The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-18 00:00:00

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moll COURT OF JUSTICE OF VERSAILLES.

(Costinuation of the sitting of 16th October.)
•Lemaitre's interrogatory bniag been read, the pre-
game uncaused that It appeared he had beluaged to the
part legion of a/U.1187y, teat he bed taken tart in the demon•
intim, mid that he was at the Cosiervataire• the latter
hoe eppe.ring from a note fund these, in which his name
wee mentioned as having uudertakee is collimation with
l(ereausle 10 elethidth cee noung in differ
pat quarter,. Tide sets was 'piped D., but the 'noniron-
oral add that ft was not dined by the accused Delawless
Meat), as kid boss at first sappeeed.
tamers declared that he had not signed the interroga-
Wey bean he did sot nevider himself tree.
The laterrogatom of FOleitin was then read. The indict-
ment procipelly charges that prisoner with neglecting the
duties which devolved on him as colonel of the national
pied ; of Invite goes throaggh the 6th arroodweement with-
out sadeaysurisg to repress the acts of rebellion which were
visible, sad with having bees aware of what were the in-
fatuate of the members of the Mountain.
The Par-lameral—The prisoner Foreign. has
moiod a liar 27 witnesses, which he begs to hove Wit-
loud.
Y. F.,re:titr—l have asked for 29.
The Provision Genexal—One of those witnemes, Y. Bega-
n chef de banal°a of the 6th legion, has been already surn-
amed, and we beg to make knows to the prisoner that we
skill sot summon the others. lie is at lib -sty to bring Sor-
tie:4 as many es Ise thinks proper at his owe extent,.
Forestier—lt is shwa by my dopoeitions that I had
net tamed to the wades 01 the assombling ot the representa-
tives at the Communism des kits et Hiders. The indict-
ion states that I did :o, sad that is incorrect. It is also
said that I left my house eine o'clock, whereas I did sot do
se sail a qaarter-past Mar. It is also mated that I west to
lie gaud-horse at the Tempts; the commander at that
✓W
declares that I merely man use of these words "Is
awe aeythirg new I" sad proceeded on my route. la the
ladistment it states quite the eaetrary.
The Presideat—Tbe court will an begin to call the wit.
21111114 en I may observe that the Let sailed will have tO
=lochs gesseral fans, sad partiettlarly to them connected
UM Committee of the Prem. The first Wi.llolll em—
it. Vidal. editor el the Travel Af ranesi, who formed
weld the Committee of the ?rms. Is reply to question'
ion the presidia he said that that committee wee not at
oat regularly coasituted. Its those was to sot ma the
people, sad prevent iNteldef sad aseuableges. There (limo
ales • sort of jury of hoLour charged to remove difficulties of
intermit and amour propre, which might arise betwees the
=ists. At a later period an electoral committee was
which mint communications to the jountels fanning
(A part I
M imanuttes. His journal did not receive ay can-
onisations, because It was not a daily oee. 11. de Mardis
asergetleally opposed any manifeetatioa, saylog,berides,that
One was so feeling of insurrection smug the people. He
prepaid • protestation for the joantals, when, fu his opiates,
would be ea indication to the pvimintent that it should
Mara into that path of legality whist ft ought lover to hays
. IL de Oirardia also expressed oui pinion that if
glid majority approved the coadactot the ministiy in refusing
to follow up the indi-tment, the Leerily ought to cos pd
the majority to declare itself ea the fact of the violation of
the mastitution ; that by its refuel to disapprove of the acts
tithe ministry, the mohnity had placed keel , not out of the
pale of tie law, but oat of tee pale of the constitutioa ; Mit
the minority would then me what it had to do, but that it
ought on no account to heave the Chamber,
did as is /patties it
It would lots character. He (Me witaese)
sotremember
that any propotition wee mode fee an appeal to the people,
except that me individual mentioted UMW 6th legion had
peopled to invite the national guards to assemole to make a
pacific modiste:ads:on. Some one also spelt, of as intentioo
expressed by some representatives to retire into the 5:111, 6th,
sad 7tb erronsiiamments.
The Provareur-Osaaral—Were the remarks of ward (N-
-ordin made in reply to any proposition brought fo by
the othi r members of the meeting ?
M. Vidal—Several hypotheses were brought forward, and
it was in tiasnlains them that M. de Oirardin niade the re-
"make whisk I have jou stated.
The ProeuresseCieneral—Was it known at the close of
the eittin; what Y. ConsOlerant intended to do at the As-
sembly_?
Y. Vidal—lt was understood that he went there to propose
mine plats.
The Proserewr.Oestral—Was not the Flan submitted to
the committee ?
M. Vidal-1 have so recollection of any discussion or vote
on say pion taking pleat.
The Precureur-general—ln the meeting_ of the 11th was
it not mentioned that the methanol the Mountain intended
to meet is the 6M, 6th, mud rah arrondissements ?
M. Vidal—l did not hear say mention made of such an
intention until the followiag day.
It reply to a question :ay bi- Rivas, one of the counsel,
he Sala that he was not aware that the offices of the A:mac-
crabs l'acifiris were the dairy reads seems of mea of
violent opinions, but they were always open to tho friends of
the editors.
The President—Did the committee declare itself en per-
MOWN"
M. Vidal replied that it had mot dome so. It went every
day to the different offices to collect news. lie was sot
aware that there was any relations between the Socialist Com-
mitts* and the Committee of the School ~
Andre, one of the primates, said that the real authorsof
the manifestation of the 13th June were the mational guards
of the sth arrosdiseeaeut. Their resolution had been an-
nounced in the journals before the Mountain hail brought its
emus igen against the minister', and before the majority had
rejectei the interpellations of Ledru-Rollin. All that the
Committee of the Friends of the Constitution did at that
time wee to address the National Assembly, preying that
the executive government might return into a coutittational
path.
Tao Prceurtur-Cleacral—We have nothing to contradict
k the statemint of the prisoner Andre, for it was precisely
for having been one of the erganners of the atauifeetatien by
the 61h kgiee that the prisoner nektons was accused, as well
to
Yell d,, who had jam surrendered himself.
Aside* said that the Committee of Twenty-five knew
aothiog of the manifestation prepared by the sth legios, and
he was tonvineed that Mailliard nes also a stranger to it. He
tegarded, be mid, the manifestation as dangerous, although
ke belizad it to be legal and constitutional. He was averse
Se bgneiag the people into the streets, and be hadoxpremed
that ameba to one of the 6th Litton, and recommended him
to countermand the onmitestatim through the journal'. He
was not ewers of what Milliard had done, hut he thonhttie
wee too prudent a man to admit that he had prepared the
manifestation.
Pays snit that he was repreeen`ed as one of the meet ac-
tive me.ebers of the Committee of the Pros, but the annum-
ties mid not be proud. Ile asked the witness Vidal, if he
had ay. r nen him at the meetings of the inns ?
Vidal answered in the negarice, and added that he believed
the accused attended the meetings.
Tbo Pmcurenr Cieneral said he would prove that Payahad
acted as the iatermecliary between the Parisian and eerie-
mental press.
Pays affirmed the c slithery.
Maillard said that he had taken the ridingochool of Pel-
sot to organise a denionsteation, but for a mooting rela-
tive to the election of a colonel of the sth legion.
Vidal having thouladed his evidence, esid that, in his opi-
nion, it than were any plot is the C =mitt°. of the Pries,
the object of it was rather to prevent the demonstration than
to
_promote it.
Dl. Tonseestl, rged 48, a literary man, was the next wh-
ams. He said he lines several of the accused. But before
replying to say queatioss, he begged to say, that as the osier
sawn counted him among its seminaries, it was nemesia
for him to give explenatioes as to the rear chanter of the
interroeinoty he had anlagosie.
The Premier-General observed, that the amnia bad
are sought auxiliaries; it bed summoned whence, and
eal_y required them to sell the truth.
Trammel said he protested against the quality of witness
beteg &seethed to bias, as it made him sppear the a cruses of
lie friends. He had sever given evi4enc• as a winter
before the examining 'aegis:nee, but had repaed to guil-
ds's when he was himself one of the accused.
The president told him that he woo required to state what
knew.
TM *items then protested 'debut aesertius is the n-
onsense, that he had signalised the accused Morel and
Servieat as having been present at meetings which preceded
the drilieSitiftiOlt, that ha (witness) was et the Conser-
vatoire.
• ProcentuDeassal explained that the errors spoken
of by witnrs had be.. made ta the newspapers, and were
met is the isdietnent
TM wham then proceeded to state that he had belonged
to fib* Committee of the DriaGentle and Bocialiit Press It
was, bowever, sot Mainly a committee, but a meeting of
joessaliste. It had bees formed in the mouth of April, sad
the obj• et el it them was to draw up an aleaeral manifesto
grearains, sad es it was asememy to be able to have
ea latentaadieg of the party is importaat matters, the
committee on maintained.-There were no pniodicol
saietags, me wore there protases er mere uries. Between
13th Mae sad 13th Jane, the emassittee only met to deride
on • dispute between two republican journals, with rewrite
their respective tithe. Wither RN present at the meat.
lap of 11th Jane, bat had not men Benne, Pays, or Andes
at it.
M. Beasts, editor of the Ripubliple, was next examined.
Before commencing his deposition be complained of the
treatmeut to which he tai been subjected, lay having been
nested without any eutlcact prima*. In reply to qua-
dose from the president, he said that he was a member et
Ito Committee o . the Preis ; but that he had not attended
at the two or throe last sitting*. He had not &Medea the
lasetiai whisk was held at the 'See of the People on the
11th. He bad remind an aeeewnt of what took esteem them,
hat too lots for insertion in the karma of the following day,
but it had aerated on the 13th. He declared that tae
jest of the meeting of the inarnalista was frequently to fur-
ther the cause of order. 'the journals had *equinely re-
mom- ided the pee* to he east. Ti. witness then de-
scribe 1 at IMO lurk the visit paid to the offices of his
*areal on the 13th Jim by a body of national guards, after
the demosstratios bad bees dispersed. He detailed the da-
age done by the hashing open of bit desks, and stated
that he tsunami to Ong an action against the dentinal
toe 80 030 fr., ohs amount at which he estimated the Warp
he bed sustenewl. waver to gamin's from the encased,
the witness said he had never is.. Andre, Pays, or Banns,
at the mentions of the press.
Y. Mama, ass of the editors of the Ripublips, de-
posed that he was at the meeting on the 11th at the Mime of
the Leisleratie Potifique, and that K. Coosidersat first
presidi d over it, afterwards M. de Oiruoin. No formal re-
solutioa was come to, but it was decided to cell the goyim-
aunt to a sense of its dity, as thmey all thought that the
constitution had been violated. M. de Oirardin recom-
mended resistance, but desired it to be parlitmentery. The
meeting of the 12th was only attesded by seven or eight

penes,. Whams had not men Benne, A.adre, or Para at
as of the meetinp of the prem.
Brasier, an editor of the Delowerstie Pao:kw, said
he had issued the summonses kr the meetings at the offices
of that joeinal. The object for which the committee of the
press woe Isetitoted we, to present demonatratione calm
lated to disturb order. At the nteetieg of the 11th all the
Mrpresent, and among them M. de Girardin, of the
s?, and M. %merrier, el the Crf, were of opinion
that tbe eonstitution had been a
riolaied. The former gentle-
man msds a speech. On the 120 the 9011intiOn9 was 091 rfi
in : Ott the IStb he did not go to the office.
The ?reenrcar- General 'shed if M. de Girard& and the

• cer7•l, cie744raW;piess;47€ll;eT4t;iti isiiiken4oi-
sity of 411•061i1111 that the government had forfeited power
Tlo witness said at bottom they were, but it was decided
to do ell that was venial* in the limits of the constitution.
M. Emile de Oirardio, editor of the Prim, Rue de Chan-
lot, 104, was then examined. Having been asked his
age, he said that the best of his belief it wee from 43 to 46
years.
The President—Aro you the relative of any of the a.

M. de Girasdin—l think not.
Do you know them Yes but net particularly.
The Presidia-0u the 11ti June you wan convoked as a
member of the Commit se of the Press
M. de Girudin—Monsieur Is president, before answering
I most make known to the court, the jury, cad the deftness
fact which is is contradictien with the very sable wads
which you, M. Is president, pronounced at the commuter
meat a this trial, when you said that the " authority of
patine was at t measured only by the degree ef energy ulna
it displayed in its actions, but farther and especially by tbe
Virus of its meats to mom the triumph of truth!.
I was anti into thii cabinet date examining mgt.
WON I found a member of the Penne; who appeared te
anst the investigation, and who put (nations with a degree
deleverams, not, I must confess, in relation to the upright-
gem Mae means of which you have spoken. This tact WM
to me grave—so grove that I cannot rem ,in silent.
Glee liilVt very familiar with the usage* of criminal jostles,
bat I have ascertained who was the person who assisted the
exemintag magistrate with so much seal. I learned that be
b a member of the Pagan. As lam very short-sighted, I
maim see whether he be now present, but I can acme him
nuts is M. d Valli.. The pertinacity with whisk be
put question to me mad* me profoundly indignant. I have
hives sufficient guarantees to order not to be treated as a
" suspect," and, if resistance be wrong when it goes to the
length of insurrection, justice is not less wrong when it pee
to the length of inquisition.
The Proem-our General—We do not understand the In-
cident raised by IL Emile de Oirardiu. Things passed re-
gularly; it is the wasp for a member of the Parquet to waist
the examining magistrate. As for the feet alleged by the
witness, we died Km trace of it in his deposition, nor did he
make say protest when hie deposition wes received. We
think that his reproach is totally unfounded.
M. de Oirardin—lt is not a reproach, but a very ettergetle
protest The substitute in question did not confine himself
to maths' the examining magistrate; the latter seemed
under his Ilansillane.. If I did not bi fore protest against
this, it was because I did not know that it was contrary to
usage kr a member of the Parquet to be present at an exa-
mination. I renew my protest.
The Precursor-Genteel—lt was not contrary to usage,
sod was quits regular.
M. Emile ce Girardin—l demand to ask, if it be in con-
formity with the usage in criminal cases, to say before a wit-
ness, " What, you went to have actions man, and you call
annum you such a man as °diddle?"
The Procursur-General—That was not said.
M. de Oirudin—l an bring forward the witness who
beard it. I protest, with all this throe of my:indignation,
against such a scandal.
The Preaurtur-General—l cannot allow such language to
be held.
TM President—The softness shall be called. What was
the object of the Committee of the Press ?
M. de Oirardin—On the 10th of June I received a convo-
cation. The situition was gra, e. I have read history, and
remembered that on 2703Ju1y, 1830, M. Thine and M. C ham-
bolls took the initiative. I read their appeal to resistance,
and I faked myself, if, because I had bravely sad fraskty n-
onrated in the election of 10th December, I was to refrain
from protesting. In my opinion it was evident that the con-
'nun= bad been violated. I thought it right to go to the
meeting. A confused debate took plan, and I spoke. I in-
sisted on the useessity of first employing the constitutional
means we had at our disposal—the press and universal suf-
frage. I recommended that such precious arms should not
'e compromised ; that if the meeting woull not wait for
1852, the opposition should declare itself en permanence, and
that it should consider itself as the only true expression of
the national representation. My opinion was unanimously
adopted. I went to the meeting of the Rue Coq Heron, but
let , and di-1 no: remain lung. I there saw M. Barest*, M.
Capita, and M. Langlois. Ido not know M. Vauthier. No-
thing was said about coming to an understanding with the
Montagne, but with the opposition.
M. Dan, advocate of 41.11 of the prisoners, asked M. de
Girardin, it he was not convineed that the plan he had pro-
posed was Middy constieuti.nel ?
The Procureur General—l will not allow any such Tw-
ine to be put. The si dans is not here to give his opines
es egnstitutionel law.
The prisoners and their advocates loudly protested spinet
this ; all rose in greet agitation, and Insisted that M. de 01-
rat din should speak Girardin himself was greatly agitated,
and made more than one attempt to speak, but his voice was
drowned is the tumult. At length he exclaimed, " What !
as I to be interdicted from replying to a qustion of the de-
fence t Why the right of the witness is as clear as that of
the defence."
The Procureur-General—You may give evidence on facts,
but not opinions; and, if you continue, I shall be obliged to
take 161111SUrei against yon !
M. de Clirardin--If I were a timid person, I should be in-
timidated, but I em not.
Here renewed tumult arose among the prisoners and their
advocates, and when it had partially sunned,
M. de Oirardin insisted that he had a right to speak, be
order to prove to thejury that the plot of which the pretenses
were sensed was • pure invention.
The Procureur-General, however, again refused to allow
him to speak.
The sensed and their advocates roes in gnat agitation,
and loudly predated. The tumult at length littaimi such a
height, that the president put ea hi sps M lelimis tbalbs
sitting was suspended. Atter a while, abase eras 'oddly
restored, and
• de °dentin after again insisting that he ought to he
allowed to explain himself, for the sake of the messed, anti,
" 111 am prevented, it will be a disgrace to the High Gown
sad a the majesty of justice!"
IL Dein asked M. de Oirardin if he considered the plan
reenthiended by him legal and constitutional?
M. de Clirardin (with great excitement)—" I nm sure of
11l It is my confident belief!" (Rescued egitation lie
then went to explain that his idea at the 'mann use .)
to pre-
vent an insurrection ; and he insisted on the feet of his hu-
bs been present at the meeting as a proof that there could
bare been no plot. If there had, he would not have been
Invited.
The Procureur-General—The matter is now at an end.
• ascased—No! no! (Agitation.)
TM prisoner Langloa asked M. Oirardin if be had not
supported him at the meeting of the Democratic Pacifico.?
11. de Oirardin said he knew nothing m7f• than he had
stated in his deposition before the tagalong magbtrate.
This was read, and it proved that at the meeting N. de
Girardin had for several different reasons strongly instated
against say attempt to woe a rising of the people.
M. de Ginnie% then said that he persisted in stating that
M. de Vallee, of the Parquet, had questioned him with per-
fidiousness.
The Proeureur-General said, he would not tolerate such
language. It was grossly improper. (Murmurs.)
K. de Guardia—Yon want to make me an accused in-
stead of a witness ! II never signed, as you have, impeach-
ments of ministers and appeals to the people. (Agitation.)
You have threatened to prosecute me—de it! (Long and
violent agitatios.)
The accused Pays sail that when he she was under ex-
amination, M. de Valles was present, and whispered in the
ear of the emotions magistrate. Other accused cried—
" Ihe same thing occurred to me ! to me also ! "
The officers of the court loudly demanded silence. This
aimed new agitation, in the midst of which M. de Oirardin
whitlow. fiome lidls time, however, elapsed Won the
sonnbation subsided.
no next witness was M. Venigny, representative of the
CtHe stated that he hat been prosiest at a meals( at
asseceedie Pacifique on the 12th ; that Ledth-Rollin,
Irak Pyat, and Coniderast had drawn up a prochimatlea
of Man he had approved, as it was of a math name-
Ha knew nothing of the appeal to the people and
nadiail guard to take arms which had been found at
yes Oneesnasidse, and he had protested against his name
beMplessil
lie:
mart sijeurned.

ARRIVALS or BrEcts.—The following large arri-
vals, amoog others, have just takes place : The packet ship
American Bogle, from New York, has brought 32 noekages
0419 fells 64rd N 11647, from Cadis, 7,774 sheets
of ea; the Bump* Merchant, from Boa-
bays:Pawl:OM o tremens, and 37 boxes of Spas silver, con-
signed; the Awoken line-of-pecket ship Prinee Albert,
from New York, 11 packages of specie, consigned ; the John
Ns:weeks, frau Arlia, 706 bars of copper, addressed to a
coalmen:id Sms of eminence • and the ship Bangalore, host
Siegapore, 10 messcl roiej emssigosst to order.
Basms.—'l'here are
in Liverpool dates from Per-
sambas° to *oak September, but there appearo to be a
great paseity of news.
TES CASS OF SUPPOSED SIISPENDED ANIMATION AT
BRISTOL.—BiIIeTOL, WIDNISDAT APTIANOON.—At length
them
_ystery in this case has been cleared up, and the death et
Kr. Byron Blythe has been satisfactorily ascertained t• de-
composition having set in. An inquest was C0111112400t4
the body this afternoon, before the coroner, J. B. asinine,
Esq. ; and the jury viewed it prior to its being interred
hi
the cemetery. The head and face exhibited strait UMW
of &compaction, and the arms were quite blue. No mi.
denim was taken, and the iequset was adjourned tss sem
days, when medical evidence, tending to *ow the imam of
the very.estraordinary appearances pesseseed is Ws eres
will be given. Some grossly exaggerated names are is dr-
ciliation here; but the facts of the ewe bees bees siffecitly
detailed in the Express, and it Is deaslis that wen
should hesitate in giving eTedenes to statements will*. 11a
the face of them, boor the 'emblem° of error. It 4 wider.
stood the t a rat nucleic examination of the body will be I
made, prior to the burial of the corpse, and four eminent
medical men are named as eagaged to conduct it. The case '
continua to excite a good deal of painful interest ; and, in a
medical point of view, it certainly possesses considerable
interest end importance. be ferment bas been summoned at
the request of ,the father and Meade of the deceased gen-
tleman.