The National Register.
London, England, 1815-11-05 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

NOV. 5.

Committee of Safety, wheie too tardy destruction has ex-
cited the acclamations and the joyful transports of the whole
people.—(The Speaker was interrupted by cries of Order,
Order.)—The Duke de St. Aignan insisted upon calling
him to order.—The Speaker replied—Explain yourself; I
have s iid nothing but the truth ' • 1 decline, however, repeat--
ing it, since it is unpleasant.-11ere are my proofs as to
the inconvenience and extreme impolicy of the propo-
sition. Some hundreds of thousands of police officers
may, according to the project, arrest for crimes of state;
And the simple fact of the arresj authorises the government
to keep the individuals u. prison indifinitively for one year,
eighteen months or many Nears, without. any necessity of
Vinging them to trial. Suppose only one arrest to be
executed by each officer, a million of Frenchmen may
thus be detained in arbitrary confinement; where would
you find prisons to put them ?—Yes, they are suspected,
or if you will, inculpated according to The penal code;
wpectcd, for they are not even prevenus, though called
such ; the great as well as the small prevention ran be
coestituted only by the judges. Such is our criminal
code, formed under a tyranny, and for a tyranny.
It is said that nothing is changed as to the competency of
those who issue therna;dats; bet every thing is changed, be-
cause there are now only the mandats of appearance: and no
longer those of arrest, which cannot be issued except by a
Judge, and which alone contains the imputed crime, and
cites the law that punishes it ; because there is no longer a
judgment inch declares the suspicious sufficiently esta-
blished nor the consequent ordonna [ice for taking the body
of the offender. Your law, therefore, will only produce
detained persons, and scot reach those who are justly sus-
pected. It is demanded that those shall not be tried;
then they ari., in fact, like those of the celebrated year,
and I could easily prove that the suspected of 1793 had
more resources than those of 1815 for redress. This is
pot A. It is proposed to apply to these persons the
penalty of placing them under the inspection of the high-
police; that is, to stud them to reside
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leagues., if they likelsfrom their homes, or to keep tfiem
• ,:There they please, if they hare not the means of pro--
viding bail.. These are what you call suspected, And
to what amount? Equal to that of the men who have
the initiative of each measure. In what places? Through-
out the whole kingdom, without exceptinz a single de-

partment. For what time ? For six months, a year, or
many years.
What fatal consequences must ensue to the individuals,
ruined in their circumstances, accused by their debtors,
or their servants, or by the subornation of their wives
or daughters—..and where will all this stop ? Will there
not be conspirueiei in the prisons ? After the experience
we haye had who will venture to say that a new second
of September may not arrive ?—Thus the ruin of indivi-
duals and of families would be completed. What shall I
say of the GoTernment, of the Ministcrs, of the Chambers?
Where are they, the Authorities who sanction this mea-
sure ? Where are they who sanctioned a. similar otif
n that fatal year ? An indelible stain is affixed to their
names, and the reprobation that has fallen upon them is
irrevocable. Lastly, %Mile the suspected are groaning in
prisons, far from their families and from their business,
'who will pay the taxes ? Who will support the charges
of the State ? What terror ! What irremediable stagna-
tion of commerce and trade in the political body, which
i 4 already so lapguid ! . Forgiye me these indications:

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cannot forget that my mother and my sister, my bro,
ther and my daughter, were suspected, and likely to pet isht
because I then, as now, defended liberty and justice
against the fury of the passions. Mention has been made
of the suspected in aicient Rome, by virtue of the Caveant
Consuks. When these school-boy citations aro made,
we should at least remember what we have learned at
sehool.—There was no prisOn among the Router's ; the
suspected of the Dictators and Consuls, armed with the
fearful formula, Were, in the custody of their friends;
they breathed a pelts, air hi their gardens ; they sat at
their own table ; they enjoyed all the conveniences or
life. Cicero- caused to be destroyed in a, temple, by an act
of the state, the secomplices of Catalioe, but he paid for
that irregularity by ; memorable exile, and he saved his
country ! hi England, when the Habeas Corpus is sus..
pended, there are not-800,000 persons possessing a disere,
tionary power to arrest. I demand that this law be re,
jected, as being neither necessary nor tolerable. If it must
be absolutely had, I am ready to -concur in any wise
measures for the moderate limitation of individual li,
betty. Above all, I demand that certain trailetil aid
peaceable departnients be excepted from the law, without
which it would become an unmerited satire evon the
Government. and an invitation to new attempts of bo!d1
ness on the part of strangers. Take two months to
examine a man, to discover the ramifications of his plots;
but at-least, after two months, surrender him to ordinary
justice ; grant others temperately, without which the law
would be only a suspension of humanity.

PARTS, OCT. 31.—1 t is determined that the public prof
ceedings in the trial of Marshal Ney shall commence ne;t
week, before the Court of Assize. •
At a grand dinner given the other day by the Duke of
Wellington, it was remarked that the guests were foreign
Ministers, French Ministers, and other diplomatic cba,
racters.

There.are no more English troops in fhe Champs Ely..
saes. They marched yesterday for Versailles, I. here they
ate to be barracked. Other English troops arp to occupy
the barracks in the Rue Verte.

The account -which tißs reached us respecting the man?
ner in which Murat was arrested, is so remaikable, that
we are induced to communicate it to our readei s. Landed
on the coast of Calabria, he advanced into the mountains,
followed only by about 30 men. On his arrival at Opitzo
he assembled the people, and harangued them to induce
them to revolt, when a single gendarme passed through
the crowd, and seized the orator by the collar. The 30
men who accompanied Murat looked on as if immoveable;
and the people dispersed.
Had not this frantic and audacious enterprise been thus
promptly defeated; Murat could only have hoped to be-
come a chief of banditti, and finally to undergo a more
disgraceful death than that by which his career has been
terminated; This event may be regarded as a mortal bloly
to usurpation.
Yesterday morning the English Officer commarding the
battalion duty on Montmartre, died suddenly.
The Cabinet of Natural History has yielded 9,690)
articles to the foreitTners. There is at pretz_nt to 1;e simn
there the remains of a Baskir horse. The skin is covered
with very long white hair, which is q:ceediiigly thick and
half curled. It is as fine as silk. The itiolividtial specimen
indicates size rather under reedieterity.
All the couela are dead. Tiielilephaufhas chan&ed his

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