The Sun.
London, England, 1805-07-23 00:00:00

TH POLICE OF PARIS.

(Centinucci from'ourrapor of S:lturtlay sent-tight.)
Wit TiN there is supposed to appear. some ;round
suqlicion against a party
.beyoncl , what an un-
guarded expression may excite, he is shat up in a
secret room, together with a man who appears to
him under the cliaraaer,oli prisoner,but who is
really of a class of Spits employed in the prison' and
at. the Office of the Police, and who and called Nou-
tan.; .

The business of the Mouton is to gain the confi-
der.% of theinisoner, wider pretence of knowing
how to render nlin.service, by being acquainted with
some of the Clerks, and understanding the ways of
the place; and thus, to obtain his secrets, which
the Spy reports, together with every a&ion of the
person confined, to the iuterrogating Clerks of the

These OilicerS, to have the opportunity of mak-
ing their reports without suspicion, send for the
Minton from time to time, on the pretence of exa-
mining hittirespctiting his own aflllirs.
Should the prisoner have no money, the, Mouton
lays him under a further obligation by lending him
a little but if lie appears to be easy in that respeel,
the Mouton engages his compassion, by stating him-
self as destitute; but able, in return for any little,
pecuniary aid, to be of great service to the prisoner,
upon, knowing his case, by speaking:to the ,Clerks,.
and telling hihrliow. to 416 t.
•When' the prisoner is to be interrogated, •he is
sent for without any previous notice,..frequently 'in
the night, and never knows .where he is going, or
whether lie is not about to be conveyed, tp another
and Worse:place. of aentinement.
'lie is interrogated by a Clerk, perhaps many times
during his confinement, on written questions, drawn
up from time to 'time, and grounded on the reports
of the Mouton ; or on articles which are not per-
fe&ly understood on being found among his papers.
.An AMericart so taken, for soure-'ubgnarded
pressions whielvlie bad uttered in public against Bo-
Eaparte's system; had unfortunately in his possession
a umnoraltdl9.book, in which, for. mere amuse-
ut, he. had set dowri the numbers that occur at
tho.laublic gaminkhouses where there are roulette
rablesomething like thoSe of E. 0. but with 31
numbers instead of the letters.
This unlucky:book contained' a register, at some
length, of the chances as they '`rose at this table, ar-
ranged with regularity ; by the very appearance.' of
Winch, froM the numbers that occurred, the purpose
of the book was very 'easily eXplained. •
The Police Clerks would not heaithis obvious,
and clear explanation ; but detained the Man a long
time in secret, under pretence that the: fatal book
eontained' the cypher of a correspondente with En-
gland, and at last kept it, sending hini Out 'of prison
with an ,order to quit the capital in a few honrs,
and depart immediately for America, under pain of
another imprisonment in 'the disgeiting jail of La
Force.

Thedetail of the administration Of the .Police is
revolting throughout. Persons accused pf crimes
and Offences not political intheir nature, are treated
in the same way with those whose offences are of
an imputed political kind.
The accuser lays his complaint before a Clerk in
an Office established for the Purpose. It is tran-
scribed in a book, and signed by, the person who
prefers it, No oath' is-required, nor is any inquiry
made into the diameter or motives of the party.—
The accused person is next morning put into secret
confinement; where .he remains, according to the-
pressure of business, a shorter or a lOnger time. No
hien& or lawyer can see him ; and all his papers are
taken ,possession of. lit is sometimes confronted
with the accuser, and always interrogated in secret'
by some. Clerk of the MiniSter of Police, This Clerk
aas- under no kind.oe revonsibility, eNeept towards
the. Minister and the Emperor:.; 'Upon the turn
which he gives to the affair by his report on the
interrogttories depends the fate of the prisoner. -.
that is, whether lie shall be discharged, or removed
to be tried by the Judges. These odious and mys-
terious prepiratory,meamires are abSelutely within
the tnanagement of an iIL paizl irresponsible clerk•
The pr;tdiee of exfOrting ctmlession by torture is
ikowise revived and aaed.uPon Prefeaure of
Poliee:. zit Parii; " Whenever any peitiiS
fricodi of the party go first to this dreadful
wh-At so. many 'are swallowed up fbr ever. !,
and 'even here they do not often succeed in getting
a clear anox

trite the irnmediate, and without doubt,
the most potent of the engines of Bonaparte in ftn-
therance of his deSigns:. ,Irt.,sngland no accurate
ideas can be formed on this subje6, P.,very part
corresponds With the atrocity at the D. p t'q Schc mess
and France:and Frenchmen are compelled at present
patiently to submit,, Nothing can be more
fprably disgusting than the. Manner in winch
,this
submission oceasionally exhibits itself to an attentive
observer. ,Glencnd and lOciti interests are alike con-
trolled by the Grand inquisition of the Nice:
Neveill best illustrate the totti of this remark.
One is verY stOing : ahout the:time of..thelf.:orona
*ion the, people broke through' the restraints 'Under
whic.,lx they had previously Llboured.in dell:Vern* their
opinions. The LNityper had not leisure at,the
rncnt to devise meaSures of prevention besides, it
would have been unpopular.; and the craft of the
man evaded very naturally , a course, of meastires
which, by being ill,tinted,' might obstrua, hip prP*
gress to absolute puver. 'With every invitation from-
his diseased mind to resort tri .seirerity, he3,vas in a
ivy dikamna ;. for either he 111114 h:tve allow t 4
the talkets to 1,.!:o free, or shut up one hiiK Of Pitriii
if he had confined all who spolwagaltistilint and
his.thurpation. .

• Altich cannot, howevqr: be yet e*peecod'frorn tl‘w,
Inu'u
,and fir leis from gw-reskiiiniv,,of
the people' has been .often ioid elf ;them-, they.
are need' f4o • that the most
solemn intere,;ip)f. their country wciaid &Al teti
14 them, only to witne the.pasng of the Host,
or an State speaticle. ri.'hus it was that the proces-
iiien3 and slitpts at the coronation of .i3Onaparte turn-
ed the glut ,Parisian s:de 11-0 m the imesug;ition of
the demeiits or the Tyrant himself or his tinnily,.
The ,Pyhc,L,ris a fertile source- of anecdote among
the Pari4iatis. Lately, when bills•lkere posted up in
all the qtoet, mentioning the trial and execution'of

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