the capital.  This document spoke of the anxiety of “the sovereigns” to see the establishment of “a salutary authority in France”:  of the opportunity offered to the Parisians of “accelerating the peace of the world”; of the “conduct of Bordeaux” as affording “an example of the method in which foreign war and civil discord might find a common termination”; it concluded thus:  “It is in these sentiments that Europe in arms before your walls addresses herself to you.  Hasten then to respond to the confidence which she reposes in your love for your country, and in your wisdom;” and was signed “SCHWARTZENBERG, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies.”

There was a circumstance of another kind which assisted in stimulating the hopes and swelling the adherents of the royal cause.  The Allies had, in the early part of the campaign, experienced evil from the multiplicity of uniforms worn among the troops of so many nations and tongues, and the likeness which some of the dresses, the German especially, bore to those of the French.  The invading soldiers had latterly adopted the practice of binding pieces of white linen round their left arms; and this token, though possibly meant only to enable the strangers to recognise each other, was not likely to be observed with indifference by the Parisians, among whom the Bourbonists had already begun to wear openly the white cockade.

Finally, a vivid sensation was excited in Paris at this critical moment by the publication of Chateaubriand’s celebrated tract, entitled “Of Buonaparte and of the Bourbons.”  The first symptom of freedom in the long enslaved press of Paris was not likely, whatever it might be, to meet with an unfriendly reception; but this effusion of one of the most popular writers of the time (though composed in a style not suited to sober English tastes) was admirably adapted to produce a powerful effect, at such a moment of doubt and hesitation, on the people to whom it was addressed.

The agents of Buonaparte had not been idle during the 30th:  they had appealed to the passions of those wretched classes of society who had been the willing instruments of all the horrible violence of the revolution, and among whom the name of Bourbon was still detested; nor without considerable effect.  The crowds of filthy outcasts who emerged from their lanes and cellars, and thronged some of the public places during the battle, were regarded with equal alarm by all the decent part of the population, however divided in political sentiments.  But the battle ended ere they could be brought to venture on any combined movement; and when the defeated soldiery began to file in silence and dejection through the streets, the mob lost courage, and retreated also in dismay to the obscure abodes of their misery and vice.