The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-09 00:00:00

AL ARMY

AGAINST EGYPT.
" Should Egypt not have made her submission to the
authority of the Sublime Porte before the close of next
summer, it is probable that she will have declared and
obtained her independence. As all my endeavours andi
all my provisions have not been attended with any use--
tut result, my long reflections led me to conclude that
the only remedy to the evil was war. We must then
wage war, and in order to ensure its success, it is
pensable to adopt efficient measures.

" Art. I. We must first of all fix uflon the plan of
the campa;gn, and establish such regulations as will
defeat the intrigues of the Generals who might be am-
bitious of supplanting the Seraskier. Should any of the
superior officers, contrarily to those disposition•, be
pithy of intrigue or acts calculated to compromise the
success of the undertaking, a report on the subject must
be immediately forwarded to the Imperial Divan, in
order that the offenders may be broken and punished.
The Sultan will have to issue an imperial ordinance to
that effect.

" Art. ill. The army about to take the field must be
composed of 60,000 to 70,000 men—viz!, 40,000 in-
fantry, 15,000 cavalry, 5,000 artillery and engineers,
and 10,000 irregular troops, with 120 pieces of cannon.
" Art. 3. Wherever the Imperial army shall en-
counter the enemy, it must present itself drawn up in
battle array. It is consequently necessary that the
General in-Chief train his troops to that manoeuvre as
often as possible.

" Art. 4. The General-in-Chief must fortify Marasch
and its environs, and leave a sufficient garrison to de-
fend that city. This measure once completed he will
march strait upon Aleppo, Damascus, and Acre, without
losing time in the occupying of other points of Syria.
Once master of St. Jean d'Acre, he will leave a strong
garrison in that place, and proceed directly to Egypt.
The taking of Acre must be regarded as terminating
the first part of the campaign. To carry those opera-
tions into effect will, in all probability, require between
four and five months. The occupation of Egypt will
form the second period of the campaign, and will also
require between four and five months, so that the entire
undertaking may be successfully terminated in a space
of ten or eleven months.

" Art. 5. According to our reports Soliman Pacha
is displeased with his position. In order to deprive the
Egyptian army of so useful an adviser and so powerful
an aid, no means should be spared ; an officer must be
secretly sent to him who will do everything to gain him
over. As Soliman is a Frenchman, it would be advisable
to despatch to him an officer of his nation belonging to
the Imperial army. He would succeed more easily in
bringing him over to our side.

" Art. 6. Hitherto Mehemet Ali has not conferred
on Arabs any rank superior to that of Captain, whilst he
raised Christians to the dignities of Bey and Pachas.
In our camp, on the contrary, there are Arabs invested
with the rank of Pachas. Consequently, it will be ne-
cessary to circulate, by means of spies, proclamations
among the Egyptian army, promising the rank of lieu-
tenants to those who should desert to our side with
twenty or thirty men ; that of captain to such as would
bring from thirty to one hundred ; and that of com-
mander and colonel to those who arrived at the bead
of a battalion. Any individual, whoever he may be,
who will join our army with a regiment, shall be named
colonel, general, and pacha.
" Art. 7.—The Druses, the Montonalis, forming part
of the Egyptian army, the Sheiks, and the Syrian popu-
lation generally, must be excited to make common cause
with u•, by promising and assuring them that they will
obtain from the Porte all the privileges they may re-
quire. It is necessary that Hafiz Pacha should always
have at his disposal from 7,000 to 8,000 purses
(40,0001.) for the purpose of corrupting the S'hieks.
" Art. B.—lt is of the highest importance to obtain
a knowledge, by means of clever spies of the plans and
projects recommended by the European officers attached
to the Egyptian army ; and at all events to arrive at
some result before the ensuing summer.

" Art. 9.—The Ottomnn fleet must be ready to
transport 10,000 or 12,000 men to Tripoli (in Syria),
and the moment our army shall have commenced its
march from Marasch, those troops must open a com-
munication with the Druses and other malcontents, and
act in concert with them. In order to ensure the sue.
cess of the movement, those troops must be provided
with from 30 to 40 pieces of artillery, and 15,000 mus-
kets, to be distributed among the insurgents, as also
with a sufficient quantity of ammunition."

ADMINISTRATION Ok' CRIMINAL

LAW IN GREECE.

EVENING EDITION.

TRIAL OF M. PE`TTEL FOR THE
MURDER OF HIS WIFE AND SERVANT.

COURT OF ASSIZES OF THE MN.
Our readers will remember our having stated at the
time (with many particulars) that a horrible murder had
been committed, on the Ist November, 1838, on the
wife of M. Peytel, a notary of Belley, in the Ain, which
was at first believed to have been done by his servant as
they were returning home in the evening, and that the
latter was immediately killed by his master in revenge
for lye assassination. M. Peytel was at first arrested,
and afterwards liberated, but
.circumstances coming to
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light at a subsequent period to confirm the suspicions gene-
rally entqrtained in that part of the country that he was
himself the murderer, both of his wife and his servant,
lie was again arrested. Examinations of the greatest
possible minuteness and sagacity hive ever since been
constantly carried on by the local authorities, and at
last, on the 26th ult., he was brought up for trial on a
charge of the double murder before the Court of As-
sizes atßourg. So intense was the anxiety caused through-
out the adjacent districts and in that town by the event,
that during the five days which the triallasted, the Court
was :Iva) s thronged to exzess ; and the popular indigna-
tion was so strong, that every day whenever the
opportunity occurred ou his being brought up from
prison to the Court, the most ferocious imprecations
were uttered against him by the populace. The prisoner
(Peytel) is a short mile, about 35 years of age, and ap-
pcared in Court dressed in mourning ; he was ob-
served throughout the proceedings to be very pale, and
at times much dejected. The number of witnesses for
the prosecution was 87, for the defence 30. Among
the termer were M. Casimir Broussais, son of the cele-
brated medical professor, and who married the sister
of Aimee Peytel ; M. de Montrichard, another of the pri-
sonte's brotoerssin-law ; the President of the tribunal of
Belley ; the lieutenant of gendarmerie- of that station,
and many other gentlemen of high respectability.
Among the witnesses for the defence were Docto: Oli-
vier, of Angers, the celebrated physician ; sea evel other
medic .1 men,reind various personal friends of th: pri.
sorer. At the commencement of the proceedings a
distressing scene occurred in court, by Mine. Broussais,
sister to the deceased Mine. Peytel, going into violent
hysterics, and being forced to be taken out of court.
The indictment, which occupied an hour in reading,
atter recapitulating in great detail all the facts of the
case, such as our readers have already had laid
before them, disclosed some new circumstances of
coneiderable importance, on which, indeed, the prose-
cation was mainly founded, and which, for brevity's
sake, and to avoid needless repetitions, we may at
at once say were in general fully substantiated by the
evidence. It appeared that Peytel was a man not of
very good character previous to his marriage; so much

so that he had in trying to get admitte:

to the purchase et a notary's charge at Marlon,
his native place. He afterwards, however, settled to
purcha,c one at Belley, but he had not sufficient money
to pay for it, and tins, among other circumwaaces tend-
ing to urge bias to procure money, led him to propose,
in 1838, to MU. Felicite Aicezar,the daughter of a most

respectable family of the French colonies, and of good in-
come, and whose father had been a colonel in the
English service. In made a fahe representa-
tion of his circumstances to her family, and on
her mother desiring that the marriage settle-
ments might be drawn up like those of her other
previously married daughter, he promised that they shou!d
bo so, but in reality contrived to falsify them, and it was
only after the marriage had taken place that it was
found'he had a legal right over much more of his wife's
property than had been intended. Within a few hours
~after the marriage had been solemnised, he commenced
a course of harsh, and at times violent, conduct
against his wife (to which indeed the natural giddy tem-
per of the unfortunate lady gave some slight excuse),
nit 'I in a few days disposed of 50,000 fr. of her money,
wilich he appropriated to his own purposes. They
continued to live very unhappily together, and a se-
paration was wished for by Madame Peytel ; but her
hrother-la-law, M. C. Broussais, persuaded her not
to indulge in any idea of the kind, and • her relatives

even rebuked her for what they considered the fault
( of her character., Shortly after this time Peytel con-
: trive,l, by feigning that he had made a will, leaving all
his property to his wife in case of his death, to get her
i to do the some thin..' for bim ; and after the melancholy
death of his wife had occurred, and he ILtd been fiber-

wed from prison for the first time, he had caused this
teyAamuntary document to disappear. On the other
hand, it was stated in the indictment, and equally
proved by the evidence, that Louis Rey, the man ser-
vant, whom Peytel accused of being his wife's
murderer, and whom he had himself killed, was a
man of the most exemplary character, and who had

ved with credit in the army and in all situations in

which he bad been plat id, was of a mild and open cha-
racter, and most un.iko y to be actuated by any mo-
ttivr, ~f revenge or cupidity against his employers. The
p isoner had thrown out insinuations against the man
ci ly after his death, and had never been known to
ci mplain of him before. It was further stated in the
iuntetn,nt, and ultimately proved by the testimony
, of the medical witnesses, that Madame Pcytel had
I r.,,-_ceived two wounds from two separate pistols,
Ort from a single one, as her husband had pretended ;
that they were fired with the muzzles of the wea-
pon almost touching her face, her eyelashes and skin
1 ' b.ing burnt by the powder ; that the wounds were in
such a position that it was impossible for the servant to
have fired them by leaning into the cabriolet, as the
prisoner had, oa his previous examination, contended ;
and, finally, that the bullets were such •as corresponded
to pistols kept in the carriage by the prisoner. The con-
duct of'Peytel, after he had gone for assistance when the
murder had been committed, was most strange and incon-
ri,tant. It was proved that his wife must have died instan-
taneously, whereas her body was found in a flooded
meadow by the road side, and must have been carried
thither. On seeing his wife's body he had not helped
to carry it into the cabriolet, but had left others to do
SO ; had then coolly taken the reins to drive on him-
self., and on coming to the part of the road where the
dead body of the servant lay, had driven the carriage
over it. Some bullets had been found in the servants
trunk, but it was asserted in the indictment, and proved
daring the trial, that the prisoner had sent him to buy
themhimself ; and various other artifices which he had
adopted, with a view of throwing overwhelming sus-
picion on his servant's character, were entirely
unmasked.
After a great deal of evidence had been adduced,
and eounsel on either side heard, the President summed
up, and the jury, after having deliberated for an hour
and a half, returned a verdict of Guilty, with premedita
tion.

The prisoner, who was very pale, heard the verdict
with calmness. When the sentence of death was pro-
nounced, ha had a slight nervous attack, which soon
ceased. " Ah, my God !" he exclaimed, with an agi-
tated voice, and putting his hand to his forehead. " Oh,
my head is splitting ! oh, my God ! I shall have an
apoplexy !" A single voice in the auditory ex-
claimed—" Vivent les jurea," but the president imme-
diately ordered silence to be observed. Notwithstand-
ing the lateness of the hour a great crowd remained sta-
tionary in all approaches to the court, and it was not till
after this was dispersed that Peytell was conducted back
to prison. He then seemed to have recovered his
firmness, and said—" My life has been stamped with
misfortune. What signifies a few days more or less? Tell
my friends that I meet death with fortitude." Peytell has
appealed to the Court of Cessation. On being taken from
court, he was confined in a much closer cell than
previous to the trial. A person who went to see him
found h;m lying on a straw mattress, but was received
without any embarrassment. M. Gaverni, the artist,
who had been summoned from Paris as a witness for the
defence, arrived too late, and was very much grieved at
finding he could not give his evidence in favour of the
prisoner. Peytel, on the day before his conviction,
seemed to be certain of an acquittal, and had arranged
with his sister to take his departure in the night for
M neon to visit his mother. He named a late hour to
avoid the cries of the people.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—SWALLOWING A
WATcH.—'f he following extraordinary case was heard at
the Dublin Police Office, Henry-street, on Wednesday
last : A. young gentleman, named Rathbane, charged
Anne Lynch with having stolen his watch. Complainant
saide he. was passing through Marlborough-street when he
or was Followed
wowa.ed by the prisoner, who snatched the watch out
givencoat pocket. He seized her on the spot, and
had herto a policeman who was passing. She
was brOu.ht, t? .
r porous search t.ne station-houso, and although the most
wasmde by a female, who was there for
tie purpose, itgiven not be found, and
could
reco-
vering it were all hopes of
that the prisoner dropped the
having concluded
however,
watch in the street. In the
course of the night,
house, and without the aid' sohfe become ill in the station-
9he
ackan emetic the watch was
forthcoming, although
' completely swallowed it when sheledthe took it from the gentle-
ged that she had
inan's pocket. What made
extraordinary
more
elack ribbon at.
was, that there was six or eight ineahsees
tached to it. It was a thin fashionable watch, but
gold
not at all a small one. The magistrates said that the pri.
complainant
soner should he committed for trial.
said he would not prosecute her, as he gas sure she had
already suffered sufficiently. The magistratesprosseaid the
complainant could not get his watch unless he
A N AWKWARD CUSTONIER.—On Wednesday
last a horse which had been left standing in Castle-street,sta-
very deliberately walked into the shop of Mr. Fisher, hair_
dresser, and having looked quietly around proceeded in the
Most orderly manner into the back parlour. Here its
attention was taken by a large looking-glass against the
stall. before which it stood surveying itself with evident
satisfaction for some time—shaking its head and neighing
as if in an extacy of delight at the figure it cut. Mr.
Fisher, though a first-rate tonsor, was by no means inclined
to operate upon such a customer, and quietly led him out
again with as much politeness as if be had paid hint the
largest fee.... Carlisk Journal. i
On Saturday morning a dreadful accident occur-
red toJames Baylis, a p*inter, who was painting a well stair-
case, at the residence of Sir William Stratton, in Portland-
place. The unfortunate man was standing on a scaffold-
i inn forty feet high, when he suddenly fell off, and fractured j
r his skull in so shocking a manner that no hopes of his re- 1
,overy are entertained.
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