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PARIS. 
Morne Palmifte, Thus the troops from Grande-terre were 
completely cut off from forming their junction, which 
they attempted without fuccefs by paths through the wood, 
late in the afternoon, but with light fufficient to point out 
to comte Linois and general Bowyer that all their plans 
of concentration were defeated. 
After thefe laborious movements, which the Britifh 
troops executed in the inoft creditable manner, there was 
only time before night to place the columns in readinefs 
to attack the formidable pofition of Morne Houel at day¬ 
break in the morning. The troops accordingly took up 
their bivouacs. It rained heavily. At eleven o’clock in 
the night of the 9th, the commanding French engineer 
came to the Britifh general on the top of Morne Palmifte 
verbally to propofe a capitulation in the name of comte 
Linois; to which he replied, that the only terms he ever 
would accede to were already publifhed in the proclamation 
iflued on landing, and that he would not delay the attack on 
Morne Houel to wait for any farthercommunications. Ac¬ 
cordingly the troops were put in motion at day-break. An 
officer loon after met the Britifh general with written propo- 
fals, which he pofitively refufed. A white flag wasdifplayed 
on Morne Houel ; but fir James Leith fent major-general 
Murray (who had joined the army from Demerary the pre¬ 
ceding night), and his aide-de-camp, captain Leith Hay, 
with the Britifh flag, to fay, that the only flgnal which 
fliould flop the troops would be to fee it difplayed on the 
parapet. He had the fatisfadtion immediately after to fee 
the Britifh ftandard flying on Morne Houel, and thereby 
toafcertain that all the troops were prifoners of war, and 
all the forts and the colony in his pofleffion. (London 
Gazette, Sept. 16, 1815.) 
This conqueft was obtained with a fmall lofs, and by it 
an end was put to revolutionary attempts in the Weft In¬ 
dies. Guadaloupe, however, though completely in the 
martial pofleffion of Great Britain, was not reduced to a 
Hate of tranquillity. A number of French foldiers, who 
had deferted previoufly to the furrender of the ifland, took 
refuge in the woods, where they carried on a defultory 
and precarious war againft the pofts of the Englifh, feve- 
ral of whom were killed in their defperate fallies. Many 
of the inhabitants of Point-|-Petre, who formerly pur- 
fued the trade of privateering, were fufpedted of holding 
correfpondence with them, and fupplying them with pro- 
vifions and ammunition. Meafures were, however, taken 
to prevent this intercourfe, and a force was fent againft 
the infurgents, About 300 of Bonaparte’s adherents in 
the ifland were afterwards apprehended, who were fent to 
Europe. An exadt police was maintained in the capital, 
by which order was perfedtly preferved, though it was 
evident that the French inhabitants looked upon their 
conquerors with great averfion. Thefe iflands were re¬ 
tained by the Englifh till all the conditions of the peace 
were fulfilled, which was a confiderable time afterwards : 
they were then formally delivered over to the new French 
governor appointed by Louis. 
The fltuation of Louis, although furrounded with the 
legal authority of the nation, was at this time peculiarly 
hard and difficult. His obligations, on one hand, to the 
allied powers, who had placed him and ftill maintained 
him on the throne ; and, on the other, to his own people, 
now galled and bound down under the yoke of thofe al¬ 
lies ; produced a conflidt of feelings and duties which 
rr.uft have proved extremely harraffing. A tranfadlion, 
which expol'ed him to particular mortification, was paf- 
fing diredtly in his view : the Mufeum of the Louvre, 
rendered by a long feries of French conquefts the richeft 
receptacle of the arts in Europe, was completely ftript of 
its fruits of conqueft by the allies. For the circum- 
Itances attending this interefting event, we are indebted 
to the narratives of Mr. Scott (lately killed in a duel), and 
of Mifs Helen Maria Williams, who were both on the fpof 
at the time. 
It appears that the allied powers, amidft thofe rapid 
and brilliant fuccefles, which, in the year 1814, had ren¬ 
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dered them mafters of the capital, had not overlooked 
the chefs-d'oeuvre of art which had been wrefted from their 
refpedtive countries by the right of conqueft. The allied 
fovereigns, when they vifited the gallery of the Louvre, 
beheld pictures and ftatues once their own, and faw them 
noted, in the Preface of the Catalogues fold at the door, 
as the fruit of French vidtories. The Pruffians had not 
failed to obferve, that pidlures, which had decorated the 
bed-chamber of their beautiful and lamented queen, were 
then placed in the royal apartments of the palace of St. 
Cloud. There was alfo a ftatue in the Mufeum which 
was known by the name of the Ganymede of Sans Souci. 
This ftatue was of bronze, and of the moft beautiful 
workmanfhip ; it was no lefs perfedt than the Belvidere 
Apollo, and held that reputation in the north. It was 
erroneoufty called a Ganymede; the pofe of the arms 
leading to this milfake ; but it is a Gladiator, giving 
thanks to the gods fora vidtory juft obtained. The Pruf- 
flans demanded, in 1814. the reiteration of this ftatue, of 
two pieces by Correggio, and the pidlures of St. Cloud, 
which had been taken from the apartment of their queen. 
The reftitutjon of thefe objedts became a fubjedt of a 
moft faftidious negociation between M. Blacas and the 
minifters of Auftria and Pruffia. It had been agreed at 
the peace of Paris, that nothing ffiould be touched that 
was then exhibited in the Mufeum, and M. Blacas con¬ 
trived to extend this article to all the paintings in the 
royal palaces. Paris, therefore, preferved its ftatues and 
pidlures; and the Pruffians their regrets, at not having 
regained the trophies ftripped from their queen’s apart¬ 
ments. 
The allied armies, in 1815, again crowned the hills 
around Paris, and a capitulation was alked and granted. 
The proviflonary government demanded that the Mufeum 
fliould remain untouched. The allied generals wrote 
with a pencil, on the margin of this article, Non accords , 
“ Not granted.” This refufal, it appears, did not arife fo 
much from any decifion taken with refpedt to the Mufeum 
by the duke of Wellington, who would not prejudge the 
queftion, but becaufe Blucher, fupported by the public 
opinion of his country, had, in his own mind, determined 
upon taking all. The article on the refpedt to be paid 
to public and private property was loofely worded. The 
allies afl’ert, that their refpedt for the monuments of the 
arts could never be juftly applied to the retaking of ob¬ 
jedts which had at firft been feized by violence. 
General Blucher, immediately upon his entrance into 
Paris, fent a letter to M. Denon, the diredtor of the Mu¬ 
feum, demanding not only the objedts of the laft year’s 
negociation with M. Blacas, but what was alfo in the Mu¬ 
feum. M. Denon anfwered, that it was an affair which 
mult be negociated with his government, and that he 
would not give them up. M. Denon was arrefted during 
the night by twenty men, and was threatened to be fent 
to the fortrefs of Graudentz in Weft Pruffia. 
From this argument there was no appeal. The objedts 
demanded were delivered. This furrender was made in 
due order; and the Gladiator, the two pidlures of Cor¬ 
reggio, and fome valuable pieces of the old German 
fchool, were carefully packed up by the perfons employed 
at the Mufeum. This would have been but a trifling lofs, 
had not the king of Pruffia taken not only what belonged 
to Potzdam and Berlin, but alfo to Cologne and Aix-la- 
Chapelle, countries on this fide of the Rhine, and there¬ 
fore not in his pofleffion at that period, on the pretext 
that thefe objedts belonged to the cathedral, and the mu¬ 
nicipality of thofe towns. 
The following is an accurate tranflation of a letter of 
Blucher to general Muffling (the Pruffian governor of 
Paris), in juftification of his condudt. 
, “ Paris, Odt, 1$, 1815. 
Sir; As my condudt has been publicly animadverted 
upon, for not having allowed the property plundered 
from Pruffia by a banditti, to remain in the Mufeum of 
the Louvre, I have only to remark, that, ably fupported 
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