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London, England, 1815-10-26 00:00:00

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REPORT ON TUE LAW RESPECTING SEDITION.

111. BELLNIZT, who.was charged by the Commit-
tee to bsing up their report, read it as follows

" Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit to
you, in the mime of the Committee charged with
the examinition of the projet of the law concern-
ing the detention of persons accused of crimes
against the safety of the kingdom, the opinion
which it has conceived.

"Among theßomans, when the.spirit of faction
menaced the safety of the State, a simple formula
was pronounced, and at once the power of the
Consuls became absolute.

" In a neighbouring country, which has by all
jurists been considered as the land of classic li-,
berty, very often without any appearance of in-
testine troubles, and solely because external %vat,
made it be feared that the enemy might practise
some secret manoeuvres to procure the assistance
of domestic traitors and agita,tors, the law was
suspended which directs that no man's- pet4onal
liberty should be violated,' but in virtue of the
purely judiciary forms.
[Then .follows some general observationi on
personal liberty.]
Our Charter has been moro attentive to pub-
lic right than the two countries of which we
speak, It has placed in itseifits means of defence
and safety.
[After some more general observations, the re-
port went On
" At present, and in the existing state of the
legislation, several administrative functionaries
and others are charged with what is called the
Judiciary Police.
" They have the right, or rather it is their duty
to 'search out and seize persons convicted of all
kinds of crimes : only within a certain period not
rigorously defined by the Law, and which has
been allowed them for the purpose of collecting
evidence against the act denounced, they are
obliged to deliver up the accused to the tribunals,
which are immediately to try them, and at once
to condemn them or set them at liberty.
" It is the preliminary delay, which may be
called the delay for finding proofs, which the
I'rojet of the Law proposes tti extend indefinitely,

quest ion.

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" The end of this proposition then is on the
one ,hand to a rapid and nnticipted fkrocess,
when crimes crf this nature threaten nlttchni,ifichi2f!
to the State, and when there. is a Oanger,..thAtAtihel,
crieninal may escape for want of tithe to convict
him.

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" On the other hand, the culprit may b soV
expert as to have taken such precautions, that
though proved guilty to all intents to the vuinds of
ordinary men, may combat with success the:par-
ticular forms reinired for judicial conviction. •

[After some general remarks on the expediency
of such a regulation, the Reporter goes ou—J
"Do circumstances require this ? That 1.3 the

only true question.
" Is any thing asked about good faith !—Let us
observe, let us hear, let us determine, and not be
afraid to say it is only the accomplicesq,l46o
guilty themselves' %rho. can deny the existeAce.pf
the circumstances.
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" Never was Rome or any other State in a sitn-
ation in which it was , more requisite or more
lawful to pronounce the formula, Caveant Con-
sules , Ac.
" This point is evident, and is only too much
so. The CommiGtee has examined the law in it-
self;—it has seen that respect to liberty vas
wisely combined with the precautions required by
prudence.
" No authority which had not this right to
this extent, is now for the first time invested for
the purpose of seizing the guilty.
" The OfF.cer of judiciary police
,is not bound,
as at present, to send the convict before the tribu..-
nals as soon as the period has elapsed within
xvbieli he may have been able to collect rue neces
sary details. .
" He is bound, within 24 hours, to give notice
to the Prefect of the Department,' who can cause
any injustice be undone which may have been eotn-
mitted, and that in shorter time, than the tribu-
nals themselves can at present redress an error.
" This is not all.—The Officer of Judiciary
Police is equally obliged to give notice of the
detention within 24 hours to the public Minister;
and that association of administrative power wi,tls.,
judiciary authority, that association Unkquiwn to
other nations, guarantees the accused wlis
have the misfortune of being the victim 'of an
error, the generous protection of the Magistrates.
",Finally,theproject of the Law is temporary,
its effect will cease of itself, if it be not renewed
by the legiSlative power.
" Thus the Committee has received the Proje;
as a moderate measure, the result of which is, to
call upon each citizen to fulfil the obligation im-
posed upon all—of making individual interests
give way. to those which are general."
[The rest of, the'Report is occupied only with
the notice of some immaterial objections. which
were statted in the Committee, but removed,
and an answer to the metaphysical declaimers on
liberty. 3
The PRESIDENT.—" The Report is to he print
cd and circulated. The discussion wily take place
on Monday."
No other businoss'of,importance was transacted.
At three o'clock the Chamber resolved itself
into a Secret Committee, supposed to be for the
purpose of electing the Secretary-Editors.
Adjourned at four o'clock.

CHAMBER OF PEERS.

Silting of the 21st Octo!...er,

The Chancellor. presided at the Sitting.

A long discussion took place on the qu(;;tion
whether the proves verbaux s.houl(l be printed, and
distributed to the Peers as well as to the Cham-
ber of Deputies.—lt was decided in the afErmative.

The Duke of FiTz-JAmEs said, that be had
given in a proposition, signed by himself, that a
vote of thanks should be passed by the Cham-
bers to his Royal Highness the Duke of Angou-
lemr, for the edurage, energy, and true patr►otism
evinced by him the Southern Departments,
during the disastrous period which followed the
departure of the King.

The Chamber decided on receiving rile 'ProliOsi-
thin, and the next sitting was apporiitteWfithe,
Duke of Fitz-James to develope his motiveso'J)

Nothing else of interest took place al tlrfilit7

ting.

The Journal des Debats gives a detaled account
of the debates in the Chamber of Peers on the
19th, concerning the projet relative to the Court
of Accounts. It is by no means interesting.

(From the Moniteur)

HAMBURGII, OCT. 11. - Mr. Thornton, the
English Ambassador at 'Stockholm, has passed
through here on his way to England, by Brussels
and Paris. •