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they bare sees rod conversed with see Obey are Doe mit-
takes its regard to the time,, fee tipsya is na "motion raped-
ins • fugitive Simile, bat an **kW a "bale l'isrmilsir
peeped with* wear She*. They are nee ntheakew.tat eager/
to 114 dapvlim the orris* of the messeasier at It Wats-
bly their memory Mies tat deeds* thin, for, imam. of
deposing like most of she 'Reams is seaport of is at-
testifier, six minutia ore year afini the aterder, they /NM
esamired h few hunts after ay apileehessiiie.
II is said, they are bat servants! The Rector. of St.
Maybe, M. de Curlemie, Madame Te►sheo, the miller of
eascanve, sod several others belle this gratification. Of
thine to whom It is applicable, sad whom it does a* dish*.
sour, oat ably is now in my service; sad thee, how Woe-
ordeal !—Servinte, who are loaded lithe contempt, is it likely
that t►ey would be gelato* eamigh to sacrifice their Owe
safety to the interest of their old master? But they are fake
witnesses ! Let them be proved so, sad I will be silent.
When, however, the perfidy of as (Aiwa concealment by
silence is added to the temerity of this illegalise, the evi-
dence furnished maim all its force. Who will mart that
29 witnesses are of so weight in the balance of lustier?
Who will dare to expose himself to the overvrheledieg re-
mooch onsets( doubted • fact attested by VP witnesses!
" And wherefore this homicidal selpticiem to decide del.
nitively that I mashie. Amides? Foal*m was net city
enemy; and his death sob the aeataplishment of • *sal
rtveuge. Ppgides,wia,sot my creditor; for you will meter
believe Oa, lat.M,wls iscemeatly horrowiDg the smallest
isms eased hare lent 10,000 femme* a friend who Mat it.
hie credit ?

" If avarice had led away a sober, laborious ems, sad
orie in nod elreuerstaaces-4f It bad impelled my arm,
should 1 have metiiced an old man wham property
held forth no temptation' So avarice Should 1 have
tarried my victim to a &estimated quarter, to a rabbi-
house-1 whom Fueldes busted to, his table, whose he
accompaaied with security into the recesses of fired''
Those men and wows who are stated to have bees my as.
Mrsaplrees, are euluterra to see; they were guilty without
me, or 1 was guilty without theta. Hitter. must be a vic-
tim-lone am; hut do sot associate me either with heel.
or Seat*. Bei , above all, do sot involve vlrtuass relatives
in any disgrace. 31y holly, which siways resided is the
country, which practised its mammn and loved its simpli-
city, is represented as the focus of latrine, as the hot-bed of
dimes: Barbarians! my relatives weep and fall. Three of
them are dead in the Bower of life,, victims to their fries&
ship fur am; three are gemming is duagrons, victims of the
fatality that persecutes me.

a ;Puke, Gentleinea, if plunged in ibis wean Gradate,.
lattes,l can attach any value to life. 1 call God to witness
—.God who joidges atom jaally 111•111 taca...4244 who boo
Rhea me ibis streagth of mind, for which my samatoo
se account-1 am anxious sally for ay hoover. The
desks imposed upon my dehisce,* confiscates' of thirties
alantha, the refitsal to join two provisoes mentally
sihle, the apprehensions excited is atsay, to whom tali.
ogisßp 1 appealed, have delivered me up ostarmed to my per.
eatednrs. But with a kauviledge sad forliag tiof raw doges,
yea will imitate thesingalar prudeoce of thew:best fledges,
rekorikil by the Roman Orator—' You will try she witnesses
latfure you try She accused!' Should 1 still tapering, the
injestice of the living, 1 appeal to a speedy Astute. Poste.
rity will engrave opus mg tomb—Basfirk 4 lanemaf

SITTING UV AnIL
M. Esquilat, Counsel for Madame Murton, was
heard. After tinlshitig his speech he thus addressed
hie client : .•••
xis.tarse, it'your strength permits you, fetish yorrarlf
to the Conti the observations which you wish to add to your
}ter. I have no doubt that the ewer* aid the Jury wilt
NOM lo you with interest:.
Madame Manson, who was deeply affected when
M. &guitar drew the p;cture of her family, reedy
to remise her, and when he spoke of her yoffig
-it Edward, whose het

eon war. caresses would erase from
" lioorgairs !—Ao accused pans teliejustifees himself at ,
ears..
of
9dierv_a
vase coesimr ammoto revaeve heart the ,ewe.. sauce of her misfortours, collected
the torch of trottls ley retracting to lead Mir his eiwis,..-su herself, sod sr.lte as follows :
pastor, who at Aral denied every thing, and whet alms in. " Gattlemea, my Counsel has developed be • deer sad
yoking the ski of haelatious, salved ha by degrees at the, preeise assailer the evident pumas of Say innovate, : those
vereiuu Isiah stases am—aliall be be the 'obitsr of my' proofs he has deduced front the documeists of the proceed.
fate lugs avid the depositions of the wituesats. Is there. single
Bub and snow uallsof daageosis tell 00 Wm. woe that salami me? Cuastiosis of my Memphis abilities, I
They will oat day speak; they vela rani the plots hatched; dare nut hi p 1 (''or to esstate your attilatioae attrr the speech
fir the papaw of Wads( these wile *atom to make' of my Cilium who has delivered hiarseN with such force
jilechnoil the dirgraecfsi esteemed of,tbsie sad energy, I shall therefore addcculling to m/Aormsor
" (limiter Manses !—M dekwegegolust this wogiaoawit• eitaior NW"( tu.s rapid shrub of atflaaralitlllhici.'.
seamed emlotaiser, whoa prejudice alsennisolpullith "it prisoner for sses' months,boo tars.lblsassishe
',ire. on 1 caresses, degrades without pity, or exalts wldlot ..unjnotacclimatise. But whit Is that in comporbuld illb
;us,. ore ; szsiast this anemias% /ls, time she might sot be die &brittle 19th of March
crud. d le) jn-A ice, rotor+, justice to &gra& itself tar +her.— ," Al 4 imtliscretiun led Mc into the Reedits flelmloatsdltft
(Imam lrausiw mbnim that she Seed at I odes. What dame varied toe lute liaucare house, soti.the reggae of
`t duty, ihes,inies yua, Genticesica whem ate Oak s i kit w ellilieluters &mined me Ora in spite of iserelf. 1. mita I
trtif# ei.f4l4:!' saii)l wet wants capable ofexpressing ail the hernia
pircw‘A! dierso,;,,,, is phytettui gibs I,Unec(r►eweiracerl !lining the tuorkr otitis wretched Easkieei his
to otossin email fur is, vet-voile is bid to pbestie. : adhera to r'r•iltr his Siircialiumers,ltis simpliestiona to exams
inutivata of yield itir she ois Mg of ei0414,40- them, bin complaints, his grytiss, leis turas, serestilmsuad
oioa_voire ?it:,l,,„oltary 1,/,'4441,2 Lis last sigh, were all overheard• by a55...44;$
Certainty • •••• &sir tomb •*•••1$01•1. 11.• • MOW imessit •10.11, : I 'sleeted to shim a statist Me; IS Mad desifeed
eumitimoi...
ere, judos ehaie,4o,,,,a, miggio,.. for mc; lost Heaven, ailocte sratclial Over iisr, Sart Airs sot
4,.7,.tt0er0m. swirl th44l.l*pri,,,,ious of ',quail heists'a crimes to go oupooistoul, to"'
...„7.,..1-I,Z;:".pg,„gii, 4,144 cord. $... ~.,•irwr me to throw it,light 'spun ibis, sad tv give a Meiling
.c .1, Beek'; lb have ems Jessie* Allemildbeals 110•141.111•4•1161• rt." of his th4ine Prvtiarws• '
ed over his filer ;to Imes seen two assolertt, sod Ibt diree- "7" b."' C"l'lltsent Itse u isskisll
ti uof their bsrects ;to lame trial the woollen covering, escaping the murdercrs I strutted Wit stake Si. of

Mid tits Sew t ite ft is so we ‘,.. •Il(411P them appeautterne ntaz big Ir.usils.pot recital stith,!the ~. }tall
--rn • '44 I
Lee @reit/sip/hien blood that 01 bed,' he seemed to wet to be covered with . - , I ,
" Instly, 11141101kitee Rattealls—Tidialrl, • '" by it. His wattle liet chilled me with horror! I had nothittfinst On i 's,
the Jr,. • drisAbefitips , the Tait ot. ,Ifi*.f. death hero/411ml eyes. -'e brine-4liall I cat! him beneficent ?
nothing. She bar rimer herniae the most active last fat saved my life. Rut for him I should here been the prey of I D Iffi tie_ .
of ft horrible Intrigue, which lime wall ripper, and the a tiger, but fur him Edward would be mutbrriess —Could
authors of which have already bettered themselves. justice reproach me?—Am I then inexcusable iu the ryes
" Rut if Restidc were innocent, ought. be to persist is of the world And supposing say deliverer to be (silty, is
denying. his presence at nodes un the mintsiag of the lath lie the Irsa my delis,/ es ? Iluand by au oath winch I cumuli-
istilailfr Ws perseverance is roandsdiiiii $ fact : I did tiered as irrevocable ; paralistd by the fear of beinc some
tilt spivs, at' Rode* till the evening.' All*:4410 stillief day the victim of science; actuated by a Eroding of troll-
arrusayi, 011'aiiimitieJ witnessag, noel, nitli n am- Mar; overpowered by the hka that my confessions Woad
ressiali iriacii A might Mike without duaker, itlpp4llo9o, cover me with shame, as they world cause mu iu be sas-
-I°o ittiltlistiow. -It pill, thetrfor, burst forth i• 110111;11, stt potted of no iftfamous anion—ar• out all these consider-
tire saes.* Is dlialoslifil.; It is *mated that 1 was seawall Idioms united sufficient to jusify my silence? I ass sliest—
the'sateit sidattlittelli 'isee4r4l totactwood is diltetrut etresheb-- is that a crime ? It Is to delicate minds that I appeal.
that I eiliOn4l4l:iiPself—and that in two Win t mooed w linattu is my witness, that seat to the son of the
11417..141,tte the most ptiblie place is Roast! All thoo wffilitOmottimso whom I saw murdered, nobody can wish
who saw nis,:llnew mot one only is 'shit. have spasm SO wortoweasster than myself for the discovery sad punishotrot
swot mid this gloirlo Witness is the *di sorlllet 01 road& unietiwithows; and bat for that 'Norman mars of eel-
Aill wraiw.if OPIVii of subtlety Oai hare to itwwwcailiii.ali iliitorw kit me no room to donbt the malt, I haute not
th-oe'llisinedasom ; but thcaulipistaiusi tidal will Pililleiwil . MO to I milk have been carried by the lint 1101101101118
isibnvolibm but . ailleilaillt ftleireacill of boom and days. which they twallOd within me; bat I was eunvisced ibst my
"-.1 mop ffiteedum appeal odium kiwis! to the testimony testimony VMS Oil indispensable.
—...huidw_kno...lllBl ' rise anus it after'" ' -, suspicions fell opus die'

the murder,
was thuoglit au essential wine's; 1 defended myself ill;
snowed @elated ; mod N. Oseseedet *Wend a true depo-
sition end Melt eurfessines. At leegth, urged by the Chief
IlaglStrate of the Aveyrue, pa;t of tie truth estaped my
lips; nod if I denied it NMI afterwards, the motive in rot
eopeirekst—it was wall Insoin.

" dieted} subdued by an opptemive power, surrossillet
with apprehension and terror, the new means employed
about use could sot but produce an effect. Illacbiavelison
employed its resources; my soul bad lost all its energy;
what could it oppose to the suggestions of cunning amJ
duplicity? I promised to retract; and this promise I
deemed doe to friendship mad gratitude. You have mot
forgotten, Gentlemen, the memorable 22d of August.
I betrayed myself by my actions, which imvoluntatily belied
my oral saseetioos. I hoped to reconcile all 'merest' ; I
displeased every body, and ruined myself.
" Since that time, imessamtly threatened with a tragic!)
death—the example of Fumbles constantly before my eyes—;
boosted by this frightful image which pursued me sight and
day, amid which my decants rewired while I slept—lastly,
alarmed ea aceesat of the object of my affective, I adopted
that fatal arena of demist irtitetrtamed me to be abhorred
by the good, deprived me of liberty, placed me upon the
beech of guilt, sad woald have Visaged ass late total rain
if 1 had eve shasimed it. I bare returned from as dan-
gerous error. Tao bug misled by prejudices, I are *eta
them at length dispelled, sad have so looser to struggle
spied my coaseiesce, which reread*, me with refuel*,
to justice what was its doe. Vain meld be the attempt to
shake my he* deslaratim: truth, by pilidk It bas tuts dic-
tated, will obtai• credit for it.
" bath, Geodes's, is a fillet maim if Aim I have set
Awed fbr a year putt. Insagibe sot that my intestine in
submitting it to yes, Is to work upon your sensibility. 1
implore no pity so; Cisallesnes, that sestisiest too moth
debases the perms who is its object. Yon will do me jos-
tle.; of this I Sad a guarastee is the &miles which the
worthy hstiikof this depirlassal has Slade of yew, sad in the
homes Sthith year gladly pay to your know.
ledge sad your Melees. 1 'Mak Myself amply *sited,
sot in year eyes ,sly, but is those of all Einem, whose
attention I have unfortanately engaged; bat, if I am wig.
takes--if them appear my further deeds—if yes believe
me to he galky--let so coasideratiem ammo, you. Forget
that I beton to a respectable father, who has long lilted
with homer a place is the magistracy; that my brother,
who wears the French usifons, is covered with homarsble
wooed', tars away your ryes from that bed of pain epos
which grams an unhappy mother; close your ears to the
cries of my child--strike, Gentlemen! there is at least 66e
tibias of which I cannot be deprived--my immerses sad der.
thuds le airport my Misfortunes."
" Forgive a pride that belong, to my character; it is le.
nate is me. I forget that I am on the Criminal Beach,
that lam addoeisiag my Judges. I win chaise, bet my
soul is isdepredest, and that seal which is exempt from
crionecesnot Meer to solicit mercy.
My fate, Gestlemes, is in your heads; if I may beßete
the Aesthetes, of my optimism*, you will absolve me, and
restore me to life. by resseriag ma to humour sad liberty.
I spurs every idea of prejudice; yet, how impartial,
how ealightesed soarer you may be, as it is nut in
the smart of man to be infallible, sad I may yet be-
come the victim of illusive, in this case I shall know how
to resign myself in silence to my fate, mid to comfort my.
self with the cosviction, that God atom can see the menses
of the beset, that his decrees are irrevocable, sail that I shall
me day be judged by Wm."
This speech was delivered by Madame Manson
with a firmness which gave additional energy to ha
esprestious, and produced s powerful sensation on
the auditory.
The Court adjourned till the following day.

LON DON,
MONDAY, MAT if, tem.

We have received Paris Papers to the Bth inst.
The Seesion of the French Legislature draws to a
Clove. Severe{ Members of the Chamber of De-
notice hare already left Paris. An *cerium of the re-
ceipts of the dossations of the indirect contributions
for the three drat months of the years and
1818. his bcOnliaid before the Chamber of Depu-
ties, from which it appears that the letter exceed
the former in a sum of 4,461,696 fr.—The proceed-
jugs at Albi still continue. In the Sitting of the
Seth April, the Counsel for the Prisoner. coal.
uranced their speeches in defence, of which the first
' was delivered by a young barrister. named Boy-
' DST, On the part of ChattialllC BRUlrtag, more
commonly known by the name of the Widow BAN.
CAL, iu whose infamous !muse the murder was pee-
, tortristed.. nu:defended his client, on the ground of
her himing.beeis compelled by the character of her
house to admit every class of person., and asserted,

int or tliP
Ali Ni4ll. sent hen Hiker ladies,
pzord to lie its the 'init.& tat the gunmen'.
and 11 Amite MI A :ISDN I-ft theist-
*rivet. iii itentun, reading (lair iiiitecites fruits pages.
in thrir

The Five per Cent. were, on the 6th,
6:3 7- lo 1;5.12 fr.

A Flanders lorrofed Iwo night. We regret•
to find thitt the Prince of 011ANUE 16 sertoubly 111.
The folluwiog are extract:, :

tunssi:Ls, MAT G.
We have this moment received news from the Hague of
an indisposition which ham Attacked his Royal Ilighniss the
Prince of Orange. His Royal Highness has been confined
to his bed ever since Friday; his toilivosition is attributed
.10 his having taken too ninch exereis• MI horseback. The
situation of the patient gives nu reilllllll fur uneasiness; bast
the first symptoms so naiads alarmed the tradesmen of her
Royal Highness the Princess of Orange, that notosthstanit.
iag her situation she sat up till Saturday night, and has nut
listened the apartinksts of bee august Consort.
carts.Snuns, *exit. 29.
Mr. Brook Taylor, the British Minister at Malaga's],
having beets charged with an extraordinary mission from his
Court to our Grand Duke, had an aa.hience of his Royal
Highness the day before yesterday, and teas afteroards pre-
; illikted to the Grand Dukes.

Rear-Admiral Sir BENJ. HALLOWELL, K.C.B.
tikes the command of the eight sail of the line
(guard-ships) which have been ordered to cruise, fur
exercise, during the mouths or June and July.
The Townani, SO, Captain 'ration a, his flag•ship,
is accordingly preparing at Cork, to proceed to
Plymouth. The Roehefort, SO, Sir ARCIIIISALD
DICKSON, and the Vestgeur, 74, Capt. A LEaA N DEN,
will go out of Portsmouth harbour on Saturday
next, and shortly afterward proceed to Plymouths
Sir BENJAMIN HALLoWELes period of comnisiodi
at Cork, expires at the conclusion of this service.
It is ssid he will be buccertltil by Rear-Admiral
Sir JoSIAS ROWLEY. The report of an intended
naval review, off the isle of Wight, is not well
founded.

The Curlew, Captain W. WALeots, was ex-
pected to sail yesterday from Portsmouth fir the
East Indio station, taking dispatches to Rio Ja-
neiro, the Cape, the Mauritius, and the Presiden-
cies in India. The Sappho, Copt. PII.I.II4SIDGE,
for the same station ; and the Dotterel, Cloning
J. Gum for the St. Helena station, will sail in
the course of the week ; as will the Tees, ,26, Capt.
RENNIE, from Plymouth, fur St. Helena, to re•
hese the Eurydice.

On Friday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council
Was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended
by all the Cabinet Ministers. The Council sat till
half-past three, wlwu Lord CAtTLEREAOII waited
upon. the Panics REGENT.
On Saturday Count MUNSTER had en audience of
the PRINCE REGENT. sal:whoa House.

Yesterday the Lump CHANCELLOR and the
VICE•CCWANCELLoa had audiences or the PNINCE
REGENT.

The Catholic Bishop or LONDON officiated at
Ainiesis on the cloy of the AIKVII6IIOII4

A case of libel is now before the Correctional
Tribunal of l'ariP, in which Rosetta THOUREIN,
the ci-decaor criebr.ited bar-insid of the coffee.
house sof Mille.Colounes, is r party. Mr. DUNNE,
an English Physician, is also concerned in it.

The Islet, 44. Captain Fottittr, is ordered to
Portsmouth from the Leith station, for the purpose
of taking out Vice-Admiral Sir CHARLES MOSUL..
TON. Bart. to Newfoundland. It is expected Sir
Citaetes will wail about the 21st of heat month.
A Portuguese brig, front Moratnbique, with 300
slaves, was sent into the Cape of Good Hope iu Fe-
bruary, by the Arlos, SHoa•r. front London, and
detained by his Majesty's ship Eurydice, Cowls,
W Aucaufg.

The Cerldstreami, Coxivim., whicl► put into
Portrmouth to embark passengers, 'poled from Si.
Helen's on Wednesday arteruoon, With 35 on board.
for Madras and Bengt!.
Orders have been received at P►rrtsmnnth Dock.
yard to build two Sig-gun ships. The Baron, vo,
is to be filled fur toonmistioll. The Royal George
yacht is ordered to be docked. The Salisbury and
F/y are paid off.—The Eseryalus and Acorn, at
Chatham, are ordered for coma►ission.

The tenders employed to cruise atter smugglers,
attached to the Rochefort anal Vengewr, are to be
laid up during the cruise of those ships.
His Grace the Duke of Iticuttotiu and suite,
will embark at Portsmouth, for Nmtli America,
the Iphigenhs busing been ordered thence fauns
Plymouth.
Admiral Sir GEORGS CAMPBELL. K.C.n. wilt
hoist his flag wit board the ()rem Charlatie, to he
commanded by Captain Batons, on the e lot iii4L.
JoHS Roar. GLOMS, appointed his Se-
cretary.
Captain the lion. G. U. CAMPBELL (inn of Lord
CAWDUR) is lippoosirii to the Kurehrtie, fitting at
Portsmouth, for the klediterrinieuis.—Lieut. C. C.

BLADF.. of tile Vertgewr. to be lit of the Queen
C/►nr/utte.—Lieutenlut ['tali:no:sus , to the Ve►i-
gewr; Lieuttimit M.. 1. Cuaty► Rucehurse ; Mr.
W. SIDNEY. billow, llosuriu.

On Sunday last the Alexander, SWIFLEN, from
Ceylon, returned to Port.mouth, after a voyage of
ten months, out end home. She left Ceylon on the
30'h December; tl►e Nelaalhu wet. to sail on the
euth of February. sailed from the Cape un
March; the Surat etude and /Xef'lar►re, fur New
South Welts, had urtived there.

On Wednesday the Naval Ifslf-pay Officers
residing at Chatham held a meeting, for the pur-
pose of digesting a plan, and (wooing a fund, to
teurt►trerate Officers of the Navy fur the lugs 4,1 pro.
petty by shipwreck. filmy ours of stit twit, of pe-
culiar hardship, have accarred within 4:ie last t'
3 cos.