The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, - LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1848.

THE INSURRECTION OF JUNE.
We published on Saturday the evidence of M. Arago
respecting the outbreaks in Paris in the months of May
and June. The first volume issued by the Commission
d'Enquete, consists of no less than 370 closely printed
pages, containing the evidence given by the very men
who took so prominent a part in the transactions which
gave rise to the investigation. The testimony thus
made public throws a broad light on the insurrection
of June, its causes, and the objects to which it was
directed.
TESTIMONY OF M. CARLIER, DIRECTOR. OF POLICE
TO MINSTRY OF THE INTERIOR.
In my quality of Chief of the Police of the Ministry of the
Interior, I know many facts relative to the events concern-
ing which you are instituting an inquiry. It is not always
as an ocular witness that I depose to these facts, but as
having learnt them in the course of my functions. It will
be, then, easy to control what I say.- After these observa-
dons, the witness deposed thus :—When he was called to
the Ministry of the Interior, he immediately saw he was
placed between three or four fires. On the 14th and 15th,
he warned M. Carteret of the movement of the 16th of April,
organized by Bashes, Blanqui, and Ledru Rollin. This
latter was to be named dictator. Blanqui, for his part, had
even the secret design of assassinating part of the Provi-
sional Government. M. Ledru Rollin did not dare to pro-
ceed to extremities. At midnight he caused M. Lamartine
to be found, and revealed to him what he knew. On the
night of the 15th to the 16th, M. Carteret did not sleep at
the ministry. At ten o'clock on Sunday morning, the wit-
ness saw M. Ledru Rollin go out by the Rue-Hillerin-Bertin.
Ile was very agitated, and said to him, " this must be
drowned in a movement of the National Guard, and they are
going to beat the rappel." Cartridges had been distributed
on the eve at the Prefecture. On the 17th it was proposed
to arrest Blanqui. The witness urgently demanded it. M.
Carteret said yes, and that M. Caussidiere did not dare to do
it. The witness asked that power should be granted to him
fur two hours, and he promised to arrest him. No effects
followed from this; either they did not with, or did not dare
to prosecute. Montagnards have told the witness that they
did wrong to sift this business to the bottom.
April 23, day of the elections.--The members of the Pro-
visional Government had agreed to vote for each other. The
witness was astonished at the measures taken at the minis-
try. Nearly 500,000 lists, like those shown, were drawn up.
The)' went forth from the cabinet of M. Ledru-Rollin, and
were paid for by the Ministry. During the night of the,26th
to the 27th, some of the Montagnards on service about M.
Ledru-Rollin, at the ministry of the interior, posted up on
yellow paper an incendiary proclamation, which came from
the cabinet of the Minister. Three were arrested by Na-
tional Guards, and conducted to the Prefecture of Police,
but were immediately released. It was wished to make the
wounded vote. On Sunday, the day of the election, Villain,
not finding M. Ledru-Rollin at the Ministry, showed to wit-
ness copies which he had of the definitive constitution of the
wad said to him that,
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between them and the Prefecture ; he announced that they
had 15,000 men, that M. Ledru-Rollin was their protector
and their protege, and that if their affair had failed on the
16th, it was because they were not completely organized.
The witness informed M. Carteret of this next day, and he
said that villain was a madman, and that M. Ledru-Rollin
entirely rejected his projects.
May 4.—. M. Ledru-Rollin, on leaving the Ministry of the
Interior, after the 4th of May, had so arranged as to remain
master of the Ministry, by making M. Carteret under-secre-
tary of state, and M. Panisse chief of the division of general
surety. Nothing was communicated to M. Recurt. From
the day of M. Recurt's entry to the Ministry of the Interior,
till the 16th of May, the day when M. Caussidiere resigned,
M. Recurt did not see him once and did not hear any one
speak about him. From the 4th May to the 14th notice was
given to the minister of the fury of the clubs against the Na-
tional Assembly. The witness thought that at former epochs
Barbes, Villain, and others, had relations with M. Ledru-
Rollin. At each conference the violence of the clubs in-
creased. The witness demanded why they did not take
measures against the clubs. M. Louis Blanc likewise cause
to M. Ledru-Rollin's near midnight. After the sittings of
the clubs there were meetings at the Prefecture of Police.
THE INTASION.
The Ministry was warned on the 14th, and was much
alarmed. During the night the informations were completed
by the witness. It was proposed to force an entry into the
National Assembly, in order to read an address in favour of
Poland. In the clubs they had indicated those charged to
distribute arms, particularly Sobrier. The witness spoke of
measures to take—the Minister hesitated. He offered to
seize Blanqui, immediately •to destituate M. Caussidiere' to
make a regiment occupy the prefecture of police, and to
e pointed out to him two
pointed
whom he should be
cause the generale to be beat. The witness went to Si.
Carteret, who was in bed, to repeat the same advice. They
M. Yon and another.
Di. e
said that measures would be taken. The questor, M. Bu-
aregaeunxtsdgeivPeunzby),, was
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a
on leis guard.
. They wilrie.
ire_npnlatcnedgbn there, saying that he
would furnish other agents. 111. Yon came ; but witness was
told that other agents, Bertoglio and Dussart, in concert
with M. Courtais, would prevent the troops doing their
duty, and would facilitate the entry of the palace of the
Assembly to the emeutiers. These were agents of M. Cans-
sidiare. • •
Night of the 14th to 15th !May. Letter of M. Caussi-
dike to the Under-Secretary of State, though there was a
Minister. This letter is deposited. It was not communi-
cated to the Minister. It was proposed to organise for the
morrow. On the evening of the 15th M. Carteret was out;
witness•remained alone at the Ministry, without Minister or
Under, Secretary of State. • The evil came on the one hand,
from the organization of the ateliers nationaux, and on the
other from the consequences of that organization. The agi-
tations in the street, that produced by the planting of the
Wfe etAihATIR, a It sfihh-1174,t11.:,",d..inbi:Qtal9RtMv.
These agitations were paid for by the funds of the prefecture
of police. Towards the 3d of April the forty-eight commis-
saries of police, M. Caussidiere made them an eulogium on
the Red Republic, and told them that their enemies were the
bourgeois; that if they did not go on properly it would be
necessary to bring the lucifer •matches into requisition to
teach them reason, and to burn Paris, so as not to leave a
stone on a stone. The forty-eight commissaries were
frightened—it made their hair stand on end.
0 aGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL WORKSHOPS.
It was a thing hostile to the regular authority. At first it
was not known how they were recruited. It was soon found
out that they were called from the provinces. The delegates
of the national workshops formed a formidable mass, on
which Louis Blanc rested. The impute s the Porte St.
Martin must be attributed to them. Each corps had its
comae. The superior comita consisted of M. Viegard, pre-
sident, of two others (Lefort and Julien), besides Lagarde
(secretary of a committee of the Luxembourg), presided over
by M. Louis Blanc. The comites made the ouvriers leave
their workshops, and sent them to the ateliers nationaux,
in order to obtain the pay, to ruin the Treasury, to paralyse
commerce, and to bring a catastrophe on the state. There
were four kinds of government. The first was that of M.
Louis Blanc and M. Albert, who wanted Communism ; the
second, that of M. Ledru-Rollin, who wanted the Red
Republic and Terror; the third, that of M. de Lamartine,
who wished to keep well with all parties and conciliate
them, and who imagined that he would obtain that result by
his eloquence; and, fourthly, that of MM. Arago, Marie,
Gamier Pages, and Marrast, who represented the moderate
party. For five weeks the witness had demanded that the
foreign labourers, of whom there were 25,000 or 30,000,
should be sent away in parties of 2,000 at a time. He
thought that of the 25,000 liberated convicts in France, at
least 12,500 were then in Paris, and no means had been found
to get them away.
The condition of Paris is very bad. The merchants have
received very important orders, but they cannot find work-
men to execute them. The witness was told this by many of
them, and mentioned their names.
M. Pages, of No. 5, Rue Marcel, one of the most dis-
tinguished merchants of Paris, will give many particulars.
There was mention made of him in the first evidence of the
witness.
At Lyons the thing was made more abominable. The
Government, in the place of one franc, bad given three
francs in the ateliers for the making of scarfs. When orders
came somewhat later for three to four millions, the work-
men exacted three francs, and they succeeded ; however,
the market was not able to execute the orders, and so it was
given to Zurich. This information respecting Lyons is
official.
The Commerce complained to the Ministry, and said that
they should not grant three francs. They granted them. That
for which the Government paid three francs formerly brought
sold for three francs in the trade.
S.
ATELIERS
one franc and twenty-five centimes. The manufactured article
Louis Blanc preserved them in order to make them
Emile cialist element—Ledru Rollin, in order to make them an
-
element dictatorial—Emile Thomas desired to preesdersh'esthem
a So
in their proper station—the Luxembourg parays.i
,iish goodomas
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bo. em urg were
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ell'laavoanupraebrilnerincfhoiramfaantfiotnhereAspteachtels.
From the very first the disputes in the Luxembourg
manifest. It was not possible to perceive the good influence
of Emile Thomas until towards the 15th of April.
All had influences acted silently and dividedly upon ordi-
nary occasions. Whenever there was an emeute they united.
affair. The Bonapartist The witness appeared certain that the old political parties
had nothing to say in the whole a
sec-
tion were nothing; they only desired to have a name, in
order to make as opposition.
The witness. said so daily to the Minister of the Interior.

The commission were warned of the fact. They appeared to
doubt the exactitude of his opinions. They have eines
ac-
knowledged that he was right.
Caussidiere played a very cautious game, but one cannot
doubt that he acted entirely on his own behalf.
ORGANIZATION OF THE POLICE OF PARIS.
This police had a dozen or fifteen hundred agents. It was
badly organized—so much so that it could not act usefully.
Added to that, there were four different bodies of police in
Paris, from whence it followed that their reports were often
3d, that of the Mayor of Paris; 4th
contradictory. The Minister of the Interior, wearied by this
confusion, at last finished by saying that it was useless to
address reports from the police to the Luxembourg, and that
of the
_2 h f June, upon the banquet
he would communicate to an executive commission, or those
pointed out the means by which the
officers in whom he placed confidence. The four 'bodies of
police were, Ist, that of the Prefecture ; 2d, that of the
himself whether the
That Leg
Exe-
cutive Commission;
iwtiasmisntsotwere
that of the Minister of the Interior.t The witness gave an
feoxrt r2ascet. fromTll
eawrietpnoortss
Minister could assure
really compromised in the banquet for 25c., by making
ap-
proved of. The question was concerning a subscription of
bank-notes for 25f. each. The movement of Jane took place
before the hour appointed. The_ blow was intended to be
searches at the houses of each of them.
struck upon the 14th of July. It was hastened by reason of
the disorganization of the
ateliers naticaaux. In terminating
his deposition, the witness added that he had been questioned
before respecting the privilege of a theatre, for the obtaining
of which they had suspended proceedings for damages com-
menced against M. Ledru Rollin. MM. Deem and Sanson
(of Blois) would be able to give information upon this matter
which was not in the possessien.of the witness.
M. DE LAMARTINE, MEMBER OF THE PRO-
VISIONAL GOVERNMENT (JULY 5),
Facts are connected together in political order in the same
manner as in moral order. On the 25th of February a fact
produced itself, and, beside that fact, an excess. It seemed
to some men that the proclamation of the Republic should
carry away more than a throne—that is to say, entire society.
The red flag was imagined as the sign of this idea. This
was repelled, but not extinguished ; not completely absorbed
in the mass of the people. On the 17th of March, the Na-
tional Guard, which till then existed only in a latent state,
manifested itself. The next day, or the day after that, a
more violent counter-manifestation for a Parisian Republic,
in place of a National Republic ; 200,000 men wished
to impose the law upon the Provisional Government ;
the latter repelled these measures with energy. On the
16th of April a Communist movement was threatened.
I was warned at five o'clock in the morning of what
passed in the clubs—of the substituting a Committee of
Public Safety in place of the Provisional Government. I
sent notice separately .to the friends I had in the National
Guard. It was then in the state of a problem. M. Ledru
Rollin came to me in the morning. He wai e
• ry animated.
" We are going to be attacked by 120,00♦ men," he said to
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