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London, England, 1819-05-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

by the coniiiintec. He was fottotved lw M. Go;3ot,
who defended the original proje.:l. P 4. B. Coartatit
aritued at Wllle length aguloct the Imtjert. and {milieu-
•.oly combatted what he called the periodicity of pubis-
casino,. wltich appeared so ;absurdly defined lit the first
urhele. The (I,hohiria thrrehr ennarined 'night, he
conceived, be easily eluded by the author (.1 one work,
and r the name, slipping!, of the Pupa/Warr, giving
lattice, to the last page of it, that :too:her wo:k by the
ssme author would he published within a certain period,
under the name. supi.u.c, of the Risioiien, and so no,
during any length of tine the author ought think pro-
per. 'Flits tie% ice, he remarked, would be somewhat
similar to that if the tin,itsh bigamist, echo was ae-
gai.reil because Navin; uranied three wives, he contended
ire tel not viu!a,v.l the LitY. wuich ,urcol a matt to
mar.y Iwo. At this oliservation there was a laugh.• The
discussion cm the law ‘IJS CkaVti, and VIA Rorie sec vial
articles seriatim ordered to be co 11111 l eiteed on the follow.
ing day.
COURT OF ASSIZES. APRIL e 9.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 29.-M. Leroi, the vomit! of
Piger, eitle.oottr.ol to show that there w•onld out hate
been rico aimearancv of a plot, but for the itorig.tos
of L.ihortle and &mhos: and that lila cites t woa list a
political madman. but besieged by rietei,is, a host. lu
would discover, he endt•arourrd to get rid of them.
The counsel of Berth and Dierickx followed a line of
tleceoce nearly similar, allcyutg that :here was fact
nothiag that could I.g:called conspiracy, but that the
whole was a (Intuit rule? of [hubris and Ms aBcms,
had duped the two I,risoneis.
NI. Ilatiemans, coomcl litr Pouillot (or La Crc:ix)
maiuwintd that hi c item hail nut gone beyond ;he I 311
asnigned hint of watch:n.4 the to.lirrs, and that if any
one is guilty it mob: be iltichoz.

M. Verheagen, join. emotive' for Buchoz, in a speech of
three hours, said. ne would lease it to his client to cite'''.
pate him elf from the odious chorges, foreign to this
affair, which the prosecutor and the coui:sel of the
miter prisoners hate brought al must him. Whether
Ruchos I.e tir be lint au assent of the French police. am,
whether lie has treetied money from the French
hassador or not, is of Ito consequence to the liregoit
question. An Ambassador, who represents his ante.
reign, most not be calumniated, his diploma:lc ehar.e-
ter must place him above snspicion.
The counsel endeavoured to show, that the fscis
forming the basis of the accusation cannot in any point
of view coti-tituie a crime, much leas such a one as is
provided •-tgaiiist by am 1 of the Decree of 20th of April,
1815 ; that the Emperor Aleirum der was in nor kinAdoin
mily an individual, like oilier Itireigticrs, to %violin the
4th article of the fundamental law gives protection ;
that therefote the plot in question is only a plot against
an individual, who liarl no attribute of sovereign ty montig
us, and consequently was to be classed with ordinary
crimes, if it had received an inceptive execution which
would give it the character of an attempt so commit
murder. _ _ _

The overthrow of the French Government, he says,
which seetutd to be the object of the plot, would nut
have necessarily liven followed by a revolution among
us, or even by any troubles or disorders. it would be
an insult to our Government, which is already ectiyoli.
dated. to SOIIIXISeIIijI its ItolnlCii existence depended on
the present (internment of France; besides, what may
li.appeti in consequence of all nem is not assimilated in
the langitage of the laws to what must necessarily hap-
pen, and C f s are not pro% ed by possibilities and con-
y:C:LIrCS.
'ltie two principal conditions required by the Ist ar-
ticle of iltt: decree of 1815 are Wanting here; the ohj.:et
of the prisoners certainly was not to excite dissciicons
lietutril the inhabitants of the kingdom, nor was there
any act contrary to good order wpm:dealt to sed.tatn.
which the decree requires. tie showed that the plot
had no inceptive execittintt ; that Etichoz informed the
palace of the plot, and followed the directions Olen
hint ; that the ileelaiantai 4)1 roillnCit la Croix, the other
prisoner, was the only proof apinst Bodine., aim tat
his deeliration ought to be rejected fur several reasons;
'hat the arms bmw.ht by Boehm, and delitered to La
Crux, do tint prole him to be au accomplice. Tile gill
article requires that they shall have been used in the
commission of the act ; but in this case there was no
act committed, and the arms bought by &mhos could
not have been used in it, since they remained in the
chamber iif LaCroix.

This n 1311611,1 the Court opened at In o'clock. M.
Otis, the prosecutor tor the crown, replied to the de-
fence, and showed that a plot had been formed, and
that it had received an incepore execution ; tnat 60 hor-
rible an attempt as that meditated against the anaust
person of the Emperor Alexander was surely very likely
to disturb the public tranquillity, not merely in our
country, hut in all Europe ; and that the overthrow of
the French Government must necessarily have had an
influence nn the kingdom of the Netherlands and other
countries. He examined the charges against each of the
prisoners, and their defence; but considered BOCIIVZ as
the author of the plot, in the hope of a pecuniary re-
ward. _

A singular incident occurred at the close of the reply
of Itl. Leroi, counsel for Piger. Au injunction had
been given him yesterday not to attack the French Am-
bassador. He asked the Court to let hint make free use
of all his means of defence, and to decide on the merit
of the injunction. The Court, after half an hour's de-
liberation, consulermg that the French Minister is an
entire stranger to the +Waif now before it, maintained
the injunction.
Baussabs, MAY morning the Court of As-
sizes met at hall-past ten O'clock. Wiltli a warm discus-
sion ensued between the counsel for the prisoners and M.
Ores, rerpectirta the questions proposed to the Court for

MAY 10.

thcatint by the presertitor, and were ve‘en iu
number, relative to the guilt or the deeceased rvspec.
tivvly, Lire.

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barri fintilly condemn' tl all the otisnnen. namely,
Pitter awl Dierickx, to one year's instil imminent ; Now;_
lot ;alias La Croix) and lirrt;t, to three yeas ittipriviti.
meta ; Huelva, to one year's i noi.motiem, to stand on
the pillory IWO ltut, and to he Lrat►l-urarked, uud ;all
the in trotters to pay 'lir owe.

Mirka from Jamaica to the 6th of March arrived
on Thursday. The :eland was perfectly healthy at
that period. They bring the following intelligence
with respect to the movements of Sir Gregor M‘Gre.
gor. Ile was preparing to sail from Au* Cayes on
ir expedition ugaiust some of the ports on the Spa-
nish Main. His officers reported, that they intend-
ed to proceed to New Grenada, but it was well un-
derstood that Porto Bello was his object. His force
consisted of the brig Hero, of 16 guns; ship Mo-
narch of 18 guns, and 40 men; sip Onyx, of 2
guns, and S 5 men ; and brio' Petersburgh Pucka,
of 3 guns and 30 men. The land force amounted
to 600 men, the skeletons of three regiments who
lewl signalized themselves in the Peoinsular war.
The men were in high health and spirits, and spoke
confidently of success. A regular Commissariat ws
fortild, and every thing appeared to be in good or-
der. Sir Gregor tvl'Gregor applied to I-resident
Beyer for permission to purchase some arms said
munition, which had been readily granted, and a
?hitiontil schooner dispatched from Port-au-Prince
with every requisite.

161mber of the States-General of %LI.
via, in ri jecting a proilosiimil for inarodlocing me Lan.
easterian .ysid-tst of educ;.tion, amen a reason which is
tot a little stdrltrising. 1 hry sad that •• ii is &clop ed, at
;he Lett, only i r elementary ideas to a
prOple of r,iucauun, bk.Cll ill that of NaryCe,
England. anti the United States ; but iv much too
CIIJIIICaI Ut 112441 f, arm too little faeotiralle to the &vs.-
lorstictit of mind, and besides completely nseleff in a
country such as Germany, where every villgac has its
primary school.
Peivitte letters from Stockholm of the 23d of April
slate, that the prices of giant do re have declined so sud-
denly, and to so great a degree, that many 01 the farmers,
as cc t.": 1 as those who trade is that necessary article, o ill
probably be mined, or at least inidierpi itvery heavy losses.
The trade in timber, which has hero several years in a
I.stignistnint state, is said to re% ivintr.

On Friday, last, Lidy Mary I.nnirlale, of Charles-
s:rret, and Mrs. Anderson, had an interi irw for some
time with the Fair Circassian, in the dn:r:irig•roont tif
the Ambassador's house, by his permission. 'I hey
found her particularly attahie and iinicatiye ; her
pree' is remarkably shin, i,f law s:ai ore, rather swar-
thy, but her features are very handsome. She constantly
sits in the front roots., anti generally news a scald, t
dress, the shadow of which may he seen through the
ashich are so placed that she coin see what passes
its the street and not i.e seen herself. On Al ay day,
when the einitiney sooners were il incing belnre the
house, she threw bad, t•:e curtain, and was plainly ob-
served by a slumber of spectators.
In at.dition to the expedition that has just bailed for
exploring Bay, and determining the estnience
of a comminitcation by waltr towan!s Belitmes Straits,
another is about to be undert,ken by laid, wi kit is to
proceed in a north6rn din•ciiou from the Hudson Bay
ClOll/1):11)\.3 StltielliClllS. persons to be CIIII/Itlyta
its litiS iiiiitious undertaking, it is sail, are selected ;
and, final the a•sisrance of the Nfirili American
every prospect of success is entertained. It will be n -
collected. that many years ago Mr. nettle, :aid mote
recently Mr. M'Kenate, fell in wills the sea at two in-
termediate points, a considerable distance from each
other, helm yeti Behring's Straits and B.ffin s Bay.
We hear, that the grt at establishment of Jesuits at
Stonylnin.t has alarmed iiimilters of the most
ten ed and librsal men, became they think they obserie
its their conduct a spirit of meddling, of encroachment,
and proselytism, highly prejudicial, not only to the Es-
tablished Church, but to the purity of all religion,
which derives its hest supt ert from halt' and knowledge.
The practice of this growing anti opulent establishment
in the centre of the kingdom it is said, by no means
enjoys the approbation of the Catholic Body 'n general.
On the contrary, they consider it as a dead weight on
their cause, and lament its introduction into Eughind at
a time when et ery Catholic King in Europe, wish the
exception of the bigotted Kings of Spain and Sardinia,
have forbidden the Society from setting foot in their ter-
ritories. The Ent press Cat herity, indeed, admitted them
into Russia, and a general was nominated to whom the
English Jesuits hold allegiance; best Alexander has
banished them both from St. Petersbingh and Moscow.
Si► J. C. Ilippesley has presented to the leading Mein-
den of both Houses of Parliament a statement of facts
presented to the Sotereign Pontiff, P. Pius VII. on this
subject.
In the present alarming state of the country,
arising from the pecuniary embarrassments of the
Government, and when it is clear from the tone and
disposition of the New Parliament in claiming the
repeal of oppressive and immoral taxes, that any
new tax would not be easily allowed; we are con-
cerned to state, that by the weekly returns. of the
feneral Revenue, since the end of the /as; quarter,
at appears that there is a fulling off of no less than
90,0001. weekly.