The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-22 00:00:00

IX.

When the commissary of police, Blanchet, presented
himself at No. 11, Rue Las Cases, the house inhabited
by General Lamoriciere, the porter refused to give a
light or point out the apartment of the General.
The commissary rung at the door of the first story;
a servant opened and instantly shut the door. Ho
looked out again, holding a lamp in his hand, and per-
ceiving the scarf of the commissary, put out his lamp,
and ran away by a back staircase, shouting out
" Thieves 1" Ho was stopped by the sergens de ville in
the street. He then gave himself up, and conducted
the commissary to his master's room.
At first the General said not a word; then he cast his
eyes on the chimney-piece, and asked his servant what
had become of the money he had left there. The ser-
vant having answered that it was safe, the General asked
for his clothes and dressed himself. The commissary
said to him, " Sir, the observation you have just made
wounds me." " How do I know that you are not rob-
bers?" said the General. The commissaire showed him
his scarf. The General was silent.
M. Blanchet then said to him, " General, I have re-
ceived orders from the Prefect of Police to treat you
with every possible respect (egard), and if you will give
me your parole that you will not try to escape, I will
have you placed in a brougham and I alone will accom-
pany you." The General replied, " I will give nothing.
I will answer fur nothing. Do as you please with me."
He was then placed in a hackney-coach, with agents
of police. Opposite the post of the Legion of Honour,
the General put his head out of the window, and at-
tempted to harangue the troops. The commissaire did
not allow him to utter a word, and observed that he
should be obliged: to treat him harshly if he made an-
other attempt. The General replied, " Do as you please."
On arriving at Mazes, the General became much more
calm. He begged the commissaire not to seize his pre-
cious arms, and to send him cigars, and a History of the
French Revolution. The commissaire fulfilled his wishes.

• General LeflO, who resides at the Questuro, was in
bed. The Commissaire Bertoglio woke him up, and
) made him acquainted with his orders. Lie rose and
dressed, threatening the commissaire, and abusing the
• President—" Napoleon wishes to make his coup d'ottat.
We will shoot him at Vincennes. As for you, we won't
send you to Nouka Hiva, for we will shoot you with
I him." The t.:ommissaire replied that he (the General)
• could make no resistance, that Paris was in a state of
siege, and that he ought to be aware of the conse-
quences.
In getting into a carriage, the General attempted to
apostrophise the colonel of the 42d, and wished to ha-
rangue the soldiers. Colonel Espinasse ordered him
to be silent, and the soldiers presented their bayonets
at him.
In going from the Assembly to Mem, General Leflo
did not utter a single word.
XI.
General Bedeau lived at No. 30, rue de l'Universite":,
a large house, where there were several staircases.
The Commissaire Hubaut did not know which led to
the General's apartments, or on which story they were
situated. On applying to the porter, ho said, " I've
never seen you before, and at such an hour you must be
one of the people who prowl abort." He at last gave
way, and guided the commissaire to the apartment.
The servant half opened the door, the commissaire
pushed it open. The servant ran away, the commissaire
followed, and reached the General; ho communicated his
orders to him.
The General was overwhelmed, but soon recovering
from his surprise, he protested against the violation of
the Constitution, and said to the commissaire, " You
place yourself without the pale of the law. You must
not forget that lam a representative of the people. You
can arrest, since you do not state that you arrest me in
flagrante deliete."
He next protested that he did not conspire, and asked
for the name of the commissaire. On receiving it he
said he had seen his name honourably mentioned in the
journals, and that he was so much the more astonished
to think that he could arrest a General, a Vice-Presi•
dent of the Assembly, a soldier who had shed his blood
for the cause of order, who knew how to risk his life,
and who, if he had had such an intention, could have
already overturned several.
The commissaire replied that his duty was to execute
not to comment upon his orders—that if the General
knew how to defend his life, he also was ready to sacri-
fice his own in the performance of his duty—that it was
necessary he should submit without violence, or that,
otherwise, he should be obliged to have recourse to
extreme measures.
He ordered the General to got up. The General
dressed himself with excessive slowness. At the mo-
ment of starting, his face became overcast and angry.
He put his back to the chimney, and said, " Now, I
will not go—l will not leave this room, unless you take
me hence as a malefactor, unless you dreg me hence,
unless you dare to seize me by the collar—me, the Vice-
President of iheNational !Assembly!"
The commissaire said to him, " Do you admit that in
my mission I have made use of proper proceedings to-
wards you?" "Yes," replied the General.
The commissaire then seized him. He made a very
strong resistance, and was carried into the carriage. He
cried out " Treason! to arms; I am the Vice-President
of the Assembly, and they are arresting me." It was
all useless—the carriage started, and"the sergens de ?idle
followed it.
On arriving at Mains, he apostrophised a company
of the Republican Guard, which remained deaf to his
words.
At the Registry he met Generals Leila, Changarnier,
and Cavaigaac. He embraced the last.

XII.
Colonel Chdrras, who lived at No. 14, rue St.
Honore, refused at first to open his door; but seeing it
about to be burst open. He said, " Stop, I will open
it." Ho did so.

The Commissaire Coureille notified his orders to
him. The Colonel said, " I had foreseen this—l ex-
pected it—l might have saved myself, but I would not
quit my post. I believed that it would have been done
at least two days earlier, and believing that, I had
charged my pistol—but I have now drawn the charge," and
he showed., a double-barrelled pistol. The commissaire
seized it, " If you had come that day," said the Colonel,
" I would have blown your brains out."
He got into the carriage without resistance. Pre-
sently, he asked where they were taken him to. As the
commissaire hesitated to reply, he said to hire, " Are you
taking me to be shot?" The commissaire then told him
that he wao being eflnrineted to mazAs.
At the prison M. Charras becsme animated, and re-
quired the authorities to put "representative of the peo-
ple" on his order of arrest.
The Commissairo Boudrot entered the chamber of the
celebrated M. Charles Lagrange, No. 27, rue Casimir
Perier, at the moment that he was getting up to inquire
what the cries of terror of his servant, who had just
opened the door, meant.

M. Lagrange protested. He said that the constitution
was violated, that he had but to fire a pistol out of win-

dow, and the people would rush to arms; but if be
wished to defend himself, ho could kill them (the police),
and that they should employ force before they should
make him prisoner.
A great number of political papers were seized—two
pistols, a regulation musket, two moulds for balls, car-
tridges, three poignards, and a cavalry sabre, numbered
478, recognised by the quarter-master of the Republican
Guard, Kerkan, as having formerly belonged to him,
and as having been stolen on the 24th of February,
from the barracks whore he was living.
In going to Mazes, M. Charles Lagrange repeated
several times—" The stroke is bold; but it's well played."
At Mszas, M. Lagrange addressed M. de Lamoneire,
and said to him, " Well, General, we meant to have done
for him, but 'tis he that has done for us." Aous voulaines
le f— dedans, nulls c'est lui qui nous y met.
XI V.
M. Greppo, the ardent Socialist, lived at No. 15, rue
do Ponthicu. Ile had a complete arsenal hidden under
his bed. Amongst other things were found an enormous
battle-axe, freshly sharpened, two poignards, a loaded
pistol, and a superb bonnet rouge, bran now. On the ar-
rival of the Commissaire Groubier and his agents, M.
Greppo was plunged into a state of complete prostra-
tion. On being questioned as to the things found
under his bed, he answered that he had bought them
because he had a taste for the navy. Madame Greppo,
who is a woman of great energy, addressed her husband
in a most energetic manner:—" Is it possible," she said,
"to possess so little resolution as to let oneself be ar-
rested without resistance?"

But neither these words nor the sight of the battle-
axe could animate M. Greppo—"How could he help
it?" writes an ocular witness. "M. Greppo fut saisi
d'un derangement, auquel it dut eatisfaire."