The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-15 00:00:00

FRENCH TRIALS.

COURT OP ASSIZE, PARIS-, JAN. 12.--TO-nor=
row the Court will be occupied with the investi-
gation of two• grave and irvaporta:it charges. We
will state some of the facts relative to each of
the causes. •

The first is a case of attempted assassination. The accuse:a
is a woman of the town called Rose Vivier—her intended victim
is one Rent Lamoriette, a diScharged soldier; and the motive
fez the attempted crime was jealousy. The manner in which
this ' feeling was - first evinced, betrays the existence of a
strange delusion, and the force of strong attachment. Hear-
ing that her lover was determined to leave her, and to contract
a marriage with a more successful rival, she administered
to him love-potions, which failed to produce the desired effect.
This philtre was composed of a quantity of blood from her
own veins, mixed with wine, which she prepared for Lamor-
lette. Finding the love-potion useless, she resolved to try a
different experiment, and on the 11th of August bought
a table-knife, which she ordered to be sharpened on both
sides. This was done, as she has since declared, that she might
not fail in her attempt on her lover, nor afterwards on herself.
During the time that the knife was sharpening, she appeared
distracted, and wept bitterly. Some time afterwards, she enticed
Lamolette into a private room in a public-house, declaring it was
the last time would demand an interview with him. When
they entered, Rose Vivier asked her lover if he still persisted
in his design to deseert her, nod marry another?—" Yes,"
replied he.—" You would rather see me die, then ?" said
she. The same answer was returned. " Believe, then," said
she, taking him by the hand, " that I have told you the
truth, and that this is the last day. You know I have always
told you that I could not live without you ; you therefore prefer
death ?" " Yes." replied Lamorlette. Immediately the ac-
cused lifted her hand and strack Lamorlette with all her force
in the breast, saying, " Since we must die, then, let us die."._
She immediately withdrew the knife and attempted her own
life. Lamorlette has recovered. The accused confesses the
crime, and shows no signs of repentance.
The second affair which will occupy the Court after that of
the attempt at murder, refers to those criminal efforts which
were made at the commencement of the Spanish war (by French-
men unworthy of the name) to support in the Peninsula the
cause of all the Revolutions of all countries. The chariee com-
prehends seven persons—six men and one fewiale, the ratter as
being implicated and not discovering what she knew.
In 1821, one of the accused, Sauquaire-Soulign6, was tried
for plotting against the State, and acquitted; but the only ef-
fect this acquittal had upon him was, to inspire him with an
implacable hatred to the Government, and with the desire of
fabricating new conspiracies. At the commencement of the
Spanish war, when the French armies advanced to rescue the
captive King, and to crush the factious who disturbed the Pen.
Soulitene corresponded with the Spanish Revolutionists,
the Radicals of England, and the French who were condemned
for their treasons, and who were refugees in London and the
north of Spain, and treated with the enemies of France to over-
throw the government of this country. A person of the name of
Bowring, an Englishman, was the London agent of these intri-
gues which were concerted at Paris at the hotelof Itl.D'Oliveira,
then Ambassador from the Cortes of Portugal, the intimate friend
of Soulign. At the moment of his departure for Lisbon this
Ambassador was surprised, with papers in the hand writingof
Soulignoi These writings, seized at Havre, and transmitted to
Paris, contained evident proofs of the intrigues of Souogoo.
He describes himself as constantly employed in preparing levies,
subscriptions, and plans of campaigns. Re used ciphers to
elude the vigilance of the police. It. would be tedious to recite
all the invectives—the calumnies—the infamous insults_which
he heaps without shame, upon all the Bourbons and Royal
Family of France. The pen would refuse to trace such dis-
gusting matter. He writes to the Revolutionists thus—.
" ilowring knows all—he appreciates all. He will tell you
what men, what description of' men, are around me. Ile will
tell you what proofs, and what guarantees they wave given at
the house of him from whom I write ; when he tells you, that
the first men of France, in rank, in genius, and courage form
the assemblage : when he assures you that I am surrounded
with such, believe him ; when you are told that all are ready
to conquer for liberty and independence, believe it. All this is
the concern of millions, who will spare you hundreds in the at-
tainment of these objects, either for expenditure or destruction.
Believe all that Bowring and the person from whose house I
write, will tell you. Be assured also that I will place myself
as a hostage in your hands, for the purpose of signing a
treaty, such as you would not think of proposing, if you were
to dictate to a conquered country. Leaving this, I will
give up all comfort, -family, domestic happiness. I will
return no more except through the portal of victory.
This will, perhaps, give you the measure of my hopes.
Every thing depends upon you and your allies -at Madrid ;
pronounce i'pon your safety, and upon ours; they are insepa-
rable. Call me; I will not be slow in hearing you ; the tor-
rent will soon burst upon you from this quarter. I have never
given you false advice. Some millions would have spared you
torrents of blood; you should have given a thousand millions,
which invasion and ruin will cost You. You are upon the brink
of the precipice, Bowring will inform you how you may fling
into it the enemy who has dug it. Depend besides upon a
treaty more advantageous than any
you could think of. Shall
I quit my country to go to you without the certainty that you
wish for all we offer you ? This would be to deprive my coca-
try of me, and shut its doors against me for ever."
After a violent diatribe against the Bourbons, and most
insulting remarks upon the preparations against Spain, he adds
—" We have been as if nurtured in glory ; the Bourbons have
cast it down and dishonoured it. War is determined upon ; this
has been effected by the atrocious solicitations, by the unhal-
lowed supplications of the Bourbons. We have no longer any
measures to keep with them ; they have conceived the hope of
destroying us. May the wretches .iierish ! A hatred of the
people—a thirst of massacre, to the danger of which they
do not expoSe themselves—foreign and domestic war, corrup-
tion, treachery, murder, proscription, extravagance, cold-
blooded atrocities—these emanate from the Bourbons—
these are the results of their projects, the end of all their efforts.
God has vomited them in his wrath, for the purpose of merit-
ing, each day of their existence, already too protracted, the
execration of their contemporaries, and the brand of history.
Regal monsters ! you have ever wished war, even to death.
We accept your offer: hell has vomited you again upon us,
and we will cast you back into its bosom."
An infamous comparison between Napoleon and the King
ends with these words :—" Spaniards! listen to toy voice.
Suffer the enemy to advance. Give him a great extent of
country to plunder; he will weaken by spreading himself; he
will become vulnerable on a great number of points; the sacred
land of Iberia will be his grave; and the vespers of Spain will
cause those of Sicily to be forgotten."
It was by writings like these he excited and encouraged the
external enemies of Fiance, whilst he endeavoured to support
its internal foes 'by corrupting the troops. When he ima-
gined all was in readiness, he left France, and repaired to Lis-
bon, where he made his appeals to all the supporters of revo-
lutions, and to the French refugees in England. And on the
17th of November, 1822, he writes thus to Chauvet, one of the
accused :—" I am in the free land of the Peninsula, where I
have as many and as powerful friends as the Governors them-
selves. The only effect of my second proscription has been to
hasten my departure, with that of my intimate friend, the Am-
bassador of Portugal."
O. the 4th of October he wrote to the same person :—"
would ask you, if you wish to ally yourself to those destinies,
which in all probability will become great, and the subject for
history ? I repeat, this day, my first demand, and I add, that
fam here in the train of a patriotic congress. The diplomatic
representative is received and acknowledged by the Ambassa-
dor ( witness of all) of France free, or who wishes to become so.
I have come abroad to put the last hand to that which I have
already done at home. I am the bearer of treaties, proposed
and already assented to. I want near me a man indefatigable
and unwearied : you are that man. AboVe all things, I am
able to assure you of an honourable reception in the Peninsula."
This appeal lead the wished effect. The French refugees
assembled at his voice ; the cause (sacred in their eyes) of in- '
aurrection and revolt inflames their zeal ; they anticipate in
Spain that Success which they could not obtain in 1, ranee ;
they leave England ; they fly to join the enemies of their
country, and to unite themselves with him who, from the ex-
tremity of Portugal, has foretold the triumphs of revolution.
There are many other documedts of a similar description.
Souligne will be tried for having raised arms against France ;
the others for being accomplices, and plotting with him, and
also for bearing arms against France ; the woman Chautiet for
being an accomplice, and for not revealing to the authorities
what she knew. The men being in a state of contumacy
(cortturnace), will be judged by the Court without the inter-
vention of a .Jury, or without hearing witnesses, and upon the
production alone of the written documents; the woman will be
tried in the ordinary manner.

FOR THE SUN.

BOXING.

Ma. EDITOR-It has naturally excited much
surprize that the late pugilistic conflict; so long and
publicly announced to take place at Worcester,
should not have been pretented by the Municipal
Officers of that City, in whose immediate • juris.
diction this brutal spectacle was exhibited.