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FRENCH PAPERS.

[From the Moth; of Oct. 13.]
'CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 11.—There is a report
of a great earthquake, which is said to have de-
stroyed a large portion of Jerusalem, ruined the
mosque of Omar, the ancient temple of Solomon,
and entirely overthrown the Holy Sepulchre.
The firman not to frequent certain promenades
was a false construction put upon an order issued
by his Sublimity, who having seen groups of men
and women mixed together, ordered that each
sex should,he at all times separated by proper ki-
te! vats.

f t is affirmed that two Hassegis, officers of the
interior, are gone to put to death the Capitan
Pacha. The Capitan Pacha has caused Alunud
Bey, Captain of a frigate that was burnt, to be
beheaded : this officer had acquired a reputation
for bravery and abilities. The Capudun Bey has
also• been beheaded by order of the Capitan
Pacha.
This Admiral, who is said to have only 11
vessels left, has effected a junction with the
squadron of Hussein Bey, composed of 17 vessels
from Constantinople, which was with the Egyp-
tian fleet. Chousren Pacha, it is said, has pro-
ceeded against Samos with these 2.1 ships of war.
The transports are not mentioned. The Greeks

have had an action ut Athens with the Turks, in
which they at first had the advantage, but in the
end the Turks repulsed them.
It is said that some Greek partisans have at-
tacked the advanced posts of the troops stationed
at Larissa.
The Supreme Council, which, it is expected,
will soon be formed, will be formed of four Gle-
nna and seven Ridgials, at which the Sultan will
preside.
MADRID, OCT. 7.—The King and his august
family still remain at the Escurial.
his Majesty has ordered that, in all the fu-
neral ceremonies to take place in the kingdom in
memory of Louis XVIII, the head of the august
House of Bourbon, every thing shall be done in
the same manner as on the death of Louis XIV,
by order of Philip V his grandson.
The Madrid Gazette accompanies the news of
the death of Iturbide with the following rellec.,

tint's :
" Let us observe how Divine Providence makes criminals
atone for their crimes on the very spot where they have com-
mitted them. ilina and O'l)onoju, and"the traitor of Iguala,
had as untbrtunate an end as Iturbide. Riego received the
Finishment of his crimes in the capital where he had committed
so many excesses.
" The opinion of those who thought that Iturbide acted by
t ie orders of the Spanish Monarch, was as strange us all the
ideas which originate in radical and liberal heads. Ferdinand
VII. never had recourse to those shameful means—he never
has employed a criminal baud even to do good."
On the Ist of October, the anniversary of the
King's deliverance, six companies of Royalist
Volunteers of the fittest appearance Net out for
the )Escurial with a squadron of the sumo corps.
These faithful subjects have had the bottour to
guard their Sovereigu. The King made them.,
exercise in his presence.
The news from Peru, by warol Buenos Ayres,
continues to be very satisfactory. The most
• perfect union prevails among the commanders of
tise royal armies, whatever may have beet' said
by the English journalists, whose bad faith is
palpable.
The letters and journals from Brazil show
that great fears are felt respecting the intentions
of the mother country. In fact, great activity is
olyierva hie in the Portuguese navy : there aro at
this moment in the port of Lisbon, three ships of
tie line, four frigates, six corvettes, and several
brigantines, perfectly equipped.
.PAitts, Oc. P2.—Letters from Rochefort say,
•• that the Ilebe corvette, the Dragon brig, 'Bre-
saline gun-brig, and the Monies schooner, sailed
from that port on the 4th, under the orders of
Captain Latyrote, for the coast of Africa, where
they wHI be employed in repres,ing the slave-
trade : they will find there the Marsouin brig,
and tine Dorade schooner, employed in the same

service.
Posiscat vr.—We receive from Constantinople
the following news, the authenticity of which we
can warrant _

COOSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 11.—A letter from Stanch°,
• of the 25th of August, mentions a new action between the two
fleets on the '22d and 23d, likewise to the advantage of the
Greeks. A second letter from the same place says, that the
'Egyptian expedition has joined the Capitan
' " According to authentic suttements; the losses of the Moe.
• eulmans before Samos, in a few days, were very considerable ;
of transports, only five or six escaped.
" The number of Turks who perished by sea on the shores
of Samos is made to amount to 17,000 men. A corvette. with
400 men on board, was captured by the Greeks and carried into
" In short, the situation of the Greeks seems now to be every
.where the strongest, and if they !mow how to profit by their
advantages at S:nnos against the Egyptian fleet, the fifth cam-
paign will also end to their advantage. •
" On the continent the Greeks have pushed parties to the
• •gates of Larissa.
. " The Capitan Paella is said to have withdrawn 17 vessels
" belonging to the imperial turaine from the Egyptian fleet, and
TO have returned towards SAMOS. 1t is reported that a Capidgi
Baschi has been sent to fetch the head of the Admiral, and that
the 11:Lelia of Srio is intended for Nigh Admiral.

17.—The Grand Vizier Gilalib Paella was deposed
•on the 14th, the morning; h, retires to Gallipoli. The
Dacha of .7ilistria succeeds hint. The deposition of the Mufti
is expected."
PETALS, OPPOSITE STINCIIO,'SEPT.• B.—On Sun-
'day, the 5111, the Greek fleet appeared to the
• number of 74. Nire fire-ships were launched.
The Egyptian fleet immediately got under sail,
and commenced its tire. ;The Greeks dread 110-
body. There is much reason to fear for the
Egyptian fleet.

( From Pie Coustittitiimml..)
BA CI: LON A, OCT. 2.—rivatr Carrerpondence.)—The
Polk continues here to expe the emigrants; but it would be
impossible to fix to what extent its orders will be executed,
when they shall fall on persons residing in those cities where,
the Royalist spirit prevails. Some of these, to whom the
order for quitting Barcelona was signified, presented them-
et,lv2s to the ul of the Police, and said that he had the
pots er to imprison' them, anti to take what steps towards
than, he might think proper ; for they would prefer this to
a certain and inevitable death, which would otherwise be• their
fate.

In fact, these fears are not without foundation, for many
persons who surrendered at 'lllanrcsa, according to the in-
junctions of the Police, were the same -evening assassinated
i 72, their beds. An individual of Bitten, who gave himself
alp there, would have futicred the same fate had he not made
his servant sleep in his apartment while' he himself reposed in
• ; the garret.
• J cannot correctly inform you what is the numberof refugees
from the province now at Barcelona; there are more than six
hundred at Reus, a city .where there 'are fewer inhabitants.
liian here, and where the. public feeling- is extremely liberal.
..11.1oreuvcr, all those that are here or elsewhere, are either
po:;sesscd of landed property, or are rich manufactarers'in the
province; three harvests have passed without either .they or
any advante e• their farmers having reaped g ;heir crops and
%their revenues are seized on the slightest pretext by the per-

sons placed at the head of the Municipal and Ministerial Ad-
ministrations; it is therefore very natural that no carts are
spared to prolong this plunder, and that every means is em-
ployed to inspire terror in those whose presence would put
down this system.
These are not thoughts thrown together at hazard. The
following is an instance, which will prove what I have ad-
vanced.

A very rich proprietor of Pobleda fled to Rens, and wishing
to visit his property; took for that purpose an escort of 60 men
at his own cost; but having arrived within a league of his home,
and being welcomed with a brisk firing, he and his companions
were obliged to return.
It is said that it is intended to organise here a body of Royalist
volunteers! the thing does not appear very easy, for the public
feeling of the lower classes in Barcelona, who for the must part
tbrm the body of a militia, is not tainted with that fanaticism
which marks the rest of the Royalist volunteers throughout
Spain.

(Frowthe Journal des Dibnls.)
BAUCELONA, Ocr. 2.—The day before yesterday, a soldier
having entered a chamber in the Fort tie Jarazanas, where the
10th of the line are quartered, -with a candle, some gunpowder
took tire, and caused a great explosion, by which 18 or 20
soldiers were more or less wounded.

PETEasn unorr, SEPT. 24.—An unfortunate event is likely
to deprive \Vilna of one of its most distinguished professors.—
On the afternoon of the Bth of this month, during a violent
storm which burst over the city, the lightning struck M. Becu,
Professor of Pathology, who was asleep in his chamber an the
second floor. One of his daughters was slightly touched, but
we trust that it will not prove fatal to the lady.
MEIN az N,OcT.l.—The Duke of Saxe-Meiningen at the
commencement of last month, gave to his country a Constitu-
tional Government. The 21 111 embers of the Assembly of the
State will be chosen from the Orders of the nobility, the bour-
geois, and the peasantry.
(Frtnn 11w Courier Francais.)
PARIS, OCT. 11.—The Minister, who cannot conceal from
"himself the little support he derives from his own journals, Is
forced to throw himself upon foreign newspapers. Cried down
in France, he looks to foreign papers for support. Hence, for
some months, the English Courier has become the depositary
' of the apologies of M. tie Villele and his projects; it is curious
to observe the pains that the correspondent of this journal takes
to prove that the abolition of the Censorship was no check to M.
de Villele and his colleagues. No falsehood could bring us to
this conclusion, but independent of that, he has not even the
sagacity to prevent the designs of the Minister from appearing,
as well as his animosities. Under this impression it may not
be uninteresting to acquaint our readers how the French cor-
respondent of the Courier has given an account of the Council,
in which the abolition of the Censorship was resolved. We will
not remark upon the vanity with which M. de Villele has
placed himself upon the same noting with M. le Dauphin, in
saying that they divide between them the Presidency of the
Council, and that while one is charged with the affairs naval
and military, the other has the care of the general policy and'
Vie units of th e interior.
Fit EN cn FUNDS, Pau's, OcT.'l2.—Five per Cents open.
ed at 102. GO. ; closed at 102. 50.—Bank Stock, I,97o.—Nea-
politan 5 per Cents, B'J. 50.,—Spanish 111. Royal Spanish
Loan, Mi.—Exchange on London, one month, 26f. 15c; three
do., 25f. ( Court Anthentique.)

cowt'r OF' ASSIZES AT PALLAS.

EXTORTION OF MONEY AY NIGHT WITH TIOLEXCE,

AND IN AN INHABITED HOUSE.

AUDIENCE OP 11TH OcTonEis.—Six persons are
accused in this affair. Their names are Cholet, an instrument-
maker; Henault, a disbanded soldier in the 6th company
of the 3d squadron of the troops of Paris; Boisgouthier, a
green-grocer; Carrier, a waggoner ; Minochet, an ahnanack-
seller; and Autour, a soldier in the artillery. The facts in
this case are very complicated. The following is the substance,
according to the act of accusation :—Cholet is the tenant of a
warehouse in which he deposits horses' hoofs. Ile pretended
that a great number of these limit's had been taken away, and
complained to the Commissary of the Police. On the 6th of
March last, Ilenault and Boisgonthier came to him (as be said)
deckled to him that they had discovered the person who bad
taken the hoofs, and proposed to him to go with them to the
house where they woe deposited. Henault stated that he was
• en agent of the police, and would assist with an armed force.—
The same day, at seven in the evening, the six individuals,
above named, went to No. 7, line des Iticolets, to the door of a
cellar which was then occupied by one Lemur, . comb-maker.
Having arrived at this cellar, they concealed themselves in it.
Lacour soon arrived, and descended into the cellar to deposit
there some hoofs which a young man, unknown to him, had
sold him. At this instant the six persons accused rushed on
him and ill-used him ; Henault declaring that he was an agent
of the police, and exhibiting his papers, said to him, " You
• are taken in the fact, you have purchased stolen goods; the
law condemns you to ten years imprisonment as a receiver."—
They then all quitted the cave, and took him away. Then
Henault said to Lacour," If you will settle the matter with
Cholet, I shall not say any thing." Cholet declared that if he
wished it, he would put an end to the affair for a hundred
crowns. After many offers, 'mour paid Cholet 300 francs,
who kept 100 for himself, and gave the other :100 to iloisgon-
tiller, who retired with Henault, and this latter sum was divid-
ed among the other five, in a coll'ee-house, in the Rue du Fau-
bourg St. Martin.
Cholet pretends that he received the 300 francs from Lacour,
because the latter, in the cellar where he recognized a part of
his hoofs, offered him that Suns as an indemnity.
Henault, in his interrogotary, insisted that Lacour is really
a receiver, uud that in the whole of this affair he has only done
his duty. Ile declares that he has received no money, that be
has even refused what Owlet offered him. " I have served,"
says he, "in the Gendarmerie of Paris with honour and.
honesty, and in this affair I have shown the same teal as in
a multitude of others. This is not the first arrest I have
made."—(This prisoner, dressed in a blue riding coat, and
large red favours, expressed himself whin much impudence and
assurance)...

31. Le President: Do not talk of arrests that you have.
made ; they are all of the same kind as this last ; they tend
to compromise your employers, and even the superior au-
thority.
Prisoner : 4! I always conducted myself as became a gen-
darme. Ask my Colonel, AI. Foucault; he has congratulated
me on these arrests ; hehas himself conducted me to the Pre-.'
lecture to deliver there an account to the Inspector of the
Police. :11l have quitted the service, it is because I pre-
ferred it.
11. le President : How dare you here call upon the name of
that Honourable Colonel ? Here is a letter in which 31. Fou-
cault declares, that he was obliged to discharge you on account
of the arbitrary arrests • which you made, and in which your
conduct was far from being that of a man worthy of forming
one of a body so respectable as that of the gendarmerie.--
(M. le President here read the-letter.)
Al. Gechter (Counsel for Hem:Lilo,: As the reading of this
letter may cause an unfavourable feeling against my client in
the minds of the Gentlemen of the Jury, I conlider it to be my
duty to declare instantly to them, that I haveqn my hands a
•certificate of Colonel Foucault in favour of Henault, the ex- ,
.pressions of.which differ entirely from those of the letter ; for
the Colonel there attests, that Ilenatilthas made many arrests,
and that he believed-him to possess the necessary qualifications
for an inspector.
M. le President : What is thellate of that certificate? •
M. Gechter : The 6th of April. It, therefore, only preceded
the letter by two days, which is worthy of remark.
AI. le President: You can make use of it in your defence.
The interrogatory of the prisoner was answered.
Question: Had you received, either from the Prefect of the
Police, or from your Colonel, the orderfor Lacour's arrest, or
for searching his cellar .?—Answer : No ; but neither had I
such orders when I arrested the galley slaves who had escaped :
it was my zeal that made me act.
Question : But you know very well that you 'have not the
right to make the arrest, when you are .not dressed as a gen-
darme ?—lt is done every day, .by such of the gendarme as
belong to the Police. If we know of a receiver, or of a thief,
;vie,arrest him, and even prove it on the proms-verbal, in a
common dress.
Question : Have you obtained the degree of 'lnspector of
the Police?—Answer : No, that is false ; it is likewise
false that I received any money ; nobody has iven me any.,
and I would not have taken it. There have been many at-
tempts to corrupt me., hut it was impracticable. .1 shall show •
that in this transaction I am the victim. of the malignity of.
Vidoc.
M. le President : It is well known that thieves always take:
!refuge behind the name of Vidoc.
AI. le President read a preceding interrogatory, in which the.
prisoner declared, that in this affair he wished to make this his
apprenticeship, previous to obtaining the.oflice of Inspector of-
- Police. This Magistrate observed how much a similar appren-
ticeship would be contrary to the intention of the Police, and to
the interest oT society.
The prisoner Doisgonthier did not deny that he had been many:
times arrested and put on his trial as a thief lie likewiseale-
dared, in atone of frankness, which excited the mirth of the•
audience, that he had never been convicted. He pretended
that. it was a part of his business to assist in carrying a re.,
ceiver. to prison:: that he considered Henault as an agent of the
police, and that in the Whole of this affair be had simply been
of service to-the police and his agents. All the rest is false,"
cried he ; " they are traps, at the heads of which is Vidoc;
what wickedness !"
Carrier declared that he was ignorant of what passed within
the cellar, and that he had received no recompense ; he at first

allowed that he bad used force, its he thought Henault an in-i
spector of the police; he now denied this.
Minochet and Amour equally denied that they had taken
any part either in the expedition or in the division of the money.
The first witness was Sieur Lacour (the prosecutor). fie
related the different circumstances of the fact just as they are
reported in the act of accusation, and he painted in vivid lan-
guage, which frequently excited peals of laughter, the violence
whit h had been exercised towards him. He identified Cholet
and Henault, but he could not speak to the others.
Boisgonthier frequently interrupted this witness with violence,
and by the epithets of receiver and thief. This prisoner, who
has a forbidding voice and aspect, interrupted him almost every
moment.
The woman Lacour made a similar deposition to that of her
husband. She identified Boisgonthier as the man who called for
a rope to bind Lacour.
The witness Compiegne positively swore to Minochet and
Autour as those who were near the stall of Latour, and who
prevented him from entering ; be likewise declared that he saw
in the cellar Cholet, Henault and Boisgonthier. At the moment
that Lwout gave them the 300 francs, he heard Henault say
that he would not for 100 francs have it known that had
been there. He saw Cholet take the 300 francs ; he perfectly
remembered Boisgonthier, because he was the smallest and
most wicked ; It was he who held Lacour by the throat.
Al. Latterade pointed out a contradiction between the verbal
and written testimony of this witness.
Sieur Meunier, Inspector of the Police, reported that three
of the prisoners earnest the end of Jenuary to M. Masson, the
Commissary of Police, and mentioned Lacour as a receiver of
stolen hoofs.—M. le President read the declaration written by
die wife of Cholet, who saw Boisgonthier with Henault and her
husband in the cellar, and Autour, Carrier and Minochet near
the place. She likewise saw Lacour pay the 100 crowns to her
husband in five franc pieces, and her husband, when he brought
home 80 in the evening, said he had given the other 20 to He-
nault and Bobleonthier. These two prisoners did not the less
persist in denying every thing.
M. Laterade demanded that, for the benefit of the defence,
the wife of Cholet should be heard after her deposition had
been duly connitlejed.—M. le President acceded.
The hearing of the Case was postponed from five o'clock till
seven.

On the Court re-aesembling, the wife of Cholet was exa-
mined, but her testimony was the same as her written one.—
Henault and Boisgontbier cried out that this testimony had
been dictated to the witness by Vidoc and his agents. Henault
pretended that Vidoc had promised this woman to get her
husband acquitted, if she would swear to these falsehoods.
On examination by U. Laterade, the witness stated that she
did not behold any violence practised on bacour.
M. L'Avocat General Ferrieres spoke. After having ex-
posed the general facts, he successively went threugh the
charges as they affected each of the prisoners, and maintained
that the cage was made out against all the partied,
The prisoner Henault asked leave to make some fresh expla-
nation. He affirmed that it was Vidoc and his secretary that
had brought hint to that bar, through vengeance—that for a
long time they had sworn his destruction, because lie fuel ar-
rested many malefactors, and because he had denounced to M.
Purism, head of the Police, many of their agents, who had
committed robberies. lle added, that lie had personally de-
nounced Vidoc himself, on account of his having divided
a sum of 211,000 francs with one Laville, who had embezzled
them.

31. LATiturrs, Cholet's Counsel, endeavoured to chew
that his client had been wholly passive throughout the trans.
action, and that he meant well ; that he had acted legally
against a reeeiver, under the guaidance of an Inspector of the
Police.

DI. Gechter, Counsel for Henault, maintained that that pri-
soner had really acted as an agent of the Police ; that he was
an agent of the Police ; and that he was a victim of the ar-
tifices of Vidoc. "It is necessary to observe," said he, "that
the Police has various employments; it has salaried agents,
who have monthly engagements •, it has likewise spies paid by
Me head, that Is to say, who receive so much fur every person
they denounce; it ha* likewise spies fur private houses, or
what are called amateur spies, and it is to this class that He-
nault belonged."
In support of his assertion, M. Greater cited the following
certificate delivered by M. Foucault, Colonel of the Gendur-
merle In consequence of the Informations which 1 have
received with respect to this soldier, and the particular know-
ledge I have acquired of his manner of serving, and of his
conduct, I think that he has the necessary intelligence and
finesse for the employment which hesolicits,and for which I believe
him more fit than any
.of the corps to which he belongs. He-
nault has made many arrests. Since he has belonged to my
corps I have had no cause of complaint against him, and I think
that he is well qualified to fill the office of inspector.
(Signed) " Colonel Viscount De FOUCAULT."
M. le President: I wish to observe to the Counsel, that he is
now attacking a man of the most honourable character, a Co-
lonel of the Gendarmerie, who is absent, and who cannot de-
-1 fend himself.

Dl. Gechter I had no intention to attack the Colonel. I
confine myself to the quotation of a portion.
The Counsel continued, and produced in favour of his client
a diploma which had been given to li;rn by a society to which
he belonged. lie read this diploma, which was as follows :
" The preserversi of legitimacy form a society of faithful and
devoted loyalists, who spontaneously united to defend legiti-
macy, as soon as they heard of the horrible attempt of the 13th
February. Moriamur pro M.
" 31. Henault has been judged worthy to be nominated an
honorary, member of the preservers of legitimacy : he promises
to defend it, and openly to support it against its enemies,
whosoever they may be.
Given in secret at Paris, lrt November, 1E122.
(Signed) "DI BOYER, Honorary President, Chief of
Battalion, Knight of Louis, of the Order of
Phenix.

"-Count DELA ROCHETTE, formerly Cap-
tain of Infantry and Knight of St. Louis.
" DL SAINT ItESIOND, retired Colonel."
In conclusion, the Counsel added, that Henault was a spy,
attached to the cabinet of M. le Prefet de Police.
Here M. le President interrupted him : he declared that a
Magistrate like M. le Prelet of Police never had spies attached
to his cabinet; and he begged the Advocate to abandon this
useless part of the defence of his client.
At half-past nine no verdict was returned.