of Buonaparte's surviving marshals; and
the other officers of that high rank were loaded with every mark of
royal consideration. But these arrangements only swelled the
presumption of those whose attachment they were meant to secure. It was
hardly possible that the King of France should have given no military
appointments among the nobles who had partaken his exile. He gave them
so few, that they, as a body, began to murmur ere the reign was a month
old: but he gave enough to call up insolent reclamations among those
proud legionaries, who in every royalist, beheld an emblem of the
temporary humiliation of their own caste. When, without dissolving or
weakening the Imperial (now _Royal_) Guard, he formed a body of
household troops, composed of _gentlemen_, and entrusted them with the
immediate attendance on his person and court, this was considered as a
heinous insult; and when the King bestowed the cross of the Legion of
Honour on persons who would have much preferred that of St. Louis, the
only comment that obtained among the warriors of Austerlitz and
Friedland, was, that which ascribed to the Bourbons a settled design of
degrading the decoration which they had purchased with their blood.

In a word, the French soldiery remained cantoned in the country in a
temper stern, gloomy, and sullen; jealous of the Prince whose bread they
were eating; eager to wipe out the memory of recent disasters in new
victories; and cherishing more and more deeply the notion (not perhaps
unfounded) that had Napoleon not been betrayed at home, no foreigners
could ever have hurled him from his throne. Nor could such sentiments
fail to be partaken, more or less, by the officers of every rank who had
served under Buonaparte. They felt, almost universally, that it must be
the policy of the Bourbons to promote, as far as possible, others rather
than themselves. And even as to those of the very highest class--could
any peaceful honours compensate, to such spirits as Ney and Soult, for a
revolution, that for ever shrouded in darkness the glittering prizes on
which Napoleon had encouraged them to speculate? Were the comrades of
Murat and Bernadotte to sit down in contentment as peers of France,
among the Montmorencies and the Rohans, who considered them at the best
as low-born intruders, and scorned, in private society, to acknowledge
them as members of their order? If we take into account the numerous
personal adherents whom the Imperial government