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the conntry, and have produced disioverits of some
Importance. Several, of the chiefs of the conspi-
, racy, and some of theconspirstorjs, oho were to have
tendered themselves masters of thelown, have been
delivered up to justice.
[. The Prevotal Court sod the First Council of War
'of the 7th Military Division, have already passed
• sentence ors several of the guilty, each according
to their competence, and the stature of the crimes.
Of the twenty-live who have been condemned, and
of !bons twenty-one were taken with arms iu their
heads, live have been recommended to his Ma-
jesty's clemency for different reasons.
• The C ttttttt rums, who had been led to this revolt,
by perfidious amid cruel suggestions, have sent their
submission to the Prefect, imploring the King's
clemency. This occurrence, deplorable in itself,
iinee French blood has been spilt, will, nevertheless,
attest the strength of the lirryidanthority, by evils-
cing the rlevini tttt and real of all those in whom his
Majesty bus reposrd his confidence, and the weak-
ness of these machinators of disorder, who, after
having led sonic credulous men astray, have insti-
gated them to an attempt of which they leave them
the principal danger, reserving to themselves all the
fruit, but which tlwy will nevertheless terminate hp
enduring sill the punishment.
It is mineeesosary to say, 'that at the intelligence
of this event a cynentl movement was 10:1101C111ted
iu the neiglit -hang 13epirrtaisentsagainst the rebels,
and that instnerons reinforcements were held in
readiness to march IA the fist signal. The no-
tional guard of Lyons has displayed throughout,
oil this occasion, a tcwii ikable spirit and devotion.
A large detachment of this guard demander: with
ardour, and obtained 'scrims-mut to proceed- to
Grenoble, where it has Arrived.

Ilia Nlniesty has granted the title of Viscount
to Lientpinint-General lkonnailivii, and made him
Grand Cross of *the 'loyal Order .f tile Legion of
110140 Ur.
Des!,les the authorisation of the Minister of Ge-
neral Police, 10,000 francs have been promised to
him or them who shall deliver np Didier. the prin.
opal instigator of the sedition at Grenoble.
The King has transmitted the decoration of the
Legion of Honour to the faithial and brave gre-
nadier who fired tirst on the brigands at Grenoble.
If the best of Kings is slow to punish, he is prompt
to reward.
On the 7th two Aides-de-Camp of General
Clause! were arrested in an
conducted to,the prisons of the Hauts-Nlunits.
FARMS. MAY 16.

Letters from Langres, of the 17th May, state that
on the news of the conspiiacy at Paris, all .the offi-
CCM on half-pay of the city of Langres met, to take
the oath of fidelity to the King. The ceremony
took place in the hall of the mansion--nnil their,
before the bust of his Majesty, they swore to be
faithful, and to defend, uutil death, thesthroue of
the Bourbons.
The King hat refused pardon to David, eon-
deuined by the Prevotal Court of the Isere, and
recommended to his clemency by that Court. This
refusal moat, doubtless, have cost much to his Ma-
Sesty's ; but to what evils has not impunity
given birth
Lord Stewart, the British Ambassador, he. re-
turued from Italy to Vienna,
Postscript of Thursday Horning.
The King of Sardiniii„, has given orders to his
troops to guard the defilts of the forests, and to
search all the strangers who present themselves at
the frontiers of Isis States, adjoiuiug the departu►rut
of the here.