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MADAMK MANSON.

(Prow lA. Preach Papers

PAWS. AMU. I.

COURT OF ASSIZES OF ACBI.
The fifth sitting on the trial of the persons charged
'WA the murder of M. Fuuldes took place on the
39111 March.
The iumt important witnesses examined this Joy
were Box, one of the accused, and Aladaine Mamon.
The former g aye the following particulars relative to
the principal cireninstsnces attending the murder:—
•' After I hail toeu to fetch Bousquier, secordink
to the order. 1 liscl received, I returned to Rancid's.
here I folind Bastide, Jessie°. and Culsrd..-
Rustide total use that there was a deed anti to carry
away. est.' whoever refused should pesittli. The corpse
we. lifted up. aunt we set out. Bastide went before,
Jaission irsonnier ow ooe side with ■ stick,
and the others curried the body. The proces►ion
snipped by the way, and having at a slow pace
reached Caponlade. Colon! and Rancid took the
corpse between Otero. One of the party happened
to ; &wide turned round and said, • What,
Jausion ! are you afraid, that you fall ?'—' Nu.'
replied Janaion. ' I ant-not afraid.' Bancal after
having enjoined me secretly. told me that a grand
blow was to be struck the following week : 1 believe
he alluded to a plan to rob the Prefecture. I tie.
dare that I did not know Jausiou, but that I heard
Bastide mention his wine, and I em certain he was
vile of the persous who were at Rehears."
During a discussion which succeeded respecting
same venation' in the statements of Bait and Bous-
•duier, another of the accused, Jausiou thus ad-
dressed the President :

" You know. Sir, that I wrote to you before I
knew whether Box had said any thing or not. I en-
treated you to examine him, to employ all the means
furnished by your intelligence and your office to
obtain the truth from him. Had I feared any had
cuhsegtienees from his confehsloini. should I have
provoked them Too well I know that I owe my
misfortunes to enemies who w.aut my life and my
fort tide."
Ronde endeavoured to pacify Jaubion, who was
rather warm. "Good God!" said he, " don't
talk of that; all will he cleared up; only have pa-
tience." Maclaine Manson raised her head, which
men before resting opon her hands, and red
tide with a look or at.toolihment.

The Sirur Jean deposed, that &Wide, who was
with him itr the prisms of the Capuchisis, had fre-
coeudy said, that but fur Jausiou, Madame Man-
boll would not be alive to appear against him. The
ogitati ~,, of .11adame Manson iircreased ; she alter-
nately surveyed Jausion and liastide, but, as it was
obtious, with very different feelings.
Tire Presideut" Clarisse Masson, from the tea..
Conroy of this witness it appears that Jausiosi saved
sour Isle : tell us what you know ?"
Profound silence pervaded the assembly. Ma.
dame Mainosi row, and with a tremulous voice
begl4l4 the following ileclarat.
About eight o'clock iii the evening of the 19th
of Nisrch, I was through the Ruse ales Ileb-
cloisasdiers, when I heard several persons following
me, and ran into the passage of a house which I
have since found to be )Lanese)',. I was seized and
dragged along. 6 lam a woman !' cried 1, for I
was in disguise. I was pushed into a closet ; 1
(ward a noise and groans. I was so much alarmed
that 1 fainted. I presently heard a fresh noise ;
of seemed as if l was dragged out. I saw a great
nurillicr of amen, but recognised• none of them."

lUisibsoie Nlatisbots's voice had I►mouse weal•rr since
she mentioned the grooms ; licr lust wo►ds were
scarcely rumble, and on hurting theist she fell
*town insensible. Su pu►hiest was her fell that the
gendarmes could slut preveut ►t. She must lune
Duet herself muds. All the assistsinee whirls her
situntioss requisusl ws instantly ulturdetl, and in u
It w lea bhe came to Isesst:ll.

111.iditnic," stint the President• 41 ore you suf-
ficiently recovered to proceed with your declMrM-
tiuu
? Remain sestrd."—" I wilt proceed," en•
swered the witness its it low voice.

President .—" Vim heard groins, you said ?"
;Hannon—.•• Yes, groans—faint cries
I beard the blood rimming into a bucket. I was
rilerinctl for my life. and endesvoured to open a win-
slaw to escape; it was too high, sod I received •
blow which made my nose bleed. I again fainted;
somebody came into the closet and led me into the
kitchen ; u matt took me by the howl and conduct-
ed me to the place de Lite. He asked me if I
knew hint ? I answered that 1 did not. He told we
that he had come thither to we a girl. Some per-
son coining by with a lantern, lie quitted, saying he
did not wish to be seen. I went and knocked at
the door of Vsetoire, who had beets femme de
clisombre to toy mother. The same man followed
and rejoined sue—' It is not so dark here,' said he;
• do you know me ?'••••• No ; and I have no wish to
know who you ore.' I prised the 'sight under the
vestibule of the Amitoseloale, and returned home
without any one knowing that I had been abroad.
President—Bastide told the *initial that but fur
human you would hare lost your life.
Madame Manson (with emphasis)—lf Bastide
sari so. I will not contradict him.
The Procitreur-General—We have said that we
were acquainted with the manoeuvres. intrigueo,
anal inachniations which have been practised in this
attar, from its commencement, upon some of the
witnesses and occulted. Terror and bribery have
been employed to intimidate and purchase those
who hove it in their power to disclose the truth.
'These endeavours have been particularly directed
against Madame Mission. She has rejected with
dtrtdaw the gifts that were offered to lwr ; but she
wss known to have a tender anal feeling heart ; the
cap of pinion or the dagger have been alternately
bail forth to her. As site was cluithtl.ss known
also to possess fortitude sufficient to brave per-
soon' dangers, attempts have been made to nlisrin
11,:r tes account or her son : this aecoinas for her
variations. From two proces-rerbas.r. of tile 23d
of February, and the 49th current, it appears that
Madame Minion, walking in the garden of the
prison. found a note to this effect :--`• Thou bast
spoken ! but tretubla! they are not till in chains !
hornier or later we shall come at thee t thou shall
permit, Omit and thy stm' by steel or lonians ! Death
awaits you Inuit !" Toe second 19:0(es-ream/ states
a fact irtinilar to the fernier. Madame Manson
Waite to the President My life is threatened ;
I shall ftollit day fall a victim to the etsassios of Al.

Ftial.lc.." At the same time she traaNititted In
ban ,note which was slipped into thaseilass chair
that eoureyed her (ruin the prison to the Palace of
Justice, couched its these terms Listen to a
last 'advice ! Ise silent ! The day un which thou
shalt give rvideuce will be thy last and thy son's ;
soy that the President has threatened thee ; reheat-
her thy oaths, and thy son ••• • . The dagger is
ready ; thou shalt perish."
The Procureur-General,. after assuring Madame
hlaususs of the protection of the law*, requested
' her to finish her deposi • . •
Madame Monson (with great emotiou).—There
were many people iu &meal's house, but I did uut
(know are of them.
The .Presideut.—Did you rasa' through the
Isi.cheis?
• Madame M.—Yes; brit I saw nothing upon the
table. The lamp give a very faint light. When
I went away, there were hut few people; they
smoke low, and I heard nothing. / was dressed
like a wars, and ware bine pantaloons, which
burned, because they were strained with the blood
I had loin. I meter took any oath.
President-110w do you know that there was
blood in the bucket ?
Mittlitute M.—Because I heard groans which
made sue think that some iwrsou was being mur-
dered.
President—Was time person who conducted you
a young Man ?—flow was he dressed ?
Madame M.—l do not know; I was not curious;
I did nor look at ham.
Preastiesst—The law and the Magistrates watch
ors r your safety. Clatisse, speak.
Madame M.--I know uuthntc more.

in the Sixth Sitting, on the 31st of Mardi,
Janata's, in reply ton questinii proposed by the son•
of• the late 111. Fualdes. replied, " Sir, I am tato-
uisheil at the acrimony with which you persecute
me, qfier what / Acme dorreAr yoierfuther."—(Ma-
dame Munson looked at Auction with astonishment.)
As for you who seem to hive sworn my destruc-
tion, you want env fortniie and my life."
M. Fualdes—What the accused Jausion sites,
is extremely paiuful to me. As fur your fortune,
wretched man, I despise it ; I waist it not ; keep
your money stained with my father's blow!. Had
you but left him him olive, you might hove taken
all l►e possessed. RomigitiCres, the Advocate, ac-
cused tue b, fore the Court of Rhodes of base
cupidity ; I forgive him. I hail no other object
than to avenge my father ; avarice never had place
in my soul. Since lam obliged to justify myself;
that I had for a friend, from my childhood,
a young Advocate of the bar of Finis. lie died
in my arms, and in a will 'written by his own
halals bequeathed to me his whole fortune; but he
had • brother, he had sisters, whet might be ren-
de►ed comfortable by his property ; I calierlled the
will, which constituted um his sole legatee. This
cotoluet dues nut display the mercenary inotivoie of
which I NW accused. What, Jausiou! have I dr-
sioutived you for the sake of your fortune ? What
furtime, then, is left you ? Have not your relations,
your adherents, your partisans secured the whole of
it ? No; l come here to fulfil the sarred duty which
meal uie lies engravcd tippet my hera►t. Jausion is
wrung in asseriiiig that I awe obstinately bent on
his desirrieti ~,, ; I waist ins
but the truth, and its torch it is that lights tile
when. am:mg all the manoeuvres that are practised,
I perceive that buskin alone is all object of solici-
tude. Hastide i► consigned to the scaffold %%Inch
awaits taunt(' his bead and looked
at N. Fualdes with audacious boldness; Jausieti
was absorbed in thought, mid Madame Nlaiison
vio-
lently agitated) —But Providence wirchese over us,
Jammu) ;we di obtain j ostler.— (This address ex-
cited a powerful sensation among the audio', e.)
M. Fumbles continued :—Jonsion %sill doubtless
examisie Madame Mamoru, and ask her if she saw
him at Baneal's. _

Jausi tttt could tint conceal conrusi tttt ; he
hesitated fur a moment. them turning to Madame
Manson. said to her with a tootle, the meaning of
which could nut be mistaken :—Mud:ut►e, 1 ant de-
bited to appeal to yon.
Madame Monson wind ',war, reclined her head
upon her hands, remained silent it few moments,
and then replied. 1' I have nothing lo sup." This
scene produced au extraurdinury etlect upon the
spectatcrs.
President—Did you know the man who led you
out of the closet and conducted you to the Convent
of the Aimunciade ?

Madame Manson (with a voice expressive of
strong eniotioii)l CBllllOl tell.
President—Be not afraid, Madame ; the law and
the Megioratta answer tor your safety : tell •us who
was that mini. _ _ _

Madame M. (4111 deeply igitited)—l did not
know linn.

Anne Sulignat, au old woman, by her patois,
her gestures, and her burlesque energy. drew smiles
from the accused themselves Gentlenien,"
said she, " I will tell you all I know about it. I
live opposite to that devil's house, which is cilled
lissicarri. I heard a noise the day poor NI. Fueldes
was killed ; such a to-do there was ; you should but
Wive semi it. There was a drum which beat so loud,
I verily thought it was a dram-major ; and then
the men marched backwards and forwards, and
they did whistle so. I could not help thinking
that all the devils were assembled together—it was
for all the world like an earthquake.
Colard—Let this woman be questioned as to my
behaviour at Ithodrz.

Aline Soliguat—Sir, they lived, Anne Benoit and
he. neither better nor worse than bruits. without
marriage, without religion—in short, like beasts
that eat grass in the ditches.
The Court thee' heard Marianne Marti. to whom
&meal's elithl had matte eon municatiotis.—•• Aly
Lather and her killed M. Fualdes," said the
gill to her. •• While the gentleman was bleeding,
my mother held the candle and the bucket ; Al.
Jausiou struck the hist blow. •Go along,' said
&amide, • you are no hand al Mot,' and lie finished
the business."—" If you talk this way, you will
get your father and mother guillotined."—" si,
much the worse ; why did they do it ?" This wit-
tress one day cut a piece of bread for little Basica',
who pushed it frosu her with horror, because it had
been cut with the same knife that had been used to
kill the ifeatlentun.
The seventh sitting oil the I,t of April, offered
nothing of iii;erest.

We a:e ruieurrd thin Jdu,ioti's children, bting

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.1 1 ' NADA 31 I: !HANSON. Fital.lc.." At the same time she tra:
• t him to 'note which was 'dipped into Hirt
(Frost Me Prooda Payers) that coureyed her from the primal to tit
. Justice, couched ice three terms:—" I
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1 PARIS, APRIL S. Inot 'advice ! lie silent! The day on
COURT OF ASSIZES OF ALBI. *Wilt give evideuce will be thy hut and
r The fifth sitting on the trial of the person charged say that the President has threatened the
i With the murder of M. Fueldes took place on the her thy oaths, and thy sun ••• • • TIP
39th March.
The must important witnesses examined this Joy The Procureur-General, after assurin
were Ilex, one of the aerweed, and Aor ladaine Mmon. ready; thou shalt revisit."
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Alaimo's of the protection of the 'awe,
The former t eve the following particulars relative to ' her to liuish her depooi • . .
the principal eiremostences attending the murder:— Madame Monson ' (with great emotim
" After I hail brew to fetch Bousquier, arworditik were many people iu Batecal's house, km
to the order. I howl received, I returned to &lacers. kicow are of them.
. t here I found &Wide. Jausiou. and Colard.-- ' The President.—Did you ras' tie
l'• ' Riretide told use that there wee Is dead nines to carry I li.cliess?
away. end whoever refused should perish. Thecurpse • Madsme M.—Yes ; but I saw flotilla!
wa. Idled up, awl we set, out. Bastide went before, table. The ISM, gave a very faint ligl
Jausion helii.d. blirsonnier oa ooe side with • stick, I waist away, there were hut few pee
and the others carried the body. Thee procession spoke low, and I heard nothing. lei
stepped by the way, and having at a slow pace like a arum, and ware blue pasitaloont
reached Caponlade. Colord and Bauecal took the burned, because they were stinted with
corpse between them. One of the party happened I had Ind. I meter took any oath.
to till; Bastide turned round and said, • Whet, Pieeideut—llow do you kilo* that
Jausion ! are you afraid, that you fall ?'—' No,' blood iit the bucket
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replied Jain nit • I Pro -not afraid.' Banco! after
o . Matlitute M.—Because I heard grn
Navin;; eiijoi
tied me seeress.. told me that a grand I mode me think that some person was t
1::1 blow was to be struck the following week : 1 believe I dere&
he alluded to a plan to rob the Prefecture. I de. President—Was thee person who coin
shirr that I did not know Jatteirsu, but that I heard 1 a young mai. ?—/low was he dressed ?
..( ' Hamitic mention his swine, and lam certain lee was Madame M.—l do not know ; I was 111
, cue of the persoua who were at Rascal's." I did tint look at him.
During a discussion which succeeded respecting Pressolent—The law and the Magiser
settee venation' in the statemeists of Bax and Bow- ovsr your safety. Clarisse, speak.
titner, another of the accused, Jausiou thus ad- Madame M.--i know itothino snore.
lit the Sixth Sitting, out the 31st 4
I, : ' as You know. Sir, that I wrote to you before I Jansion, in reply to is question proposed
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knew whether Box had said any thing or not. I en- of the late N. Fealties. replied, " Sir, 1
li, . i treated you to examine him, to employ all the means unshed at the acrimony with which you
funnelled by your intelligence and your rare SO seer, siller what 1 hueedotrefor your/oil:ea
obtain the truth from him. Had I feared oily bad &Me Munson looked at Amami with tetra
consequences from his ender...mess should I have —" As for you who seem to have sworn n
provoked them? Too well I know that I owe city lion, you waist env fortune and my life."
misfortunes to enemies who waist my life and my M. Fualdes—What the accused Jai
fort ode." is extremely paiuful to me. As fur yoc
kli Retitle endeavoured to pacify Jaintion, who was wretched notes, I despise it ; I waist it
miter warm. '' Good God!" said he, •' don't your money stained with my father's blr
talk of dist ; all will he cleared up; only have pa- you but left him him slier., you 'night I
Better." Medaine Manson raised her head, which all lie porseased. RontigitiOree, the Ado
was before resting upon leer kande, and eyed Bas. cured tue before the Court of Rhode
tide with a look of astonishment. cupidity ; 1 forgive hint. I had no tit
The Sirur Jean &potted, that Bastide, who was than to avenge my father ; avarice never
with hint ill the prisms of the Capuchins, had Ire- in my soul. Since I Nos obliged to justi
(luridly said, that but fur Jeusiom Madame Man- that I had fur a friend, from my I
son would not be alive to appear against him. The a young Advocate of the bar of pthis.
. ogitali 0000 of Madame Mansom increased ; she alter- - in my arms, and its a will 'written b
stately surveyed Jansion and Bastide, but, as it was hands bequeathed to me his whole linter
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obvious, with very different feelings. had a brother, lee had sisters. who 'nig
. The President—" Clarisse Mattson, from the tes. deed comfortable by Isis property ; I car
tistoutiy of this witness it appears that Jausiosa saved
will, which co
sour tear : tell us what you know ?" nstituted on e lair sole legal
conduct does tint display the mercenary I
Profound silence mewled the assembly. Ma. whirls I ant accused. What, Jausiou!
dame A/ativoio row, and with a tremulous voice slimmed you for the sake of your room
began the fo;lowing: deelarat. : , fortune, then, is left you ? Have not you'
" About right o'clock in the evening of the 19th I you. adherents, your partisans secured to
or Morels, I was passim: through the Rue airs Ilele. is ? Ni. ; I coll, here to fulfil the sacred t]
dotuadiers, when I heard several persons following statute has engraved upon any heart. ,
me, and ran into the passage of SI house which I wrung in steatite; Out lam obstinate'
' e have since bound to be Bissicars. I was !seised and hie deeirtieti ~,, ; I waist tits ' cut blue
dragged along. 6lam a woman !' cried I, for I but the truth. and its torch it is that
wee in disguise. I was pushed into a closet ; I when. among all the manoeuvres that are
heard a noise and groans. I wan so much alarmed I perceive that Jtesites elsose is 411 oljetl
that I fainted. I presently heard a fresh noise ; tude. Bastide i -Is cowl:pied to the peatl
ot seemed as if I was dragged out. I saw to guest await% hirit.—(Bastoir tamed hie bead s
number of men, but recognieeff some of them." at M. Fualdes with audacious boldness
Madame Altustiott's voice had breonse weaker since was absorbed in thought, and Medium. M
she metaioned the groans; her lest woods were levity meddled)--But Providence wavehe
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scarcely suilible, and ose sousing them she fell I Jausion; we oh ill oloein justice.—('fleis a
i I shorts 'libelist We, Su sudden was her fall that the cited a powerful ertirmioni among the mid
: gendarmes could out prevent it. She most have M. Fisaldev continued : —Jammu *III
butt herself mu. Is. All the assiatener which her reinitiate Madame Mattson', and ask leer
o 1 -I eituatiou requited was instantly effurdeti, and in u him at Bancal's.
1( to v. tes bne came to hemeif. Jausion could not cnneeel liie coal
4 " Madame," said the President, 61 tire you std. hesitated for a moment. them turning It
. Ificieutly recovered to pmcreil with your declare- Manson, said to her with a smile, the 1
titre ? Remain seated."—" I wilt proceed," an. which could not be mtstakeit:—Madaitie
soma the trances its a low voice. sited to epprel to pit.
itt ,1 'floe President —" You hood grwitio, you said ?" Mailaisse Manaus tumid away, recline
Mad. Manson-.." Yes, 'intone—faint cries
I beard tier blood rooming into a bucket. I was and then replied, " 1 hare nothing to so
sderined for 'sty life, and endeavoured to open a win- *teem produced ea extraordinary effect
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slow to recaps.; it was too high, sued I received • spectatcrs.
' blow which made my sense bleed. I again fainted; Presoident—Did you know the man e
somebody came into the closet and led sue into the I out of the (+wet and conducted you to It
wkditcnihr
t;oistireeatipreek nab: lityittil.ie Ititateolutsokiirddcomseiduifet-I of the Annotwiade ?
Madame Manson (with • voice ext
knew him ? I answered that I did clot. He told we strong enitotion)—l cannot tell.
Wm coming by wish a lament, he quitted. saying he thePArelseigdicestirta—tteßeauswjwtearflrUarid;ot iradialiretey;: II
thatdid Iltioe,thwadishvotamebetliseithevtir. ticlaeweraiitgiarili.d kSiuloclukeedPrar; was that man.
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i the door tel V setuire, who had beets femme de Madame M. (still deeply agitated)—
elmoahre to my mother. 'llse woe man followed know him.
and rejoined me—' It is not so dark here,' said he; Anne Sulignat, an old woman, by I
•do you know me ?'—• No ; end I have no wish to her gestures, and her burlesque energy. r
r ) know who you are.' I passed the night under the from the accused themselves :--'• GI
4 vestibule of tier Asititniessele. and returned home said she. 66 I will tell you all I know a
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without any one knowing that I had been abroad. live opposite to that devil's house, whit
. I President—Bastide told thee wittiest that but fur Ilesicaro. I heard a unite the day poor
Jausion you would leave lost your life. was killed ; such a to-do there was ; you
I / Maclaine Manson (with emphatic)—lf Bastide have seen it. There was a drum winch b
sisisi SO. I wilt not contradict biro. I verily thought it was a deco-anajor ,
• 'fiat Proctireur-General—We have said that we the men marched backwards and for
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were acqueinted with the matmeuvres, intrigues, they did whiettle so. I could not het
acrd mi l ielintations which have been practised in tine that all the devils were assembled togetit
attar, from its counitencement, upou some of the for all the world like an earthquake.
1 witnesses and accuse d. Terror and bribery have Colard—Let this woman be questions
been employed to intimidate and purchase those behaviour at Ithodrz.
who have it in their pnwer to disclose the truth. Anne
These eildrwinura have been particularly directed he. lelitliorlat—Sir, they lived, Anne
better nor worse than bruit
against Madame Alamein. She has rejected with marriage, without religion—in short,
&A mu the gifts that were offered to her ; but she that eat grass in the ditches.
wss known to have a teenier and feeling heart; the The Court then heard Marianne Mart
cop of poison or thee dagger have been alternately Baticul's child had matte communiesitio
held forth to her. As she was &Widths known father and her killed Al. Fiuddes,
also to possess fortitude etollicient to brave per- gill to her. '• While the grotleMen wa
soon.' dangers, attempts have been made to alarm my mother held the candle and the b
11.:r tes account of her son : this aecoulas for her Jausion struck the first blow. 'Go a
variations. From two peoces-eerbau.r. of the 23.1 Bastide, • you ore pro haunt al float,' and
lit
1/ of February, and the ggth current, it appears that the business."—•• If you talk this witv
Madame MIMOSA, walking in the garden of the get your father and mother guillotine
prison, found a note to this effect :—" Thou least intuit the worse ; why did they do it ?"
spoken ! lent tremble ! they are not all in chains ! twos one doe cost IS piece of bread for liti
homier or later we shall come at thee' thou WWI who pushed it from lee with horror, hece
permit, thou and thy ibn by steel or pontoon ! Death been rut with the same knife Met had hi
awaits you both'." 1:%....:erv0i0l psoers-rerlard eu:atea kill the yew/town.
a fact similar to the former. M
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iame Alaosoo The seventh sitting oil the Ist of Ap
%v isite totl the p tes:—•'. My life s threatened ;
1l nothing of iteerest.
I shall Sollit day fall a victim to the assassins of M. We a:e assured that JaMiOti'll Chihli