Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

suffer the vanquished to give us law!!!

During the few months in which the Bourbons have reigned, they have, convinced you "that they have neither forgotten nor learned any thing." They are ever governed by prejudices hostile to our rights and to those of the people. Those who have borne arms against their country, against us, are their heroes: you, you are rebels whom they will pardon until they are sufficiently consolidated by the formation of an army of emigrants, of a Swiss guard, and by the gradual introduction of new officers into your ranks! Then it will be necessary to have borne arms against his country to qualify any one for honors and recompenses: It will be necessary to have a birth conformable to their prejudices to be an officer. The soldier, will always remain a soldier; the people will bear the burthens and they the honors.

Waiting for the moment, when they shall dare to destroy the Legion of Honor, they have given its insignia to all the traitors and they have been lavish in attempts to abuse it. They have taken from it all the political prerogatives which we had gained at the expense of our blood.

The extraordinary domain of 400 millions out of which our rewards were assigned, which was the patrimony of the army and purchase of our toils, they have appropriated to themselves.

Soldiers of the Great Nation! Soldiers of the Great Napoleon!--Will you consent to be soldiers of a Prince, who for twenty years was the enemy of France, and who boasts that he owes his throne to a Prince Regent of England.

All that has been done without our consent and that of the people, and without having consulted us, is illegal.

Soldiers! retired Officers! Veterans of our Armies! Come with us to conquer the throne, the palladium of our rights; and let posterity one day say, "Strangers, seconded by traitors, imposed a shameful yoke upon France-the brave rose up, and the enemies of the people, of the army, disappeared and returned to their original thinness."

Soldiers! The drum beats! we march! run to arms! come forth to join us, to join our Emperor, and our tri-colored eagles

Signed by a number of Majors, Captains and Lieutenants.

Gap, March 6.

Napoleon by the Grace of God, &c. &c.

To the Inhabitants of the departments of the High and Low Alps.

Citizens--I have been affected in a lively manner by the feelings you have shown towards me.--Your wishes will be heard. The cause of the nation will again triumph!!! - You have cause to call me your father. I live only for the honor and happiness of France. My return dissipates all your inquietudes. It guarantees the preservation of property. Equality among all classes and the rights which you have enjoyed for twenty years for the possession of which your fathers sighed form now a part of your existence. In whatever circumstances I may find myself. I will remember, with a lively interest all that I have seen when passing through your country.