The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-30 00:00:00

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FRENCH INTRIGUES IN SWITZER-
LAND.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.I
SlR—From a recent number of the Morning Chronicle
I learn that the French Government is highly displeased
with the Swiss Diet. What has the Diet done ? The
Diet has listened to a report drawn up by a Commission
nominated to report in the case of Cheli Conseil, the
French spy. What does this report contain ? First, the
result of a law-suit—namely, that before the legal authori-
ties, and by legal procedure, it has been proved and ascer-
tained that Cheli Conseil was a spy in the employment of
the French Government ; that he was known in this qua-
lity to the French Ambassador, who received him in his
cabinet, and ordered his secretary to deliver a sum of money
and a passport to Cheli Conseil, under the supposititious
name of Francois Hermann, commis voyageurde Strasbourg.
It was a fact of public notoriety that the French Ambassador
had officially and publicly designated to the authorities of
Switzerland this very same Cheli Conseil as a conspirator,
implicated in the affair of Fieschi and d'Alibaud, and had
demanded his immediate extradition to the French Go-
vernment ; aryl it was a fact of public notoriety that the
French Mibassador, pretending `the same Cheli Conseil to
be in connection with the refugees of other nations residing
in 3witzerland, had ordered the immediate expulsion of all
the refugees from Switzerland, under a menace of a " her-
Ineticar blockade of that country. From these facts, taken
together, the actual proof of Cheli Conseil being a spy
became certainly nothing less than a very severe attack
upon the honour of the Duke de Montebello. But with
whom was the fault? With the French Ambassador him-
self, and nobody else. The Diet stated the affair of Con-
seil as it was; Since when is it a crime or breach of in-
ternational laws to write history, and, what is still more,
authentic history ?
The report of the Diet, secondly and lastly, contained an
exposition of the laws of France, drawn from the Code
Napoleon, referring to persons who, knowingly and inten-
tionally, deliver passports under supposititious names. If the
laws of France consider and establish such an action as
criminal and punishable, with whom was the fault if the
establishment of the fact of Cheli Conseil having received,
by order of the French Ambassador, such a false passport
was in itself nothing less than a proof that the French
Ambassador had committed a crime punishable according
to the letter of the French legislation itself ? The fault was
again with the French Ambassador, who, willingly and wan-
tonly, had committed that crime.
The Diet adopted the report of the commission, and
resolved that the facts should be officially communicated
to the French Government. And the French Government
will send troops to Switzerland ? Will the facts be less
true if French bayonets glitter on the soil of Switzerland?
Is it not the Swiss Diet whicd has attacked the honour of
the Duke of Montebello ; it is the Duke of Montebello
himself who, by his actions, has forfeited either his honour,
or the honour of the Government whose orders he executed.
The all-important point is, to knew if the proof of Cheli
Conseil being a spy was complete or not. It is for this
reason that L who have been the principal actor in un-
masking Cheli Conseil, think it useful to lay these facts,
through the medium of your Journal, before the English
public.
My name is Giacinto Migliari, native of Ferrara, in the
Roman States. After the revolution of la Romagna, in
1831, I was obliged to flee from Italy. From the sth of
February to the 29th of July I lived at Friburg, in the
canton of Friburg. Having resolved to go to America, I
set out for Berne to procure a passport. I lived at the inn,
the Wildman, together with another Italian refugee, named
Bertola. On August 6, we were, several acquaintances,
mostly Italians, sitting in the common dining-room of
the inn, when a traveller entered in a reddish blouse. Ber-
tola, upon seeing him, exclaimed, " Ah, Cheli Conseil !"
Cheli Conseil then related to us that he was implicated in
the affair of Fieschi and d'Alibaud, and that he was sus-
pbated of propagating the Societe du Families. As several
persons were present in the room, I found the confessions
of the stranger rather too open and imprudent. He took
Men Bertola and me aside, telling us, with an air of
mystery, " Beware of Boschi and Primavesi ; they
are both spies." Boschi and Primavesi were present
when Cheli Conseil arrived, and had then left us. The
same day we read in the Nouvelliste Vaudois, that the
French Ambassador had demanded the extradition of Cheli
Conseil from the Swiss authorities. Notwithstanding this
Cheli Conseil passed the whole day in our company, fre-
quenting public walks and coffee-houses, without taking the
least precaution, excepting that he requested Bertola to go
to the post-office and fetch his luggage. The luggage was
brought • into our room. In the evening, when Boschi,
Bertola, I, and Conseil were supping at our inn, I pro-
posed to take breakfast on Sunday morning at Eihler's,
a country tavern, at half an hour's distance from Berne.
When the breakfast was finished 1 addressed myself to
Cheli Conseil, and, " You are a spy ; deliver to us your
passport and the key of your trunk." He did so : Bertola
took up the passport and examined it. Cheli Conseil, it
must be added here, arrived for the first time at Berne on
the 11th of July, On the 24th he was expelled the can-
ton. He said that he should go to France, procure himself
a passport under another name, and return to Switzerland.
On Saturday, the 6th of August, when he arrived at
Berne, he said that a man of the name of Corelli had
given him his passport at Besancon, where he (Couseil)
was nearly arrested by ten gensdarmes, and fled. The
passport was signed on the 4th of August, and it was
evident that the so-called Corelli could not have given a
passport at Besancon to a person who had already fled from
Besancon. Conseil, moveover, had marked and singular
features, a peculiar form of the mouth and nose, a dimpled
chin, and a wart on his left cheek. All the features of
Conseil agreed with the signallenient of Corelli ; it was
evident that Corelli and Conseil must be one and the same
individual. Oppressed by all these indications, Conseil was
not able to say a word. We paid our bill, and went away,
in order to examine Conseil's trunk in our room at home.
Conseil, when he was alone with Bertola and me, seized
hands, and said, weeping like a child, " Save my life, and
I will tell all." " I guarantee to you," was my answer,
" that nobody shall hurt you ; we are no assassins ; but
speak the truth."
The trunk was opened, and Conseil handed over to us
a Papal passport of Ancona ; two lettres de change, one
for M. Cheli Conseil and the other for M. Corelli ; three
lists of names of the persons Conseil was charged to watch ;
two letters from Paris, written by M. Jacobin, whom
Conseil described as attached to the Ministry of the Interior,
and as the person who had sent him to Switzerland, with a
mission to watch the persons mentioned in the lists, and to
make himself to be transported, together with the other re-
fugees, to England : and lastly, Conseil was ordered not to
present himself at the French Embassy ; and a billet or
confrontation, a ticket by which spies make known their
quality to their brother spies, and to the authorities.
The papers found in the trunk were unimportant in them-
selves, but they were a proof of the truth of the confes-
sions which Conseil made. The confession was complete.
He confessed that when he arrived at Besancon he pre-
sented himself to the Prefet, who immediately wrote to
Paris. On the 4th of August he was called before the
Prefet again, who gave him money, the above-mentioned
passport under the name of Corelli, and an order to pre-
sent himself at the French embassy at Berne for further
orders. Mark again : Conseil had been driven away from
Switzerland by the authorities of Berne, at the request of
the French Ambassador, and, after having been driven
away, he was, by an order from Paris, sent back to Swit-
zerland. Was he much wanted there ? He was ordered to
present himself at the French Embassy. Why ? That
though the Swiss authorities should not know who Con-
seil was, the French Ambassador should at every moment
know where to find him, where to have him arrested, not-
withstanding his false name of Corelli.
Lastly, Conseil confessed that the day before, on Satur-
day evening, he had an interview with the Duke of Mon-
tebello at his hotel ; and that he had been ordered to pre-
sent himself this evening, at nine o'clock, a second time.
At nine o'clock Bertola and I accompanied Conseil to the
French Embassy, waiting for him till he came back,ltesr-
chi and Primavesi following him at a distance. A
three. quarters of an hour Conseil returned, showing, to us
a small packet with money, and a new passport with the
name of Francois Herrmann, commis voyages dv Strasbourg,
and a new list of persons to be watched. The passport, as
well as a list of names, were in the handwriting of
Bellevalle, first secretary of the French Embassy, and are
in the hands of the Diet.
Bertola was in possession of the papers which Conseil
had taken from his trunk. Bertola, I knew, had taken
an engagement with M. Bandelier, one of the editors of
" Young Switzerland," to come and see him at Biel on
Tuesday, the 9th of August. I calculated at Berne that
the private affairs which I had to settle at Friburg would
detain me at Friburg until Tuesday night, but that on
Wednesday afternoon I could be at Biel and meet with
Bertola.
I found M. Bandelier at home, and explained the affair
to him. M. Bandelier took me to another Swiss, M.
Gros, first redacteur of the " Young Switzerland." M.
Bandelier then brought us to the hotel where Bertola was
lodging. Bertola had the papers with him.
At four o'clock we were at Nidau. A private .room in
our hotel was bespoken. Messrs. Bandelier and Gros went
through the town. to fetch M. Schneider and two other
Swiss patriots of Nidau. When they were all five assem-
bled at our hotel, Bertola related the whole of the affair,
and produced the papers mentioned above. I myself was
in my room with Conseil at supper, not telling him what
was in preparation. When we had finished supper a
waiter came in with an invitation to both of us to coma
to the other room. I brought Conseil thither, and before
the persons mentioned above Conseil repeated, word for
word, all the confessions which lie had made to us.

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When the question was to be debated, what was to be
clone now, M. Schneider and the two other inhabitants of
Nidau, one after the other, left the room. Soon after-
wards, at nine o'clock, P.M., three Swiss police officers en-
tered the room, and asked for our passports. Cheli Conseil
was arrested immediately. Bertola and I received back
our passports. Bertola was then requested to produce
other papers he was said to have. Bertola managed to
pass the papers to me, who sat on the sofa, and I secretly
handed them over to M. Bandelier. Bandelier afterwards
delivered the papers to the Swiss authorities.
MM. Bandelier and Gros had brought the whole affair
before the public in the newspaper ; public opinion was
roused, and the Diet forced to investigate the affair.
Cheli Conseil, before the Judge, repeated all his former
statements. It is true that the whole affair reposed upon
the confession of Cheli ; but the papers of Bertola proved
that he was a spy, as he confessed Conseil's connection
with the Prefet of Besancon ; and the letters of M. Jacobin
proved his connection with the Ministry of the Interior at
Paris. The interview between Conseil and M. de Belle-
valle is proved to be the passport and lists of suspected
foreigners which he wrote for him ; and the preceding in-
terview between the Duke of Montebello and Conseil is
proved by the perfectly correct description of the rooms
and their furniture which Conseil deposited in the minutes.
There can be no doubt the proces of Conseil was an at-
tack upon the honour of the Duke of Montebello ; if the
whole be an invented story, the French Government has a
right to send troops into Switzerland ; but if the whole be
true, and proved to be true, the French troops might just
as well stay in Paris, and arrest M. Jacobin, Nib) was the
instigator of these infamous proceedings.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
GIACINTO MIGLIARI.

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