The Friend and monitor. (Washington, Ga.) 1815-18??, May 19, 1815, Image 2

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tiers and mifeiies of revolutions; and, though intimately persuaded that France entire will again rally, Irieil around its legitimatefovereign, to render nugartory this lait at te *.pt or a criminal and impotent delirium ; at* the fbvoreirns of l'u - ‘ s iope, animated with the fame fenri fnents, guided by the fame piinci pies, dec hire, that if, contrary to every calculation, there fhouid re fu!r from this evert any reai danger-, whatever they -will be ready to give to the king of France, and the French nation, or any of their allies, as soon as the demand ihall be made, the necessary means to re eftabiifh the public tranquility and make common cauiV again!! all rhole who Ihail undertake to dff turb it The prefect declaration, inlert ed in the Protoeal of the Congress convened at Vienna, in the feifion of ihe thirteenth of March, 1815, shall be made public. i Signed at Vienna, on the 13th of March, 1815, by nil the plenipo tentiaries who signed the treaty of Paris [ i he above documents ftrength cned the determination of the roy aldts ar Bordeaux, to eftablifli an independent or prpvifibnal govern ment m the south against Bonaparte, An officer of Bonaparte’s had arrived at Bordeaux from Paris, who was immediately fare ft ed and put in prilbn. All the Englifli were getting'away with their e {Lefts as fa ft a- possible. [On the 7th of March, king Lout* issued a proclamation, declar ing t hat Bonaparte entered, fund in hand the ‘deparrmerit of the Var, and calls upon all the authorities, civil and military,*to purfuc. aneft, and produce immediately the per fo!i of Napoleon Bonaparte, that he and his abettors may be dealt with agreeable to the laws!lQ 1 he Fn rich frigate the Lys, that la.h.xi from Fouhm, has captured tire brig of war and transports, which brought Bonaparte and his guard from Elba to Fagis. ivn.g L •pis iftued a proclama tion on tire 19th of March, faying that part of his-anny has bctray%d hun, but lit’ hoped it would soon acknowledge its error and return to its uuty ( The king, at this time dated he would make a Stand in h s capito! but wished to lave much blood sh ! ) AtG alf Juan , . i arch 1, ISI 5. Napoleon by the Grace ot God and the Constitution of the date, Emperor of the French, Ac. Ac. Ac. To the French People Frenchmen— Ihedfaetftion cf tin Duke of Caftiglione (Anger au) delivered Lyons, without tie fence,, to our enemies. I'he army •he command of which I had con lided to him, was by the number oi the battalions, the brayerv and the patriofifm cf the ‘troops which com poled it, able to beat the corns ot the Austrian army which oppo .. led it, and to fall upon the rear of ine leit hank of the enemy’s army which menaced Paris. i tie victorious Chainp Aubeit, of e.loniiiiirall, cf Chateau, i merry, or \ auchamp, of Mormons, of Mon.terau, of Crpbn.e, of Ifheims, of Ar. ia-fur Aube, and of St. Do zitr tilt in fti erection of the brave peaia ts m Lorraine, of Champag r.e o f ii.'ace, ol.Fiancho C.ompte, and of Burgundy; and the poll i; ‘** “.1 haft taken ?n the rear | a! the enemy’s army, by feperatlug j it from us magazines, from its l parks of reserve, from its convoys. 1 and from had placed I it in a desperate fit nation. - The | French were never on the point of | b mg more powerful ; and the I flower of the enemy’s army was i left without refouree ; it had “found its grave .in thole vain countries which it bad hacked in such ah un pitying manner, when the treason of the Duke of Ragu'a ( Marmont) delivered up the capital, and difbr ganizea the army. The unexpect ed conduct of these two Generals, which betrayed at once their coun try, their prince, and their bene factor, changed the ra'e of the war. I’he difafterous fituaiion of the en emy was such, that at the end of the affair which took place before Paris, it was without munitions, in consequence of its feperation from its parks of reserve. Under these novel and great cir cumstances, my heart was rent to pieces, but my foul remained im moveable, I only consulted the in terest of the country ; I exiled my fdf to a rock in the mid it of the leas; my life was and would be ft’.il ulelul to you ; I woul not permit that the great number of citizens who wished to accompany mei partaking of my fate, fhouid do lo ; I believed their presence ufeful to France, and I only took with rue a handful of brave men nc?efifty for my guard. Railed to the throne of your choice, all that has been done with out you, is unlawful. For twenty five years pa ft, France has had new mftirunons, new glory, which could only be guaranteed by a national - government,’ and by irdynafty born under tiiofe new circumflnnces.— A prince who will reign oyer you, who wall fj| on my throne, by the lorce of the fame armies which have ravaged our territory, will feck in vain to support himfeif by : the principles of the feudal law ; he could not allure the honor and tne rights but oi a iuia.il number of individuals, enemies to the peo ple who, twenty five years ago, had condemned them in all their nation alas einbi.es. \ our interior tran quduy ami your external reputation ! would have bieen.loft forever. Frenchmen 1 in my exile I have j heard your complaints and your ■ wishes; you call back that govern- ‘■ meat of your choice which alone is < legitimate. \ou blamed my long {lumber ; you reproached tne with facrificing to my ease, the great in terests of the country. 1 I nave travelled the seas in the tnidf of dangers of every kind ; I arrive among you to resume my rights, which are your own— Whatever individuals have done, written or laid, foce the capture of Paris, I will remain ever igno rant or. that will havenoinriu ence upon the recollection which I cherish of the important ferviccs winch they have rendered ; for e veats of luch a nature, are above human controul. Frenchmen ! there is no nation, however inconsiderable, which lias not had the right and has not been If ejected to the dikhonor, jof obey ing a 1 lince imposed by* an enemy, who i- victorious fora season. Vv here Cdiaries the VII. re entered t ins and overthrew the efts moral tni. ne of Henry VI. he determined to n hi his throne by the valor of his brave men, and not by that of the Prmce Recent ®f England,—- ’ it is to you atone, and to the brave , men of the army, I give, and will j ; always give, the glory of my being j indebted for every thin". (Signed) N APOLLON. By the Emperor, The Grand Marshal performing the : functions of the Major General of * the Grand Anna,'. (Signed) BERTRAND j Gulf of fuan, Ist March SBl5. Napoleon by the Grace of God A the Conflitutions of the State, Emperor of the French, Ac. Ac. TO THE ARMY. Soldiers! We have not been vanqujfhed. Two men, deferring our rank, have betrayed our lau rels, their Country, their Prince, . their Benefactors. Them whom we have seen du ring five and twenty years, rraverf ing all Europe to excite enemies against us, who have pallid fheir lives in fighting against us in the ranks of foreign armies, while load ing with curses our beautiful France ; shall they pretend to com marsd and enchain our Eagles; they who have never dared to en counter the fight cf them ? Shall we fuffer them to inherit, the. fruits of our glorious achievements ; to engross our honors', bur wealth ; to calumniate our cforv ? If their reiVn f . , t . c") fhouid continue, every thing would be loft, even the remembrance of those immortal victories With what fury do they pervert them i They endeavor to pokop what the world admires ; and if* there (til! remain any defenders cf our glory, it is among those very enemies whom we have encountered on the field of battle. Soldiers ! la my exile, I have heard your voice. I have arrived in fpireof every obstacle, a..j every danger. Your General, called to the throne by the voice of the peo ple, and borne on your fnicids, is restored to you. Come and join him. 1 ear oft those colour? which the Nation has proferibed, A which curing twenty five years ierved as a rallying point to al! the enemies of France. AfTume this three-co loured cockade; you wore it du ring our days of victory. Vie fhouid forget that we have been the masters of nations; but we ought not to fuffer any other nation to intermeddle with our af fairs. Who dial I pretend to be matter among ft us! Who has the power ? Re-aflunie those Eagles, which were yours at Ulm, at Aufterlits, at Jena, at Etylau, and Fiiedland T . a. I u del la, at F.chmul, at Efsling, at Wagram, at Smolensk, at Mof cow', at Lutzen, at Yurken, at Montmairaii. I funk you that this handful of Frencrimen, n%\v so ar rogant, would venture to encounter fight of them r Let them re turn from whence they came, and there, if they cftcofe, j et t h em reign, they have pretended to reign during nineteen years. \ our property, your rank, and your glory ; the property, the rank, and the glory of your children, nave no greater enemies than those Princes whom tlrangcrs have itn poieo upon us. I hey are the en emies of our glory • and their con demnaticn is feaied by the recital of so many heroic deeds, which i.uve immortalized the French peo ple while ft niggling to throw off their yoke. Ihe veterans of the armies of the Sambre and Meu.fe, of the Rhine, cf Italy, of Egypt, of the Weft and of the Granu Arniv. re ad humbled ; the glory of • wounds are tamifhed.. their victo ries are crimes, thefa brave men are rebels, if, as the enemies of the peo ple pretend, legitimate Sovereigns, wore found in the midst of foreign armies, j ° they b.fiow honors, rewards, tneir all actions, on those who have served against their country and a gainst us. Soldiers! Rally under the flan dard of your chief His is yours. His rights are no o'her than those cf the people a’d yours. His interest, his honor, his ft are no otne.r than your inter, it. \ our Ison or and your glory. Victory fn and! march with the rapidity of an army ruffling to the combat i he Eagle with the National co lors, shall fly from fh-eple to ftee- P !r - it reaches the towers of Notre Dame; then you may boafl. of your achievements Y- n wiE be the fa victims of your country.—~ In your old age, surrounded by your fellow citizen?, they will hear you with refocift relating your ex ploits. \ou will have it :n your power, to fay with pride, And aiio, I was one of that grand armv which twice entered the uadis of Vi enna, those of Rome, of Berlin, of Madrid, of fvlofcow ; and which ir.cucd lai is from trie difg' - .)"© which treason and the presence of the enemy had en(tamped upon it.’* t Honor to these brave Soldiers, the glory of the country ! Eternal fliame and infamy to those criminal Frenchmen, in whatever rank or ftmion ihey may have been born who for five and twenty years have fougin under foreign banners tc tcai the bosom of their, country. (Signed) NAPOLEON. By the Emperor, t he Gumd Mirfhal performing the functions of the Major General or the Grand Army. (Signed) BER !■ R AND. Nf.jv ToRKy May 8. ‘ a effarday arrived at this port, tne fait laiung brig Criterion, I'orbvS, in days from Lilbon, which port left on the 9th of By this arrival, we learn verbally, that a revolution had bro ken out in Spain , and that Icing Fer dinand had Jlsd , his army having previcufly refufed to ‘obey his o£ ders. We also learn that * Lor El lenborough’s house in London, and ieveral others ; have been destroyed by a mob. * ‘ ihe of the revolution in France had reached Lisbon, and the following forces were Paid to have taken the field against Bona parte, and had taken up tTieir iine of march. Russia 50,000 field, 80,000 reserve: Prufiia 80,000 field, 80,000 reserve; Spain 30,000 field, 30,000 reserve; Portugal 80, 000 field, 80,000 reserve ; Austria 150.000 field, 100,000 reserve.— Low countries under the command of the duke of Willington, } 20,000 in the field, including Englishmen • 120,000 in reserve. The news cf the day at Lisbon, on Saturday Bth of April, was that there had been a refufal on the part of the Spanish soldiery ta march at the order of Ferdinand, unless he would sign the constitu tion All was tumult and dismay at Madrid, ft he trench v flsls which were in the port of Lisbon, were afrid to go to lea, anticipating an immediate war with England.