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founded ; hut the present citation specifyiag No farts, the
amused could cite no witnemees to prove the correctors. of
their report. Where there is truth there ran he no l faith',
and to &seri-lain Ilito truth, the proof of the facts ought to be •
'trimmed. He prayed the Court therefore to order that the
Pohl', Prosecutor should be obliged to specify the parts of
the report of which lie complaised, that the offer of the *e-
roded to prove the troth of their reports should be put tan •
the record, and they be admitted to prove them on any day '
the Court would indicate.
•PEL De Btoe, Advocate-General, opposed this, and geld that
the ohketion reposed on an error. The law by which the •
serrated were brought up was special; and it provided, that
its era* of atom towards either of the Chambers, it could
erector the person to be brought sip to its bar, and would
popish him with the penalties ordered by the law. 'rho
same law authorises either Chamber to proceed is the same
way wills leased to the reports given by the Jannis!. of
they preserestiega. These ',colas in. a are equally applicable
to the Reports of proceedings in Courts of Jurtice; and the
Court may apply them oil the application of nay ore of its
11lentbers. It is said that the facts reported took place when
the (3ueet was absent deliberating; but when the Judges sera
obsess-she Pwblie Minister is still there to continue the alt.
ling. He cunc'uded that the demand of M. Merillsou ought
not to be grained.
Afiesr there hours deliberation the Court ordered that, con-
sidering the 6th Article of the law of May 28, 1919, only ap-
plied so infractions whirl were expressly signified; and that
the law of Meech 25, MI, hail nu dither rcgoilatioria as to
protean's) than those contained in the 15th and 16th Articles
f that law relative to the proceedings of tither Chamber,
and en•semently that the Publ e Prosecutor is not obliged
to make &sty specification of I he facts anterior to the •niiienct;
coneidtriont Mao that the 15th and 16th Articles of the law
of March 25, refer the matter to the reconvenes and cow
science of the 'Magistrates to appreciate the reports com-
plained of, as well as the memos of offeuee.--the cause shall
be immediately proceeded In.
N. de Rrue —The law of March the 25111 has conferred on
courts the imporirrot and salutaey power of judging and
punishing the incorrectness sod bad faith, the injuries and
oilmen which the Journals may be guilty of io reporting their
proceeding.. This Court had, it, the course of the lung
lend impottant t. i• 1 with which it was lately occupied, more
tl, tit 011CP Occasion to remark that certain Journals give in-
correct accurints of 1114 proceedings; and OW one oceasiou the
President reminded the Journals of their duty in this re.
ape et. But the &spirit of party knows no laws. Its spite
of this p.teinal admonition of the Court, false reports
were continued from clay to day, till the matter cause to
its height uu the last day of tho trial. The intention of
thus frislfying the proceedings was evidently to weaken
the charges against the amused. It will be nit fictent
if I point out among many others, the incorrectness of the
accounts given in the Cormtilutionuel of the sit t togs previous
to the last, which will occupy us more particularly. The
A drocate-Gentesl then read parte of the Numbers of the C'un-
sfileitionoel from the 22d of August to September 6, which he
chaiacterised as all shewiag bad faith. All the articles mato
rule to the sth September, eatitkd, " Affair of the Conspire-
t ion of Rucheilc"—" Affair of Itoctselleg—. Affair of the Cur
Inroad," are full of incorrectness, will an intention of f ilsify,
ing the ponces, ridiculing the accusation before it wan judged
and deceiving the public in a matter of great importance. Tho
totem two of the la's day's report was to tromforns the criminal',
into heron and victims, the Jury into amossins, and the Judges
• loco I *eclat tuners. After them general obsed Tattoos, the A deo.
r-te Genelal descended to particulars, and accused the Con.
itittetionuel °fosterling that at the moment when the Jury de-
livered their verdict, a cry of sorrow was heard arnuug the
audience, which was not true, as shewn by the silence of the
other journals oa the subject—that it described the audience
as melancholy and dolefully silent during the absence of the
Court to deliberate—that it spoke of the heroic indiffereuce
of the accused, of the tranquillity of their soul', of these calm-
tiros and of their serenity—that it attributed to the condemned
sentiments which compared the judgment passed on them to
the bloody batch. rim of 1793. 4And these things, the Advo-
este.General instilled. did not take place. Otte thing, he said,
did take place. Some young advocates, defenders of thr ac-
tateed,lengetting the respect due to the weighty affair before
the Court, to the Public Minister, the Jury, and the public
forgetting also the dignity of the rube they wear, went so fa; •
as to embrace one of the criminals pit Witty, or rather ligs
used on the hick. The Courier aod the-Pilote were accused
of the same violations, of 1111th. The Jeanie/ do Conanatreo,
io addition to these aberrations, described the audience as
groaning and weeping over the prisoners—it put expressious
icto the mouths of some of the criminals, which pointed out
therJary as condemning them against their own conscience,
•Ld by as alto-ion compared the proceedings of the Court
In some of those which took place under the revolutionary
tr.bunals. ;le concluded by calling on the Court to reveoge
violated tenth.
Neither the Editor of the Cuasfifuflonnel nor hie Advo.
eare were present, suet M. Courdier prayed that she tense
might be postponed till to-morrow. The Presidestirepliert,
that the honour of the Court could never be compro.
tr.sed ; it kuows its duties, and will fulfil them. He then
ord-rrd the proceedings to go on. Nu defence was
feted, and offer deliberating, the Court condemned M.
Guise, responsible Editor of the Consfifedionnef, and
Feuelon, responsible Editor of the Journal du Commerce,
each to be imprisoned use year and to pay a fine of 5,000
frames; Le Gracieux, reponsible Editor of the Courier Fran.
cats, to six months imprisonment and to pay • Site of 3,000
traces; and Cassano, responsible Editor of the Pilote, to
one munth's imprisonment unit to pay a Sue of 1.000 francs.
IP The Constitutiounel end the Journal du Coarsen.* are
Sobid to report judicial proceediop fur one year; and the
Courier mud Pilote fur six months.
The Court further ordered the suppression and destruction
of all the number, of three Journals complained of; that
the decree should be primed and published to the extent
of 500 copies; and that the decree. with the motives fur ren-
dering it, and its dispositions, shall be inserted In eve", one
• of the foot Journals in one month.
Guise and Faucillun are earls of them condemned to pay a
third of the expellers of the process, Le Gracieux to pay two-
st lobe, and Cressloo une.ninth.—(tinoffdlenot.)
Fttancn,FunDl.—Five per Crass. fur the opening 29d of
September. opened at 92 1. ; closed at 911. 35 c.—Nea.
politick Fuse per Cents. 781 f.—Exchange on London, one
month, 25f. 45 c.• three ditto, 25 f. 35 c.—(Court When-
(floe, September 13 )

SOUTH AMERICA.

A St. Thomas Paper, dated July 30, received
by the lest packet, mentions, that according to the
Lives, 'dykes from the seat of Goveritrnesst, Santa
Is. there appeared no doubt of President Bolivar
hvytng subdued the whole of Quito, and lie was
daily expected in the capital un his way to Carucci's.
His arrival, it was expected, would hostess the fall
of Puerto Cavello, although it was possible that this
16-treoa might fall sooner, as the only deficiency
hitherto experienced has been the wain of naval
forces, and fortunately these had been considerably
in-nosed by the arrival at Carthagena of two cor-
vettes, the one mounting e 8 and the other 14 guns.
principally manned by European seamen, and hav-
ing on board a considerable supply of arms,
clothing, ammunition, &c. This is the molt sea-
sonable reinfoteruirot that has hitherto reached the
slimes of Colombia, and the Local Authorities had
rapretwed the utmost gratitude at the very judi-
rictus and active manner in which they had been
obtained. These vessels, as soots as they had
landed their supplies, were ordered to join the
blockading squadron.
General 'Pais still invested Puerto Cavell. on
the land side, and the blockade by sea had also
been renewed, by the addition of Commodore Chit-
tie's beig, and another just arrived front the United
Siete; 'of whit+ Commodore Jolie his the
Coliseiodoie Dodds • wet soon isPecuid
Asom North Mastics with a vessel et such itd's!' as
Imola made the Colombians to compete with the

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