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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1841.

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The Twenty-Fourth Testimony in favour of this extraordinary
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THE LATE MR. P. BURROW ES.

One by one the great men of the Irish Par-
liament, who struggled so untoilingly at the be-
ginning of the present century to preserve
Ireland as an independent kingdom, are sinking
into the grave. The above lamented gentleman,
Judge Commissioner -of Insolvents in Ireland,
at the advanced age of fourscore years and ten,
has followed his friends and forerunners, Grattan
and Curran, while the remembrances that attach
to him are inseparably connected with these,
two of his most constant associates.
Mr. Burrowes began public life at the Irish
bar, and continued to adorn it to a late period.
During the earlier years of his practice he was
remarked for his readiness of decision and legal
acumen—qualities which admirably fitted him
as a special pleader, and which, added to his
other tbrensic acquirements, advanced him spee-
dily to the chief Commissionership of the In-
solvent Debtors' Court, the duties of which he
discharged with uninterrupted satisfaction and
success, the greater portion of his life. •
The most singular incident in the life of Coun-
sellor Burrowes was his duel with the Hon.
Somerset Butler, heir to the title of Lord Kil-
kenny, by whom he was hit, and would have
been killed, but for some gingerbread nuts which
he had in his pocket. An accomplished and
facetious Baronet, who was, we believe, an eye-
witness of the scene, thus details this humorous
occurrence :

The late Lord Mount Gaget (afterwards Lord
Kilkenny) had for several years a great number
of law-suits on his hands, particularly with some
insolvent tenants, whose cause had been gratui-
tously taken up by by Mr. Ball, an attorney.
His Lordship in ' these cases had always tea
Counsel pitted against him in the Court, and every
cause and verdict weritagainst him. His Lordship,
thus frustrated and tormented, and finding himself
overcome rather by the quirks of informalities
than by the principle .of strict justice, deter-
mined to take another course, namely to fight it
out, muzzle to muzzle, with the attorney and all
the counsel on the other side, of which Mr. Ball
and Counsellor Burrowes were chief. His Lord-
ship's encounter with Mr. Ball gave him the
worst of it, he got a bullet from the attorney in
his side, but it was not dangerous.
My Lord and the Attorney having been thus
disposed of, the Hon. Somerset Butler now took
the field, and proceeded in due form, by a chal-
lenge to Mr. Peter Burrowes, the first of the
adversaries' counsel. The invitation could not
be refused; the combat took place one cold frosty
morning, near Kilkenny.. Peter had had no
practice whatever in this line of litigation; So-
merset Butler knew his business well.

Peter Burrowes, on his way to the place of
meeting, bought a pennyworth of spiced ginger-
bread nuts, by the advice of his second, Dick
Waddy-, an attorney, and duly receiving the
change of a sixpenny piece, put the coppers and
nuts into his waistcoat pocket, and marched to
the scene of action.

Preliminaries being soon arranged, elderly
Peter, who was no posture-master, soon took up his
fighting position. Butler, a fine dashing young
fellow, of spirit, activity, and animation, had
scarcely raised his pistol before his ball came
crack dash against Peter's body. The halfpence
rattled in his pocket; Peter dropped flat ;
Somerset fled; Dick Waddy roared " murder,"
and called out to surgeon Pack. Peter's
clothes were ripped up; and Pack, secundurn
artem, examined the wound. A black hole
designated the. spot, where the lead had pene-
trated Pet47s abdomen. The Doctor shook
his head, and, pronounced but one short word,
" mortal." Peter groaned, and tried to recollect
some prayer, or a scrap of catechism ; his
friend Waddy began to think about the Coroner;
his brother barristers sighed heavily, and Peter
was supposed to be fast departing this world (but
as they all endeaVoured to persuade-him, for a
better), when Surgeon Pack; after another excla-
mation, taking leave of Peter, and, leaning his
hand on the grass to assist him in rising, felt
something hard, took it up and looked at it curi-
ously ; the spectators closed in a circle to see
Peter die; the patient turned his expiring
eyes towards Surgeon Pack, as much as
to ask, "Is there no hope ?"—when lo the
Doctor held up to the astonished assem-
bly the identical bullet, which having 'rattled
amongst the heads and harps, and gingerbread
nuts in Peter's waistcoat-pocket, had flattened its
own body on the surface of a preserving. copper,
and left his Majesty's bust distinctly imprinted
and accurately designated; in black and blue
shading, on his subject's
gracious carcase. Thanks to his.
Sovereign,
and the gingerbread nuts,
Peter stopped his prayers, and got up with a
whole skin.

The occasion on which Mr. Burrowes was most
conspicuous in his whole life was at that period
when Lord Castlereagh was intent upon feeling
the pulses of the Commons, before he distinctly
proposed the measure of the Union. - This was a
brilliant period; the anti-unionists then came
forward on the Parliamentary platform with
grand effect. Grattan, Bushe, Daly, and
Plunkett, and last, though not least, the
subject of this memoir, signalised them-
selves.' Speeches more replete with talent
and energy were never heard in the Irish Senate.
It was a vital subject: every mind was.. at its
stretch—every talent was in its vigour : it was a
momentous trial. The sublime, the eloquent,
the figurative orator—the plain, the connected,
the metaphysical reasoner—the classical, the 1
learned, and the solemn declaimer—put forth all
their might to excite.sympathy and conquest in
the hearts of,a nation which was .doothed to
close for ever the school of eloquence whiCh had
so long given character and celebrity to Irish
talent; On the night in question (February the
16th, 1800) the debate was intense. Grattan
stood forward like an apostolic champion for his
country, and tlung about the brilliancies of his
eloquence like a sparkling cataract. Mr. Advo-
cate Dobbs that night assumed an eloquence
which electrified the audience by the mighty
power he displayed in resistance to the Union
and his solemn protestations against it. Lastly,
and after others, Mr. Peter Burrowes rose and
said—" Frivolous and fallacious as the Right
Honourable Secretary's statement has been, I
do not found my opposition upon the peculiar
demerit of the system of union which he has de-
tailed. I openly avow that no terms or condi-
tions can ever persuade me to surrender the con-
stitution of Ireland--to transfer the supreme power
of the State toa country which has continued dis-
tinct from ours since the creation, by boundaries
which cannot be removed, and by feelings which
cannot be eradicated. If a union shall pass, as
an Irishman I shall be indifferent how many
or how few Deputies shall be sent from this.
emasculated country. As long as . the Parlia-
ment which legislates forlreland shall exist in
the bosom of a distinct country, -as lung. as a'
rival feeling shall actuate the heart of that Coun-
try—that is, 'as long as the heart of man shall
beat---this country, deprived of its domestic Par-
liament, shall'be the prostrate victim of British
prejudice-and British oppression. This is sound
theory : this is true history." . •
Upon the competency of Parliament to pass
this measure I shall not dwell : , if there be an
irresistible truth in -politics and in morals, this
appears to me to be one—namely, that tempo-
rary trustees hove rig right to transfer the object
of their trust for ever, without the consent of
those through whom, and for whom, they held
.and exercised it. Every argument to the con-
trary . is built upon a confusion of right with
power, and an inference that because institutions
originating in wrong have, from policy and ac-
quiescence, changed their nature, that very act
of the supreme power must be rightful."
Sir Jonah Barrington, who was an excellent
judge of character, and was intimately acquainted
with the subject of this memoir, has left this re-
cord to his memory, in his great work, entitled,
" Memoirs of the Legislative Union
between
England and Ireland," wherein he specially
speaks of this occasion thus :
Mr. Peter Burrowes--a veteran advocate of
the rights of Ireland wherever and whenever he
had the power of declaring himself—on this
night- made off able effort to uphold his princi-
ples.
„lie was a ;_e;;t:.,,,n-ian of the bar who justly
had many friends.
othing could lie more un-
gracious than the mianer, nothing much better!
than the matter, of his oration. His mind had
ever been too independent to cringe for favour;
and his opinions too intractable for an arbitrary
Minister ;—on'this night he formed a noble and
distinguished contrast to those of his own pro-
' fession, who had sold themselves and the repre-
sentation for a Mess of pottage."
This was the last effort made to resist the
Union. Poor Grattan, who was suffering on the
night from most extreme feebleness, and to
whom, as he tottered into the House, every
Member simultaneously
rose, delivered his sen-
timents without moving from his seat, and
though painfully languid at first, yet the "Spi-
t rit moved within him," and he gradually glowed

into unsurpassing eloquence. But the day for
yoking Ireland with England was at hand, and
she was, in spite of the majestic efforts em-.
ployed in her behalf, sentenced to cancel her
constitution, to disband her Commons, and dis-
enfranchise her nobility. Who shall describe
the indignation, the smothered disgust, of such
patriots as Grattan and Burrowes that night
when it was proclaimed in the House—" the
A YES have it."

Mr. Peter Burrowes was among the most ar-
dent, in his later days, for the repeal of that
union which from the first he so vehemently
deprecated; and he passed his life in the pleasing
dream that the vigorous agitators of his country
would finally effect it.

TB E EXCHEQUER
BILL AFFAIR.

111AIVSION-110USE.

The re-examination of Ernest Rapallo, the individual
charged with being concerned in uttering the forged Ex-
chequer bills, was resumed yesterday morning in the Lord
Mayor's privAte room. As on the former occasion, there
were a large number of merchants and gentlemen con-
nected with the Stock Exchange present, and when the
proceedings commenced the room was crowded, but by
no means to such an extent as on the previous occasion.
Mr. Maule, of the Treasury, Mr. Waddington, Mr. Bod-
kin, Mr. Lefroy, and the other gentlemen connected with
the prosecution and defence, were early in attendance.
At a few minutes past eleven o'clock Mr. Alderman
WILSON took the Chair ; the LORD MAYOR sat on his
right, and close to his Lordship were Alderman Gunn,
Alderman THOMAS WOOD, Sir PETER LAURIE, &c. &c.

At a quarter past eleven the prisoner was brought in,
in custody of Forrester, the officer, and took his place
behind the Counsel, and close to the chair of the presid-
ing Magistrate.
Mr. WADDINGTON said he had the honour of again
attending upon the part of the Crown, and it appeared
to him that it would not be desirable to enter at present
into any further discussion of the matter, after the pro-
longed discussion that had taken place on the former
occasion. He believed the present state of the case was
this, that the Magistrates thought on the former occa-
sion there was sufficient evidence to put the prisoner on
his trial, but if anything should appear from an exami-
nation of the books, which had been seized, and were in
the possession of the officers of the Crown, which in the
opinion of the Bench would conclusively rebut the evi-
dence then given, some further investigation might
be required. These books had been examined
on behalf of the Crown, and by the prisoner,
but he should not now refer to that point further than
to say, that there appeared to him strong circumstances
in corroboration of the case. He should, however, ask his
Learned Friend Mr. Bodkin,whether, after an examination
of these books, there was anything which would induce
him to call the attention of the bank to them, in order to
show that these transactions had been in the regular
course of business, or whether he would defer any argu-
ment upon them till another occasion?
Mr. BODKIN understood when he last had the honour
of appearing'before the Court, that the Magistrates had
made up their minds whether they considered it advisable
to admit Mr. Rapallo to bail or not; that there was suffi-
cient to answer the prima facie case that had been made
out against him. Under these circumstances—and con-
sidering that within the interval they had not had a suf-
ficient opportunity of examining the prisoner's books and
accounts, so as to answer the case fully; and more espe-
cially-as they had not only to examine Rapallo's books
but those of others, particularly Mr. Mariner's, which
the advisers of the Crown had also possessed themselves
of, and to which it was desirable they should have ac-
cess—he should rather fall in with the suggestion of his
Learned Friend, and not seek to raise any discussion at the
present moment. He felt, from some important circum-
stances that had since transpired that there would be no
satisfactory conclusion of the matter but before a Jury.
and they had only therefore to consider the question of
bail. That was entirely a matter for the Bench ; but if
they did not think it consistent with their duty to admit
Rapallo to bail, he would only ask of them to remand him
to the day before the next Sessions, as he had better
means, where he was at present confined, of examining his
books, and communicating with his friends than he could
have in Newgate. He believed there would be no ob-
jection on the part of the Crown to that course, while it
would be much more calculated to promote real justice.

Mr. WADDINGTON, on the part Of the prosecution, felt
called upon to say, that so far was it
.from the desire of
the Crown to press with any harshness against „the pri-
soner, that he was willing to consent .to any course that
might be suggested for his convenience and comfort,
provided it was consistent with his safe custody. There-
fore, if it were not any departure from the established
piles of-the Court to continue the prisoner in his present
place of confinement, and if the prisoner thought by re-
maining there he should have greater facilities for pre-
paring his defence, he (Mr. Waddington) would not
object to the request of the prisoner's adviser being
complied with. At the same time he must leave that
entirely in the hands of the Alderman. He agreed with
Mr;ll3olikin, that what had transpired elsewhere made a
niatizriardifference in the case as it regarded the pri-
soner. He (Mr. Waddington) had not mentioned this
at first, because he did not consider it fair to the pri-
soner to press against him circumstances which had oc-
curred elsewhere, and which therefore could be given in
evidence wninst him.
Mr. Alderman WILSON said that ho had considered it
his duty to remand the prisoner on a former occasion ;
and that the circumstances which had induced him to do
so were, first, that Mr. Rapallo had entered into all these
arrangements through the medium of a broker who was
neither licensed nor sworn ; and, secondly, because he could
not show any entry in his day-book, showing the history of
the transaction as regarded these bills. The prisoner
had been remanded for a fortnight, to enable him to
examineh is books, and now his Counsel said that they
had had no time. Now two or three hours quiet inves-
tigation would have been amply sufficient for the purpose.
As far as related to other person's books, he (Mr.
Alderman Wilsoi) had no desire whatever to go into
any investigation. What he desired could have been
shown from Mr. Rapallo's own books. It appeared that
he was not prepared to do so. If Mr. Rapallo's books
had shown regular entries of these transactions, it would
have certainly had great weight with him; as it was, the
prisoner must be committed.
Mr. BODKIN begged not to be understood as saying
he was not prepared ; what he had said was, that he
thought it more prudent to go into the investigation
elsewhere,

Mr. Alderman WILSON said, the prisoner's own books
ought to have contained all the information which he
(the worthy Alderman) had asked for.
Mr. WADDINGTON had no desire whatever to go into
the investigation of those accounts.
1 short conversation ensued among the -Magistrates
as to the propriety of remanding the prisoner to the
Compter, agreeably to the request of Mr. Bodkin.
Mr. Alderman WILSON protested most energetically
against the adoption of such a course.
foe'""Sir P. LAURIE thought the prisoner might be remanded.
Mr. Alderman WILSON (to Sir Peter)—lf you like to
take my place here, I will give it up .to ytitt' at -Once.
Sir PETER LAURIE thought that as a matterpg cour-
tesy, seeing that Mr. Waddington did not object, the
prisoner might be remanded. lie wo4ld_. never make
any distinction in the treatment of a priscmer on account
of the station he might occupy in society, but in the pre-
sent case it appeared that he would have greater facili-
ties for preparing his defence if he were remanded than
he could have if he were committed to Newgate.
Mr. WADDINGTON would not oppose any application
for affording the prisoner every facility for preparing his
defence, but, as he had said before, it rested entirely-
with the Magistrates, and he could not ask them to break
th eon& regular rules.
Mr. Alderman WILSON—I can see no good that can
possibly result from a remand. He has been remanded
for a fortnight, to enable him to examine his books, and
I can see no necessity for remanding him further. It is
not perhaps a regulation, but it is the anxious desire of
the tjourt of Aldermen, that parties should not be im-
prisoned in the Compter. He must go to Newgate. I
willgive orders that his solicitor and other persons ne-
cessary to the preparation of his defence shall have free
access to him, but to Newgate he must go.
Mr. BODKIN—I have another application to make, in
which perhaps I shall not be more successful than I have
been in my former applications. When the prisoner
was taken into custody, the money which he had in his
possession, amounting to about 201, was taken from him.
There were four or five sovereigns and some notes. I
ask to have this restored.
Mr. Alderman WILSON—If 201. is necessary for him
to prepare his defence, and I should think it might be, let
•
hint have it.
Mr. WADDINGTON—Do I understand that the money
taken from him is detained by the Crown?

Mr. BODKIN assented.
Mr. WADDINGTON thought there must be some mis-
take in this.
Forrester, the officer, said that when he took the pri-
soner into custody-, he found on him in addition to some
sovereigns, three 51. notes; he had taken charge of them,
as he thought they might, perhaps,
. become ofimport-
ance during the course of the investigation.
Mr. Alderman WILSON, addressing the prisoner—Do
you want that money for the purposes of your defence.?
Rapallo—l do, my Lord.
Mr. Alderman WILSON (addressing Forrester)—Then
you may let the prisoner have the notes, you taking a
particular account of their numbers, and put such marksupon them
as
If you have any other
afir. Bodkin,
with respect to the pri-
soi to nie b°,
necessary.
,ier, I shall be glad to hear yo.p.
Mr. BoDeari—N?, Sir, I have not ; I have no doubt
, may
we shall be able satisfactorily to answer this charge.
The witnesses were then bound over to proseeute, and
the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate, Mr.
Alderman Wilson desiring Forrester to state to the Go-.
vernor of Newgate that the prisoner's counsel, solicitor,
and those parties whom it .as necessary he should see'
v 4
for the purposeof preparing his defence, should have
free access to him.
The prisoner appeared far more downcast than on the
previous occasion. The room, as on the former occasion,
was crowded with merchants and brokers- in the city,
anxious to hear whether the prisoner would throw any
further light upon the extensive frauds that had been
committed.

CHARTIST MEETING AT
BRIGHTON.
(Abridged from the Brighton Guardian of yesterday,)
A public meeting of the inhabitants of Brighton and
hundred of Whalesboue, convened by the High Consta-
ble. in pursuance of a requisition presented to him, was
held in the Town-hall on Monday evening last, " for the
purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of pe-
titioning the Commons House of Parliament in favour of
the People's Charter." The meeting was numerously
attended, there being probably about a thousand persons
present, amongst whom were Capt. PeChell, R.N., and I.
N. Wicrney-, Esq., the Membprs'for 'the 'borough, and
Mr. Charles Brooker. of Alfriston On.the motion' of
Mr. Woodward, Mr. Good was called to the chair.
Mr. J. ALLEN moved the first resolution, attributing
ail the tniseries of the people to claki legislation, and
stating that no relief would be afforded until the Charter
was obtained.

Mr. COLLINS seconded the motion, which was put and
unanimously passed.
Mr. NIVOoDwAnD moved the adoption of the " Na-
tional Petitide He congratulated the meeting on the
progresilthey cause had made in Brighton and Sussex.
Four yt4r4sinee the People's Charter was introduced
into this `town, since which' time Chartism had had to
undergo a sweeping persecution ; and although they had
been bullied, threatened. and persecuted, still the good
seed sown by Feargus O'Connor had not been forgotten,
and in spite of all the press could do, they had not been
able to crush the giant.
The VESTRY CLERK then read the petition, which
was seconded by Mr. FLOWER.
Mr. BRONTERRII O'BRIEN then rose, and was re-
ceived with cheers. The people of Brighton, he said,
never forgot him in time of trouble ,• it was gratifying
to see 15,000 or 14,000 honest fates, after seeing nothing
but the faces of thieves and smashers for eighteen
months. The miseries of the people were the result of
Acts of Parliament, or, if they were not the result of
Acts of Parliament, they resulted from the want of
such Acts, which the people would have if other Acts of
Parliament did not prevent them. Lord John Russell
and Sir Robert Peel had both stated in the House that
the distress of the people was not owing to legislation ;
and the Times, the organ of the moneyed class, on the
occasion of the great meeting in Palace-yard to elect de-
gates to the Convention, had advised the Chartists to draw
up a Bill to Parliament. and get it carried into a law to
ameliorate their condition. This was humbug ; the re-
medy for these evils was for those who suffered to have
the power in their own hands. The gaunt shapes of fa-
mine which Stockport now presented in its starring thou-
sands had utterly appalled him; if the men of Brighton who
had the good fortune to depend on different circumstances,
had seen the spectacles he had witnessed, they would at
once see how it was that the northern districts were call-
ing so loudly for the People's Charter, and a total over-
throw of the present state of society. The declination
of wages prevailed everywhere ; the man who a few
years ago gave the same wealth to society which he.now
did, was robbed of five-sixths of the money he fornierly
got for the same work. Who were the robbers, then,
• but those wbo made the laws by which they continued to
receive their fixed incomes without giving any exchange?
He did not charge the present House of Commons ; the
preceding Houses were robbers, and robbers of stolen
goods ; he could, according to law, treat a dead Parlia-
ment like a dead dog by his statements. but not a living
one, or they would send him again to Lancaster Castle.
All past Parliaments had been receivers of stolen goods,
but the present was composed only of honourable and
right honourable gentlemen. As when a policeman
heard of a robbery the first thing he did was to look after
the stolen property, and obtaining that he was sure of
getting the thief, so would he, haring got the property,
get at the right honourable gentlemen, all belonging to
previous Parliaments. He then pointed to the nefarious
transactions of the fundholders, whose usurious doings
were protected by Act of Parliament, though they
were forbidden by the laws both of Moses and England.
These fundholders, or men of fixed incomes, received by
present laws and Parliamentary permission more than
50 per cent. besides the usury, and every pound of that
being three or four times more valuable. The fundholders
could consequently command five or six days' labour of
the handloom weaver, where before they could only
command one, and he who could command the labour
of another rendered him his slave.—(Applause). Now,
then, the receivers of fixed incomes had received what
the handloom weavers had lost, and consequently they
were the receivers of stolen goods. Then the next ques-
tion was, who were the robbers? He answered—the Par-
liament of England and those who made that Parliament.
rit 'was his opinion that the People's Charter would pro-
duce. mothing but bloodshed from one end of the
country to the other unless the people; possessing pro-
perty, no matter how they got it, were secured in the
possession of it. The repeal of taxes would not relieve
the people. No doubt the taxes were a burden, but they
were nothing as compared to other grievances. Mr.
O'Brien then stated that he believed he was legally the
Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; he was chosen by
11,000 people who held up their hands in tali favour,
while the Whig had only 200 and the Tory 120 ;
but though no poll was demanded, the returning
officer declared the others elected. He then
complained of the harshness with which he was treated
while in prison, not being allowed to write for the
preif. He also adverted to the accession of the Tories
to power, and said he hoped, if the Tories were to sus-
pend the Habeas Corpus Act against the declared ma-
jority of the people of the country, that the people would
rise as one man, and put down the conspirators. lie was
as willing as any man to obey the laws, even if they were
bad, so long as the law left him the means of raising
public opinion to alter the law ; but if that law was
put an end to—if the present Government should think
it necessary to suspend the law, and govern by military
commission, then he, for one, should feel himself relieved
from all obligation to Parliament, and (he declared with
an oath) he would not hesitate for a moment. Mr.
O'Brien concluded by calling upoti them to sign the peti-
tion in great numbers.
The motion for the adoption of the petition was then
put and carried.
. . . .

Captain PECRELL addressed the meeting in an apology
for the town of Brighton, remarking that Mr. O'Brien's
sentiments were understood in a general and not a parti-
cular sense.

I. N. WIGNEY, Esq., M.P., remarked that Mr. O'Brien
had spoken great and wholesome truths, and common
sense was given to every one to pick out what he thought
good, and reject the wrong. The sentiments of
Mr. O'Brien had given him much pleasure. The only
thing he might find a little fault with was that he was
rather too sweeping in his observations on late Houses
of Parliament. If present House of Commons were
thieves and robbers, and Mr. O'Brien said he was entitled
to a seat in it, he should say it was better he was not re-
turned. He should rejoice to see a man with such strong
feelings as Air. O'Brien in that House, where he would
meet with as good a man as himself ; and, bad as it was,
every man got fair play ; and, if Mr. O'Brien got there,
he would not come out and say he had left behind him
an assembly of thieves and robbers.
The other resolutions, of course, were then carried,
and the meeting separated about half-past eleven o'clock,
having lasted four hours and a half.

FRANCE.
ATTEMPT OF SEPT. 13. - TRIAL OF QUE-

NISSET AND HIS ACCOMPLICES.

PARIS, MONDAY, Nov. 15.—Count de Bastard, the
reporter of the Committee of Inquiry, read his volumi-
nous report this morning in the Luxembourg, but it will
not be completed before to-morrow. The Commis-
sioners were; Baron Pasquier, Chancellor of France,
President of the- Court of Peers ; the Duke Decazes,
-the Grand .Reforendary ; Count de Bastard, Count
d'Argout, Barthe, Persil, and Rossi. The report col
mences with stating that the new attempt, referred to
the Peers, had filled France with indignation and stupor
and it asks. how the blind Airy of factions can-be -:1--
plained When it directed-its efforts against a
Prince (the Duke- d'Aumale), who had returned with
.
his brave regiment, and surrounded by his tethers
l
was -receiving the acclamations p
of theuhrc. The
inquiry had established that this attempt was not an
isolated act, but that the resrisP
nsiribeNd ity extended
to other individuals, who had
thein his
exhibi-
tion of Quenisset and Placed' the weapon
band. It resulted that it was the work o
So-
cieties, and the reporter then stated that f the Secret
the Peers would
have to examine the situation of the accused under a
double report, first, as authors and accomplices of the
attempt on the Princes ; and, secondly, as authors or
y
accomplices of a conspiracy, of whichw•as
theto
destroy the Government. ()n the aim
the days preceding
13th of September much fermentation existed, and
sinister projects were suspected. On the night of the
li
12th the publisher of the umanitaire (M. Charavay)
was arrested at a public-house in the Rue St. Denis, and
on his person important documents were found. On the
morning of the 13th a meeting of regicides took place at
the wine-shop of Colombier, in the Rue St. Antoine, at
the corner of the Rue Travarsiere, and there the resolu-
tion was adopted to attack the Prince and his staff,
to cut down only the officers, and to cry out "The
17th of the Line for ever :" The author of the attempt
was at this meeting, and arms and cartridges were
distributed, and the conspirators distributed themselves
in the Rue St. Antoine which the Prince was to pass.
The
inquiry established that it was at the Dukes of Or-
leans, Nemours, and Aumale that the attempt was
directed, and, but for the horse of the Lieutenant-Colonel
of the 17th, the bullets would have reached the persona
of the Princes. The assassin was secured. lle called
himself Papart, but his name was soon ascertained to be
Quenisset, a sawyer by trade, born at Scelle (
Saone), living in Paris, Rue POpiDCOUrt, No. 58. Two
di
pistols were found on the spot of the attempt, one
charged and the other loaded. Quenisset admitted ths-
at
he gave one to an accomplice. Quenisset was of a re-
spectable family in the Jura, and his early years afforded
no indication of his future crime. Ile
mutiny and an
assault on his corporal, was sentenced to fire years' im.
prisonment ; but after two years being excused, he took I
the name of Papart, lived with a woman of the name of I
Leptatre, and came to Paris. He was again condemned
for an assault, and while at St. Pelagie he made the ac- !
q twins:ince of a man named Prioul, condemned
for illicit possession of arms. When both were re.
leased Prioul introduced Quenisset as member of the
Society of Travailleurs Egalitaires. Prioul represented
Quenisset as a man who could lie relied upon for his
firmness, and whose political opinions were LB hammy

MORNING SUN.

with their own. Colombier, the keeper of the wine-
shop, received at his house a great number of Commu-
nists, and of Travailleurs Egalitaires (workmen on an
equality.) The newspapers were read there daily, such
as the National, the Journal du Commerce, the Pope-
laire, and the Journal du Potpie. The plans of the Secret
Societies were discussed at this wine• shop, which was in
fact a place of initiation where the adepts engaged
themselves by a solemn oath to arm themselves against
the King's Government, to do everything to upset it, and
' to follow the orders and directions of unknown chiefs,
to whom they swore a blind obedience, promising on
their heads not to reveal what was confided to them.
Quenisset, accompanied by one of his comrades, also a
sawyer named Boucheron, was presented by _rag-
gio early in the month of Aiigust, and admitted in
this Society, after having heard a long revolutionary-
harangue, and taken the oath exacted by his ac-
complices. From that time to the 13th of September
Quenisset went almost daily to the house of Colombier.
On the morning of the 13th, at five o'clock, Quenisset
went to the Place de Greve to seek for work, but was
unsuccessful. On his return at the Barriere des Ainandes
he met Boggio, to whom he was indebted for the intro-
duction into the Society of Ouvriers Egalitaires. Boggio
said to him that a movement was preparing, and that he
was going to the Societies to inform them thereof. He
asked Quenisset to go to Colombier's, where they were
assembling. Quenisset went there, and found a dozen
iudividuals discussing whether they were to fight or
to remain quiet. A man of the name of Fremont,
alias Dufour, had already. distributed cartridges amongst
them ; Quenisset receiving two like the other conspi-
rators, although he was at that time without arms, but
soon after at the house of Bruzier, alias Just, he re-
ceived a brace of pistols, which they loaded together.
Quenisset, on quitting Juste for the rendezvous in the
Rue St. Antoine, met Boucheron, to whom he gave one
of the pistols. Thus armed, Quenisset and Boucheron
went down the street, and were joined by Just and
Martin ; Boggio, who was attending there, stationed
them at the corner of the Rue Traversiere. At this
moment Quenisset had become much excited, and being
placed on the pavement, having near him Boucheron and
several accomplices, he met the 17th Regiment, and
fired as has been stated. The next day after his arrest
Quenisset, the miserable instrument of a faction more
guilty than he, appeared affected by his crime, and was
anxious to reveal all; thus repairing in the only manner,
says the report, by the. sincerity of his confession, what
he had done. All the facts he had revealed had been
fully confirmed. At his first examination, on the 15th,
he wept bitterly, and on being assured that his wife, or
rather associate, and child should be protected from the
violence of the Secret Societies, he began his avowals. Ile
urged the upsetting of the present system, and of esta-
blishing equality as the basis ()frights, each workman to be,
paid a sum fixed by the law. "Death to the King" and the
destruction of the throne were to be their mottoes. Quenis-
set then described his admission, having his eyes bandaged.
lie was then asked by Boucheron, " Citizen, what do you
think of the present Government? think you that we are
badly governed?" Quenisset replied, " Yes." Boucheron
then said, " Thou knowest that we are Revolutionists ;
raise thy hand, and swear by thy head that thou wilt
strip thyself of thy fortune and property, that thou wilt
quit thy wife and children if thou hast any, and that
thou wilt be found in the streets at the first cry of alarm;
that thou wilt fight without counting the number of the
enemy; thou wilt also never reveal or disclose a word of
what thou hearest. To be Revolutionists like we, thou
must swear to fear neither death nor prison. Thou swear-
est! Pay attention to what thou sayest, for thy head is in
danger." Quenisset then states that not knowing whether
a pistol or a dagger was held at his head, his eyes being
bandaged, he took the oath ; his name, residence, and.
business having been previously asked. Before the ban-
dage was removed, he was told that his children and wife,
if he had any, underwent the same risk as himself. lie
was then told to go as often as possible to M. Colom-
bier's. Mallet then took off the bandage, and he was em-
braced by all, saying, " Citizen, we acknowledge thee as
a member of our society." On returning home 'he re-
marked that he was watched. Quenisset said that he
did not know the Prince, and that he had even asked of
Boucheron if the King was there. When Just. Auguste,
Jean Marie, Mallet, and others had assembled, they cried
out, " Long live the 17th ;" " Down with Louis Phi-
lippe ;" " Down with Guizot ;" " Down with the Royal
Famiy and the Princes." Just then said to Quenisset,
pointing out the officers, " It is at them you must fire."
Quenisset then admits that he drew out the pistol and
discharged it in the direction mentioned by Just. Que-
nisset denied that he aimed at any particular person.
When he was seized his comrades were "cowardly
enough," said Quenisset, "not to defend him." Quenisset
was confronted with Boucheron and Just, and the report
declares that at all these examinations Quenisset,
by the firmness of his language, by the precision of his
recollection, convinced the Committee that he had told
the truth in all points. These interrogatories of Que-
nisset led to the several arrests of members of the Secret
Societies, which led to the prompt results. The report
then examines into each case separately, in the order of
their importance :

" 1. Ifoucheron, aged 36, sawyer, born at Roull6e
(Sarthe), living in Paris, Rue de Zappe, No. 2.
" 2. Colombier, aged 43, keeper de wine-shop, born
at St. Julien de Toursac (Camel), living in Paris, Rue
Traversiere St. Antoine, No. 21.

" 3. Brazier (alias Just), aged 28, carpenter, born at
Amiens (Sonne), living in Paris, Rue Traversiere, No. 60.
" 4. Petit (Auguste), aged 31 years, upholsterer, born
at Vardon (Meuse), living in Paris, Passage de Bonne •

G race, No:14. -
" 5. Jarrasse, aged 33, cabinet-maker, born in Paris,
and living in Paris, Faubourg St. Antoine, No. 202.
"6. Lannois (alias Chasseur), aged 33, brass-setter,
born in Liege, living in Paris, Rue Traversiere, No. 21.
" 7. Dupoty, aged 44, born at Versailles, editor and
publisher of the Journal du Peuple, living in Paris, Rue
de Bussy, No. 12.
" 8. Prioul, aged 26, cabinet-maker, born at St. Malo
(The et Vilaine), living in Paris, Faubouig St. Antoine,
No. 121.

" 9. Boggio (alias Martin), aged 32, locksmith, born
at Murillac (Cantal), living in Paris, Faubourg St. An-
toine, No. 172.

" 10. Mallet, aged 37, shoemaker, born at Epinat les
Vores (Yonne), living in Paris, Rue de Charonne, No. 25.
" 11. Martin, aged 25, cabinet-maker, born at St.
Sanveur Landelen, living in Paris, Rue de Charonne,
No. 25.

" 12. Fougery, Alexis, aged 24, cabinet-maker, born
at Mons (Senile), living in Paris, Rue de Charonne,
No. 25.

" 13. Considere (acquitted on Dames' trial), aged 34,
keeper of a vrineshop, and collector of money at the bank
of MM. Laffitte and Co., living in Montmartre, Rue du
Vieux Chemin, No. 8.
6' 14. Bazin, alias Napoleon, :aged 29, cook, born in
Ganery (Aube), living in Paris, Rue St. Denis, No. 21.

14. Premoit, alias Dumont, not yet taken.
The Report, after analysing each of the above cases,
states that the ensemble of the facts constituted an at-
tempt against the life or persons of their Royal High-,
nesses the Dukes of Orleans, Nemours, and d'Aumale ;
and on the other hand, the organization of a conspiracy,
of which the attempt of the 13th of September was only
the commencement, and of which the auth:rs, accord-
ing to all the principles established by the laws, and by
the jurisprudence of the Court of Peers, ought to be con-
sidered as accomplices of the attempt.
The Report protests strongly against the license of
the press. It does not call upon the Legislature for
exaggerated rigour, br.t that the laws be strictly en-
forced, and what is prohibited should be put down, for
Pin despite of the September laws revolutionary publica-
tions had seen the light. The last twenty pages of the
Report treats of the condition and influence of the
press. The Report is thus ltound up :-
44 It is not doubtful that this serious situation claims on
the part of the depositories of power an active and perse-
vering surveillance on 'the part of the Magistrature and of
the Juries a zeal and firmness which nothing ought to in-
timidate nor to discourage. Society was tired of that auda-
city of crime which never tires, it wishes that the great in-
terests confided, to power may no longer be exposed to the
mercy of a small number of men, strangers as they
.were
among us, and quite out of the pale of our morals, insti-
tutions, and manners, and far removed from the prin-
ciples upon which society reposes ; an imperceptible mi-
nority, but which was rendered powerful by the mys-
tery of its organisation, and the unshaken perseverance
of its designs, and the atrocity of its means of action
" BatlitcpOhiting out these dangers it was important
to remind the country, that the union of all honest
n orPeo..
.y,
wouldtiiiinph always over an anarchical
and that ai'various periods such designs bad i
,bseeepno(h:
de-
feated. Courage-rand patriotism existed in this
The. monarchical and constitutional
faction
.11
Goverr:ment finds
in itself,-tnoreover, a power of perpetuity 14 At
did not possess. Insensates, not wreei
force of the Royal would 'eve that the
survive the Government who in so many
So-
vereign, and that the memory
ofFrancehl to the degree of
prosperity at which she had
dangers had succeeded to raisear
.ved would serve to
strengthen his work, and that the inheritor
lessons,throne,
and of
instructed in his school, formed by
of his
whom our public assembliesr appreciated the wig-
raise at the very
moment the crown which the
dom, as our army the courage, hgt, ill of the country, sane_
tioned by the fundamental law,
has placed on the head
of his father, in order that he might transmit it to his
descendants."

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