five years, served as a rallying signal to all the enemies of France. Mount the tricoloured cockade; you bore it in the days of your greatness! We must forget that we have been masters of nations; but we must not suffer any to intermeddle in our affairs.

"Who shall presume to be masters over us? Who would have the power? Recover those Eagles which you had at Ulm; at Austerlitz; at Jena; at Eylau; at Friedland; at Tudela; at Eckmuhl; at Essling; at Wagram; at Smolensk; at Moscow; at Lutzen; at Wurtchen; Montmerail. Do you think that the handful of Frenchmen, who are now so arrogant, will endure to look at them? They shall return whence they came; and there, if they please, they shall reign, as they pretend to have reigned during nineteen years. Your possessions, your rank, your glory; the possessions, the rank, the glory of your children, have no greater enemies than those princes whom foreigners have imposed upon us. They are the enemies of our glory; because the recital of so many heroic actions which have glorified

the people of France, fighting against them, to withdraw themselves from their yoke, is their condemnation. The veterans of the Armies of the Sambre and the Meuse; of the Rhine; of Italy; of Egypt; of the West; of the Grand Army-are all humiliated!-their honourable wounds are disgraced; their successes were crimes; those heroes were rebels, if, as the enemies of the people pretend, the legitimate sovereigns were in the midst of the foreign armies. Honours, rewards, affection, are given to those who have served against the country and us.

"Soldiers! Come and range yourselves under the standard of your chief: his existence is only composed of yours; his rights are only those of the people, and yours; his interest, his honour, his glory, are no other than your interest, your honour, and your glory. Victory shall march at the charge step. The Eagle, with the national colours, shall fly from steeple to steeple-even to the towers of Nôtre Dame. Then you will be able to show your scars with honour: then you will be able to

glory in what you have done; you will be

the deliverers of the country.

"In

your old age, surrounded and esteemed by your fellow-citizens, they will hear you with respect, while you recount your high deeds. You will be able to say with pride-' And I too, was part of that Grand Army, which entered twice the walls of Vienna, those of Rome, of Berlin, of Madrid, of Moscow and which delivered Paris from the foul blot which treason and the presence of the enemy imprinted on it.' Honoured be those brave soldiers, the glory of the country! and eternal shame to those guilty Frenchmen, in whatever rank fortune caused them to be born, who fought, fought for twenty-five years with the foreigner, to tear the bosom of the country!

"The Grand Marshal, performing the function

of Major General of the Grand Army.

"BERTRAND."

Other proclamations, in a similar strain,

were addressed to the people, who flocked round him with the greatest enthusiasm.

On his advance from Corps, on the morning of the 7th, General Marchand detached six thousand men from the garrison to attack him; and Buonaparte, finding the officer at their head would not listen to the parley of the officer whom he sent to meet him, resolved to try himself what influence he possessed with the soldiers. He therefore dismounted, and ordering about fifty of his Grenadiers to advance, with arms reversed, walked quietly towards the troops, the officer commanding whom, crying out, "It is not the Emperor," ordered his men to fire :-the troops were silent and motionless. For an instant, they appeared about to raise their muskets, when Buonaparte, ordering his grenadiers to halt, walked calmly up to them, and throwing open his great coat, exclaimed, "It is I; recognise me. If there be among you one soldier who would kill his Emperor, now is the time!" This manœuvre, so truly in the French style, and practised by a man who knew the troops

he was addressing, was completely successful. They raised repeated shouts of "Vive l'Empereur!" rushed forward to embrace the guard, and enthusiastically mounted the tricoloured cockade.

Delighted with this success, Napoleon formed the troops into a square, and harangued them to the following effect :—

"Soldiers! I come with a handful of men, to deliver you from the Bourbons, from treason, from feudal tyranny, and from the abuses which they have brought with them. The throne of the Bourbons is illegitimate, because it is contrary to the will of the nation. It exists only in the interests of a few families. Is not this true, comrades?" "Yes, Sire," replied a grenadier; "You are our Emperor; and we will march with you, to victory or to death!" Napoleon then marched on to Grenoble, where he was immediately joined by Colonel Labédoyère, with the 7th regiment of the line.

After some little delay, occasioned by the loyalty of Generals Marchand and Devilliers,