PARIS. 
anxious was the emperor to make every arrangement for 
liis comfort and influence, at the place of his refidence, 
that the governor of Mittau was a&ually placed under his 
orders; and he was even encouraged to aflume fo much 
of the perfonal functions of royalty, as to have regular 
levees, at which the nobleffe of the neighbouring pro¬ 
vinces were proud to attend. Butfuch events could not 
long remain unknown to the French republicans, who 
were fuccefsful, at length, in acquiringan undue influence 
over the councils of Paul, whom they perfuaded, firft, to 
diftrefs the unhappy monarch by withholdingthe payment 
of his penfion, and afterwards to fend him orders to de¬ 
part from the Ruffian dominions; a journey for which 
they allowed him only a week’s preparation. All this 
was done at the infligation of that man whofe recent 
downfal has reftored Louis to the throne of his anceftors. 
The duchefs of Angouleme, his niece, redded with 
jiim at Mittau, accompanied by her hufband. To her he 
explained his fad fituation ; and affured her, that, as he 
had not the means of travelling as he had formerly done, 
and as the little that he poffeffed would be neceflary for the 
daily maintenance of thofe attached to him, fo he would 
liimfelf fet them an example how to bear misfortune, and 
would the next day leave Mittau with them on font. 
However the duchefs might venerate the magnanimity 
of her uncle, yet fhe dutifully determined to fave him, if 
poflible, from perfonal inconvenience ; and fold to a Jew 
a valuable bow of diamonds, prefented to her as a nuptial 
gift by her imperial relations at Vienna ; by which means 
flie raifed a fum that enabled her uncle to travel comfort¬ 
ably. 
In Pruflia, Louis was treated rather as an enemy than 
as a friend: in fail, the Pruflian cabinet were afraid to 
fltow him protection ; and it was only, at length, by the 
forbearance of Napoleon Bonaparte, that the king of 
France was permitted to refide for fome time at Warfaw, 
in the habitation of a monarch who had alfo been driven 
from his throne. 
While refiding at Warfaw, in 1804, Napoleon had the 
audacity to fend feveral meflengers to him with propofals 
for a formal abdication of his claims to the French crown ;. 
but the prudent and virtuous indignation of Louis guarded 
him from fo mean a compliance : and when Meyer, the 
Pruflian refident, repeated the fame propofal on the part 
of the Corfican, it has been well oblerved, that the dig¬ 
nified anfwer of Louis was fufficient to convince the 
world, that, though fortune may defert virtue, and render 
it diftreffed or milerable, yet Hill flie is unable to degrade 
or diflionour it. 
After the acceflion of the prefent Ruffian monarch to 
the throne of his anceftors, an agreeable change took 
f flace in the fituation of the French king, as ample and 
iberal allowances were made for the fupport of his houfe- 
liold, but of which Louis availed himfelf very fparingly 
with refpeft to his own accommodation. 
But even at Warfaw he was not permitted to remain 
undifturbed ; for, in the month of July, 1805, a plot was 
formed by the now-degraded Napoleon, to get rid of thofe 
tears which hung about his ufurped throne. A man of 
the name of Coulon, the keeper of a billiard-table at that 
place, was offered a large fum if he would take an oppor¬ 
tunity, in confequence of his intimacy with the cook of 
the royal kitchen, to throw fome pciion into ope of the 
culinary veffels. To detail all the particulars of this plot 
would far exceed our limits; but thofe who are curious 
about it will find a long and jpterefting detail in the third 
volume of the Revolutionary Plutarch, where a fyftem 
of premeditated murder againft every legitimate prince in 
Europe is difclofed upon authority which can fcarcely be 
doubted. Nay, fuch was Napoleon’s determination tp 
get rid of all the members of the houfe of Bourbon, that 
Coulon was offered additional rewards in cafe the duchefs 
of Angouleme and her hufband Ihould alfo fall victims to 
the fame treachery. 
Subfequent political events rendered it upfafe for 
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Louis to refide upon the continent; and his only refource 
was the land of real liberty, where he arrived in October 
1807, (fee London, p. 158.) and where he continued to 
refide till the counter-revolution in 1814, (p. 389.) gain¬ 
ing the efteem of all ranks and parties in the date : for, 
though political reafons, and the uncertainty of the ifl'ue 
of the war, rendered it prudent that our government 
fliould not oftenfibly fan&ion the Bourbon claims, nor 
that the princes of that houfe fliould be received at court 
on public days, yet a great degree of private friendfliip 
fubfifted between the princes of thefe two once-rival 
houfes. 
We have already noticed that Louis XVIII. wliilft 
Monfieur, was married to a daughter of the king of Sar¬ 
dinia : a match, however, which was not blefled with 
any ifl’ue. Since his majefty’s taking up his refidence in 
this country, he had the misfortune to lofe this very efti- 
mable woman, who bore the misfortunes both of her pa¬ 
ternal and maternal family with a degree of fortitude 
honourable to her rank, and to the fex of which flie was 
an ornament. 
Louis XVIII. being at length feated, for the fecond 
time, on the throne, and the warlike operations of pro¬ 
minent importance being brought to a conclufion, we 
fliall offer but one remark on the manner in which that 
reftoration was effe&ed. Our readers will recoiled!, that 
Great Britain did not fign the Treaty of the 25th of 
March, 1815, without annexing tt> it a declaration that, 
as it was direCHy repugnant to the principles of the Bri- 
tifli conflitution to force a fovereign upon any nation, 
Britain joined the alliance, not for the purpofe of forcing 
Louis on the people of France. (See p. 514.) The allies 
alfo acceded to this. What was the faCt ? The French 
were defeated at the battle of Waterloo : the conquerors 
marched to Paris, with Louis in their train. Paris fub- 
mitted under a Convention; the chambers called upon the 
allied fovereigns to remember their Declaration, when 
they infifted Louis fliould be refiored. It cannot be denied 
that Louis was replaced on the throne without afcertain- 
ing the wifhes of the nation, and merely in confequence 
of the vidfories of the allies. If the allies concurred that 
it was neceflary for the repofe of Europe, not only that 
Bonaparte fliould be again driven from France, but alfo 
that Louis fliould be again placed on the throne of that 
kingdom, they fliould have clearly faid fo : at lead: they 
fliould not have difclaimed all intention of interfering 
with the internal government of France, and with the 
right of the French to choofe their own fovereign, and 
then have adled diredtly contrary to their declaration. 
A flrong curiofity and intereft were naturally excited 
to learn on whom Louis would fix for his milliners. In 
his formerreign he was thought to haveadted imprudently, 
by feledling, as his advifers, fome of Bonaparte’s oldert 
and ftauncheft adherents but it was believed that, taught 
by experience, he would, on this occafion, make a dif¬ 
ferent leledlion. This idea, however, proved to be ill- 
founded, by an official declaration of the 9th of July 1815, 
from which it appeared that his majefty decided on having 
an adminiftration compofed of the following perfons : 
Prince Talleyrand, peer of France, prefident of the coun¬ 
cil, and fecretary-of-flate for the department of foreign 
affairs; Baron Louis, fecretary-of-ftate for the finances ; 
Fouche duke of Otranto, for the department of general 
olice; Baron Pafquier, for the department of juftice, and 
eeper of the feals; Marffial Gouvion St. Cyr, peer of 
France, for the department of war; the Count de Jaucour, 
peer of France, for the marine department; and the duke 
de Richelieu, peer of France, for the department of the 
houfehold. Of thofe appointed to inferior ports were alfo 
feveral who had been in office under Bonaparte; a proof 
that it was thought neceflary to conciliate a party which 
ftill remained numerous and powerful. 
On the 13th, the king publiffied another ordinance 
announcing the diffolution of the chamber of deputies, 
and regulating the mode of election for a new one. By 
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