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whole csse, reducing itself to the non-responsibility
of the Sim- L'Huillier, since he had mode known
the author, the presence of the Sieur Creton was
indispensable.

Matchangy, the King's Advocate, answer.
ed that there wit• no nrcoosity, in deciding on the
vow of the Sirur L'Hotllier, to vaantiste if the Slew
Cret..ii we. Of wea not the true &inflict,.
l'irt,idetit—" M. L'Huilher, how !wig is
the Swot Cretin' ill ?"

.11. L'ilitillser--“ Fore short time."
The Pres.dmit-6, Subsequently to his ilium,
he how caused Ihr last hunilwr to coon out ; it i•
nut then so severe as you represent it ?"
M. L'Huillierg4 It is poiwilde that M. Creton
.1111 a) writ.. its his bed with eme; but lie has been
unable to writhe ur to go out."
The Prrenlein--s• b it flip' M. Cretan who has
corrected the proofs, mid are you able to state that
1114 agree perfectly aid) the copy ?"
M. L'Hirillier—" All that remanied with Mad.

!reinieres, the printer."

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The President-4i The Court will hear the pub-
lic Minister, ouriog to itself the ►ight of deciding
ulteriorly on the postpimemesit."

M. Jr Marchasigy spoke ut sortie length, and
required the application of the law againg the
Sieur L'ltuillier. Hr dill not find it sufficiently
CB tablisil.d that the Steer Creton was the author
of the work = and concluded, that he should be ac-
quitted of the charge. He, besides, concluded,
that M•itherne Jetiiiehomme-Crernierer, the printer

tt the work, ►h4.uld be rued as a part) in the CRUM..

11ot:quart instated on a postponement of the
COW.

M. de Marchengy---" The proof is at the bar,
said we will place it before the eyes of the Tribunal,
(luring its deliberation, that M. Crtton is nearer
Ins recovery than is pretended."
The Tribunal, before making a decision, and
without piejudgisig any thing on the res.pective
means of the 'sortie*, ordered, that the Sieur Cre-
ton should be visited by prufesesonal gentlemen,
and that the day for the next hearing of the cause
should be fixed after their report.
Mr. itsine has lately published a pamphlet, en-
titled, Reflection on the Secret Nutt. In a more
extended work, it would have been necessary, per-
haps, to commence by discussing the authenticity,
or exactitude, of the printed copy of the Secret
Note; but Mr. Artie has only wished to seize au
occasion fur repeating the counsels of moderation
that he has already endeavoured to give the parties.
This time he appears to have risen to geiwral ideas,
just enough to merit the attention of minds truly
independent.
Fur example, after having severely blamed the
appeal to Foreign Powers, which he supposes to
have been made by the authors of the Secret Note,
he admits that the liberal party, in wishing to turn
the Ordinance of the Stli September to its advan-
tage, has given itself tip to blameable excesses.
The spirit of party line hurried them on. " Men,"
says he, " united by a common interest, are always
more impetuous in their movements than men iso-
lated; besides, in every association of this kind,
there is a mass of subalterns, and it small number of
chiefs; the subalterns, eager to mount to the first
rank, I .hour to make themselves distinguished by
redoubled vehemence; while the chiefs emulously
improve upon the subalterns, with the view of
preserving their rank. It is thus that the ascend-
ivg progression of opiniota, of sentiments, of pas-
snows, being essential to a party of whatever nature,
etch of those who compose it finds himself insensi-
bly transported far beyond his primitive dispositions,
to such a degree, that if a superior power lota
not limey set limits to this progression, it indu-
bitably rustle in delirium, too often by the *ay of
crime, always by that of disorder.
In order to engage the parties to unite, Mr.
Azais has thought of commenting on the fine
thought that Voltaire has comprised in these two
lints :

" In our transient days of pains, of miseries,
Children of the same God, let us live at last like brothers."
The French, attached on one sitle or the other,
to the banners of a party, are almost all but men
led astray by extreme ideas, or unfortunate by
a difficult situation, or yet torn by painful re-
collections. To such men a wise Ind paternal
Government owes more than indulg nce ; the
greater part of them merit consolation ; some of
them have a right to its esteem. flow worthy of
profound veneration are some amongst then), who
in the midst of us, weep over the ruins of the an-
cr. sit order ! This stone, that they guard with
rrsiwct ; this stone, the sacred relic of an edifice iii
the bosom of which they have known so many
touching stlections—alas ! it will soon be their se-
pulchral stone I With a trembling hand they will
engrave thereon their sorrows. And on the other
side, that witheied branch to which torn colour*
are suspended, which so many warriors contemplate
with a fierce and gloomy look—alas ! that was a
laurel.

Wli;it dioingaishes generous, brave men, is their
indulgence fur the sentiments, for the errors even,
that do honour to human nature.

Come so me, say the orators of each party, other-
wise y.. 8 will fall, for you will he without support.
Slay with me, says wisdom, fur parties .es.. nor.
precipitate, rend themselves, vanish, and reitatm It-
tuaius. It is for her that time incessantly !shouts;