The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-02 00:00:00

LATER DETAILS OF THE PLOT.

The Gazette des Tribunaux says that the police for some
time past had suspected a man named Baurie, who had
been pointed out as an agent of the revolutionary com-
mittee of London. He is a young man of 22 years of age,
who, after a life of dissipation, was found guilty of a
robbery, enlisted as a soldier, and shortly afterwards
deserted. Among the letters found upon him was one
from Gustave Flourens, who is at present in England. In
face of the overwhelming proofs against him
Baurie made a confession, and, in consequence of
his information, warrants were issued against many
persons who were seriously implicated in the affair,
In the course of these operations the police seized, inde-
pendently of important papers, some of the engines which
were designed to carry out the plot, either as an attempt
on the life of the sovereign, or to aid in the insurrectionary
struggle which was to follow on the attempt. The person
at whose residence the bombs were discoverod is named
Roussel, and his house in the quarter of Pbre la Chaise.
W 4831 tile police arrived, he oiled for help, and the police

were surrounded by a number of people, who rescued the
prisoner. Twenty bombs were found, which were well
made, and of an explosive force which is calculated at five
times beyond that of the Orsini bombs.
Fourteen members of the International Association
have been arrested, and eleven other arrests were made
afterwards. The Gaidois says that a letter is extant
which is signed by Gustave Flourens, and dated April
24th, in which instructions are given relative to the mode
of making the bombs. The authorities are, it is supposed,
in possession of proofs that Flourens paid for the bombs.
The man who made the bombs, and who is a very skilful
workman, has taken flight, but the person who gave the
order for them has been arrested. The mechanic who has
constructed these terrible chefs d'oeuvre was at the head of
an establishment for the manufacture of warlike imple-
ments which Marshal Leboeuf visited a short time ago,
and congratulated this foreman upon the improvements
he had introduced into the manufactures.

The Moniteur Universel says that the conspirators were
Warned not to shew themselves during the day, but to
concert measures so that at a given signal, aided by all
those they could persuade to join them, they
might attack the Palace of the Tuileries, the
Staff Office in the Place de Paris, and the
Prefecture of Police. The plot was fixed for Sunday, the
intention was to blow up the Tuileries, the Staff Office,
and the Ministry of Justice, with the aid of bombs. The
Rappel believes that the whole affair is got up to create
an excitement, and asks if it is a plebiscitary manoeuvre,
and if they wished to prejudice the people in favour of the
Emperor, and irritate them against the Revolutionists.
Until lately the Bonapartes have been rather those who
fired pistol shots than those who received them,
The Liberte gives the following account of the arrest of
Baurie, who, it states, is a deserter from the 7th regiment
of the Line, and was compromised by the late affair of
military propagandism, of which M. Flourens was one of
the originators. Three days before the arrest of Baurie
the English police had given warning of his arrival, and
measures were accordingly taken. The police agents took
care not to lose trace of him, but they were anxious to
seize him with the compromising letters in his possession.
On Saturday morning M. Lagrange and two of his men
followed him from an early hour in an open conveyance.
As they had expected, Baurie only went out in a closed
carriage. Intending, no doubt, to receive the latest in-
telligence respecting the state of feeling in the workmen's
quarters, Baurie went to the Faubourg St. Antoine and
to Belleville. He came back about nine o'clock, ordering
his coach to drive fast and to come back by bye ways, as
he believed he was being followed. He stopped at the
Rue des Moulins, got out of the coach and looked about
him. Then he went towards the house where he had feft
his trunk. At that moment M. Lagrange got out of the
open chaise alone, and told his agents not to move until
a given signal. He went up to Baurib and addressing
him by his christian name, Camille, asked him how he was.
" I do not recognise yoir," said Baurie ; " who are you ?"
While he Was trying to remember who it was
that addressed him, M. Lagrange made the signal, and
the police agents, hurrying forward, seized Baurie's
hands and held them behind him, while M. Lagrange
said, " I am Lagrange, commissioner of police, and I
arrest you !" As they stood in the street itself, which
was little frequented at that hour, they took from Baurie
the letter of M. Flourens, a revolver with six barrels
loaded, and the rough copy of a letter written
by Baurie himself to M. Flourens, asking for
money and • saying " The amputation will take
place on the evening of the 29th I am ready !" Baurie
was immediately transferred to the Prefecture of Police,
and, after the ordinary examinations, he was imprisoned
in Mazes. There M. Bernier, the juge d'instruction,
made him pass through a preliminary interrogation,
from which it appeared that Baurie and seen MM. Fayolle
and Flourens in London, and had arranged the
plan of attack with them. Baurie readily under-
took to be the first to make the attempt. He
often said to his friends, "If it is necessary to
sacrifice my life for our idea I will do so willingly. What
have Ito fear ? Nothing ; you may rely upon me." It
appeared from his answers to the interrogations put to
him that he came into France through Boulogne, and that
on the 24th at Paris he received a telegram informing him
he could draw a sum of 400 francs. A similar sum was
sent to him on the 29th, the day on which he was
arrested. Since his arrival in Paris he dared not stay two
nights in the same hotel. His revelations led to the
arrest of many persons both in Paris and Lyons. At the
latter place eleven were arrested. The Gaulois and •
Flom.° publish large illustrations of the bombs.