The Afoniteur of Thursday contains an official announcement, that as
M. Napoleon Bonaparte, Ambassador at Madrid, was proceeding to Paris without leave, M. Napoleon Bonaparte was considered as having resigned, and his functions had been revoked by a decree of the President in Council.
M. Napoleon Bonaparte is head of the Imperial party, and his distrust of the present Ministry is avowed. On his way to Madrid he addressed some words to the Bonapartist Electoral Committee of the Gironde, as- serting that his cousin the President was acting under reactionary coercion, and would be really supported by the return of men hostile to his Mi- nistry. The President wrote and published a sharp rebuke to his "dear cousin "; hence M. Napoleon's abrupt return.
The phraseology of an order of the day addressed by General Oudinot to his army confirms the impression that the expedition to Civita Vecchia is less directed against the Roman Republic, or to the restoration of the Pope, than against Austria- " The Government, resolved to maintain in all parts our ancient and legitimate influence, has been unwilling to leave the destinies of the people of Italy at the mercy of a foreign power, or of a party forming only a minority. It confides to us the flag of France, in order that it may be planted on the Roman territory as a marked testimony of our sympathy."
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