that he might send to the army some fresh troops, and take the measures which circumstances rendered necessary. At my arrival at Bourget, three leagues from Paris, I learned that the Emperor had passed there at nine o'clock in the morning.

"Such, M. le Duc, is a history of this calamitous campaign. "Now, I ask those who have survived this fine and numerous army, how I can be accused of the disasters of which it has been the victim, and of which your military annals furnish no example? I have, it is said, betrayed my country -I who, to serve it, have shown a zeal which I, perhaps, have carried to an extravagant height; but this calumny is supported by no fact, by no circumstance. But how can these odious reports, which spread with frightful rapidity, be arrested? If, in the researches which I could make on this subject, I did not fear almost as much to discover as to be ignorant of the truth, I would say, that all has a tendency to convince that I have been unworthily deceived, and that it is attempted to cover, with the pretence of treason, the faults and extravagances of this campaign; faults which have not been avowed in the bulletins that have appeared, and against which I in vain used that voice of truth which I will yet cause to resound in the House of Peers. I expect, from the candour of your Excellency, and from your indulgence to me, that you will cause this letter to be inserted in the Journal,' and give it the greatest possible publicity. "I renew to your Excellency, &c.

"Paris, June 26, 1815."

"Marshal Prince of MOSKWA."

REPORT ADDRESSED TO THE EMPEROR BY MARSHAL DE GROUCHY.

"Dinant, June 20th, 1815.

"It was not till after seven in the evening of the 18th of June, that I received the letter of the Duke of Dalmatia, which directed me to march on St. Lambert, and to attack General Bulow. I fell in with the enemy as I was marching on Wavre. He was immediately driven into Wavre, and General Vandamme's corps attacked that town, and was warmly engaged. The portion of Wavre on the right of the Dyle was carried, but much difficulty was experienced in débouching on the other side. General Girard was wounded by a ball in the breast, while endeavouring to carry the mill of Bielge, in order to pass the river, but in which he did not succeed, and Lieutenant-general Aix had been killed in the attack on the town. In this state of things, being impatient to co-operate with your Majesty's army on that important day, I detached several corps to force the pas

sage of the Dyle, and march against Bulow. The corps of Vandamme, in the meantime, maintained the attacks of Wavre, and on the mill, whence the enemy showed at intention to debouche, but which I did not conceive he was capable of effecting. I arrived at Limale, passed the river, and the heights were carried by the division of Vichery and the cavalry. Night did not permit us to advance farther; and I no longer heard the cannon on the side where your Majesty was engaged.

Wavre and

"I halted in this situation until daylight. Bielge were occupied by the Prussians, who, at three in the morning of the 18th, attacked in their turn, wishing to take advantage of the difficult position in which I was, and expecting to drive me into the defile, and take the artillery which had débouched, and make me repass the Dyle. Their efforts were fruitless. The Prussians were repulsed, and the village of Bielge taken. The brave General Penny was killed.

"General Vandamme then passed one of his divisions by Bielge, and carried with ease the heights of Wavre, and along the whole of my line the success was complete. I was in front of Rozierne, preparing to march on Brussels, when I received the sad intelligence of the loss of the battle of Waterloo. The officer who brought it informed me that your Majesty was retreating on the Sambre, without being able to indicate any particular point on which I should direct my march. I ceased to pursue, and began my retrograde movement. The retreating enemy did not think of following me. Learning that the enemy had already passed the Sambre, and was on my flank, and not being sufficiently strong to make a diversion in favour of your Majesty, without compromising that which I commanded, I marched on Namur. At this moment the rear of the columns was attacked. That of the left made a retrograde movement sooner than was expected, which endangered, for a moment, the retreat of the left; but good dispositions soon repaired everything, and two pieces which had been taken were recovered by the brave 20th Dragoons, who, besides, took an howitzer from the enemy. We entered Namur without loss. The long defile which extends from this place to Dinant, in which only a single column can march, and the embarrassment arising from the numerous transports of wounded, rendered it necessary to hold for a considerable time the town, in which I had not the means of blowing up the bridge. I entrusted the defence of Namur to General Vandamme, who, with his usual intrepidity, maintained himself there till eight in the evening; so that nothing was left behind, and I occupied Dinant.

"The enemy has lost some thousands of men in the attack on Namur, where the contest was very obstinate; the troops have performed their duty in a manner worthy of praise.

(Signed)

"DE GROUCHY."

PROTOCOL OF THE CONFERENCE BETWEEN THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES of Austria, RUSSIA, GREAT BRITAIN, PRUSSIA, AND FRANCE, ON MONDAY THE 2D OF OCTOBER, 1815.

"After various declarations and conferences between the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, on the one side, and the Duke of Richelieu, appointed Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of France, on the other, it has been agreed upon to-day, that the relations between France and the Allied Powers, armed for the re-establishment and maintenance of the general peace, shall be definitively regulated upon the following basis:

"1. The boundaries of France as they were in 1790, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, shall form the fundamental principles of the territorial arrangements, so that those districts and territories of former Belgium, of Germany, and Savoy, which, by the Treaty of Paris of 1814, were annexed to old France, shall remain separated therefrom.

"2. Where this principle is departed from, the boundaries of 1790 shall be modified and better arranged, according to mutual conventions and interests, both in regard to civil jurisdiction, so as to cut off inclosed districts and assign on both sides a more regular territory, and also in regard to military jurisdiction, so as to strengthen certain weak parts of the boundaries of the centerminous countries.

"In conformity to this principle, France cedes to the Allies,"Landau, Saarlouis, Philippeville, and Marienburg, with those circles of territory which are more fully laid down in the plan of Treaty proposed by the four Allied cabinets on the 20th September.

"Versoy, with the necessary territory, shall be ceded to the Helvetic Confederation, in order to bring the Canton of Geneva in direct communication with Switzerland; and the French line of customs shall be there established, in the manner most convenient for the administrative system of both countries.

"The works of Huningen shall be demolished. The French Government binds itself to erect no others within a distance of three leagues from Basle.

"France relinquishes her rights to the principality of Monaco. "On the other hand, the possession of Avignon and the Venaissin, as well as of the county of Mompelgard, and the possession of every other territory which is included within the French line, shall be anew secured to France.

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"3. France pays to the Allied Powers, by way of indemnity for expenses of their last armaments, the sum of 700 millions of

francs. A special Commission shall fix the mode, the periods, and the securities for this payment.

"4. A military line of the following seventeen fortresses, viz.: Condé, Valenciennes, Bouchain, Cambray, Le Quesnoy, Maubeuge, Landrecies, Avesnes, Rocroy, Givet, Mezières, Sedan, Mommedy, Thionville, Longwy, Bitche, and the Bridge-head of Fort Louis, shall be occupied by an army of 150,000 men, which the Allied Powers shall appoint. This army, which shall be placed under the command of a General chosen by these Powers, shall be wholly maintained at the expense of France.

"A special Commission shall fix all that relates to its maintenance, which shall be regulated in the best way for supplying all the wants of the army, and, at the same time, the least burdensome for the country.

"The longest duration of this military occupation is fixed at five years. However, on the expiration of three years, after the Allied Sovereigns have weighed the situation of things and of mutual interests, as well as the advances which may have been made in the restoration of order and tranquillity in France, they will come to a common decision with the King of France, whether the above term of years may be shortened.

"The Plenipotentiaries having definitively adopted these bases, have concerted upon the course to be adopted, in order to arrive, in the shortest possible time, at a formal arrangement, and have consequently determined,

"1. That a general Treaty shall be drawn up, upon the basis above laid down, and adding to them such articles as, by common consent, shall be judged necessary to complete it. The French Government will nominate, on its part, the person who is to unite with those whom the four Powers have charged with the drawing up of the Treaty.

"2. That the Commissioners appointed for the military affairs shall proceed, conjointly with the Commissioners whom the French Government shall appoint for this purpose, to draw up a plan of Convention to regulate every thing relative to the military occupation, and to the support of the army employed in this occupation. The same Commissioners shall also determine the manner and the periods of the evacuation of all such parts of the French territory as are not comprehended within the line of the military occupation.

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3. That a special Commission, appointed for that purpose by the contracting parties, shall draw up, without delay, a plan of Convention to regulate the mode, the periods, and the guarantees of the payment of the 700,000,000 of francs, to be stipulated by the general Treaty.

4. The Commission formed to examine the reclamations of several Powers, relatively to the non-execution of certain articles

of the Treaty of Paris, shall continue its labours, with the understanding that it is to communicate them as soon as possible to the Plenipotentiaries in the principal negociation.

"5. That as soon as these Commissioners shall have terminated their labours, the Plenipotentiaries shall unite to examine the results of them,-to determine on the definitive arrangements, -and to sign the principal Treaty, as well as the different particular Conventions. This process verbal having been read, the Plenipotentiaries have approved it, and

"London, Foreign Office, Nov. 23, 1815.

"Mr. Planta arrived early this morning from Paris, with the several Treaties and Conventions for the restoration and maintenance of peace between his Britannic Majesty and his Allies on one part, and his Most Christian Majesty on the other; signed at Paris, on Monday, the 20th instant, by Lord Viscount Castlereagh and the Field-marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, as Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty, and by the Duc de Richelieu, as Plenipotentiary of his Most Christian Majesty.”

The combined Forces of the Allied Armies which came into France are estimated as follows:

Adding to this the Staff, with the Sovereigns, &c. nearly 1,000,000.

The Generals appointed to the command of the 150,000 troops to remain in France, viz.

ENGLAND, Duke of Wellington. RUSSIA, General Woronzow. AUSTRIA, General Frimont. PRUSSIA, General Gneisenau.

The chief command to be with the Duke of Wellington, Paris is to be occupied by from 10 to 12,000 English, in barracks. These forces will have a certain number of fortresses, as points d'appui, in case of any revolutionary movement. They will be well supplied with field artillery, besides that of the fortresses; having among them not less than 500 pieces of cannon.