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INTERIOR . Paris , 22 d March . The Emperor , understanding that the French people had been deprived of all their rights , acquired by twentyfiv ^ e years of wars and victories , and that the glory of the army had been degraded , ( Varmee etaii attaquee dans
sa gloire ) resolved to alter that state of affairs ; to re-establish the imperial throne , which alone could secure the rights of the nation ; and to remove ( faire disparoitrej the throne of the King , which the people had proscribed because , , it secured only the interests of a few .
The 26 th February , at five in the evening , lie embarked in a brig carrying 26 guns , with 40 O of his guards . Three other vessels were secured in the port . In these were embarked 200 infantry , 100 Polish light cavalry and a battalion of flankers ( flanclieurs ) y
consisting of 200 men . The wind was southerly and seemed favourable . Captain Chautard hoped , before daybreak , to have doubled the Isle of . Capraia and , passed the French and English cruisers which watched the coast . He was disappointed . They had scarcely doubled the Cape St . Andre of the Isle of Elba , when the
wind abated and the sea became a calm . At day-break they had made only six leagues , and were still off the Isle of Capraia and the Isle of Elba , in sight of the cruizers . The danger appeared imminent . Most of the seamen were for
returning to Porto-Ferrajo . The Emperor commanded to pursue the voyage , determining , as a last resource , to gain possession of the French shipping . It consisted of two frigates and a brig , but well knowing the attachment of their crews to the
national glory , we doubted not that they would hoist the tri-colourod flag and come over to us . Towards noon the wjnd rose a little . At four in the afternoon we were as high as Leghorn , & frigate appeared at the distance of
five leagues , under the wind , another was off the coast of Corsica , and from a distance a ship of war came , wind right a-stern , opposite the brig . At six in the evening the brig which carried the Emperor . caine alongside a brig ,
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which we found to be the Zephyr com manded by Captain A ndrieux , aa officer distinguished equally by his talents and his true patriotism , ft was first proposed to hail the brig and oblige her to hoist thetri-cokmrprl an ~ — w »« n
• K ^ J — - t | QU But the Emperor ordered the soldier on guard to take off their hel mets and conceal themselves on the deck preferring to pass alongside the brig without being discovered , and not to demand the change of the flag uuless obliged to it . The two bries
passed alongside each other . The lieutenant of our vessel , Tallade , an officer of the French marine , was well known to Captain Andrieux , and near enough to speak to him . He asked Captain Andrieux if he had any commands to Genoa . They exchanged compliments , and the two vessels
going contrary courses were presently out of sight , without Captain Andrieux having suspected what a freight our vessel carried . In the night of the 27 th and 28 tli the wind continued to spring up . At day-break we saw a ship of 74 guns , which appeared to Jbe making for St . Fiorent or Sardinia . We
sailed on , perceiving that the ship did not appear to observe the brig . The 28 th , at seven in the morning , we discovered the coast of TnoIi ; at noon , Antibes . At three o ' clock the 1 st of March , we entered the Gulf of Juan .
The Emperor ordered a captain of the guard with twenty-five men , to land , before the soldiery in the brig , and to secure any battery on the coast , should there be one . The captain took it into his head to make the battalion which was * in Antibes change their cockade . He threw himself rashly
into the place . The officer who commanded there for the King pulled up the drawbridge and shut the gates . His troops took to their arms . But tliey respected those veteran soldiers , and their cockade , which was dear to them . Yet the captain's e xpedition failed , and his men remained p »"
soners in Antibes . , At five in the afternoon , the debarkation in the Gulf of J uan v « effected . Just as the moon rose we pitched a camp ( mi bivouac ) on ti sea-shore .
At eleven at ni ^ ht , the hmva * put himself at the head of that hatful of brave men , whose fortune
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£ 28 Napoleons Return and Resumption .
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would permit : I may , perhaps , have misunderstood a few nautical or military phrases . J . T . It .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/28/
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