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London , April 11.
It is reported at Paris, that Tal
leyrand, though in the number of
thole exempted from the amneffy
proclaimed at Lyons, has made his
p ace with the Emperor. Talley
rand would certainly be a valuable
acquisition to the Government of
Napoleon, as he is in poffefficm of
all the notes, minutes, and secrets,
of the Minilters at the Congress.
The Duchess Dowager of Or
leans, and the Duchess of Bourbon,
remain at Paris, and Bonaparte has
fettled on them pensions for life of
300,000 livers per annum !
Tntl Ridiculous.
The high Allies have demanded
from the French the delivering up
of Bonaparte, and also a flrong
guarantee, for the future mainte
nance of peace and order. In
case of refufal, they will march
their whole force into France.—
Spain and Portugal have engaged
to fend 50,000 men into the field.
Liverpool, April 2o.
A Metz article fays, that Ruilia .
had pledged herfelf to fend all the
French'pfifoners to. the further ex- ,
tremity of her empire, never to be
reftoreq or exchanged ;• those who
choose to enter her service, will be
lent to the armies of Caucafue ;
others will be permitted to form
Colonies and eftublifhments; and
finally those who will do nothing
are to be made flfives. The other
powers pledge themselves to treat
their prisoners with the severity and
contempt which a natio r\th y it arro
gates to Itself THE RIGHT ‘to cho'j'S
masters delerves!
[Damned) damned oppression.]
e Translations from French papers to
the 2’-■'//> of April, nectived at the
of ice of the City Gazette. j
Paris, April 21. !
The emperor went this evening
to the theatre. Fhe play was Heft
ar—The house was crowded Mis
majesty entered his box during the
fir it feene. It is impofiible to de
feribe accurately the manner in
which he was received, and how
lively were the expressi ons of latis
faftion displayed by the fpeclators at
his presence I’he ..audience .infill
ed that the feene ah eddy perform
ed (hould be re-commenced. Du
ring the performance, every part
that bore any alluiion to’ prefen te
vents was eagerly felzed. Loud
and repeated acclamations greeted
the numerous paflages, where the
poet, in the high drawn heroic Hec
tor, (peaks to eloquently of the
honor of country and of the noble
destiny of those who devote them
selves to her defence whip threaten
ed by dangers. This fine tragedy
of Ile&or had often been honored
by the presence of the emperor and
received his generous approbation,
but never had its representation
produced an effect so remarkable
and so conformant to what the au
thor intended.
The emperor retired at the con
clusion of the sth ad. iHe accla
mations at his departure were re
newed. He deigned to answer
these testimonies of public fatisiac
tion in the moft affable manner.
A merchant at Havre firmly per
loaded that there would be no
terruption to marine enterprize,
has ordered one of his veftels bound
for the colonies, Wlipfe failing had
been flopped, to depart immediate
ly for her destination. This'"order
known to the inhabitants of Havre,
had excited the moft agreeaßD fen •
tit Ter..
Several merchants of different
commercial cities in France have
received advices from their corref
p >ndt nrs in England, to continue
their shipments to that country as
heretofore,- with the assurance that
the trade between the two coun
tries would not experience the lead
interruption.
A French officer has arrived at
Paris, bearer of defpatches from
the king of Naples to the emperor.
He was flopped at Turin, but was
released by the authorities by reason
of the news of the rapid maich of
Joachim. An efcbrt of gens d’-
artnes conducted him to the fron
tiers of France, who repeatedly alli
ed him on the road, why do not
the French come ? we expert them.
I’he minifler of the interior
ought immediately to fugged to the
emperor the establishment of
schools for educating the poor.
The lad number of the Augf
burg Gazette received this day,
announced that by the order of a
certain power a filter of the empe
ror has been arrested and confined
in a fortrefs, and tha,t the mother
of his majeflty is to experience the
fame treatment. We beljeve that
this journaliil is mifinfor.ned, bur
if it indeed be true, we rec'olledl that
the emperor permitted thtrduke of
Angoufeme to leave France, and
would aik, who is the mod,gene
rous foverifigu, lie who sets at liber
ty a prince with arms in his hands,
or he who arrests a defencelefs fe
male ? , . .
Paris, April 23.
A conference was held at Vien
na the 4th and sth April, between
the leaders of the allies—to form a
general plan of the war. It was
determined to undertake r.o effen
five operation until everything is
prepared and all are ready—not to
give battle to the French when
commanded by the Emperor, ex
cepting when they are lure of be
ing double the number opposed to
them, in men of all deferiptions,
particularly in- infantry. The
Duke of Wellington has formed
a plan of the campaign^ —for all the
allies and for all the operations in
gen eral-—even for Italy. He de
termined however, before he left
Vienna not to develbpe his plan
until the allied armies are in a po
fftbti.to cdmmence holliiities.
i’he Prince; ofe Schwartzenburgh
will hhve an extensive command
upon the Rhine, The allies are
suspicious of the Swiss. They are
called at Vienna the partizans of
Bonaparte. The allies are afraid
of the French army, but they dread
above all that the nation will rake
part in the war; so much do they
fear the people. The movements
of the frontier departments will have
great influence with them. They
declare that in the campaign of
France, the’ inhabitants alone, who
; were but on the point of rising kil
! led more of their field officers and
aid-des-camps than they had loftin
the four proceeding campaigns.
Paris, April 2o.
Marffijl Maffeha, duke of Rivoli,
prince of Effing, lias arrived at Pa
ris. - ‘
V Tfth Journal de la Meurthe con- i
Tallies the following article : A
letter from Sftralburg of the 13th
April, mentions that it is reported
that the powers affembied at tlie
congress had, with a single excep
tion, acknowledged the emperor
Napoleon, upon coiiditia of fecu
riog a maintenance to the Bour
bons.”
It was remarked, that on the re
presentation of He&or at the The
atre, at which the emperor was
present, fome Englilh ladies appear
ed with violet (tricolored)bo>jquets.
Throughout Germany, it is for
biden to (offer any Frenchman to re
side. If he arrives to dinner , he
must depart after it ; if he arrives
in the evening he mud proceed on
his journey the next morning.
The Lausanne Gazette of the
18th fays, that it cannot but ap
plaud the precaution of the empe
ror of Aurtria, who would not con
sent to the return of his daughter
to France, before he knew that all
was at peace.
Gen. Bertrand has been appoint
ed one of the marflials of the em
pire.
Marlhal Ney returned to Paris
eight days ago, took the oath at
the hands of the emperor on Wed
nesday lad. So also did marftial
Soglt, Lefebre and Serrurier.
By a decree of the 17th, M. lieu
tenant general Grouchy is appoint
ed a marjhal cf France.
Vienna , April 3. !
We have learnt that a courier of
the emperor Napoleon, from Paris,
had arrived so far as Buckerfdorf,
one pod from this place, from
whence he was obliged to return
with his dispatches. Thole inea
fures have appeared fevtre What
ever the contents of the defpatches
might have been, it appears that
the government ought to have be
come acquainted with them, in or
der afterwards to takefuch mea
sures as may be the moll expedient.
We are allured that the treaty of
Chaumont has been renewed for ,
twenty years. Each of the great 1
powers who (hall keCp on foot the
itipulated forces (hall annually re
ceive five millions derling from
England. It is thus that sove
reigns traffic with the blood of their
fubje&s, whim they ought to pro
tect.
The Neapolitan army has not
passed through Rome. It passed
the city.
There is no doubt that the tri
umphant return of Napoleon into
France, has already had a great in
fluence upon the affairs of Germa
ny.
Martha! Berthier has arrived.—
All the operations of the congvefs
are covered with the tnoft impene
trable veil—nothing escapes.
The police has taken the tnoft
vigorous rneafures in refpe& to all
the ft rangers who are not attached
to the familes of fome public minis
ter. No Frenchman can quit Vi.
enna without special authority.
The emperor Alexander was go
ing to Prague and is to return on
the 19th. But we learn that the
three monarch's will proceed di
redly to the head quarters at Ulna,
and from thence to Manheihn.
Vienna, April 15.
The army of Murat is edimated
at 4*5,000 infantry and 10,000 ca
valry. Before his departure he
named his queen regent, and re
duced alt the taxes one third, ex
pediting probably to support his ar
my by contributions from the e
cl&fiaftic dates and Tuscany.
The court of Vienna publilhed
on the 14th of April, in German
arid Italian, the statute erecting
Lombardy and Venice into anew
kingdom. All the Veneciaa and
Lombard countries are, by'this act,
forever united to the Austrian em
pire, and constituted a kingom.—-
The old iron crown is retained.
The kingdom will be governed by
a viceroy.
Stockholm. —Some military pre
parations are making in Swe
den. Under date of the 10th s is
an extract front 2n v addrefs of the
crown prince, in which he fays I
(hall wait with patience to afeertain
whether there are any disposed to
controvert our lawful title—any so
mad as to believe that nations have
lost all right of suffrage —and I fltali I
employ the whole powers of my
mind—all the courage that God
has given me in defence of you:
rights and my own
Din ant, April 26.
Hofliiities have begun between
the Prussians and the French ; yes
terday there was an affair at Falsni
gnoul, 2 leagues from Givet, be
tween the Prussian lancers and a
French detachment ; the latter had \
4 killed and 15 prisoners. After’
this affair the French returned to
Givet.
■ ■ ‘■ • MM* ■
Brussels. April ll.
A courier from Havanna who
arrived to-day at one, has brought
the moll important intelligence that
Joachim Murat has been complete
ly beaten out of Italy by the Auf*
trian army under Gen Frimont.
[This decides the movements of
Mu rat. J
Berlin, April 4.
The following generals will,
with the royal princes, command
the Prussian army Blucher,
Yorck, K lei ft, Bulow, Gueifman,
Granenzein, and Borllell.
Translated for the Mercantile Ad
vertiser,
Barcelona, March. 15.
We had the day before yellerday
a dreadful day. The annul of this
city will preserve the horrible re
membrance of it.—Early in the
morning groups of ill looking men
run through the streets uttering la
vage yells. Very soon pillage and
aflaffmations commenced. At 11,
in pursuance of orders from the
Government, the French females
quitted the city, in order to leave;
the Spanish territory. The pou-,
lace mafl'acreed about 30 viftims.’
The number of houses pillaged is
not yet known. Several Prielts are
among the number aflaffmated.—
The King’s Lieutenant, Colonel
Vclrade, was poniarded, and was
thus caught in the snare that he
himfeif had laid, for it is impofiible
not to perceive in this affair thefe
cret hand of the Spanish govern
ment.
i Stockholm , Sweden , March 23.
We have heard of the rapid
maich of Napoleon upon Paris.*
This event appears to us lake a mi
racle. We acknowledge, in the
interest- which we take in it, the
force of the ties which, in spite of
political circumstances, have not
cealed to attach us to the French
nation. The court has the fame
impressions, and finds its interest in
feeing that nation arise again, from
which they have nothing to fear,
and which is a necefiary guarantee
for the powers of the second order.
The prince royal (Benadotte) unv
derftands whaj was to be the result
of the system of legitimacy which was
the hobby of the congress. We
will not only, not meddle with the
affairs of France, but if the powers
make war on France, all our wifli
es will be in her favor,
