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    greater disasters to the inhabitants : hut it is some cause of triumph , that the march of the English was conducted with the greatest regularity , and m reliance is placed on their protection than that of any other flag . The towns that held out are daily submitting to the Bourbon , and the army , weakened by continual desertions , is expected soon to follow the same course . It remains to be seen what will be the result of the

    new treaty . On the entrance of the sovereign into Paris , the chambers of the legislature then sitting were shut up , but many of its members assembled at another place , and there subscribed a protest dictated by the state of affairs . They also left a plan of a constitution : but , as it will be considered

    to have been the work of persons illegally assembled , no attention will be paid to it . The sovereign restored to their places all who had been in power on the day of his quitting Paris , and the interregnum of three

    months will produce little or no consequences as to the civil government of the country . Every thing will depend on the new legislature , and there is every reason to believe , that

    the sovereign will unite with it in cordial endeavours to place the government of the country upon a solid foundation . It appears evidently impossible to restore the monarchy to the situation in which it was under

    the three former sovereigns , and the fang must consent to the limitations of a representative government . It will be recollected , that the Bourbons had destroyed the old constitution of Trance . The states-general were not flowed to assemble after the reign ° f Henry the Fourth , but despotism

    was not established till the latter end of the reign of Louis the Fifteenth , who gained the memorable victory Over his parliaments . The disorder m the finances , produced by the Ameflca n war in the reign of his succes-9 j > r , brought forward the ancient bairns of the people , which terminated

    so fatally in the death of that "J-fated , but well-intentioned , monarc h , and the consequent disasters must have taught king and people w value of true liberty . It must be ai » g before they can experience its blessings . " » this wonderful state of things !|| < -curiosit y of the public : li ; is been

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    naturally directed to the fate of the great character who has for so long a time convulsed all Europe . Soon after his arrival at Paris it wa $ announced , that he had abdicated the imperial dignity , and a feeble attempt was made to preserve it to his son . He soon ceased to be visible .

    Various rumours were spread on the place of his retreat , and the most prevalent one was , that lie had taken shipping with several of his generals for America . By many the belief was entertained that he remained in France ; but all doubts were removed by news

    of his surrender to the admiral on the station off Rochfort . What will b % his fate it is impossible to conjecture . Thus is overthrown a dynasty which a few years ago seemed firmly fixed , and with it , it is to be hoped , will

    be destroyed , that military system under which Europe has so long groaned . The calamities of the last twenty-six years cannot but produce some lasting and salutary lessons both for governors and governed .

    The fate of France remains to be determined . It depends on the allied sovereigns , who have now so many troops in the kingdom as must render farther resistance unavailable . They have great demands , and it cannot be

    expected , that they should return without some compensation for their labours . The keeping of so many troops will of itself be sufficiently burdensome , and France will now learn what it is to . bear those

    contributions which it before was accustomed to lay on so many other countries . But besides , it may be considered , that France by her great power has been enabled to excite this confusion in Europe , and it may now be adviseable to reduce her within her

    ancien t limits . These were extended in the reign of Louis the XIV ,, a despot of a character very much resembling that of Buonaparte ; possessing all the ambition of the latter , and with it a degree of intolerant bigotry , which spent itself in most abominable cruelties on his own subjects . In his

    time the French gained possession of Alsace , Lorraine , Artois and French Flanders , and the united sovereigns may think , that France will be . sufficiently powerful when these additions have been lopped off , and annexed to other territories . The great nation will then be reduced to its true limits , —to these regions where

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 463, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/63/