The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-11 00:00:00

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or even a slight acquaintance ?—A. I should not have
otherwise ; because I did not believe that Alibaud would
do what he said ; I looked upon him as mad. It was not
worth while to compromise him by an information, which I
considered to be quite inopportune.
The witnesses called on behalf of the prisoner were then
heard.

M. Brunelle declared that he was a friend of Alibaud's ;
that he had known him in the 15th light infantry ; that he
was an honest man and a good soldier.
M. Armant Fraysse, silk manufacturer, had been shop-
man with Alibaud in a commercial house. Alibaud en-
tered the army, and he had then lost sight of him. About
six months ago he had again met with him at Paris, and got
him a place with a merchant ; he had always conducted
himself with honour and probity. He knew as a fact that
Alibaud had once thrown himself into the water to save
the life of a child.

Several other witnesses also gave the prisoner a good
character for morality and quiet behaviour.
The Court rose at half, past five, and adjourned till
next day at 10.

COURT OF PEERS-SATußvir.

At a quarter to eleven o'clock, Alibaud was brought in
from tte prison of the Luxembourg by an escort of six
municipal guards, among whom he took his seat as yester-
day. He appeared as composed as on the preceding day.
On reaching the dock, he opened a large bundle of papers,
and extracted from it a MS., which he appeared to read
very attentively. Shortly after one of his advocates entered
the hall, and Alibaud engaged in conversation with him
until the Court was announced. It was then 11 o'clock.
Alibaud rose with the remainder of the assembly in respect
for his judges, and looked at them filing before him with the
utmost sang froid and visible carelessness.
The appeal being concluded, the President observed that
all the witnesses having been heard on the preceding day,
it now remained with the Attorney-General to present his
rcquisitory.

M. Martin Du Mond accordingly rose and said that he
might abstain from adducing further proofs of the guilt of
the prisoner, his avowal being sufficient for his conviction.
M. Martin then blamed the conduct of M. Corbiere in the
affair. He regretted that the legislation did not allow him
to order the arrest and prosecution of that witness for not
revealing Alibaud's intention to the Magistrates ; but• he
hoped the severe admonition of the President would be a
sufficient warning, and racal him to better sentiments. M.
M. then endeavoured to fasten on the factions, as well as on
the miserable condition of the regicide, the crime he had per-
petrated. " But," said he, " they never will succeed in
overturning the present order of things, nor the dynasty we
have raised to the throne, protected as it is by the love of
every Frenchman."•

M. Ledru said. that when he was chosen by the Presi-
dent of the Court for that difficult task, he had at first
hesitated, but, having at last accepted, he resolved to do his
duty to the fullest extent. When he repaired to Alibaud's
cell he found him calm and reading over the bill of indict-
ment. Alibaud greeted him, and told him that he was
guilty and could not be defended : " But," said he, " my
head alone will not suffice for my prosecutors ; 'they have
pryed into try whole life ; they must have my honour and
that of my family ; it is that and that alone you must de-
fend." M. Ledru then read a note Alibaud had drawn out
for his defence, &c. He was born of poor but honest
parents. One of his uncles had received a sword of honour
in the armies of the Republic—the Star of the Brave had
been placed on his breast by Napoleon, by whom he had
been appointed Commander of Cavalry, So much for the
illustration of his family. His father was a carman, but
having been robbed on the road of some valuable articles
confided to, his care, he was imprisoned by the rich individuals
to whom they belonged, and being obliged to sell all he pos-
sessed to satisfy them he was completely ruined. 'When lie
recovered his liberty, he established a small coach between
Nismes and Narbonne, but soon after some rich capitalists ran.
another in opposition to his, and 'tie was again destroyed.
He then set up a small inn which he has kept ever sioce.
M. Ledru here related a number of facts creditable to Ali-
baud. On two occasions, he had saved, once a young girl,
and the other time a fellow soldier, who were on the point
of drowning. In Strasbourg he defended alone three of
his comrades assailed by a crowd of people, by whom they
were nigh being killed. His act was culpable in a military
point of view, and he was accordingly removed from the
compagnic d'clite in which he was placed, into a flank com-
pany. In July, 1830, he left his regiment not to fire on the
people, but he did not either fight against his comrades.
He prevailed on his bed companion to quit his regiment for
the same motive, and the wound he received, in the three
days, was while standing behind a barricade as an amateur.
At 22 he began to "study Spanish, and acquired that lan-
guage in a few months. Full of the glory of Napoleon,
whose history he delighted in reading, he dreamt of nothing
!eat battles, and Spain being then a field opened to his pas-
sion, he proceeded to Barcelona, to aid in overturning the
Queen's Government and proclaim the republic. He then
the apology of the regicide in Cicero and Tacitus,
-0-.ose works were at an early age placed in his hands, and
.ulogized by his masters ; and concluded by an appeal in
favour to the clemency of the Court.
Alibaud afterwards rose and read, in a firm voice, his de-
,lice, which went particularly to clear his honour. He
"ndemned, in energetic terms, the conduct of the At-

.rney-General, who had, he said, debased himself by the
v:lc manner in which he had conducted the prosecution
ainst him. . He then represented that the King had vio-
-ted all his oaths and promises, that he was a tyrant, that
: people had a right to put him nut of the way. He
Alibaud) had acted as Brutus had done under similar cir-

. innstances. The murderers of Kings, he exclaimed, alone
ere held up to execration, and handed over to justice,
,vhile the Attorney-General had not a single word of in-
dignation to denounce the murderers of the people. Ali-
baud then went on to justify the doctrine of regicides,
which he maintained was a right invested in the people.
The President, however, findine, he was going on too far,
ordered: him to sit down, and refused to allow bim to pro-
ceed with his defence. In vain did the prisoner insist on
continuing, he was taken by two of the municipal guards
and forced to sit down. He anew protested against the
violence offered him, and handing his manuscript to his
Counsel, he said : " I confide you this document." The
President-ordered it to be put into the hands of the officers
of the Court. M. Ledru, after some hesitation, gave it to
M. Sajou, who brought•it to the Recorder.
M. Boujour, the second Counsel of Alibaud, rose and
recommended his client to the humanity of the Court,
which Alibaud disclaimed with indignation.
The President asked Alibaud if he had anything to add
to his defence ?

The prisoner begged to be allowed to continue his MS.
The President said that if he abstained from the expres-
sion of regicide sentiments, he might go on with his defence.
The paper was then placed into the prisoner's hand, who,
skipping over a few leaves, commenced reading anew. No
sooner, however, had he read a few lines, in which he as-
cribed to the King all the sufferings of the people, and con-
tended that it was a praiseworthy act to drain their source
by destroying their author, than the President interrupted
him, and ordered him to sit down. As he was paying no
attention to the President's injunctigin, but was proceeding
with his MS., two municipal guards seized and compelled
him to obey.
The President then announced that the public debates
were closed, and that the Court would retire into the coun-
cil room to deliberate. He next ordered the accused to
be conveyed back to prison.
Two soldiers took him under the arms and took him off.
On his way to the door, Alibeaud shook hands with a
young lady and several other persons seated in the pas-
sage. He walked with a firm pace, and betrayed no symp-
tom of emotion.

As soon as the prisoner had been removed, the Court
rose, and at a quarter to one retired into the council-room.
At two o'clock the Court.returned, and the President,
in the absence of the prisoner, proceeded to read the sen-
tence. Louis Alibeaud was found guilty of having com-
mitted an attempt against the King's life, on the 25th of
June last, and for that crime was condemned to the punish-
ment of parricides. He is to walk to the scaffold bare-
footed, in his shirt, his head covered with a black veil, and
the sentence is to be read to him on reaching the place of
execution, in presence of the people. He was, moreover,
condemned to pay the costs of the trial ! and to be executed
as soon as the Attorney-General shall think proper.

Such is the competition between the proprietors of
coaches running between Huddersfield and Manchester, that
they have issued the following announcement:—" Outside,
what you please inside, ditto I"
THE VALE OF OVOCA.—" Of all the rivers of
Ireland, the lAvonmore, in Wicklow has a course the most di-
versified and the most picturesqoe. Traversing the eastern
declivity of the great granite group of Thonelagee and Lugna-
quilla, it opens on scenes of perpetual novelty and beauty, as it
turns in succession the extremities of those numerous lateral
ranges and their intervening glens, which branch off from this
side of the main mountain-ridge. From each of these lateral
valleys descends a feeder which almost invariably enters the
head of its own glen by a cascade. Glenmacanass, Glenana-
fane, Glendaloch, and Glenmalure, in this manner, send down
their several tributaries (the last the Avenbeg) through scenery
of great and various interest, until the Avonmore, now a con-
siderable river, issues from between the wooded sides of Cro-
ghan Mora and Cronebawn, to mingle its waters with the
more peaceful tide of the Daragh, in the midst of the vale of
Ovoca, than which no imagination can conceive a sweeter
valley. It is in the wonderful variety of its course that the
great charm of the river consists. Luggelaw at his source is
a scene of sweet and dignified grandeur ; for notwithstanding
its comparatively unimposing proportions, it has all the grander
features of black waters, gray cliffs, and hanging woods, on a
sufficient scale to justify the epithet, qualified ,as it is by the
undisputed sweetness of its embosomed lawn and cottage."—
Dublin University Magazine.