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LONDON, TIIIIRSD►AY, MARCH 2, Ira.

The French Papers of Tuesday contain an order of the.:
day by the Baron de I)IEBITSCH, relative to the arrest of
EnettetsEca Fa ; an order of the day of the Chief of the
General Staff of the Emperor NI cit oLAII. transferring. the
Grenadiers r f the regiment Tschrigoff into the Imperial
Guards. for haring separated from the other mutineers ;
sat an ukase addressed to the Superintendent of the
Palace of Oranienbaum, directing him to consider that
palace as the property of the Empress ELIZABETH ; but
the most important part of their contents is the report of
the COMM ssion of Inquiry instituted by the Emperor of
RUSSIA after the events of the 26th Decembef. The
following are extracts:—
From the tloilc dated Tuesday, Feb. 2:1.1 •
AT. FF.TERSBUJIOI4, Flll.ll.
Baran de Diebitseh. Chief of the Stltf, has just published the
foliumng order of the day relative to the arrest of Kuchelheekm
FEB. 7.

The Cesarowitech and Grand Peke Constantine has just sent to
tbe capital the individual named Kurbelbecker, known for his
gone mrei..ieatien n the events of the 14th (Nth) Dec.
Ilia Imperial Highness has thought fit at the same time to make
the bintmor acqueented with the laudable zeal and penetration of
the subaltern Grigorietr, of the Regiment of Guards of Vol.
birds, this tension. Defog sent on biteineee relative to the
service to the suburb of Prager at Warsaw, Origotie(r met a atmagsr
who spoke to him, and who appeared the more enepieinue to him,
as hie face put him in mind of Kucheibeeker. a description of where
person bed ban given to all the subalterns and privates of his regi.
meet. Hs imermlistely took him before his officers, and the iden.
tity of the nt,pectrtl person was soon proved.
As a recompence for such conduct and sagacity, his Imperial
kietty hat ban pleased to promote Grieorieff to the rank of
Ernign,plati.tg him in the invalids of the Guard, and to give him
besides a nom of 1,1100 rubles. His ,Majesty hart likewise given
orders to make his excellent conduct known to the whole army.
OH M% Or TUT DAY OF THE EMILE OF VISE GEXI:ItAL
ST •TIF OF BIS MAJESTY TILE EMPEROR•
ST. PETERSBE ULU. JAN. (probably 0. S.).
At the time of the rebellion in the regiment Tutrigoff. the first
camp ety of Grenadiers of that regiment, commanded by Captain
(now Major) Kosloff, unshaken fn its fidelity to the throne,
generated from the mutineers, and having joined its real chief".
manual, assisted in quelling the rebellious. To recompense its
viaduct on this °emotion. his Majesty the Emperor has mdereu
that the whole of this comitany, both officers and soldiers, shall be
transferred to the Regiment of the Guard.
In consequence I announce this to the whole army.
(Sir et) Baron IHERITSCH.
The Gag Ire (y. the Senate publishes the billowing Ckaee, ad-
dressed by the kmperue to the Superintendent of the Palace of
Zarskojta,ro, dated the 9th of this month:—
" The Palace of Oranienbauan, with all the 'Magri, farms, and
other dependencies, which are the perettnal property of the Em-
peror Alexander of glorious memory. shall henceforth be the pro-
Deny of her Majesty the Empress Elisabeth, our very clear sister-
in-law. In consequence, we order this Pie.nce and all its dependencies
el be withdrawn from the summintendence of the Director of ther
Palace of Zarskojexelo, anti 'tetra...4 up to the person appointed
by her Majesty to receive them. Till her Majesty shall have made
known her pleasure on the aubject, the Superintendent of the
Palace of Granienliedin is to keep the buildings, the establith-
ments, and the how., hold, on the same footing as at prelim', and to
pay the whole salaries and wages of the off c re and servants belong.
eng tO it.
To.morrow being the birth-day of the Grand Duke Michael, the
Cart goes out of mcpaning.
His Excellenrf the Count de 3lodene has reamed from Paris.
List Sunday Count Lebeseltem, the Austrian Ambassador, de-
Erered to the Emperor, from his Sovereign, the insignia and the
Order of St. Stephen.
By an Order of the Day, dated yesterday, Count Wittgenstein.
Commsodee.in.Chief of the Second Army, In appointed Ceelonel
of the Humes of elarionpol, which are tube henceforth called
the iVitteteniein Hussars; and Count (Men Sasken. Commander-
in-Chiet to the First Anny, to be Colonel of the Ouglitch Regiment
• of letantry, which shall henceforth bear the name of Count
Sicken.

PARIS, FE8.27.

The crantnission of inquiry instituted by the Emperor of Russia
after the events of 2tith Ihicember, without having yet been able to
concluee its labour*, has, however. already discovered el series of
facts which indicate% the Origin, the development, and bole divers
tof thtsocawasoaciatiati, thu horrible design, of which, if
ercould hive been accomplisLed, would have produced in Russia
west crimes and great misfortunes. We will give a succinct and
prep nirary vita of these farts. ali taken from the examinations and
the confessions of the criminals themselves. _ _

Their intentions were such, that the number of men who would
have contented to participate in them and execute them could not
but be very limited- For the honour of the Rottman name. and to
the joy of all good citizers, this consolatory tact is proved to con-
vicinin. The circumstance which we are going to relate Frosts,
besides tbst e absurdity of the plot equals its wickedness ; and to
detamistfine that it could not succeed, it will suffice to remark '
the intsitarentm of all the plans of the conspirators, their beat.-
non, the manner in which they themselves often shrunk back from
/Omit own projects, and the impossibility under which they found
themselves of extending their principles and their intrigue*.
The first idea of this conspiracy was conceived by young men of
an ardent and wild imagination, who. led away by the pernicious
exampies of the retro ution of which Europe has been for thirty
yens the theatre, aad seised with the blind desire of overturning
every Wing which has signalized by so many disasters the age in
which we live, forgot the noble traditions of true patriotism which
were preserved ih the bosom of the Russian nation, their most sa-
cred duties to the Sovereign and the State, the oaths they had
taken. their place in society, to indulge in the reverie of an abso-
lute rehtemation in Russia, and to combine in. the dusk the means
to sceomplwlt it.
. _

It results from what they have avcalt
I. That for this purpose they 131,oured at the end of 1813 and the
beginning of 1816 to form a secret association, which was to be
ditidtd iao eutnerous branches, the object of whieh was twofold;
Its aopirmt object was beneficence, its real object known to a very
small noinher of persons initiated in the secret of a political reform
to t' e

2. Thai so far back as 1617, the latter, as a fresh proof of the
OtOMDlritt which mimated them, deliberated on the manner of
attenipt.ng the life of the Emperor Alexander, at the moment when
he e. m •ith his august family to visit that capital, which his
explvits and h a munificence haul raised from its ruins. Th life ,
of Cr adored Sovereign appeared to them an invincible obstacle to
the executb uof their projects. They intended to draw lots which i
of them should be the &twain, when one offered himself %ohm-
tardy but a hether at the decisive instant the voice of their con.
sciences attack them with terror, or whether they thought it ne-
e:nary to mature their plans of general subversion, they resolved
to defer di • parricide.
3. That in 1818. finding their association not sufficiently ex.
tended, they again met at Moscow, and gave it a new organization,
under the name of the " Society of Friends of the Public (food, or
tit' the (keen Book." This society continued to have a twofold
object ; but all the member. were not only to participate in acts
of cheity, but were bound at the tame time to contribute to the
Progress of knowledge end the improvementa of =orate. The
political refersettecalned the secret of the chiefs, who endeavoured
urepas• the minds of others for It, anti with this view to in-
crease as much we po a ble the number of the adepts.
4. T.iat in 18tH ft eas dim:ware! by them that these measures
had nit yet answtred their expectations; that they then held a
third met eg at Moscow, at which deputies from all the section.
of this biddy were plesen• hut where their opinions differed, and
the lead.,. hay ng convinced themselves that the majotity disap.
protean( their political view., prep ilea, in rode: to get rid of them,
to disiso,r the Society, a prop( eal a hieh was sincerely adopted by
some, Ind which others p.etet tied to approve. From that time
mod of the persons who Mo. get o the Society in question, in
feet, ceased to make a pa t of it.
6. That, h , hhe tit:Agree its of this Society, the true con-
gers.° a, thrttud new o e., where wins were initiated, but with
eztren e recitation. and he reciprocate rebid .os of which were care-
fully evolved in prorburd seater
C. That irons that time a principal association was formed,
t o.e of the North and the south th t directing Committees of
%h.. b sat at Sr. itetttlibUTh and Tule-sin, on which depended
toimt ees whi.ls tack the titl o uat not jnrisdiction beet that
lc c sequel a toad toddy was :or net under the name of the
'te Saavonians, with which two members of the As eiatiot of
the South were inttinseely oenneete.i.
7. That the chief f those ivse.cstions uniting their enrol, esta-
te e ed at this same time the.. Id nor effzeting a revolution by means
of he army, and that with tit: view they endeavoured to engsg2
t =minders of commde% and of regiments.
ti. That in these soli clarions tarots plans of reformstino were
pr'pcs:d, accent ng to fee views and personal interests of the mem.
b TN ; that smite wanted a government in which the supreme power
was to reside in a triumvirate, of which they hoped to mike a part ;
that ethers thought of dividing Russia into several independent
perernments united by a federal bond, which would have been
celled Slates, and of which they hovel to be the heads ; that others
again thought of detaahsg several provinces from the Empire,
diner to give them complete independence or to cede diem to the
neighbouring rowel.
b. That it, this confusion of ideas, in this collision of insulated
pretensions, equally blind and etiminal, no definitive plan huh been
adopted, but that Immo of the principal comminutes revived the
bwrible project they had conceived in 1817, to ass :diode ;lie
Empeell. Alexac.chr, of a intiotis mem llfy.
10. That even in 11123 two of the members( of these street
ratrauCLtidnns permlsr•,l so carry this dreadful intent into effect ;
the. they went for that peeps*^ ltotimuink; where the Fmperor
ell to fobs; but toe non-appearance of their accomplices hindered
them from attempting deo crime wlttrh they mertitateth
11. That in 11126 thh same come was again resolved upon ; that
a man leaned•with Corner, by the E:i peror sees the person who
rtheintney expressed the dedre :u aleetimnate him; that he opposed