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%ion, which has been Littentivd with fatal a•rstiltS. Ourstispieions,that. the Marshal has taken part in. these measures, are considerably strengthened by the depositions of a great number of Witnesses, who have reported. various circumstances, tend ing to prove :that the Marshal was •intormed of Aids landing. .By the evidence of the Sieur Beau the Count de la Genetiere, and, the Count tic Faverney, w learn that the Marshal asserted, that the return of thionaparte had been prepared 'tier three months before, and' that those who had nt4de 'contracts with the King'S government ought to have known, th a t th e y wer e t r eati ng with or for the legitiniate Sovereign,.:Boonaparte ! The Count de Faverney in particular, asserts, that General Lecourhe assured him the Marshal had 14 aid to him, that he had taken all possible steps /o render the :defection of his troops necessary and inet italic, which he would afterwards settle and determine by the reading of the Proclamation. Several other witnesses. have deposed, that they were told that the Marshal publicly declared in an inn at Montereau, that the return of Buona parte !rad s heen long pretoncerted. Many other' witnesses-could depose to the same effect ; name ly, the Liaron.-Capelleohe Marquis of Vaulehier, the Sieur de Beaugarde, and the Sieur Garnier, the Mayor of Dole ; brit as 'they lave been beard before•the Council of War, it is not necessary .to recal them. In fact, they are no longer on the spot, but their testimonies are already on re- Justice, however, also demands, that we should state, that several other Witnesses„ who observed the,condnct of the Marshal till the time ►►f the Tvading• of the Proclamation, seem to believe, That till that period he was strictly loyal, and they,depose to facts which indiCate, that unless the Marshal acted with the deepest dissimulation, )1e . teas--even then inclined. to be faithful to the King. • , However this may be, whether this t!en►onstra tion of fealty was teal or feigned, the Marshal, before leaving Paris, had the honour of an inter view with the King, who spoke to him with the most affecting kindness„ and reposed in him the greatest confidence. The Marshal appeared fected by the good. opinion of his Sovereign re-. specting his loyalty and fidelity, and in a transport of passion, cither'real or simulated, he protested, - that - he Would bring •Buonaparte to Paris -in an iron cage, and sealed his declarations of devoted ness, by kissing his Majesty's hand. The Mar shal at first wished to deny both this.expression of enthusiasm, and the liberty.. which the. King had permitted him to take. But he ultimately acknowledged the facts. It was on the nth or 9th of March that the Marshal left Paris. lie found at Besancon the instructions of the Minister at War, which were Ott substance, that he was to collect all the dis posable forces, in order efficaciously to second the operations of -Monsieur, and to manceuvre scr as to disturb or destroy the enemy. .Although the different statements of the wit nesses have been duly considered, there are retain points on-whieh there can be no• doubts. All snus agree as to the line of conduct which the Narslial adopted at Lons le Saulnier, on the 14th :,\J arch. Tire 21.1arslial had sent to that town all the troops uhieh were dispersed throughout his districts-- Sortie officers, military and civil, who were cor rect.observers of events, and who were justly un- . easy at existing circumstances, and the insinna tions of certain persons who held different ranks in the army, pointed out .to him, as a means of frustrating their bad intentions,, the propriety of ;nixing with them as much as possible, the.goOd and faithful servants of the Ring, who might be chosen from' the National Guards. The Marshal, however, at once rejected these propositions, even-, \rich a aunt of disdain, by saving that he wished trot to have - with.'hint 'weeping alarmists either male or female; and thought he retracted a little from this sentiment afterwards, it was with such slownes and repugnance that the' measure unfortunately could not be carried into ,4rxecution, nor codd the evil, which the Marshal seetned to foresee without uneasiness,' be pre vented-. Some witnesses seem to think that till the even ing of . the 13th of March: the Marshal was faith ful ; hut is not easy to believe that the period of lour or live days, duringswhich the illashal had mtt With no'obstaele, nor had not seen an enemy. • »couhl have been sufficient to make Idin abando his fealty, it he had not been pre-disposed-to do so. It' is a sorrowful tax upon human loyalty to be obliged to declare that the fact cannot be other- WISC. , •Only five days after the promises he had made to his Master, who had heaped upon him his con fidence and his affection, and whom he had de ceived by the unlimited professions of aD► inten tion which was not expected from him, Marshal Noy betrayed his past glory, as well as his King,. Country; and hcrr•opc, by the most criminal desertion. - If we think of the gulph of evils in which this conduct has plunged France, or to whic!) he at least contributed as much as was in his power, we sl4all see that likewise destroyed by-this conduct his own former glory. Weinav even that he betrayed his own army, which was till:that time, faithful, and who would have. resisted had advice, if their fidelity had been•con fir;ued by the example -of a Chief, whose name and military achievements would have command- ed the confidence of the soldiers ; instead of which draz;ged the after him in the road of per,jury. We ha t ve.said,' that uj to a certain time, Mar- Ney, bad not seen an enemy. In this we de ceived ourselves ; he had - seen many . ; not indeed in ()lien d:tv, but in his own house, in.secret, and by night, who met to 'form with him a shameful alliance, and to make him' give up his King, his country, and ev•en his honour. An emissary of that artisan of the evils of Euri.pe, in(we capable of carry on frauds and in trigueSthar. of gaining victories, arrived at the Mar!; l ;al's can tae night of the 13th March last, lic brought him a letter from Bertrand, written in the nasc►e ot his master, i;► v;'hich the latter de- the Marshal -a grave man amongst the brae, anti 'directed ,bite to come over to 'lf it were true that the 141arshal was faithful to bis Soereizn till that tillic;cluihing more Was ne •cessary to induee him to Lezome a traitor to Lis oaths. His vanity %VW; flattered ; his an;itipit was .. ,, ,vakenefl; the proffered crime was aceepteil, and it was as early as „the neNt mornin g rbat..it was put into exeention,-. The next day, the 14th of March, 1815„ he re-• vealed his new intentions to Generals Bourntorit and Lecourbe. They have deposed, that they efforts to excite I:_oirdr his mind at such a resolution,. but whatever they could say pro duced no effect upon him. He forced them to at tend on-' the ground where he had ordered the troops to be drawn up, and where, having form ed them into a snnare,. be read to them the fol lowing Proclamation : [Here is inserted the Proclamation of . Ney, dated March 13th, which was published in the course of the interrogatories, read before the Mi litary Council.l • The Commissioners then proceed to observe, than it may be imagined what effect such conduct and' ordets must havf2 produced upon a body of sol.licrs, under the command of " a revered Chief." The soldiers who were nearest to their Genera i l, seduced by the duty ut obe dience,' repeated the rebellions sitcom which he had uttered,%of \rive l'Etnpereur ! The sol dier; who were more distant, faithful to the movement of the heart and French honour, and who were far from supposing what an exe crable action Marshal' Ney had been guilty of, shouted Viva le Roi ! Indeed so far Was the de lusion front being removed at this moment, that according to the same evidence, many of the Of ficers and soldiers retired from the ranks with in dignation. It also appears that Marshal Ney af , terwards permitted the troops to disperse in the town, and commit all manner of excesses, till they lost their reason; and having no time for re flection, and being aftertrards ashamed of their conduct, they would not retract. • A great number of Officers; hOwever, among whim was the Count de la Grnetiere, Withdrew themselves, and the latter wrote a severe letter to Ney, in which he told hini that being no longer able to serve under him with honour, he withdrew himself from his staff, and retired to Besancon. lie added, that he had- long served under the Marshal's orders, and the only regret he felt was at having continued so. to serve fur the last 2-1 hours. 'After a variety of comments on this and similar instances of French honour, on the part of indi viduals who were under Marshal Ney at the time in question, the Commissionev7s observe, that the onIV such instances of loyalty produced up on lint was to sink him still deeper in treason.— . They then trace his conduct from the day when he issued the PrOclamatlon till t be 19th of March, touching upon his audacity,in writitrg to the Com , mandant at Auxonne, to give up the place to lltio neiparte ; and also to the Dukes of Reggio and, Aibufera, inclosing them the orders he•had receiv ed from Bertrand ; and they add , that in a few days afterwards, in order to purOsh the honour able inactivity of the Commandant of Auxonne, lie inscribed his name in the list of those whom he ordered to he deprived of liberty. litre (say the Commissiotievs) it. is necessary we should stop. All France, all Europe, has seen, since that time, that.MarShal iNey persisted in his rebellion. But all the circumstances which apply to his ulterior conduct being only the consequence of his first act of treason, scarcely deserve.notice, after that great pr:of of unfaithfulness,' one of the sources of misfortmies which a fatal usurpa tion drew upon France. We must turn our eyes from the scene, because the spectacle is intolerable. But we cannot sup press tlie - heart-rending reflection, that all the evils by which . the country is desolated,. ere owing to a handful of men, who, because they .had dis tingtikhed themselves by some great military ac tions, thought that they bad a right to put thzta selves above the law, to trifle with the most sacred feelings, .even with fidelity to their King and country, and to cause with impunity all the revo lutions which tineir umeflecting ambition might dictate. They seem to have persuaded .them- selves, that because they were brave officers, they had a right, in defiance- of the nation and -of all Europe, to ',become disloyal sub jects and bad citizens ;. a deplorable doctrine, which, laowever, is happily only the ex cln!ive system of a few perverse and ambitious Men ;. a doctrine .disowned by real military ho= nour, and by that multitude of brave soldio 5, whose eyes T: being at length re-opened, can-no longer acknowledge glory in those whom they formerly saw in the field of honour, if they do not still observe them in the paths of fidelity to their King and their Country ; and if it:deies pear that they prove themselves good citizens as well as great captains, and men of . p,rinciple as well as warriors full of valour. In consequence of all these different Ney, Marshal of France, Duke Of Elehin gen, Prince of the Moskwa, and Ex•Tecr of France, is accused before the Chamber of the Peers of FranCe, by the Ministers of the King and Attorney-General of. the Royal Cdurt of Paris, Commissioners' of his Majesty., Dour in 011 r Cabint t, at the Palace of the Chamber of Peers, at noon, the uf November, 1815.: (Signed) . RIC 11 ELIE U, BARBS MARBOIS, Le Cointe d' BUUCIIAGE, Le Due de FLLTItE, VAUBL.INC, CORVETIO, - • • De CAZES,, • , BELLART. PARIS, Nov. 22.—The Spanish General, Mina, arrived in Paris 'a few ti7.ys Nov. 23.—The disbanding of the Army being nearly completed, it is expected that Marshal the Duke of Tarentum will•return to Paris at the be ginning of the next month. The Duke D'Angouleine left Toulouse the Pith on , his route t 9 Nismes, where his presence is deemed necessary. His Royal Highness guve hopes of his return to Toulouse in a few days. The Grand Dukes NicholaS and Michael, 'of Russia,. after taking leave of the King and the Royal Family ; set out from Berlin the' night of the , 10th, in order to proceed to St: Petersbnrgh, by. :the route of Warsaw. The Emperor Alexander made a triumphal entry into Warsaw, on the 12th. .titnerals Ballard, Oruano, Colbert„and Caturi., were apprehended last night, .and lodged is tk AM) iye. The Conventions relative to the Peace being - signed, and ti 4 administration ofFrance being flow wholly inithe hands of the King, the Com lnission for corresponding with the Prefects of the Departments occupied by the Allied Armies is dissolved. On Tuesday, at half-past two in the' afternoon, Marshal Nev was tuansferred fron► the Concier gerie to the Palace of the Peers, and placed in a chamber that had been prepared for .him\as a prison. He was escorted by Royal Grenadiers, and National Guards on horseback, to the amount 'of about 200. M. de Grismois; an Officer of the Staff of the National Guards, was with Marshal Ney in the carriage. The conveyance did not last above five minutes. General Rapp is at present in his own house at Paris, and not at Strasburg, as the Swiss journals represent. it is asserted that on Saturday next, the Mi nisters of his Majesty will make a communication to the two Chambers respecting the Treaty of Peace. The authors and accomplices of and in the as sassination of General Le Garde are to be prose cuted without delay. PARIS, Nov. 23. . ORDNANCE OF THE KING. LOUIS; by the. Grace of God, King of France and Navarre, To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:—An atrocious crime has stained our city , of Nismes. contempt of the ConStitu tional Charter, whiCh acknowledges the Catholic Religion for the Religion of the State, but•Nylach guarantees protection and liberty to other forms of worship, seditious assemblages have dared to oppose themselves to the opening of the Protes tant Chord'. Our -Military Commander,-in en deavouring to disperse them by persuasion, before he resorted to frirce, has been assassinated, and his assassin has sought an asylum against the pursuit of justice.. If such au -attempt should remain un punished, there would be no longer public order nor Government, and our Ministers would be guilty of the non-execution Of the _laws. For these reasons we have ordained, and or. lain, as folloWs : Article 1. Proceedings shall be immediately commenced by our Procnreurs, general and ordinary, against the authors of the assassination committed on the Berson of General La garde; and ag a i ns t th e aut h ors, favourers, and accompli ces of'the insurrection which took place in our city of Nismes, en the 12th of the present month. • 2. A sufficient number of troops shall be sent 'to . tbe said city, and shall remain there at the expence of the inhabitants till the assassin and his accomplices have been brought be fore the Tribunals. 3. Proceedings shall he adopted to disarm such of the in habitants as are net entitled to form part of the National Guard. Our Minister Keeper of the Seals, our Ministers of War, of the Interior, and of the Police General, are charged with the execution of the present Ordinance. • Given at Paris, i n th e P a l ace o f t h e Tuileries, ; the 21st of November, in the year of Grace /815, and of our reign the 21st. (Signed) LOUIS. The Keeper of the Seals, Minister Secretaryof State of Justice, (Signed) MAItBOIS. • TRIAL OF M. DE LAVALETTE. SITTING OF NOV. 21. The Sitting was resumed at half past ten. The witnesses for the accused were called in. Baron Pasquier justified Count Lavalette from having carried on a correspoudence with Buonaparte, and declared that he, considered him to be no way privy to the return of the Usurper. M. SAIVRET, employed in the Post-Office, and who was one of tile royal volunteers, declared that he was maintained in his place 'by Lavalette. When a list of those who were known to be Roy alists, were presented to him, he refused to strike out their names. Also, when the signatures of those employed in the Post-office were required to the Acle dilditionel, he •promised by a circular, that no one shoUld be molested for his opinions. Loileatm, a courier, declared that he had never. been charged with muiy message by the accused to linonaparte durin g his st a y . at Lyons .-Prem el, Inspeemor-General of the Post, condemned. tile deposition of .lioileau. M. Hua, Advocate-,General, in a nobl. and , touching exordium, promised the accused the ut most impartiality . on the part of the bry. .He dWelt on the Magnitude of the crime cointnitted 7 — the impossibility of the Usurper returning with-, out aid and council. . . The accused had not gone back to the POst-Of-: five for his own interest—not,for that of the ad ministration, bat in order to serve linonaparte Ile had served him ; he had sent him a courier ; he gave orders to convoke the heads of offices blamed_ them, stopped the Journals, the letters of ~Ministers; forbid furnishing horses to travellers ; addressed that famous circular to mislead the de-, partments; and forbid M. Ferrand to follow the King, and assigned him a retreat, or rather a place of exile. In fine, he prepared the march from Fontaiublean to Pirris, and thereby paved the way fur the disloyal and bloody scenes that followed: M. TRIPI-ER, the Advocate oithe accused, now . rose, but was interrupted by Lavalette, who re questet permission of the Court to make kisown the principal events of his political life since 1789. Lie was born, be 'said, in 1769, His studies ter minated•in 1782 ;he studied the law. The Revo lution disturbed this pursuit. He haft cultivated in his family, and in the societies which he ire "quentesl, a profound attachment for the family of his King'., A member of the National Guard on the 10th of August, be seized that occasion to manifest his loyalty. He marched with his sec tion, took post in the Court of time Tuileries, and did not retire into time garden until the following fusillade.. •He signed all the petitions in favour of the Court—that of 20,000—that of 8000—that of the 10th of August.. In order to disarm persecution Ire embraced .the military profession. A careful education, much zeal, and some talents, procured him a rapid promotion. He became Staff Major ff to Gen. Custine until his death in 1794. In the following year he became Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Baraguay d';lilliers, who died at Berlin, the vic tim of a frightful calumny. By the will of this Ohicer he became guardian of his children. The day after the battle of Arcola, Buonaparte named him One of his Aides-de-Camp; by his order he alto atted t ai Secretary to the Treaty o f Lcebc i —About thi s p er i o d t h e two C ounc il s i n trig against th e Di re c tory , and he was sent by t )ucv naparte to give some account of these dissensies' A month before the expedition to Egsrpt.;, Ire returned to Paris, wh en , i n ' comp li ance with Pu°' naparte's wishes, he espoused .Mademoiselle Bea u ' harnois, niece of the Empress Josephine. A lter t thercampaigns of Syria and Egypt, he was sec into Germany to treat with the Courts of Sax° lo of Hesse, - and others. But this mission was rent' dercd unnecessary by the victory, of Holienliati cits The King of Prussja deigned: to shew him a pc t -sona) esteem, in writing, that if the French G o ' vernment designed another Ambassador to stlf7 l , ceed General Bournonville, he should be happY see him reside near his Court. He was 'it .te q• wards named succes s i ve ly t o several con fidenti! ° situations- 7 -among which was that of Directeti General of the Po s t s .. Th e accuse d t e rMioatc, this sketch of his lif e by th ese w o rds is to my superiors, to my colleagues, to my subordia' nates in office, to do justice to' my conduct aP v my opinions. I hav e a lw a y s ser v e ol. my count% with zeal and devotion, and my conscience " e 7 not reproach me. Mr. Tripier defended his client with an abiliti and eloquence that appeared to make a deep trio pression. decision of The Court then p ro p ose d, f or th e the Jury, the following question Charmant de Lavalette guilty of having, on . morning of the 20th M a r c h, usur p e d the title a lni • the functions of Director•-General of tr• Posts-of having in that quality 'given very orders in the morning —of ped the journals, the letters of Ministers, • the corre3pomlence of the Prefect of the S..ein e c of .having given •otAters to the master of rue post horses at Palk, to deliver horses only t° his order, that of the Ministers of the EmPerP e ; wr_tten it. or of .General Excelmans—of having circular to mislead the inhabitants of,the Der „ meats as to die situation of Paris—of having co at responded with Buonaparte before his arri val w Pat is—of having tendered himself an accomplice in the treason • committed in the course of t - months of February and March, in aiding and tts_ sisting, with knowledge of the cause, the authors: having-. stor abettors, and adherents in the acts which r e , .pared, accompanied, an d f o ll owe d the att"li ) tie .M,Tripier opposed this man ner of putting. of question. He contended that two cities" c ,.. should' he put :—lst, 'lf the accused was at' '34 complice in the conspiracy which brought bac a the Usurper ? 2dly, if the accused, had u s ,lbe the place of Director-General of the Post' • „ e s Court, after delib era ti ng , ma i n tained by au °— the question it had proposed. ret urn The Jury, after deliber at ing fiVe hours, ret u the following verdict—" '[lie accused is Gui lty " of the crime, with all the circumstances cla " prised in the position of the questions•" dl • c t ,er The accused being brought back, and the' e d read to him, the Advocate-Gencral (Ho) p ray b iut the sentence of the Court, which condelul le . to suffer Death. ' • FRENCH PAPERS.-(RECEIVED THIS °°11:4114°.1 rfrum zrientrni,) r tio° PActs, Nor. 23.—The Helvetic Cou re " 3 Abe has just decreed a national recompense t° fidelity of the hundred Swiss Body Guardi°l s ° f b o Majesty, and to the Officers of that rat followed his Majesty on the 20th March, 04 "alrg since returned with him. o f be The day before yeste r day, a detachmen t sth regiment of the Royal Guard arrived from . tI . l 4 department d'E ure - e t-L o i re . A very gPlefli' e , a white flag was ca rr i e d a t it s head, which 114" , presented to it by t h e Offi cer sent on the r ecrul ing service in that department. The brav e . who followed it, were proud of such'a gt e p : : They entered P ar i s , d ee ply affected by th e ""i i ' io ap,tness of serving under the best of Kings , shouts, a thousand times repeated," of the live the King Long live the father n' French !" No v ' NULLETIN OF THE 3ITTi*G OF THURSDAI) 23, 1815. TRIAL OF MARSHAL NEY. teje n The Chanc e ll or opened the sitting 11 t - e s er o'clock in th e morn i n g. He ordered th e 3cc and the witnesse s to be brought in , T he .3 -t -were more numerous than'on the pr ecc tii"in tt f "ki ting ; among them we noticed the pn"Le ° • bufera (Sucher). [Count Marbois, Marshal Ney wa s placed at the_ l3o ' c an d Pe Cazes, Minister o f Ge nera l P o lice, assistcd tbis Minister of jostie, Sitting], The e3ll of the Peers having been read Town Clerk, The Chanccnor informed the C ouncil for accused, th3t,they ill! might now oiler what they nc to urge in obj e cti on t o the validity of the prcse 1?0" proceedings. M. Berryer on e of the Marshal' s .- attempted on five points to prove th e whole nu ll • The Proeureur-Oeueral .13elard, spok e it ' re futation of the arguments of t he p receding d ders , efen speaker. He was replied to by the Marshal's second 'Counsel M. Dupin. The Proeureur-General made some observations on what had been urged by M. Dapin. The C!:ancellor enquired it the Counsel for tb c ' Prisoner had any thing to add to What had al-. ready been stated. Berryer begged leave to mate some 'ldational remarks, which lie offered 41 few wor th r