PARIS. 
government of Louis XVIII. It is for you, foldiers, to 
complete this fubmiflion by your obedience 5 hoift the 
white cockade and colours. I demand from you, I know, 
a great facrifice: we have all been connected with other 
colours for thefe twenty-five years; but the intereft of our 
country commands this facrifice. I am incapable, foldiers, 
of giving you an order not founded on thefe fentiments, 
or at variance with honour. Laft year, under fimilar cir- 
cumftances, the government of our country having chan¬ 
ged, I defended Hamburg and Harburg to the laft moment, 
in the name of Louis XVIII. liftening then, as I do now, 
only to the intereft of our country. All my countrymen 
have applauded my conduft ; a fine army has been pre- 
ferved to France ; not a foldier has quitted his ranks, 
knowing that he ferves his country, whatever be its go¬ 
vernment, and that an army cannot deliberate. Soldiers! 
continue the fame conduCl; defend our unhappy country 
in the name of Louis XVIII. this monarch, and all our 
countrymen, will thank us for it. We fhall make com¬ 
mon caufe with thofe brave Vendeans who have juftly 
given us a touching example, declaring that they would 
unite with us to combat the enemies of France ; and you 
will have, befides, preferved to your country a numerous 
and brave army. I expeCI from you the lame fpirit of 
difcipline of which you have given proofs fince your de¬ 
parture from Paris. Prince d’EctCMUHL.” 
The army under Suchet foon followed the example of 
the army of the Loire; and, laftly, that under Claufel. 
The white flag now appeared on all the fea-ports and prin¬ 
cipal towns ; the people acquiefcing in the change. From 
this time, therefore, we may coniider Louis XVIII. as 
king of France, though tranquillity was not completely 
reftored for fome confiderable time afterwards. We fhall 
therefore conclude this part of our fubjeCl with a conjec¬ 
tural account, from a refpe&able periodical publication, 
of the Ioffes that were fuftained in thofe dreadful con¬ 
flicts, chiefly of three days’ duration, by means of which 
jhe was re-placed on the throne. 
Pruffians, total lofs, viz. at Ligny, Waterloo, 
Wavre, and Namur, in killed, wounded, and 
prifoners .... 33,000 
Britifh and Hanoverians at Quatre Bras and Water¬ 
loo ..... 13,700 
Belgians and Dutch at Quatre Bras and Waterloo 4,100 
50,800 
Computed lofs of the French at Quatre Bras and 
Ligny - 15,000 
Ditto at Waterloo, on the part oppofed to the Britifh 25,000 
Ditto on the part oppofed to the Pruffians and in 
the purfuit - - - ' - 20,000 
Fugitives difperfed throughout the country, who 
never refumed fervice ... 15,000 
Remainder who were rallied at Laon and elfewhere, 
but not in a ftate to face an enemy - 20,000 
95,000 
Total 145,800 
Though the government of France were anxioufly 
watching the motions of Napoleon, the fickle Parifians 
feemed to have forgotten him, or to remember him only 
to deride him. As foon as he was gone, there appeared 
as many pamphlets againft him as had before been pub- 
liftied againftthe king. Thepublic partiality diftinguifhed 
L'HiJloire des Quinze Setnaines: this little performance 
was read with fuch avidity as to run through feven edi¬ 
tions in a month. A work equally remarkable was the 
the Dictionnaire des Giroucttes, or Dictionary of Weather¬ 
cocks, an alphabetical lift of perfons in France who had 
been notorious for their contradictory opinions. What 
a lift ; and what verfatility in France during the laft twenty 
years ! What a difgraceful monument for the French is 
this dictionary ! It is a very remarkable work. You there 
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find three or four difcordant opinions exprefled by the 
fame man, before all France, in the courfe of twenty years. 
Some of them have changed about in lefs than a month. 
It gives the orders of the day of feveral marfhals, on the one 
hand in favour of Bonaparte in the month of March, on the 
other in favour of the king in the month of April; pieces 
in verfe by a poet in praife of the Republic, the King of 
Rome, and the Duchefs of Angouleme. Quotations are 
made from a journalift who loudly declared that he would 
acknowledge no other ruler than Napoleon the Great, 
who a fortnight afterwards proved that this Napoleon was 
a traitor; and a year later ftaunchly maintained him to 
be a great man again, and the only legitimate fovereign. 
Bonaparte himfelf is introduced into this Dictionary 
among the weathercocks, for abdicating in 1814, aflerting, 
in March 1815, that he had never abdicated, and for ab¬ 
dicating a fecond time in June; but the author might 
have cited many other inconliftencies and contradictions 
of this too-celebrated man. 
He had left Malmaifon on the 29th of June, under the 
protection or furveillance of general Becker, with a nu¬ 
merous retinue, and much property ; and, taking the road 
by Tours, he directed his route to Rochefort. It was 
evident he travelled quite at hiseafe; and not only fo, 
but that every facility was afforded him. Every where 
he was welcomed with acclamations, and treated with the 
fame refpeCt as if he had been ftill emperor. He reached 
Rochefort on the 3d of July, in fafety ; and immediately 
began to make preparations for his departure, in two fri¬ 
gates, la Suale and la Medufe. Every thing was em¬ 
barked, and ready for a ftart; but, unfortunately, every 
avenue forefcape was clofed againft him. Already eleven 
Britifh fhips of war lined the coaft, in fuch a manner that 
no veflel of any defcription could put to fea without being 
brought-to by them. This vigilant force was under the 
command of captain Maitland, of the Bellerophon, of 74 
guns. Bonaparte remained at the houfe of the prefeCt, 
general Becker, till the 8th, when he went on-board the 
Suale, at ten o’clock in the evening. He, however, durft 
not venture to put to fea. Next day he landed, and in- 
fpeCted the fortifications of the Iile d’Aix, probably with 
the intention of defending himfelf there againft any im¬ 
mediate attack. On the 10th the winds were favourable; 
but the fliort night, and it alfo being moonlight at the 
time, left the frigates no hope toefcape. He had fent on¬ 
board the Bellerophon to folicit permiffion to pafs, as he 
laid he was only waiting for his paflports from England. 
This was, however, refufed ; and he was informed, that 
the moment the frigates attempted to come out they 
w r ould be attacked. Bonaparte next propofed to efcape 
in a Danifli fhip, but this would have been equally im¬ 
practicable ; and an attempt in two chafl'e-marees, of 
about twenty tons each, which had come from Rochelle 
on the night of the 12th, and in which he was to embark, 
and to be carried to the Danifli veflel, waiting for him at 
a diftance, feemed to promife no better hopes of fuccefs. 
Thefe plans alfo were abandoned. From the nth to the 
12th Bonaparte learned from his brother Jofeph, the en¬ 
trance of the king into Paris, and the diffolution of the 
chambers. To the laft moment, it is faid, he cheriflied 
the idea that they would recall him 5 but be was difap- 
pointed. 
Two more days were pafled in undeterminate projects 
for efcaping by fea. At length, on the 14th, generals 
Becker and Savary, count las Cafas, and general Lalle- 
mand, were fent on-board the Bellerophon, to inform 
Capt. Maitland of his defire of throwing himfelf on the 
protection of England. But Maitland, with cautious 
prudence, made thofe gentlemen clearly underftand, that 
he could engage for nothing more than limply to convey 
Bonaparte to England, there to be received as it might 
feem beft by his majelty’s government. With this inti¬ 
mation, the ex-emperor was received on-board the Belle- 
rophon on the following morning, the 15th of July. The 
perfons who accompanied Bonaparte on-board the Belle - 
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