The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1840.

or die ;" and, drawing his sword, he added, " March to
the column, it is there we shall be joined by the friends

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

(Spirit of +1:: Fr Jo,:roll, of Illn

The following important article in the Constitutionnel
produced the greatest sensation in Paris on Monday :
It is reported every day that the French Govern-
merit, placed in front of a treaty made independently of i
its own influence, is endeavouring by one door or an-
other to creep back into the sphere of the negotiations ;
is proposing a Congress at Vienna ; is soliciting at Lon-
don for a conciliatory memorandum, promising to con-
tent itself with such a document ; is opening the idea
of French mediation between the Powers and the Paella
—in a word, is taking the initiative in all kinds of pro-
posals likely to bring about an arrangement. There is
not a single word of truth in a:I these allegations.
France is proposing nothing, is demanding nothing.
France is waiting. It is the only attitude worthy of
the position which has been made for her. The Go-

vernment could not. avoid explaining to the Powers
who signed the treaty in what manner it understood
the situation that resulted for herself from the
treaty of the 15th of July. We are certain that
this was done in terms as firm as they were moderate.
Its Ambassadors are at their posts to complete ver-
bally, in their interviews with Foreign Ministers, the
explanations contained in the written communications.
This is the part to be played by M. de St. Aulaire at
Vienna, and M. Guizot at London. It is pretended
that the King of the Belgians has undertaken to nego-
tiate at !Windsor an amicable arrangement between the
Court of England and the Court of France. If the
King of the Belgians has, in fact, endeavoured to con-
stitute himself a mediator, it has been his own spon-
taneous act, and not at the request of the French Go-
vernment. The Belgian kingdom is a creation to which
the alliance of France and England powerfully contri-
buted, and it is natural that this Prince should desire
to hinder the definitive rupture of this alliance. The
connections of relationship which attach him to the two
Royal houses of France and England were also an addi-
tional title for him to seek to adopt the honourable
part of a conciliator. But if the King of the Belgians
has really been labouring to effect an arrangement
it is a laudable intention, for which both nations
cannot but be obliged to him, though it has been
suggested to him by nobody but himself. It
was not becoming to the French Government to
demand the good offices of anybody, not even of a
King so nearly allied to our own. There has been
some talk for the last day or two of a new memo-
randum addressed to our Cabinet by Lord Palmer-
ston. This communication was announced before it
was actually made. It has been asserted that the
terms of it were settled beforehand between our Am-
bassador and Lord Palmerston, and that the French
Government had undertaken to accept it as a pledge
of reconciliation. There is nothing true in all this,
except the fact of the memorandum existing. We are
assured, in fact, that the Cabinet has received from
the Foreign Office, a very long note. But it is entirely
false that it called for such a communication ; and it is
false that it made any engagement to see, or that it
actually does see, in this diplomatic document a solution
of all the difficulties. According to the information we
have received, this memorandum is only a more extended
repetition of that which was inserted in the Augsburg
Gazette. These is a long narration made in it of the
negotiations, principally of those anterior :,to the Ist of
March. A. protest is made against all intention of
having wished to offend France. It is again said that
in signing the treaty the pressing necessity of termi-
nating the question of the East had to be given way
to ; and that, the question being resolved, it is hoped
that our alliance will be again obtained. This memo-
randum is written in very proper terms, hut it does
not at all change the foundation of the matter. The
question, in fact, is, not to know whether alliance is
to be made at a future period with France, but whe-
ther the execution of a treaty concluded without her
assistance is to be effected, and that, too, by means
which menace the interests of her power and her
dignity. Since, however, according to this memoran-
dum, the policy of the treaty is still persisted in, it is
evident that nothing has been changed. The situation
remains the same as it was before. Let the people now
decide whether the Cabinet has called for this memo-
randum, whether it concerted the terms of it, and
whether, as has been maintained, it gave to it an anti.
cipated assent. Once more, France is making pro-
posals to nobody ; she is waiting, and she continues to
take precautions."
The Debats, in noticing the telegraphic despatches
from Alexandria, says that the moment of action had
arrived, and, if there was no chance of negotiating, the
Chambers ought to be convoked. It says :
" Thus hostilities have commenced upon the coast of
Syria by the English, before the expiration of the delay
granted to Mehemet Ali by the treaty of London, and
before even the ratification of that treaty hostilities
have been declared, or rather they have broken out, in
a way so little conformable to the praci ice of civilised
nations that we could still wish to doubt the authenti-
city of the news. By vir:ue of what powers, of what
rights, did Commodore Napier. on the 14th August,
summon the Egyptian - nuthot:ities to evaoustO 'Syrlzt,
whe-eas the notification of the Treaty of London was
only made to the Paella on the 12th? Who can have
given orders to this officer to violate, before even a com-
mencement of execution, a treaty which, according to
the professions of the Powers who signed it, was to
secure the permanent patefication of the East ?"
Upon the same intelligence the Constitutionnel has a
second article. It says :
" This, with the attempt to rouse Syria to insurrec-
tion, is certainly a commencement of hostilities against
the Paella. But does it follow that if these first mea-
sures should prove insufficient, as they have up to this
moment been, the Four Powers will have recourse to
extreme measures ? That is by no means certain. The
insurrection of the Libanus was what determined the
Powers to sign the treaty of the 15th July, it opened to
them so commodious a means of coercion, and dispensed
with the necessity of a direct intervention, respecting
which many divisions might arise. This insurrection having
been put down, contrary to all the calculations of Lord
Palmerston, the first act of the English was naturally to
endeavour to re-excite it. This is what 1149 been attempted.
Up to the present moment it has not succeeded. Six days
after the summons of Admiral Napier the Egyptian au-
thorities were not thinking of evacuation, and the Emir
Bechir in token of his fidelity sent to Mehemet Ali the
proclamation which he had received from the English
squadron. Between this attempt made to rouse Syria
to insurrection and more direct and perilous coercive
means there is an immense distance. Will the Four
Powers dare to pass it ? We do not know ; but as the
first of these means had principally for object to avoid
the employment of extreme measures, and as the Powers
hare now recourse to the least •compromising measure
possible, there is no reason to conclude that they will
not hesitate at adopting more dangerous resolves."
The following remarkable article in the - Doctrinaire
organ, the Memorial de Rouen, calls for no com-
ments :

"M. Thiers is at his third shift. 'We stated that,
the Convention being signed, he hoped to prevent it
from being ratified, and that has taken place ; that being
ratified, he was certain to prevent it from being notified,
and that also has been effected, and it has even been
seen with what eagerness, eclat, and rigour. Now,
he considered himself still more certain of receiving
proposals by which it would be modified. The latter
illusion is destroyed. All that chimera to which the
Government and the press for a weak attached credit
has fall• nin its turn. There have been no proposals,
and none will there be.

" Only yesterd iy a communication was received from

Lord Palmerston, repeating what he had stated in his
speeches, endless protestations of attachment to France.
Tue Council deliberated for six whole hours upon that
communication, which gives a true portrait of the
situation.

" The treaty is being rut into execution. At the
hour at which we are writing the execution is com-
menced. It has been so for many days past. England
avows that ten thousand muskets have been sent to
Sy' ia. That is the commencement of the intervention.
" The situation has, therefore, resumed all its gravity.
That which is inconceivable is that in the eyes of those
that govern it had lost it for a moment.
" Active preparations will be redoubled. Measures
of the highest moment are spoken of. The famous
contract for horses is at last effected. M. Thiers, in all
this, has committed two blunders. There has been too
much noise, and not sufficient execution.
" In that situation M. Guizot's friends mutually ask
each other what course they are to pursue—whether
they are to allow those difficulties to remain until the
end of the chapter the personal affairs of a man who has
in a great measure caused them, and who aggravates
them. M. Guizot, by one word, can dissolve the Cabinet,
and he alone can do it. His two friends withdrawing, M.
Thiers would not be in a position to present to the Kieg a
solid Cabinet ; and from another combination might be
expected, in case of war, moreresults,more perseverance,
and more resolute conduct than from the present one,
which is distracted, bewildered, squanders the public
money, but persists, goes right to the object, taxes, and
acts. Then might be expected for peace more influence
and more authority.
" That dependent situation in which M. Thiers finds
himself with respect to the Doctrinaires, the one which
he sees he has in Europe, and which is the work of
the very journals that support him, and which
for years laboured to injure his reputation, weakens him in the Government under a Minister who at-
I
tained power by undermining the person and autho-
rity of the Prince in the opinion of all nations and all
Courts. The deep conviction that that state of affairs
gives an increasing ascendancy to the hatred of Russia
and to the insults of England has caused M. Thiers to
wish to withdraw. He himself acknowledged that that
was the best solution, and it is very certain that he said
so to the King. But the misfortune of his position is,
that his resignation is impossible, that the Crown cannot
accept, and that he is condemned to retain the power
which he so much wished for. The King has been so
much calumniated by his journals, that the more his
Minister is discredited by Europe the less can he part
with him. The King, M. Thiers, and France are en-
closed in a vicious circle, the strangest and most de-

plorable that can be imagined. Let it not be said,
therefore, that foreign Powers seek the downfal of the
C l,inet, Therc ;s IlirP",'i*)
to tnem ; for under i. France has no 'a eight t x Etii,-.)pc
but -the weight which the calumnies of the Constitution-
nel, the Temps, and the Courricr Francais have left for
M. Thiers.

" It is the serious nature of that position which M.
Gu:zet's friends are deliberating upon: They feel that
a heavy responsibility is hanging over their heads."

PRINCE NAPOLEON.

AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF PRINCE
NAPOLEON TO FRANCE, AND OF HIS DEBARCATION
AT EDULOGNE, ON THE 6TH OF AUGUST. 1840, BY
ONE OF HIS ATTENDANT OFFICERS. (TRANSLATED
FROM THE FRENCH.)
Woe to the conquered, but honour to pure and noble
intentions."

The expedition, which comprised about 60 men, left
England the 4th of August, 1840. The steamer the
Edinburgh Castle* was employed to convey the men,
carriages, and other luggage, and was at Greenwich at
half-past 9, where some of the associates were em-
barked ; others were taken up at different points of the
passage, to allay suspicion. At 11 o'clock the steamer
was off Black wall and at midday opposite Gravesend ;
from both of these places men were received on board.
Anchor was cast before this latter place, and the vessel
remained there till 5 in the evening, when the Prince
who had appointed that place for his embarkation,
came on board. The vessel then proceeded
down the river Thames ; but meeting with low
water, she touched upon a sandbank about 6 o'clock,
just off Margate. We remained there till the next
day, the sth of August, when, at 3 in the morn-
ing, the steam being up, the vessel continued her pas-
sage. When we arrived at Margate we embarked the
remainder of our company, and then got out of the
Thames. As it was not wished to reach the coast of
France until the break of day, it was proposed to rest
off Ramsgate during the sth, but the wind blowing
stiff from the English coast, we ran from Ramsgate to
Rye, and thence tacked about and made for Dieppe,
that it might be thought that that was our destination ;
but having proceeded a certain distance, the vessel was
put about for the coast of England to wait for a conve-
nient hour for landing at the projected destination.
The sea was very rough, and the waves covered the
ports of the vessel, and nearly all on board were sea
sick. Towards midday the wind abated, the sea be-
came calmer, and the passengers less affected with sick-
ness. The Prince profited by this opportunity to ad-
dress them on the subject of their landing. Turning
to his friends and his devoted followers, he acquainted
them in a forcible and energetic speech with his inten-
tion to make a descent upon France, and to replace the
nation in its glory and honour, from which she had
been excluded since 1819. Up to this time, with the
exception of three or four persons, none knew what
was the cause of the embarkation and intended expedi-
tion.

Strict silence prevailed whilst the Prince addressed
them, who, with an energetic voice, pronounced these
fine words :—" My friends, I have conceived a project
which I could not before communicate to you, which
contemplates grand enterprises, the secret of which
alone insures success. My friends, we go to France ! I
have friends there waiting my arrival. and if I am se-
conded by you, as I have been led to anticipate, the sun
that now shines upon us will in a few dabs light us in
Paris, and history shall record that it was with a hand-
full of brave men, such as you, that I accomplished this
grand and glorious enterprise."
This warm address electrified his auditors, who were
enthusiastic, and repeated cries were raised of " Vive lu
France !" " Viva la Patric !" " Viva le Prince Napo-
leon !" " Vive l'Empereur !" which proved to him their
patriotism and their devotedness to France. A!;er
having made known the object of the expedition, the
order was given to distribute the clothing and equip-
ments from the boxes on board, of the contents of which
till then nil were ignorant. This distriuution was made
with promptitude in a regular manner, and all immedi-
ately put on their uniforms.
Towards 6 in the evening the vessel hove off Deal,
where we saw a small squadron of Dutch vessels be-
tween us and the land, and making passage to the west.
This discovery caused some astonishment for a while,
and gave rise to various conjectures, but we did not
slacken the rate of the vessel, or change its direction.
At half-past 7we left the coast of Engiand in nearing
that of France, and at 9 o'clock, the night being ad-
vanced, we directed the vessel towards Cape Grisnez
Towards 10 o'clock, the water being low, the line was
cast on the coast, the result of which being considered
dangerous, it was then that the last preparations were
made.
At 1 o'clock in the morning we took a different
course, and made all possible sail for the port of Vime-
reux, distant a league from Boulogne. Soundings were
made often, to avoid running aground on the sands,
which, according to the lead, were at first 15 feet, and
at last 10 feet, and the draught of the vessel only 8 feet.
'rho engine was stopped, and the boat abandoned to the
current, keeping her clear of all obstacles.
At two o'clock the ship's boat was put afloat, and
the first detachment, composed of eight grenadiers and
a captain, proceeded to the landing-place ; seven fol-
lowed every ten minutes ; and thus s ion all were landed.
The head of the first detachment had received orders to
communicate to she Custom-house authorities that the
vessel whin was in sight had left Dunkirk on the sth
with troops for Cherbourg, for the expedition to La
Plata, but having sprung a leak they had been obliged
to put into the nearest port, and that the commander
had determined to finish the journey on foot. Before
quitting the steamer orders were given to the English
captain to leave his anchorage and lie before Boulogr.e
a quarter of a league distant, and to enter the port on a
given signal. All the horses and luggage were left on
board.
At Vimereux the expedition met two officers whom
the Prince had sent previously to Boulogne with a con-
fidential mission. They served as guides to the column,
which when it was formed marched for Boulogae under
the orders of Prince Napoleon.
At four o'clock in the morning we entered the bar-
rack-yard of the Infantry, where we found two com-
panies of picked men, from the 42d Regiment.
On hearing the voice of the Prince, and seeing the
imperial eagle, the under officers and soldiers were im-
mediately in arms in the yard, and ranged themselves
in battle array against the column of this expedition.
The Prince then addressed them, and produced a tea-
gical effect upon them, and repeated arias of " Vive le
Prince Napoleon !" " Viva l'Empereur!" They beat
to colours and presented arms.
The orderly officer of the Prince, M. Jules Lombard,
who carried the standard, went and placed it in the
centre of the two companies, and the imperial eagle
was received in their ranks with shouts a thousand times
repeated, of " Vive le Prince Napoleon !" " Vive
l'Empereur !"
Immediately the Prince promoted seven non-commis-
sioned officers, who had advanced in front of the two
companies, to the grade of second lieutenants ; one of
them he named a chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Time being precious, all those operations were com-
pleted in ten minutes, and they then prepared to march
to a particular part of the city, where they were to
rally their partisans who espoused the P.ince's cause,
and upon whom he reckoned, and to seize, at the
same time the civil and military authorities who should
be opposed to the accomplishment of his enterprise.
But a veteran captain of the 42d, attracted by the
acclamatiors, and, ignorant of what was going for-
ward, came out : he contrived to mike hi; wey into
the barracks, and, seeing what was intended by these
demonstritions, he was frightened at the false position
on which he was about to enter, and, alarmed at the
serioue consequences which might ensue, he made vi-
gorous attempts to cool the ardour of his troops. Pru-
dence suggested that this officer should be put to
death, which would certainly have taken place had it
not been for the intercession of M. Aladanin, Lieute-
nant of the 42(1, who had taken part with the Imperial
cause, but who nevertheless entreated his days might
be spired ; moreover, some in the ranks of his com-
of whose attachment he boasted, exclaimed,
" Save our captain." A frightful conflict might have
ensued. A dreadful slaughter seemed inevitable.
Fr
enchanbdlotohde seemed
amabpost:t to be shed in streams—a
conclusion which it was advisable to avoid. From this
moment coldness succeeded theat firstfirst
united,hurst enthu-
siasm,separated
fparated
without the possibility of marching any longer under
the same ensign. We left the barracks, as we could
not come to an understanding, and the doors were
closed upon the troops of the 42d regiment.
PrincaessNemapbloeldeonb,enfoore ow
longer relying on the support
of these two companies, rushed in the midst of the mul-
titude barracks, when two or
three hundred of the populace cried " Leave the sol-
dii:lrigsVi atlovoe i'E naer;nwsmerpweriellur !m:""h with you to the Hotel de
Ville,
All these fine fellows followed the Prince with cries
of ' V
and marched at a quick pace
towards that Napoleon
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city where the citadel is, to obtain arms. The Princei
wished to obtain arms for the men who followed
and who were so well disposed to,support him. The
first door they found sh&., it was opened quickly, ; but
the second, which abuts on the route to
thetea was
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M. Lombard, summoned the porter to open it he
was succeeded by two sappers, who endeavouredto
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to ti:e ~..tandard-bearer, Lombard, to ascend to the uni
mit, and there plant his flag. Arrived at the foot; of '-.he
column, the Prince addressed his followers thus :—" My
friends, it is at the has of this column I will die, arid
we shall see if the French dare fire upon the of
the Emperor."
His friends, seeing the fatal consequences of his reso-
lution, again endeavoured to persuade him to make to
the shore, but lie replied, with greater energy, " No,
leave me ; it is here that I ought to die."
It was then that they dragged him with force towards
the sea, d.stant about half a league.
The Prince and his friends were surrounded on all
quarters ; the gendarmes were sent out as scouts, and
appeared upon the surrounding heights, at the distance
of two or three gunshots. The Preventive Service and
a party of the National Guard followed, without, how-
ever, daring to engage in combat. The majority of the
people who had accompanied the Prince, seeing the
improbability of procuring arms, made a retreat, and
arrived at the landing-place without a single shot having
been fired.

During this time the standard-bearer was alone at the
top of the column, where he had planted his flag and
attempted to make a diversion in favour of the Prince
by attracting his assailants' attention. The Prince
having lost all hope of repulsing such a powerful force,
and desiring as far as possible to avoid the effusion of
blood, from this time unavailable, retired by degrees to
the sea-shore, where his friends hoped to obtain a boat
for his embarcation, and take him off to the steamer.

A detachment of forty or fifty of the National Guard
followed the Prince, and from time to time we faced the
enemy in order to keep the..n at bay. We reached et
last the sea-shore, where a slight bark was found high and
dry, and which it was necessary to launch into the sea.
The Prince was lifted by his friends and by some of
the people who had constantly followed him, and was
borne on their arms to that frail bark, where he was
joined by five or six friends, among whom were Colonel
Voisin, Commandant' Mesonan, M. Galvani, . MM.
Baitaille and de Serigny. .
The embarcation was made in great haste ; the
men who had saved the life of the Prince, as they
thought, then effected their retreat in many directions,
to escape being made prisoners. Then, these National
Guards having nothing more to fear, came down
upon the sea-shore and directed a sharp fire upon
the bark, by which there were wounded the Prince
Napoleon by a spent ball in the chest, and who received
two other balls in his clothes, Colonel Voisin received
1 three balls, the Subintendent Galvani received four
balls, one in his right arm and three in his clothes.
The frail bark being too heavily loaded, foundered at
four metres from the shore, and those who knew any-
thing of the art of swimming attempted to reach the
steamer by swimming.
It was thought that the rage of these miserable men
would have now been appeased, and that they would
have, to the honour of France, left them to the mercy
'of the waves—a feeling which must exist in the heart
of every man of honour ; but nevertheless, the balls of
these National Guards continued to be discharged
against these defenceless men. The person who com-
manded the fire is a mean character called Duterte, a
notary and captain of the National Guard—a name
which ought to be regarded with disgust and abhor-
rence. Two boats then left the shore, one with four
gendarmes, the other with six National Guards, to take
charge of the wrecked. The first of these two took
on board the Prince Napoleon, in full uniform, also the
chief, the Commandant Mesonan, and M. Bataille, one
of the orderly officers. MM. Voisin and Galvani,
being sorely wounded by the first discharge of musketry,
were lying on the shore, and were taken prisoners.
If the boat which carried the Prince had reached
the Edinburgh Castle, the disaster would have been
greater. The preventive service had for the last
quarter of an hour been in possession of the vessel, and,
after lying down on the deck, they had ordered the ves-
sel to lae directed in such a manner as to approach the
coast, in order to pick up or receive on board the fugi-
tives. In this method of proceeding a snare was laid
worthy of every act which had disgraced this day.
The armed Custom-house officers would have fired on
the Prince as soon as he was within shot, aisd his
death, which had no doubt been determined on, would
have been unavoidable. Whilst this was passing off
shore, the Imperial standard was flying at the height
of the column of the Grande Armee. M. Lombard re-
solved to die under his flag, and, though alone, stood
out against a number of the gendarmes and soldiers of
the line, who called upon him to surrender, and come
down. This continued for full a quarter of an hour,
when two strong men mounted to the top of the column
and told him to surrender his flag, menacing to preci-
pitate him from the height, if he refused.
In repiy to this, M. Lombard presented a pistol in
each hand, and told them that if they dared to make a
single step towards him for the purpose of seizure, he
would immediately shoot them.
This was sufficient for them, and the imperial eagle
remained flying till the Prince was arrested.
One of the persons. named Lejeune, a witness of this
scene, a master bricklayer, was so touched with the
loyalty of the standard-bearer, that he offered him a
chance of escaping. " I ;lo not want your offer," re-
plied M. Lombard, "my place is with my flag. lam
ready to die for my cause ;" then seizing the eagle he
descended the column, and gave himself into the hands
of the crowd waiting below as a prisoner.
Those already in custody were taken to the citadel.
All were anxious to know the names of his friends who
had shared the same fate, and they found a number of
their comrades in custody, and the pressing of hands on
inquiring after each other was truly affecting. It was
true that the fate of the brave Count Dunin, captain
and aide-de-camp of the Prince, who it appears was
drowned, after having received a ball in his head, was
lamentable, as was the more frightful death of M. Jaure,
one of the household of the Prince, who, when badly
wounded in the abdomen, and resting upon the strand,
was coolly assassinated by one of those National Guards,
the name of which deserves never to be mentioned but
with execration by men of courage.
. I , fec', during the passage horn the column to the
sea-shore a handful of courageous men had been suffi-
cient to keep in respect this villanous band, and it was
not till the men were without arms and partly sub-
merged that the pretended valour of these swaggerers
was exercised, valour which would at the hands of all
honourable men be stigmatized as dishonourable political
assassination.

In this short expose of facts it would be useless to
detail denunciations and partial treasons of which many
of the officers and soldiers of the followers of the Prince
were the victims, who ought to have found hospitality
and good-will for their heroic conduct and devotedness,
a dignity by many of them justly acquired. But such
was not the case, and by the side of these dastards
whom we have just exposed, we must unfortunately
add, that certain individuals were base enough to agree
for the price of gold, after having afforded an asylum to
several fugitives, to give them up to the authorities io
the expectation of further rewards.
Considering it in all points, nothing could be more in-
famous than this conduct, because it was the Emperor
Napoleon who made of a miserable place of fishers' huts
and pirates a great and beautiful city, and the cradle of
his prosperity and opulence bears date from his immortal
camp of Boulogne.

Such is the succinct expose of the facts which took
place during the Gth of August. They arc submitted
without commentary to impartial men of all opinions,
that all may take a view of the case and stigmatize ac-
cording to merit the turpitude and infamy of a p Irt of
this anti-French population, who have acted with such
culnlbility in this unfortunate affair.

Given at the Citadel of Bou!nue, the 10th of Aupst,
1840, under the State-Major Mesonan, and m4ny offi-
cers, by M. Jules Lombard, orderly-officer of the Prince,
standard-bearer of the guard of the Pretendant in this
unfortunate affair.

The officers present at the affair of the 6th of August,
1840, and taken prisoners, were the Prince Napoleon,
M. M. le General Montholon, Colonel Voisin, Colonel
Bauffe de Montauban, Colonel Parquin, Major Meso-
nan, Lieut.-Colonel Laborde, Captain Despardin, of the
Imperial Guard ; MM. Lombard, standard-bearer, and
one of the orderly-officers of the Prince Napoleon ;
MM. de Persigny, Ornano, and Bataille, orderly officers
of Prince Napoleon ; M. Bachon, Master of the Horse
of Prince Napoleon ; Dr. Conneau, surgeon to the
Prince ; M. Orti, a friend of the Prince ; M. Dalm-
berg, the Secretary of the Prince, filling the capacity of
Lieutenant of the detachment ; M. Aladanize, Lieute-
nant of the 423 line ; M. Galvani, sons intendent
taire ; M. Buze, foster-brother of the Prince, Paymaster
of the Forces ; M. C. Thelin, steward to the Prince,
and all his servants, about sixty individuals.

The wounded were the Prince, one ball ; Colonel
Voisin: pierced by three balls ; M. Galvani, sous-in-
tendent, a ball in the arm ; a Polish soldier wounded
in the arm, amputation necessary, despair of his sur-
viving.

The killed were M. le Count Dunin, Captain and
Aide-de-Camp of Prince Napoleon ; M. Fauze, Secre-
tary to the Prince.
those who it is thought have escaped arc M. Vis-
count Richard de Querellcs, Captain of the detach-
ment ; M. Forestier, Sub-Lieutenant of the troop.

Evidently meaning the City or Edinburgh.

CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.—Yes-
terday Sir Burgess Camac waited upon the Commissioners
of Sewers, sitting at Guildhall, in the City, for the pur-
-1 pose of applying for permission, a: Chairman of the Me-
tropolitan Wood Pavement Company, to lay down the
wood pavement of the Company in some parts of the City.
The Commissioners gave permission to the Company to
make an experiment opposite to Cripplegate Church, from
Jewin-street to White Cross-street. Mr. Stephen Geary
also made an application to experimentalise with wood
pavement. He requested, upon the part of the Company,
called " The Wood Paving Company," to bo allowed to go
to work • and was sanctioned to lay down 300 yards of
timber pavement in Leadenhall•street, opposite to St. Ca-
therine Cree Church. It is calculated that the traffic in
the latter place is about four times a great as that in tho
latter.

TRIAL OF MADAME LAFFARGE.

SECOND DA Y....E; I.' .R._.o P.F. I) 1 N

The first. part of lite sitting lof the Court on toe
second day was occupied with the arguments of Counsel
on the question raised on behalf of the prisoner, that the
names of Lll those persons should be struck from the
list of witnesses who had been witnesses on the previous
trial for the robbery of diamonds. The Court, how-
ever, decided that they should be retained, and
The President proceeded with the examination of
Madame Laffarge. She rose from her seat with appa-
rent difficulty, and replied to the questions put to her
with so feeble a voice th,it her answers could hlr:Ily be
heard. In a short time, hovre%er, she became more
calm and self-possessed, and her replies, given in a ciear
but. still weak voice, were easily heard.
President—By whose intervention was your marriage
n:-gotiated ?—Madame Garat spoke to me on the part
of M. Laffarge.

But was there not an intermediate party ; a nego-
tiator?—l know not of whose intervention he availed
himself.

Was it not that of M. Defoy?—l know not.
Is it true that in your journey from Paris to
Giandier you had a loaded pistol with you ?—No ;
it is not!

Why, then, did you say so in your letter to your
hu.band, after your arrival at that place ?—.I was so
annoyed at my position, and so much desired that M.
Laffarge would aiow me to quit the place, that I said
the most inconceivable things, and told the greatest
faishoods to—(Here her voice faltered, and she did not
conclude the sentence.)
Is it true that during the journey you took poison ?
—No, Sir.

M. Paillet (Counsel for the prisoner)—The prisoner
requests permission to be allowed to sit.

President (to the prisoner)—You may sit down. You
say that you bad not a loaded pistol with you on your
journey from Paris to Glandier, and that you did not
take poison ; although these statements were both made
by yourself in the letter to your husband. Was it then
the result of excitement on arriving at Glandier that you
made those statements ?—Yes, sir.
What was your motive in sending your portrait to M.
Laffarge with the cakes, when you knew that he would
so soon return from Paris ? I say cakes, although in
the accusation against you it is stated that there was
but one cake.—lt had been agreed between us that I
should send the portrait. M. Laffarge expressed a wish
to have it, ar.d I got a portrait painter to take it. Se-
veral days were occupied in taking it, and as he desired
to have it in Paris I sent it to him. As to the romantic
aff.►ir about the cakes I cannot explain that. It was in-
deed ridiculous enough, but M. Laffarge was so good to
me, he had shown me so much affection, that I wished
to give him pleasure, as he had desired to give me plea-
sure by partaking my laic de poule.
Why did you say that he shared the cakes which you
sent him with his sister. His sister was not in Paris at
the time P—That was ridiculous enough, I own ; but I
fancied she was there.

How do you reconcile this exalted tenderness with
the cruel letter ,vhich you wrote to him on your arrival
at Glandier ?—The kindness of M. Laffarge had won
my heart. I really liked him. It was not love, but
affection. lie wrote me the most impassioned letters,
and I thought it my duty to make him happy by using
similar language.

Then, according to your statement, in the course of
three or four months the antipathy which you felt to-
wards him, and which made you think of flying to
Smyrna, was succeeded by feelings of gratitude, tender-
ness, and affection ?—Yes.

Now, explain yourself respecting the sending of the
cake or cakes ; for it is alleged that there was but one,
and that that was about the size of a small plate ?
I can only affirm what I have said before. I put
three or four little cakes in the box ; of this I am per-
fectly sure.
Then you think that the witness who stated the con-
trary, on whose testimony so much reliance has been
placed, has stated what is false ?—No ; I do not say
that. But I speak the truth.

The last question of importance put to her was,
whether there was any one else she could accuse of the
murder of her husband. Her reply was that there was
not ; that she had suffered too much herself from the
accusation, to think of bringing it against any one else.
The first witness was M. Lespinaz, director of the
Horse Establishment at Pompadour. His deposition
was insignificant. M. Laffarge, he said, was good
tempered, and his wife treated him with affection.

M. Bardon, the physician, was the second witness.
He was called in on the sth of January. Found M.
Laffarge ill and weary, his face red, hoarse, excited,
thirsty, and frequently vomiting. He was told M.
Laffarge had an indigestion from eating truffles. Mdme.
Laffarge asked him to order arsenic to kill rats. Laf-
farge vomited faecal matter. He ordered alum for the
inflammation of the throat. He saw a white powder,
which he took to be chalk, on a whey that Madame
Latiarge had prepared for her husband. He as-
sisted at the opening of Laffarge after death.
Ho did not find grains of arsenic adhering to
the stomach. There were red spots, and one
large, black, and gangrenons spot towards the
bottom of the stomach. Several liquids examined pre-
sented no sign of arsenic. The whey and watergruel
did presents signs of it. The tissue of the stomach, ana-
lysed, gave sulphate of arsenic, so did the flannel. He
could not say whether it was arsenic or egg which caused
the white spots on the surface of the whey when he sew
it presented. He tasted it. It was sour, but could not
say positively it was arsenic. He did not believe in
poison having been employed till after the death. He
heard the mother of Madame Laffarge complaining that
she was prevented from attending her son, and declaring
that she would attend him, in a resolute tone.
The Judge here questioned Madame Laffarge, who
said the quarrel arose from her forcing her mother-in•
law, who had sat up all night, to go to bed. The quar-
rel was a friendly one.

Here the Judge observed that M. Bardon represented
the tone of the mother to have been very resolute,
which was not likely in a friendly altercation.
M. Bardon here said he had said resolute, and not
very resolute. Madame Laffarge has asked him to get
arsenic for her, without any mystery. She asked for it
openly, in the chamber of the sick man. He thought
the quarrel between the two Madames Laffarge pro-
ceeded from rivalry as to who should have the upper
hand in the house and family. Arsenic could not be
absorbed into the skin from flannel by friction. Laf-
large was rubbed with the flannel.
M. Jules Hespinatz, a physician, was the next called.
On the President asking him if he had any doubt as to
M. Laffarge having been poisoned, he replied," None."
The examination of some other medical men brought
the day's proceedings to a close, and the Court ad-
jturned.
MM. Dubois and Dupuytren were appointed by the
Court to make fresh experiments.