The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-05 00:00:00

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THE BARON Dt fIDIL

'the public are already aware that the applic.•tiou
which woo made to the Chief Jodie/ at chambers to
Wm' llama de Vidal to hail, apes the charge of feloniously
evading his ma, Alfred John VW. WWI refused, and
the bard, consequently. will had to remain in Newgate
mail the o,sion of the CeutralCrituinal Court. on the 19th
bat The following additioad htete, kow..ver, in connexion
With this estrarodinary affair, and which b..ve been obtained
limn a sourer on which the fullest darker may be placed,
wit: mediums be reed w:th iuterest
the 1,"• je elands can milted upon the
dotal char4c of felmuously weeding Mo son with intent
to murder him, it appear. that avid 'lnc. he ham lied
is cudeli be bre .userted that then is not the
aleihte.t boiler:tattoo for such a unarm.. sad the account
be gives .f the truism-boo. and which he will attempt to
est.hili•h if he .build lie put upon ha Um!, is this :—On the
day the ....cermet* took place the lanai states that he and
wet, nn the most friendly tarots. :did they agreed to
sole to I .:AZYIIIOOi to pay a vioit to the C. tote de Paris, and
the other members of the late Fosoch royal family who are
rowdiest there. and thee afterwards agreed to go to visit
Mr Dec at Orleaus House ; oL the way the heron
wiled he. -on to stop and dine with Imo at Hampton, but
ont:eiat tailgates any censors,refused to Mao, Rod the
bud moo very much aunoyed at the obstinate manner in
which he 'emitted in his refusal. Nothing particular,
however, occurred until they arrived the lad where
the trairotutios took place, and oither by acei•
dirt or sleeps, the young gentleman struck hr father
anniewlist obarply with his rating whip The consequence
we that the berms, under the ioduence of momentary
asiteniest. *truck his am two seven lames ou the bead
with the hoitt-ead of hie own whip, but he het no ides that
be had iellieted any wends injury upon Li. tot, Yuen; U.
Vidal is of very weak and borrow, temperament, mid there
wee are to be no dottht that when he find applied for a war.'
end against hie father, be bed not use 'owl remote idea
al charging him with emeiniittiog a fe:orrions aseult opus
km. and that his object in seeking the prole liou of
the law was that be ought not be halite to soy further
attacks of Mulonce fruni his father. After the occur-
Mete bad taken place the heron odes he treated
the matter so lightly that he hardly even thought of
it, ad hi. jouraey to Paris was quite unconnected with the
affair. It was here that bead, Isseaumaware that &charge
ef mane Ind or other hail leen sour againa him is Eug.
had, aid be at once applied to the Procureor.Geseral upon
the dhow' , by this fuoctimary Lc was inhumed that ha
cow had made a charge of • serioue character iumitat him
to the autlearium, and that althou..ol there was uo
treaty that would justdy his e-Aratlition, nod there was ao
infamies cm the put of the government to give
hini up, still it was imaigested that be bad letter lees e Paris
It wean that pealed the proceedings. and wail, the metier
mu dam eassidsration by the trench goveroinest, the
buroa, who hod been placed umber temporary rentraiut,
mipeassed daterealsatioe to go to England to meet the
c whatever it t be. Coot m nlg ade ninat hint,
atirt aught
a pommel application to the PruCUreur du
1101 to that effect ; it Wow don thin requoition that he was
brought hark to this country, and upon hi. al rival lu
deaden ha, fur the first time, learnt that he had been
amused of • capital crime by his eon.
Asa food maay incorrect statewide Lave been made
with roftwoos to the property to which the lieron'a son
was .stitl.d, and the interest the Baron de Vold had in
this property, it may be an well to Mad the mart positioa
ef the parties in refereed Sothis, matters. It appears that
by the marriage settlemeat emaciated tide the marriage of
&Susannah Ja.....0n, the late heream.i, with the Baron de
Veld, a sumo( leJ,ooof. wee vented in trustees, who were to
pay the interest upon this sum to the barmier during bet
life. and after her docad to prey over the interest to her
the bird. The marriage • ettlernent went on fur.
to direct that upos time death of the baron the principal
saw of 20,0df. obould he Ni.l over to ouch issue of the
marriage a.. aboyld attain the age of *JI year., to la equally
divided, and ,u ca.e of there being no ouch i•oue themody
was then to lie paid over to Mho Sarah Jackein, a rioter of
the deemed hiciy, or her home. With regard to a further
sum of rummy iu which the Hama de Vidil was ouppooed
to lave an ratervot, it appear. that by a will sad codicil
tit Mr Jobe Jackoon, the father of the late barionem. a
sum of 10,theW. was bequeathed to Alfred John de Vidal.
the bard', nos, upon his coming of age; that sum Ism
been pail to him and is now at It. abkolute shapeddl and
the I iron de Vidil would have no detest whatidr is
this nosey, unto,. in the event of bin sea dying with-
out making a will, or bequeathing it to hire by seek as
irs-trument.

Mince the proceedings that took place before the inegila-
trate at Bowatreet, the son of the baron, who it will be
verownirred positively refused to give evidence against his
father. ond who was threatened to be committed to prison in
gessegiu law of that refuaal, has been staying at the residence
d Mi. Parker, big relative, at Warr, in llitticgdibite, :rod
it is said that ha still adheres to his determination not to give
way evidence, although her bound over as a vitae** for the
prussCOlloll. Acconting to the ordinary course of proceed.
ice, Iss would hero to give ha evidence before the grand
pry ; Y be should relice ti give any evidence they would
twee go power to canape! him • all they ,;oubl do would he
to rape an applisatios to the Court, sad it is sot at all iin-
protaide that in the abseere el any information by the pro-
gnostic. and ea his Mina to give such widow., or to ea.
plain miler what oluanastsaces the alined cries was own.
matted, they would hel Slwasselves jaawl in • the
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bill, a-a.d, waa marry ere, INS wadi ha
the coon.. that weld lie akin.

It u uodec toed thatoofurther attempt will be made to
priaure the liberation of the berm ua buil, and he will eon-
satemitly MOWS in Newrate until his met shall bays been
slapuesti of in due ammo of law, either by the grand jury
*Dori% the bill, or hie being tried by a jury. He does mot
appear .0 much affected by his eonlinemeet u would be
temasicel, and Juries the last few days be liss been tidied
by several per,io, of diotinetims,, who seem to take the
mutest interest in him. and to be eirosinly uumeseed with
the cuovietsoo that le is agar* isseceat of the aims of
which he u aocummi.