The National Register.
London, England, 1815-07-30 00:00:00

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No. 396•

SUNDAY,-

POLITICAL DISQUISITION.

TRIAL OF THE FRENCH REBELS.

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The slow and hesitating hand of Justice is at last raised
in France, and demonstrations are made to inflict a par=
Cal punishment on the guilty. For that purpose, the
action of the Constitutional Charter is suspended, and a
certain number of criminals are pointed out to be tried,
without the forms established for the protection of indi-
viduals in less flagrant cases. Eighteen of the military
leaders of the conspiracy are to be arrested and brought
before Councils of War, to answer for their treasons to
their King. Thirty-eight well known characters, some
Members of the Provisional Government and others of
the Chamber of
,Deputies, are ordered to leave Paris
within three days, and retire into the interior of France,.
to places fixed by the
.Minister of General Police,
(Fouche !!) where they are to remain closely watches!,
until the new Chambers shill have decided which among
them shall be, .banished, and which delivered to the tri.
burials of the' efiotitry. In the number will be found
Carnot, (probably for having twice rejected the Icing's
offer to be made Minister of the Interior), Soult, Reg-
molt de St. Jean d'Angely, and the boisterous though
eloquent patriots, Durback and Dumolard. Besides these,
twenty-nine Peers are degraded for having sat in the
House instituted by Buonaparte. Le Febvre, Ney, Sa-
chet, Moncey, Mortier, Lacepede, Pontecoulant, Cadore,
La Tour Maubourg, and Rampon are amongst these.
As to the man for whom so much guilt has been incur...
rod, his name is not mentioned in any of the king's denun•
clations, although his intimate friends and warm partisans,
Bertrand, Drouet, Cambrope, Labetioyere, Lefebvre Des.
nouettes, Clause!, Grouchy, D'Erlon, the two Lalle-
muds, Mouton, Duvernet, Laborde and Rovigo, are
amongst those, for the immediate trial of whom the provi.
sions of the Charter are for the present annulled. This
forbearance is an additional proof that Louis XVIII.
having in common with all the Monarchs of Eurcpe,
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knokledged Buonaparte the independent Sovereign of
Elba, does not consider him as a rebel, or as subject to
his jurisdiction in consequence of his late attempt.
Those who urge that we ought to give up Napoleon to
TengPanCe, would thc4eroret most probably) if their
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sea were followed, only contribute to his enlargement
a Prince who mistakes weakness for magnanimity.
The Royal Ordinances for judging and. punishing •
traitors, have been bailed as pledges of returning vigour ,
on the part of Louis XVIII. and hopes have been ex-
pressed that he would prove equal to the. momentous im-
portance of the times. We should entertain a more fa-
vourable opinion of these symptoms of energy, had they
been displayed at a period when they could be effectual.
It was when the metropolis. was forced to open its gates
and all the chief rebels were assembled in its bosoms .1
that these Decrees ought to have been issued. Their exe-
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cution would then have been easy and instantaneous. 4,
But the individuals against whom they are directed have ,
been allowed to retire, and thus to elude punishment.
Mort of them are now securely placed beyond the fron-
tiers of France. Neither was the:r flight a secret, it..was
openly- announced in.the French. Papers, their moults
and the direction which they had taken given; .
auk, no- check put. upon their movetneatt. - In fact,
'jog ask the Allies. themselays interfered; load uult tM
`PhaSiallr Commanders caused Esbedoyere and a few of ,
his accomplices to be arrested, the French Police would
have suffered all
.the guilty to escape, and the'present De-
cree would only be an " imbelle tedum," a yain threat
hurled at men beyond the reach of its power, who would ,
deride its weakness and employ their security in framing
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new conspiracies. It is evident, therefore, that :h.- tardy
measures adopted by the King, is one imposed-upon hita
by the resolute firmness and prudence of the Allies. They
saw that by forgiving he would once snore lose all, and ex-
pose Europe to fresh convulsions. They honoured the
feelings which directed his conduct, but could not allow
their free exercise, at a time when the fate of baffles bad
placed France at their feet, and conferred upon them the
solemn task of giving a solid peace to the world. When
expostulation proved unavailing, they undousted!v left
no other choice to Louis XVIII. than to surrender all the
fortified place's liis dominions, if not his frontier pro-
vinces, or to remove the fear of future rebellions by•au •
example of just severity on the authors of the last. It is
tinder such circumstances that the present ordinances have
issued. The ricasure., th:Tefore, is more one of
nha en-_.‘rFv. ant! at this late reriocl must

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