While Bonaparte slept at Gap, General Cambronne, with his small advanced guard met a division of 6000 men coming from Grenoble to stop their march. All parley or communication was refused, as being forbidden. The advanced guard, however, fell back three leagues; Bonaparte repaired to the spot. He sent his orderly officer, chief of the squa dron, Roul, to communicate the intelligence of his arrival, but was again answered by a prohibition. Under these circumstances, he alighted: the party opposed being about 800, of which was a battalion of the 5th of the line. He advanced, followed by his guard, shouldering their arms. He made himself recognised, presented himself to their bayonets, and said, "Soldiers, you have been told your emperor fears death: the first man who pleases is at liberty to plunge his bayonet into this bosom." An unanimous cry of " Vive l'Empereur !" was their answer. The 5th tore off the white, and with tears of enthusiasm they replaced the tri-coloured cockade. The guard and the soldiers embraced. This regiment had been under his command from his first campaign in Italy.

When they were arranged in order of battle, Bonaparte said to them--"I come with a handful of brave men, because I reckon on the people and on you--the throne of the Bourbons is illegitimate, because it has not been raised by the nation; it is contrary to the national will, because it is contrary to the interests of our country, and exists only for the interest of a few families. Ask your fathers, ask all the inhabitants who arrive here from the environs, and you will learn from their own mouths the true situation of affairs; they are menaced with the return of tythes, of privileges, of feudal rights, and of all the abuses from which your successes had delivered them. Is it not true, peasants?"--"Yes, Sire," answered all of them with an unanimous cry, "they wish to chain us to the soil---you come as the angel of the Lord to save us!"

Fatigued as Bonaparte was, he wished to enter Grenoble, that night the adjutant-major of the 7th of the line, came to

announce that Colonel Labedoyere, deeply disgusted with the dishonour which covered France, had detached himself from the division of Grenoble, and had come with his regiment by a forced march, to meet Bonaparte. Half an hour afterwards this brave regiment doubled the force of the imperial troops. At nine o'clock in the evening Bonaparte made his entry into the Faubourg de

The troops had re-entered Grenoble, and the gates of the city were shut. The ramparts which defended the city were covered by the 3d regiment of engineers, consisting of 2000 sappers, all old soldiers covered with wounds; by the fourth of artillery of the line, the same regiment in which, 25 years before, Bonaparte had been a captain; by the two other battalions of the 5th of the line, by the 11th of the line, and the hussars of the 4th.--The national guard and the whole population of Grenoble were placed in the rear of the garrison, and all made the air ring with shouts of Vive l'Empereur. They opened the gates, and at ten at night Bonaparte entered Grenoble, in the midst of an army and a people animated by the most lively enthusiasm.

The next day Bonaparte was addressed by the municipa lity and all the departmental authorities. The military chiefs and the magistrates were unanimous in their sentiments. All said that princes imposed by a foreign force were not legitimate princes, and that they were not bound by any engagement to princes for whom the nation had no wish.At two Bonaparte reviewed the troops, in the midst of the population of the whole department, shouting, A bas les Bourbons! A bas les ennemis du peuple! Vive l'Empereur, et un gouvernement de notre choix! The garrison of Grenoble immediately afterwards put itself in a forced march to advance upon Lyons. It is a remark that has not escaped observers, that every one of these 6000 men were provided with a national cockade, and each with an old and used cockade, for, in discontinuing their tri-coloured cockade, they had hidden it at the bottom of their knapsacks: not

one was purchased, at least in Grenoble. It is the same, said they in passing before Bonaparte,--it is the same that we wore at Austerlitz. This, said the others, we had at Marengo.

The 9th Bonaparte slept at Bourgoin. The crowd, and the enthusiasm with it, if possible, increased. "We have expected you a long time," said they, "you have at length arrived to deliver France from the insolence of the noblesse, the pretensions of the priests, and the shame of a foreign yoke." From Grenoble to Lyons the march of Bonaparte was nothing but a triumph. Bonaparte, fatigued, was in his carriage, going at a slow pace, surrounded by a crowd of peasants, singing songs. "Ah," said Bonaparte, "I find here the sentiments which for 20 years induced me to greet France with the name of the Grand Nation; yes, you are still the Grand Nation, and you shall always be so."

The Count d'Artois, the Duc d'Orleans, and several marshals, had arrived at Lyons. Money had been distributed to the troops, and promises to the officers. They wished to break down the bridge de la Guillotiere and the bridge Moraud. Bonaparte gave orders, however, to General Bertrand to assemble the boats at Misbel. At four a reconnoisance of the 4th hussars arrived at la Guillotiere, and were received with shouts of Vive l'Empereur! The passage of the Misbel was countermanded, and Bonaparte advanced at a gallop upon Lyons, at the head of the troops which were to have defended it against him. The Count d'Artois mounted his carriage and quitted Lyons, escorted by a single gen d'arme. At nine o'clock at night Bonaparte traversed the Guillotiere without troops, but surrounded by an immense population.

The following day, the 11th, he reviewed the whole division of Lyons, having General Broyer at their head, and put them in march to advance upon the capital. The sentiments which the inhabitants of this great city and the peasants of the vicinity, during the space of two hours, evinced

towards Bonaparte, that says a witness it was impossible for him to express his feelings otherwise than by saying, "People of Lyons, I love you." On the 13th, at three in the afternoon, Bonaparte arrived at Villefranche, a little town of 4000 souls, which included at that moment more than 60,000. He stopped at the Hotel de Ville. A great number of wounded soldiers were presented to him.-Hẹ entered Macon at seven o'clock in the evening, always surrounded by the people of the neighbouring districts.

At Chalons, which during 40 days resisted the force of the allies, and defended the passage of the Saone, Bonaparte took notice of all the instances of valour; and not being able to visit St. Jean-de-Lone, he sent the decoration of the Legion of Honour to the mayor of that city. On that occasion Bonaparte exclaimed," It is for you, brave people, that I have instituted the Legion of Honour, and not for emigrants pensioned by our enemies!" Bonaparte received at Chalons the deputation of the town of Dijon. On the 15th he slept at Autun, and from Autun he went to Avallon, and slept there on the night of the 16th. On the 17th, Bonaparte breakfasted at Vermanton, and went to Auxerre, where the prefect remained faithful to his post. The 14th had trampled under foot the white cockade. Bonaparte likewise heard that the 6th regiment of lancers had likewise mounted the tri-coloured cockade. At Auxerre, Count Bertrand, Major-general, gave orders to collect all the boats to embark the army, which was already four divisions strong, and to convey them the same night to Fossard, so that they would be able to arrive at one o'clock in the morning at Fontainbleau. Before he left Auxerre Bonaparte was rejoined by the Prince of Moskwa. This marshal had mounted the tri-coloured cockade among all the troops under his command.

On the 20th, at four in the morning, he entered Fontainbleau. He had with him 15,000 veteran troops: other flanking divisions were advancing to support him on the

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right and left of his line of march. Early on the morning of the 21st, preparations were made on both sides. On that of the Bourbons, the rencounter was expected on the plains of Melun, where the national guard of 100,000 was drawn up, en etages, as the ground favoured the position, in three lines: the intervals and the flanks armed with batteries; the centre occupying the road to Paris. The ground from Fontainbleau to Melun is a continued declivity, so that on emerging from the forest you have a clear view of the country in front; while, on the other hand, those below can easily discern whatever appears on the eminence.

An awful silence, broken only at times by peals of mártial music, intended to confirm the loyalty of the troops, by repeating the royal airs, “Henri Quatre,” and “La Belle Grabielle," or by the voice of the commanders and the march of divisions to their appointed ground, pervaded the king's army. All was anxious expectation; the chiefs, conscious that a moment would decide the fate of the Bourbon dynasty; and the troops perhaps secretly awed at the thought of meeting in hostility the man whom they had been accustomed to obey. On the side of Fontainbleau, no sound as of an army rushing to battle was heard. If the enemy were advancing, his troops evidently moved in silence. Perhaps his heart had failed him, and he had retreated during the night. At length, a light trampling of horses became audible. It approached. An open carriage, attended by a few hussars and dragoons, appeared on the skirts of the forest: it drove down the hils with the rapidity of lightning; it reached the advanced posts--"Long live the Emperor!" burst from the astonished soldiery. "Napoleon Napoleon the Great!" spread from rank to rank; for, bareheaded, Bertrand scated at his right, and Drouet at his left, Napoleon continued his course; now waving his hand, now opening his arms to the soldiers, whom he called, "his friends, his companions in arms; whose honour, whose glories, whose country, he now cane to restore." At these