He despatched a courier to Paris with the brief words, "We met the enemy before Tours.

The National Guard has done its duty.

The troops of the pretender are routed.

Vive le Roi!" The note, you may be sure, appeared in the Journal des Debats, and the editor, who only that morning had called Henri V."a great prince, an august exile," denominated him instantly a murderer, slave, thief, cut-throat, pickpocket, and burglar..