Star. — London, England, 1816-07-11 00:00:00

FRILL CII PAPERS. PARIS, JULY 7. The Duke d'Angoukme, who quitted Paris the 4th, St ten in •the evening, slept on the night between the sth and 6:1) at Auxerre, at the house of the Count de Goynn, the Prefect. The Ex:Gencral Bnnna;re was transferred yester day from the priion of l'Abbaye, to that of Saint PrlAgie. The King has granted the title of Marechal•de• Camp to the Chevalier de Ikuriot, the Vendean General. The Court of CAssation will be occupied next Thursday with the a vitt al of the Authors and Distil. but ors of Naito Tricelore. The following staterrstnt is given of the number of demands for the decoration of the Royal Order of the Legi n of Honour, up to the Ist of July the Crand Chancellerie 11,000, at the Ministry of the It.urior 10,000, at that of War of 15,000, at.that of Justice 6000, at that of the Marine 6000, Audit that of Finance 6:mo—Total 54,000. _ _ _ The King will to-morrow review the twelve of the N:tional Guards of "%iris, on the Boulevard la Madelaine. Same Carthusian', who have survived the revolu• tion, have recently re-uncred the Grande Chartreuse, near Grenoble. Mail English of distinction continue to arrive at Paris. Among the last were the Marquis of Lana. down, Lord Berwick, M. M. Windham, Seymour., &e. Several of them have taken apartments in Paris, and country houses for the fibe season, and many proceed to Switzerland. L ASSIZE COURT. Yesterday the Court c o ntinued occupied in bearing the defences of the various prisoners. After the dif ferent Counsel had been heard, the President asked the prisoners, whether they had any thing to add in their defence. Pleignier threw himself entirely on the wisdom and mercy of the Jury. Cirbonneau professed his repentance for any share he might have had in drawing up the Proclamations, but denied that he took part in the conspiracy. What ever punishment was pronounced upon him, he should bear it without murmuring. Tolleroa pronounced a long discourse. He spoke indignantly of the greater part of the accused being described as of the dreg: of the itcople. His Emily had not worm-taten parchments to shew, but it was well known in the depat tment of the Nievre for centuries of virtues. The woman Picard pronounced with a lively emo tion, often intern:Nell by sobs and tears, the following speech I have n o thing to add to my defence, except to entreat the Gentlemen of the Jury to pity an unhappy vPorrian, who deeply repents that she has been involved in such a calamity. My only crime is that of having beea weak enough to receive those cursed cards, without revealing it to my husband. 66 I entreat you to have compassion on M. Des. batines 1 I have been the cause of his misfortune. lie belongs to a respectable handy, to ‘thicti I owed great obligations in my : his fAtl.cr rendered me great services; and now I am the cause that he is deprived of the embraces of his s .n. Let the pu nishment fell on me alone ; restore to a wretched fa ther a son whom he has not ceased to love. Thus I 'alone shall undergo the co.:sequences of my crime, and shall n't feel the disgrace, when I return to my country, of receiving the reproaches of an afflicted parent. Be assured, Gentlemen, that it was nut I that sent the wee to him, as I am charged to have done. Whatever my punishment may be, I flail suffer with resignation : lam guilty, I ought to be punished, but nobody shall ever have reason to corn plain of me." Desbeunes allowed that Picard had not sent him the note except at his own express solicitation. Dervin rambled into lung details about his con nexions with Scheltien, whose benefactor he was, and who had denounced him to the Police. On being called to order by the President, he said he acknow ledged himself guilty, and should hear his sentence wieli sangfroid, but never would forgive Scheltien. Sourdon delivered a very long discourse. The first part of it was full of declamation against-the preju dices of birth, and of historical parallels drawn from the conduct of Cardinal Mazarine. He wasrequested by the President to confine himself to his cause;.-- " What am I reproached with ?" continued Sourdon, “ with having composed songs in favour of Bona parte, and sung them at the Cafe Montansier. Ah I. Gentlemen, think of those men of letters, those men of genius, who have so often changed sides—of those srirebeites, those political chameleons, always ready to embrace the party of the strongest ; and reflect whe ther you can impute it as a crime to me—the obscure author of some ephemei al compositions—the having been for a moment carried away by the torrent of example !" He confessed his knowledge of the cards and proclamations, and declared it tohave been his intention to denounce to the government the machi nations going on. But he contended, that if the its• sociation of the patriots of 1816 was a conspiracy, it was the most pitiable, the most ridiculous one in the spinals of the world. Instead ot - mischief, it had b y *s discovery produced salutary effects. To use a vol. gar comparison, the conspirators had done the same to the government that a prisoner would do, who, thinking that he gave his victim a fatal draught, shoold administer to him the elixir of long life. The speech of Sourdon, says the Journal de Paris, displayed proofs of erudition, logic, and sometimes of oratorical talents. The PRESIDENT then summed up in a speech which occupied three hours in the delivery, and which con-, eluded with an immense number of questions put to the consideration of the Jury, with regard to the se speetive guilt of the principals, the accomplices, and t , :e non-reeeders, The Jury retired to deliberate at seven o'clock in the evening. The Gazette de France hat the following paragraph, dated Sunday morning Verdict has not yet been given; the Jury have been enclosed in their chamber since last night ; a considerable crowd is collected about all the avenues of the Court of Assize. At tote close of yesterday's sitting the prisoners in general last their firmness and assnrance. The approach of a moment so solemn appeared to fill them with the most lively. alarm Pleigater shed searsiocessantly. It is now seveno'clock, and the Jury are still deli berstiug.". • • THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1816. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCICs Bank Stock 2141164 117—Reduced 63—Cons. 6241 Coons. fur ace. 64H-4 per Cott. 7811+4 per Ceat. 94H Onimum 4211—Esebequer Villa, Ss. Cs. pre.—Bonds 4s. ss. pr. The state of the Monty Market his, for some days past' assumed a very pleasing aspect. Bank Stock rose yesterday 4 per Cent. Upwards of One Million of Omnium was taken out of the Bank on Tuesday ; and the little remaining will be taken out to-day and to-morrow. The Market will then be free from every incumbrance. The Commissioners forliquidating the. National Debt, purchase daily One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Eight Hundred Pounds, Cons. and Red. The Unclaimed Dividends will be a source of inex haustible wealth to the country—se7so,ooo has al ready been. aid into the Treasury on that account. When no demand of Dividend has been made on Stock fur ten years, the capital will in future be transferred into the names of the Commissioners, and all the Dividends due thereon will be immediately invested in the 3 per cents. in their names. On these grounds, and as the public may now rest satisfied that Govern. ment will not require any Loan to wind up the NVar Accounts, we may anticipate a farther rise in the Funds at no very remote period. We have receives the Paris Papers of &Imlay. The trial of the Conspirators has terminated, and on Sunday they were thus disposed of by the sentence of the law, ♦iz. six were acquitted, and of the remain ing twenty, three are to be put to death, and the rest to be severally tr3r.spo:ted and imprisoned for various periods. Pleignier, who wished to speak to the KING, and who repeated that wish on receivingsen ia among those who are to suffer death. All of them have three days allowed them in which to appeal against the sentence. The Gasette de France thus apostrophizes their conviction : 0 Thus has linislaed a trial, remarkable for the rank of the guilty. A frightful example of that revolu tionary delirium which has overthrown all ranks, and given rise to every possible crime. Let us hope that the example will not be lost upon society—that the perverse and the weak and wicked man, will renounce projects which are henceforth impossible of accom plishment The police watches and will discover all their plots. Justice is there, and they cannot escape the sword of the law. It is time that order should be re stored, and that the disturbers of the public tranquil lity should be punished. We cannot in this complex affair pay too high an eulogium on the Judges and the Jury ; and the accused themselves must do ho nrige to their impartiality and the way in which the process has been conducted. In punishing their crimes, none of the attentions which misfortune re quires have been wanting, and they have been allowed in their defence all the latitude allowed by the law." The reports in private letters from Paris are very contradictory, but they should be received with great caution. It seems pretty plain, that pains are taken by some men of the revolutionary school, to keep the public mind in a state of continual ferment, with reports of every kind that may be calculated to agi tate and to excite apprehensions of some approaching but undefined a ar. Russia is hinted at by sonic as the object of apprehension, but Alexander has no troops in or near France, except his contingent of 25,000 men on the Northern itontier, nor is it to be credited that that monarch can be so blind as to with again to see France rise in a mass, once more to agitate and disturb the world.— Some will have it that France is about to take an active part in the war against the Algerines. This is possible, but we do nut think it likely that this country would seek, in a war with such a ban- ditti, the co-operation or even the approbation of any Power whatever. The French rumours are fortified a little by the circumstance of the King having again restored SUCHILT to active service, which is said to be indicative of at least a persuasion on the part of the French Government, that France may be called upon to repel some threatened aggression ; but this is all mere vague speculation : other motives may have in. duced the recal of Securr. It is necessary that the King should have an arniy—ii is necessary that it should be efficient to whatever extent it may be organized. Many of the best-affected of BoNAPARTI's soldiers :lave been admitted, a few of the officers have also been received ; but there are many raw men—many officers employed, who have never yet seen real ser vice—who have even been strangers to France fur years. Svelter, let it be remembered, did not join the Usurper on his return to France: is it strange, then, that he should again be employed, when it is so necessary that the Royal Army should be rendered not a nominal but an efficient force ?—The French Government has denied, through all the Journals, that the slightest cause exists for apprehending an approaching war of any kind—and the present state of Europe is in unison with the statement. COURT or ASSIZES—SITTINGS OF JULY 7. Many of the spectators who attended the trial yes terday remained all night, others returned very early in the morning, and the Hall was entirely full, when, at six o'clock in the morning, the Jury gave in their verdict. It was read by M. Dll.r►vis, the foreman Pleignier, C.arbonnean. and Tolleson, were de. (played Guilty 1. Of having isatadtaij the aims of lam Najaf", by ode, nada& or committing one or mars sets towards an, attempt against the life and person of the King. it. Of Lae Majeste in forming a plot at eool4pirarf against the Ule or person of the King. s and 4. Of similar acts against the Royal Flintily. 5 and 6. Of a Plot to change the Government of France, and exciting the citizens to arm against the Royal Authority. Charles, Lefranc, Despommiers.Desbaunes, Mrs. Picard, Henry Oseri, Jacques °sere, Sourdon, Der cubes d'Lascaux, Gonneau, Bonassier, sen. and jun. Lebrun, and Philippe, were declared guilty of not revealing the above conspiracy within twenty fours after it came to their knowledge. Charles was also convicted of having printed a Paper containing direct provocations to overthrow the Government. The distribution of the same paper was brought home to Lefranc, Mrs. Picard, Despommiers-Des. hinnies, Dervin, Lebrun, Warin, and Lascanx.— Bonassier, sen. was acquitted from this charge. Main and Lascaux were acquitted on the charge 'of stealing six bottles of wine. Prosper Cartier was found guilty of distributing rallying signals not authorised by the King. Emanuel ()seri, BellAguet, Dietrich, Lejeune, Druuot, ,Houzeau, Plauson, and Garnier, were ac quitted of all the charges, and set at liberty. The remaining twenty were then brought forward by the Bens d'arrues. Pleigni:a preserved the same character of stupidity and apathy which he exhibited during the debates , Tolleron, Desbauries, Descubes. Sourdon, and sever ral others, did not change countenance, and appeared indifferent to all that was passing. Carbonneau and Mrs. Picard were visibly . affected. Bmassier, senior, awaited with painful anxiety the decision of the Jury. The Deputy PaecuKEUR.GENERAL than demanded the sentence of the law. • The PULS/DENT. Has any of the accused an thing to s:ty upon the application of the law ?" C:irbonncau.—" I atu neither an author nor an accomplice: I am not suffic:ently acquainted with the laws to enable me to discuss them. Nevertheless, I think it can only be the law .respecting seditious writings which can be applied to me. I have done nothing lint allowed myself to be seduced and led away by the insinuations of Pleigr.ier. I copied the Proclamation, I admit; but this is all. I beseech you to take into consideration the justice of my cause, and the m'sfortunes to which my wife and three chil dren will be exposed ; for they have no resources if their father is taken from them." Sourdon.— ,, I wish to see the Legal Code. Ar. tick 108 excepts those who have revealed before their arrest." Cat honneau ... 44 I am in the same situation." The PitEslDENT—(with warmth.) 68 'lle Cuursel for the criminals ought to have explained tothem the meaning of the law. There is no exception, except for those who have reveAled before the commence ment of the prosecution." Sourdon —4' I have never studied the criminal law. In short, strong in a good conscience, I shall exclaim with the illustrious Poet : i.e crime fait la henite, et non pas l'ecti e aud. The crime is the disgrace, and not the scaffold. Philippe" I am ignorant what ate the ankles of the law, and I bow to the wisdom of the Tribunal." Tolleron—(rising with violence.) 6 6 The law grants a pardon to those who reveal within twenty tour hours after prosecution is commenced, and five minutes after my arrest, I revealed ail." The Court returned to the Council Chamber, and after a new deliberation pronounced its judgment 'about half-past nine. Pleignier, Cirbonneau, and Tolleron, declared guilty . of Lese-blajeste, were condemned to die. The following is the form of the sentence, which is the same with that for parricide : 66 The criminal shall be led to the place of execu tion, in his shirt, bare.footed and the head covered with a black veil: he shall be exposed on the scaf fold, while the officer shall read the sentence of con demnation: he shall then have the right hand cut off, and be immediately afterwards executed." Charles, Lefranc, Desbaunes, Mrs. Picard, Der vin, Lebrun, Warin, and Lascaux, were sentenced to transportation beyond seas. Henry Osere, Jacques Osere, Sourdon, Gonnean, Bonnassier, sen. and jun. Descubes, Lebrun, and Phillippe, were condemned to imprisonment and pd. lory, viz. :—Sourdon, Descubes, Gonneau, and Phil lippe, to ten years imprisonment ; Henry Osere, eight years ; Bonnassier, sen. eight, years ; Bosuns. sier, jun. six years; and Jaques Osere, five years. Prosper Cartier, for distributing the Cards, was condemned to five years imprisonment, and 50 francs of fine. While sentence was pronouncing, the woman pi. card fainted.— , 4 Ah, my pacr husband !—Alt, how unfortunate 1 am !" Pleignier, Csrbonneau, and Tolleron, did sot change colour. When the President ordered the gins d'armes to take away the criminals, Pleignier requested leave to speak. The President told him that if he bad any disci°. sums to make, he would point out the Magistrate to whom he ought to make them. Pleignier answered, that he was desirous the public should be informed of them. The President, however, did not think be ought to be indulged, and all withdrew in silence. When taken into the front lodge of the Concierge. Carbenneas and Tolleron were stripped of their T clothes and dressed in the uniform of the pri sons , While Carbonneiu was dressing he was p er r essil composed : he fek only, he said, for his wife ski children ; and expressed a hope that the Gove rnment would take pity on them. Tulleron answered with the greatest calmness, al even with gaiety, to the various questions wtr, put to him. _ _ Pleignier had been separated from his unhapp y ac complices, and still persisted in saying that he Would speak to the King. The rumour of an approaching dissol ut i on of Par, liam d entcsatnilvlagssaeins ground. Lord P ALMIRSTOUe has openly the University of Cambridge, b y a circular; and Mr. LOCKHART has gone to Oxford to secure his constituents there. As it is said the SPEAKCP will be raised to the Peerage, A SUCCCSio r in the reprc. sentation of the University of Oxford has also ente te A upon his canvass. The PRINCE RESENT rode out on horseback y es . terday. Yesterday Viscounts MrtAmur. and CAmstrvi had audiences of the PRINCE REossr, at Coleco House. We are happy to say, that the report of &t a re of her Royal Highness the Princess CHARLOTTt terday was, that her Royal Highness continues much better, but the Princess kept her room by de s ire o f her Physicians. Sir BENJAMIN BLOT/WIELD attended at Camelford House, by command of the Pmxcc RE;:exr, to in. quire after the state of his Royal Daughter's health. The Princess received visits from the Duchess of YORK, the Duke of CUMBERLAND, Esc. Yesterday the Duke of GLoversreft paid his re . :peers to her MAJESTY and the Pamc E ss el , at th e Queen's Palace, for the first time since his indis. Fosition. The French Ambassador had a long Interview with Lord CArrt.citsaan yesterday. At a late hour on Toesday night, Mr. WALSH, the King's Messeng er,was sent off with dispatches to Paris. A letter from 'Berlin, dated July the 2d, says 41 The Duke of Cambridge will leave us this evening, His Royal Highness dined on Sunday with Poke William, the King's brother, and yesterday with Mr. Rose, the English Ambassador." When the last advice' lift Cape Coast, the expedi. lion under Commodore PARRY was still at Seliegal, but was shortly expected to sail. The Earl of MOUNTNORRIS died on Friday, 2frer a short illness, at his house in the Rue de la Madeleii - e. at Paris. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, ARTHUR Viscount VALENTI*. Saturday morning the remains of Mrs. Joßnal were depr , sited with the usual solemnity in the church of St. Cloud, near Paris. The funeral service was performed in the most impressive manner by the R. v. Mr. MAirox, chef cf the Protestant Church in Paris. By at reference to the Treasury Books, we under. nand it is ascertained, that Mr. KFAN hss Iro:izi l t more money to the Theatre than was ever dere by any Performer in any period of the Otago—M.. eaneica not excepted. We give this day a Report of a Trial, detaiEng a chimney-sweeper's cruelty. Englishmen can feel for foreigners of every description, Blacks and Mulattoes —how is it they do not feel for their own ? The case of the poor child that has perished in the fangs of this unfeeling brute, ought to produce an immediate Act for the abolition of this species of Torture and .Slavery, in this country, which, in our overwfoirg vanity, we call free, and peculiarly endowed and blessed by • HEAvEN ! A partial reduction of one halfpenny nn the quart of porter has token place. At Portsmouth beer has been lowered a penny. The Monopolists who keep iip the price in the Capital, reduce a mere trifle in proportion to the duties taken off, but they keep nut of sight all the great fall in the materials of their mania facture. The publicans of Hull have reduced the price of ale to 5.1 per apart ; York p: ice, 4d. per quart. AN IMPORTANT CAUTION. — Ladies who ate accoi. nulled to wear their dresses extremely law in the hack and bosom, or off the shaulders, are particuratly quested to beware of a person who has for same time past frequented all places of public amusement, ina many Ovate parties. He is an elderly gentlernin, of venerable appearance and correct manners: his constant practice, when he observes a lady dressed in the manner above described, is, with an almost im perceptible and apparently accidental pressure of Little instt ument which he carries in his hand, to imprint the following words upon her hack or shoulders, NaLl, Lai not ashamed. The stain is like that produced by 'caustic ; washing will not remove it, and it bectirres more visible by exposure to the air, so that nothing hut a covering can conceal is. It is said dad severd ladies were marked last summer at various places •st fashionable resort, and that they cannot, even now' strip for company, without displaying this indelible badge of disgrace., Fnautas.—A banking-house in the city has receney met with considerable losses from the fraildulvet cor.. duct of two of their clerks. One of them, after ing embezzled to the amount of xl,aace . hatt ti-e good fortune to escape out of the cauniry. and is suo. posed to h ice sailed for America. This circa-as:a:l.a induced the house to be more upon the alert tc::.: • nizing the balances made up every night by the cis: t.:. when it was found, a kw nights ago, that the balaaca understood as correct WAS false, and that the ,ilat c. about Rl,7f f 0 referred to as in possession of the Loa aa. had been taken away by the clerk who had g;ven the false statement. and thereby imposed neon the rest of his coileaeues. On Tuesday morning, wh-a the clerks were all at breakfast, the error in the bf iance was atmounced, and an immediate inquiry into the affair was ordered; but before the investigatica was gone into, the person who had purloired the money made his escape from the house. An officer was immediately obtained, and he was instructed tar search for him, as directed, at the west• end of t hi! town. The young man was found dangerously ill bed, having taken a quantity of poison with the tendon of destroying himself, but which failed ;n effect. Medical assistance was afforded him, and al though he continues seriously indisposed, the prabatoi• lit; is that he will recover.