the Dukes of Avrai and Grammont, Captains of hi* Ma- 
jefty’s Guards: Count Blacas, Grand Malter of the War¬ 
drobe; Chevalier de Riviere, his Majefty’s Firft Equerry. 
ad Carriage .— The King of France, the Prince-Re¬ 
gent, the Duchess of Angouleme, the Prince of 
CondeC 
3 d Carriage. —The Duke of Bourbon. 
4 th Carriage. —The Ducheis of Angouleme’s Ladies of 
Honour. 
5 th Carriage. —Equerries of his Majefty. 
6 th Carriage .—Other Officers of the Royal Houfehold. 
An officer of the royal horfe-guards rode at each win¬ 
dow, and a numerous party of horfe clofed the proceffion. 
—They proceeded at a flow trot fill they came to Kilburn, 
when they commenced a walking pace, and a groom to 
each horfe was added.—On the entrance of the proceffion 
into Hyde Park, and as it paffed through it, the motion 
of the crowd in the wide part of the park became like a 
torrent. The proceffion arrived at Hyde-park-corner at 
half-paft five o’clock, and proceeded along Piccadilly at 
a flow pace, amidli the fliouts of the populace. A little 
before fix, the cavalcade arrived at Grillon’s Hotel, Albe¬ 
marle-lire et. As the carriage with the cream-coloured 
horfes 
