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were at the windows, and were curious to fee him. Many 
people charge him with a boaftful affumption of infenfl- 
bility. The truth is, that Gen. Bertrand, who was in 
the carriage, appeared more affected than he.— Bona¬ 
parte flept at the caftle of Briare. He paffed through 
Lyons in the night of the 24th ; through Avignon and Aix 
on the 25th; and arrived at Frejus on the 27th; where 
he embarked, on the 28th, on-board of the Englilh frigate 
Undaunted, Capt. Ulher. The badnefs of the roads, it is 
faid, prevented his going on to St. Tropez; but it is a 
Angular coincidence that he lliould embark, on his exile 
to Elba, at the fame place where he landed on his return 
from Egypt. When palling through Lyons, we are told 
that he was anxious to procure the belt collection of 
pamphlets, polting-bills, ads of adhefion, See. relative to 
the manifeltation of public joy for his dethronement. 
The inhabitants of Lyons, and of feveral other places, 
accompanied him with cries of Vive le roi! and more than 
once the populace forced him to repeat thole words him- 
felf. At Avignon, a plan had been laid to alfaflinate him. 
As almolt every particular relating to this extraordinary 
man will be perilled with curiolity, we (hall copy the ac¬ 
count from a Paris newfpaper .—“ On Monday the 25th, 
at four in the morning, arrived here the Englilh commif- 
fioner who preceded Bonaparte. The officer on guard 
aiked him if the efcort accompanying him was Itrong, 
and in a tiate to prevent every fort of unpleafant move¬ 
ment. The commiffioner appeared deeply affeded at the 
apprehenfions which were manifefted ; and called upon the 
guard to proted, to the utmoft of its power, the palfage of 
Napoleon, whofe life and fafety were under the protedion 
of the augult allies. At laff, at fix o’clock, the carriage 
of Bonaparte arrived ; but, in confequence of the notice 
which had been given, the efcort flopped at the oppofite 
extremity of the city to that by which it would naturally 
pafs. The polt-horfes were taken there ; and the fame 
officer who had fpoken to the Englilh commiffioner, re¬ 
paired to the fpot with his troop ; he found the carriage 
furrounded, and the multitude about to give themfelves 
up to exceiles: men and women demanded their children, 
their relations, who had fallen vidims to the ambition of 
Bonaparte, and complained of all the vexations they had 
endured. Already a man had taken hold of the handle 
of the carriage-door 5 a valet of Napoleon,, feated on the 
coach-box, was about to draw his fword to defend his 
mailer. The officer faid to him, “ Do not Airand, in 
fpeaking thus, he pulhed away the man who had taken 
hold of the door. Bonaparte, haftily letting down the 
windows of the carriage, thrice called out to his domeltic 
to remain quiet, and made a lign of acknowledgment to 
the officer. In the midft of thefe movements, the people 
had recognized Bonaparte,-and feemed to be only the more 
roufed. At length the officer fucceeded, with l'ome diffi¬ 
culty, by the help of the loldiers, in clearing the ftreets, 
and opening a palfage; and he ordered the poltillions to 
fet off at full gallop. Bonaparte had only time to call out, 
“ I am much obliged to you.” General Bertrand was in 
the left corner of the carriage : he did not move or 1'peak 
a Angle word during the whole tranfaCtion. The foreign 
generals who accompanied Bonaparte were going toaligiit 
to join the loldiers, and to defend, if neceflary, the charge 
entrulied to them ; but they were perfuaded not to leave 
their carriages; and the refpeCl felt for their characters 
was one of the caufes which protected Bonaparte. It was 
alfo remarked, that the officer who defended Bonaparte 
had been always a zealous advocate for the Bourbons ; 
but the caufe of thefe princes is the iaufe of jultice and 
■of honour ; nothing ought to fully it.” 
Such are the accounts in the Paris papers ; yet we own 
that we receive them with fome degree of heAtation, be¬ 
came they differ extremely from the report of perfons of 
credit who are continually arriving in this country from 
Paris. Sir Thomas Lavie, who is juft returned from 
JYasice, after a captivity of feven years, lays, that he was 
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a fpeftator of the palfage of Napoleon through one of 
the towns on his way to the coaft ; and that, to his afto- 
r.iffiment, many of the inhabitants faluted him in the moll 
gracious manner, and that the air rung with the old cry 
of Vive 1 'Empcreur! “ I have feldom been more furpriled 
(he adds) than at the apparent ftate of the public mind 
in the metropolis of France. Mixed with confiderable 
coldnefs and indifference, is feen a lurking admiration of 
the military glory of Bonaparte. This I do not believe 
to be the general feeling ; but it is certainly that of a con¬ 
fiderable number of perfons.,. What is, perhaps, worthy 
of notice, is, that the common people ftill call Bonaparte 
I'empercur in fpeaking of him. Several fatirical publica¬ 
tions againlt the late ruler of France have been fuppreffed 
by the police.” 
The Ruffian, Pruffian, Auftrian, and Englilh, commif- 
Aoners, and Capt. Ulher, of the Undaunted frigate, who 
was appointed to convey Bonaparte to Elba, dined with 
him on the 27th. On the introduction of Capt. Ulher, he 
faid, that, though formerly our enemy, he was now as 
Ancerely our friend ; and that we were a great nation. 
On C3pt. Ulher obferving, that he feared he could but ill 
accommodate him, Bonaparte faid, a Britirti man-of-war was 
a palace. At dinner the fubjeCl was chiefly naval affairs, 
of which he appeared a perfeCt mailer. On fome furprife 
being exprefl'ed, how he could make himfelf io perfect a 
mailer of the minutiae of the navy, when he had directed 
fo many other affairs of high importance, he bowed, and 
felt the compliment ; but faid, that in three years his 
plans would have been complete—that he was about to 
build 20 fail of the line on the Elbe, and would have had 
200 fail of the line well manned, for that his naval con- 
feription fully anfwered his expectations. On its being 
obferved by Capt. Ulher, that his naval confcripts did not 
create much alarm, he feemed furprifed ; adding, that our 
minifters well knew the Toulon fleet was manned with 
them. He faid, that his principal objeCt in annexing 
Holland to Fiance, was for the purpofe of making good 
failorsby exercifing them on the Zuyderzee ; and, turning 
round toward the Ruffian commiHioner, laid, that he had 
conftruCted a three-decker, then called the Aufterlitz. 
On being aiked what he thought "'of our expedition to 
Holland ? he faid, rather turning to the Auftrian com- 
miffioner, “ I wrote from Vienna before the expedition 
failed, deliring them to be prepared for it.” The conver- 
fation in general was highly interelling. Bonaparte looked 
remarkably well, and talked with all his accuftomed autho¬ 
rity. A French frigate was fent to wait upon him; but 
he preferred going in the Englilh frigate. Lieutenant 
Haitings was fent with a French and Auftrian commif- 
froner to take polfeffion of the Illand of Elba in his name. 
Princefs Borghefe intended to follow him to Elba. On 
taking leave of his guards, he made a moll affebling fpeech 
to them ; which had a great effeCt on both officers and 
men, who (l)ed tears.— He arrived at Elba on the 4th of 
May, (the day after Louis entered Paris;) and took pof- 
feffion of the illand amidft the acclamations of the inha¬ 
bitants. He landed at Porto Ferrajo, when he hoilted on 
the walls and tower of the city, a white flag bordered with 
red, and bearing three bees on a blue ground. 
Many perfons, both in England and France, are ex¬ 
tremely offended that Napoleon (or Nicholas, for fome 
would now perfuade him out of his Chriltian name) lliould 
llill continue to live. Some think that he lliould have 
put himfelf at the head of his troops, no matter how few, 
have ruihed into battle againlt any odds; and fo lacrificed 
their lives and his own with all convenient fpeed. Thus 
Gen. Augereau, in his addrels to his army, lays : “Sol¬ 
diers I You are relieved from your oaths, by the nation, 
in whom the fovereignty refides. You are alfo, if it were 
necelfary, by the abdication even of a man who, after 
having immolated thoufands of vi&ims to his cruel am¬ 
bition, did not dare to die as a foldier." Others again think 
he Ihould have fallen upon his own fword, or have directed 
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