l inn of the place, amidst the clamours of enthusiastic and
delirious joy. Marchand remained faithful to his oath; and was dismissed
without injury. Next morning the authorities of Grenoble waited on
Napoleon, and tendered their homage. He reviewed his troops, now about
7000 in numbers, and on the 9th recommenced his march.

On the 10th, Buonaparte came within sight of Lyons, and was informed
that Monsieur and Marshal Macdonald had arrived to take the command,
barricaded the bridge of Guillotierre, and posted themselves at the head
of a large force to dispute the entrance of the town. Nothing daunted
with this intelligence, the column moved on, and at the bridge of Lyons,
as at the gates of Grenoble, all opposition vanished when his person was
recognised by the soldiery. The Prince and Macdonald were forced to
retire, and Napoleon entered the second city of France in triumph. A
guard of mounted gentlemen had been formed among the citizens to attend
on the person of Monsieur. These were among the foremost to offer their
services to the Emperor, after he reached his hotel. Surrounded by his
own soldiery, and by a manufacturing population, whom the comparatively
free admission of English goods after the peace of Paris had filled with
fear and discontent, and who now welcomed the great enemy of England
with rapturous acclamations, Napoleon could afford to reject the
assistance of these faithless cavaliers. He dismissed them with
contempt; but finding that _one_ of their number had followed Monsieur
until his person was out of all danger, immediately sent to that
individual the cross of the Legion of Honour.

This revolution had been proceeding during more than a week, ere the
gazettes of Paris ventured to make any allusion to its existence. There
then appeared a royal ordonnance, proclaiming Napoleon Buonaparte _an
outlaw_, and convoking on the instant the two chambers. Next day the
_Moniteur_ announced that, surrounded on all hands by faithful garrisons
and a loyal population, this outlaw was already stripped of most of his
followers, wandering in despair among the hills, and certain to be a
prisoner within two or three days at the utmost. The _Moniteur_,
however, was no very decisive authority in 1815, any more than in 1814;
and the public mind continued full of uncertainty, as to the motives and
every circumstance of this unparalleled adventure. Monsieur, meanwhile,
had departed, we have seen with what success, to Lyons;