The Sun.
London, England, 1815-07-22 00:00:00

FUOM 111 F, F111'....:C11 PAPERS.

ASSIZE COrT.T .Ict:i
A sin•:-'ar,• and evesn call it a seandalont
trial, y,stenlav err,7npied die cady tart of ;the
nroreenings. Will it he credited that the
effe;•t s'iolllcl- bAVe surrivcd the cn“e, and that in
tl I;uyit/ C.,itirt. itself, the King's Advocate
sl+ocid-itave ,!•.vmvd himstif bgittid to develope
iits'tittited by the Imperial Attorney,
the man qf lii
oiapfirte,- tigall-.3t a 112antle, .charged
with having di,,tvilinted, on the 9tii of May last,
v.-ritinus which excited to thetlissolut;on of 'lino-

liana) Ws. governuvent
The 3)ersou aecnsrd vac Frances Delayncty, ot-
tachel to the laundry of toe Kin:Cs Houselmlil,
and the offence was Staled to have been commit-
ted at a gaming-house, _in the Rue 'Uhionville.
iVlidante Delatont, .who was right in loving the
Ring. but wrong in loving.play, joining in cOn-
vetsation which owned on the news of the day,
and the various proclamaCon; It circulated,
in Paris, openly said, " \V old you wish to
see something nC AV -At the same time Shea
drew from her pocket sev;eral folded papers;
and threw them .00' the table to the umpire.
at ploy, who put them in his packet, waiting',
till Lis turn was: ended,. when he might go and;
read them I+l. Ott adjolning room ; a number or
..per.ons there listened to the reading of Hunt.
of them in the form of a pl tear! was Unified, To
the Orii7y, to the national guard, .to the youth, to.
Frenchmen ; and the other, Bnonaparte
of .Nay, 1815.: " both,' the indictment stated,
. " being seditious.writings, of which., the' evident
object was to excite the. citizens to arm against
. the imperial authority, to destroy the existing go,
yernment, and to a!tack the life"of the Driperor."
Next day, at the same house;....Madame
launay ai•ked the umpite, what eff:ct tae rePtting
of the writing had produced on hityt ; he sail, tic
. bad .round them very str,m,,-. Thi, is a mere no,
thing," she replied, ‘P they ate enrolling women ;
I am not one
.on account of ill health : I cannot
strike the, hlowWith these. people,;but 1 can nse a
pair of pistols when oppurtonity serves. You
will he astonished at what these women do.
,here will be among them men in di,g,nise ;; their
nambers will be great, and the period will not be

d sta.!t,"
It may he easily conceived that in a place pe-
coliarly under the serve iliinee of an attire and
dernted police, this kind of laugnage, and tle ex-
hi ,ition of such pavers, could not be long con-
' ceded. I\ladame Delannay- w•-is accordingly ar-
• rested, and on- her lence beiLig searched,
p'es of the pao, Cs she had lent ‘vere found. She
aleged In de!euf.e tlpit she had ftinna"them nothe
pavement in the.4-ne de Seine,; and,•at a moment
when a great many similar things were circulated
in Paris,.she thought titcr6 NV 'as no harm in lend-
w a po-soli•viii;rn-she knew. •‘
....
It was _generally .believed that the great events
which' have changed the •fate of France, and
brougfit hack the-King:to his-capital; would have
,set Madame Delaimay'at liberty„ -without
,expos-
'lug her to public trial for an offence which had
?licolately evaporated : but the persons Who
Daturally felt
othis hope- hsigad
nend tegottx. o precise idNo
ea
of the pourer f an
political, event, no reason, not even innocence
.ltelf.„ is' of any avail' against such a signature.
Madame Dvlaimay was I.lccordingly placed at 'the
Itar.. where
,she took her seat with good grace,
saluting the audience with a cry of nee le
P
oi! After the deposition of several witnesses
.who appealed' mlich more embarrassed than thead-
_Cowl, the King',s Advocate, Giro'det, as substl-
. t ;it c for the • Imptry. Attorney, then spoke. It
wai generally thought that he would confine him-
self to a declaration of his moral. incOMpetence,
and to.an acknowledgetnent that it was impossible
for him to flint one guilty where there was no of-
"fence. llt did not, however, pursue this course.
He took as his ground of argument the incon-
.testable ptinciple,that whatever tended to the dis-
solution of a: wise, legitimate, and generally sic-
:knowledge(' Gtivjrninent, was one of the greatest-
-
crimes. M. Girodet, abStaineil from ap-
plying this principle to the nionstrOn•, tyranny
which lately oppressed France. Rut without
.exa-
he said, bow fat' the Government which
ceased to exist was entitled to the suppOrt
and respect of citizens, he 'maintained that the
author of.on attempt to snbvirt even an authotity
whose legitiinacy was not evident, was not the
less necessarily exposed to the penalties pro.-
, younced lay law. 'M. qirodet next proceedkiig,to
examine' the charges,' declared that he did not re-
gard them as requiring the indiction of any pe-
wilty, In the crime alleged, he saes only an. in-
discretion stripped of all criminality.
" Madame ll lannay•sCounsel then rose; hut the
President observed, it was useless to hear him, -as
-the piosecntor had abandoned the charge.
'[he accused wars theref, re- acquitted:and set at
liberty. .