particulars being made public and proclaimed throughout the town, soon reached us in the camp, where they created the most lively

sensations.

Substance of the Bulletin published at Toulouse on the evening of the 12th April, 1814.

"On the 30th March, the grand allied army, under the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia, having arrived in the vicinity of Paris, a battle was fought on the heights of Belle Ville and Mont Martre, in which the allies were victorious, and Paris surrendered by capitulation.

"On the 31st March, the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia entered Paris in triumph at the head of their victorious armies, with Marshals Blucher and Swartzenburgh.

"On the 1st April the Emperor Napoleon being declared prisoner at Fontainbleau, the national guards and people of Paris offered their allegiance to the royal house of Bourbon, the authority of which was now restored under an executive government. Hostilities ceased, and an embassy was dispatched to England to invite Louis XVIII. to return to the throne of his ancestors. Marshals Berthier, Massena, Ney, Marmont, Victor, Jourdan, Mortier, Macdonald, &c. - &c. declared for the new government, and the armies were mounting the white cockade."

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At the theatre the bulletin was read from the stage, and Lord Wellington from his box displayed his hat, bearing on the English cockade the Spanish on one side of the loop, the Portuguese on the other, and the white in the centre. The officers of the army were now ordered to wear a white favor upon their black cockades, which made us all look very gay.

We come now to advert to a circumstance which seems to require some explanation. How comes it that the events which took place at Paris on the two last days of March and first of April were not known at Toulouse on the 10th? The distance The distance may be about three hundred miles, and (to say nothing of telegraphs) the common communications by the regular channel pass in the space of three nights and days; but this news, which was of such vital importance to us, had actually been published in London seven days prior to its being known here, and five before the cruel battle which had been fought. The French army had consequently been fighting for and the British against a government which had ceased to

exist. Every exertion possible had undoubtedly been made by Lord Wellington previous to the action to obtain information, but his operations were necessarily to be continued or suspended according to those of the army to which he was opposed; and on messenger could reach us over land from Paris without passing through the French lines. True it is that we obtained the victory; notwithstanding this, however, the results were by far the most painful on our side. The French lost but a few hundred men, and these for the most part men of desperate fortunes, without a home or any social principles: whereas we lost thousands of gallant fellows, whose worth the tears of their disconsolate widows and friends will best attest, and to whom it would prove but a poor consolation that another leaf had been added to the already swollen laurel-wreath of these campaigns.

April 13th. When the news from Paris reached Lord Wellington last evening, he sent an account thereof by a flag of truce to Marshal Soult; but we understood the answer to be, that he and his army could for

the present at least recognize no authority but that of the Emperor Napoleon. This afternoon the people of Toulouse took down the bust of Buonaparte, which I have before mentioned as being on the " Capitole," and dashed it to pieces.

14th. Immediately on the arrival of the dispatches from Paris on the evening of the 12th, Lord Wellington sent by express to Sir John Hope commanding at the siege of Bayonne, orders to suspend hostilities; and the messenger reached that camp last evening upon which General Hope sent a flag of truce into Bayonne with the account, proposing to the French General that hostilities should be suspended, and all effusion of blood stopped on both sides, until further accounts should arrive : to this fair and equitable proposal we heard the Frenchman replied, that he would give a definitive answer on the following morning, and so indeed he did, for between two and three o'clock this morning more than five thousand men from the garrison made a sortie upon our camp, putting to the sword and bayoneting all before them. Our poor fellows, elated

with the news of the past evening, and relying upon the honour of the enemy, were rather off their guard. The confusion and alarm (according to all accounts) was dreadful: most of the camp were undressed; many in the front were murdered in their sleep, and those who were awake obliged to fight naked. The generals and other officers hastening up in the dark, several fell into the hands of the enemy, and amongst them LieutenantGeneral Sir John Hope himself, who was wounded and dragged into the town. Major-General Hay of the 5th division was killed, and what rendered this officer's fall particularly distressing was, that his lady and family had just joined him from England, and had probably that very evening been fondly anticipating his glorious and happy return. The French had every thing their own way until our troops could form, when they were driven back into the town at the point of the bayonet. This man, however, not only escaped punishment, but was (I believe) confirmed in his rank and command. The line of policy pursued by the allied cabinets towards France at this.

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