FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FRENCH PAPERS.
PARIS, JULY 22.- The review of the English army under the walls of Paris, which was to have taken place on Thursday, is put off till Sunday next.
Yesterday morning Lord Hill reviewed in the Champs Elysées the 1st Corps of the English army, consisting of three regiments of the line, one of the carabineers, and two of light horse.
It is said that a corps of the army of the Loire, under the orders of General Lefebvre Desnouettes, has set off for Auvergue, probably to join the army of Marshal Suchet.
The white flag now waves on the extremity of the bridge of Orleans, on the left bank of the Loire.
COPY OF AN ADDRESS TO THE KING BY THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE:
Sire.- The army, unanimous in its views and affections, in order to be brought to a free and simple submission to your Majesty's Government, has no need either of receiving any private impulse, or of altering its spirit or sentiments; it is enough for it to consult the sentiments that have animated it under all circumstances, and the spirit which guided it during the last 25 years of political storms.
Its opinions, its acts, the conduct of each of its members, always had for their actuating cause that love of country, ardent, deep, exclusive, capable of every effort, of every sacrifice, respectable even in its errors and wanderings, which at all times commanded the esteem of Europe, and which secures to us that of posterity.
The Generals, the Officers, and the soldiers, who now surround their colours, and who are attached to them with the greatest constancy and love, even when they are most unfortunate, are not men who can be accused of regretting private advantages.
To other thoughts, therefore, to motives more dignified and noble must be ascribed the silence which the army has hitherto kept.
From the lowest soldier to the officer of highest rank, the French army numbers in its ranks only citizens, sons, fathers of citizens; it is intimately connected with the nation; it cannot separate its cause from that of the French people; it adopts with them, it adopts sincerely the Government of your Majesty; it will cause the happiness of France by generous and complete oblivion of all that is past, by effacing every trace of dissention, by respecting the rights of all.
Convinced of this truth, full of respect and confidence in the sentiments expressed by your Majesty, the army swears to you, with entire submission, a fidelity, proof against all trial; it will shed its blood in fulfilment of the oaths which it this day pronounces to defend the King and France.
[Here follow the signatures.]
Head-quarters near Orleans, July 14, 1815.
| (A true Copy) | The Prince of ECKMUHL, Marshal of France, Commanding the Armies of the Loire and the Pyrenees |
TOURS, JULY 19.
ARMY OF THE LOIRE - ORDER OF THE DAY
Faubourg d'Orleans, July 16.
SOLDIERS,- I communicate to you, by an Order of the Day, the submission which the Generals and Officers of the Army of which the command is confided to me, have made to the Government of Louis XVIII.
It is to you, Soldiers, to complete this submission by your obedience; hoist the white cockade and colours.
I demand from you, I know, a great sacrifice; we have all been connected with these colours for these twenty-five years; but the interests of our country commands this sacrifice.
I am incapable, Soldiers, of giving you an order which should not be founded on these sentiments, or which should be at variance with honour.
Last year, under similar circumstances, the Government of our country having changed, I defended Hamburgh and Harburgh to the last moment, in the name of Louis XVIII listening then, as I do now, only to the interest of our country.
All my countrymen have applauded my conduct; a fine army has been preserved to France; not a soldier has quitted his ranks, knowing that he serves his country whatever be its Government, and that an army cannot deliberate.
Soldiers! Continue the same conduct; defend our unhappy country in the name of Louis XVIII. This Monarch, and all our fellow-countrymen, will feel themselves obliged to us for so doing - we will make common cause with those brave Vendeans who have just set us an affecting example, declaring that they would join us to fight the enemies of France - and you will, moreover, have preserved a brave and numerous army for the country.
I expect of you the same state of discipline of which you have given proofs since your departure from Paris.
The Marshal Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the Loire and the Pyrenees,
(Signed) The Prince of ECKMUHL
A true Copy,
The Lieutenant-General Commanding a Division of the Army of the Loire, and Superior Commandant of the 22nd Military Division,
AUBERT
