The National Register. — London, England, 1815-11-05 00:00:00

-.ABU 1 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. NOV. 5. Committee of Safety, wheie too tardy destruction has ex cited the acclamations and the joyful transports of the whole people.—(The Speaker was interrupted by cries of Order, Order.)—The Duke de St. Aignan insisted upon calling him to order.—The Speaker replied—Explain yourself; I have s iid nothing but the truth ' • 1 decline, however, repeat- - ing it, since it is unpleasant.-11ere are my proofs as to the inconvenience and extreme impolicy of the propo sition. Some hundreds of thousands of police officers may, according to the project, arrest for crimes of state; And the simple fact of the arresj authorises the government to keep the individuals u. prison indifinitively for one year, eighteen months or many Nears, without . any necessity of Vinging them to trial. Suppose only one arrest to be executed by each officer, a million of Frenchmen may thus be detained in arbitrary confinement; where would you find prisons to put them ?—Yes, they are suspected, or if you will , inculpated according to The penal code; wpectcd, for they are not even prevenus, though called such ; the great as well as the small prevention ran be coestituted only by the judges. Such is our criminal code, formed under a tyranny, and for a tyranny. It is said that nothing is changed as to the competency of those who issue therna;dats; bet every thing is changed, be cause there are now only the mandats of appearance : and no longer those of arrest, which cannot be issued except by a Judge, and which alone contains the imputed crime, and cites the law that punishes it ; because there is no longer a judgment inch declares the suspicious sufficiently esta blished nor the consequent ordonna [ice for taking the body of the offender. Your law, therefore, will only produce detained persons, and scot reach those who are justly sus pected. It is demanded that those shall not be tried; then they ari., in fact, like those of the celebrated year, and I could easily prove that the suspected of 1793 had more resources than those of 1815 for redress. This is pot A. It is proposed to apply to these persons the penalty of placing them under the inspection of the high police; that is, to stud them to reside ,;our hundred . _ leagues., if they like ls from their homes, or to keep tfiem • ,:There they please, if they hare not the means of pro - - viding bail.. These are what you call suspected, And to what amount? Equal to that of the men who have the initiative of each measure. In what places? Through out the whole kingdom, without exceptinz a single de- partment. For what time ? For six months, a year, or many years. What fatal consequences must ensue to the individuals, ruined in their circumstances, accused by their debtors, or their servants, or by the subornation of their wives or daughters—..and where will all this stop ? Will there not be conspirueiei in the prisons ? After the experience we haye had who will venture to say that a new second of September may not arrive ?—Thus the ruin of indivi duals and of families would be completed. What shall I say of the GoTernment, of the Ministcrs, of the Chambers? Where are they, the Authorities who sanction this mea sure ? Where are they who sanctioned a . similar otif n that fatal year ? An indelible stain is affixed to their names, and the reprobation that has fallen upon them is irrevocable. Lastly, %Mile the suspected are groaning in prisons, far from their families and from their business, 'who will pay the taxes ? Who will support the charges of the State ? What terror ! What irremediable stagna tion of commerce and trade in the political body, which i 4 already so lapguid ! . Forgiye me these indications: •NN0.6.4•0• 0, " 4 611%.6 6 0..e ` i J 'w~.~ •7- 707 cannot forget that my mother and my sister, my bro, ther and my daughter, were suspected, and likely to pet ish t because I then, as now, defended liberty and justice against the fury of the passions. Mention has been made of the suspected in aicient Rome, by virtue of the Caveant Consuks. When these school-boy citations aro made, we should at least remember what we have learned at sehool.—There was no prisOn among the Router's ; the suspected of the Dictators and Consuls, armed with the fearful formula, Were , in the custody of their friends; they breathed a pelts, air hi their gardens ; they sat at their own table ; they enjoyed all the conveniences or life. Cicero- caused to be destroyed in a, temple, by an act of the state, the secomplices of Catalioe, but he paid for that irregularity by ; memorable exile, and he saved his country ! hi England, when the Habeas Corpus is sus.. pended, there are not-800,000 persons possessing a disere, tionary power to arrest. I demand that this law be re, jected, as being neither necessary nor tolerable. If it must be absolutely had, I am ready to -concur in any wise measures for the moderate limitation of individual li, betty. Above all, I demand that certain trailetil aid peaceable departnients be excepted from the law, without which it would become an unmerited satire evon the Government. and an invitation to new attempts of bo!d 1 ness on the part of strangers. Take two months to examine a man, to discover the ramifications of his plots; but at-least, after two months, surrender him to ordinary justice ; grant others temperately, without which the law would be only a suspension of humanity. PARTS, OCT. 31.—1 t is determined that the public pro f ceedings in the trial of Marshal Ney shall commence ne;t week, before the Court of Assize. • At a grand dinner given the other day by the Duke of Wellington, it was remarked that the guests were foreign Ministers, French Ministers, and other diplomatic cba, racters. There.are no more English troops in fhe Champs Ely.. saes. They marched yesterday for Versailles, I. here they ate to be barracked. Other English troops arp to occupy the barracks in the Rue Verte. The account -which tißs reached us respecting the man ? ner in which Murat was arrested, is so remaikable, that we are induced to communicate it to our readei s. Landed on the coast of Calabria, he advanced into the mountains, followed only by about 30 men. On his arrival at Opitzo he assembled the people, and harangued them to induce them to revolt, when a single gendarme passed through the crowd, and seized the orator by the collar. The 30 men who accompanied Murat looked on as if immoveable ; and the people dispersed. Had not this frantic and audacious enterprise been thus promptly defeated; Murat could only have hoped to be come a chief of banditti, and finally to undergo a more disgraceful death than that by which his career has been terminated; This event may be regarded as a mortal bloly to usurpation. Yesterday morning the English Officer commarding the battalion duty on Montmartre, died suddenly. The Cabinet of Natural History has yielded 9,690) articles to the foreitTners. There is at pretz_nt to 1;e simn there the remains of a Baskir horse. The skin is covered with very long white hair, which is q:ceediiigly thick and half curled. It is as fine as silk. The itiolividtial specimen indicates size rather under reedieterity. All the couela are dead. Tiielilephaufhas chan&ed his .01 . . • 1 11 ft