The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-13 00:00:00

.THE EVIDENCE.

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The Duke de-Duras deposed to Ney's audience.
---vf the King, when he said he hoped tobring back
Buonaparte its an iron cage. - •,::
The Prince de Poix confirmed this deposition.
Count de Scey, Prefeet.of Besancon, spoke to
the loyalty of the town upon the arrival of Mar-
, shal Ney, who gave him orders to put aside all
the motley in-the public chest... --
Marshal Ney.--I deny this. - •
1:1. de Scey.—The bond ot 'iv;otok francs sigmed
. by hilt: in the War DepatTill'eupc,:f
Lieut.-Gen. Count Boariliont.a;as the next
%vinyls, and deposed to the folliowing effect :
I have already wade at.Lillechfdeclaration ; hut
the commiseration naturally attached to a great
misfortune inducel me then simply•to reply to the
questions put to me in virtue of the commission of
examination. I lolvestice learned that Marshal
Wry has asserted, that 1 t)ras•of opinion that it
Was right to read the 'proclaniatiOn to the troops,.
which \v is r at bons,le-Saulnier on the•l4til
of ALlcch. 'lois assertion of Marshal key's af-
fects my honour, and Tnnipels tne to come to ex-
-1)111)160os. If they add any weight to the crime
of which 'the Marshal is accioed, it will haVe. been
his owls fault,
• Up to the 14th of March, the. orders given by
Marshal Ney, and by nia transinitted to the
troops, appeared to the.coaforurable to the inte-
rests of the King. On tire morning Of the 14th,
Barfin Capet, Prefect of the Ain, arrived at
Loos-le-Saulnier., .11e- told nre tilt town of
Bourg was insurgent : that the 68Th regiment had
assumed the tri-coloured cockade, in -spite of the
Cc:metal who commanded the ilepartnient; and a-
ttic superior officers of the regiment, ‘‘ho, up to
the last moment, opposed it with all their force.
.We %vent to communicate this news to the Mar-
s oil ; he said little to us.
In the morning of the 14th,
.theSth regiMent of
horse ehasseurs having arrived, the Marshal or-
defect me, to draw them up in, the square-, and
to
put all the troops: under anus, hecause he: wished
to :Teak to- them. I returned to..the Marshal's
lodgings, and (icing, alone witlehiin, he said to
me, Very %s ell! my dear General, you have seen
these proclamations of the Emperor:, they ate
• well done : they must produce :a great effect.—
Without doubt, replied 1 ; care must be taken that
the troops be not -allowed to read them ; there are
'phrases in them which would have great influence
on the soldiers ; for instance, this one: victory
marches at the charge-step. The Marshal said to
me. But comrade; were you not surprised at
seeing yourself deprived of one half th.e Corn-
of your division ? At seeing that the
troops Were made to march by two battalions
and three squadrons Very well the case is
precisely the same throughopt ati France. All
this was arranged, we were all agreed about it,
three months ago. Had you been at Paris, you
would have known it .as well as myself ; all the
troops are disposed in their march in such a way,
that they will successively arrive to escort the Em-
peror The Kiug must have quitted Paris if. he
does not Aelit it, he will be carried off. How-
ever, continued the Marshal,- no harm- shall be
clone to the King ; woe to who shall harm
the King! He is a .:ottel-Pritiee, who never in-
jured any one ; woe to ,himWho'should do hint
injury !•
I said to the Marshal : Whatever happen, no-
thifig shall induce me to fight against the King.
lie replied :_ I insist upon your -doing it.; I am
certain that, the Emperor will_treat you well :
however, you are at liberty to decide fOr your-
self ; it, you will not, tieueral Lecolirbe will go
Neith me. _ ,

tjencral Lccourbe then came in : thaMarslial
said to hint, I was telling.the Count ate Bourtnont
that all was prepared in such a nianoer that the
tro.ops 7 woultt teach the Eanpuror: the King had
quitted usury; : nu itaroa was to be clone to hint;
wue .to the wan who should du any he is a good,
Prince, Nut, be will be sent on boartl.a ship.
What now remains for us to Ito? Join 7131194a-
parte. -What ! said Leco,,!rt,c, 3 hare. no reason
to rally untie' that .... The King never did me

l•• \ Y •
any thing tut genii, anti tie other 11CriltlIg hilt:-
harm. Beside, 1 have honour, and theraore
will not join Bilotl49:t.‘; ; and I too,- said the -
:Marshal, and thereturr. IL will join.hitu. ,Norpore .-
humiliation 'for me, • I. will inot have Ty .viN.
come back every nigliKwithl.eat4 in her cyes, .00'.
account of ill treattistit.
.At last,
,after a discussion of: about half an . ,
tour, he took up the ri•oelamation front the ta‘ble,
and said, This is what taw going.to tend rte the
....••.
troops.
General Leconrbe and myself fe t assured, that.
the troops, who hitherto mid no int,entioolof re-
jitining littonapAte•,:Woutti bt...nting.lo;iltalieu t hen
the Marshal- should propose. to them, to gass over
to his side i': for. lie was ode oftyltse men who'
inspired the soldiers with :,the gee;Atest confidence
and attaelonent, , We teOlved, .therefore, to go .
upon the pura4e, ict-see-iiitat 'effect it vtimitti•pro-
duce. In fact, the troops •sliditted ." Five l'Ein-
pereur !" and iiisperseirtgeid'lrlre •ov'er;tiic town
in disorder. . .. .
'I should add, that it 4ppearettlo metlie Marshal
.iill'lst-,liave:lleerv.:taite, .iletertniaell:. befinretacid to
take the prt,olll9onaparte; bet;auseharlAit (iota
atter having read the ProclaiiiAion, he wore- on
- his breist- the -plate" of the Legion of 49i-Kii.r,-1
whit- an eagle, and, besides.„ the
‘great decorgion
, with the•clligy tf thionaparte. ,As ate'Marshal
tail hardly pretend that he broilOit thiS tq LOps-i:
le-Sauliiia fw MI,: -King's service; it JUUSI, be evi-!
dent that lte,lta.d decided beforehand.
The President.—Prisoner, have you any Obser-!
rations to wake ?

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'Marshal Ney, with warnith.—lt wonld aPpear
that Count liourunine has karited hiS thethe ex
mutely well. He probably- _imagined that. we
should never see one" another anti: that t
should be disirosed of with the
.sa.ate. raPiditY
Labedoyere. '1 have no oratorical talents, but I
speak the truth. It is unfortunate for toe .that
Lecoitibe is mit !Wm: but 1 ,appeal to hint:in a
higher place than: this, before God, who hears us.
These Gentlemen, -Lecourhe and Bourmont; stood
opposite to me; I said to General Konronint, " I
invite you,'in the name of honour", to state what
you think ot this proclatnation;''. Gen-. Bourmont,
without any preface, took up the proclamation, and
said, " Marshal, you may rend this to the troops."
(1-Icre Geri. Bout mtint.fliade a sign 'with, his hand
that the assertion was.falsej ';,,Crieneral Lecourbe
merely said, " There have Wag, been rumours of
ail Ois." If Ih. 13uurmont'.,:had thought that iny
conduct was criminal or he 'et Uhl, on
• leaving my house, hate posted agnard at:-the door
and .made me his prisoner : I was quite almre—l
had not even a,s,,addle lui6e to save niyself,—M.
Bourmont canui at),(l dined with ine the same day,
with the superior. Officers.; It Mast he. at:know-
ledwd :that I wirsigrave ttni.silent at It is
nsnal S.4li occasions to give toasts ; I said no-
Abougll the-re• Was much gaiety at table. I
bid these ‘gentl-Men good • atternooni-and shut
myself upi ittylioW;e. This.
A Peer.--
-I ask ot the prisoner,
,tlie nitrites of
the emissaries who came to hint tin the part ot
Buonaparto •
-Marshal Ney.:l will implipte no_ope. •
The late Genet al Lecoorbe's depositiOn was
rta-d,' and •it corresponded tritli that ot NI. de

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Tlic-rest of the evideoce of) v<lcited to
the decoration,' Ole Eagle wh'cii the Marshal,
-wore on the 11th Hach,, and to the'llisjio6itioti of
the istrovs. Ajottrif„d till to-morrow.

SECOI).DAY.
SITTING OF TkIE STO DECEMBER.

St!veral witnesses deposed to 'Ole c(ildliet of
Newest Landau, •v!iicii had not then hoisted the
tri•colottred flag,
.b!tt that Ney caused it to be
hoisted. " _ .

4atavdi deposed that lie first, On, the 7th
March, Infor►ned Ncv of Buonaparfe's landing.
Tl►c Marshal said, 6! Oh 1. uiy God,. what a'inis-
fortnne !" ' • _

• • The ll,ike de Mailic sp. oke 'to the loyal ,conclact
of Nev on the 9th of - • _

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Another witness, to laic fleelarinc, on the 12th
that .I.3tionaparte was a:. ltisit nhin,_ '. _ •
-Lientenant-Genertl.Coiitivile.ildelet.wa,s called,
and declared that lie served under.the'Manshal's
~. • . ,
itirderS. . . _

The Peesident invited gin to~wive lris deposition
upon the facts of the a.censation:
Witness.—What facts'?
those contained in,Che accusa-
. ,
tion, and .‘vhielt thay. ke.per4op:al
The Witness deposed, that hp has receiyed but,,
one letter from the accused, 0-P
tiny -where the- ips,Oreetion had brukeu
out, and where it vas impossible to stop ,There
Was 2i had spirit in all the troops-;- eveirthe Gen-
dartnerie was hadi

M. Berryer requested the Presi4nt. to :ask the
witness What was the political- situation of hi's
.cummand, and of that of Marshal Ney..
Witness.—The insurrection of: buoitaparte:s_partisans was 'general, and the minnrity of good
servants of the King was evident.- was the
samein the country parts;which,openly announe-
ed the intention of joining Btionaparee....
M. Berryer.—Do you tainli Marshal.Ney, with
the forces ho4bad, Could have suceessitilly opposed
the progress of Buonaparte ? ,
Witness.—No : with the four incomplete regi-
ments he had it was not-pmsible.•.
-His Excellency MarShalDavoust was now

ed in. . .
I. Derryer.—Marshal Davotist, Prince of Eck'-
mull; was charged by the COminisSiim of the Pro-.'
visional Government to stipulate the Convention
of the 3d July. lle may! have important recol-
lections on that head.
'the Prince of Ecktuuhl the night of. the
2d July all was peepared fur lighang ; *the eont.7
mission, had sent.. an 'order to come to an wttler;•,
standing with .the Allied Generals; tiring, had•-at.
ready begun ; I sent to the advanced- posts to stop.
the effusion Of blood; the 'Cornmission'had re-
mitted the project of a convention ; I added .to
it all that related to the demarcation of.. the
njili-
tary added: to it artiele..s relative to the
satety,of'.persOns • and property, and :I specially
charged, the .Counni‘sioners to. break. oft the -con-
ferences if thOse dispositions were not rat died.
intreltt Excellency to state
where- ‘ver.y the heaa.2quarters of the 1- plies:
The Priuce.7—Mauhal. Blucher WAS. at St.

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Coml. t the Duke of Wellington. was, 1 think, at
Gotiesse. lie had repaired. to St. Cloud, ‘vhenAie;
,was infOrtned of the.confereuees. It was thtilei
.
theConveutioo was signed. •at
~ Berryer asked the Prince if the Convention!
10 :not been gr.anted'in the manner in whieb it
Wds.4manded for • the advantage of Paris, what
were, his hopes, resistance
•Therrinee.--4 had 25,000 cavalry, and from 4
fei 500 pieces of cannon ; and if the French had
been quick in flying, they had been quick in rally-
iog under the walls of Paris.
-M. Berryer, beg the Prince •to _state, what
..etas the sense which be and the Provisional 60,
, vernmeut.-atttrOted to the 12th .•
M. •Bellart (the Attorney -General),,s—%-.The
King's Cononissioners object to this indiscreet
queStion. -The discussion, 1 see it well, will turn
upon the capitulation. Imit
.the act exists as it
~
exists.- The -opinion of the Prince cannot change:
it. An. Act cannot he altered by declarations.
Marshal Ney.--The declaration was so protects:.,
lag that it was upon that I relied. Wit hont
is it,to be believed tliat would not have pr%firted ~
dying sword in hand ?• it is in contradictO to
,this •capitnation that I was arrested, antlic, was
. utm .the faith of it that I remained in Franceni:l
President.--The meaning of the Cttpitulattota ms
to he.found in the document itself. The opinion
which. each individual may-have of its sense, is of
no impOrtance: (4- the discretionary
power conferred upon me, I decide the question
• shall not be hilt. • • • •
Count Bondy,, formerly Prefect of the Seine,
was the 35th witness.
The President.—You -are called as to your-
knoWtedge of the facts relative to the military in-
eluded in the Capitulation of Paris.
Witness.r.--The principal basis of the Conven-
tion was the
.public tranqiiillity, the seeurity of
Paris, the respect of persons and pronertsl
was with e. view. to these objects that it was`ileaWO
tip and proposed to the Generals BlireEte and
,Wellington. There were sonic discttsstotts on
these points, bwt no difficulty was made relating.
to the .12th article, which wa, accepted in a Oman-
ner' calculated to give the most complete assjiraliCC
to those coniprehended under it.
A.Peer.-1 beg the President to ask the 'Prince
of -Eckinulli and 1I.• Bondy so state On their ho-
nour, whether they that immediat'ely after
the Capitulation it was in the power of the .King
to enter his capital, because if it was. not, he
could not have entered in virtue of .the•Capitula-
don, and in that case cannot be botoulloa
Another Peer.--This is not the period ior
.con-
sidering that question ; it ought to he postponed
for another tune and. another place. ;Such yteS-
tions ought not to be agitated:Jo a-public sitting.
Guiletninot, the 36th witness, was,oalleci-lii.
President.—You are called into. depose t 0115.4
part you had in the capitulation of P.cryis
to the military:, -
Witnes.---As Chief of the Staff, I w-asslehaVed,'
.s
with stipidating,tor an amnesty ill favour of pei
sons, -whatever ruight be their op pions; theii; or:
flees, or their conduct. This point was granted
without any dispute. orders were to- break
otf the conferenees had any refusal been made.
"I his article induced him to lay dowu his. arms.
M. Dupin.—This Convention .Was military.
W 1 y %%Tye Messrs.. Boigmmy and Bondy joined With
yoo •
Answer.—They stipulated for the civil persons
as I did for the Military.
The evidence being closed, the Attorney-Ge-
neral, M. Bellart, addressed the Chamber to the
following effect : .‘•!
When, in the depth or deserts,-formerly etiter-.
ed by populous cities, time traveller, conducted by:
curiosity, perceives the sari remains of thefeelen.
orated monuments constructed in remote ages,, in
the false hope•of escaping the scythe of time, and
which are now only shapeless ruins of fleeting
dust, he cannot avoid feeling a' profound metan-
enoly on thinking on -what becomes of human
. pride and its works. •
Flow much more cruel is it then, foe lihn who
loves inankiod, to see the ruins of a great' dory
fallen into disgrace by its own fault, and which took
pains to tarnish,• qty crimes, the honours-. with
'Which it was before surrounded ? •

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When this misfortune .grrives, we are' instinc-
tively indigtiant at the caprices of fortune, and
we would wish, by an ametiecting sort of contra-
diction, to coninite to: honour thatwhich once
'Shone with such brilliant itestre, and, at the same
to detest and de,Spise that ,which caused such
frightful evils.
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Such is the .tWo.-foldimpresion which hii"Nta-
jesty's Commissioners confess they feel on the or-
opisiop of thisileptorable trial. th Goifithat
we , could reaoguise two distinct peis'i)ns in', the
accused! 'That, liimever, is ~impossible.-' 'He
.who for a time :had covered himself with military
glory is the who has' become the most•guilty iI
of citizens. IYhat signifies to the.Coinitry his fa-
tal gray, which he has entirely' extinguished by
a treason,. follawed--hy a catastrOp.heto_barr, um,
happy country, on Which, even now-, we
_hardly
dare to rest our attention ? He hai clone the State
service : it was he, also, who contributed the
most, powerfully to its destruction. There is no-
thing which-can extenuate a crime of this nature.
There is no feeling thatought not to give plaCe to
the horror which such an enormity inspire. .
Brutus' forgot that he was 'a father, ir} Orde.r to,
see nothing but his country. The sacrificeliat, a
,father made to his country, which was revolting
to theleelings of. nature, the Government, which
is the protector of the public safety, is much more
hound to make, in spite of the murmurs of an old
admiration which had been mistaken in its object,.
The facts to which' your particular, attention is
called, untoroinately for the accused, unite a gt,:at
simplicity' with an entire proof. I shall run over
them rapidly, without observations ; and such is
their nature, that, from a rapid expos, the most
imposing mass of charges will result.
I am ready to give hint this advantage on the
present discussion. All that he has not confessed
in the amplest manner, we consent to abandon.
It is from -hiS own words, and his own confessions,
that we are content to demand of you to judge
the accusation and the accused. (The Ati.orney-‘
General here rapidly retraced the events which.
took place since ,the ith of and noticed
6ei:ercas concession which had been auaCle cf

nntexarnining into the circumstsuces ?receding

theluight of tae 13th )
--i?li6ute are to believe him, he had not even (brill'
"ectAtis .decision on that fatal night ; the had taken
tolue time to deliberate, as ii to deliberate in such
circumstances was not the commencement of

crime !
' lie calls General Lecourbe and General Boor'
moot ; be consults them. Those two Generals
endeavoured to dissuade him, but could not

succeed.
'You remember the contradiction which he .gavil
to General l3ourmont. You remember the Solenni
tone-with 'which he appealed, to the declaratioll
of General Lecourbe. lle has said, "libov6
where we shall all meet, T w ill not fear to call ore
'his testimony:7 • . .
1 'ell ! this testimony was reduced to writing;
it has appeared ; you have seen, that General Loe'
courbe agreed with General BOttrinont.: Getters!'
.:Lecourbe declares that he 'made refleations to 111.
-Marshal on the part which be had taken.
But there are still other witnesses who confiro
,Abe veracity of
.11.1, de .BourmOnt. There exist vell
,m9terial proofs. •If 11,-de Bourmont had had the
tli4ayalty to advise him to march in a perfirlio°9
course, how
.did it happen that they separated ?-",
How did. it happen
,that hours after, Gesell
1-1-beratoot qu'jtted Marshal Ney Why slid
slut Ney himself, five nays afteri-comprebendtbig
faithful friend, this devoted confidant, in the ordef
of arrestation %illicit he signed on the Ifftli ?
If they had been agreed, the Marshal would ovn'
have prothuldated- the order to arrest M. tie Bout
wont
_wherever be was to•be met witl.:.7;-
, However' that-: May be, 'on'the Morning of tilts
14th, at General in Chief, a Marshal of Fnioceicir,
vexed with the favours of his King,: who.receia`
so important a proof of his kindness, caused g 9
insidious proclamation to be reatito the troops'
he excites his wh6le army
to a perfilEduS step, t°
a base desertion :' be causes it to pass. overJo
ranks of the Usurper,- whoin he bad..promised
zo
bring alive in an iron cage.
Whatever explanation may :be given 'such 11fl
action, the existence-of iris sufficient to coo3r
tote a crime.•
. The accused has Said that he s'ufferwl hiinself°
be carried away by-an invincible torrent. • ,u
Iron have not :feirgottem deposition, 041'4
penetrated rye with respect :-- a deposition, strell
that if the success of the charge depended.on
-Ong- questions to.. the witness, I do n0t.1.001-,..
these' questions would not have died upon my'
The first Aid-de-Camp of Itte Marshal hes-t°
~yot, with a piety that could not have escaped y0t.,1
that baying long served under the eyes of l',l"rsi?,.o
Ney, owing bins great gratitude, and his et't,l,.
affection, he arrived on the 14th at Lons-le-S°4l
pier. He dined with his General ; .bite not he 4,...
able to anprove of his conduct, he feigned 40'04
itesS, and retired. Have you entirely appreei'losi..
The language 'of honour breathed in such a deli
`.bolt. theta
'The Aid-de-Camp retired : what was tbeiii4
have prevented the General from at le:ist teeter
what his Aid-de-Camp was elide to do ?
such -seducer was not able to draw-olVtreat
Aid-de-Camp : lie never hesitated . )lotyield to the influence of his Chief ; atul ii",„111t,
Marshal Ney the power, in the night ft.°“s
I3ih to. the 14th,..t0 resist the sogg"ti(ll, scg
sttaugers Ile did not imitate tile exalter
by a simple officer. ,40
Let. the Marshal no longer speak of the d°"7,o
there might be in endeavouring to restrilia, 0
army. Danger, however imoliaent it waY bc
o
no excuse for a French soldier. St
Shall I speak to you of that order a orre.thfal
sued by-the Marshal against officers and 11'040
functionaries, in which ordee be coutpletteersis
General Lecourbe, Count de nourmont, Geool,
Delort and Jarry, Messieurs dennetiere, Puroo
Dubarel, Comte de Scey, and M.:Clouet,
Aide-de-Camp.
lam far from wishing to make Aeltitilec• c btca
against Marshal Ney, of all posterior act4l atscf,
were the necessary consequences of the 'l's
committed by him on the 14th. foot,
Once he committed that act, once Ire'lt.'" „ttcr
ed his resolution irrevocably, it becamea 1.1t.'
• of necessity to. him to continue to march 11
paths of rebellion. . cirri"
Whatever may become of the vestion L•t of
-•
meditation, nevertheless, it is certain, wge3„st
terwards the Marshal gave himself up to the.
of Buonaparte with an entire derotion' he fed'
As soon as lie had rejoined him at. Paris,
ses
ceived a mission to examine' all the fortresii, de
..the North. There,- in eyety place, be I._,°"ii„er;
Glared' his sentiments in favour of the Vs big
110
tof
not content with speaking of his fidelity d; the
person, and of propagating disloyalty tatty wake
legitimate sovereign, he alloWed himself iost tiro
g
I use of the most outrageous expressions a
King. of VW
It must be confessed, that into this setnanaer;
son he has thrown a great frankness
.0.1,1 i-didt,,‘"
for long after this time, he took deliAtt it' oi.loc"
itig biunselLin similar effusions atr,ait7st the ,
who had honoured hint with his confide.teg', ft IS,
I shall here conclude my first statemeoreiiibt''
because t feel the most profinnid convictie;otiff
• it is impossible to say any thing which ee'elien to
Marshal Ney : it is because I am unable
it bri/4
conjecture ,what arguments his defender 0
forward. • • Cottns
lam ignorant, of what palliatives the 3OO,
for the Marshal will bring forward, to entic,toi
to explain an action that is, in its nature,lloo
plicable, and on which I could have wisbeterielp
the accused had. spoken with an entire sit)-cweicit
and a contempt for that species of chicane
,Atio
has been used, both on account of the i“:cief
that he has filled in the world, and the ehg':-
that he has formerly displayed. yid"
I wait for the observations: that shall be op
and 1 think were can be none which, will not
ltd
tnitliet opfrivaitltegeeasovf ceelpuityaittiloga..
r
After a few observations from the dc.ent
the accused, the Sitting
day. shall then delve
was adjourned to the l'

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TAIRD DA I'.

SITTING OF DECEMBER 6.
'°f
M. Bauer now entered upon the Dere° the
MarshAl Nil,. He expressed his gratitude te
12;:i,ng for allowing, a free and public trial,t°

Itti

prisonet•, anti to the Chamber, for thd;i'

,of

Bence in granting time sufficient for preparatlOttot
He drew a picture of the rapid progress of Rattl-!
naparte, impelled by the blind enthusiasin of the
People, and facilitated. by the reads; defections)
the soldiery, and founded on-tbati-the prestunptrivii
that the Marshal, far from being able to direct
the current of opinion, was hurried "fOrsrard by its
irresistible impetuosity. Far from being Infln6
Med by that vanity imputed in the act of accu-
sation; he shewed, that, honoured as the-Marshal
Lad been by the Royal fa4our; and proudly emi-
nent as he then stood in general opinion, it
dust have been his interest to consolidate that
authority under which he then flourished. •4` Why
then," asked the Counsel, " should the. case of
'Alarshal Nev stand isolated from the mass 4de-
:feet/on 1". He dwelt on the sentiinents 'expressed
.I.!'y the Plenipotentiaries for the internal safety.ot .
erance ; these were -particularly addressed to. the
Marshal. He uudertook to prove, first, that the
Marshal had not acted, with premeditation; and,
.secondly, that, there was no law 'applicable to the-.
..crime imputed to hint. • He arrived at the facts;
-81111 first those which preceded the 14th of Mareh..
Ile represented Buonaparte marching from Ca aims
to Lyons.; traversing the space, in ten days, sin.-
•rounded by a blind but enthusiastic multitude,
lie cited the JOurnals of the day. They stated,
:that Buonaparte's emissaries •bad spread thethselves
':every where, that they eiceited the people to re-
volt, and the soldiers to sedition. This state of
'things was what the address of the Deputies called,
•en the Ifith of the month, an alartuitig crisis.• It
Ott be denied that the Marshal was at
Lyons, in the midst of a frightful amass of Ills-
sention and anarchy. He afterwards asked, if,.
subsequently to the 14th of March, any cul-
pability could be attached to the acts done
tinder this fatal influence—under this fright-,
fill empire 2 It is proved that the side of unit-
ing himself' with Buonaparte was that for whiCh.
the Marshal had 'the greatest erepogoat4e;-,-.-.'
ale recalled to mind that the Marshal had ot`r the
April, 1814, said to the Tyrant that the:;
• troops Would no -longer fight for him, nor follOw
hint beyond the
„Loire. He cited a letter o the
[UarshatWhich• recalled the soldiers to their duty
"to the King. It was in this state that the-Marshal
14 all karat the return of Buonaparte. M. de
lournront, WhO, said the Advocate, does not up-
-19"F• a very propitious. wittress -for the Marshal,
said.hicnself that Buonaparte Would not have par-
doned what he. bad done, and tbat the Marshal
replied; Perhaps befOre six FM-friths he will ofd
"with my head. lle piissed the act .of accosa7
*jou, disatissed it. He proved that Buona-
parte could not elevate the Marshal to greater
wours than the King had done. . . •
He-recalled the services .orthe'Marslial, and
asked it he could longer have risked his glory With
• Madman -(incense).- He then went into a 1'91144,
detail, all tending to prove the glories of -t4
and his 'zealous fidelity to the.King4 9g to,
the 'light of the 13th. He then arrived ;Mai' this
period. 'There are, in political, a's,7i.it!
fatal
Inotal nature,. events whose inexplicable caUses
4etnS to be 'reserved. for the disceroment -of
Posterity, alone ; such were the circumstances
'gar -MMshat .'Ney 'at that time.- Buonaparte
• aped irons the. Isle of Elba ; those • who
--4:44.eht._ _to have wie.!clied this audacious matt'
teemed to have forgotten bin—they had not seen
Ini had touched the French soil, all Eu.-
. tope was stripifted; and how could Marshal Ney
alone defend himself from this sentiment 2 On the
14th of March, the chance of Buonaparte's sue-.
tess was •oulv an enigma for Marshal Ney : he
lineup the entry into Grenoble and to Lyons:. 'He
then painted the Marshal as a stranger to:poli-
tical calculations, as he always has been ;
,he only.
knew to fight against exterior enemies, and to der:
fend the territory. The Marshal no longer 'was.
brasier of his resolutions, .and every writer of
tounnon sense agreed that all actions Clone in this
state were not to be attributed either to the good
or ill of him who did'
'TheAdvocate then commented on various other
points of evidence, and scouted indignantly the
ter-is
L. in which be had been reported to have •
spoken of the King. The first part of the defence
tlee!' terminated
'the Advocate continued t believe,! have
"u4Pletely justified the Marshal.from. all the
anterior and posterior to ;the 14th of
March last: you have seen him, in April 1814',
Iliet"thlg an abdication to the most absolute
mein---ate abdication which we could hardlyitave
-taped. You •have 'seen him, finally;• the up-
light accuser of the faults of the 'Usurper at the
battle Or Waterloo, and afterwards, in his letter
..t!) M. Fondle, obeying the gove.t.ionent,
i2ing hid coontry." He:then .proceeded to. del-,
. 'iclope the legal arguments of -the Case.. After
Various remarks, he recalled the Treaty of 1814,
and the resolution of Congress, of 13th M.lrch,
Which 'commenced with these word,s,t' " The
wers, firmly resolved to maintain the Treaty. of
Faris, Bt., . are resolved to lend- to.-the King of
•rrance all the alas necessary to re-",establish tran-
9ninity in his States," &c. consequence, the
;il44"ee was' renewed, with the King. On thes
25th, they corroborated this. new Treaty—ail the
• . 9,Were concurred iii it-
liellart.--4 cannot suffer that another scan-
' tlal shall be yet •added to' this canoe,: We are
French—we proceed according to FrenClLlaw: ;
all the rest is useless and scandalous. They would
• ,bltild upon a Convention Aloneita raris, ht which
• the King partook not, • .
Tire Chancellor• Stated that the Peers had de-
. treed that the Military •Conveirt ion was not to he
• admitted in the defence. The Advocates were
invited to keep themselves within these bounds.
111: Dapiti.—" To prove to you the high respect
•'We entertain for the decision of. the Chamber, we
shall Mot speak in opposition to.thearretnow ino-
tiounced but I supplicate the Court to receive
_ one. observation in• point of _fact. The Marshal
is not only under tio protection of. the French
tarps, but also nnder that of the rights rfnations.
relia man' in heart, the fklarshal is no longer so,
"Y the Treaty of the 20th November. Saar-Louis
!s Ito longer our territory. 'the Marshal may' (h)
what he pleases, butt!'thus acquit toy conscience."
' shal Ne ith vehemence)-- '' Yes, I arm
a ftenclonan—auth I die a Frenclonan I—l
rtittest, under favour, that
.you tvitl hca'4Uf'l.
.bare to say,--(lIe opened a isaver.)-:,;-§o'$:att

my tlefence seemed free---t receive that they
shackle it. .1 thank my 4dvo'cates for what they
:have done; for what they Are -ptepai•ed still to
butl etlerkat thehr to cease, "rut her than de-
fend tne imperfectly. I,w!ottld preter not being at
de!entled, than only the semblance of a
defence..
. _

jam accused. against the . faith of Treaties;
it-is not permitted 11)4'1 claim them: 1 will act
like 'Moreau, and appeal to Europe and posterity.".
' He was interrupted by the Atto6f6y-General.
• M. Bellart.--If the Ministers and fhe
sinners of the King deserve to be reproached, it is
for having suffered too lOng what.,their duty as
subjects ought. to have matte thent put an end to.
What 'After having used, not theliherlyot de-
fence, but a real licentiousness,--aiter having
established principles destructive of all civi-
lized society, 'principles that would induce
A belief that a General of an army, tit the
head of the troops he commands,. is bound
duty to desert with- his whole troops, and to
pass over to the enemy rflther than preserve his
fidelity to his Sovereign, if .he find too many ob-
lit'acles to the fulfilling his duty as.a subject; af-
terall this, I say, they bold this intolerable lan-.
' inane. We have suffered this out of respect to the
liberty we would allow the Marshal. lint under
pretext of defending him, ought it to be allowed
that notions most foreign to the trial should be
introduced.? We have-given the -accused all the
time, and more than the time,. necessary to bring
forward his means of defence.
The President.—Gentlemen, defenders- of, the
accuied, continue the defence by confining yonr-
selves within the circle marked out fOr you. The.
Chamber 'of Peers in its wisdom will appreciate
the means you shall deeneto be most suitable. .
Marshal Ney.—l forbid my Connsel'frolu say-
ing a woM more. Your Excellencv•will give what
orders you please. The Chamber may judge me;
.hut I forbid my Counsel to speak unless they are
permitted to make use •of all the means in their
pnWer.
CA profound silence reigned for a short. time in
The ChanibM:.
M. Bellart,- after a conference with the King's
MinisterS, •rose.—We have a right, and it is our
duty to refute the captious means that have been
resorted to ; but since the. I\larshal renounces all
furiher.defeoce, we renounce the tight of reply.
I 'shall' now present the requisition, upon which.
Ithe Chamber will retire to deliberate.