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EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT
Monday, July 10, 1815

BREAKING NEWS
It is stated, that the convention had scarcely been ratified, and the terms of it known in the French army, than desertion began to thin its ranks rapidly, and before it had reached its destination behind the Loire, it was expected to make, for it is cut off from all the fortresses, and from the other French armies. Besides, the other allied armies are fast approaching. Wrede, with 50,000 Bavarians, was expected in a few days.

The towns and villages near Paris are said to have been pillaged. Malmaison, the favourite residence of Josephine and Bonaparte, has been completely sacked.

As Lord Arthur Hill came through Abbeville and other towns, the people assembled and cried out Vive le Roi! Vivent les Anglais! Upon which the soldiers charged and dispersed them. The tri-coloured flag was still flying in all the towns -- the white flag in the villages.

The King of France was at Senlis, and was expected to reach Paris on Thursday or Friday last.

French papers to the 3rd inst. have been received. The greatest anxiety was evinced by Davoust, to induce the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blucher to consent to an armistice. He referred to the conduct of Austria as an authority for his acquiescence, and urged the heavy responsibility which he would incur by a refusal. The debates in the two Chambers, in the same interval, appear to have been very warm and tumultuous, but to have led to little or no result. One of their latest acts has been a grant of the library of Trianon to Bonaparte, at his request, but the place of retirement in which it is intended to be his solace is not hinted at.

A second edition of the Globe states:
"A report is prevalent in the city, that the Emperor of Austria has made a separate convention, recognizing the right of the son of Bonaparte to the throne of France.
His Majesty, in addition to a feeling for his own grandson, may consider Louis XVIII, as too much devoted to England.
This report has probably originated in the letter of Davoust to the Duke of Wellington, which will be found in our extracts from the Paris papers. It has had, however, the effect of depressing the funds.
The Omnium, which opened at 12 3/4, fell, before two o'clock, to 11 3/8.

The French Provisional Government has retired with the army from Paris behind the Loire.

LONDON

By a clause in the Duke of Wellington's estate bill, it is proposed that his Grace and heirs will hold the residence on his estate as tenants "in capite," on condition of presenting his Majesty and his successors, at the Castle of Windsor, on the 18th day of June, annually, a tri-coloured flag.
Three thousand rounds of ammunition were fired by the horse artillery during the memorable battle of the 18th. The British artillery was never better or more effectually served, than it is acknowledged to have been by the enemy.

The accomplished Duchess Dowager of Oldenburgh, who attracted so much attention and regard when in England, has given her hand to the gallant Crown Prince of Wurtemburg; the marriage took place at Stutgard.

There is now a man of fashion, in Vienna, actually sweeping the streets, with an iron collar around his neck! His crime was forgery on the Government bank.

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