" "sanctioned."-It who refused to listen to his claims Articles of the treaty between the allied powers and his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon. Art. 2. Their Majesties the Emperor Napoleon and Maria Louisa shall retain their titles and rank, to be enjoyed during their lives. The mother, the brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces of the Emperor, shall also retain, wherever they may reside, the titles of Princes of his family. Art. 3. The Isle of Elba, adopted by his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon as the place of his residence, shall form, during his life, a separate principality; which shall be possessed by him in full Sovereignty and property; there shall be besides granted, in full property, to the Emperor Napoleon, an annual revenue of 2,000,000 francs, in rent charge, in the great book of France, of which 1,000,000 shall be in reversion to the Empress. Art. 4. The Duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, shall be granted, in full property and sovereignty, to her Majesty the Empress Maria Louisa; they shall pass to her son, and to the descendants in the right line. The prince her son shall from henceforth take the title of Prince of Parma, Placentia and Guastalla. Art. 5. All the powers engage to employ their good offices to cause to be respected by the Barbary powers the flag and territory of the Isle of Elba, for which purpose the relations with the Barbary powers shall be assimilated to those with France, Art. 6. There shall be reserved in the territories hereby renounced, to his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, for himself and his family, domains or rentcharges in the great book of France, producing a revenue, clear of all deductions and charges, of 2,500,000 francs. These domains or rents shall belong, in full property, and to be disposed of as they shall think fit, to the Princes and Princesses of his family, and shall be divided amongst them in such manner that the revenue of each shall be in the following proportion, viz. To Madame Mere Francs. 400,000 To King Joseph and his Queen 500,000 children 200,000 Art. 1. His Majesty the Emperor Na-To King Louis.. poleon renounces for himself, his suc-To the Queen Hortense and her cessors, and descendants, as well as for all the members of his family, all right of sovereignty and dominion, as well to the French. Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, as over every other country. .. 400,000 To King Jerome and his Queen 400,000 To the Princess Eliza ... To the Princess Paulina. 300,000 300,00 necessary passports for the free passage The Princes and Princesses of the House of the Emperor Napoleon shall retain besides their property, moveable and immoveable, of whatever nature it may be, which they shall possess by in-suites who wish to accompany them, or dividual and public right, and the rents of which they shall enjoy (also as individuals.) Art. 7. The annual pension of the Empress Josephine shall be reduced to 1,000,000, in domains, or in inscriptions in the great book of France; she shall continue to enjoy in full property, all her private property, moveable and immoveable, with power to dispose of it conformably to the French laws. Art. 8. There shall be granted to Prince Eugene, Viceroy of Italy, a suitable establishment out of France. Art. 9. The property which his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon possesses in France, either as extraordinary domain, or of private domain attached to the crown, the funds placed by the Emperor, either in the great book of France, in the Bank of France, in the Actions des Forets, or in any other manner, and which his Majesty abandons to the be reserved as a capital, shall which shall not exceed 2,000,000, to be expended in gratifications in favour of such persons, whose names shall be contained in a list to be signed by the Emperor Napoleon, and shall be transmitted to the French Government, crown, Art. 10. All the crown diamonds shall remain in France. Art. 11. His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon shall return to the treasury, and to the other public chests, all the sums and effects that shall have been taken out by his orders, with the exception of what has been appropsated from the Civil List. to establish themselves out of France, as well as for the passage of all the equipages, horses, and effects belonging to them. The allied powers shall in consequence furnish Officers and men for escorts. Art. 15. The French imperial guard shall furnish a detachment of from 1,200 to 1,500 men, of all arms, to serve as an escort to the Emperor Napoleon to St. Tropes, the place of his embarkation. Art. 16. There shall be furnished a corvette, and the necessary transport vessels, to convey to the place of his destination his Majesty the Emperor Napo leon and his household; and the corvette shall belong, in full property, to his Majesty the Emperor. Art. 17. The Emperor Napoleon shall be allowed to take with him and retain as his guard 400 men, volunteers, as well officers, as sub-officers and soldiers. Art. 18. No Frenchman, who shall have foliowed the Emperor Napoleon or his family, shall be held to have forfeited his rights as such, by not returning to France, within three years; at least they shall not be comprised in the exceptions which the French Government reserves to itself to grant after the expiration of that term. Art. 19. The Polish troops of all arms, in the service of France, shall be at berty to return home, and shall retain their arms and baggage, as a testimony of their honourable services. The officers, sub-officers, and soldiers, shall retain the decorations which have been granted to them, and the pensions annexed to these decorations. Art. 12. The debts of the household of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, Art. 20. The high allied powers gudsuch as titey were on the day of the signature of the present treaty, shall be im-rane the execution of all the articles of mediately discharged out of the arrears the present treaty, and engage to obtain due by the public treasury to the Civil that it shall be adopted and guaranteed List, according to a list, which shall by France. he signed by a Commissioner appointed for that purpose. Art. 21. The present act shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Paris within two days, or sooner if poss sible. Art. 13. The obligations of the MontNapoleon, of Milan, towards all the ereditors, whether Frenchmen or foreign- Done at Paris, the 11th of April, 1815, ers, shall be exactly fulfilled, unless there (L. S.) The Prince de Metternich. any change made in this respect. (L. S.) J. P. Compte de Stadion. shall be given all the' (L. S.) Andre Comte de Rusourcufsky, THE BACHELORS' TAX. SIR. The Minister having given the contents of his budget for our digestion, allow me, through the medium of your paper, to enter my protest against a tax that falls peculiarly heavy on a very respectable body of his Majesty's most loyal subjeets, called old Bachelors. That the tax in question is oppressive, as a legislative act, my history will sufficiently prove; for with every disposition to connubial happiness, I have hitherto completely failed in my attempts; and I doubt not that numbers, besides my self, stand in the same predicament.-To begin with my history: you must know that I first addressed myself to a most prudent young lady, with whom I interchanged vows of eternal constancy; and was near being made the happiest of men, when an uncle died, from whom I had great expectations, leaving me only a small legacy. This circumstance, and the advances of a rich fox-hunting squire, wrought so much to my disadvantage, that I was dismissed by her friends, and at their suggestion, she very duti fully yielded to the son of the chace. Time, that best soother of human woe, soon performs a cure; and I next figured away with a lady in the fashionable world. Like the owl, I sunk down to repose at the approach of the sun, and arose at his departure. Every thing seemed to be in a most favourable train, when imprudently settling some future plans of domestic economy, I was dismissed with the epithet of a mean, avaricious wretch. My next adventure was with a young lady, who, with a moderate fortune, and a handsome person, had secured to herself, at least, a score of humble admirers, when I fortunately stepped in, and she very condescendingly reduced the number to half a dozen, besides myself. I believe I should have carried the prize, had not a tall man of blood, yclept captain, have come in between; and on my excusing myself from standing to be honourably shot through - the head, he very civilly took me by the -nose: this so enraged me, although one of the mildest of men, that I cudgelled him, both to his and to my own perfect satisfaction. For this affront on a gentleman, and a man of honour, I was dismissed as a low bred, unfashionable fellow, greatly deficient in the Ton.Not yet intimidated, I next waited upon a demure looking creature, who lamented the depravity of the age from morning to night, Here I am suited, thought I, no fear of red-coats ;-when, as I was one night going to hear her rail against the forwardness of the little misses in their teens, I entered upon her too suddenly, and found her demonstrating the attraction and adhesiou of ladies, to her footman.-I next became enamoured of the accomplished daughter of a rich old farmer; who, feeling his own great defi ciency in all human learning, was resolved to make his daughter a prodigy. She could read a page of Walter Scott without lisping more than a dozen mistakes; she could recite a passage in a play with all the grace of the amateur of fashion; she could thump a Sonata on the Piano with most discordant fascina. tion; and she could draw without any fear of punishment from the breach of the second commandment. These rare accomplishments won my heart; when an. ticipating my union with the accomplished phenomenon, she cruelly deserted me for the irresistible attractions of a strolling player.-Dissatisfied with poems and plays, pianos and paint, I next bowed down to a learned lady, who could harangue in Latin with all the eloquence of a college professor; who could spout Greek with parsonic purity; who could write a criticism on a plain passage in a Greek or Latin author, until it became unintelligible; who could unriddle all the dark meanings of Aristotle; and who could prove, to a demonstration, that the ancients were sages, and the moderns, blockheads Well versed in the philosophy of t schools, both ancient and modern. Insensible to externals, even to stoicism; for so far had she carried her apathy, that she had actually written a treatise against the passions, and was one night reading to me the chapter against anger, when the maid servant coming in to prepare supper, unfortunately overturned the inkstand upon some critical notes were Bachelors; and if they were in ended as examples for our imitation, on a Greek author, and thus spoiled the tant a point. That great apostle of the AN OLD BACHELOR. xious was I to become a Benedict, that I Lincolnshire, March, 12th. 1815. CORN LAWS. next became the humble suppliant of my own housemaid; a tall, stout, mahogany faced damsel, whom I believe I SIR-I wish to argue the subject on should have taken for better or for worse: reasonable grounds, and as there is so But indiscreetly offending her on the much noise about the Corn Bill, 1 trust much dreaded washing day, the enraged you, will give place to these few observaAmazon, with ponderous ist, so ob- tions. Before the war, bread was 6d, the cured my perception, that I was ever quartern loại; and pray what makes it after bind to her qualifications. Having dear now? Have we not the same por-had sufferent experience of the mo tion of land to grow corn on, as we had derus, as a last resource, I poured forth before the war? Nay, I will answer, a my passion to a rich old Spinster, whom considerable deal more, by the immense I was near leading to the altar, when the inclosure of waste land which, I may grim tyrant death intruded, and snatched say, has been taken from the poor, and her away from the enamoured swain. given to the rich. They have deprived I could willingly have engaged with some them of the land, and now they have the other antique, but with the mournfi inrpudence to say, that they will not grow event before me, of the instability of life corn on it, unless you give them what in the aged, I was fearful of too soon price they choose to ask. Have we not being left in a widowed state. Grown equally as good farmers as we had before grey in a life of fruitless importunity, the war; and is not the land as produc I reconciled myself to my fate, with tive? What then is the reason they canThrosophical fortitude, when lo! the not grow as much corn now, as they did Minister opened his budget, and thus before the war! It is because of the prevented me an indulgence so necessary enormous load of taxes with which we to my declining years.-Ifl be thought are oppressed. I consider all the noise to have failed in proving the oppres-now making by the supporters of the corn sion of the tax, by my history, shall bill, as nonght but a bug-bear to frighten appeal to cripture, trusting that every us-a false alarm-an invention to augood christian will coincide with my as thorise the establishment of a despotism guments. To search for names who injurious to the liberties and happiness bavė add ₫ a lustre to that of Bachelor, of the people, The fact is, the warwould be an endless task: suffice it to whoop faction have got rid of the prosay, tirat Jesus Christ, and his die eiples,perty-tax, and have already laid it upon the shoulders of the mercantile people. | back parlour and the piano; the men Should this bill pass through the house for having changed the smock-frock, and of their "noble-mindednesses," the bur- carters whip, for the military cut, superthen, with the head and all, will be too fine coat, lined with silk, his Wellington heavy for the shoulders. But supposing boots, his jemmy rattan, and bit of blood. the landholder was formerly necessitated Dumplins too are forsaken for dainties; to raise his tenant's rent, to enable him and it is reckoned among the number of to pay the Goverument demand of 101. the farmer's high crimes and misdemeanper cent. property-tax, the landholder ours, that they feed no longer on ox was not even then the loser, as it all came check and beef legs. I request you my out of the loaf. Now that that demand brother farmers to note this. You are is over, let the landholder take off the to be clothed with the smock-frock, go 101. per cent. which he put on his tenant, in high shoes and hob nails, feed on the and let Government reduce the most op- offal of your produce, send all your poulpressive part of the farmer's taxes. This try, eggs, butter, cream, &c. to market, would be the most equitable way of en- that the appetite of those who have burcouraging the growth of corn, and giving thened you with excessive taxation may us bread at a moderate price. If we be pampered at a cheap rate, fare sumpmusth ave taxes, let us have them on any tuously every day, roll along the street thing else but the loaf. By these means, n splendid equipages, and mock and and these only, we will be enabled to pro- deride the clownish awkwardness which, cure a foreign market for our manufac- in their prejudiced eyes, is necessary to tures, without which there is no chance the selling of cheap corn. It may perof reducing the price of bread, and of haps be thought illiberal to accuse Arisrestoring England to its former prospe- tides of wilfully settting one class of the rity. Although I like your reasoning in community against another. I must, general, Mr. Cobbett, I wish to know therefore, impute the false description how we are likely, (if passive obedience he has given, to a complete ignorance of be the order of the day) to get redress the mode and habits of life of so respectin the event of their "noble minded- able a class of the community as the "nesses" rejecting the voice of the peo- generality of British farmers. It is not ple in their petition against the obnoxious unlikely he may have been entertained corn bill. If the only constitutional mode by the military fop he has pourtrayed; of petitioning should be rejected, and and if such characters are to be found the intimidating force of an army of sol- amongst farmers, Aristides should have diers be resorted to, I should like you to been charitable enough to have acknow. point out the remedy, as I am at a loss ledged the real cause of their creation to imagine one. I am, &c. and existence, which he must know to March 15, 1815. have arisen out of the late wicked, unjust, and unnecessary war. If he had on this subject reasoned with his accustomed acuteness, he must have known that Mr. COBBETT-Amongst the various nove put on the military habit with more opinions which have lately appeared on reluctance than the farmer; that he was the subject of Corn Laws, scarcely any induced to become a volunteer by the have been free from an admixture of ill-influence of government, thro' the meberal abuse of the farmers of England, and some of your correspondents have fallen into that vulgar error, for so mast be allowed to consider it; and my surprise is much encreased to find your otherwise sensible correspondent Aristides turned accuser of the farmers in your Register of the 25th uit. Amongst some plausible reasons for the high price of corn, he assigns the principle one to be the high and luxuriant living of the farmer, whose family he describes as having forsaken the dairy and the cliurn, for the W. P. R. DEFENCE OF THE FARMERS. dium of the magistrate and his landlord, by whom he was in many instauces, threatened with notice to quit his farm if he did not comply with the military requisition. His family, too, were often invited to the festive board, to join the merry dance;and the female part imitated the dress and manners of their new associates, the colonel's and the squire's lady; if they were tempted to learn the martial air, and the jocund song on the piano, can this possibly be assigned by any sound reason as the true cause vby. |