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London, England, 1804-06-20 00:00:00

SUMMER CI RWITS--ContinuceL

OXFORD. •
Mt. justice LAWRENCE and Mr. justice LE BL ANC,
Berkshire—Monday, july 9, at Abingdon.
Oxfordshire—Wednesday, July IL, lit Oxford.
Worcestershire and City Saturday, fuly 14, at Worcester.
G loucestershireaud City—Wednesday, fti:y 18,at Gloucester.
Monmouthshire—Saturday, July 21, at Monmouth.
Heretbrdshire—Tuesday, july 24, at Herclbrd.
Shropshire—Saturday, July 28, at Shrewsbury.
Statibrdshire—Wednesday, August 1, at Staftbrd.

NORTHERN. .
Mr. justice CIIAMBaz, and Mr. Baron Ga A I! AM.
Yorkshire and City—Saturday, july 14, at York.
Durham—Tuesday, july 24, at Durham.
Northumberland—Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Satur•
day, July 28, at Newcastle.
Cumberland—::riday,• August 3, at Carlisle.
Westmorland—Wednesday, August 8, at Appleby.
Lancashire—Saturday, 'August 11, at Lancaster.

The manner in which a part of Mr. Pitr's speech
on Monday night has been given in one of the Opposi-
don Prints, deserves a very severe comment. That
Gentleman is stated to have spoken of himself with
arrogant vanity, in co:nuarison with the late Cu.
CEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER, though the very MO-
lest and diffident way in which he mentioned him.
self, in allusion to the former opinions of the GREN.
YILLEs, observing, that they thought much more.
highly of him than he m'-rited, ought to have ex.
empted him from such an illiberal misrepresentation.
Surely the Party Writers ought to be content with
devoting their columns in general to an abuse of
Mr. PITT, without suffering their. .political feelings
to have an influence upon their Parliamenta;y re.
cords.

Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the'
East India House, when Capt. J. r
. RANK L N, of
the Extra ship Alexander, took leave previous to
departing for Bengal direl.
The Court adjourned at six CAL,ck, tia this day.

PARIS, juNs g.

ON tLe instant His Imperial Highness. the
Pit INc E Louts, Constablt of the Empire, presented
several persons to, His IMPEttiAI, MAJESTY, who
took the oaths befits him.

.0n S!inday next will be chaunted, in the Metro.
politanChurch of Paris, after vespers, a Te Drum,
in gratitude for the accession of I;AroLEoN to the
Empire of the French. The Constituted Authorities
will assist pt the ceremony.
The EM'P'EROR has written to the Archbishop as
:--" Cousin—The happiness of the Frerel:
has always been the object of my dearest thoughts,
and their glory of all My labours. Called by Di-
vine Providence, and the Constitution ,of the Repub-
lic, to the Imperial power, I see in this new order
of only greater means of assuring, both at
home, and abroad, the paternal prosperity and dig-
nity. I repose with -confidence in the powerful suc-
cour of the Most I-4h. He will inspire his Mini.
sters with the desire of seconding me by all the
means that are in their power. They will'enlighten
the people by wise instruttions,
,in preaching to
thelii the lOve of their duties, obedience to the laws,
and the piatlice of all the Christian and civil virtues.
They will call down the benedictions of Heaven
upon the Nation, and upon the &prelim Chief of the
State. I write you this letter, that as soon as you
have received it you will cause Fen; Crrator and Te
Dium to be song in all the chinches of your Dio-
cese, and that you. nay invite to the prayers at
your Church, those Authorities that have been in the
habit of assisting at those sorts of ceremonies ; and
that you may order the sermon in all the churches
of your Diocese, on the occasion of the " Sencitas
Co:Julie Orgaxique," of the etlth Floreal last ;
assuring myself that you will, by your Own ex.
ar4lq excite the 'zeal and the piety of all the faith-
ful in yOur Diocese, I pray God to have yoo, my
Cousin, in his holy and worthy keeping.
(4griL";(l) " NAPOLEON.
" Written at St. Cloud' Ist of Prairial, Year iz."

TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS.

SITTING OF JUNES.

General AiOR Eno spoke as follows :
" Gentlemen—A ppearing befure you, I demand io be
heard for a moment. I have a perfeet confidence in the
Counsel whom I have chosen. I have left to them, With-
out reserve, the care of vindicatht my innocence. It is by
them only that I will speak to justice ; but I feel the neces-
sity of speaking myself, both to you iind to the Nation.
" Unfortunate circumstances, produced by chance, or pre-
pared by hatred, may coscure some moments of the life of
the most honest man. A guilty man may remove suspicions
as well as the proofs of his crimes a whole life is :always
the surest evidence tor or against a person accused. Now I
oppose my whole life to the accusers by whom I am charged.
It has been sufficiently public to be known. I shall only
recal some epochs of it t and the witnesses I shall call are.
the French people, and those whom France has conquered.
" I was devoted to the study of the law at the beginning of
this Revolution which was to lay the foundation of the Li_
berty of the French People. It altered the destination of my
lite, which thenceforward I devoted to arms. I did not place
myself among the Soldiers of Liberty from ambition; 1 em-
braced the military profession from a respect ter the Rights
of Nations ; I became a Warrior, because I was a Citizen.
" I bore this charailer under the banners ; I always pre-
served it; the more I loved liberty, the more I submitted to
discipline. 1 advanced rapidly enough, but always from
step to step, without skipping any ; always serving my, Conn- •
tr.y, never flattering the Committees. Arrived at the Com-
mand in Chief, when victory Mad,: us advance amidst hostile
Nations; i endeavoured not less to make them respect the cha-
ratter or the French People, than to make them tear its arms.
War, under my command, was a scourge only on the field of
battjc. EV'en from among their .ravaged fields, hostile rm.
tills and powers more than once gave me this testimony. I
thought this conduit as proper as our victories, to rostra eon-
quests for France.

" Even in times when contrary maxims seemed to prevail
in the Committee? of Government, this condud never raiser
either calumnies or persecutions against me. Never did any •
cloud arise against the military glory I had acquired, until
that memorable 'day, the 18th of Frudidor. Those who
Caused the explosion of that day with so much rapidity, re-
proached me with having been too slow to denounce a man in
whom I could see only a brother in arms, until the moment
when the evidence of tads and proofs should spew me that he
was accused by trutlaand not by unjust suspicions. Thellirec-
tory, who alone knew the circumstances of my conduct suf.-
ficieutly to judge it, and who; it is well known, could not be
disposed to )edge me with indulgence, loudly declared, how
free from reproach they found me: they employed me : my
post was not then brilliant, bat it soots became so. •
" I dare believe the Nation has not forgotten how Much I
chewed mysel f worthy of it ; it has not forgotten with what
eager devotion 'I was seen fighting in Italy, at subordinate
posts ; it has not forgotten how 1 was brought back to the
Command in Chief through the reverse of fortune experienced
by bur armies, and that I was appointed Lieneral in a manner
by our misfortunes. It rememoers how I twice recomposed
the army front the wreck of those that were dispersed; and '
Low, after having twice rearmed it so as to be able to make a
staottagainst the Russiansand against Austria, 1 twice quitted
the command to assume another of greater confidence.
." I was not, at that period of life; a better lt epublican than
at any other ; hut I.appeared more so. I saw direded to-
wards me, in a more particular manner, the looks and the
confidence of those who were able to give: the Republic a new
direction. It was proposed to me, and the fact is well known,
to place myself at toe head of an undertaking resembling that
of the 18th Brumaire. My ambition, if 1 had any, could
easily have covered itself with appearances, or even have
assumed the honour of every sentiment of love to my Coun-
try. The proposition was made tome by men famous in the
Revolution for their Patriotism, and in o,rr Natiohal Assem-
blies by their talents I refused it. I thought I was made
to command Armies, and would not command tire Republic.
This is proof sufficient, that if I had any ambition, it was not
that of authority or power. Soon atter I proved it in a
still stronger manner.
" The 18th Brumaire arrived, and I was at Paris. That
Revolution, brought on by others as well as myself; could
not alarm my conscience. Diretted by a man surrounded
with great glory, I might have expeded a happy result from
it. I assisted in it,.whilst other parties pressed me to put
myself at their head to oppose it, At Paris I received the
orders of General BON APART E,. In causing them to be exe-
cuted, I assisted in raising him to that high station which
circumstances had rendered necessary. When some time after
he offered mite the Chief Command of the Army of the Rhine,
acceptedl it from hint with as much devotion as if I had re-
ceived it at the hands of the Republic. Never were my mi-
litary successes inure rapid, more numerous, and more deci-
sive, than at that period, when their splendour was spread
over the Government which now accusef. me. In return for
so much success, the greatest ,advantages of which was the
having securely established Peace on the Continent, the sol-
dier heard the loud cries of 'rational gratitude.
" What am moment was it to conspire; if suds an idea even
entered into my imogination ! Every one knew the devotion
of the armies to time leaders
woons they loved, and who had
led them from victory to victory. Would an ambitious man,
a conspirator, have let time opportunity escape, when at the
head of an army of one hundred thousand men that had so
often conquered, he repair:A to the hos!an of a Nation still
agitated, and even in a state of disquiet ?
" 1 thought of nothing but disbanding the Army,. and I
retired to the calm Of civil life. lu that situation of-repose,
which was destitute of glory, I no doubt enjoyed my honours,
those honours which it is not in human power to snatch
front me. I equally enjoyed the leinem!)rance of my deeds,
the testiumny of my conscience, the esteem of my Country-
men and Foreigners, aad, it I may be allowed, the flittering
and sweet presentiment of t he favourable opinion of posterity..
" I .enjoyed a fortune witich.tvas runt large, because my
desires• were not gre.n, and which reproaches not my con-
science. i e,ijoved thy retreat. Surely I might be contented
With MY WhO imr.aio- envied that of any person. My fa-
mily and friends were so much the :nore dear to sue, since,
having nothing more to hope tbr trail my credit and fortune.,
they could be attached to rve alone. These blessings, the
only ones to which I could affix any great value, occupied my
whole soul, and forbJcle the entranee of any sentonemit of
ambition. Could it have been prep:4red to-enteaain ezimima
projects ?

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This state of try mind WaS so Well kilOrat, Ind'WOS Sc
well fortified by t;ie.dist:inceat whichl was placed Crow Jll
the a•.-,:itues to ambition, that, from the vitt ;ry of El -Let In-
den to the day of my.arresti :my enemies,couidneverdiscovt,,
nor charge me with, any other crime than theffrecd dis-
course. •My epinious have oftrn been favouritbk•to Clove n_
meat; and if they have ,sometimes not bern.so., could I s,
pose that this fteedoni was a crime ainonttpeOpi tl-eitibad
so frequently decreed Liberty.of Thought, Liberty ul.Spee,ll, •
Liberty of the Press, acid-which- they had, in a great ,
enjoyed even under kings.? • •
I confess that, horn with .a -considerab!e freedom of chi:-
radar, I could not lose that. attribute of France where I re-
ceived my birth-right; nor in ennps, where every. thiu;i give
it fresh scope; nor in the Revolution, which .proclahned it
as the virtue of a man, and the.ti4iit of a citizen. 13 ,t x.. 11
persons conspire, blame so highly that which they do Slot
approve? such a spirit offreecluin Jel(loin accords with the
steries and, principles of politics. Had I entertaiiied.plans of
Conspiracy, I should have disseitibled my sentiments, an.t
!rave solicited employments, which would Pgain have 11ace.1
me with the Forces of the Nation. To ChCoutage me t
such 4stpp, I had the example of all ages, sanctioned also Uy
t.ucccss. i perhaps knew that Ikf.ex CK did _not withdraw
from the'Armies when he framed hi.s,plot and that Prt et s
and Cit.:;Y LCa approached the hea-rt of CIESAit , ii. order to
pierce it.
" Magistrates, I have nothing rtoie to saw to you. :loch
is my charade.r; such has been m 1 whole -hie. I protest, in
the nee of heaven and of men, fha innoccuee and integrity
of my conduct. You know your duties; franc IiSICLIS to
you; Europe contempiates you; posterity awaits your de-
eisibn.

BoNNLT, MOREAU.S Counsel, then addressed the Couri
in hia behalf.

JUN& 6.

The PRocuotpuk-GENEkm.. crused a Letter from the
Grand judge to be read, coaceived ill the fullowiug

" •Pal is,
.7une
THE GRAND JUDGE, ht:NISTER 03 JUSTICE, To THE. /JO-
PERIAL I.ROCUKEUkt-GENERAL, IN THY. COUR r OF CRI•-

MINAL J US lICH

" I understand, Sir, that the Counsel for General Me.
REA.c asserted yesterday, that I had promiscrilus Client to
communicate to hint the charges existing against him.
" I could call such an assertion by harsh names; but I
will not forget, that a man under 'Cy: weight of a capital charge
has a right to some consideration. • I shall, tnerefore, confine
myself to saying, that this assertion is highly inconsiderate:
Who is there that does not know that all the researches of the
Police, to get at the discovery of a crime and of its authors.
must necessarily• he secret, and that this secrecy must even he
increased In proportion to the importance and weight of the
crime which is the objeti of these researches ? Still. more, who
can be ignorant that even the transmission of the papers to the
Tribunals, made by the Police, does not put an end to this se-
crecy; and that all the charges, as well as all the papers, can-
not be communicated to the accused before the term fixed by
law ?

" 2. I observe, that this inconceivable assertion has not
been hazarded before the moment of the plea.:ings, and that
General Moss SA ii has said absoltitcly nothing of the kind,
either in his interrogatories and examinations before toe judge
Instrudor, or in the debates which preceded these pleadings.
" 3. I observe, moreover, that this assertion is entirely vo-
luntary, and of no service whatever to his cause. In tad, let
us suppose (contrary to all truth) that I had promised Gene-
ral Nloas Au to communicate to him the charges existing
against him ; and that, in spite of my duty, I had so in:_
parted them to him after his second examination before me;
I ask, would his denials have existed the leas on that ac.
count ? I might carry this- reasoning much farther ; but the'
resped due to mislOrtune, as well as that due to myself; bids
tne to stop. You will please, Sir, to cause my letter to be
read in open Court."
The President announced, that a copy of this Letter would
be given to all the persons accused.

JUNE 7.
In this Sitting the defence of LEMERCIER and CADbi/ DA I.
was made by Domm ArsoEr T. He endeavoured to justify
their departure from England, and the part they had taken in
the Civil Wars, by their inexperience and their youth. He
invoked the clemency of the Court.
CAnounAL observed, that the Counsel had confounded
his case with that of LEMEA CI ER, and desired to defend him-
self. He also requested an Interpreter.
The PRESIDENT observed, that in the preceding interroga-
tories, CADOUDAL, in the course of the trial, had made
himself very well understood; lout it he had any good reasons
for such a request, the Court was disposed to hear him. The
accused made no farther observations.

Various .other accused persons were defended by their re-
spealve Advocates.
COPY OF IS LETTER FROM GENERAL RIPREAU TO THE.
GRAND JUDGE, MINISTER OF JUSTICE, ENCLOSING LI'S
LETTER TO TILE FIRST COUNSEL.—(Given in our P:tper
of the Bth inv.)
46 CITIZEN MINISTER,
" I send you herewith annexed, a Letter for the FIRST
CONSUL. I beg you, when you transmit it to Min, to en-
gage him to read it with the greatest attention. I make no
doubt but he will appreciate the situation in which I ain
placed, and hasten to pronounce on my.fate.
" I beg you, Citizen Minister, to accept the assurance of
the most distinguished consideration, with which 1 am.
(Signed) " The General, MO It k.AU."
TIIE GRAND JUDGE'S REPLY.
" This evening, at eleven o'L'.ock, Citizen General Mo.
READ, I laid your Letter of this day before the FIRST Cox-
sox_ His heart was alteded in a lively manner by the rigo
rous measures which the satbty of the State have prescribed
him.

" At your 'first interrogatory, when the Cmspiracy and
your being implicated therein, were not yet denounced to the
tirst Authorities and to all France, he had charged me, if you
had spawn a wish to that effeet, to bring you before him that
very Moment. You might have contributed to draw the State
out of the danger in which it still continual.
" Before I let justice take its course, I would, by a second.
interrogatory, assure myself if there were no possibility to
separate your name from this odious affair. You have not
given me any opportunity to do so.
" Now that the•juridical proceedings are begun, the law
requires, that no Paper, whether for or against you,.sliar Id bi-:
withdrawn from the lodges, and the Government has ordered
me to annex your Letter to the proceedings."
(Signed) " RECNITIR."

BREST, JUNE I.—The! East India Ship, of isoc
tons, captured by Admiral LINGIs, War- fader With
7533 bales of cotton, and 4.539 bags of rice.
HAGUE, MAY 29.—An English Vessel of WPC'
has been wrecked at the mouth of the Scheidt, the
crew of which perished, all but ten men, who in a
ch-aloupe gained an .English Frigate which was in
the neighbourhood.