"It is ordered that all officials under orders of the police générale of France, prefects, superintendents and officers, of whatsoever grade, _shall obey the commands_ that M. de Maubreuil shall give them; _they shall carry out his orders and fulfil his wishes without a moments delay_, M. de Maubreuil _being charged with a secret mission of the highest importance._ "ANGLÈS" This was not enough. Maubreuil wanted another order, a similar one, signed by the Minister of War: he had settled with the civil power, it remained to put himself right with the military. He went to look up the Minister of War. He obtained a similar order to the one we have just given. The Minister of War was General Dupont. There are some very ill-fated signatures! On 22 July 1808 this signature was at the foot of the capitulation treaty of Baylen. On 16 April 1814 it was at the foot of Maubreuil's commission! The one handed over to the enemy, without striking a blow, the liberty of fourteen thousand men; the other gave up the life and the gold of a queen to a thief and an assassin! In the face of such _errors_ one is proud to be able to boast that one has never put one's name save in the forefront of a play, be it good or bad, save at the end of a book, be it bad or good! Besides these two orders, Maubreuil possessed himself of three others in the same terms: one from Bourrienne, Provisional Director of the Posting Arrangements ... de Bourrienne, do you understand?--But this was not the Bourrienne who was the emperor's secretary?... Excuse me, even the same ... where would have been the infamy of the thing, had it not been so? He placed the posts at the disposition of M. de Maubreuil: one from General Sacken, Governor of Paris; one from General Brokenhausen. Thanks to these two last orders, Maubreuil, who had the police already at his disposal through Anglès' order, the army through Dupont's, the posts through Bourrienne's, got possession also of the allied troops under command of the Russian and Prussian generals. True, on 3 April, the day following that on which the _Journal des Débats_ and the _Journal de Paris_ issued those clever articles with which the reader is already acquainted, two charming verses, which we propose to bring before your notice, were sung at the Opera, by Laïs, to the tune of _Vive Henri IV.,_ national air though it was:-- Vive Alexandre! Vive ce roi des rois! Sans rien prétendre, Sans nous dicter des lois, Ce prince auguste A le triple renom, De héros, de juste, De nous rendre un Bourbon. Vive Guillaume! Et ses guerriers vaillants! De ce royaume, Il sauva les enfants; Par sa victoire, Il nous donne la paix, Et compte sa gloire Par ses nombreux bienfaits.