Star. — London, England, 1822-09-17 00:00:00

- -4 - . strations as in Alcobendis: the brilliant National Mi litia, of both arms, came out to meet the Political Chief, to whom they offered their services, and ac companied him to the garrison, where they shouted, fervent and repented viva: to the Constitution. That same morning the bhtve National Cavalry Militia of Argete arrived at Fuente del Sat, and in the evening the Militia of Yaldetorres also arrived. All these va liant troops manifested to the Political Chief thei r ardent wish of contributing their efforts to extermi nate the enemies of their country, declaring their readiness to abandon their work and the comfort of . their homes, and accompany the column whithet&o, ever the Chief should command. • The Abject of the expedition being fulfilled; and the end which the Political Chief had in view having been attained, he determined to return to the capi tal, having previously expressed his gratitude to the t roups who accompanied him, in the following terms: tt FUENTZ DLL SA3, Maus: 28. tt ORDEP. Or Tilt DAY. " "Militiamen !—We have attained the chief object of our short expedition : we have preserved that tranquillity and order • which some evil.dispesed persons wished to overthrow in various towns of this province; and we have obtained other advantages favourable to the liberties of the country, and the advancement or the Constitutional system by which we are happily governed, which, though they are not now obvious, are not the less real.— You have perfottued an important service to the nation in gene ral, and to this province in particular; and you may retire to your hounei with the certainty of having fulfilled your duties to my satislaction, and that of the people who have witnessed your zeal, discipline, and enthusiasm fur the political Constitution of the Monarchy, for-which you now receive the thanks of your Political Chief. (Signed) "JUAN PALAREA." This simple statement more and more proves the truth of what we alleged at the outset—namely, that the adroitness and activity of a Political Chief, if exerted in due time, are sufficient to defeat any plot, however hidden and complicated, that may be formed against the system. The authors of these manoeuvres will stop when they find that their plans are disco vered ; the imprudent individuals whom they are con stantly endeavouring to seduce, by painting to them the fac i lity of success , will cease to put confidence in their . promises when they learn that precautions are beforeiand adopted for securing the punishment of rebels ; and the presence of power will animate the indiffoent, impart courage to the weak, and diffuse through ail classes of people that salutary confidence in the Government which is the main support of public spirit. By this means faction will be avoided, and crimes will be prevented before we arrive at the painful necessity of punishing them. The Political Clues who thus banishes the spirit of faction from his province, renders an important service to the country; for in civil war it is more glorious to avoid bloodshed than to gain a brilliant victory over enemies,who, after all, are our brethren.—El Universal. COURT OF ASSIZE AT POITIERS. SITTING OF THE 11TH. The Court opened at half-past six.—The PRE.III - informed the accused that they might add any thing they wished to the defence made by their Advocates. General BaRTON then rose and said, " Gentlemen of the Jury—You must have remarked that none of the Advocates have ventured to resume the point of the general law on this affair, and that it has not been touched upon by any of them. You have heard nothing but isolated pleadings. Each has defended his client to the best of his power. I am with out an Advocate and I cannot undertake to treat the entire of this cause. One of the Advocates said to you yesterday that the point should, as I think, have preceded the summing up of the President :—no Advocate would undertake this task. One of the Advocates told you yesterday that they had nut experienced any resistance on the part of the Authorities of Saumur, that no one was arrested ; all that is true, because they were obeyed.— The Public Minister has made a general thesis: we are too cir cumscribed to contradict it: on the contrary, all concessions for the interest of each client have been made him, because no per son could determine to plead in that way. The witnesses for the prosecution have been all received with favour. The denun ciators have been encouraged; they have been covered with praise. The witnesses for the defence have been repulsed; they have been pointed at ; they have been intimidated; and those have been shut out who could contradict the denunciations and the bragadocio of a servant. It is impossible fur me to speak my thoughts, from my ignorance of judicial proceedings, but I think that all that could be done has not been done for the general in terest of the accused. The pleading has been so circumscribed, that no Advocate had the power to express his thoughts. I be hove, Gentlemen, that the system of the Attorney-General will not triumph in these limits; his doctrines do not meet success. Blood, and still more blood, is all that he asks of you.— Ah ! Gentlemen of the Jury, will you open as many graves as they ask you? They will be silent; but they will live among you and will be incessantly befo:e your eyes; your names will be engraved on each tomb, and to your wives and children they will ever be a source of terror; their weakness will persuade them that they are constantly haunted by the shades of the un fortunate victims whom your decision is perhaps about to Immo late to the fury of the Public Accuser. - You, Gentlemen, must have observed, as well as I, the fierceness depicted in his coun tenance, when he turned towards you to implore your assistance. Vain were the efforts he made to soften its ferocity. The At. torney-General neglected no means of impressing on your minds the cruel sentiments which filled his own. The act of accusa tion, which he has read to you, would be in itself sufficient to render his name horribly celebrated : and you have seen how he gloried in his detestable work. M. Maugin, the present Attorney-General of the Coen of Poitiers, is the cosmo polite of politics (if I may be permitted to use the expression). Other triumphs, perhaps, call hint to other countries, and he will abandon you to the contemplation of your victims. Recall to your minds the times of Corriere and of Joseph Lawn, and be ware of renewing these scenes of horrible memory. I have al ready had the honour of telling you, if your conscience demands that blood should be shed, I offer you mine. I abandon my life to you : but spare, I beseech you, in the name of humanity, in the name of your own glory, these men who marched along with rue; they were deceived, and they yielded; then restore them to their families. Daring seven months they have suffered all the horror. of a rigorous imprisonment, in a dungeon desti tute of that relief which their families could not supply. Their f amities and their children will bless you; your names will never be forgotten in their prayers; you will thus rest on your pillows with more tranquillity, and your consciences will be haunted by no agitating eorrow. I have already told you, Gentlemen, that it was imagined there were moral proofs against me, which -sa vooted of the baseness of their origin. Efforts have been made to beat me down and discourage me, but theft affronts have not reached my heart; I have been made to experience every subal tern vexation. I cannot habitats to mention to you one among a thoassociaSuch means are carni lly. used ionly at Poitiers. Three times did my jailer, Chatnpitin, tattegine yesterday by sayinrs• We have here a tutstkey who hews the same name as you—he l is called &non.' T kip* whence this ailner,proceeds, but I despise it. I shall reply so k u toll! °diet stsh . taunts, ' Go, tell him who taught you to lisp the language or issolence, that the name of Berton will, be spoken of with honour in France and in Europe, when that of Dfaugin shall be mentioned with execration. My children shall bearlhe name, and shall always ',aryl° it. Do you forget that the name of the, amily of the brave Crillon was. Becton; be was called Laois de Blink Ber ton de Craton ? Here, then, is evidence of sty fame, which the Ittorpey-General, perhaps, will not recognize. I call to wit nes all my companions in arms and in glory. Something, how ever, tells me that the shades of the brave CrWon, and those other heroes without number, who in every age laid down their lives for their country, will not refuse to consort with mine. Here is my bosom—strike, Gentlemen, and I shall die without fear. My soul defies death—it is undismayed, and smiles at dis solution--k will depart with content. I look forward with hope, as I expect with confidence to enjoy that eternal rest, the highest reward to man, if man can obtain it. But, Gentlemen, though I am silent on my own behalf, I would be trumpet-tongued for those comrades, who are placed in the same unhappy situa tion with me. It it for those unfortunate then, and for them only, that I implore your justice and your Indulgence. I feel that at this moment there are many Frenchmen who woad envy me this situation ; but I would not yield the bower to any man. Once more, I say, I go to meet death, with hope and without fear. Dlay I be only permitted to express a hope, that my death may be useful to my fellow-citizens and my country." . Cale, Saugr', Fredise, and Ledig, then, in order, addressed the Court briefly, protested their innocence, and implored the consideration of the Jury. Some of the witnesses were recalled, and again examined, at the desire of Caffe. The PRESIDENT having then asked if the prisoners had any more to say, and no one answering, declared that the debates had closed. He then charged the Jury, who retired at half-past eleven to deliberate on their verdict. The accused were, in the meantime, conducted to the Prison of the Visitation. Great crowds had assembled around the Palace of Justice, anxious to learn the result of the deliberation. At halfgpast eight in the evening the Jury were pre pared to give their verdict. A great number of the military, in the meantime, paraded the streets. At ten o'clock the accused were again introduced, when the declaration of the Jury assigned a different place to each of them. Berton, Mix, Fredin, Caffe, Jeylin; Sauge, and Senechault, with astonishment observed, by ;he place assigned to them, that they were condemned to death. Caffe and Fredin seemed greatly depressed. Rique and Ledrin, who, during the trial, were placed by Fredin, could not check their tears when they were separated. Berton shewed the greatest coolness. At eleven, the sound of the clock made known that the Court had finished its deliberation. The PRESIDENT then pronounced judgment on the accused. (We have already given it).;--Berton and Caffe being members of the Legion of Honour, were then solemnly degraded. They and Fredin and Sette chault are to be executed in the public square of Poi tiers. Sauge and Jeylin are to be executed in the village of Thouars. Lithographic prints of Berton are now selling in all the picture shops in Paris, and bought up with great avidity. - EAST-INDIES. We have received Bombay Papers to 27th April, which also contain the latest intelligence from Ma dr‘s, Calcutta, and the East Indian Islands. On the 2d a fire broke out in one of the suburbs of Surat, which consumed upwards of 1,500 houses, with all their contents, the property of not less than 7,000 of that class of the native community employed in weaving. Meetings had been held in Bombay among the various castes, fur the purpose of raising funds to relieve the sufferers. Two shocks of an earthquake were felt on the 27th of March, near Dacca, which were not, however, fol lowed by any injurious consequences. The only passage in these Papers at all relating to military operations, is the following extract of a letter from Major Faithfull's Camp, banks of the Tonse " OUDE, FEBRUARY so, Ins. " Since the reduction of the fortified village of Burgong, on the 9th inst. no fort has resisted Major Faithfull's detachment. Yesterday a place near this river, containing a garrison of five or six men, was dignified by being invested by the squadron of the Ist Light Cavalry, a company of infantry and two six pounders, to which this mighty garrison soon sur rendered ! The Tonse being at the ford crossed by the detachment full five feet deep, it required a day and a half to cross the train. The gunpowder was transported across in small dingles, and the carriages dragged by main force through the water to the other side. Casim Ali Khan has Several, forts near this. It is certain he is desirous of peace ; but it ap pears that the Prime Minister has treated him so ill, that out of desperation, he may probably fight. Cisim Ali Khan is much esteemed by all British Officers who know him. Major Faithfull visited one of his forts the other day ; and it is to be hoped he has given Casim Ali Khan assurances of just and fair treatment when the Aumil Meer Gholaum Hussain makes the settlement with him; the latter.appears a very good kind of man, not at all inclined to oppress, but there is no saying what orders - he has received from the Prime Minister at Lucknow. On the 11th inst. Major Faithfull's force was reyiewed in presence of the Aumil. The cavalry made several brilliant charges, and the spectacle went off with great eclat." The Government of Bengal having ordered a scien tific expedition to be fitted out, under the superin tendence of the Company's Astronomer, for the pur pose of ascertaining the length of the pendulum at the Equator, to combine with operations lately performed in England, France, Madras, and in various other parts of the globe, the same, most liberally furnished, sailed on the 13th of March for Bencoolen, to pro ceed thence to the Equator. Captain Crisp, of the Bengal Establishment, was appointed to conduct the operations, under the superintendence of the Astro nomer, and had the aid of two assistants. The data requisite for determining the length of the pendulum would be obtained by the party, and transmitted to the observatoiy, where the conclusions were to be drawn. Other valuable information ii expected to-be.obtained. Very little doing, this morning in the market, and the Foods appear heavy. Consols fur Account 813--tor )boner Si. 'Re market opened rather brisk at 813 buyers, but an eminent Jew Broker sold, which damped the market. Feasmis Fosos.—Up to this hour the market is Sat, and scarcely any business done; but all fdleign securities remain steady at the following prices: Milian Of, New Spanish 6313, Old 683, New Prussian 883 3. (d 91, Russian en, Danish U 3 89, Neapolitan 773 I, Colombian 863, Scrip 863. Hat.r-tasr Twit:Ark.—lt Is understood in this market, that the last Prussian Loan negotiated by BIessrs.ROVIIICIULN the payment of which becomes due the end of this meth, will be yet of till December next, on the payment of four per cent. interest, in consequence of which the price has now advanced to 8833. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per Ct. Cons. 81 81 1 / 4 -4 per Ct. New 100 3 /s 1 / h India Stock. 252 1 ,1.—1ndia Bonds 475. 464. New Annuities 81—S per Cent. 1751, 81 Exchequer Bills of £1 ,000, Ss. 2s. Ditto sMiall, ss. 9s.—Cons. tor Account 81%. DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1822. DONCASTER RACE COURSE, SEPTEMBER 16. (Received In Town by Express.) The long looked for decision of the great St. Leger Stakes is at last arrived, and we are well assured that the annals of Spotting never produced an occurrence on which such public in terest and anxious doubt existed, as on this most important Race. Thousands of the most distinguished Fashionable*, as well as tens of thousands of persons of every rank and degree, were on and about the Course, and hundreds of thousands of pounds must most inevitably have exchanged owners by the result of it. At fifty-seven minutes past two o'clock this day, as fine a field of horses, of the first breed this kingdom can produce, started, and in an instant, as it were, the convulsive eye of hun dreds witnessed the result of an event unparalleled for grandeur and speculation—the particulars of which we subjoin : Theodore - Mr. Gascoyne's filly - 2 Duke of Leeds's c. by Conius - - 3 Twenty-two or SS started, and the above three only were placed. Theodore won by a length. Any odds apt the winner —5O to 1 apt Mr. Ciascoyne's filly, and 50 to 1 apt the Duke of Leeds's cdt. Swap ran last but one. The Produce Stakes was won by Mr. T. 0. Powlett's Hap hazard colt. The French Papers of Saturday present ample sub ject for remark and reflection. The Government of France imenarching towards absolute despotism with singular rapidity, and hence paving the way forthat le-action which is hot far distant. Of that Govern ment it may truly be said in the language of Scrip ture—,, the head is sick and the whole heart is faint, and there is no soundness in it!" Every one who has read the trials for conspiracy which have recently oc cupied so much of the public attention in France, have looked - with contempt on the weakness of a Go vernment which could seek to magnify feeble plots into formidable conspiracies. But if the judicial pro ceedings in the first instance were contemptible, in their progress they have become infamous—nothing short, indeed, than a legal conspiracy to convict the accused, in one instance at least, that of the Rochelle conspirators; and in the affair of General BERTON and his associates, though we do not deny their guilt, yet there has been such a perversion, or rather total denial of justice in the proceedings, as to render their conviction but a legalized murder. In the STAR of yesterday we anticipated the verdict and the sentence of General BERTON and his asso ciates, and in a preceding column we this day give the conclusion of the trial. In reviewing the whole, what an anomalous outrage upon reason and justice does it present ! The French law allows to the ac cused, in criminal cases, the assistance of Counsel, under the sanction of the Minister of Justice : but when BRITON named a particular Advocate to de- I fend him, the Court refused, and appointed him an Advocate of their own choosing ! This Advocate, M. DRAULT, who appears to have conducted himself with prudence and firmness, not having the confidence of the General who rejected him, was still compelled by the Court to undergo the mockery of appearing as Advocate for a man who disavowed him. At. the close of the trial the Advocate declined making the usual defence under such disadvantageous circum stances, when the Attorney-General and the Court declared, that for such refusal, he should be removed from the French Bar ! Next comes the questioning the accused, and com pelling them not only to answer severally as they arose, the acts or presumptions of guilt sworn by the witnesses, but also to explain private memoranda, in short-hand or cipher, and to account for any object at all suspicious found upon their persons. This is the ancient torture, in a milder form, but still the same in form and spirit. Another remarkable feature in the Ftench judicial proceedings is, that the kr roitnar-GEnEit AL, who in France sits near one of the Judges, usurps their authority —or, rather, an autho rity that neither Judge nor prosecutor should possess. that of restraining the freedom of the opposing Coon . sel, addressing them in a tone of arrogant diet *lion, and commenting upon the evidence, as he goes on, by direct appeal to and even solicitation of the Jtiry. Upder such disadvantages, conviction fur any , politi cal crime in granco can 44Cige no surpribe i particu: . . I ktlOSsft tbat,the Jury is composed of St. Lottis and Ultra-Bourbonists. however, in the French criminal proceed. we find this perversion of justice, since every Court in France. It was one of the present French Ministry to abo. .tri the Censorship, but to subject the more iottruircnis and oppressive restraint. A most wanton and malignant instance of the exer. eke ofthis power has been exhibited against the Edi. tors of four Opposition lournals in Palk, who, for Stating a fact, which is not contradicted by pioof, and which, from the speech of the Prosecutor, pears to be true, have been condemned to fine and, imprisonment; and what to a public journalist is more ruinous than either, a prohibition from publish ing any reports of judicial proceedings in furore._. The punishment Of the Editors has been varied, not its proportion to the alleged offence, for no distinc. tion is made in this respect, but it has been ann., voted in proportion to the sale and p.Tularity of the offending Journal. One part of the French law is, that the Editors of Papers shall print whatever is sent them from autho rity, and hence we find that the four condemned -Journals have been called to puhlkh the speech of the Public Prosecutor on their trial—trial we must not call it; for no proof was adduced; the Judges would hear no evidence, pro or eon, respecting the truth of a statement which referred to occurrences during their absence from the scene—of which, con sequently, they could have themselves no knowledge. The Public must take it for granted, therefore, not only that the sentence was varied on an offensive and malignant principle ; but that the guilt itself was found, contrary to justice and common reason. The penalties inflicted on those Editors, particulatly on that of the Constituttonnel,are to the utmost stretch of the law, or rather beyond it. The article in the law applicable to this case enacts that ~ Infidelity and bad faith in [he accounts given by journals and periodical publications, of the Sittings of the Cham bers, Courts, and Tribunals; shall be punished by a fine of from 1,000 to 6,000 francs." It also further states that-4 , In the case of relare, or where the report is offensive to either of the Cham bers, or to a Peer or Deputy, or insulting to a Court or Tribunal, or any one of the Judges, or Jurors, or to witnesses, the Editors of the Journal shall be besides condemned to an imprisonment of horn one month to three years." But there was not the slightest evidence either of bad faith or infidelity in the accounts published by the Journals, much less was there any ielapse ; and that what a Judge, Juror, or witness niay consider offensive, should be visited with imprisonment, is one of the most despotic acts ever male by iny Govern ment in the worst of times: and yet th:s la ba , e and infamous as it is, has been aggravated by the manner in which it has been executed. It has been remarked as singular, th rt no defence was offered by the Journalists; the Cotalitutionnet, of Saturday, however, explains this: " Relying (says the Editor) on the previous practices md cus toms of the Court, which have always granted the accused, if be has objections to state in /intim, the privilege of being he,:ri in reply to the accusation, on some other day, if his objection„ are found not rele►ant, we attended only to state our objections to the mock of proceeding (inoyeiu prljudicielks), and cleaned that we did not mean to reply to the accusation. Counting, however, on the former precedents of this very Court, reposing in security on its previous decisions, we have seen ourselves de ceived by the sudden application of a new mode of proceeding." The Papers on which the Court has thought fit to inflict penalties of so severe a nature, have intimated the intention of employing every legal means to pro cure a reversion of the sentence. An appeal is to be made to the Court of Cassation against the prelimi nary decree, by which the objections to the proceed ing were set aside. The Constitulionnel has relieved us from much of the apprehensions to which the details of the Turkish and Greek operations in the Austrian Observer of the 2d inst. gave rise. We knew that these details could not be wholly invented, and the presence of a Turkish force in the Morea seemed to imply previous disas ters on the part of the Greeks. It turns out, hoet•ever, `that though the statemects of the Austrian Observe, are partly true, that paper has purposely excluded from them most material circumstances which would have given to the whole a very different complexion, and has, thereby, in effect, been guilty of intentional falsehood. The account in the Cm:Oil:l6mnd is from Corfu, dated August 11, and states that the battle took place on the 20th of July, near the passage of Ther mopyla. CHOURSCHm's army consisted of 40,000 men. The Greeks attacked him with great spirit, when after a carnage of more than three hours, the column entangled in the defile surrendered, while the rest of the army sought its safety in flight. Caounscitto PACHA, pursued in his retreat, took the roasi to Pharsali a. Led by this road into the defiles of Trachis, nearly four leagues in length, he lost three fourths of the remainder of his army. From the village of Zoli to Thaumacos, the whole way was filled up with dead bodies. The Seraskier arrived at Larissa with only 3000 men. Cardinal RECANTS died at Rome on the 31st ult. in the 70th year of his age. FRENCH FUNDS, Sr.a 14.—Five per Cents. opened at 92f. 25c. rose to 92f. 35c. and closed at 92f. 30c. Yesterday, at three o'clock, his MAJEsry held a Court, at his Palace in Pall•mall, which was at tended by Earl 13.frtsuRsx Earl LIVERPOOL, the .Earl of WESTMORLAND, t he CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, the Treasurer of the Navy, Mr. W. WYNN, the Duke of Doan?, as Master of the Hone, and Loicl CHARLES BENTINCE. Lord ST. HELENS and Sir HILOROVE TurtsEß were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which Mr. CANNING kissed hands, and received the Seals of Of fice from his MAJESTY, 011 his being appointed Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the room of die late Marquis of LONDONDERRY. Parliament was further prorogued from the Bth of Oct ohz to the 26th of Novernbvr. ME.Olaurrou SMITH was swan in Lord Liet*e nant of the County of Carnarvon. Eat! ORrutntsx 'sat as .resident of the Council, in the . ahsence of die Earl of HA anowaY. The Council broke up about four o'clock. Mr. CANNING had an audience of the KING before the. Council, and the Earl of Livenroot. bad an ats- . (Hew After the Council. .-- - --,--- larly when it is lc 'lilt: E' EN I NCI STAR. old Knights of St t ., 7 _,..._-__....._ . - ab- • It is not, bowel LONDON. , . imp alone that wi it pomades ever] TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 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