The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-25 00:00:00

THE LATE PLOT.

On the 19th of November last I wrote you, that France
had that flay escaped the perpetration of a great crime ;
that the King had been fired at on his way to the Charn-
btr of Deputies to open the Session, and that the assassin
was in custody. In subsequent letters down to a certain
date I referred to the reports and accounts of, and bearing
upon, that transaction, that had reached ►ue through public
and private channels ; and stated the general impression
produced by them—namely, that the young woman Boury,
who claimed the merit of having saved the King's lire, by
tossing up the arm of the assassin at the instant when he
was about to pull the trigger, had herself been the party
who actually fired the pistol discharged at the King,
turned from the Pont Boyar into the Quai Dorsay. A
month since, however, and before the aff,ir had fallen into
oblivion, I was, by the advice of a well-informed person,
induced to discontinue my reference to it, and my concur-
rences in the general belief that the whole bad bee❑ a ape.
co lation of Mademoiselle Boury. _

Yesterday, the 21st January, the Anniversary of the
death of Louis XVI. was (notwithstanding the anticipa-
tion that its solemn observance would be that day at roga-
ted) held in some sort as a holvday by the Chambre
d' Accusation, de la Cour Royale of Paris—that is, it
assembled, but in private. That Chamber, I need hardly
remind you, is constituted of the Judges of the Cour
Royale. Its functions resemble those of your grand Juries
in criminal matters. They assemble in Council, with
closed doors, and investigate the persons in custody, or
"contumacious," under the evidence taken in support of
those charges, and decide whether the accused shall or
shall not be sent to the Coors d'Assiz-s for trial. Not-
withstanding that yesterday was the 21st of January, I
say, the Chamber d'Accusation in question was occupied
during the day—and with an affair too, which, but that
it would savour of affectation, I should describe as singu-
larly coincident with that which occurred exactly forty
years before—l mean with the attempt made—actually
mode—on the life of the King of the French on the 19th
November last. The following particulars connected
with the cae considered at that private meeting have
reached me from an authentic source--you will find
them worth adopting in my informant's own words :
" Twenty-two persons were arrested on or immediately
after the 19th Nov. last, on suspicion of, or charged with,
having participated in the attempt made to shoot the King
as he wns proceeding from the Tuileries to the Chamber.
From among those, two have been selected for trial. The
principal of these two is a young man named Bergeron,
aged 21 years. He is a native of Chauny; a small town
of Picardy, and belonged to a family, once of respectability,
hut which has been ruined in commerce. His mother has
been, in consequence of her altered circumstances, obliged
to keep a milliner's shop in that place. This young man
studied with distinction in one of the best institutions of
Paris, directed by M. de Reuss, and attended the lectures
of the College of St. Louis. He is represented as being
of a sombre character, but an enthusiast, and was a mem-
ber of the Repub!ican Society of the Rights of Man.'
However, it would appear that be carefully concealed his
opinions frotn the Director of the Institution above men-
tioned, and who employed him as under master, for M.
de Reuss is noted in the University for his attach-
. talent to the present reigning family, with whom he
is, in same measure, connected by a family tie ;
his father, who descends from a branch of the German
Princes of th at name, having been the foster.brother of old
Philippe " Epalite," the father of the present King. It
would appear from the information obtained by the police,
who spared neither trouble nor expense to arrive at the
truth, that the members of the Society of the Rights of
Man had for a long time formed the project of assassinat-
ing Louis Philip, and that Bergeron bad been designed
to carry it into effect. So determined was he to execire
the deed, that while standing in the group, on the Pont
Royal, he entered into a violent rage against one of his
friends who had expressed doubts as to his determination,
and threatened to strike him. It is supposed that the
second pistol, which diy on the ground near the one that
had been fired, was dropped by another young man, re-
specting whom the police was unable to procure positive
information. A surgeon, named Benoist, a too n.tnan
41141 intimate friend of Bergeron, is also strongly suspected
of being his accomplice. He had at-lived in Pat is on the
morning of the 19th of November, and had repaired, itn
mediately on landing from the diligence, to Bergeron,
whom he subsequently accompanied to the Pont Royal.
After the occurrence he left Paris, and was arrested at
Chalonsttmr- Marne.
" The most circumstantial information relative to the
~}tempt yet obtained was from the brother of 'one of th-
mstnhers of the Society of the Rights of Man, who was
indueed to reveal what he knew of their proceedings by
his mistress, a woman of ill fame, on whom the police had
lavished large sums of in, ney.
" The inquiries itustituted by tl,e Chamber of Accusa-
tion have 4 I ti,fird the Judges that the anecdote of Made-
maia,Te Boury, which suece,ded so well at the moment,
,vas a mere fable which had been invented by that woman,
who was on V,e bridge at the time the King was passing
certainly, but not at the spot whence the shot was really
tired. This demoiselle, who had cone to Paris to solicit
from the King or his Alinisters a sum of money to enable
her to marry her lover, a M. Masse, immediately determined
to turn the event to account, and pass herself as the pre•
server of his Majesty's life, by pretending to have warded
off toe blow.

" Bergeron, on being examined, denied having fired the
shot ; but replied with much firmness, on being questioned
as to his political sentiments, that though conscious of
his danger, he was not a man to disguise his political opi-
nions; that his friends and he considered Louis Philip to
be a traitor to the Revolution of July, and as such deSeived
to suff.r death ; that, independently ( like. all Kings) he
was an obstacle to the liberty and happiness of the people.'
" It is a well-known fact that the members of the
Society in question had, for a long time previous to the
attempt of the 19th of November, been incessuatly prac-
tising firing, at a mark. The K.ng's armourer, M. Le
Page, the celebrated tunmaker, who examined the pistols
at the request of the Judges, declared that a pistol,
doubly loaded with powder and ball, invariably rises at
the moment of the explosion,' and that 'of course th.:
ball must have passed over his Majesty's head when
fired.' Bergeron confesses that a few days before the
event he had distributed cartridges to his friends, which
were, he said, to be tried against the enemies of the na-
tion,' without naming who they were. The wadding of
the loaded pistol contained some Latin words, such as
lizeestus, and the barbarism chastitas, instead of castita•,
and seemed to have been torn out 01 some school-boy's
writing-book, or rather (as the Proviseurs of the Colleges
Ef Paris, who were examined by the Judges, suggested)
from the theological hook of some scholar of one of the
seminaries of the capital.
" Several persons who saw the man who fired the shot
are unable to declare positively that it was Bergeron. The
latter does not deny having been present on the spot and
at the moment when the explosion took place. Cons,-
quently there will not be sufficient proofs to establish his
guilt, and the Jury will not convict bun on mete presurnp
tions. Beside:, the means resorted to by the police to
obtain informatio❑ were so revolting, and the sources from
which it was derived so disgustingly immoral (a prosti-
tute, and a brother denouncing a brother), that there is
every probability that the accused, even supposing him
guilty, will lie acquitted by the Jury."
1 have, ior many reasons, preferred giving you these
particulars in the hand-writing of my informant to turn-
ing them into a regular narrative. The Chamber, yes-
terday, determined on sending the accused for trial before
tr.e Cour d'Assizes, but as, according to the still eaisting
law, the 21-st of January is a day Eerie, any act com-
pleted yesterday might, on appeal to the Court of Casea-
tion, be declared null and void, the finding of the Chain-
was nut formally signed. The accused will, howev,r,
I repeat, be sent betUre the proper tribunal for trial, and
(as my informant suggests), from the insufficiency of evi-
dence, as well as of the character of that actually obtained,
and the other circumstances to which he alludes, will be,
in all probability. acquitted. On his guilt or innocence,
1 shall not pronounce, but I bound to declare that I
believe, from all I hive heard, and I have heard more than
I can state in this way, that an attempt was really made
on the King's life on the 19th of November, 18372.
Minting Paper.

The Hon. Miss EDEN, Maid of Honour to
her MAJESTY, is a daughter of the late THOMAS EDEN,
Esq., brother of the late Lords AUCKLAND and HENLEY,
not, as was stated, daughter of Lord AUCKLAND or General
EDEN.

LAMBETH ELECTION.—The return of Mr.
HAWES as one of the Members for this borough was ce!e-
bra! ed on Wednesday by a public dinner at the Horns tavern,
Kennington. A very numerous assemblaee attended un
the occasion, and the chair was taken by LAWRENCE RED-
HEAD, Eq. Several toasts were given in succession,
and the festivities of the evening kept up to a late hour.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

Treasury, Department, Dec. 1, 1832.

Sir,—l have the honour to transmit for the information
of the House of Representatives an estimate of the appro-
priatinn proposed to he made for the service of the year
1833, amounting to 12,731,581 dots. 17c., viz. :
Dollars.
Civil List, foreign intercourse, and miscellaneous 2,685,361 70
Military service, including fortifications, armou-
ries, arsenals, ordnance, Indian affairs, revolu-
tionary and military pensions, and internal
improvement
Naval service, including the marine corps 3,377,429 38

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To the estimates are added statements showing :-
1. Ihe appropriations for the service of the year
1833, made by former acts, including public debt,
revolutionary pensions under the act of the 7th of
June, 1832, arming and equipping the militia, re-
volutionary claims, Indian•affairs, claims of the
state of Virginia, and claims under convention
with Denmark, amounting to 12,563,656 00
2. The existing appropriation which will not be re-
quired for the service of the year 1832, and which
it is proposed to apply in aid of the service of the
year 1833, amounting to
I. The existing appropriations which will be re-
quired to complete the service of 1832 and former
years, but which will be expended in 1833, _

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amounting to

These three last-mentioned amounte, together with so
much as may remain unexpended of the sun) stated in
the report on the finances presented by this department on
the sth inst., as the estimated expenditure in the 4th
quarter of the present year, and with such sums as may
he appropriated by Congress for the year 1 8, will c .m-
-plete the whole amount, subject to the disposition of the
Executive Governm.nt in that year.

There is ab4o added to the estimates a state nt of the
several appropriations which will probably carried to
the surplus fund at the close of the present year, either
because the ojects for which they were niade are com-
pleted, or because the stuns will not be required for, or
will no lon,-;cr be applicable to, them, amounting to
181,020 doll. '72c.

I hive the honour to be, very re,pectfullv, your obedient
'ervant, LOUIS' APLEAN.

To the Hon. the Speaker of the House of Representat,ves.
On the motion of Mr. Ingersoll„it was laid on the table
and ordered to be printed.
After some discussion on various of the resolutions, the
Homor adjourned at 3 o'clock.
On Friday, Dec. 14, 1832, the Senate did not sit.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

A SIAN TRANSPORTED FOR FOURTEEN YEARS FOR STEAL-

INC HIS OWN PROPERTY.

At the Manchester Quarter Sessions, on Saturday, a
man named Richard Harris, of respectable appearance,
who had formerly kept a pnblic-house in Manchester, was
indicted fir having stolen at Manchester, on the 24th of
December last, one box, the property of Messrs. Pickford,
the carriers.

The case excited considerable interest, as it involved a
rather singular and novel question, namely, whether the
prisoner had or had not been guilty of stealing his own
property. According to the evidence adduced, it ap-
peared that on the above-named day, the prisoner called
at the warehouse of Messrs. Pickford and Company, the
well-known carriers, and asked if they had a box for him,
which he expected would he sent, addressed to him from
Birmingham, by their conveyance. The porter of Messrs.
Pickford, whom he questioned, told him that it had ar
rived, and was in the warehouse, but that be had better
go into the clerk's office and pay the carriage before the
hoX was given to him. He accordingly went into the
office, and asked one of the clerks what was the charge
for carriage ? The clerk told him, and be went away
without paying anything, but he said that he would call
again about it. In two or three d4ys afterwards hesagain
called at the office, and asked for the box, saying that he
had brought the money to pay for the carriage. On searching
for the box in the warehouse it was not to be found, and
the prisoner appeared to be exceedingly enraged, declar•
ing that he would bring an action at law against Messrs.
Pickford for the value of the box and its contents. The
clerks and warehousemen had a conversation on the sub-
ject, and, after considering the circumstances of the pri-
soner's previous visit to the warehouse, together with the
fact of the box not b-ing seen since that visit, they began to
suspect that the prisoner himself must have taken it away.
Messrs. Pickford, in consequence, applied to the Magis-
trates, and obtained a warrant to search the prisoner's
pretniss-s, which they did, and there found the identical
tiox, emptied of its contents. Evidence to the above ef-
fect having been adduced, the Jury stopped the Chairman
:is he was about to sum up, observing, that they were
quite satisfied with the facts of the case, but they' wished
to know from hint whether it was a felony fur a man to
steal his own goods.
S. H. Norm's, Esq., the Chairman, said that, under
the circurnst tours, there could he no doubt that, if the pri-
soner was guilty it would amount to a f. lony.

Tbe Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, said that the pri-
soner was a min of very considerable and astute intellect,
ant had managed his tobtiery with a great deal of tact.
He \VAS liable to be transported for life, hut the Court
would not go that length. Still, however, considering
the ad'lress lie had di.phyed, they could n,,t do less than
transport hitn..for fourteen years.
rhi pri.orp.r bn hearing his sentence, burst into tears,
and was taken away crying bitterly.