The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

COUNT DE lIIONTHOLON.

The following is the examination at length of the
Count, before the President of the Court of Peers and
M. Persil
Yen were arrested on the morning of the tith August
at Boulogne ; you were with Louis Bonaparte, and,
consequently, participated in the project of overturning
the Government eFtablkhed in France by the charter
and the con,titution ?—I was arrested, or, more properly
speaking, 1 surrendei-ed. I was with the Prince, but I
did not participate in his projects. I had no other de-
sire than that of saving him and of stopping the effusion
of blood.
You, nevertheless, left London by his order, you pro-
ceeded to Margate by his order, and went on board by
his order ?—This is not quite exact. I left London
with his kslowledge and by his desire, and not his order.
This makes some diffrenee. I did not know that I was
going to Thulognc, I ti.ought 1 was going to Ostend.
It you were to go to Ostend, why did you not embark
at London ?—1 did embark at London ; there are a
great many vessels that start in that city at the same
time. The Prince had taken my place on board one of
these, and 1 did not know till 1 reached Margate that I
was-not going to Ostend.
How long had you been in London ?—From the eith
or Bth of April, I believe ; my passport can show.
During the time you were there you must have seen
Louis Bonaparte frequently and assiduously ?—I saw
him frequently, and also 'Prince Joseph (Count de
Survilliers), excepting during the last fortnight, when
a serious accident confined me to my room.
It is impossible that Louis Bonaparte did not con-
fide his projects to you?—lle did, but not that of
Boulogne ; I knew nothing of it. I can even say that
he took great care to hide it from me.
I must remind you that among the papers seized,
proclamations and others, and which, according to
Louis Bonaparte, were printed in London before the
event, there is one addressed to the inhabitants of the
department of the Pas de Calais, which was a sure in-
dication of the Prince's intentions. Another of these
documents which you signed, or are supposed to have
signed, is a proclamation to the French people, in which
your name is annexed to those of persons who possessed
the whole confidence of the Prince ?—I am supposed to
have signed those documents. I did not know them,
and heard them mentioned for the first time at Bou-
logne by the Procurcur du Roi or the Procureur Ge-
neral, who examined me.
The proclamation being read to the prisoner, he said
—" I affirm that I did not know this document, and
that the ridiculous part I am made to play in it excites
my laughter."
Still, I must make the remark that it is not probable
that Louis Bonaparte would have put your name to the
proclamation had he not depended, not only on your
devotion to him, but also on your approval.—He may
have depended on my attachment to himself and to the
memory of the Emperor, but not on my approbation.
I never lent myself to play the ridiculous part of Ma-
jor-General to an army of 40 men.
At what hour did you go on board the City ovas f Editril
burgh ?—At about three in the morning. It v sti
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on board ?—I had only
Did you not send your trunks
dark.
three days at Ostend.
besides. I expected to remain
fulfil in London on the Fri-
daya cloth bag with me, six shirts, and very few things
I had e-,•en appointments to
to do at Ostend ?—The
,had ou
In that case, wha y
person who was to
and Saurday.
that I was to transmit to the
' some information
give me ,
Prince bad ret;
Prince. • c—l do not know Lim. The
nested i.ne to see a 1
Who was this person • ,
file Prince desired me to
day at Ostend ; and if no one came, to go
remain one
wait a day there.
to Ghent, an,
person was to come to me.
A suffices to show the intimacy of your
This muv.i:iir Louis Bonaparte, and to what degree
relations
you were in his canii3ence, for the mission he entrusted
to )-ou.is evidently of the same nature with the plans he
a you know of those plans ?—The Prince
sought accomplished.--I
means of coming to France and of seizing the
cihpal s l
ever}t ci do
.-1 do not doubt it.
\on
Crown by force of arms. I tried to dissuade him from
such projects, and it is because he knew that my opinion
was opposed to his that he kept himself secret from me
to the last moment, and not only from me but from his
uncle. He has deceived us both. I am convinced
that if Count de Survilliers bad not met with an ac- Joseph Pedder, committed from Lutton
Penitentiary Mr. . , ,
cident, and had remained in London, Prince Louis convicted unuer the Game Laws i
In the course of the week arrived at the Bedford
on the 15th inst.,
would not have landed in France. On the Sunday or
, This young man is in .13 -3 year, and has paid
sentenced to be kept to hardb.lal,D,ocir for two calendaran
Monday the Prince must have received some intel- ni
- °netdss. that: nineteen visits to this house of correction, and,
ligence from France that decided him, for I cannot
noeli;:liCve, has occasionally visited others.—lleriford Re.
Bart., leas been appointed
believe that he could have deceived me t o that
former.w
I must add, that the Prince had always s
d those Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General Burrell, of the 18th
only come after those of his uncle Joseph,
Count de Survilliers that his (Louis's)
Joseph, and
could Sir Harry Darell,
Foot, commascling the forces against CantOn and its de
of his futhet, the ex-King of Holland.
Was the uniform you Wore the same as you had pendencies.