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lured like them It a bag and cruel sa. *iotawould not to-day have been heard I may have seemed for a time to , field of battle, hitt I warn my enemies encamp there in too mach security—l am re - yield up the victory to them without a and I swear that my conscience tells me prevail. They have been able to enjoy .7 triumph ; circumstances, I confess, hale themselves at the will of that hatred which in a manner to justify some degree of fear of those who are interested in my fate.— had I preferred my complaint against the aors of my character, than all of a sudden I " accused of having conspired against my this pretext they have thrown my best prison ; they have carried off from my 7 papers, letters which I hid received Isters, orders which they had given me. thrown me between two conspiracies, the of which has no other object than to credence to the first. It is net surprising that enemies should have thus attacked me. For years past, the same men have made same resources. I shall defeat their ma- But, urgent as the necessity is of placing light the important events at Lyons, more necessary that I should previ t the odious suspicions with which they the perfidy to load my reputation. It is that I should free myself from an accusa -1 detest. I esteem the defenders I have well not to be convinced that they would the aid of their counsel were such an to rest upon me. It is necessary that recover the papers, of which I have )bed —that I should assemble witnesses :ies who are concerned in the process. — then, Gentlemen, that all proceedings in daint which I have brought before you suspended until the charge of conspiracy tyself 'shall have been determined. I shall liately and surrender myself to the Judge :don. I shall learn, perhaps, what the gua those laws and tribunals is, against which doubts have been raised, but in which I can t.icipate, as long as I know that a Bourbon is I am henceforth under the protection of •ws—under that of the public opinion. I fear because I am under the protection of my :e. Whatever may happen to my person, igh shall be for my King, and fot the pros my country.' XGUIN, advocate for M. Fabvier, then rose tressed the Court in these words :—" General ,as spoken in a tone of wonderful confidence . result of the judicial contest in which he tosen to involve himself before this Tribunal ; fore expressing himself in so triumphant a he would have done well to have waited card what his opponents had to say for them- He would then have seen that it is a dis which he can never come out of with clean that M. M. Fabvier and Senneville are far inking from the complaint ; and that they have 1 Al nothing but what they are able to prove.' teneral demar.ds from you that the cause may ,erred.—and on what grounds? On the ground has the misfortune to be implicated in another acv with which we cannot and do not wish to ty thing to do here. There can evidently be no nnexion betweenease two affairs—between a charge ' - against the General himself and the charge le has prefered here against my clients. We certainly give our consent to any adjourn- Our honour is compromised. We are ac of being calumniators ; and it is necessary trance should immediately know to whom tpt obrious name belongs—whether to us or adversary. General Canuel alleges that the} leprived him of necessary papers; but he has ig to prove—he has no need of clocume.r... on us the burden of proof lies—it is we that ,reduce the legal evidence of the facts we have :ed, and for whicli we are denounced as ca- aors. If General Canuel had asked a delay of lays to prepare his attack, we should not per lave been so ungenerous as to refuse acceding but when he demands an unlimited delay, it is ity to oppose it. He has cited us before this nal to-day ;we are here in obedience to the us—he is here also. Why then ought not the to be determined ?" DuPIN, for M. Senneville, also opposed the trnment on similar grounds. Courutte, Advocate for General Cannel, in support of the motion of postponement, began by stating the fact that it was the Procureur-General, , in a firm and and not General Canuel, who had fixed the present than frightened at as the day for hearing his complaint. "If those," HAVE NOT FLED, he proceeded, " who are accused of calumny, have has been pro- need of legal proofs for the facts which they have ital. I have only advanced, it is just as necessary that the complainant to present myself should have the means of repelling these imputa- The complaint tion;, and vindicating his innocence. It is quite my calumniators, erroneous to say that there is no connexion be-1 I esteem, and for i tween the two processes. It is by the persons have sacrificed r against whom the General has brought his corn- Tearing at this au-1 plaint that this ulterior proceeding has, by way of my complaint, and , reprisal, been instigated. He has thus become both firmer than ever. complainant and defendant at the same moment; it 'iv-grant of arrest issued is therefore indispensably necessary that he should with any Wl: o ==w have the support of the documents of which he has similar lataude been deprived. It is in vain the accused wish to dis semble—in vain they deny a connexion so obvious ------- - as that which subsists between the present pro - - - • • cess, and the charge of conspiracy which has been so recently fulminated against the General. If they wish to make it believed, that at Lyons the General, in place of counteracting conspiracies, has imagined them ; that in place of repressing the sedition% he has excited them ; and that in the hope of obtaining places, recompenses and honours, he has not hesitated at the revolting attempt of wad ing to them through a sea of blood, can it be pretended that all this has no tendency to give a degree of probability to the part which they wish to exhibit him as acting in another process? I demand that the proceedings in this cause be sus pended until General Cannel has an opportunity of, presenting himself before the Judge of Instruction, and vindicating his character in these respects. In one hour 1 1 he will descend into the Conciergerie ; in one hour he will be a prisoner—he will share, perhaps, in that ri gorous seclusion to which his unfortunate friends have'' been subjected for 20 days past, and to which he would ere now have been consigned, had he not, by remain ing in concealment, preserved the power of appearing to-day before you, and explaining before the public the motives of the delay which he demands. You cannot refuse him time to petition—to reclaim his papers, so that he may not present himself unarmed, l , to enemies armed at all points. Let the weapons be', equal and you will not see him shrink from the contest." M. MAnonis replied—" The General pretends that he is come here to justify himself—but who is it that demands such justification of him ? We have not dared to make any such proposition ; we ask only to justify ourselves. We know more about Lyons than the General perhaps imagines, and we do not believe that the documents he seeks after, can inform him of any thing which other docu ments can testify that are in our own possession, and ready to be produced, but which, doubtless, the General has no desire to see brought forward. As little do we believe that the ministerial orders he speaks about can have had for 032ir object to send provocations to rebellion into the country. The General talks of a " pretended" conspiracy. Can it be believed that the Government would fa bricate such a thing? If you do believe it, General —if you do say so, we may believe and say also, that they have fabricated such a conspiracy at Lyons; nay mol c, we will do better, we will prove it. I persist in opposing the adjournment. - The Tribunal, after deliberating a few minutes, adjourned the cause till Saturday, the Ist of August. After leaving the Court, General Cannel repaired to the house of M. Meslier, the Judge of Instftiction. The Judge told him that the Commissary of Police who would examine his papers, was not then at the Palace, and he therefore requested the General to return to-morrow at mid-day. General Cannel, after having given his word of honour that he would do so, then returned to his own house. A letter received to-day from our private Corres pondent at Paris, contains the following additional observations on the conspiracy, and other circum stances connected with it. It was written, it will be observed, before the fact of General CANCEL . S reap pearance was known: " PARIS, JUIN to. " it has been sometime whispered that the Duke of Ragusa (Marmont) has been forbidden to appear at Court. Having discovered that the rumour may be regarded as well-founded, I hesitate not to com municate it. The cause is his letter to the Duke of Richelieu, in which he declares that Colonel Fabvier only wrote by his orders, and that it was with him, and not with his agent, that General Cannel would have afterwards to do. The Ultras say it was coxvardly of the Dake of Ragusa to write such a let- ter, when he knew that an order had been issued to crest Cannel. To this it may be answered, that the Duke of Ragusa was not at `,iris when he wrote the lettter, and could know nothing relative to the or ders for arresting Canuel for a conspiracy against the King and the Government ; and whatever grounds there may be for any reproaches formerly addressed to the Marshal, it is certain that his soul is too ele vated to seize the moment of an enemy falling, to kick him. As to the Duke's disgrace, it is of course inter ! preted according to the different opinions of the par ties. The worthy Ultras regard it as a just punish ! mint for his execrable conclac: at Lyons others ac count it an odious persecution by Gover nnent. of an illustrious warrior, on whom they could not impose silence; and who preferred incurring disgrace to the concealment of afflicting truths, the publicity of which was necessary. Others, again, think that this paternal correction' of the Marshal by his Majesty, had no other object than to make him feel, that being in the service of Government, he could not, withoot failing in his duty to the King and to himself, become party in an affair in which he had appeared as Judge and Mediator, in the name and by the orders of the Supreme Authority, which he represented. We incline to this opinion, for how can it be - . imagined that the Ministry wr.3hed to favour General Cannel at the very moment when it was prosecuting him, as suspected of being implicated in a conspiracy to destroy the Charter, overturn the Throne, li ht up civil war, and re-plunge the whole of Europe in the dreadful state of anxiety from which it is bt:t just _... . . __ ...,. .... _ ..... is / • —.— ......---/--•---.---- friends, immu i THE EVENING STAR. covey—my vo amongst you. --------- LONDON. abandon the f not to encamt --- SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1818. solved not to s e .s —Holiday at rhe Baal Exchequer. and South-Sea strugg le, and . i . - House . they will not . . --e-- a momentary APPEARANCE OF GENERAL CANUEL. developed the The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this morn- pursues me, i ing, and are more than usually interesting. General on the part o CANUEL has at length made his appearance. He Scarcely had had not fled as was generally supposed, but merely calumniators concealed himself for a time, for purposes which are was myself a I explained in the following Report of the proceedings King. On t which took place on Tuesday before the Tribunal of friends into Correctional Police, when the complaint at the Ge- house all my neral's instance, against M. M. SENNEVILLE and FAaVIER came on to be heard, and when the Gene- They have tl 1 ral, to the great surprise of all present, made his per- from Minisv most recent I, ; , sonal appearance in Court. gain credenc 1 TRIBUNAL OF CORRECTIONAL POLICE my enemies ACTION OF CALUMNY. twenty-five e i ) j . LIEUTENANT -GENERAL CANUEL AGAINST MM. DE use of the s: SENNEVILLE AND‘FAI3VIER. nceuvres. f ! TUYADAT. JetY 21. in a clear • At an early hour this morning, every avenue to it is still • 4 the Tribunal was filled with persons anxious to hear ously repel 1 the first proceedings in this important cause. As have had t soon as the doors were opened the ball was instantly necessary th filled in every part. The crowd was so excessive. tion which that MM. de Senneville and Fabvier had great diffi- chosen too / culty in obtaining a place beside their Advocates.— refuse me Every person looked around most earnestly for their imputation adversary. I should Various reports were in circulation amon g the au- been robb( dience. Some persons maintained that General Ca- and parties J , noel was at• Brussels: others announced, with a tone I demand t of assurance, that he would appear personally in the compl. Court. In England there would have been betting s h a ll be st 0 , about the matter : in France they affirm, but do not against my . t bet—a practice more economical. go immedi. , I t When the Judges took their seats, the whole of Instruct a,ssca,bly were silent. , - rantee of tl . 4 Several matters of trifling importance first occu- injurious d i l i pied the Court, in the midst of which the attention never parti of the audience was suddenly attracted by a bustling our King. i noise in the corridor situated behind the scat of the the laws— Public Minister, which was immediately explained t . nothing, b I by the entrance into the body of the Court of — G e. conscience. resat CA:a:a., attended by M . M . bIM COUTURE, and . . my last sig BEERIER, jun. his Advocates. perity of n A number of persons saluted the General, others M. MM 4 1 , . 4 went up and shooks hands with him. One of the and addre Gentlemen of the Bar rose from his place and made Cannel ha the General accept of it. as to the I In a few niiirtzes afterwards, the cause " Caned has chose: a" moinst Senneville and Fabvier" was called, and the but befor President proceeded to demand of the parties their m a nner, I names and designat i ons. till he he: M. CANCEL.—" My name is Simon Canuel. I am selves. 1 . I a Lieutenant-General in his Majesty's army. cuss i on w M. SENNEVILLS.—" My name is Nicholas Same- b an d s ; t i i Ville, Master of Requests." from shrit i M.FABWILIL--" And mine Charles Nicolas Fabvier, el advanced Colonel." The Gen The whole three were dressed in plain clothes, and be deferr decorated with ribbons of the Legion of Honour. that lie h General Canuel wore besides the Cross of S t. Louis. con nirai s: The PRESIDENT.—" 13efore the citations are read, have any have the parties or their advocates any observations connexio , 1 to make ?" brought r,'. General CAtsuet., on this, rose, and proceeded to which in address the President front a written paper which he 4 cannot c i held in his hand :—" Mr. Pre adent, I b e, that the ni „ t. 1 h cause may be postponed, and I wish to state the con- cused a: siderations upon which I found this request. When I , that Fr, 1 t I commanded in chief for the King in the n i ne teenth th i s opr r i, 1 'I military division—when I employed all ntyefforts to to our a E coun teract the plots of the factious, of the abettors of have de sedit!an—l was far from anticipating that the enemies not hi ng ,1 1 t c: the King and of the State would one day have the _i t i, , 1 audacity to accuse me of having excited them to must p i I CI: Me ; still les, did I imagine that I should ever be advance ected of haying conspired against a Prince whom sosp g iu maim I have served with so much zeal"— ,:. Mr. PRUSIDENT.—" You must confine yourself, h aps h a b eiAt th , , General, simply to your reasons for requesting the to it ; b i 1 ., adjournment of the cause." our dui I , General Camunt..--- ,, These are the reasons of my Trihun 1 it demand"— citation 3.; M. CONTURE.—" Permit the General to make his cause t t• M. : r easons known." , . M. De;os.--- ,, For ourselves we have no objections. adjourt We desire that the Gen eral ma y have ever y latitude M. 1 ~;, in his attack, reserving to ourselves a similar latitude suppor in our defence." stating General CANCEL then continued, in a firm and and nc animated tone—" Marc astonished than frightened at as the the manoeuvres of my enemies, I HAVE NOT FLED. he pro as toe journals have reported—as has been pro- need c claimed in the streets of the capital. I have only m i yan , i i I wished to make sure of being able to present myself shottic this day at the bar of your tribunal. The complaint t i on ,, 0 i which I have institut ed a g ainst m y calumniators, , errant being for many function aries whom I esteem, and for twecn f myself, of extreme importance, I have sacrificed ! "„i„,, ' ev ery thing to the necessity of app earin g at this au-; plaint , 1 y I di en ce, to declare that I persi s t in m y com p laint, and . 1 repr i s i that my resolution to maintain it is firmer than ever. , comp / —lf I bad obeyed at first de of arrest issued , is the against ono—thrown into prison with my unfortunate . h ave . . , . / ~ ..i ? liii t '.. t . a emerging ? We are well aware that the corapiran had no means of executing their infamous proje Men, money, and courage, were all wainiii , : ; such a plot is not the less criminal merely heeal s is ridiculous; and he who organized the sham ct spit acy of Lyons, by which nearly 150 innocent! sons were condemned to death. was fully capai after enjoying impunity for his crimes, of organiii another, in which even the life of his Sove re ; zr , pended on his obedience to the will of the tr;,; t , Thus, until the innocence of Canuel jud;Li.. proved, the Ministry ought to believe the accusati of M. Sennetil lc well founded. The precir:taze, secret flight of Cannel, adds considerable weV. the suspicions against him, for it might b.! imp. , to call them proofs until they are establidted by 7 sentence of a tribunal. , c When, we may ask, will the Ministry cony bend, that if silence be the safeguard of despotic vernments, publicity is the firmcft guarzntee i Governments ? The Ministry has but nae step ,❑ to make, in order to add the confidence of the tion to that of the King. Let the Ministry to the Press that liberty promised by the CI:. and it will soon see what a Government, supi., by political opinion, is able to effect." The report of the (It:us.% health, tlais da7. follows Her MAJESTY comiaues much the this morning." _ _ The Duke and Duchess of CLA nryrt har pointed Monday, four o'clock, and tLe Duchess of KF,NT five o'clock, fur rece . nir.; dresses of the London Corporation. On Wedne , .day, at two o'clock, a Cal)re!C' was summoned to beheld at the roreip o:7cc on account of the painting and repairs pi:7 there, it was adjourned to the house of thz cELLott of the ExcimorEn. It V.%li Loan CHANCELLOR, the Larl the Earl 0f.1.1% - Enpool., Viscount CAartuu Viscount St DMOUT it, Vi,COUllt t' CELL , ift of the ExcuLot: ER, Mr. CANNING, ac. sat for about an hour. The PRINCE. REGENT will be one of tae sp4 at the baptism of the young Lord 1:noo4r. for great preparations are making at Warwitk Ca The BISHOP of SALP,PURY is arrived at in order to hold a Confirmation. without youngsters in that island can neither marry no as sponsors at baptisms, &c. Scc. Lord MILTON is perfectly recovered from fects of his late accident, and is now at the his father, at Wentworth, in York .hire. The average of six Thermometers in the ! two o'clock yesterday, was l 14 degrees, Fart or two degrees above fever heat—Thermotr the shade, northern aspect, 87 deg.—ditto, aspect, 88 degrees. The Metropolis and its vicinity were las blessed with a succession of genial showers. was also some thunder and lightning, but no great extent. That delightful spot Rieliwond, is dailt• genteel company, and the temperature bein ably retreshed by cooling and genial bree7 , the Thames, renders it at once the most and romantic retreat in the neighbourhood don. The Theatre, under the truly spiritNl r ment of KLANERT, enjoys distinguished pa. Ot the company much may be said in pr:, hitherto every performance has gone off ni:!. guished ec'ut. Thursday, Mr. M.‘TUIV %TT'S elegant vi grounds, at Wimbledon, were thrown or et public : the conservatory was F...ted up as a for the sale of various ornamental works the Ladies of the neighbourhood, and sold benetit of the boys' and ,oirls' school of o l d The dairy was filled with fruit and other ment. The handsome suit Of rooms on th, floor were thrown open to the company, w numerous and elegant. About thirty of the Stockport rioters h taken into custody, of whom seventeea mitted to bail, one committed to the How rection, and one. Joseph Barker, is in cs Chester Castle. All is quiet at Manche.ter Letters have been received from Pre zn state. that one of the most exteasive ma nui•i that town had been attempted to be set on incendiary. The fire had been got under be damage was done. The strictest inves.dg taking place. In the sitting of the German Diet, on this month, Austria delivered its opinion commercial intercourse in Germany, and er to prove that an entirely free intercourse'.) States of the German Confederation can;: introduced at present. The trial of the pretended Court Pos Helena, at Paris, concluded on Monday. of Assizes gave judgment that he was the who was sentenced under the name of t in the year 9, to 1 b years in iror.4, for rob he was therefore ordered to b e handed disposal of the K ing's Procureur-General. It is said a celebrated German Wtiter up a NEW CODE, Or LAW OF NATiONs• ti the Congress of Sovereigns at ..11r-la-t which several articles of commerce an being of general utility to the inhabitant country, and such as ought to have ing,)e: without duty. 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