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ted them, than a herald was difpatched to general Claufel 
entreating him to fufpend his attack, as the princefs was 
preparing to depart. He readily confented, and guaran¬ 
teed the fafety of the city. The bed friends of the royal 
caufe now haftened to the princefs, and befought her to 
depart immediately. She acceded to their requeft, and at 
eight o’clock on the fame evening embarked on-board a 
fmall veffel which the Englilh conful had ftationed in the 
river for her ufe. 
General Claufel now entered the place without oppo- 
fition. The garrifon hoifted the tri-coloured cockade, 
and received him with acclamations; the national guard 
fubmitted in filence ; and, notwithftanding the apparently 
univerfal feeling, a few hours before, in favour of the 
Bourbons, an immenfe croud affembled round the gates, 
and welcomed Napoleon’s general with fhouts of joy. 
The duke of Angouleme proceeded to the fouth of 
France, and for a while fortune feemed to l'mile on his 
expedition. Some regiments of the line followed him 
with apparent fidelity, and his little army increafed to 
more than fix thoufand men. In his firft encounter with 
the troops of Napoleon he met with confiderable fuccefs ; 
but, being betrayed by thofe in whom he confided, the 
loyalty of the troops being feduced, and numerous corps 
of the enemy approaching him on every fide, he was con- 
flraincd to Jhrrender to general Gilly. His force w r as fuf- 
ficiently refpedable to enfure honourable conditions. An 
univerfal amnefty was granted. The lives and property 
of his followers were fecured, and the duke received fafe 
convoy to Cette, where he was to embark for Spain or 
England. He had fcarcely fet out on his journey when 
general Grouchy arrived, and alfumed the chief command 
of Napoleon’s troops. Imagining that the formercom- 
inander had exceeded his powers, he would not permit 
the duke to proceed to the place of his deftination, and 
difpatched a courier to Paris for inftruCfions. Napoleon 
could not refufe to accede to the terms which had been 
granted by general Gilly, without fubjeCting himfelf to 
the utmoft opprobrium ; but he adroitly feized the oppor¬ 
tunity of giving a colour of generofity to what was merely 
an act of juftice. He wrote the following letter to Grou¬ 
chy, in which, without adverting to the convention al¬ 
ready agreed on, he acceded to its fubftance; but made 
the further demand, that his royal highnefs fliould engage 
for the reftitution of the crown-jewels, which had been car¬ 
ried away by Louis. 41 Count Grouchy ; The ordinance 
of the king, dated March 6, and the declaration figned 
by his minifters on the 13th at Vienna, might authorize 
me to treat the duke of Angouleme as that ordinance and 
that declaration propofed to treat me and my family; 
but, adhering to the views which induced me to order 
that the members of the Bourbon family fliould be per¬ 
mitted to leave France freely, my intention is, that you 
fliould give orders for conducing the duke of Angouleme 
to Cette, where he (hall be embarked, and that you watch 
over his fafety and protect him from all bad treatment. 
You will alfo take care to recover the money which has 
been removed from the public chefts; and to require of 
the duke of Angouleme to bind himfelf to the reftitution 
of the crown diamonds, which are the property of the 
nation. You will alfo make known to him the enact¬ 
ments of the laws of the national-affemblies, which are 
renewed, and which apply to the members of the family 
of Bourbon who may enter the French territory. You 
will, in my name, thank the national guards for the pa- 
triotifm and zeal which they have manifefted, and the at¬ 
tachment which they have fhown to me in thefe important 
circumftances. Napoleon.” 
On the 2d of April, the Juftificatory Manifefto of Na¬ 
poleon in anfwer to the Declaration of Congrefs (fee p. 
512.) was publiflied. As it is a document of the firft 
importance, we fhall prefent to the reader a few of the ar¬ 
ticles. 
1. The committee, compofed of prefidents of fe&ions 
of the council of ftate, lias examined the Declaration of 
the 13th of March, the Report of theMinifter of General 
Police, and the documents thereto produced. 
2. The Declaration is in a form i'o unufual, conceived 
in terms fo ftrange, expreffes ideas fo anti-focial, that the 
committee was ready to confider it as one of thofe forge¬ 
ries by which defpicable men feek to mifiead the people, 
and produce a change in public opinion. 
3. But rhe verification of legal minutes drawn up at 
Metz, and of the examinations of couriers, has left no 
ground for doubt that the tranfmiflion of this Declaration 
was made by the members of the French legation at 
Vienna ; and it muft, therefore, be regarded as adopted 
and figned by them. 
4. It was in this firft point of view that the committee 
thought it their duty to examine, in the firft inftance, 
this production, which is without precedent in the annals 
of diplomacy; and in which Frenchmen, men inverted 
with a public character the molt refpeCtable, begin by a 
fort of placing without the law, or, to fpeak more pre- 
cifely, by an incitement to the alfaflination, of the Emperor 
Napoleon. 
5. We fa) r , with the minifter of police, that this declara¬ 
tion is the work of the French plenipotentiaries ; bscaufe 
thofe of Auftria, Ruftia, Pruftia, and England, could not 
have figned a deed which the fovereigns and the nations 
to which they belong will halten to difavow. 
6. For, in the firft place, thefe plenipotentiaries, raoft of 
whom co-operated in the treaty of Paris, know that Na¬ 
poleon was there recognifed as retaining the title of em¬ 
peror, and as fovereign of the ille of Elba; they would 
have defignated him by thefe titles, nor would have de¬ 
parted, either in fubftance or form, from the refpeCtful 
notice which they impofe. 
8. An oblivion of thofe principles, which it is impoffi- 
ble to afcribe to plenipotentiaries who weigh the rights 
of nations with deliberation and prudence, has in it no¬ 
thing aftonilhing when it is difplayed by fame French mi- 
nijlers, whofe confidences reproach them with more than 
one aCl of treafon, in whom fear has produced rage, and 
whom remorfe deprives of reafon. 
11. The French nation, brave and generous, revolts 
again ft every thing bearing the character of bafenefs and 
oppreftion; its affeCtions become enthufiaftic when their 
objeCt is threatened or attacked by a great injuftice ; and 
the affaftination to which the Declaration of the 13th of 
March incites, will find no arm for its execution either 
among the 25,000,000 of Frenchmen, the majority of 
whom followed, guarded, protected, Napoleon from the 
Mediterranean to the capital, or among the 18,000,000 of 
Italians, the 6,000,000 of Belgians and Rhenilli, or the 
numerous nations of Germany, who, at this folemn crilis, 
have not pronounced his name but with refpeCtful recol¬ 
lections; or amidft the indignant Englilh nation, whofe 
honourable fentiments difavow the language which has 
been audacioufly put into the mouths ot fovereigns. 
17. Nations and pofterity will judge on which lide, at 
this great conjuncture, has been refpeCt for the rights of 
the people and of fovereigns, for the laws of war, the prin¬ 
ciples of civilization, the maxims of laws civil and reli¬ 
gious. They will decide between Napoleon and the houfe 
of Bourbon. 
18. If, after having examined the pretended Declara¬ 
tion of the Congrefs under this firft view, it is difcuffed 
in its relations to diplomatic conventions, and to the 
treaty of Fontainebleau, of the nth of April, 1814, ra¬ 
tified by the French government, it will be found that 
its violation is only imputable to the very perfons who 
reproach Napoleon therewith. 
19. The treaty of Fontainebleau has been violated by 
the allied powers and the houfe of Bourbon, in what re¬ 
gards the Emperor Napoleon and his family, in what re¬ 
gards the interefts and the rights of the French nation. 
1 ft. The Emprefs Maria-Louifa and her fon ought to 
have obtained paffports, and an efcort, to repair to the 
emperor ; and, far from executing this promife, they fe- 
4 parated 
