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Manchester, Dec. 29, 1835. th* The Scri p holder s , who are w ishful to become Shareholders in 's Company, are reques t e d t o a pply, on or before the 14th day of t auary, neat, at one of the undermentioned places In MANCHESTER—At the Company's Offices, No. 23, Bond street, In-Liv Earoot.--To Mr. James, T reasurer t o th e Ch es t er an d Birkenhead Railway Company, Fenwick-street. ~, Lotinox—At the Offices of Messrs. Ross and Ash, No. 6, ureat Winchester-street. hin N it o ed S . cri i nhold er can become a - Skareholder after the day above issued Red h s i c s ri N p. otice does not apply to the Holders of the newly- By Order of the Board of Provisional Directors, THOMAS ASHTON, Chairman. METROPOLITAN BANK. In Fort CAPITAL, ONE MILLION. y Thousand Shares of Twenty-five Pounds each. Deposit 2/. 10s. per Share. • TRUSTEES. Major-General Henry Wyndham. Charles Pelham Villiers, Esq., M.P. John Ellis, Esq., ALP. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN_ The Right Honourable Thomas P. 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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7. 1839. EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURE. M. GISQUET versus THE iVIESSAGER. On Friday last a trial commenced at the Paris Court of Assize, the circumstances of which have for some months past attracted the attention of all classes in the French capital. Few legal occurrences were indeed calculated to excite more curiosity than the action brought against the evening p=int Le Meesager des Chambres by Monsieur Gisquet. If the late Court-Martial at Perpignan upon General Brossard, exhi- Lited a corruption in the higher ranks of the army which had extended to one of the Generals most influential at Court—in the case we are adverting to the foulest public and private transactions are imputed to an eminent civil officer who has en joyed in the palace of the Citizen King a favour at least equal to that of Lieut.-General Bugeaud. M. Gisquct, whom we have just now to deal with, obtained his first unenviable noto riety in the latter part of the year 1830, when the arsenals of France proving, or rather being represented as, inadequate to furnish the army and revived National Guards with arms enough to defend the independence of the country, or menace that of neighbouring States, M. Casimer Perier determined upon procuring a supply of muskets of English manufacture. To make this purchase the commercial premier employed the medium of his private agent, M. Gisquet. The negociater was accused of having laboured much more for his own inde pendence than that of "La Belle France." In spite of these imputations, M. Gisquet was soon after promoted by his pa tron to the eminent station of Prefect of Police, his exertions in which department were subsequently rewarded with a seat in the Council of State. We need not aild that be had also his due share of the ribbons and crosses so copiously lavished to his equality-loving people by the Fourth Grand Master of the " Le gion of Honour." Rapid and lasting was the favour obtained by M. Gisquet in the supreme management of the Paris police. Although the assassination of the Duke de Berry overthrew the favourite Minister of Louis the ; Eighteenth. Gisquet had the good luck to resist the tremendous effects of a plot which he might much more easily have detected—the memor able plot of Fieschi, Pepin, and Morey. In the Prefecture de Police, which be retained until the accession of the present Ministry transferred irto M. Gabriel Delessert, his fame greatly increased. If the fire-arms, imported by him from England, are known in the French army under the denomination of Gisguets, every political arrestiand domiciliary visit that takes place in Paris, tends to immortalize his name, for those effected under his administration were nearly as numerous as the costly muskets he conferred upon his country. Nevertheless, and whatever more substantial advantage the ex- Prefect may have derived from his Birmingham mission and subsequent eleva tion, a considerable portion of public esteem must still cling to him, for he is now one of the representatives of the capital, or rather of St. Denis, in the Chamber of Deputies. In France, in all ewes of libel upon a public functionary, the defendant is allowed to prove his allegations, and he must within a certain period notify to the prosecutor the documents and list of witnesses he intends to produce in Com t. Among the Messager's witnesses we observe the names of MM. I and S. Rothschild. The following is the letter addressed by M. Cisquet to a Madame Foucaud, who seems likely to enact a conspicuous part in these proceedings, and whose husband appears to be the principal witness on the Messager's side. Its contents are the more worthy of notice as the eminent writer superintended at the time an important branch of the Administr,tion, one of whose departments is entitled "Bureau des Iticeurs : " Madame—The request which I am about to address to you will, no doubt, appear to you at the first blush strange, but when you shall have read my letter to the end, and heard the explanations which M. Arago will give you verbally, and which are'too long to be set forth in a letter, you will, perhaps, feel disposed to render me the kindness which I must solicit from your friendship—an immense service rather, and one on which depends the happiness of my family. " You have, no doubt, heard of the intimate connection I formed four year.; since with Mademoiselle Pradel. " Young, handsome, witty, and ercluvted with an apparent mildness, this young lady, who has since assumed the st 3 le and title of Madame de Nieul, appeared to unite all the fine quali ties of her sex, and I hoped to find in her society, with the cau tion which her position and mine required, a grateful diversion from the fatigues, the cares of all kinds, incidental to my poli tical position. _ " The interior of my own household was very triste for me. My wife, being older than I am, did not offer me nor make me feel any of those sweet emotions which are the charm of exis tence ; my wife, who is in every respect a model of resignation, of devotedness and of virtue, had no sympathy in my tastes, nor in my social habits. There consequently subsisted between her and me only relations of amity and mutual, regard. I wanted something more. I required fuod for the sensations of the heart. I felt the need of intellectual rather than of sensual intercourse. " I consequently formed, and without any scruple, a con nection which would, I trusted, fill up the vacuum existing in my heart. " I give you these particulars, Madam, in order to excuse in your eyes a marital error which wives are little disposed to pardon. " Mademoiselle Pradel, in a situation bordering on misery, appeared taken with the most lively passion for me. She af fected the utmost self-denial and disinterestedness, and to feel bat one desire, and to experience only one want, that of pleas ing and being agreeable to me. I soon, however, acquired the conviction that there were in her demonstrations and profes sions_more of dissimulation than of real sentiment. " In a short time this young lady, so devoted, so mild, inured hitherto to privations of all kinds, became;sordid, exact ing, imperions, a coquette, and scattered gold with profusion, " This woman, who was to live ' in obscurity, in resigna tion,' and shut up alone in her apartment during whole weeks,' who did not wish to be a burden on me,' who was to be simple and saving,' became in the course of a month a domestic tyrant—attaching herself to my steps like my sha dow, causing me to be watched and observed by all those around me, bribing with money my servants, in order that they might render to her an account of even my most private and minute proceedings, and of the persons by whom I was visited, coming to look for me everywhere, to every place where my affairs called me, even into the very saloons of the Ministers, nay, into the Royal Palace; confiding her secret and mine to all the hackney-coachmen by whom she was driven while thus running after me day and night—publishing everywhere her dishonour, in order to boast of the empire she exercised over me; showing herself arrogant and impertinent towards the ladies, whoever they were, whom she met at the Prefecture (of poiice); coming to my lodgings morning and evening, in spite of my strict order to the contrary, and not de terred by the presence of crowds from faisant des scenes (kicking up a row). " Vain, proud, her amour propre, her ambition, prompted her to pass herself off in the quarter she inhabited as a great lady, very rich, purchasing right and left every thing she laid her eyes on, contracting debts in every direction. Too weak, from her vanity, to resist the engaging and seductive words of a merchant, she would have stripped every shop in Paris. " These facts were every day the occasion of violent scenes between us; and, in spite of my remonstrances, my advice, my supplications, my•reproaches—in spite of a threat a hundred times made of an immediate rupture, I learned on the morrow new facts more culpable still, and more extravagant than the preceding. " Finally, Madame, you will perhaps believe me when I tell you that Madame Nieul spent nearly Ioo,ooof, within these four years. I had procured for her, thanks to your husband, ,25 shares in the omnibus, which brought her in 4,000 f. per annum. Well, she sold nearly all these shares. She has de voured the proceeds. Nevertheless, I think that she has debts, and yet—l am ashamed to confess it—l have spent on her and on her family upwards of 20,000 f. per annum. " A hundred times did I resolve on breaking off this fatal connexion—a source of sorrow and ruin. A hundred times I quitted her with a firm determination not to see her again, but that wily and hypocritical being came back to me with such demonstrations of love, with such expressions of regret, that it aas not possible to withstand them. " Many of cry friends know her, and all can assure you, that, to judge from her language, she carries love to delirium, and this I must believe; for, notwithstanding all my efforts to get rid of her, and although I have said to her a thousand times the harshest things, and in spite of the slaps in the face (soufflets) I have given her; and, finally, in spite of the gross insults I offered her, in repeatedly turning her out of my house, she comes back, as if hurried along by an irresistible power. " Fallings out every day, violent quarrels at all hours, ficti tious reconciliations—such have been my pastime during the last four years with Madame Nieul. B u t,' you will ask, why did you not quit her, when you discovered all her defects ?' Why ? because she is as cunning as she is wicked ; because she atones for her errors by affectation of jealousy; because it is difficult to resist a handsome woman, who begs your pardon, and who embraces you for hours together, although you repel her with rudeness; in fine, Madame, because I have for her an inclination which is not yet, perhaps, extinct. " But, if she did not love me, would she submit to so many sacrifices of amour-propre to avoid a rupture ? I know not ,• and if it be true that she is insensible to insults and blows, and being turned out of doors, it is true also that I never had suf ficient empire over her to prevent her doing whatever came into her head ; and experience warrants me in stating, that if my very life depended on one of her caprices, she would have sooner seen me cut up in pieces than forego the pleasure of gratifying that caprice, however trifling it might have been. Thus the question—am I loved—adored?—is still problemati cal for me. For my own part, I am inclined to believe that I have had to do with an artful actress—that I was to her not a friend, but a prey—that if she bad hung upon me, it was not through tenderness, but from calculation ; and that what proves this to have been the case is, that n otwithstanding my denials, she often maintained to my face that I was very rich, which, unfortunately, is not the case. " Such is my companion, such are my ennuis and the chagrins which I had to endure every day of the last four years. " They have had an immense influence over my fortune, over my social to resign the prefecture; for the continual presence ? the bare- Positidn, and partly contributed to induce me faced language of this woman, compromisei me in the eyes of everybody. It was, in short, a public immorality. " I was obliged to quarrel with all the friends to whom she took a dislike, and now 1 am nearly isolated in the centre of a city in which I know everybody—a city in which everybody i, disposed to believe me, but in which I meet everybody inclined to censure my weakness. " Would you believe that I would not have dared to give my arm to Madame Thiers, to Madame de Montalivet, or tc any other lady of the same rank, for fear of exposing them to the risk of being insulted by the jealous fury who followed me day and night ? " I have suffered much, Madame; I have experienced a thousand humiliations ; my heart still bleeds in being sepa• rated - from so many ladies of my acquaintance, whose society unstituted my happiness. No one knows better than myself in what a false position I stand, or is more fully aware of the wrong I have done myself and my &roily. A hundred times I have thought of expatriating myself fora certain number of years; but wherever I might have fled—had it been to the end of the world—l should never have been able to have got rid of that miserable R oman, for she would still have pur sued me. " But the source of my greatest affliction is the situation of my poor and excellent wife, of my beloved children, of my daughter, whom I adore, who have been made wretched by seeing me, as it were, dissevered from them, and who have at last come to that state that they regard me as a stranger, for whom but little interest is to be Mt. " Ah ! this thought breaks my heart. " My rife weeps incessantly, fancying me weak enough to sacrifice all we possess to gratify the caprices of a courtezan I must, then, burst this chain, too weighty for me to bear; I must regain my freedom, and it is on you, Madam, that I de pend to supply me with the means. Lsten while le,,xplain in what way I requi r e y our assist ance. ._ " Madame de Nieul having for some time past exhausted every mode of rendering me despicable in the eyes of my friends, and of provoking an alienation between them and me, has hit upon a new project, which consists in not only com promising me, but hi compromising every lady of my acquaint• ante. " Can you imagine that she has the audacity to send per sons to houses whare I am known, who present themselves n ith some pretext or other, as coming from me, and require an answer in writing? These answers arc immediately carried to Madame de Nicul, who opens without scruple letters addressed tome. " By these means she endeavours to learn what may be my relations or courtesy with the people I know, and I tremble lest she has committed similar impertitiences towards Madame Thiers, Madame Pericr, and other ladies, who have the right to feel offence. . . . Imagine how great would be my confusion, if ie families where I am received with kindness I should be asked for explanation about acts done in my name ! If I should hear pointed out the impropriety of demanding a written answer to a message delivered orally by a porter, I should be almost tempted to dash my brains out. Well, since tills miserable woman desires to dishonour me by the most infamous means, let her, then, be caught in the seam which she is herself setting. " She has already put in practice, with regard to M. Fou caud, the manoeuvre of which I have been speaking, for she has despatched to him one of her messengers, and obtained from him a r.o!e addressed to use. It is very probable that she a ill take the liberty of sending to you, and it is here that I wish to stop the course of her impertinent proceedings. " As I should never have the boldness of sending a servant to you without a written message, if any one comes to you not having a letter from me, you may be certain it is an emissary of Madame de Nieul, and in such case, Madame, I entreat you to appear the dupe —to give her a letter for me, and to writ( that letter in such affectionate terms as may induce Madamr. da Nieul to see in it a semi-proof of culpable intimacy between 1.13 ; put into it some equivocal expression, and a few of those words, cleric in their interpretation, which flow so readily from a female pen. " Then the - furious jealousy of Madame de Nieul will bring about a scene which shall be the last, for after such infamous conduct towards you I. would never forgive her in my whole life. Besides, I believe that even she would not wish to con ' tinne our liaison, if she thought that her jealousy had any se rious foundation. By Os means I shall be freed from *verit able fury. What happiness for me, and fur my poor family, upon whom I would impress all the gratitude that they owe your w We should all return you our heartfelt thanks for con ' duct which on your part e ould be real charity. " I am fully aware of all your goodness, and of all your in dulgence fur me, or I should not dare'to request such a ser vice. But what inconvenience can you fear in rendering me this service? For it is of little importance far Madame de Nieul to possess a letter of yours, apparently expressing a too tender feeling for myself, since the fact itself is not true, and the present letter—the intervention—and, in case of need, the testimony of M. Aragon, constitute a sufficient protection against any bad use which Madame de Nieul might be dis posed to make of your letter? Besides, Madame, you might very well speak of it to M. Foucaud, and follow in this parti cular the course that he might point out, for I wish, above all things, to avoid causing you any vexation, and I do not wish that any one of my best friends should have the slightest ground for thinking that I had brought trouble to his house. " I 'night still give you a thousand reasons why I ask this first service_from you, Madame, rather than from any other per son, and why this method is the only one which can release me from my embarrassment. lam sure of success if you will only have the kindness to assist me ; but it is so late, and my letter is already so long, that I can now do no mo re hen refer to the details which M. Aragon will give you on this head, for lie is acquainted with all my sufferings and all the reasons which render me anxious to make use of the method I have specified. M. Aragon, however, has not expressed concurrence in my opinion as to the efficaciousness of the proposed re medy, and saw great inconvenience in making such a demand upon your kindness ; but I declare that I cannot, for a thou sand reasons, which I will explain to you verbally, ask the same favour of any other lady ; and I declare upon my honour that I believe in the successful result of the proposed proceeding. " Finally, Madame, if your opinion or M. Foucaud's—in a word, if a very natural repugnance should induce you to reject my proposition, I beg of you to say so to M. Aragon, who will have the honour to deliver this letter, and be assured that I will not the less retain towards you all the sentiments of friend ship and devoted respect with which you have inspired me. " Accept, Madame, with my apologies, the earnest homage of your humble and devoted, " GISQUET. " This letter will be delivered to you open by M. Aragon." The proceedings in this case came on for its ultimate decision before the Court, the defendant having previously suffered judgment to go by default, not having been prepared with the requisite documents for his case, through the absence of his advocate, M. Mauguin. M. Plougoulm, Advocate-General attended. The plain-. tiff sat under the Judges, by the side of his advocate, M. Par quin ; and the editor of the Messager, M. Brindeau, was at the bar, attended by his counsel, M. Ma:aguin, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, and M. Cappin, late Procureur- Gene ral Nisrnes. The Regist rar rea d the documents relating to the first pro ceedings by which the defendant was charged-Ist. With having been guilty of defamation against a pubtic functionary in the exercise of his office, by reproaching M. Gisquet with acts of underhand dealing and corruption (concussion et cor ruption), both as Prefect of Police and as Counsellor of State. 2. Of defamation against a private individual, by reproaching M Gisquet with actions of a nature to injure his character and his honour. The usual questions as to their names, ages, professions, &c., were then addressed to the parties. M. Gisquet declared his age to be forty-six. The articles of the Massager con taining the alleged libels were then read. The principal article was contained in the number of that journal which ap peared on the 11th of September. The defendant, in reply to the President, declared that be was not the author of the articles, yet he assumed all the responsibility of them. He was proceeding, in compliance with another question from the Court, to give an explanation of these articles, when M. Parquin rose to demand that the defendant should cot be allowed the benefit of proving his allegations by documents, on the ground that he had not specified the facts of names, places, &c., that he intended to adduce in these proofs. M. Cappin, in reply, complained that M. Gisquet had come forward as a public funtionary, and had commenced the prose cution, but the moment he found M. Brindeau really able to cross swords with him, and to bring forward evidence, he tried to decline the combat. The lives of public functionaries, he contended, belonged altogether to public opinion. The Advocate-General cited the provisions of the law, ac. cording to which, a person accused of defaming a public func tionary was bound to enunciate beforehand all the facts that he alleged, under pain of not being admitted to the right of proving them. As far as the articles of the Messager was concerned, the defendant had not done this. He had not spe cifled the facts ; and the plaintiff's counsel was, therefore, justified in his demand. M. Mauguin thought the Adv ocate-General had in this in stance mistaken the intention of the law. The plaintiff in the present case could not pretend to b e i gnoran t o f th e f ac t s hiFmourecaad over again the lette r h e h a d ud. it he had mentioned producing a 4, 000 f rancs a. year, which h caa rdet i g l a a cies d nds ; p od r m o li c t: )f u i bi r 'au e cs d Mds ad' through ralemeste a certain husband for a lady whose name should be pronounced by-and-jay. They came from the omnibus undertaking called Parisiennes. As for the other 22 written documents involved in this affair, from whom did they come ? Were they not from respectabl e people ? And did they not prove that the Government privilege for these very omnibuses had been granted in M. Gisquet's own cabinet, and had been conceded for 200,000 e. ? The omnibuses called the Josephines had been licensed on the same conditions; and M. Gisquet knew well that his intermediate agent, M. Ara gon, had received 28,0001. in this latter business. He must be conscious of the affair of the washing-b-irges, and be must know perfectly well how the Hirondelles had been managed. There were seven facts to which he would call the attention of the Court; the affairs of the Parisiennes, the Josephines, the Washing-barges, the Dame; Franaises, the Spphides, the PRICE sd. !lironelles, and the Muskets. Out of these seven points he was sure to prove five; about two he was not quite so sure. The President declared that the cause should be proceeded with. The witnesses were then called over by name ; those for the defendant acre eighteen in number. M. Parquin then proceeded to argue at some length against the investigations of the Court being directed to any other :Joints than the allegation of underhand dealings advanced igainst M. Gisquet. M. Mauguin wished that M. Gisquet had made these reflec ions before he made the attack. Agents of public authority, he would contend, were, above all others, bound to set good examples of morality. M. Gisquet himself, in a passage of (.he letter to Madame Foucaud, spoke of the troubles and an noyances caused him by the lady to whom he had given the amnibus shares, and declared that her continual applications to and her bold language, compromised him in the eyes of .11 the world, and "became a positive subject of public im. morality." The Advocate-General maintained that. by a law of 1819, aroofs of facts occurring in the private lives of public func tionaries could not be admitted ; and, as for the letcr alluded he appealed to the wisdom of the Court as to how far it would allow of its being produced. The Court retired to deliberate on this point, and returned with a decision that the letter in question should not be com municated, except i❑ so far as regarded those passages that tffected the public actions of M. Gisquet. M. Foucaud was called. He described himself as a mer ahant, residing at No. 18, Rue du Faubourg Montmartre. The President recommended the witness to speak with mo deration, and informed him that he was not to mention any facts relating to the private life of M. Gisquet. M. Foucaud stated that, having formed an intimate friend ship with M. Gisquet, he, through him, became acquainted ith his son-in-law, M. Nay, and M. Malian. The latter, being a man of business, one day applied to him to think of ome concern in which they might both be engaged together. Upon this, M. Foucaud resumed an idea he had formerly en tertained of applying for a line of omnibus. He and M. He- Cart decided that they should run their omnibuses between the Bairiere Blanche and the Odeon. Upon this, M. Gis- • pet said he would take an interest in the concern, which should be divided into four shares, between M. Nay, M. He diart, the witness, and a fourth person, whom he did not lame. M. Gisquet •had demanded from him the fourth part ,f the profits, and this part went to Madame de Nicul. M. Cappin called upon M. Gisquet for some further expla nation relative to the giving these omnibus shares to the lady in question ; and M. Gisquet admitted that her admission to a participation in the concern had been owing to his exertions. M. Foucaud maintained that no receipt of Madame de Nieul's fur a single sous could be produced. A discussion then followed upon the affair of the supplying if 200,000 sabres, guns, &c., to the army, in which contract 41. Gisquet had become concerned a; a partner, on condition it obtaining the privilege of the contract from Marshal Soult and M. Casirrir Perier. M. Gisquet stated that M. C. Perier was dead at the time of the letters upon which this fact could be made to dernd ,vere written. Ile denied that any actual business had been indertalten by him with M. Foucaud of this nature ; they only conversed about it. In reply to some questions ad. tressed to him, M. Gisquet admitted that he had got two lines ,f omnibuses granted to M. Foucaud, one of which was that f the Americaines, and M. Foucaud sold this latter line for 30 000 f. At five o'clock the sitting was suspended for a few minutes. M. J. Palmaert, Colonel of the Staff in the Belgian army, 1-posed that he had been the bearer of a challenge from M. Foucaud to M. Gisquet, which the latter refused to accept, stating that he had long known M. Foucaud, and had great ?steem for him. M. Gisquet also said on that occasion that M. Foucaud was distressed for money, and wanted 50,000 f. or 60,000 f. he would lend him that sum. M. Foucaud had plied to M. Gisquet, that since he had refused to fight, be .'could be made to give him satisfaction in some other manner. M. Gisquet denied having offered to lend M. Foucaud 50,000 f. or 60.000 f. He had no motive for fighting him, and therefore had refused the challenge. M. Palmaert repeated his statement on this point. M. Blanc, director of the [Bromiclles omnibuses, deposed hat the sum of 400,000 f., at which the grant of license for the ”Idortalcing was valued, was represented by 400 shares, partly ivided between M. Charles Gisquet, brother of M. Gisquct, he plaintiff, and M. Grassal, the private secretary of M. Gis 'lief, as well as with M. P. Nabon, a gentleman employed at the Prefecture of Police. He bad aftcrisards bought up their ;hares, and had allowed them each a twelfth part of the profits ,f the undertaking. Neither M. Grassal nor M. C. Gisquct had ever advanced any sum of money towards the concern. He could not say whether the plaintiff derived any advantage from this affair or not. M. Gisquet admitted that he had granted the license to M. Blanc, principally on the recommendation of M Nabon, bui denied that he had any way benefitted by the affair in ques. tion. The Court then adjourned at a quarter to six. SECOND DAY. At the sitting of the Court this day the examination of wit nesses, in the case of M. Gisquet v. the Editor of the Messa yer,wa, resumed. M. Foucaud having been recalled by the President, deposed 'bat he had written a letter to Madame de Nicul, at M. Gis p.iet's suggestion, to inform her that she was to be interested ( or one-fourth in the proceeds of the association he had formed. M. Anthony Blanc, who had already been examined on Friday, was cross-examined to-day by M. Mauguin, who asked him what share M. Charles Gisquet and M. Grassal had had in the Society of the Hirondelle Omnibus undertaking. M. Blanc replied, that those gentlemen had advanced no money, but were to be entitled 'to 1-12th of the profits. They were at first owners of 2-12ths, and M. Blanc declared that he had applied to them to join him in the undertaking, because he knew he could obtain through them, from the Prefect of Po lice, a license to run those carriages on the Boulevards. M. Edmond Blanc (not the gentleman of the name who is a Deputy and Secretary of the Minister of the Interior), brother of the proceding witness, deposed that it was he who had applied, in the name of his brother Anthony, for leave to establish the Hirondelle omnibuses, and that it was through Messrs. Nabon and Grassal's influence with the Prefect, in whose Cabinet they were employed, that his brother bad ob tained the license. M. Charles Gisquet vested no money therein ; his credit with his brother was the only thing he was to bring to the company. M. Gisquet here rose and declared that his brother had never opened his lips to him on the subject, and that he would have granted the license had it been asked only by M. Blanc. M. Blanc added that M. Gisquet had had no share in the profits, and that his sole object in the transaction had been to serve his brother, M. Nabon, and M. Grassal. The under taking, if sold at the time, would have fetched 300,000 f., or perhaps 400,000 f, M. Jules Nabon, a chief of bureau (superior clerk) in the Prefecture of Police, the next witness examined, admitted that he was interested in the omnibuses, having been employed by M. Blanc to obtain the Prefect's consent to their establish.. meat. M. Gisquet being then on the point of retiring from ,ffice, had told him that he would be glad to provide-for some dale employes of his cabinet, who had served the country with him, and that, with that view, he had conceded the license in question, on condition that his brother Charles Gisquet, M. Grassal, and witness should be admitted into the company and to the possession of 7-12ths of the shares. However, when M. Blanc called on them to fulfil a part of the engagement they had thus contracted, they could not command the neces sary funds, and a new arrangement was entered into between them and M. Blanc. M. Gisquet here declared, that if he had known that the licence was to be converted into a money matter, he would have withdrawn it. Subsequently the confined intimacy of M. Gisquet with M. Foucaud, after the alleged quarrel in 18?5, was again made the subject of a warm altercation. M. Mauguin impressing on the Court the fact, that after M. Gisquet had, according to his own tale, expelled M. Fan caud- from the prefecture, he had, in July 1838, in a private letter, called him one of his best friends. M. Foucaud swore that the quarrel was only a " comedy." M. Gisquet swore that it was real, and that their intimacy had only been re. newed on the occasion of his election, in which Foucaud took for him an active part. M. Dcsmoulins proved that he had purchased of MM. Leon Pillet arid Aragon, the Parissiennes, for 140,000 f. M. Ara gon, the friend of M. Gisquet, received for his one-sixth Share 22,500 f. M. Leon Pillet received the rest. The wit ness did not know M. Gisquet in the transaction ; but being pressed by M. Mauguin, hesitated to affirm that his name had not been mentioned to him as interested in the affair. M. Aragon (the person who brought to Madame Foucaud the letter of M. Gisquet) was next called. He deposed that M. Leon Pillet had given to him the share he had sold to M. Desmoulins, and that M. Gisquet knew of his having been possessed of it. M. Gis quet h a d g i ven h i m a place worth 4,000 f. a-year. He was in consequence grateful to that gen tleman. M. Hediard, a clerk in M Gisquet's office, proved that four were interested in the undertaking of M. Foucaud, that he and Madame Nicul, late Mdile. Pradcl, had each re ceived 25 shares in i t , an d that she furnished no part of the capital. Her introduction into it had not been at the request o f At Gisquet, but had been done voluntarily, with the im pression that it would be agreeable to him. The Advocate-General then read a series of letters, written by Hediard to Foucaud. The first read was dated January, 1836, and begged Fou caud to come to the Prefecture, in order to regulate the sale of the Parisiennes. The second, dated the 19th, stated that Mn. Moreau and Feuillaut had purchased his, Hediard's, and Madame de Nieu.l's shares, and that Foucaud was accordingly to de liver up thirty shares to them. The next read was of earlier date, in May, 1835, when ma nwuvres were going on to get the permission. Hediard avows that he consulted the Prefect on each point, on the necessity of getting Rieublanc, who dr,w up reports on such demands, to be favourable. In another lctter Hediard says, that the Prefect could ask 11 nothing of Rieublanc, for a very good reaso ALir • that he could say nothing positive of interr: * lt promises, that as soon as any decision 5h0..4 "f 7, Council of Mi n ist er s, h e wou ld acqua i n t •• • •• J. • The President and Advocate-General t r . • • . . , the Secretary of the Prefect was in conn i• - who played at the B ourse . ttootsr The Advocate-General then proceeded to tilikitiegrOgin u of the letter s o f M. H e di ar d. Th e fi rst , d ate d A pri l 13:pgged o fM. Foucaud to repair to the Prefecture of Police, as the writer had something important, and which could not be written, to communicate. The next dated the 21st of the same month also pressed him to come to the Prefecture, as the Pre fect wished particularly to speak to him, and thought well of the proposed line. It also threw out hints against M. Body's; character, and insinuated that that person was dealing in an un derhand manner with M. Foucaud. This letter concludes with the following words, " For certain reasons this letter had better be destroyed." The next letter, dated May 2d of the same year, informs M. Foucaud cf the impossibility of making money of the line of omnibuses between the Champs Elysees rnd the Place d'Angouleme ; also that be (M. Hediard) had proposed an exchange to the Prefect, and bad by dexterous management, succeeded in gaining his point. It invited M. Foucaud to come again to the Prefecture, in order to urge the same exchange, which, the writer adds, " will be granted im mediately." A letter of the 19th of April, from Hediard to Foucaud, says, " The Prefect has just been to inquire about the affair, and left word that he expected Foucaud the following day. The Prefect hoped that Foucaud would have something satisfactory to say." M. Siguier, Director of other omnibuses, called the Denies Francaises, was examined. He said he had given 18 shares to Perlin, a Clerk of the Prefecture, for introducing him to the Prefect and getting him the grant. He had also bought ano ther line of omnibuses from Madame Pradel, Madame Nieul's mother, for 100,000 francs. M. Gisquet confessed having given this line to Madame Pradel. The Court adjourned till Sunday. THIRD DAY. The Court sat this morning at half-past ten, and the same influx of visitors, anxious to hear the proceedings, crowded all the benches as on the preceding days. M. Leon Pillet was examined. He had obtained the grant of the Josephines from M. Gisquet, and had afterwards ad mitted M. Aragon as a partner in it; had been responsible editor of the Journal de Paris in 1831, and, on retiring, two responsible editors were chosen among the shareholders : one of these was M. Gisquet, before he became Prefect of Police, and he appointed M. Aragon, who held the office for two years. M. Aragon then retired on condition of sharing part of the emoluments of his successor. Instead of this, witness admitted him to a right of having a sixth part of the profits of the Josephines, although the line was not actually established. M. Foucaud was again called, and was interrogated by one of the jury, whether, in order to obtain the grant made to Messrs. Feuillant and himself, a third person had not given rouleaux of gold to M. Gisquet behind the curtain, in an un derhand manner. M. Foucaud replied, he neither knew nor believed that any such thing was done. In answer to a question from the President, M. Foucaud stated that there was a serious quarrel between him and M. Gisquet, in December, 1835, but their previous supposed dif ference was only feigned, and did not last more than twenty four hours. M. Hediard was recalled, and, in reply to a question of the President, persisted in declaring that the 40,000 f. to be re ceived from the sale of four numbers of the omnibus were to be divided in four parts. A juror asked why he always put " tear this letter up," at the bottom of his letters to M. Foucaud? Was it not that he was afraid of compromising M. Gisquet ? Witness replied in the negative. The - Advocate-General observed that since M. Gisquet, ac cording to witness, took so much interest in him, these letters could not compromise him with M. Gisquet. M. Hediard repeated statement, and appeared much embarrassed. The President demanded positively whether he did not ap pend the words in question for fear of compromising M. Gisquet? Witness replied, No. The Advocate- General was surprised how anybody of com mon sense could make such a reply. M. Gisquct's interven tion was net any longer a subject of discussion ; it was a proved fact. How did witness explain the expression that " the Prefect would take the rest of the business upcn himself?" Witness—lt meant the Prefect would send for M. Rieu blane. h o Advocate-General—Arid that ho would overcome his oppocition ? Witness—Yes. (Movement in Court.) M. Gisquet declared that he was the victim of party hatred. The journals had given had reports of the proceedings, and the Courrier Francais, in particular, had said that the indig nation of the President of the Court was evident in all his wcrds. He urged that his honour was at stake, and that he was interested in destroying allegations which might mislead the public. The President said that this was irrelevant. M. Gisquet should, however, be allowed to speak when he asked him. M. Nay, lon-in-law of M. Gisquet, and Receiver-General of the Aube, deposed that his fiend, M. Fenillant, proposed to him to take some omnibus shares at par. He accepted the proposal, which he considered advantageous. M. Feuil lant did not specially urge him to solicit anything from M. Gisquet, but gave him to understand that his so doing would he an acceptable service. Witness applied to M. Rieublanc to obtain through his good offices an augmentation of the con cession demanded by the company. Witness gained about 30,000 f. by the services which he rendered to the company, and which consisted in going to the bureaux of the police, to all of which he had access. M. Mauguin asked the witness, M. Nay, if he did not share with his father-in-law, M. Gisquet, the salary received by him (witness), as Receiver-General of Taxes for the Depart ment of the Aube? He regarded the answer to the question as extremely important to his client, inasmuch as if a commu nity of interest could be established between M. Gisquet and his son-in-law with regard to the Receiver_ Generalship of the Aube, it could be fairly interpreted as proving a commu nity of interest in other cases. M. Nay replied that he would make no answer to the Learned Counsel's question. The President also objected to the question. M. Mauguin—lt is of little consequence, as the fact is no torious. M. Gisquet--The assertion is false, M. Mauguin, and I consider what is now passing as a personality between you and myself. M. Mauguin—Between you and me, M. Gisquet, there can be no personality. Ido not know you. M. Gisquet here resumed his seat. M. Rieublanc, chief of a division in the Prefecture of Po lice, had been consulted on the subject of the grant of the Parisiennes to M. Foucaud, but made a report against it, not withstanding which the privilege was granted. (Movement.) M. Viel, Chief of the Agence de Commerce, stated that having made an application to M. Gisquet, as Prefect, for a license to establish a bath, M. Foucaud came to him, and in formed him that another application had been made, but that if the witness would join with him, M. Foucaud, they would be able to overcome the opponent. M. Viel consented, and rave M. Foucaud a third share in the proposed bath, which share was afterwards transferred to M. Coffinn, who was em ployed in the Cabinet of the Prefect. He granted this share to M. Foucaud because he believed he had great influence with M Gisquet. M. Coffinn, who is now employed at the Bains du Louvre, on being asked how he came to have this share lathe bath, re plied that M. Foucaud informed him he was about to establish a bath, and offered witness a share. On his hesitating to ac cept it, he was told by M. Foucaud that it was tendered with the consent and approbation of the Prefect. He did not ad. vancc any money, but took the chances of profit or loss. He did not retain the share, but sold it for 20,000 f. M. Billiard, formerly Secretary-General to the Minister of the Interior, being called, M. Mauguin intimated to the Court his desire to examine him on the subject of the contract for muskets. The President informed him that the Court could not per mit that subject to be entered upon, as M. Gisquet was, at the time of its being made, no more than a private individual. M. Mauguin replied that M. Gi squet had declared to the electors of St. Denis that, in that transaction, instead of gain ing:, he sustained a loss of 37,000 f., besides the sacrifice of all his time and trouble. But the illessager, amongst its other accusations, asserted that M. Gisquet thereby made a profit of 440,000 f., and consequently that he had not spoken the truth to his electors. The President repeated that this was a matter the Court could not entertain. M. Mauguin submitted to the judgment of the Court, but, at the same time, declared his conviction that M. Gisquet would not deny the truth of what bad been stated. M. Gisquet smiled. The Advocate- General said—Let M. Gisquet tell us yes or no—did he or did he not make a profit of 400,000 f. by the muskets? M. Gisquet rose and said--No. The President asked M. Billiard if he had anything to state respecting the public conduct of M. Gisquet. M. Billiard replied that he had not; but believed that if he had been allowed to declare all he knew respecting the affair of the muskets, lie had every reason to believe that the de fendant would have been benefited by his deposition. M. Cappin then stated that, as the remaining witnesses (who, we understand, were Messrs. Rothschild, Brunet, and Desmoulins) could speak only as to the affair of the muskets, it was useless to call them. The President then asked M. Parquin if he was prepared to plead in behalf of his client, as, according to the rules of the Court, it wag for him to speak first? M. Parquin having replied that he was unable to com mence immediately, the bearing was, at three o'clock, ad journed till to-morrow. FOURTH DAY. The business of the day commenced at half-past ten, the audience being as dense as on any of the preceding sittings. M. Seguier was called, and stated that when he purchased the Sylphides of him. 111. Pradel, she had no document of title to haul over to him. Gisquet stated that he granted this line to M. Pradel, who was the first to suggest it. M. Pradel was a man of sense and understanding, with a numerous family, whom he wished to serve. The grant, however, was made in the name of Madame Pradel. Had he wished to confer valuable favours on M. Pradel, he would not have confined them to this trifling concession. He did not issue a formal decree for this girt,. but gave his word, which was equivalent. It was possible, there might have been a decree.—( Murmurs.) M. Seguier deposed that M. Persin, who was employed in the office of M. 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