The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-10 00:00:00

an attempt which-was to be made in the month of August.
The instigetion of this crime came from London The
journey to that capital of one of the contumacioue accused,
his relations with the refugees, the correspondence seized,
leave no doubt on that peint. In January, 135 a Kelsch
was arrested in Paris, after a stout resistance, together
with Galli and Rossi. Kelsch, whose wicked plans had
been defeated by the police, came likewise from London.
Information proves that he was sent and paid by the cen-
tral democratic committee, of which Ledru Rollin and
Mazzini are the principal chiefs. Being transported to
Cayenne, he obtainel his pardon from the clemency of the
Emperor. Some months later the ex-Sergeant Boichot
a-rived in France ; the police captured him—justice con-
victed him. Boichot came from London like the others.
In 1854, Magen, one of the most active instruments of
Ledru R Alin, inventei bombs which were to explo le by a
simple shock. Convicted in Belgium by default, he fled
and took refuge in London, with his accomplices, Sanders
and Brunet, in the midst of conspirators and assassins,
who received him as a brother.
"Some time after the conviction of Megan the police
arrested at Batignolles a man carrying a grenade of the
same model as that of Warn. This was Carpeza, a
member of the Universal Fraternal Society formed of the
remnants of the society organised by Ch. Delecluze, the
emissary of Ledru Rollin. Carpeza bed already been con-
victed of having been affilieted wi h secret societies. Con-
victed again the 4th August, 1815, he was sent to Cayenne
whence he managed to escape.
"Even before the conclusion of the trial of Magen and
his confederates an infernal machine was discovered by
chance on the Northern Railway, constructed on the seine
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proved tho guilt of Deron, Louis (of L'lle) Vaudomme, the
brothers Jecqnin, of Brussels, of D Henins, and of Des-
qniene. The firs' four were sentenced to death by contu-
macy. Deron, the principal instigator of the plot, fled to
London, where he lived in ietitnacy with Ledru Rollin, of
whore he afterwards became the most constant companion.
" The 28th April, 1854, Pianori fired almost point blank
two shots at the Emperor. He arrived at London, and it
was Mazzini who placed the wages of crime in his hands.
But that is not all —the democratic societies of that capital
struck a medal commemorative of the act of courage of
Pianori —a meeting was held in September, and there were
found orators there who atnidet the applause of the
assembly pronounce-I the apol gy of the attempt in the
Champs Elysees, and deplored the death of Pianori as that
of a martyr.
" A short time later Tibel(li, Grilli and Bartollotti were
arrested before they could carry their designs into execu-
tion, These wretches wore merely the servile instruments
of implac able perversities. It was again from L mdon that
the impulse was given to this new attempt from the centre
of those refugees where justice found the guilty,
branded them, convicted them, without being able to reach
theta or to strike them.
"Finally, on the 14th of January, 185, four Italians
threw their bombs under the Emperor's carriage, who was
miraculously saved, as well as the Empress. These
bombs killed 10 persona, and wounded 156. The new
assassins arrived from Lon Son. These terrible projectiles,
which, in missing their aim, struck so many victims, and
changed the scene of murder into a frightful carnage, were
manufactured i England. Two Eaglishmen„4.leopp, and
Hodge, figure in this plot, at the same time us Francis
Bernard, a refugee, living in London.
" To these numerous attempts must be added the agita-
tion which incessantly provokes them. The revolutionary
sseeeia.asas, compJ.:a.l of Ca Jury to practice.
Those associations are possessed of ind ifatigable activity.
Sometimes divided by personal differences, they always
agree to encourage and glorify attempts against the Em-
peror. They hold their meetings, they deliver speeches,
they publish and circulate writings. Some of them suc-
ceed in penetrating into France, either in small pamphlets
which escape all search, or through the foreign journals.
In that case, for a few madmen who admire these sangui-
nary follies there are an immense majority of honest men.
whose interests are alarmed, whose conscience is excited,
and who ask each other with surprise, mixed with un-
easiness, how such infamies can be freely and publicly cir-
culated in a civilized country.
"To explain these impressions it is necessary to state to
what extent the violence and madness of these revolus
tionery preachings can be carried. The following fact re-
fers to the date of the month of November, 1857, and
it will be seen from it how direct provocations preceded
the bombs of the 14th of January. There is a coffeehouse
near Temple-bar, in London, where the question to be dis-
cussed in the evening is announced in the morning. The
public are invited to take part in the discussion. This
coffeehouse is sailed Dsscussion Forum. People eat and
drink there, and at the same time talk politics. A man,
paid by the proprietor, presides and directs the debates.
In the month of November the following order of the day
was publicly posted—" Is Regieide permitted under
certain Circumstances ?" The question was publicly
discussed.
"This is, moreover, not a transitory orisolated fact, and
that which has taken place since and takes place everyday
aggravates it more. On the 9th February lest the
French club, which meets at the Viryld Reading-rooms,
Leicester-square, held a sitting, at which Simon Berner a
the accomplice of Orsini, expressed himself with the
greatest violence. He declared that the Emperor, his
Ministers, M. De Persignoy—all the high French function-
aries, were out of the pale of the law, and he invited all
those listening to him to rush upon them by all means in
their power. This speech, in which the igeoble contends
with the horrible, was hailed with enthusiastic applause.
In fine, a few days since, on the 24th February last, Felix
Pyat published, under the title " A Letter to the Parlia-
ment and to the Press," the true manifesto of assassina-
tion, a worthy corollary to all these excitements to that
crime.

"More than 50 pamphlets have been published, and the
most of them in London, since 1852. We might give quo-
tations here which would prove that during six years past
the apology for assassination bas been permanent—almost
daily. We shall confine ourselves to some lines borrowed
from a pun plalet publishe iby Felix Psat in 18V7. They
will be more than sufficient to prove what we assert :
" in spite of all your precautions -notwithstandingyour
walls of China, yourline of Customs, your condos sanitaire
—we pass, we penetrate, we arrive in tbo cotteg, , in the
hands, eyes, hearts, of the operatives and peasants, and the
people read us notwithstanding all. From Bordeaux to
Lille, from Angers to Lyons, the riles of the Marianne ex-
tend her mimes .nd her saps, end her train of powder,
which the smallest spark may explode. . . You lc/I,w
that our letter to the Marianne was published in London
—that it is from London wo date our tbuuder. . Yes,
the authors of evil live in England. England is the guilty
secreter that shelters us, and which prints our writings.'
"It is thus that they themselves denounced England to
public mistrust as a reward for her asylum. Because she
was generous to them they endeavoured to render her Rue-
pected. In this manner they themselves prepared the
movement of opinion whiee was to burst out after the at-
tempt of the 4th of January against that mistaken tolera-
tion, of which the cause was in the chance of circumstances
in the embarrassment of the legislation of England, and by
no means in the intentions of the Queen's Government.
" Nearly at the same time the author of that o ions
pamphlet pronounced a discourse on the grave of a French
refugee, and it was on the edge of the tomb, profaning
death itself, he dared to make this appeal to revenge :
" ' When, then, shall an heroic haul settle the account
of blood ? Is it not time to revenge the dead an l save the
living ? When a man raises himself above public justice, I
be ought to fall under the hand of an individual.'
"More than 10,000 persons hailed these impious words,
and the English press, in giving them enblicity, either ts,
reprove or to stigmatise them, carried them to all parts.
The reprobation which they find in honourable minds is
easily changed into complaints against the Government
which tolerated them.

"The attempt of the 14th of Jan. save to these com-
plaints an opportunity of being tua le publ ie. In learning
whence the bombs came, whence the murderers set out,
everything that we enumerated was recollected—the num-
ber of preceding attempts, their origin, the bond which
attached them to the revolutionary affiliation'', the Inces-
sant appeals to vengeance, which were replied to by death-
giving explosions. Then, without taking into account the
fatal chance which had collected the most violent refugees
of all countries in London, an•i the eoneequences of this
meeting in a country so free as England, with institutions
so comprehensive as hers, public opinion, sensibly affected
by a collection of facts which all had the same origin,
ae-
cused a tolerance which disquieted it for a long time pest.
In its just indignation against those who bad excited or
perpetrated thecrime it attributed to that tolerance a part
of the rospoasibility which it would not have been more
fair to attribute to England than to Belgium, to Switzer-
land, or to Piedmont. Public opinion, justly moved by
appearances, yielded to au irritation which was only the
effect of its devotedness end its respect for the Emperor.
The Sovereign could not feel otherwise than grateful for it
—but it is right to observe that, ever the same in a ques-
tion which was in some Fort personal, which affects i his
life and that of the Empress, who, like him, :soaped death
he did not for an instant forget the jns iee which he owed
to all, the calm which he owed to himself.
"We mus however, observe that in France there is
more of indignation than disquietude with regard to these ;
organisations of refugees, who, as has already been seen,
aim at the Emperor's life, because they regard him as the
shield of social order, and an obstacle to universal anarchy.
If they are regarded with horror by all the world, they in-
spire only the weak with fear ; but they cause no terror to •
society or to the Government. It must be remarked that
of the plots which we have enumerated only two have been
carried out—thank Gad S without success. All the others
were baffled by the energetic vigilance of the French
police, as active in preventing evil as the revolutionists are
ardent in making it triumph.
"As to the English people, they profess, we aro aware,
a horror equal to ours for those crimes which are prepared
among them to be executed among us. Bat, without under-
valuing their sentiments, without touching in the slightest
degree the independence of their institutious, it is per mitted
to consider those attempts so often reeeated as warnings,
and to find in them the indication of great duties for all Uo-
vernments. Thus, after the 14th 'house y there was but one
single cry throughout France for two things ; first, the re-
moval from our frontiers of the assassins condemned by the
Courts of Justice ;Isecondly, the interdiction of the public •
apology of assassination in journals or at meetings. That
wish was conveyed in the speeches of the groat bodies of
the State, in the addresses sent up by the magietrecv, the
Municipal Councils, and the National Guar.'. The ad-
armee' of the army were naturally more aeimated (plus
vines)—they expressed with an energy rcutiarly military
the feeling of Frsnoe. A few of them only were of a na-
ture to wound the susceptibility of England Count Wa-
lewaki has given on that point an explanation, the per-
fect good faith of which ought to have effaced and repaired
all.

In London it was made a pretext to awaken national
susceptibility, and to misrepresent the conduct and inten-
tions of the Frenoh Government. People were made to be-
lieve that France demanded of England and of the neigh-
bouring countries to renounce the right of asylum, a sacred
right, which she respects and practise; since she affords a
refuge to more than 10,000 ItaliAns, Spaniards, Germans,
Poles, and even a subsidy to a great number of them.
" The right of asylum then need not be defended against
us. Far from attacking, we respect it as one of our tradi-
tional institutions. James 11. and his partis,es, betrayed
by fortune, found in the hospitality of bouis XIV. n com-
pensation for the country they had lost. Charles Edward,
the vanquished of Culloden, returned to France, end if un-
fortunately the right of asylum was violate in his person,
it was because the weakness of Louis XV. could not pro-
tect him against the demands of England Charles Edward
arrested on leaving the opera, was obliged to conceal him-
self in Italy, where be died. It was a shameful exception
which shows to what a depth we were fallen, for it mu-t
be said that under all Governments France has opened her
doors to the foreigners whom political causes drove from
their country.
It isnot the Emperor Napoleon TH, who would aban-
don the tradition of our history, in which are blendedthe
recollections of his own destiny. He cauuot forget that
daring his exile he profited by the right of asylum boldly
maintained in his favour by Switzerland, and loyallyprac-
tised by England in hisadversity. He has no thou4ht then
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