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CHAP. I.-Arrival of Bonaparte at Paris.-State of Parties

there.-Council of Ministers.-Interesting Conversation.

-Proceedings of the two Chambers.-Abdication of Na-

poleon. His Address to the French Nation.-Debates

in the Chamber Provisional Government appointed.

-Napoleon II. proclaimed.-Deputation sent to solicit

Peace from the allied Armies.

CHAP. II.-Operations of the British and Prussian Armies

in France.-Letter of Fouché to the Duke of Welling-

ton.-Arrival of the Allies before the Walls of Paris.—

State of the Capital.-Departure of Bonaparte from

Paris. His Farewell Address to the French Army.-

Proceedings of the Chambers.-Arrival of Louis XVIII.

at Cambray. His Proclamation.-Military Operations.

-Letter of the French Generals to the Chamber of Re-

presentatives.-Capitulation of Paris.-Proceedings of

the Chambers. Their Dissolution.-Entry of the Allies

and Louis XVII into Paris.

CHAP. III.-Operations of the Grand Army under Schwart-

zenberg.-Proclamation of the allied Generals to the

French Nation. Rapid Progress of the Allies, and Re-

treat of the French. Various Actions.-Proclamation of

Marshal Wrede.Arrival of the allied Sovereigns at

Paris.-Military Operations on the Side of Italy.-Re-

treat of Marshal Suchet.-Entry of the Austrians into

Lyons.-Operations in the South of France

CHAP. IV. Remarks on the Restoration of Louis XVIII.

-List of his new Ministers.-Conduct of the Prussians

at Paris.-Confused State of France.-Royal Ordinance.

-Proceedings of the French Army.-Proclamation of

Davoust.-Submission of the French Generals.-Pro-

ceedings of Bonaparte.His Surrender to the English.~

-Brought to Torbay.-His Conduct there.-Sent to

St. Helena.-Description of that Island

CHAP. V.-Proceedings of the Congress of Vienna.-Ge-

neral Treaty. Declaration respecting the Slave-trade.-

Remarks. Observations on the real Spirit which actuated

the Proceedings of the Congress . .

CHAP. VI.-The Museum of the Louvre stript of its Fruits

of Conquest by the Allies.-Letter of the Duke of Wel-

lington on this Occasion.-Letter from Lord Castlereagh

to the allied Sovereigns on the same.--State of the

South of France.-Persecution of the Protestants.-

Report to the King on the State of France. . . 1568

CHAP. VII.-Occupation of the Island of Martinique by

the British.-Insurrection in Guadaloupe, which declares

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.*. The Binder is requested to cancel the last leaf (pages 875 and 876)
of No. 60, and substitute the following to commence Vol. II.

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Events which led to Hostilities between Great Britain and the United States. Conduct of the American and of the British Governments.

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NINCE the affair between the Little Belt and the President, as related in book ix. chap. 9, much dissatisfaction was expressed by the American government, which was considerably increased by the artifices of Bonaparte, whose interest it was to engage Great Britain in a war with the United States. As these hostilities have been occasionally alluded to in the French proclamations, inserted in our preceding books, we shall here relate the events which led to them.

Captain Bingham, of his majesty's ship the Little Belt, declared, that the attack had been commenced by the American frigate, the President; that it was outrageous and unprovoked, and that be only resisted the violence first offered to him.

The following was the American official account of this affair, which was published as a copy of a letter from Commodore Rogers to the secretary of the navy, dated off Sandy Hook, May 23, 1811:"On the 16th instant, at 25 minutes past meridian, in 17 fathoms water, Cape Henry bearing S. W. distant 14 or 15 leagues, a sail was discovered from our mast-head, in the east, standing towards us under a press of sail. At half-past one, the symmetry of her upper sails (which were at this time distinguished from our deck) and her making signals, shewed her to be a man-of-war. At forty-five minutes past one, p. m. hoisted our ensign and pendant; when, finding our signals not answered, she wore and stood to the southward. Being desirous of speaking her, and of ascertaining what she was, I now made sail in chase; and by halfpast three, p. m. found we were coming up with

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her; as by this time the upper part of her stern_ BOOK X14 began to shew itself above the horizon. The wind now began, and continued gradually to decrease, so as to prevent my being able to approach her sufficiently before sunset, to discover her actual force (which the position she preserved during the chase was calculated to conceal), or to judge even to what nation she belonged, as she appeared studiously to decline shewing her colours, At fifteen or twenty minutes past seven, p. m. the chase took in her studding-sails, and soon after bauled up her courses, and hauled by the wind on the starboard-tack; she at the same time hoisted an ensign or flag at her mizen-peak, but it was too dark for me to discover what nation it represented now, for the first time, her broadside was presented to our view; but night had so far progressed, that, although her appearance indicated she was a frigate, I was unable to determine her actual force.

"At 15 minutes before eight, p.m. being about a mile and a half from her, the wind at the time very light, I directed Captain Ludlow to take a position to windward of her, and on the same tack, within short speaking distance. This, however, the commander of the chase appeared, from his manoeuvres, to be anxious to prevent, as he wore and hauled by the wind, on different tacks, four times successively, between this period and the time of our arriving at the position which I had ordered to be taken. At fifteen or twenty minutes past eight, being a little forward of her weather-beam, and distant from seventy to a hun

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