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thefe rules the candidates were declared eligible at the age 
of twenty-five (inftead of forty) 5 the deputies were to be 
perfons paying atleaft 1000 francs (90I.) in taxes ; and the 
whole number was augmented from 258, as fixed by the 
Conftitutional Charter, to 420. 
Bonaparte was much blamed for profcribing, or excep¬ 
ting from the general amnefty, eleven perfons, not one 
of whom, however, he ever puniftied, or intended to 
punifti. (Seep. 516.) Louis afted in a different manner : 
we fhall loon fee his lift of profcriptions followed by the 
trial and execution of the parties. 
On the 24th of July, the king publifhed two ordinances, 
or decrees. By the firft, the following were declared no 
longer to form part of the chamber of peers: Dukes of 
Dantzic, Praflin, Plaifance, Elchingen, Albufera, Cor- 
negliano, Trevifo, and Cadore; Counts Clermont deRis, 
Cornudet, d’Aboville, de la Croix, d’Agier, Dejean, de 
l’Ande, Gaflendi, Lacepede,LatourMaubourg,Canclaux, 
Cafabianca, Montefquieu, Pontecoulant, Rampon, Segur, 
Valence, Belliard, and Bural, archbilliop of Tours. We 
are not aware if thefe perfons were deprived of their titles 
and all the privileges of nobility, fo as to be reduced to 
the rank of private citizens, or whether they were only, 
as we Ihould fay, “expelled the houfe” of lords. But, at 
any rate, there was a faving-claufe, of which fome of 
them, we believe, have availed themfelves, by which 
“ thofe of the above named may be excepted from this 
arrangement, who fhall prove that they have neither fat 
nor wilhed to fit in the felf-ftyled chamber of peers to 
which they were fummoned, they being bound to prove 
this within a month after the publication of the prefent 
ordinance.” 
The fecond decree confifted of two principal articles. 
By the firft, the following nineteen generals and other 
officers were ordered to be arrefted and brought before 
courts-martial, in their refpeftive divifions: 
Marfhal Ney 
Grouchy 
Labeydoyere 
Claufel 
Two brothers Lallemand 
Laborde 
Drouet d’Erlon 
Debelle 
Lefebvre Defnouettes 
Bertrand 
Ameilh 
Drouet 
Brayer 
Cambrone 
Gilly 
Lavalette 
Mouton Duvernet 
Rovigo 
By the fecond article, the following thirty-eight indi¬ 
viduals were ordered to quit Paris within three days, and 
to retire into the interior of France, to the places which 
the minifterof general police (hall indicate to them, there 
to remain under his fuperinfpeftion, until the chambers 
decide as to which of them ought either to depart the 
kingdom, or be delivered up to profecution before the 
tribunals. 
Alarffial Soult 
Baflano 
Alix 
Felix Lepelletier 
Excelmans 
Mehee 
Boulay de la Meurthe 
Thibaudeau 
Freffinet 
Vandamme 
Carnot 
Lamarque (General) 
Lobau 
Le Lorgne-Dideville 
Harel 
Pi re 
Barrere 
Arnault 
Pommereuil 
St. Jean d’Angely 
Arrighi (of Padua) 
Dejean, jun. 
Garran 
Real 
Bouvier Dumolard 
Durbach 
Merlin of Douay 
Dirat 
Defermont 
Felix Defportes 
Bory St. Vincent 
Meilinet 
Gamier de Saintes 
Cluys 
Hullin 
Forbin-Janfon, the elder 
Courtin 
Marbot 
While France was bleeding at every pore from the 
effefts of foreign invafion and internal commotion, the 
fpirit of revolt had fpread to her colonies in the Caribbean 
ocean. The promptitude and decifion, however, of the 
Britifti officers commanding in that ftation, with the 
loyalty and firmnefs of count Vaugirard, governor of 
Martinique, faved that fine colony from any convulfiori. 
The inhabitants of Martinique, from being fo long in the 
poffeffion of the Britifh, were, in general, well-affefted to 
Louis XVIII. but the garrifon, who were newly arrived 
from France, were not. To a man, they were for their 
former mafter ; on which account they were, no doubt, 
felefted for that employment. No fooner was the arrival 
of Bonaparte in France known, than the governor, arm¬ 
ing the militia, on whom he knew he could depend, 
placed them in the forts; and, afiembling the troops, he 
informed them of what had taken place in the mother- 
country, and declared his intention to remain faithful to 
Louis XVIII. He called upon the garrifon to do fo alfo, 
which they refufed ; and, to a man, ftiouted out for 
their beloved Napoleon. Count Vaugirard then informed 
them, that, fo fituated, they had but one/courfe left to 
choofe, which was to return to France in veffels which he 
had provided for that purpofe; as he was determined, 
with the aid of the inhabitants, to preferve the colony to 
the king, till the affiftance which he was certain he ftiould 
receive from the Britifti put it in his power to do fo with 
fafety. This expefted affiftance foon appeared, under fir 
James Leith and admiral Durham. The Britifti general 
landed on the ifland, with a body of troops, on the 5th of 
June, 1815; and, occupying all the ftrong pofitions, kept 
the refraftory foldiery in awe. The whole of the French 
troops, with the exception of part of a regiment, were 
afterwards permitted to depart from the iftand unarmed, 
in order to return to France. The terms on which this 
fuccour was afforded by the Britifti commander was per¬ 
fectly liberal. The fovereignty of the ifland was to remain 
entire with the king of France; the Britifti troops, which 
were to aft as auxiliaries to the governor, were to be 
maintained at the expenfe of the Britifti government, and 
to preferve drift difcipline; and the perfons and properties 
of the inhabitants were to be fully refpefted by them. 
I11 the ifland of Guadaloupe the revolutionary caufe 
obtained a temporary triumph. A vefl'el having arrived 
from France, after a ftiort paffage, an infurreftion broke 
out on the 18th of June, in which both the military and 
citizens declared for Bonaparte. The governor, admiral 
count de Linois, was placed under arreft; but the next 
day he was fet at liberty, and immediately iffued a procla¬ 
mation, acquainting the inhabitants and foldiers that 
Napoleon had been received in France without refiftance; 
that the tri-coloured flag was every-where waving, and 
that the colonifts were expefted to concur in this change 
of government. He concluded with Vive I'Empereur! 
On the fame day, Napoleon was proclaimed in grand ce¬ 
remony at Point-a-Petre, under the direction of the com¬ 
mandant, Fromentin, afting for general Bowyer, and 
with every difplay of enthufiaftic joy. It was not, how¬ 
ever, by a fudden effervefcence of tliis kind that a dura¬ 
ble revolution was to be eft’efted; and, as foon as the af¬ 
fairs of Martinique were fettled, preparations were 
making by the Britifti commanders to wreft Guadaloupe 
from the imperial ufurper. Sir James Leith, having col¬ 
lected troops from the Windward Iflands and the conti¬ 
nent of America, and made arrangements with fir Charles 
Durham, failed, on the 31ft of July, from Carlifle-bay in 
Barbadoes, whilft the land-force from St. Lucie, Marti¬ 
nique, and Dominica, was ordered to rendezvous at the 
Saintes. On the 7 th of Auguft, the whole force being affem- 
bled there, it was refolved to lofe no time in making the at¬ 
tack, expedition being rendered neceflary, as well by the 
approach of the hurricarte-feafon, as by the internal ftate 
of Guadaloupe, in which the fanguinary fcenes of the 
French revolution were about to be renewed. The 15th 
of the month, being Napoleon’s birth-day, was, according 
to report, to have been folemnized by the execution of a 
number of royalifts already condemned to death; and 
their refcue was an objeft of intereft to the Britifti com¬ 
mander. 
Sir James Leith having made the neceffary arrangements 
with 
