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THE YANKEE
Boston, Friday, October 13, 1815

BREAKING NEWS

From France

New York, Oct. 8 -- Last evening arrived, at this port, the tall sailing ship Horatio Baily, in 32 days, from Nantz, which port it left on August 28.
By this arrival we learn verbally, that France was quiet; that the French army was entirely disbanded, and that no foreign troops were in the neighborhood of Nantz.

It is believed that in the treaty of commerce that is to be concluded between Great Britain and France, the cotton manufacturers of the former and the silk stuffs of the latter will be reciprocally received under moderate duties.

It is said that Vice Admiral Fleming will have the command at St. Helena at the peace, and that he will proceed thither as soon as Sir George Cockburn shall have established Bonaparte there.

The French Government, it would appear from the following article, is carrying into effect the decree of the King, which denounced certain persons as traitors, and ordered their immediate apprehension and trial: --

From the Official Gazette of Paris
Sunday, August 26, 1815

Vienna -- July 28

When the news was received of Bonaparte being in the hands of the British, the Empress repaired to Baden, to convey the news to the Archduchess Maria Louisa. She received it with firmness; but after the departure of our august Sovereign, the Archduchess shut herself up in her private apartments.

From England

The ship Quincy, Capt. Urann, arrived here on Saturday, in 35 days from Liverpool, bringing London papers to the 24th of August and Liverpool on the 26th. The following summary and extracts, comprise all of any interest in their contents.

The Allied troops not only remained in Paris but it was said some of the Powers had ordered new levies in their kingdoms, that they would garrison the French fortresses, and hold military possession of France until all the terms of the treaty of peace were fulfilled by the French Government. The sum required of France, to reimburse them for the expenses of the war is said to be about 25 millions sterling, and that when this is paid, the complete administration of the country will be restored to the King. Louis had ordered a contribution of 100,000,000 francs as the requisition towards the payment of this sum, it being one of the first preliminary conditions of the treaty of peace. A Vienna article of July 29 says, "We are here, daily, more and more persuaded, that the Treaty of Paris will suffer several changes in favor of the Allies, and that France will loose several great provinces. The restoration of the three legations to the Pope is considered as a proof of this, since it leads to a supposition that Austria will obtain an indemnity elsewhere. However great our joy may be at the glorious successes in France, it is tempered in some measure by the reflection that the fruits of peace will not be the immediate result. As matters now stand, it will probably be long necessary to hold the rod over France, if we wish to be safe from a new attempt of the French to proceed again to revolutionary measures. The remonstrance of Louis XVIII, against the military occupation, &c. And the consequent oppression of his subjects, (as lately published in the American papers) is said, by the Morning Chronicle, to be a genuine State paper; that it had been read to the National Guard at Paris, and had been handed to the Ministers of the Allied Potentates and it was supposed would tend to hasten the departure of the Allied troops from Paris. The Morning Chronicle is of the opinion that when Louis is left unprotected by their bayonets, he will soon be compelled to retreat from the government of the country. Phillipville, Laon, Rocroy, Marienburg, &c. had surrendered to the Allies; Toulon remained in a state of siege. The different regiments which constituted the army of the Loire had proceeded with much order and obedience to the cantonments assigned them.
The Allies, it is said, are not satisfied with the plan for the new organization of the French army.

Soult has been permitted to retire, under surveillance, to his country flat.
According to some reports, Murat and Thionville had been apprehended, and forwarded to Paris; and according to others, Murat had been set at liberty, or had not been taken at all.

By last accounts from Cairo, 15,000 person died daily of the plague.

London, August 13-20 -- It is intimated from Brussels, that the expected occupation by the Allies of the second line of French fortresses (Valenciennes, Conde, &c.) has created a great sensation in the North of France.

From Vienna, it is said that all the Armies of reserve have been ordered to march to France; likewise a park of artillery, from Olmutz.

The French papers contain all the necessary decrees, orders, &c. For the reduction of the old, and establishment of a new French army. This operation, it is expected, will completely purge the military of all Bonapartean influence.

Paris Papers:

The Official Gazette contains a Royal Ordinance, abrogating all nominations and promotions in the Marine, made in the short usurpation of Bonaparte, and reinstating those who were on service immediately preceding that time. Upon the present occasion, it affords a new instance of its departure from its original character of a mere record of State Papers, and has affirmed the exercise of a censorial power over the ordinary Papers. A statement in the Echo du Soir, of the 11th, under the head of Lausanne, that the Allied Armies in France receive reinforcements, has been reprimanded by it in pointed terms. It is asserted in contradiction that since the 10th of July, no corps of Austrian troops have passed the Rhine; that a corps of 30,000 strong, some landwehr destined to join the troops of the line, and a large train of artillery, had received orders to retrograde, and actually commenced their march; and that the Russian troops had received no reinforcements whatever. The German papers, and the Paris papers copying them, have for some time abounded with accounts of the march of troops for France. The obvious inference from them was, that the Allied Armies would make a protracted stay in that country, and that its situation must be extremely critical where their present amount was not deemed competent to the occasion. The statement in the Official Gazette is intended to do away the alarms that those accounts must naturally excite. The matter, however, of the contradiction is not so complete as its tone is confident. The Russian and Austrian Armies in France are in a great force; the former is stated in the Paris papers as between 120 & 150,000 men. They can require no reinforcements; but the contradiction, to be complete, should have stated that neither the Prussian, nor Dutch, nor English troops, receive reinforcements. That, however, is not the fact. It is only within these few days the British army from Canada, landed in France. It is said, that after the grand review, which is to take place early in September, the Emperor of Russia will set out for Lyons, where another large body of troops will be also reviewed.

Count Aboville, one of the Peers comprised in the list Members degraded by the Royal Ordinance of the 24th July, is reinstated in his seat, it having appeared that he never sat, nor accepted a seat in Bonaparte's Chamber of Peers.

The Paris papers add a report that General Laborde had been arrested near Rennes; that the Prussians are to enter Nantz on the 9th; all the arms and ammunition in the Castle had been removed; that new corps of Prussian cavalry were on their way to Paris, from the banks of the Rhine; and that at Calais, there was a daily expectation of English troops who were to arrive there by land.

It is generally believed in the Netherlands that the first and second line of French Fortresses will be occupied by the Allied troops, and, we trust, never be reoccupied by the French.

Among the foreign articles, in the French papers, under the head of Austria, the 5th, there is a protest dated Vienne the 11th June, by the mediatized princes, (the inferior States formerly of the Confederation of the Rhine) against the decision of the Congress of Vienna. The protest is couched in the strongest terms of remonstrance, and shows that the great powers composing the confederacy had not satisfied all parties by their balancing decisions. It would appear also, that the King of Prussia and the Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands, are likely to disagree about the new partitions. His Prussian Majesty has an eye to more of the Belgian territory than the Dutch ally is willing to surrender, and wants the Sovereign Prince to get indemnified from France, by the help of England! Modesty and moderation, we believe, are not reckoned among the political virtues.

Paris, August 20, 1815

Marshal Ney arrived this morning at Paris, escorted by two officers of gend'armerie. He was first conducted to the Prefecture of Police, and afterwards to the Conciergerie. It is thought he will be tried by a Council of Peers.

Boston, Friday Noon, October 13, 1815

A Danish army is marching to the French frontier. 200,000 lbs. Of bread, 100,000 lbs. Of meat, 100,000 rations of brandy, are daily issued to the Allied troops at and about Paris.
10,000 muskets and 87 cannon have been delivered from the French Depot at Vicennes to the English and Prussians. 10,000 were to have been delivered to the Russians; and they went for them but some difficulty prevented delivery.

The Allies continue to levy contributions on different cities in France.

Count Thibodeau has been arrested in France.

Majors Carre and Tournier, have been arrested at Bordeaux.

It is said Jerome Bonaparte has escaped from France to the Court of his father-in-law, where it is added he is permitted to reside with his second wife.

It appears by letters from Lucien Bonaparte and from Cardinal Fesch, which have been published in Europe, that it was the intention of the whole of the Bonaparte family, to come to the United States.
Several accidents happened in boats from the curiosity of persons to get sight of Bonaparte while he was on board the Bellerophon. By the overturning of one, Miss Allen, a very respectable young lady, was drowned.

Among the persons whom Louis has appointed Peers of France, are M. Chateaubriand, M. Lally Tollendol, M. Berthier, son of the late Marshal; M. Bessieres, son of the late Marshal; M. Lannes, son of the late Marshal; the Marquis de Bonnay, Ambassador to Denmark; and Boilly d'Anglus.

Murat at Toulon, in July, sent a request to Admiral Lord Exmouth, to be received on board the British fleet. The admiral offered to receive him, but would make no promise for his ultimate destination. (Official). It was said, Murat afterwards, set out for Piedmont.

The Duke of Orleans has returned to England. It is probably, though inexpedient, that he should reside in France, as a faction had thrown a disposition to make use of him.

The island of Elba has been taken possession of in the name of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Boston,October 13, 1815

Bonaparte
If the British Editors of Newspapers are not ashamed to print the ridiculous paragraphs respecting the great man in their power, such as defining the music to play God Save the King! & Rule Britannia! our American printers ought to be ashamed at copying them. Has our Continental fed its readers so long with stupid lies, that they now relish them, and swallow them as delicious morsels? The American republican papers are a fort of Critical Reviewers of British lies, and British nonsense.

Joseph Bonaparte resides in the seat lately occupied by Lord Courtenay, on the banks of the Hudson, about 7 miles above the city of New York.

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