d that Napoleon had abdicated
at Fontainbleau, on the 4th of April. These officers were despatched
from Wellington's head-quarters to those of Marshal Soult, and after
some negociation a friendly convention was signed, and a line of
demarcation drawn between the two armies. This convention was signed on
the 18th of April, and on the 21st Lord Wellington, by general orders,
congratulated his army on the near prospect of the termination of their
toils and dangers, and thanked them for their valour in the field, and
for their conciliating conduct towards the inhabitants of the country.

THE ALLIES ENTER PARIS; NAPOLEON DETHRONED, ETC.

At length the "world-tyrant" was humbled. Equitable terms of peace had
been recently proposed to Napoleon by the confederated princes on the
Rhine, where they were assembled in great force, but they were rejected
by him with disdain. The confederated princes had collected their armies
on the Rhine after Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Moscow, resolved
either to restrain his insatiate ambition, or to hurl him from his
throne. There were three armies arrayed against him. Bernadotte, crown
prince of Sweden, menaced him from the north; Blucher with a Prussian
army from the east; and Schwartzenberg, with the grand army from the
mountains of Bohemia, on the south. In the whole they numbered about
500,000 men, and Napoleon by fresh conscriptions was enabled to face
them with an army of 300,000. He had recently gained victories over the
Prussians at Lutzen, and the Russians at Bautzen, and these victories
seem to have led him on to ruin. He calculated upon victory still,
and therefore, when his generals advised him to retreat at once to
the Rhine, he refused, and bade them obey his commands. He marched to
Dresden, recently taken by Schwartzenberg, and victory again waited on
his steps; his enemies were routed with the loss of their cannon and
20,000 prisoners. But this victory was counterbalanced by the capture
of the whole force of Vandamme by the Russians and Prussians, and by the
defeats of Oudinot by the Prince of Sweden at Buelow; and of Macdonald
at Katzbach. Napoleon now retreated to Leipsic, whither he was followed
by the Russians, Prussians, and Austrians. In the plains of Leipsic
was fought the battle of nations, in which God gave the victory to the
allies. This battle lasted from the 14th to the 19th of October,
1813, and it ended with the terrible loss of 80,000 men on the side