Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V.Scott, Walter
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Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V.
Scott, Walter
France -- History -- 1789-1815; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
CHAP. LXXXIII.--Retrospect--Restoration of the Bourbons displeasing to
the Soldiery, but satisfactory to the People--Terms favourable to
France granted by the Allies--Discontent about the manner of conceding
the Charter--Other grounds of Dissatisfaction--Apprehensions lest the
Church and Crown Lands should be resumed--Resuscitation of the Jacobin
Faction--Increased Dissatisfaction in the Army--The Claims of the
Emigrants mooted in the Chamber of Delegates--Maréchal Macdonald's
Proposal--Financial Difficulties--Restriction on the
Press--Reflections on this Subject, 85
CHAP. LXXXIV.--Carnot's Memorial on Public Affairs--Fouché joins the
Jacobins--Projects of that Party; which finally joins the
Buonapartists--Active Intrigues--Congress of Vienna--Murat, alarmed at
its Proceedings, opens an Intercourse with Napoleon--Plans of the
Conspirators--Buonaparte's Escape from Elba--He Lands at Cannes--Is
joined at Grenoble, by 3000 Troops--Halts at Lyons, appoints a
Ministry, and issues several Decrees--Dismay of the
Government--Intrigues of Fouché--Treachery of Ney--Revolt of the Royal
Army at Melun--The King leaves Paris, and Buonaparte arrives
there--His Reception, 108
CHAP. LXXXV.--Various attempts to organise a defence for the Bourbons
fail--Buonaparte, again reinstated on the throne of France, is
desirous of continuing the peace with the Allies--but no answer is
returned to his letters--Treaty of Vienna--Grievances alleged by
Buonaparte in justification of the step he had taken--Debates in the
British House of Commons, on the renewal of War--Murat occupies Rome
with 50,000 men--his proclamation summoning all Italians to arms--He
advances against the Austrians--is repulsed at Occhio-Bello--defeated
at Tolentino--flies to Naples, and thence, in disguise, to
France--where Napoleon refuses to receive him, 134
CHAP. LXXXVI.--Buonaparte's attempts to conciliate Britain--Plot to
carry off Maria Louisa fails--State of feeling in France--The
Army--The Jacobins--The Constitutionalists--Fouché and Siêyes made
Peers--Freedom of the Press granted, and outraged--Independent conduct
of Comté, editor of Le Censeur--Disaffections among the lower
orders--Part of these assemble before the Tuileries, and applaud the
Emperor--Festival of the Federates--New Constitution--It is received
with dissatisfaction--Meeting of the Champ de Mai to ratify
it--Buonaparte's Address to the Chambers of Peers and Deputies--The
spirit of Jacobinism predominant in the latter, 144
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