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named by the-commanders-in-chief of the refpeftive ar¬ 
mies, that is to fay, the Baron Bignon, holding the port- 
feuille of foreign affairs ; the Count Guilleminot, chief 
of the general ftaff of the French army; the Count de 
Bondy, prefeft of the department of the Seine; being 
furnifhed with the full powers of his excellency Marfhal 
Davouft, Prince of Eckmuhi, commander-in-chief of the 
French army, on one fide; and Major-general Baron 
Muffling, furnifhed with the full powers of his highnefs 
the fiekt-marfhal Prince Biucher, commander-in-chief of 
the Pruffian army; Colonel Harvey, furnilhed with the 
full powers of his excellency the Duke of Wellington, 
commander-in-chief of the Englilh army, on the other 
fide ; have agreed to the following articles: 
1. There (hall be a fufpenfion of arms between the allied 
armies commanded by the Prince Biucher, and his excel¬ 
lency the Duke of Wellington, and the French army 
tinder the walls of Paris. 
2. The French army (hall put itfelf in march to-morrow 
to take up its pofition behind the Loire. Paris fhall be 
completely evacuated in three days, and the movement 
behind the Loire fhall be effefted within eight days. 
3. The French army fhall take with it all its materiel, 
field-artillery, military-cheft, horfes, and property of re¬ 
giments, without exception. 
6. The wives and children of all individuals belonging 
to the French army fhall be at liberty to remain in Paris. 
The wives fhall be allowed to quit Paris for the purpofe 
of rejoining the army, and to carry with them their pro¬ 
perty, and that of their hufbands. 
8. To-morrow, the 4th of July, at mid-day, St. Denis, 
St. Ouen, Clichy, and Neuilly, fhall be given up. The 
day after to-morrow, the 5th, at the fame hour, Mont¬ 
martre fhall be given up. The third day, the 6th, all the 
barriers fhall be given up. 
9. The duty of the city of Paris fhall continue to be 
done by the national guard, and by the corps of the mu¬ 
nicipal gens d’armerie. 
11. Public property, with the exception-of that which 
relates to war, whether it belongs to the government, or 
depends upon the municipal authority, fhall be refpefted; 
and the allied powers will not interfere in any manner 
with its adminiftration and management. 
12. Private perfons and property fhall be equally 
refpefted. The inhabitants, and in general all individuals 
who fhall be in the capital, fhalf continue to enjoy their 
rights and liberties, without being dijiurbedor culled to ac¬ 
count, either as to the fitnations which they hold, or may have 
held, or as to their conduct or political opinions. 
16. The prefent convention is declared common to all 
the allied armies, provided it be ratified by the powers on 
which thefe armies are dependant. 
17. The ratifications fhall be exchanged to-morrow, 
the 4th of July, at fix o’clock in the morning, at the 
bridge of Neuilly. 
18. Commilfioners fhall be named by the refpeftive 
parties, in order to watch over the execution of the pre¬ 
fent convention. 
Done and figned at St. Cloud, in triplicate, by the 
commiffloners above-named, the day and year before- 
mentioned. The Baron Bignon. 
Count Guillemont. 
Count de Bondy. 
The Baron de Muffling. 
F. B. Hervey, Colonel. 
“ Approved and ratified the prefent fufpenfion of arms, 
at Paris, the third of July, 1815. 
Davoust, Prince d’Eckmuhl.” 
Notwithftanding the furrender of Paris, and the actual 
entrance of the Anglo-Pruflian armies into the city, the 
two chambers continued their fittings. The approach of 
Louis the Eighteenth, whofe return to the throne they 
were fagacious enough to fee could not be prevented, ap¬ 
peared to them to require increafed diligence, in order to 
complete in all hafte, and before he arrived, the new con- 
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ftitution, exprefling the national will, and reftraining the 
hands of abfolute power. It was alfo deemed an aft con- 
fonant with the majefty of the national reprefentation to 
iflue a folemn declaration, protefting, in anticipation, 
againft any eventual infringement of the French liberties 
on the part of the allied fovereigns; and againft receiving 
any fovereign, unlefs he fubferibed to fome guarantee 
againft exercifing arbitrary power. Even the arrival of 
the king at St. Denis did not difconcert thefe legiflators; 
they repaired only the earlier in the morning to the hall 
of aflembly; and had very nearly completed this new 
conftitution, (the provifions of which we need not quote, 
fince, like Bonaparte’s afte additionel, it was not brought 
into effeft,) when, on the 7th, the chamber received 
from the provifional government the following meflage : 
“ M. Prefident, Hitherto we had believed that the inten¬ 
tions of the allied fovereigns were not unanimous upon 
the choice of the prince who is in France. Our plenipo¬ 
tentiaries gave us the fame affurances upon their return. 
However the minifters and generals of the allied powers 
declared yefterday, in the conferences they had with the 
prefident of the commiflion, that all the fovereigns had 
engaged to replace Louis XVIII. upon the throne, and 
that he is to make, this evening or to-morrow, his en¬ 
trance into the capital. Foreign troops have juft occupied 
the Tuileries, where the government is fitting. In this 
ftateof affairs, we can only breathe wifhes for the country ; 
and our deliberations being no longer free, we think it our 
duty to feparate." When the reading of the above meflage 
was finifhed, filence, fora while, enlued, and the members 
feemed to confult together. Manuel then came forward, 
and faid, that, as they had forefeen that event, he called 
upon them to remain at their poll: <e Let us fay,” faid he, 
“ that we are reprefentatives of the people; and that we 
will not quit the place but at the point of the bayonet.” 
“ Bravo ! bravo ! Yes ! yes !” arofe from all parts of the 
aflembly. The members then began to difperfe, after 
pafling to the order of the day upon the meflage; the pre¬ 
fident of the government announcing, at the fame time, 
that the fitting was adjourned till the 8th, at eight in 
the morning. At eight in the morning they accordingly 
came, intending to proceed as ufual ; but, to their utter 
aftonifhment, they found, that general Defolles, com¬ 
mander of the national guard, had got up before them, 
and had, by order of the king, locked the doors and put 
the keys in his pocket, while his troops kept them from 
approaching the place. Thus, and by an ordinance of 
the king previoufly iffued, were the two chambers re¬ 
lieved of their labours. The members repaired to the 
lioufeof their prefident M. Lanjuinais, and there drew up 
a proces verbal, or proteft. 
On the fame day, the 8th, Louis entered the capital. 
Preparations had been made, from the preceding day, to 
receive his majefty ; and great crowds went out to meet 
him. He was, faid the accounts from Paris, welcomed 
with greater acclamations than on the preceding year. 
The white cockade was univerfally hoifted, the white 
ftandard difplayed, and cries of Vive le Roi were now the 
occupation of the furrounding multitudes. It is needlefs 
to repeat more of this mode of reception. The world is 
fick of French cries of Vive le Roi, Vive I'Emperear, la Na¬ 
tion, la Liberte; all equally ready when an occafion pre- 
fents itfelf. 
The proceflion moved through the Boulevards to the 
Tuileries, where the king alighted, and took up his abode 
in that palace, the feene of fo much grief and affliction to 
his family, and which many had expefted he would never 
again fee, and very few that it could take place fo foon. 
In the evening the city was illuminated; and fongs, 
dances, and rejoicings, continued to a late hour. But 
thefe things were nothing new in Paris. A change of 
government feemed indeed to have become neceflary, in 
order to affqrd them frefti amufement. 
As to the members of the old government, if a govern¬ 
ment is to be called old which had fubfifted only a fort- 
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