The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1864.

N°. 22,362.

WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE.
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at EVANS', Covent-garden.

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THE PARIS CONSPIRACY,

(From the Times Correspondent.)
In the vocabulary of the Secret Police the terms
" Mouchard" and " Mouton" are the two which are
most familiar to those who are uninitiated in its
mysteries. The word "Mouchard" is not of modern
origin. A certain Antoine de Mouchy, otherwise
Dcmocharis, a Doctor of Sorbonne, and Canon of
Noyen in 1574, acquired an unenviable notoriety
among his contemporaries by his zeal against the
Reformers, and was appointed " Inquisitor of the
Faith." The Reformers who were pt-rwecuted by,
and who naturally hated him, gave the name of
Mouchartg to those whom he employed us spies to
hunt out Dissenters. In his " History of the Par
liament of Paris," Voltaire says The famous
Mouchy was in reality an informer, a spy of the
Cardinal de Lorraine, and it was for him that the
nickname of Mouchard was invented, and which
designated all spies. The term has become an in-
sult." Other authorities will have it that it comes
from mouche, a fly, because the monchard, like the
fly, is ever buzzing about the ears of people.
Mouton is applied to an agent who, a prisoner him-
self, is employed to lead the conversation of his
fellows in plots and conspiracies, and to gradually
tempt them to disclose their plots with the same
apparent frankness he reveals his own. They
follow him as a flock of sheep follow their leader.
Agents of this kind are employed in most political
conspiracies, and, when all is ready, they either
disappear, or may be included among the arrested,
as a matter of form, and when brought to trial in-
form against their accomplices or those who confide
their secrets to them.

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GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES BILL.-At a
numerously attended MEE ['INC, of the MEMBERS
of the LIFE ASSUR&NCE PROFESSION, held at
Offices of the Royal Farmers' Assuraned Company, 3, Nother-
folk-street, Strand, on Friday, February 19,1884,
JOIIN REDDISH, Esq„ in the Chair,
The following Resolutions were passed:-
1. That Life Assurance has been carried on in this cou
atnthe try
for a century and a half by private enterprise, and th
Lite Assurance Companie , have fulfilled their engagements
in a manner which will bear honourable comparison with
that of any other class of institutions; that they have always
adapted themselves to the public wants andconvenience, and
are able and willing to continue to do so.
2. That this Meeting is of opinion that the proposal of the
Government is an interference with. ordinary commercial
enterprise, and ought to be opposed.
That a Cemmittee, with power to add to their number,
be now appointed, for the ur
ppose of watching the measure
and taking such steps as they may deem expedient.
4. That the foregoing Resolutions be signed by the Chair-
man and transmitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in-
serted in the daily papers, and sent to the metropolitan and
other members of the House.
JOHN REDDISH, Chairman.
COMMITTEE.—C. Jellicoe, Esq ,J. Reddish,
Esq. Esq.,
Henry
T. B.
Sprague, Esq., H. T. Tintold, Esq., J. Messent, ,
Harben, Esq.
Communications in reference to the above subject should
be addressed to the Honorary Secretary, Henry Harben, 35,
Ludgate-hill, London.

GUILDHALL, 24th February, 1864. The
COMMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS
will MEET at GUILDHALL, on WEDNESDAY, the
9th March next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive PRO-
POSALS for a LEASE of the PREMISES, Nos. 71 and 72,
Mark—ane, Fenchurch-street, in the City of London.
A Plan of the Premises may be seen, and Forms of Tender
obtained, upon application at the Architect's Office, Guild-
hall.

FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller.

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To load in the Victoria Docks.
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THE GFLLIVARA COMPANY (Limited).—
Incorporated under the Companies Act, I£o2, by whicl
the liability of shareholders is limited to the amount of their
shares
Capital £500,000, in 10,f 00 shares of £5O
each, with power to
increase.
Deposit Ll per share on application, and Li on allotmencalltot ;
the remainder to be called up as required, but no
exceed £5 per share, and at an interval of no less than three
wow hs between each call.
I It., rest at the rate of, 6 per cent. guaranteed during the
first three years

SHORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA
PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d.

DIRECTORS.
E. P. Alderson, Esq., 25, lei
Broad-streetstreet.
Thos. Brassey, jun., Esq., Great George-
Chas. Cammell, Esq., Sheffield and London.
W. K. Gladstone, Esq., 07k, Old Broad-street.
J. H. Johnson, Esq., Director of the English and Swedish
Bank.
George Payne Kitson, Esq ,13, King's Arms-yard.
V. Kjellbe,g, Esq„ Stockholm.
Hugh C. Smith, Esq., 47, Belgrave-square.
BANKERS IN LONDON.
Messrs. Smith, P yne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard-street.
BANKERS IN SWEDEN.
The English and Swedish Bank JAmited), Stockholm and
GothenbuT.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Dawes and Sons, 9, Angel-court, Throgmorton-et.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Mullens, Marshall. and Danioll, 3, Lomba
Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce, Bartholomewlane.rd-street.
SECRETARY.
Charles W. EArle, Esq.
Temporary Offices-1, Cop
This This Company has been established for the purpose of
purchasing a property in the kingdom of Sweden, known as
the Gellivar Estates, with the v ew of developing its great
resources.
The property comprises—
(A.) Ab tut 1 200,000 acres of land, 900,000 acres of which are
freehold, and the remaining 300,000cr acres can be of e
same tenure. More than 500,000 aces consist of good foresthts
of red and white pines ; 100,000 acres are already under cul-
tivation or fit for it; and far,her extensive districts will
become available for agricultural purposes.
(B) The Gellivara iron bed is probably the largest and
most productive in the worid, extending over nearly threep
ee
square miles. The ore consists partly of hematite and
of protoxide of iron, without any visible trace
al. of pyrite,
yielding on the average 65 per cent. of pure me
The mountain was surveyed in 1857 by a practical English
mining engineer, Mr. Thomas, F.G.S., and he reported his
opinion to be that—
' By adopting a systematic mode of working. there may be
readily extracted from seven to eight millions of tons of very
fine magnetic ironstone, readily obtainable by levels, and
without the application of any draining machinery; and that,
no doubt, even this large quantity might be materially in-
creased by removal of top rubbish and vegetation on the line
of bearing of the ironstone, before it will be found necessary
to apply any machinery for drainage."
The mountain was likewise inspected in 1852 by
Professor
Erdmann, Chief Director of the Royal Geological Surveys in
Swedn, an according to his report, a great number of the
veinse are esdtimated at from to 200 feet in thickness, and
about 1,000 feet in length, and the produce of one single vein
may fairly be calculated to equal more than three million
tons of ore.
(C) 215 farms, nine water and one steam sawmill, two blast
furnaces, four ironworks, a ship-building yard, &c.
from
The greater portion of this property was purchased
the late King of Sweden by an association of merchants in
Sweden and Norway, whose operations have been confinedto
the wood business, and to a gradual extension of the cultiva-
tion of the land.
favourable results. The
The wood business yields very
annual production is about 10,000 St. Petersburg standards
or about 33,000 loads, costing on an average £3, and
at selling
prices
readily for shipment to England, France, Spain, &c.,
the
equal to an average of XI 55. per stanaard, free a
shipping ports, thus showing a profit of £l. ss.on erboard stan-
t
dard. This production can b a considerably increased by the
erection of more sawmills.
The value of the iron ore is increased by the circumstance
that, without encroaching on the timber adapted for more
valuable purposes, tie forests of the estates and the waste
wood at the different sawmills rive an abundant supply
an
of
charcoal, at a 'ow cost, so that 25,000 tons of pig iron c
readily be made at a cost of £1 19s. per ton, free on board
above
at
the shipping port, while the present selling price is
£4 per ton.
A ready sale of the ore rr ay be safely calculated on at the
ipping
e,,cimated price of 153 per ton, free on btard, at the sr
port. t, the owners of th‘ for sts -nd s wm lls on both the
,edish and Finland side of the Gu:f of Bothnia, who have
now lane quantiies of wood annually wasted, which they
con • I turn into value by making otiarcoa• of it if they could
obtain good iron ore at a moderate cost tor sme.ting.
The only obstacle for working the mineral property has
bee the oifficulty of transport o =their e of
dishunt
to th furnaces :Led shipping po. he Sw- Govern-
ment awl Ever. fu ly appreciating the great benefit which
the working of tIL se valuable mines would have on the
national pro perity, have now leut their aid by granting a
considerable E übven bon for fadtitating the transport.
Very careful urveys have proved that the mo,t CO ,nomi-
cal means of transpor t will -be by a ra-lway from the iron
mountain to the r er Lue, distance , f about sixty Eue li.h
ripe, and by fl making two hurt cana o avoid
rapids and fat s, wit,ch will render that river navigab e to
the port , f G iddvik in the Gal of Bothnia.
The entire cost of thi raL way, incluiino• rol ,rg stock,
and
and of the two can tls, will not exceed £232,000,
owarti
thi the Sweui h Government and Diet have gra
or abou
nt td a 'lv -
vent on to the mount of 850,000 rix dollars,
£48,000,
This Coriap,ny has cont 'acted to purchase all these vain-
ab estates for the sum of {225,0,0, in order to carry on and
extend the wood busine s, to extend the cultivation of the
lan to work the mineral wealth of the property, and to
cons ruct for this purpose the railway from the Gel'ivara iron
mount ,in to the river Lule and the two canal on that river.
For these purposes a capital of £500,000 is required.
The presen - stock, about 8,000 standards of manufactured
wood ods, will be taken over front the venors at their
actual g
coost price, whereby a considerable profit wi 1 be directly
gained by the Company.
Three years will be required to construct the railroad
and the canals, so as to bring the iron business into full
operation.
The returns of the undertaking may then be fairly esti-
mated as under :
Ist. Fro m the sale of 60000 tons of iron ore to ro-
prietors of furnaces in, p
Sweden and Finland, at a
profit of 65. per ton ....... . ...............
iron at
...... £lB,OOO
2d. From the production of 25,000 tons of pig
the Company's own furnaces at a profit of £2 Is.
Per ton .........................................
3d. From 15,000 standards ot wood at a profit • of
- £lss, per standard ............................. 18,750
4th. From net income of railway .................. 8,700
6,395
sth. rom net income of canal and franc thereon..
F

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PHIL MANUAL. Free by post, Is. 6d.

QH OR THAN D.-"PITMAN'S PHONO
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THE VINTAGE WINE COMPANY
Supply the Public, at a srvlll advance on wholesale
prices, with every description of Wines and Spirits. Terms,
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THE VINTAGE COMIDA SIitAIRRY .. at 185. per doz.
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TROUSERS.—Special attention is called to the
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PIGS ! PIGS! PIGS!—INDIusi.; PIG MEAL,
without husks, supplied to the ROye.l farms, Windsor,
and in every county in England, lOs 6d per cwt. ; one cwt.
equal to cwt. barley or anv meal. Delivered free in Lon-
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£103,095
8,095

Deduct for management, &C..

Net Profit ................. ... Le 5,000
or 19 per cent. on the share capital irrespective of returns
from land, probable increase in sale of ore, and profits to be
derived from the Company making bar iron and steel.
During the first three years required for the full develop
ment of the property, the vendors guarantee that the income
on the paid-up capital shall amount to at least 6 per cent. per
annum payable half-yearly, and they have bound themselves
to make up any deficiency in such amounts ; as security for
the due fulfilment of this guarantee, the vendors leave in the
hands of the Company' X 50,000 of the ourchase-money, which,
together with the profits of the wood business, forms an ample
guarantee fund.
The map and schedule of the estates, estimates of c)st of
railroad and canals, and estimates of cost of production of
iron and wood, together with the reports ot Mr..l Comas, and
of Mr. Alexander Erdmann, and a letter from the Minister of
the Interior, In Sweden, bearing testimony to the great in-
' terest of the Swedish Government in the undertaking, may
be seen at the Company's Offices.
and Articles of Association lie
Copies of the Memorandum
for inspection at the Office of the Solicitors
the C, Messrs. Dawes
and Sons, and at the Temporary Offices ofCompany
Application for Shares must been ade in the annexed form,
accompanied by a deposit of £1 pr Share.
Prospectuttes and forms of application for Shares may be
btained at the Tem; orary Ofices of the Company and the
London Financial Association (Limited), 1, Threadneedle-
street, and the Brokers' ; the branches of the English and
Swedish Bank in Stockholm and Gothenburz will also re-
ceive applications and deposits for Shares for transmission
to England,

This form must be delivered entire to the Bankers of the
to
Company. and, after payment of depos the application
be retained by them.
FORM OP APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Gellivara Company (Limited).
Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers, Alessrs Smith,
, sum of £ , being a deposit of
Payneper Share on and Smit ,s, the Shares in the above eowpany, I hereby
request that you w 11 allot me that number ; and I hereby
agree to accept such Shares, or any smaller number that may
be allotted to me, and to execute the Articles of Association
when required, and to my name being placed on the Register
of Shareholders for the Shares so .
Name in fullallotted ......................

Residen,e
Profession or Business .....
Date

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When the plot for which the Italian prisoners
will to-morrow be on their trial was discovered the
first thought that occurred to the public was that if
net concocted by police agents, it may have been
fomented and matured by them, and that among
the accused themselves there was probably more
than one who had performed the part of Mouton.
How far that suspicion was founded will be seen
from the following narrative, which I take textu-
ally from the Acte d'Accusation, or Bill of Indict-
ment, which will be read to-morrow in the Assize
Court by the Procureur Imperial. The Acte d'Ac•
cusation begins thus :
On 24th December,lB63, four strangers entered
France at the same time by the Swiss frontier, and
exhibited to the Police Commissary of St. Louis

their papers, in which they were designated by the
names of Greco, Trabuco, Imperatori, and Maspoli.
The Commissary on reading the papers, recollected
that in 1862 a man named Trabuco had been pointed
out to the authorities on the frontier as an Italian
conspirator of a most dangerous character; and
without a moment's delay, he sent word by tele-
graph to the Prefect of Police that the person bear-
ing that name was proceeding to Paris with three
companions by the Mulhouse Railroad. When they
reached the Paris terminus, at half-past 5 in the
morning of the 25th, a surveillance had been already
organized, and from that moment till their arrest
all their movements were closely watched.
" They got out of the same carriage without ex-
changing a wcrd with each other, and pretended to
take different directions; but the four, Imperatori
and Maspoli in one carriage, Trabuco in another,
and Greco in the railway omnibus, drove to the
Hotel Sainte-Marie, Rue de Rivoli, 83 ; Imperatori,
Maspoli and Greco (under the name of Fioretti)
hired rooms,in•which they deposited their luggage.
Trabuco, whose only luggage was a French horn
and a game pouch, quitted the hotel in the course
of the day. He said that he was going to London
but he went to No. 198, Rue St. Honore, where
Gcceo,who had formerly lodged there, recommended
him and hired a room for him. These arrange-
ments, however, were only temporary. On the
29th Greco presented himself at the Hotel de
Naple, 176, Rue St. Honore, and hired three rooms,
which were occupied the same day by him, Maspoli

and Trabuco. The last-mentioned, on quitting the
house, 198, took the precaution, as he had dune
when leaving the Hotel Sainte-Marie, to say that
he was starting for London. The next day Greco
brought Imperatori with him, who was placed in a
fourth room:
" In these d;fferent lodging-houses the man-
ner and bearing of the four strangers seemed
singular. From the moment of their arrival
they appeared to ,be hesitating, abstracted, and
mysterious. At the Hotel Sainte Marie Greco
had recommended the waiter to give the key of his
room to nobody,' not even to his own father.' In
the house 178, Rue St. Honore, he observed to the
landlady, Madame Musset, that the locks of the
chests of drawers and of other pieces of furniture
were ❑ot solid enough; and he went out to buy, at
a trunkmaker's, named Liard, a new box with lock
and key, in which he deposited the contents of his
game pouch. When he installed himself at the
hotel at Naples, Greco had the locks examined by
a locksmith. He himself took up his things to his
room. He waited to the last moment to show his
papers, and those of his friends. It was only on the
Ist of January that the landlady, Madame Thierry,
could get Trabuco, Imperatori, and Maspoli to ex-
hibit their passports; and Greco, who seemed an-
noyed at the thought of the house-register being
examined by the police inspectors, did not put his
name o❑ it till the 2d of January. In a word, the
movements of these men betrayed a feeling of un-
easiness. When they went abroad they managed
so as to leave one of them in watch at the hotel.
The servant who waited on them several times per-
ceived that they kept the doors of their rooms half
open—even during the night—in order to be able to
hear the slightest stir in the house. Oat of doors
their conduct was of a still more suspicious charac-
ter. In the hotel they were constantly together,
had long conversations, and their going out and
coming in were combined; still they took the pre-
caution when in the street to separate, to affect not
to recognise each other, and when they approached
to salute as if they were strangers. The morning
after their arrival in Paris they were seen to observe
with extraordinary care the approaches to the re-
served part of the gardens of the Tuileries. The
same day they drove by the Place de la Concorde,
and the central avenue of the Champs Elytees in a
carriage, which by their order moved at a very slow
pace, and they carefully noted every spot they thus
passed over.
's On the 28th of December Trabuco, having
gone to the streets leading to the Opera, and on
the night the Emperor was to visit it, and having
remained some time at the house of a hair-
dresser named Ranciot, in the rue Grange-Bate-
liere, rejoined his friends. The four then drove to
the corner of the Boulevard and the rue Lepelletier.
They waited at that spot till midnight, when the
Emperor left the Opera; and they were observed to
look about them frequently, and with all the ap-
pearance of mistrust. The following morning Tra-
buco and Greco went to the hairdresser's, Ranciot,
under pretence of getting shaved; they then en-
tered the covered passage or gallery which leads
from the rue Lepelletier, close to the Opera, to the
Boulevard. After waiting some time to see if they
were observed, they set themselves to examine mi-
❑utely all the passages, and particularly the private
entrance reserved for the Emperor. In this they
passed half an hour.
" On the 30th Ranciot, the hairdresser, on going
to the Opera with his wife, found his two customers
under the peristyle, where they seemed to be on
the watch. On the 2d of January Greco, Trabuco)
Imperatori, and Maspoli visited the approaches to
the Tuileries. But their abstraction of mind was
visibly on the increase. They looked es if they felt
they were watched; took circuitous drives or walks
in the streets ; and when they went on lout they
were ever looking back or aside as if they thought
some one was dogging their steps. They were much
embarrassed when paying their bill at the hotel,
and seemed to be waiting impatiently for a letter
and mon - On the ad of Jrthuary, titter inquiring

PRICE 4d.
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in vain for letters addressed poste restante, they
manifested the "greatest disappointment. Their
going backwards and forwards, their agitated man-
ner, their disquiet—all revealed their design ; and
this was thought the beat moment to secure their

persons.
" At half past four on the evening of the 3d of
January Trobuco and Greco, who were.at the Hotel
de Naples, were arrested. The pollee at once visited
their rooms; the visit was attended with these re-
sults—in the room occupied by Trabuco, end in the
drawer of a clothes chest, was found an oilcloth bag
fastened by a lock. Trabuco, when requested to
open it, said at first that the bag was not his, and
that it had been given to him by an Englishman
to take to London. He was searched, and on him
was found the key of the bag, which contained,
rolled up in a handkerchief, a poniardrand two bombs
charged with powder, and furnished, the one with
12, the other with six, nipples. With another key,
which was also found on Trabuco, they opened the
wooden box bought at the trunkmaker's, Liard, and '
in it were discovered revolver cases, three packages
of percussion caps, and an instrument for adjusting
the nipples of the bombs.
" In the writing table of Greco was found a tra-
velling bag which one of Trabuco's keys opened ; it
contained, rolled up in a handkerchief, two bombs
charged with powder, and with 12 nipples. The
bag contained, moreover, an instrument for screwing
on the nipples, two papers of powder, and a formide
able revolver, ready, loaded and primed. They dis-
covered, too, in the possession of Greco and concealed
in various ways, several documents, some of them
emanating from Mazzini.
" At 7 o'clock the same evening Imperatori and
Maspoli were arrested in a wine shop. They were
conducted to the Hotel de Naples, where a search
was made in their presence. Nothing of a suspicious
kind was found in Imperatori's room ; but the
drawers of Maspoli's clothes chest contained four
bombs charged with powder, eaeh with six nipples,
a revolver loaded and primed, a package of powder,
one of bullets, three boxes of percussion caps, two
poniards, and divers others objects appertaining to
firearms. With these things discovered before their
eyes, it seemed difficult for the accused to deny their
criminal projects. They at first attempted to main-
tain that they had no culpable intention; but they
had eventually to make np their minds to a full
avowal. Greco was the first to do so, and his de-
clarations, now corroborated in the essential part by
his accomplices, unfold in a precise manner, the
origin and the details of the plot.
"At the head of this plot is Mazzini. This ardent
conspirator, already condemned by default on the
3d September, 1857, by the Assize Court of the
Seine, was found guilty of having formed, with cer-,
tain persons named Tibaldi, Bartoloti, and others
a plot for the assassination of the Emperor, and has
not ceased to attack, in the person of Napoleon 111.,
the principle of order and authority of which the
revolution i 3 the implacable enemy. During the
trial of 1857 papers were seized which revealed
these plots, and it is requisite to refer to them in
order to show the criminal persistence of the chief
of the party of action in Italy.
" On the 10th of June, 1357, Mazzini wrote to his
fellow-conspirators, Massarenti and Campanella,
these words The carrying out this attempt is a
vital affair for the country. . . . It is nearly
the whole question, . . . The affair of Paris is
more than ever desirable and urgent.' He recom-
mended them to call to mind all he had told as to
the line of conduct they were to follow ; he informed
them of the means of procuring funds ; and he added,
I would give millions, but I cannot.' At this
period he again wrote on the subject of the conspi-
racy w'iich was to spread over all Italy, but which
he had not been able to bring to maturity, The
structure that has been raised with infinite pains
and unhoped-for success up to yesterday has been
overthrown. . . . It is enough to make one
dash his head against the wall. Ido not do so,
however; we have to begin again.'
"Mazzini was preparing for 1863 a vast revolu-
tionary movement, the signal for which was the
assassination of the Emperor. Greco, a second-class
conspirator, seemed to him at once obscure enough
and resolute enough for the matter to be entrusted
to him. 'Greco,' said Mazzini, in a letter addressed
to the Times on the 14th January last, is an enthu-
siastic patriot, who has taken an active part in the
expeditions of 1860 and 1861 in the South of Italy,
and as such was in relation with me.' The rela-
tions of these two became intimate in April, 1863.
Mazzini was then at Lugano.
" The plan was then arranged, and it was decided
that Greco should proceed to Paris in the beginning
of May to examine the state of affairs, and when
opportunity offered, t o make the attempt. At the
moment of hie departure Mazzini wrote, in his pre-
sence, a note to serve as the key of his correspon-
dence. In it everything was carefully provided for
—the relations to be formed in Paris, with a view
to baffle the vigilance of the police ; the necessity
for money, arms, and assistants ; the notice to be
given on the eve of the attempt. Finally, Mazzini
mentioned, as the place to which letters were to be
addressed to him in London, the house of a woman,
named Rosselly, the daughter of a man with whom
he had political relations at Lugano. The note was
in these words :
"' From Paris to London.—To Madame Roselly,
58, Myddelton-square, Pentonville, London.—lf you
come in contact with Murat, you are to tell him,
among other things, that you have good hopes as to
your military career. If you are absolutely in want
of arms, you are to ask permission to dedicate to him
a fantasia of your own composition, 11 voto, for the
piano. If you are absolutely in want of pecuniary
aid, you will tell him to send you, buying it for you,
Balfe's last opera. Address and hour. If there is
great probability of doing the thing, you are to
write an insignificant letter, and conclude, 1 will
write to you in a week, in three or four days. If
there be absolute want of an intimate be pleased to
tell me the price of a Broadwood piano in London.'
This note was one of the documents found in pos-
session of Greco. It is manifestly from the hand of
Mazzici,as an expert has abundantly demonstrated.
Together with this paper Mazzini sent a sum of
money to Greco. Greco then set out for France, by
way of Turin and Mont Cenis, and reached Paris
early in May. Under the name of Fioretti, and
sometimes under his own name, he lodged succes-
sively at the Hotel Saint-Marie, Rue de Rived, and
at No. 198, Rue St. Honore. He found a pretext,
as had been agreed upon, to present himself at the
house of Prince Murat, one of whose secretaries he
frequently saw ; and he succeeded in this way in
making the police agents, who had at first watched
his movements, believe that their; surveillance was
superfluous.
" The Emperor had for a short time left Paris.
It was decided, in a correspondence between Greco
and Mazzini, that the attempt should be postponed.
Greco quitted his hotel in July, leaving behind him
a portmanteau containing various articles, and say_
ing he was going to London. He returned to Lu-
gano, where he again found Mazzini. His relations
with him were continual.
"In consequence of measures adopted by the Swiss au-
thorities the Mazzinians who resided at Lugano found it
expedient to disperse. Greco retired to Mendrizio, but ho
came several times in the week to Mazzini's lodgings. It
was during these interviews the organisation of the conspi-
racy was concluded. Mazzini from the commencement
declares that, having gone to London, he left the address,
written with his own hand, to which letters for him should
be directed, 'lll. Flowers,
35, Thurloe-square, London.'
This note was seized, with several other notes signed by
Mazzini with his usual abbreviation, together with four of
his photographs, two of which were signed by him.
" Eight days before Mazzini quitted Lugano he left 1,300
francs with Greco. He next sent him I,ooof. from London,
and again 2,000 f. in bank notes. At the same time he col-
lected arms. Greco received 10 bombs, revolvers, and
poniards, through various Mazzinian agents, and particu-
larly through an individual named Mostel, of Genoa.
Finally, Greco selected, with the approbation of Mazzini,
the comrades who were to accompany him to France.
Tie had already rocureAl the assist:lT:leo of Imperatori.