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NEW ENGLAND PALLADIUM & COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER
Boston, Tuesday, August 8, 1815
BREAKING NEWS
ENGLISH ACCOUNTS
>From the London Star, of June 27, received by the cartel Mary.
Bonaparte passed through Beaumont at 1 o'clock on the 19th, the day after the battle. He took the road to Avesnes. Disorder increased every moment. The want of discipline was at its highest pitch, and the soldiers, aware that they had been betrayed into a hopeless cause, manifested a wish to return home. Bonaparte passed through Charleroi with the remains of his army, estimated at only 25,000, in the greatest confusion, and in the commission of many excesses on the road. The number of prisoners taken by the Prussians, amount, it is said, to 65,000, whole battalions laid down their arms.
A letter from Boulogne, dated yesterday morning, states, that the tri-colour flag had been struck along the whole of the French coast, and no other had been hoisted. On Sunday, which is the usual day for displaying the colors in France, and a general holiday, it was omitted; but great rejoicing took place in consequence of the abdication of Bonaparte, the inhabitants congratulating themselves on the prospect of their troubles being at an end.
After the battle of the 16th, the French
had the savage cruelty to cut off the ears of such of the Prussian
prisoners as they did not butcher in cold blood. In return
the Prussians gave no quarter after the battle of the 18th.
On Sunday last, Count de Chaire, Louis XVIII's Minister to
our Court, transacted business with our Cabinet.
Couriers have been sent off in various directions by our
Ministers.
There never was a loan taken under such fortunate circumstances
for the contractors as the last -- and their countenances show it.
London, Star Office, 2 o'clock.
A Telegraphic Despatch from the Coast has announced that the
illustrious Wellington had reached La Fere without
opposition on Saturday last, and was directing his march upon
Compeigne, where he expected to arrive that night.
Compiegne is 52 miles from Paris.
The Prussians, under Blucher, had occupied Laon,
and were also advancing upon Paris by forced marches.
The inhabitants had uniformly received the Allies with
great joy, and supplied them with provisions.
We have received the Moniteur
of the 24th. It is filled with an account of the proceedings of
the Chambers on the 23rd, which were very tumultuous. Lucien
Bonaparte impertinently insisted in the House of Peers
on his rights as a French Prince.
Ponte Coulan, told him in answer, that he was not even a Frenchman!
Count Labedoyere said, that all present were traitors to
the Emperor.
Here the uproar became so great that no person could be heard for
some time.
Lucien and Joseph Bonaparte then moved, that Napoleon
II be proclaimed Emperor.
The motion was deferred.
In the Chamber of Representatives, the proceedings were
alike tumultuous. The majority seemed, however, to recognize Napoleon
II.
In the mean time, the provisional government has begun its
functions. Fouche is President!
Paris, with the exception of crowds of politicians gaping here
and there for news, is tranquil.
Bonaparte has not been arrested.
Dordrecht, June 25, 1815
An English Officer who passed through here last night reports
that the Duke of Wellington has already removed his head-quarters
from B??? to Bavau, upon the French territory. A courier who
passed through here this afternoon, states, that there was
yesterday again some hard fighting near Maubeuge, in which the
advantage was entirely on our side.
Ostend, June 25, 1815
Mr. F. Is this moment returned from Head-quarters; he informs me
that he saw prisoners to the tune of 30,000, who had
concealed themselves in the wood after the action with the English
army.
Ostend, June 25, 1815, 11 o'clock, a.m.
Valenciennes and Lille have opened their gates, and declared in
favour of the Bourbons. Louis will, it is said, leave
Ghent tomorrow, to plant the Royal standard at Lille.
Plymouth, June 27 --
The French brig L'Aetif, Pagelet, under the white flag,
from Cayenne for St. Maloes, has been sent in here. Also, the French
Corvette La Panther, Gisloine, under the white flag, from
Martinique for France. H. M. Ship Phebe sailed yesterday with 25
French Hussar Officers to join the Royalists at Bordeaux.
One was a Duke.
Deal, June 26 --
Arrived, a fleet of transports from Ostend, with French
prisoners, under convoy of the Erebus and Foxhound sloops of
war.
The last report is that BUONAPARTE placed himself in the
hands of the Duke of WELLINGTON. As this information is
said to be founded on a communication from Admiral DUCKWOTH to
the Mayor of Plymouth, it is entitled to attention -- as we find
by Plymouth Papers, that the news of the battle of June 18
-- and afterwards of the Abdication -- were communicated
through the same medium. The intelligence is understood to have
been contained in a Plymouth paper of July 1, and a paper of that
date was lent, at sea, to the Aristides, for Baltimore.
We do not perceive any mention of the positions of the Austrian
and Russian Armies, at a late date.
The intention of requesting Napoleon to resign was
expressed in the Legislature before it was mentioned that he
contemplated abdicating.
As soon as the intelligence of the Great Victory of the Allies
had spread over France, the Royalists in many places made
new effort, rose, tore down the tri-colours and attacked
Bonaparte's regulars.
At Marseilles, on the Bourbons making a movement, the
soldiers fired on them, and this, adding to the exasperation,
occasioned a dreadful carnage, of which the troops were the first
victims; but if afterwards extended to the families of Bonapartists.
The Civil Authorities exerted themselves to restrain the enraged
mob -- and at length, though late, succeeded.
The Ajax, British 74, appeared off Marseilles on the 27th of June,
and sent a boat on shore on seeing the white flag hoisted. She
was afterwards invited into port, and went in. The Officers were
received with the greatest demonstrations of joy. The frigate
Volontaire, which was with her, was dispatched to Barcelona,
to give information to the Spaniards of the second fall of
their old enemy, and to communicate any intelligence to cruisers
met in the Mediterranean.
The English and Spaniards were capturing all the French
vessels in the Mediterranean, they fell in with. Several Spanish
privateers were out.
An official letter from the Duke of Wellington mentions
that the Count of Loubau, (Bertrand,) and Gen. Cambronne, were
taken prisoners.
The Earl of Uxbridge is created a Marquis.
The Declaration of War of England against France reached
Plymouth, June 23rd and vessels of war immediately sailed to take
French vessels of all descriptions.
The British are laying up a great number of their men of war.
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