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- f ~..: - FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JULY S. For some days past the possibility of a war in Eu rope has been the talk of Paris. This report has not the. slightest foundation we do not find the least trace of it even in the English papers, which are the echoes of all Europe. and which collect all the re ports, all the suppositions, all the truths, and all the lies. The reason is. that such . an assertion could not obtain credit in a country where the people occupy themselves sezionsly about politics. All the exterior acts of Governments v;sibly prove the unanimity of their intentions, as well as the unity of their interests. It is known that amicable arrangements exist be- 1 tween all Cabinets. No s►gn, no indication, can nuke us conjecture a' war, and a continuity of de cisive facts guarantees the duration and necessity of Ft: The Tribunal a Corbeil has lately condemned a man named Blandetier, a chorister in the Commune of St. Germaine-les Corbeil, to three months impri. sonment. and to 50 francs fine, for having sung in church Demine :alum fac Imfteratorer. ASSIZE COURT. TRIAL OF THE SOI-DISANT PATRIOTS OF in& SITTING OR THE 4TH JULY. The general interest excited by this strange trial collected this day a numerous auditory. The first row of seats was reserved for the ladies, a little too fond perhaps of this kind of spectacle, where they must expect to receive only painful impressions. M. VANIXEUVRI6 the Counsel for the prosecution, was heard at great length on the evidence against the prisoners. He began by remarking, that it might be asked how men in such low life could indulge the lofty idea of conspiring against the Government? — How could curriers, bootmakers, notaries, flatter themselves that they would become the arbiters of our destinies ? To this he would reply, that it was the natural consequence of revolutions to inflame the passions, confound the ideas, and drive men out of their natural sphere. Amidst the vicissitudes of re volutions men were seen rising from the lowest ranks to the height of power and opulence, and hence a sinister ambition was often roused. ' He then proceeded to nate the law on the subject of the crime with which the prisoners were charged. The law pronounced it a plat where there was a pro. posal made and adopted to assail the safety of the State, and where the tesolteion to act teas concerted and settled by one or mare persons. The object of the plot was to arm the citizens against the Royal authority, to evertern the Government, and to de stroy the Kieg and the Royal Family. The overt acts in this plot were tie: drawing up, the printing, the distribution or tae iledetes of the soi disant Pa. the iiiitiatka, i,y means of cards, and above all the drawing of a elan of the Thuilleries. In ordinary eases, said M. Vimdcenvre, the law only punishes the crime when it has been committed, or openly attempted: but in State crimes it reaches the guilty even before the attempt, because it is impor tant to the wielare of society, net only that tile crime should not be committed, but that it should nut even be attempted. Bet the plot being once proved, there was in fact that kind of commencement of execution which characterizes a wicked attempt (atten:at), for in law the cliental manifestation of the will to act is sufficient proof of the commencement of an act. He then pioceded to review the evidence, and to mark the share which each party had in the plot. .Pleignier and Carbonneau were the inventors of the conspiracy, or reeler the first agents of the invisible chiefs. Tolleron knowingly engaged in their plans. It was he who pointed out Charles as the man to print the Proclamation, and who initiated in the secrets of the coniteracy the brothers Ozere, Dervin, and others. He thought it proved that the Proch nutien was printed by Charles. Lefranc was a mys terious personage. Though he had not asked, like Pleignier, to speak to the King, yet he could proba bly make much snore important discoveries. He was busily engaged in circulating the Proclamations ; he was the enemy of all Governments, and had been in all the revolutions which France had undergone. He commented on the zeal which the woman Picard, unmindful of the duties and the virtues of her sex, had strewn in distributing cards and Proclamations. The Learned Counsel, after in this manner recapi tulating the evidence, and applying it to each indivi dual prisoner, drew the following conclusion, viz.-- That Pleignier and Carbonneau were the authors of the plot, and Tolleron, Charles, Lefranc, the woman Picard, Desbeunes, Dervin, Descubes, and Philippe, were accomplices. With regard to the rest, it would be the business of the Jury to decide whether they were guilty of the offence of concealment, or of that of distributing seditious writings, or signs of rallying, not authorised by law. The Learned Counsel con cluded with an eloquent peroration, which, notwith standing the gravity of the place, and the solemnity of the occasion, excited the applause of a numerous audience. M. NIANGUIN, Counsel for Pleignier, was next heard. He admitted the tact of his having composed and distributed an incendiary Proclamation, but con tended that the wild conceptions of his client could not be dignified with the name of a plot. He begged as a favour that Pleignier should be banished to Cayenne. Let him go beyond the seas to that burn ing clime which receives men only to devour them. Here the Counsel grew warm, and described the ter rible effects of deportation. Pleignier covered his face with his hands, sobbed, shed tears, and seemed delivered up to gloomy despair. The PRZSIDENT.—Advocate, the law, full of wis dom does not permit you, even in favour of your client, t r paint the consequences of a sentence. When cooler, you yourself will allow that this interruption was un necessary and ill placed. M. MANGUM felt the justice of this remark, and finished his pleading. Carbonneau spoke for himself e he declared that Pleignier had deceived him, by saying that be bad powerful friends. At soon as he was aware of the imposture, he abandoned all connection with this dangerous man ; and on the evening of his arrest he was upon the point of enrolling himself in a company of comedians. It remained, he added, for him to dissipate any alarms which might be felt. It was suspected that this machination might be directed by great personages : it was no such thing. M. Dostcg o tao, Tulleron's Counsel, defended him • • • on the ground of the instigations used to seduce hird. The other Advocate Will be heard to-morrow. PRIVATE LETTER. DATED PARIS, JULY 4. al Three regiments of the Royal Guard set out yesterday morning for * Lyons, in consequence afresh disturbances which are said to have taken plAce in that city. The Due d'Angouleme leaves Paris for the South, in order to dispose the minds of the people favourably to a general levy, which Government will attempt to effect in that quarter. The politics of the Continental Powers become daily more evident, and little doubt remains, even in the minds of the King's friends* of the Russian Government being completely estranged from the French Court. The intention of the Emperor Alexander to place his brother.in.law on the throne is again confidently as. serted. It is even said that the Prince of Orange states himself to be well assured of this Sovereign's support for that purpose. Russia is endeavouring in the mean time to strengthen her alliance to the pre judice of England : with this view she has proposed' to Prussia and Hovland the adoption of her Tariff ; she even adds to it prohibitions which would render its operation against British manufactures little short of that produced by the Berlin and Milan decrees. Russia is stated furthermore to have, in conjunction with America, promised to countenance the Mexican independence; in return for which, some ports in the Pacific are to be conceded to her. 44 The evidence given by Made Verneuil and M. de Mathis, both Knights of St. Louis, against the conspirators of 1816, has not been a little mortifying to the members of that honourable Order ; the title of Chevalier henceforth denoting to society the office of a spy. The Minister instructed the Censorship to suppress that circumstance of the trial. but it w:is al. ready printed in the Corudisaionadand .kurnal de Paris, and many copies of the former were already distri buted. The Censorship received orders, at the same time, not to suffer any thing but the initials of agents of Government to appear on like occasions. This M., de Verneuil employed under Bonaparte for she Police des Salons, at the rate of 500 lilacs a month. 46 You will observe that the Paris Papers state sim ply, that General Marchand ( who commanded at Grenoble on the landing of Bonaparte) has been ac quitted, carefully withholding from the public all particulars of.the trial. The police, which enjoined that caution, has also forbidden any mention to be made of the Government of the Low Countries hay. lug acceded to the Treaty of the Holy Alliance. The following lines were struck out by the Censorial pen, of a new Tragedy entitled Absalom : " Le chatiment d'un peel suSt a ma vengeance, " Pour sal Rol sans our, he Cid est Ms clemence." 44 A circumstance that would indicate the little faith placed by the petty States of Germany in the French finances, and iu the permenancy of the pre sent order of things, is, that several of them have di. rected their bankers at Paris to sell off their claims on the French Government at 50 per cent. loss. Tt.e new President of the Board of Controul lately evolled in Parliament the Protection granted by the French Government to their Protestant sub jects. This Minister,. unless he be egregiously mis informed, certainly belies his own conscience. The celebration of the Fete Din, at Nimes, had created apprehensions of fresh excesses being committed upon the Protestants ; is eons, quence of which, many de termined to absent themselves from the town during that period. It does not appear, however, that any assassinations took place on the occasion. The help less Protestants were nevertheless exposed to acts of oppression and indignities of various kinds through out the department of the Gard ; a remarkable in. scam,: of which is that of their being compelled to pay the entire expenses of the processions attending that Fete." EXTRACT FRObt A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED VILLE. FitANCHE, NEAR LYONS. 66 Numerous meetings yearly take place at Whit suntide : the youths of the town celeL.ate this pe. liod by rejoicings, by sports, and vat ions public amusements. They this year deemed it prudent to confine these entertainments to a ball, to which all the authorities and persons of respectability of the place were invited. A bust of the King, together with a white flag, had been placed in the hall, and it might have been expected that this entertainment would have been the signal of reconciliation between all parties : the Royalists, however, not only refused partaking of it, but resorted also to every means of disturbing it and provoking quarrels which might j ustiiy measures of persecution and exile. A Com missary of Police, attended by a numerous military escort, intruded themselves into the meeting, com mitted much abuse of authority, and gave every kind of offeuce, calculated to irritate the minds of the as semblage ; fortunately, the latter, by their modera tion, disconcerted the plans laid by the agents of power to cre.ite disturbance, in order to find an opportunity of making themselves necessary to Government by quelling it, and of obtaining thereby similar rewards to those bestowed on the public functionaries of the department of the Isere. " Nu union of parties takes place here. The Ultra-royalists, do the contrary, daily limit the small number of those whom they deem worthy of serving the legitimate cause. An instance of this disposition is afforded by the answer which the Archbishop of Rheims lately made to a person who entreated of him a letter of recommendation to M. Berger Collard, the President of the Committee for Public Instruction. This charitable Prelate said, g I will do any thing for you but write to a Jacobin." EXTRACT ON A PRIVATE LETTER PROM NANTEL • 66 This town is a prey to a-state of terror similar to that established here by Carrier under the reign of Robespierre. This system of terror has been orga nized by a M. Cardaillacy formerly a bankrupt, from Limousin, also Procurator-General of the Lyceum of Avignon, and now Commissary. General of Police in this place. In Consequence of his mea sures of exile, proscription and transportation, taken in a most merciless and arbitrary manner, he has ob taMed the surname of souveau Carrier: A lady hav ing recently had occasion to implore his favour for her husband, addressed him in these terms-4 I pre sent myself before you, as I formerly did before Car rier for my father, ands I now implore you for my husband.' The latter is one of the first Civil Magis trates of the town, who continues exiled from it. •' Many of our principal inhabitants have been compelled to quit their homes end abandon their con ,cerns. Several young mew of our best families have. been embarked by force for the West Indies, without their relations being able to learn the precise place of thrill , transportation." PRIVATE LETTER FROSt PARIS, DATER JULY 4. a Lady Wilson's health being considerably ame liorated, Sir Robert has expressed his readiness to re turn to the Conciergerie, in consequence of which he is to repair there to-morrow. The expiration of the term of their legal captivity is oil the 24th instant. " QUARTER BEFONE 81L—An order has been this instant received from the Police, directed to the dif ferent Journalists, to compose an article on the great tranquillity of Europe, and the unrivalled prosperity in which France is placed. This ingenious mystifi cation is to appear, if passible, on Saturday." GERIIAN PAPERS. AUGSBURGH, JUNE N. A new Proclamation of General Maitland, Goya- nor of the lonian Islands, gives the most favourable account respecting the Plague at. Corfu. All the , suspicious, except two, were sent back to the villages; all the re-convalescents began their last quarantine. • and all the infected were recovering. The General hoped, that by the 15th of June, in the whole district of Leftimo, the communication would be again allowed in the interior, though not with the other parts of the Island. On the I Ith of June arrived at Leghorn, the English ship the Abundance, having (in board a considerable quantity of works of art, taken hack hum Paris, particularly 30 statues, wtich it took on board at Antwerp, and is to convey to Civita Vecchia. The iltutriast Observer asserts to have learned from good authority (which, however, is a matter liable to so many doubts, deserved, perhaps, to be more ex. deity pointed out,) that in spite of all the assurances of the London and other Journals, the number of persons arrested in consequence of the law of the 29th October last, never exceeded 1163 persons; of these 514 were under surveillaiice in their usual place of abode. 87 under surveillance out of their usual place of abode; in another commune of their department 19 were sent from departments to which they did not belong, to the above ; 127 were still in arrest, in consequence of a measure of police; 211, respecting whom only imperfect information had been obtained, were under examination, and 33 wholly set at liberty. In the Grand Duchy of Baden 19,018 children were vaccinated in 1814, of which the 37th child was not inoculated with genuine vaccine matter ; in 41 the inoculation produced not the least effect. In the same year SB6 children had the natural small pox, of whom 75 died, or the fourth child. Thus it appears, that the small pox was as destructive in 1814 as former periods. By the vaccination, above I 4,500 children were saved in one year in the Duchy of Baden. THE HAGUE, JULY 4. The foil:Acing is the Message to the States. Gen eral, by which his Majesty informed tlicm of his ac cession to the Act denominated The Sacred Alliance : '1 he Hague, July 1. " 7hz Treaty by which their Majesties the Emperors of Aus tria and Russia and the King of Prussia, on the 2.tith of Septem. bee last, made the nob:est precepts of religion and morality the rule and measure of their political transactions, has justly excited universal attention ; and Lir one has doubted that a system woo. thy of these virtuous Princes, if it were universal and carried into full and permanent effect, would have a beneficial influence on the state of society, and the reciprocal relations of nations. " Desirous nn our side of contra:outing to this exalted object, we could not hesitate to comply wiih the invitation made to vs by our powerful ally, the Emperor Alexander; and herewith your Excellency will receive copies both of the said alliance and of our Act of Accession to it. (Signed) " WILLIAM." (Here follows the invitation delivered by General Von Phull, the Russian Ambassador, in the name of his Master, and the Act of Accession by the King of the Netherlands, da:ed June 21.1 NEPAULLSE W'AR. The following account is ficim the Bombay Courier of the 17th February : " Several advices concur in stating that great preparations were on foot in the upper provinces for a fresh campaign against the Nepaulese. We had hoped the glorious issue of our recent operations against these marauders would have ensured a longer, it not an absolutely permanent, cesstion of hottile measures—that the ratification of the Treaty of Peace, by all accounts embracing stipulations equally founded in justice and moderation, would have been readily accepted at the hand of our Government—and that it would have tended to remove all luture contention : but the movements of the military forces to and frvitt different posts do very little accord with the nature of the expectations held out. However, the victori ous achievements of the British arms, so repeatedly exemplified in our warfare with . the native powers, at the same time that they will have great weight with the Nepaulese Government in dating. a second ag. gression, give us every assurance of a speedy ternll - to hostilities ; but if another blow is struck, we may venture to say, that it will be of so decisive a character as will effectually crush their audacious spirit, and reduce them to the harmless condition of the other native powers." From Calcutta it is stated, under date of the 31st January, as follows : The latest letters from the Terrajee , relate the continuance of vigorous measures, to enable the army to act with effect before the end of this month. Sir David Ochterlony was marching to join the main army, and had reached Seegrawlee on the 22d inst. It is still the firm belief ot some persons in camp, that immediate submission will be the consequences ot these warlike measures. All the divisions of the army are in high spirits, and anxious to make the assault of Mukwanpoer, where it is probable the first blow will fall." Extract of a letter from Bhugwanpoor. dated Ja nuary 21:--" I am happy to state, that Government has determined to prosecute the war with vigour against these faithless mountaineers, befoie the season for operations is altogether gone past. Sir D:tvid `Ochterlony will be near Soagullee to-day. Colnnel O'Halloran has just reinforced this frontier with 1000 men ; and all we now require is an abundant supply' of food to enable as to move forward. The sale of the grain at the depots is much to be regretted, but this is no time for reflection on what is past we must all put our shoulders to the wheel, and endea vour to repair the evil. I trust under our noble leader we shall soon make the Goorkhas repent of provoking the power of the /latish arms.", ' THE EVENING sTA!! LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 9, Ituß, PRICE OF STOCKS 'THIS DAY AT I WhI.VE O'CLOCT.,, Reduced Bt;?—Cons. ittll-4 per Cent. 71 5 per Cent. Navy 9f}=-Bonds Ss. ft pre. Eichequer Bills, Is. la. pre. It is much to be regretted that Parliament Ins s e . petaled without doing any thing. to pre vent or lessen the number of emigrations, either temp orary or per. manent. By inquiries made at Ramsga te , and Brighton, we find that from these por ts on l y the number of persons taking their passage to the C ont i . nent, amount on an everage to not less etan a :43. sand weekly, on a moderate computa i , ul; ;t:; r, that the numbers who arrive at these ports n on, t: e C o .s . nent bear but a very small proporion to 'hose who pass to the other side.—Some of the deserters, i t i s true, only go for a few months recreation ; but in the present circumstances, to say the least of it, i t i s highly injudicious, fer the sake of a little arntisnri ze% to deprive the country of all the ber.t.i.l of t!'eir penditure. Let us hope that from this tfl oraensio. tives of patriotism will keep many at home whsh are been planning excursions to other countries. The KING of the UNITED NETIMILANDS has ae. ceded to the Contract or Treaty known by the name of 46 The Holy. Alliance." It now inch! !es Rus,ia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and the United Net! er. lands.—Whatever may be the motives and object , the Contracting Parties, it is undeniable that it woi,:d be greatly for their own benefit, as well as that of their respective subjects, if the Sovereigns of Ear pc were to make themselves intimately acquainted with the precepts of the new Testament, and to mAke that the rule of their conduct in all the relations in which PROVIDENCE has placed them : nor are we disposed to charge them with hypocrisy and sinister views in the public profession made in the Treaty alluded to. Let us hope that Ile ty whom Kings reign is bringing about a new order of thingson theface of the •.vcrld, and that mankind are about to witness and enjoy the fruits of those lessens of experience which hare been so dearly purchased by the events of the last twenty-five yet:!. We have received the Paris Papets of Sawnlly. The defence of the conspirators goes on. .M..vit adroitness, and Got a little wit, was displ iyed by tha various Counsel. They treat!cl the whole atir as we arc much inclined ts.. do on this side of the Char. nel ; namely, as the story of a cock aGd a bull ! Only one incident of any interest occurred durint! Om de fence. M. BEZON, in defending Desb.tunes, satd,that to had been seduced to join the conspirators by tf. de Verneuil, a Chevalier of St. Louis, but who was .!e -scribed by M. BEXON as a spy of the preient ment.—[ Here the PRESIDUNT ordered M. Bala to be silent, as M. de Verneuil was not present.] The Paris Journalists rejoice at the number cf English who visit France. They have reason : tLe riches, nay we fear the prosperity of Enotand, are thus rapidly passing away from her, and unless some 'speedy embargo be laid on emigration by the G Rem ment at home, the efFects of it will come home to die highest goarters, with as much severity as they ;Lie now felt by the middling and lower classes. CoI:HIER EXTRAORDINARY OF SATURDAY NIORNING. Lady W►lson's health being improved, Sir R►►bcrt Wilson wrote to the Minister of Police that he was ready to return to the prison •.f La Force: in fact, !,e returned yesterday morning. The three months' nil. prisonment to which the three English were cun. demned will finish on the 2-ith. At Toury, in the department of the Ewe aril Loire, the limal authorities have shut up a c , ,!l' c• house in which some suspicious characi,:rs had iti• sernhled. Several Englishmen of distinction ertntinue to arrive at Paris. A great number of then) apartments at Paris, or country houses, for the uhc,;e season. At the period of the Peace! of Amiens, Ole Ear:li , h also came to visit the capital and the provinces, hut they did it only with a sort of defiance and moved by curiosity alvne. At prr,s;ent they come t 9 st.ndv our manners, our customs, our language, our and our arts, and they benave themsaves like good neighbours fully reconciled. From the Southern Departments we loam that tf:e new Barley is already in the nia:kt.t. The vine; .superb, the flowering has ex:ericmced nn revi.n . f.e, the harvest will be most abundant. That of the worms has been very good, and in short eveiT, , I of crop is promising. PARIS, JULY 6. His Kajzsty left Paris yesterday afternem Versailles. The Duke of Anonleme a!so set out last n;z,lit for Lyons and Grenoble. There will he a grand review en the Bth of the I'f tional Guards, in order to celebrate the anniversrry of the return of the King, and FT th 7 s ren , ..)n Court will nct go into tr.enrning L: - ;:le Qum ut Portugal until the 9th. Lord EXMOUTH, on his return to town r , tcrdir, had an audience with the Board of Admirilliy. II:; Lordship's squadron will be increased lo seven sail of the line. Sir WILLIAM CONGIRLVE had an interview with his Lordship. with a supposed reference to the service above aUudzd to. ~4