[Footnote 61: I dare not positively affirm it, for
in my memorandums I have confounded together
Chalons, Avalon, &c.]

[Footnote 62:

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

_The Marshal Prince of the Moskowa, to the troops
of his Government._

Officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers!

The cause of the Bourbons is lost for ever. The
legitimate dynasty, which the French nation has
adopted, is about to re-ascend the throne: it
belongs to the Emperor Napoleon alone, our
sovereign, to reign over our fine country. Whether
the nobility of the Bourbons take the step of
expatriating itself again, or consent to live among
us, is no concern of ours. The sacred cause of
liberty, and of our independence, will no longer
suffer from their fatal influence. They have
endeavoured to debase our military glory; but they
have found themselves mistaken. This glory is the
fruit of labours too noble for us to lose the
remembrance of it. Soldiers! those days are no
more, when nations were governed by stifling their
rights. Liberty is at length triumphant and
Napoleon, our august Emperor, is about to confirm
it for ever. Henceforth let this lovely cause be
ours, and that of all Frenchmen: let all the brave
fellows, whom I have the honour to command, be
thoroughly imbued with this grand truth.

Soldiers! I have often led you to victory; I am now
going to conduct you to that immortal phalanx,
which the Emperor Napoleon is conducting to Paris,
and which will be there in a few days, and our
hopes and our happiness will be for ever realized.
Long live the Emperor!

Lons le Saulnier, the 13th of March, 1815.
The marshal of the empire,
PRINCE OF THE MOSKOWA.]

On the 17th the Emperor arrived at Auxerre, where he was receive