The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-08 00:00:00

THE PRINCE DE CANINO.

M. Charles Bonaparte, Prince de CAnino, has com-
menced another action against M. d'Arlincourt,
author of the pamphlet entitled " Rouge," to
obtain 20,C00'. as damage,: for a libel in that work,
to the effect that he was concerned in the assassina-
tion of Count Rossi. The case was called on for
hearing on Friday before the Civil Tribunal. The
advocate of M. d'Arlincourt demanded that, before
the merits of the case were gone into, the plaintiff,
should be required to deposit the caution-money
usually exacted from foreigners; and he then proceeded
to argue at great length that M. Charles 11 ,naparte is
no longer a Frenchman, but an Italian. The facts he
relied on were these :—After the revolution of 1848
N. C. Bonaparte did not return to France, like the res t
of hi. fimiiy, but remained at Rome. He was sub-
sequently elected a member of the Chamber sum-
moned by the Pope, and could not have been chosen if
he had not been an Italian. Ile was one of the chiefs of
the insurrQction which as subsequently got up against
the Pope; he was the first who wit-A "Long
live the Roman Republic !" when the Republic
was proclaimed he became a member, and
subsequently vice pr:sident, of th,i Conitituent
Assembly ; and when the French army attacked
Rome be, by all the means in his power,
exei ad the R )mans to resitance. If he had not
been at; Italian, he would not have done ail that;
and it r,as only as an Italian that he could be justi-
fied for having fired on the French troops—fur a
Frenchman to have done so would have been trea-
son. Moreover, wh-n, some time later, M. Charles
Bonaparte came to France, the Government ordered
him to be expelled, and he was conducted to the
frontier; none of which things could have been
done if he had been a Frenchman. On that occasion
M. Charles Bonaparte had written a letter to the Pre-
sident of the Assembly, in which he did not claim
the rights of a French citizen, but demanded that he
should be treated with the respect due to ambassa-
dors, as he was charged with a mission from the
Roman Republic to the French, English, and Ameri-
can Governments.—M. Chain d'Est Ange, advocate
of M. Bonaparte, aster complaining in rather severe
terms of the conduct of M. d'Arlincourt towards him,
contended that he was a Frenchman, and had never
lost the rights of one. He was a Roman citizen, it
was true, but so were a great number of other
Frenchmen, and amongst them some members of
the Assembly ; he was a Roman prince, but so was
Prince de Polignac, the Minister of Charles X., and
a number of other distinguished Frenchmen. The
acceptance by him of the position of representative
and vice-president of an Italian Assembly was not one
of those acts which the French law considered as
causing the loss of nationality.—The Procureur of
the Republic examined the facts of the case, and sub-
mitted to the Tribunal that M. Charles Bonaparte
had never lost his rights as a Frenchman.—Judgment
was postponed.— Galignani.

THE LATE EVENTS IN PARIS.
The following are extracts from a lady's letter :7

"VARIS, TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 2.

" December 2,atB A..at, a k
door. Eater
Jacob, holding door of bn
bedroom in his
hand. ' Does
Madame know what has happenedck at my
this
how should I?' (rubbing my eyes and half ? ' No,
only). ' Well, then, I have toawake
Madame that Paris is in a state of siege ;inf om
thatr
several representan3 are arrested; that the Ass-emblO3 is
dissolved; the sail& and tour occupied by troops; and,
in short, I fear it is the signal for a new revolutiun.'
' Pretty well,' thought I, arousing myself, and ques-
tioning my int-orals:A, who had gathered all this from
theporteurs d'eau who brought the water for my bath.
I could hardly persuade myself that it was all true; the
lesste so, as I had heard overnight that the President's re-
ition.was held as usual, and seemed 0 be numerously
___, attended.. I quickly rose and dressed myself, however,
172_,,a7sWitied turther news. About 11 A.,24., enter Miss
She h,.., amplegthone confirmation of the above rumours.
missiZartuinearly to the embarcaddre in quest of a
and on her way descried a number
of proclamations
name of the
ecOiches on exposed places, bearing the
PresidentP. of the Republic,
mass of the appealing to the
people.
" I sent forth my
one
to reconnoitre the town,
n who came back at o'clock,iifficiliY in
full of uneasiness and
alarm. Re had great getting along the
Boulevards ou his return fromtt he Place Vendome; and
stated that carriages were act allowed to pass along
g the leading thorough-
-4 seT.ta.teie_nes,n_
them; soldiers were posted along
fares, and cannon placed at venous with artil-
lerymen in full readiness for action. '
said, were thronged with people, butAen,,,,,lt,
.Irards, he
derly and quiet—no criee, except now aledYtal_g.las or-
Ligne."rhe President was actually °ea progrue v tve la
ss through
the capital at the head of a regiment Of dragoon,,
and
attended by a prodigiously numerous staff, but no
,flee
saluted him, except a few of ' Vive
ned fro la Itapulm
casual
—at least, such was Jacob's report, obtaisual
informants on his passage. From 10 A. 3
the Cham. till 1 o'clock,
mounted
regiments of cavalry were passing down Champs
Elyi-.6,5, at intervals of a quarter of an hour;
brass betide preceded them, and their colonels rode at
their head carrying drawn swards. Many of the men
bad a provision of hay en troupe, for their horses' re-
irestireent.
e ' I Saw no infantry;the windows; I
pass
me.-,ve, all distributed over Paris early this morning.
At about
miss minutes pat one o'clock I set forth with
Find .8 20
ing, however, 'attended by my two servants on foot.
v7i.onthat carriages passed through the
Faubourg St,
we found on the " we took a remise, which
house of M. de T road thither, and drove to the
In alone, and found Mac; near the Madeleine, and went
e de T --
Id. de T--- was naturally and M. de L--.
members of the Assembly on gone out to confer with other
Morning. M. It--, Cons iilr the
occurrences of the
j(,ined ue, and related some fsetes d'E.at, immediately
follow-
ing are the principal:—The
Gen, o'r f which the
ignac, La-
e Morn: e:C. Chat,garnier, B,d,,su,aaulsa
Le
Flo were ar
resteu early this morning. G, ueral Bedet made -
stow: resistance, to so strenuous a degre„l a
in the struggle he was thrown down on theindeed,
floor
hall, ane, while down was handcuffed andted and
of
his
solorced away by the tile of soldiers employed
to
take his person. Changarnier was arrested, it is stfirmed,
by a knot of sergens de ville—a gratuitous indignity-,
dictated possitly by alTrehension of a reluctance to
touch his person on the part of the soniers formerly
subject to his command. Geneeal Latnuriciere made a
vigorous resistance, and his servant aiding him, the
latter received a cut from a sabre in the arm, as was
also, indeed, the ease with the valet of General Bedeau