The Lieutenant-generals Ambert, at Montpelier, Daricaud, at Perpignan, Rey, in the department of La Haute Loire, Saint-Paul, in that of La Lozère, Cassagne, in that of La Haute Garonne; the Majorgenerals Lafitte, in that of Ardeche, Aymard, at Montpelier, Gardanne, in that of Levar, were those who renewed more repeatedly their protestations. The Lieutenant-generals Ambert and Cassagne had been particularly honoured by the bounties of his royal highness.

The Sieur Descorches, prefect of La Drôme, obeyed the orders of Bonaparte, and communicated every circumstance to Monseigneur the Duke d'Angoulème, and assured him that he only retained his situation, in order more effectually to serve the king.

The colonel-general's regiment of infantry was the only one that could be relied upon. It received orders to march to Nismes. The fourteenth regiment of horse chasseurs, of whom service was expected, also marched there.

Sisteron, Saint-Esprit and Clermont were designated as the places of rendezvous for the national guards.

The king had appointed Monseigneur the Duke d'Angoulème lieutenant-general of the kingdom in the south. Monseigneur the Duke of Bourbon was appointed governor of the provinces of the west. His royal highness only received notice of his appointment on the 24th.

Lyonnais and Dauphiny had mounted the tricoloured cockade. All communication with the north was cut off.

A provisional government was established at Toulouse.

Lieutenant-general Ernouf was appointed commandant of the first corps d'armée of the south. His royal highness was to command the second in person; and Lieutenant-general Compans was about to set out to take the command in chief of the third corps at Clermont.

The first corps was to deploy from Sisteron, and march upon Gap and Grenoble; the second upon Saint Esprit, upon Montelimart, and Valence: both corps were to pass the Drome, and to move rapidly upon Lyons.

Lieutenant-general Count Compans was to maintain his position at Auvergne, facilitate the movement upon Lyons, and keep open the communication with Monseigneur the Duke of Bourbon.

An intermediate corps, subject to the orders of Lieutenant-general Rey, and composed of the national guards of Ardeche and of La Haute Loire, were to march upon the right bank of the Rhone, between the second and third corps.

The Generals Loverdo and Gardanne were under the command of Lieutenant-general Ernouf.

Lieutenant-generals Merle and Monnier acted with the second corps.

Lieutenant-general Solignac, and Major-general Darial were to act under the directton of Lieutenantgeneral Compans.

Madame was at Bordeaux.

Marshal the Prince of Essling undertook to answer for the eighth military division.

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Munitions of war, of every kind, were to be furnished to the corps of the right, from Toulon and Marseilles, and to that of the centre, and to the third corps, from Montpelier: magazines were established at Saint-Fleur and at Saint-Esprit.

The generals commanding the military divisions, and those commanding departments, were charged with the prompt formation of the national guards, and with expediting them to reinforce the army.

The 24th, Monseigneur the duke d'Angoulème received intelligence of the occupation of Paris by Bonaparte. His royal highness communicated it himself to General Compans, who swore fidelity, under every circumstance, excepting only that of the embarkation of his royal highness. Monseigneur heard nothing afterwards of General Compans.

The corps d'armée commanded by Lieutenantgeneral Ernouf was composed of the fifty-eighth and ninety-third regiments of the line, of the national guards of Marseilles, three thousand strong, and had six pieces of cannon.

The second corps was composed of the national guards of the department of Gard, of L'Herault, of Vaucluse, amounting in number to two thousand men, of the tenth regiment of the line, nine hundred strong, of the first royal foreign regiment, three hundred and fifty strong, mounted national guards to the number of seventy, the fourteenth regiment of horse chasseurs, three hundred strong: it had twelve pieces

of cannon, of which two were served by the national guards.

The tenth regiment of the line, the fourteenth chasseurs, and the main body of the troops could not reach Saint-Esprit before the 31st, his royal highness arrived there on the 28th.

Orders were despatched to General Ernouf to ad

vance.

General Chabert, with three or four hundred men, was the only force opposed to his progress.

The 29th, the advanced guard of the second corps, commanded by the Viscount d'Escars, occupied Montelimart. The corps commmanded by Lieute nant General Monier took a position at Douzere.

The 30th, General Debelle, having advanced from Valence, attacked the advanced guard of the second corps; he was repulsed, but of fifty chasseurs of the fourteenth regiment, who were with the advanced guard, forty-nine went over to the enemy with their officers.

It became necessary to leave the fourteenth fegiment of chasseurs in the rear.

The 31st, intelligence was received that General Rey in the department of la Haute-Loire, Saint-Paul in that of la Lozere, and Lafitte in that of Ardeche, after having disbanded the national guards of those departments, had mounted the tri-coloured cockade The first named of these, had also dismissed the national guards who were moving upon Clermont.

It became necessary to provide for the safety of

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Saint-Esprit: a battalion of the royal foreign regiment, two battalions from Gard, and six pieces of cannon, were placed under the orders of Lieutenant General Merle: exertions were made to render the citadel safe from a coup-de-main.

It became essential to observe the right bank of the Rhone: Colonel Magnier, with one of the battalions left at the disposition of Lieutenant General Merle, was ordered to follow, upon the right bank, the line of march of the corps, commanded by his Royal Highness on the left bank of the river.

On the 1st of April, the main body of his Royal Highness' corps, and all his disposable force, advanced to Montelimart.

Intelligence was received, that, in conseqence of the orders which had been given, Lieutenant General Ernouf was at Gap, and that the Generals Gardanne and Loverdo, commanding his advanced guard, had occupied the important defiles of Travers-deCorps and la Mure.

On the 2d, the corps commanded by his Royal Highness moved upon Valence.

A battalion, under the command of Major d'Hautpoul, secured the right, by marching upon Crest.

The enemy, being pursued, retreated across the Drome; and, having possession of the bridge, took a position on the heights along the right bank of that

river.

A new engagement took place; but whilst a battalion of the national guards were fording the Drome,