The Sun. — London, England, 1816-04-26 00:00:00

tllOlOl pribli'd ()potion mi..' i st it, and hit to4nit y shat a tear, a smi:s not at liberty, legally 5 leaking. to aid his father, nor a ti;ife i)er 1)116• hand in b eaiting prison ; and if Mada"w L'" . a" low: has no , been brought to trial, it was be. pause, notwithstanding her ostentatious declara tions, justice rctitained doubtful, and thought that it - still perceived the influence of the marital au:. thority tts the act by which a wife assisted her husband. Why, then, this severity of principle ? The rca se.n doubtless is„ that the prison is a sacred and inviolable place ; that those confined there belong 1,0 more to society, but to justice, which .detains them till they answer for theft crimes, In the offk-uter of Concealment, neither does the law punish without distinction ; it follows the dic tates ''l nature, and pious exceptions are laid ,down for the father, the.son, the spotte, the brother, anti other relatives in the 'same degree. Here clemency stops, and justice comthences. Hence all who conceal a convict, with whom they ere not eonneeted by ties of blOod, are culpable. Bruce, Hutchinson, and Wilson will, therefore, be guilty, if they have concealed Lavalette. -But it is necessary to establish the culpability : and l know not but it misy be intended to contest to the public accuserXhe right of searching for and producing the protafla circutnstante very:asto taisiiing indeed but the whole affair has its sir► golatittcs. It would appear that, in detaidt of questions of fact or of law, it presents problems to be resolved. NI/hence arises this :It proceeds (ruin its being wished tit divagate front the line of accusation and that ,of defence, from its beitq endeavoured to tratiVorm a judicial diseit4sion into a political one; it proceeds ft otu this, that the 'accused place themselves in the falSest posi tion, imagining that the'y arc ;teensyd of a - system,' when :hey are only aacused, and have only to fend themselves on a fact. However, the insiruc- Lion Of the process must not be cotsfotinded with the accusation. The insfruciton may extend to a thousand facts ; the accusation is confined to one, 'I he kstruceicot is the inquiry ; it reaches every thing, both facts inculpatory and exculpatory ! —to lacts and to circomsteutes ; for it is by them that facts arc characterised, that they become culpable or innocent, that they constitute a crime or an offence, or that they do not constitute an offence. What liken happened on this business i There have been the concealment and escape of Lava lette. Justice makes her inquiries ;at first, those only of found who were implicated in the escape ft urn prison ; and when it is about to terminate its inquiries, a ray of unexpected light is thrown on the ntystery of the concealment ; other men and other projects are discovered. Those engaged in 1.4 escape front prison meant nothing but to save Lavalette : those engaged in his concealment, by saving Lavalette, wished, or at least appear to have wished, to excite sedition or to revolt ; and to excite any kind of disorder, provided only it was disorder. But the plat) was foolish ! Doubtless %vas : dill, however, we gust ; examine it. : We lutist see by what hands the apple of discord was to be thrown amongit us ; and the correspon dttitee teaches us, that some toreigners were se , riously einployed on the happiness at France, that they were ar work upon it, -and that they would derive great {fly from their success ! It is true, however, that they arc in need of assistAiice, and that we shall take good care to ..give them none. 1-110/, then, were they to make us happy in spite of ourselves 1 • How, !Gentlemen ? Why, as was done in 1793. The : Correspondents did tint know any better means apparently, because there are no other. Thus an typal . was to be made to the , frienils of liberty, who were to poi themselves iu 'notion ; there were to be .move- monis in the provinces ; and, above all, u goo( means of agitation would be the persecution o the Protest:lms, real or pretended ! Oh ! excel teflon 1 This is an idea which catches IVe6 wild; fire, which spreads lil,e.contag*ion among the people in general, (And mark this) which engenders a spi- tit, lf muritil hatred and contempt foi the new ay stusiy : it is clear that if the people—tvere so tot►illy misled, the revolution would be Complete; and it is fur this very reason that revolution is impos bible. Edward ‘Vilson, at London, iiitiged bet ter of the state of France than his brother did at Paris. He begsn tar dißtrust his predictions, and wait roe facts. He 'marks, that if the French nation generally were strongly disinclined to the Bourbons, proofs of this would by daily mani fested. And he adds this observation :-- 7 11 an hap pens that there is no :unitary force in the provinces, end yet the provinces are traniptil. On this sob. ject he becomes inflamed, and says that if it is wiAlted to overtian the existing order of things, the fire mast _he constantly kept, and constantly visible, like; a beacon of alarm in France, and in foreig.: countries. May (Ind avert this from as, andirons alt foreign rniutries also We tiave of us seen the sinister Planet, portentous eif storms : the storm is pass ed, o»ti new signs announce to us that the earth i. pacified. lies, we are at peace among ourselves, and we will he so wit% others. The nations are at peace, with the single exception of some tur. indent men, to nitwit peace is war, as .4inr old Montaigne has observed. Very well, let them remain in war, its theatre shall not be extendedi but let them nut irnag'r►e in their foolish thoughts that they will agitate France : if their-beacon - of alrirm is perecive4l,l we shall only hasten to extin. gnisis it, as we run to put ottte fire. Attend to these words :—There is no military forte in the provinces, and the provinces are trait _ till. Yes, ihey are so, though they' suffer; but ttiey arm themselves with fortitude against their vnisiortunes, a►►d turn their eyes towkiills that le. gitimate King whoa► Providence' has restored to us I for he hr's brought with him both the paternal virtues which make Kings cherished, ,and the an. c;ent principles on which - at all times the welfare f)f Fcatice has reposed. Re is come to give sta- hility to that country which revelations had shaken —to unite, to repair, to absorb, by his inexhautible 400duess, those fratricidal hatreds which party ,pirit had excited among Frenchmen. lie has co me ! 'lid already hope has occupied the pla ce o f ma n. —ne already by anticipation emerge from our , altunities, and the nieces of prosperity which b e _ lng to France are incontestably fixed. Sire was eat fof moment, because bhe wap wisled and dlvided. \Visdoiti an stnion *ill 'restore to firer strength, and the illitatrious rank which She can never lose among the 11311011 S. Thiti is a point demonstrated to all just-thinking ahem, 6t it is one also which can never • be appreciated, which cifinot be compreheuded by the Mk t:5 Intl the Wilsons of England. In fine, the correspondence is a tiiiiie of vi sions, calculated, ind e ed, t o thr o w a.ligltc hptini though they do tint change the rtatoie be the of fence. And if it be asked why jtisilte has adiOrt ed to them at all, it may be Gutty replied, that she is entitled to do so for her then information.= I shall now, however, con fi de myself to the tering of the indictment, and shall Investigate whether the three prisoners were accomplices in the con cealment of Lavalette. As to the tact of the dis covery of - the documents, all that justice knows' of them is, 'that - the has received them as proofs. Should the prisoner Wilson renew his complaints on this head- , --shoOld he (which I do not,antici pate).• attack the good faith of. Government, I would say to hint—Represent to your own mind the position in which yoO placed yourself; reflect that you were, at least iu intention, in a state of war ; you seereinarketi at Paris as a dangerous and turbulent being ; the Police had - its eyes npOn you as upon your fellow prisoner Bruce ; the Po lice of London would have done as notch in a si milar case; there is no Government so• simple as to respect the pretended rights Of chose who do not. respect its repose.. Art. 248 of-ilie Penal Code dedarea•guilty those who'have concealed; or enticed to be concealed. Such arc-the terms of the law. The nature of t,he facts is such, that there is already a 11101'al conviction, that those Who concerted to get Lava . kite out of France,- also'canie to nit : understand, ingas to the mode of its accomplrshment, the MO.. inent the escape fri'on prison took place ; he who wills'the end, wills the- meal's.. It is also equally •Certain that Lavalette, 'issuing from-an unknown retreat, had need of some •place of alepbt,•Where he might be at WC disposal of those Mu; meant to - carry him off. You have not heard it said that there was on their part Any communication with the first asylion where Lavalette was secreted ; this was not necessary; it was qiinicient that they provided for him -an intermediate 'asylum.; and by his passing the night there,' that asylum became the place of coneystomtit. This, first proposition is il)CollieSiible. There is a, seernol observation which . will not escape you. A person may conceal a man either at his own house; . or that of another, according as be shall believe that he will in either way the better provide for his security : and hence the law speaks of concealinq, or causiaa. to be eon cealed. • He, then, who furnishes the asylum may be far from being the alotie guilty person. lie who procures it ; be who Res made- arrangements for procuring it; in fine, the introdocer who fa cilitates his - entrance into it, are: All' evidently ithettora,'Accoutplicts, and adherents in this spe cies of crime. What now happened ) For the accused Hut. chinson the fact is material. Lavalette passed in his opart!Hents in the rue- •Helder the night he.; tn'een the 7th and the Bth of January last. lint chltlion knew well that Lavalette was condemn ed, and it was indeed his 'condemnation that ex cited" the interest which he felt in his fortiies.- Tints; With respect to him, all the conditions of the law arc- fulfilled, or rather all the probihi tions - are of the law violated, and the accused stands convicted of the crime charged. - The prisoner Brace is not in a situation that admits of greater doubt". It was to him that the first flischlure was made.' He was the:man who inspired a predilection into the cOndemnedi for hu who &a:tared hiMself so zealously in the' affair of Marshal T'r'ey, woad naturally be expected to sympathi o xe with the situation of Lavalet te. Re liance was' placed on him, therefore, before- trial was made. You see how he prided- himself on the action, how he claimed the first-share in the inheritance of glory. If any one i 'guilty, lie is the man. • •Nothing farther could be - required to establish' the crime of which he is guilts'. lie concealed likewite the condeumeth The hour and the place- of meeting were agreed upon with the rest. 'lti coosequence, he is found with Hutchits eon on the evening of Sunday., he there ITCCiV6.La valette. It is he who receives him principally, lot at the appointed boor he descends to meet Laralette . ; he conducts.hint from the street-door to the apart ment which was appointed foe 'him, and into it be leads the condemned with his own hand, for in such a delicate matter he must do every thing himself to make sore of success. No question is astted of the porter, whom they shun—they do not address themielvei to Servant. It is nest's. sary that an official usher should attend to introa silica the stranger as a friend of the fatally. if - such conduct does not establish 'the 'offence concealment charged nn the prisoners, let it 1;e declared where a more marked co-operation could be found. As for the accused Wilson, he will pretend, perhaps, that he is not included in the same proof, of guilt ; fur in strictness he can say, "1 hap. petted accidentally to be with my friend Machin son ; I went to his lodgings to • enjoy my share of, a bowl of punch, and I saw M. Lavalette arrive. The meeting was accidental, and shall I be liable to punisltent for having merelk.seen Lavalettc This language, if it came from the lips of a man who had no other communications with La valette,, might be' conclusive. As matters areat present,it signifies nothing. Theris here a compact between three men to forward the escape of La- . Yakut, and, of course, to conceal his person pre vious to his escape. To effect the project of sav ing him without knowing where to find him, wotild amount to an absurdity that the accused Englishmen cannot be supposed capable of enter taining for a moment, If, instead of a CoMmou operation, there had been merelyindividual actsif every one had carried on his projects apart from the rest, it might be conjectured that he who saw part Would not be able to see the whole,, and that his operations being without any certain end could not succeed. But, in truth, this is not the fact. It is impossible for Wilson, who was on the morning of the Bth at the gate of the hous e i n the rue de Helder, for the purpose:of receiving Lavalette, to say that be did. not- know his re treat, and still further to declare that he had not cuatr ib utc d t o supply him wit 4 (tie, Do we 1)ot lierc peiAt of 'One stmt tte s ame transaction concerted 61‘'veen them . ) To conceal Lavalette, and lead him of, the three coadjutors, therefore, must ne eciitirily have concurred in a plan arranged for the whole transaction. I might ask it the oftenCe Of caticealtiient (le rreek) does mit coriiii4i entirely in the act of affording an trsyliim ; if i o disguise a Mill be mint likewise dim of the Means of courealing him, of secreting him from the ptirsitit of justice; if he who ordered his measure to la! tatOn, who fur nished the Uniform Of an EngliSh Officer, lie who, to tile ha expression Of his own, dressed him on the road (Init hi toilette en route,) by cutting off sonic white hairs which appeared from below his . coVire ; if a ll th ese are no t i n diee r iai nate l y gu ilty Of having disguised, concealed, and protected (recelee) Lavalette ) lint on this point I shall not enter into cdntroversy ; it will be terniinated in another way. An asylum at Paris was not enough, another was necessary On the roach—==they ;topped at Compiegne! At this time Nilson, who accOm punted the traveller who had given orders that the carriage should arrive at CoMplegneat such an hour, • and should stop at such a house, was not it stranger to the choice of his lodging i it was pre-engaged be fore their arrival ; they concealed in it Lavalette. Ile himself has told us why, the place was appro priate—how retired, how solitary it was, and how little there he had to encounter the gaie of the curious and inquisitive. I must add, that ther e , contrary to the dict a tes of justice, Wilson con cealed (receloit) Lavalette. The Learned Counsel entered into a variety of further arguments, which want of room prevents its from inserting, and concluded as follows : " I trust that I have sufficiently developed the facts, and I shall conclude by calling your atten ' tion to the eirenuistartves Which aggravate them. I speak not of the intention, although the inten tion constitutes the ,essence ,of the offence, and though. in this cast the intention was trimly per verse and detestable ; i'''speak not to you of the material :eiretunstance of the offence ,generally ; the facts of the escape and : concealment are in themselves timid acts 7 ---they are effected by Fn. dence and stratagem ; he tvly flies, or who con ceals himself, has no wish to brave stay one; but here the &nil escape w a s cot - lam:tea with arms, and both he who fled, and those whnoic companied him, were determined to - employ force, if necessary:. I pa 34 over the circtini . stauces of the led-horses, in order that 'the fight might be more, rapid, in case of obstaelee4---this was in the, nature of the transaction, in tire necessity of their situation—but their possession of aims ! and against Whom were they to be need ?—against the public agents of French authority---against those who are charged with its orders -4--against all those indiscriminately to whom the superintendence and defence of public, order have been intrusted.— Here, therm, the offcrrce partook of the initiative of an attack on the State ; and in this point of view, which it is impossible to disjoin, it acquires all the gravity of which it is perceptible. It has, then, called for the warmest .reprobation, the strongest repression, and the inmost ex tetitof the punis:onent which the law provides fur similar Offences. Attar he - ended, the sever3l Advocates for the I.l`rencli Prisoners, Eberle, lieuuit, :AL!. tke. ntade their respective speeches in support each of his separate client ; and atter these were heard, the Court adjourned till. Wednesday, on which day M. Dtipin, in behalf bf the English, opens the proceedings. aitittvev—t Dur—t Gottenlmtgli, I Dubin, 1 Waterford. PRICE 'o' THIS TAY A'r Ilatik,Stock. e3l; 264 'L S per Cent. Red. Guil S per ('erit. eun,. GI 62 4 per Coils. h per ( c. N. A►►.►. 911 i Um& I... Ann. 1:5217- Idths sTocKs 'MUNE ('CLOCK. 181 i 101114 Lipari*, .5s lls. pr. Excheti. 131111,45. 6s. pr. thutititin, 18ii1s Ditto fur linyitient, Cunt. fur Muy, 62i f • HIGH WATER. AT LONDON TO-NIORrtOVic Morning, 27inititttes artve 2. Facttietg, 49 atilltites atta r 2. THE SUN. wRLRM QUIN 1 /111 , 11,13, PALS AIMEAT LONDOI'' FRID.,IY, 4TRIL 26, 1816. Many articles intended (or publiatio» to-day give place to the .Trials at Pariss.and the Paulin. mentary Debate.--Lord Exmount has vibited Algiers, and concluded a very, favourable aver. meat with the De' ; liberating, among others, SI Genoese slaves. His Lordship has proceeded for Tunis and Tripfdi. ARRIVALS OF. TWO EAST INDIANIBM rnom ST. HRLENA AND CHINA. The ships Mirky and &tamer Castle arrived off Plymouth the 24th inst. They left China in coin- parry with the Hope, Royal George, Cuffnells, and Princess Ault lia, on the Bth December; and St. Helena the 6th March, with the Princess Amelia and Cutfuells. The Hope and Royal , George sailed from thence the preceding day.— The Princess Amelia and Cuff - wells parted from the Worley and Waltper Castle nine days after sailing from St. Helena. The two last fell in with the Hope and Royal George on the 29th March, hut parted from them in a gale of wind on the 12111 inst. in lat. 45. 37. N. long. 27. 47. W. All was perfectly quiet, in China. The Devaynes, free trader, was expected to leave St. Helena in a few days after the above parted. IjUONAPARTE was quite well. We have received the Papers relative to the smuggling at tVoolwieli, ands shall lose no time in laying before cuir readers the particulars of a transaction which has wade COUSideritble btrtNlA PAPERS. Last tiiklit Geiniati Papers to-a late date careti • . • to hand. They contain the folloiving artic!a i.e. (attire to the agile bt dur manufactures !it the F fort Fair " Faimtroar, APRIL 6.—;Theohite English gocli, it vas to be 'f',.)reieen, are in great demand this fair; there ii nri im tense (inanely here, and the Purchases already Made are very , • • coasiderable; though several well-known buyers seem to keep back at prtisent: The moderate price of these goads helps to sell the old Patterns are nOw and then brought foisiard; the Gertitatii and Stiviss nianufacturers Will hardly lie , able Li bear thli competitiol withont the most sensible lostes; and dill pierh.tpti would be thtl prep:Jrcst UM,: for the Cdtttinentil Governments to endea:- your, by suitable regulatiosi and et4oaragetneols, to A ssist thif fnjpdtatst Ifnancli of ttie Industry of their subjects. The, colonial articles, of which we daily receive fresh supplies bt stater, arc! very 16w, and' indigo in large 4uanties hat been sold in public auctions tit very Moderate prices." Artit - ramtn, Arnie 13.—:Their Highnesses ibis' Prinel and Piiticeis koyal arrived here to-day, at one &clock, aoa surprised the King in the most agre.able nianner." EXTRACT FRoM THE CHARLESTON CITY GAZETT #' MAIICH 13, 1516. " On the Stir inst. arrived in this city, Colonel Return, Is Meigs, the Agent of the United States in the Cherokt 4 e N l 4`. thin, with a deputation from the Nation, consistiOg.a C ul " tic! f.over y . Major Walk er , Major Ridge, Captain 'f a}lsis Adjutant Ross, and (.111,-i-team—These Indians at'e own of cultivated understandings, were nearly all t)ecers in tild Cherokee Fotces which served under tiencral facicsort dar ing the late war, and hate distinguished tkilutelretlo " well U 1 their bravery as by,their attachment in the States. We•sheuld ha ve not i ced their aeriva Vetere, but were ignorant of their n ames ." Milted • W . ION OSOR APRIL 25..--;.'Yesterday, a Mite be* fore 5 o'clock, the Priuccss CumiLoTTI of V A LES came from Craohourti-Lodge to ,dine with ri'e ()vent, the Prineessei, ;it'd the Pr ince of Sok. Coautto. In fhle evenfnl, her Majesty Lnul et select party. The i t rincess ' Cammorra left about ten o'clock for Cranbourn-Lodge.. The Prince of Saxe Coburg lodges at the Upper Lodge during his stay here. This being Princess ,Mary's clay, the Princeis Charlotte of NVales, the Duke and Duchess of York, the Dukes of Clarence awl Kent, arrived to congratulate the Priocess. Yesterday, about two o'clock, the lAIINcs oawz' left town for Windsor. The Quastfund Princesses will arriotat Buck."' inghatn House, on Monday ; the Princess CHAR- , Lorrs at-Warwick Haase ; the Prince of Colo gGr at tile,Doke of •CLAneNcc's, end the Duchess d YORK, at York HouSe. • Her !tor& Highness passes this week at Outlands, superintending the preparations - for the ; reception of the exalted crinple,who are to proCeed there iinmediately after the marriage.: There will he a grant! dinner at . Carlton illonge,-on Thursday, after %thief) the ceremony will be solepnised by the Archbishop of CANTERBU R Y. Who is authorised by custom to consider all the Royal ran.ily as his parishioners, wherever they Teside. His present ways ackdowledged himself to stand in that re lation Co the Areithishly.. Among the persons present at the Trial of Pa t is are enumerated : Marshal thnliont, the Dukes of AUMOlit and Oratumont, Prince Walkonstty, A de-Camp to the Emperor of Russia ; the English, Spanish, and Danish Ambassadors; COlRltSituelit". chouart and de G tud , Marquis of Venn, Prints Masserano, Sir ti, Smith" The Mate of MILLINGTON has been treated With the highest public distinction at the Hague, both by the King :Ind the People. Lord Brecng sailed from Dover for Ostend oft ‘Vednesday evening. The French Court goes into three weeks mourn ing on the 24th; for the Empress of AVSTIIIA.--e The first eleven ,days the dresses are to be, black-, and white the last ten. Lord Lind Luly Jim tnpturr left their house Wimpole-street, on Sunday the 11th of Oil month, for Paris:. Two Candidates, Lord EnemaToti and E. P.' BasTA an, have started for Devonshire. Yesterday, a Court of Common Council wag held at which was numerously attend+ ed. motion was made, and question put, that in conOderation of the tlistingnished mannet in which their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of KeNT and Sussex have exerted themselves to promote every object of benevolence throughout the kingdom, and especially within .this city, thereby adding , to the lustre of their high birth as the sons of our_belovtd Sovereign, 'and meriting in an emi. nent degree the sincere respect and gratitude the citizens of London, the manner of this City be presented i n a s u itable to each their said Royal Highnuoes : the Sallie was tinani-e nmusly (resolved in the aftientati've, and ordered accordingly; cud that their Royal Highnesses be humbly requested to honour the city_ by their ac ceptance of the same. _ uopEN MATit.- , -Irestertlay Mrs. RAYNER, of Plicenix-strect, Soho, after getting' up and dress- ing herself, dropped clown and suddenly expired. CoaN - E_XCIIANGR, Aral s.2G —Wo had blit few' arrivals this morning, consequently the sales int tine Wheat and Oats were on full as good terms as on Monday : the sale of Barley is very dull, anti in sonic instances rather lower. In Pease, Beans, - and other kinds of grain, there is no alteeation.. Salyut riELD, APR; W.—This day's Market was not well supplied with the various kinds of Cattle; Mutton, Veali Pork, and Lamb, to ld at l ast prices ; Beef was cheaper; anti the trade, for the mast part, was somewhat dull. The sate* in the Hay-m ar k e t were trifling; lily and Clover Qbtaitlek fait prices; Straw Ime fallen la priee. Boxus.—All Tickets and Shares purchased cif Ittcnattnsos, ObontmcK, and Coa or of their Agents in the country, on or before to.rnorrowt, - the 27th of April, will be entitled (whether Blank, Or Prizes) to their Proportion of the Prize-money arising from 300 Whole Tickets, deposited in the Bank es a 80nt 1 5. -- .RICRAIDSON, GOODLOCK, and Co. respectitihly solicit the favours of the Public at their fortunate Offices, Cornill and Charing-cross, where they shared and sold, in the_ last LotttrY* both the Wulff Golden Capitals of 25,000 Guineas each. • LON . DON: Primed 1w - 4. B. CAttsTAIRC. Noe T; CI huittlit4rit; anti pnlklisltei) by W. A. SCRIPPS. of Drix" l ° at the SuN-Oertry.- th . No. 112, Strand; where A"r.,".. Mtn is, °taus, Luttirs ;,post-paid) s &c. must by 1