The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-31 00:00:00

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE KIN&
LOUIS PHILIPPE.

EXPLOSION OF THE INFERNAL .MACHINg

FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED.

(From the Correspondent of a Morning Contemporary.)
CHAMBER OF PEERS, WEDNESDAY,JULY 29.
EXTRAORIANARY SITTING.
M. Pasquier, President.
Although 1 o'clock was the hour fixed for the attendance of
the noble Peers at this special sitting, it was past 2 before the
President took the chair. In the meantime the few noble
Peers who had arrived were collected into groups, engaged
in earnest conversation, no doubt upon the unfortunate eventsof the preceding day. Marshal Maison and Admiral De'
perr6 were on the Ministerial benches at the cornmeneeraco
of the sitting; about a quarter past 2, M. Persil (the !dinistet
of Justice) arrived, and immediately the President entered
the Chamber, and opened the sitting.
After the reading and adoption of the sitting,
M. Persil, Minister of Justice,
'ascended the tribune for the
m
purpose of delivering a comy :
an The Minister said, that ho 'ila,(l received the King's orders to
Minutes of the last
from the urovernmeos•
present the following rt mance to the Chamber of
- •
Louis Peers
P
ippe, &c.
0.10"11,1.?" Report of our Minister Secretary of State.rere
_partment of Justice and Public Worship, consider!n of
..re 28th article of the Charter, which gives the Chamber °,
Peers the right of taking cognizance of all crimes of big"
treason and plots against the surety of the State,--considering
the 86th article of the Penal Code, which includes in the
number of crimes against the surety of the State all attempts
or plots against the life of the King or Royal Family;
" In consequence of the crime which has this day been ate
tempted against our person, and against the Princes of 0e•
family, and that we have had the misfortune of witnessing tihe
fall of some of our best citizens, whose lives have been sacr':
Seed by this shocking act, and particularly that of one of 011`
most illustrious warriors, so great an honour to France ;
" We have decreed and decree as follows i—
" Article 1. The Chamber of Peers, constituted into
Court of Justice, shall, proceed without delay with the 'WI
into, and the judgment of, the crime which has this day bee°
committed.
" Art. 2. The Court of Peers shall follow in this proceed'
ing the same forms which it had previously adopted in sue'
matters.
" Art. 3. M. Martin (du Nord), member of the Chambee
of Deputies, and our Proeureur-General, shall be invested
with the functions of Public Minister to the Court of Peer!'
and shall be assisted by M. Frank Carr 6, Advdcate-Generlii
in case of absence or other hindrance.
" Art. 4. The Keeper of the Archives of the Chamber of
Peers shall perform the duties of registrar to the said Con"
of Peers.
" Art. 5. The Keeper of the Seals is charged with the eSe‘
cution of the present ordinance.
" Given at the Palace of the Tuileries, this 28th of JillP
1835, "LOUIS PHILIPPE."
The President called on the Chamber to decide whether,
they would proceed forthwith to constitute themselves into ,
,
court of justice, and on receiving an unanimous answer irt
affirmative, he said that the legislative sitting was terminate
and that the Court would retire to the Council Chamber for
the purpose of immediately hearing the Procureur-Genereli
communication on this subject.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Coal
proceeded to the Council Chamber.

The following account is extracted from the Moniteur
" The sth Anniversary of the Revolution of July has been
marked by one of the most horrible crimes of which an WO"
'ple is to be found in the bloodiest pages of history.
" The day had dawned under the happiest auspices.
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of the most brilliant reviews which the capital has ever 0;
nessed was favored by the finest weather; every countenance
seemed to radiate with confidence and joy. The Kin bill 3
self, enjoying the spectacle which everywhere met his el,
,'
was completing the review of the second line of infant
surrounded by his fine and numerous family, and by a still
composed of all that was illustrious among our warriors
our civilians.

" The King had reached the Boulevard du' Temple, 11,0
was passing the line of the Bth Legion, when a detoinata
was suddenly heard resembling platoon firing badly executy;
To this noise there soon succeeded the most frightful disorde::j
It was a horrid, an infernal machine, which had vornit
a shower of- balls and grape-shot on the group which sr'
rounded the King and his family. One of our ancient gl
ries, the venerable Duke de T:eviso, that model of the e,1,4
and military virtues, falls bathed in his blood, and eXPl'ii
without uttering a word. General de Lachasse de Verigqj
mortally wounded in the forehead. A Lieutenant.Coloirj
the National Guard, an aide-de-camp, a woman,- and'aer7h,_
privates of the Guard, expire also amidst the horseS,
1011,,
are in disorder, and an indignant crowd, which becomes
governable at the sight of such a horrible assassination.
" In the midst of a tumult which defies .description,ro
cry is raised, and a thousand times repeated, that The isl;
is not hurt I None of the Princes are wounded!' The KIII6
in fact, calm in the midst of the disorder, moved only bY
sight of the victims which surround him, presses his horse it
the ranks of the• National Guard, and then continues his rors
almost supported by them, in the midst of innumerable cries
of joy and vengeance 1
" The discharge took place from the second floor of a hellso
situated a few paces from the Jardin Turc. In one minute
0
the house was invested by the National Guard, which lined t"
Boulevard. They rushed up into the very ehamber.frre
whence the crime had been committed, and found there t
horrible machine still smoking, 25 barrels, which had bey", charged to the muzzle with balls and grape-shot !
" Nevertheless, the King continued the review, and langitaa,li
fails us to describe the enthusiasm with which he was receiv!),
by the National Guard and by the immense population' whito
crowded round him on his passage. The frightful dangettr°,„.
which he had just escaped, as if by miracle, made these see'e
meets burst forth only with greater energy, which are borne.
towards him by a generous nation, which detests the base true,:
of the assassin. The review also was completed amidst trans-
ports which we shall not attempt to depict.
" At five o'clock the King re-entered the Tuileries.
" But if, in withdrawing our attention from this, scene:,
crime. the spectacle of a King surrounded by so much affect
'°
is well suited to re-assure the friends of their country, '",:d
grief remains there not behind ! So many victims assassinato
in cold blood ! So many honourable families plunged it),
mourning In such a state of things could we think of r"
joicing ? An execrable assassin has but too well succeeded in
changing our fete days, so impatiently expected, and begita
under such happy auspices, into days of public mourning I
order has been issued to suspend the rejoicings. The Prep
rations have already begun to disappear.
" As for us, the feelings with which we are oppressed ,rl-ht
net suffer us to offer any reflections on a crime which nail
shat
confine been attended with such terrible consequences. We
%atic
confine ourselves for the moment to a report of the authe'
details which have reached us.
" The names of the victims, the loss of whom we hateto
deplore, are as follow
" The Duke de Treviie (Marshal Mortier), struck by
ball in the heart.
" General de Lachasse de Verigny, struck by a ball in 00
forehead.
" Captain Villatte, Aide-de-Camp of Marshal Maison•
" Lieutenant-Colonel Ricussec, of the Bth Legion of t
National Guard, struck by three balls.
" Messrs. Prudhomme, Ricard, Leger, and Banatter, °re'
nadiers of the Bth legion.
" A woman name unknown.
" A child.
" great number of other persons have been wounded 111° d
or less seriously ; among others, General Heymes, who 111,9,,
his coat pierced by four -balls, and was seriously woundecl,e',
a fifth in the face. On (balls, and
struck the brave u
neral shouted out " Vice le lioi1"
" There were also wounded, Generals Colbert, Pelet, 3
Blin.
Colonel Raffe, who received a ball in the left thigh.
" The Duke de Broglie received a ball in the cellar of II
coat.

" The King's horse received a slug in his neck."

" The following additional particulars are also from the
Moniteur:—

" The assassin was instantly arrested. the
`° Three months ago he had hired the apartment in the
house, No. 50, on the Boulevard du Temple, belonging tcl,rbio
Slew Dallemagne, where the crime was committed.
'4
apartment is situated on the second floor. The wooden blin,
or jalousies, were closed.
" The assassin gave himself the name of Girard, Ills;
chine maker. It is not known whether that be his real nati'fl
He bad adjusted 25 gun-barrels on a frame of wood, and loaje
them to the muzzle with balls and grape-shot.
" The apartment occupied by Girard was one wincinkea
the Boulevard, and one looking backward. He had 0, or,
the precaution to attach a rope beforehad to his back
wino°
to assist him in making his escape. ti
bad
burst, At the moment of the explosion three of the barrels
.04
burst, and wounded the assassin in the forehead, the lif%„,- 0
the neck. Notwithstanding his wounds, he did not gnbe
minute in trying to escape, and had thrown himself from
window.
" The police, however, apprehensive that some crime tnigo
iors
be attempted, kept up an active look-out around the ho
situated along the line by which the King was to Pnss'fbe
that, as soon as the explosion was 1.-,eard, the agents °f
hoe
police rushed into the internal er-at-of the house from "
the discharge had proceeded.
" One of them saw iiirard sliding down by the rope' nu,'
cried out to him, it is you, wretch ; but we ha" Y,ar-
At that ;nstant Girard finding himself at the level of a; ring
tition wall, threw himself into the court of the ad4l°lncriio
house, but there also he found another police agent' a
made him his prisoner. He was immediately put LIP° tbo
hand-barrow and carried to the Concierg e
nrie, amidst
execrations of the crowd. Other arrests have taken P•er9,
The Procureur-General, the Procureur du
'Rol, Desmortia,
M. Frank Carl-6, and M. Plougoulm, Crown lawyers,
ther with the Juges d'lnstruction, Legonidee, Des'"rti-re;
and Duet d'Archiac, have proceeded to the spot, where tt
were met by the Minister of the Interior and the Prefec
Police.
"In the room of the assassin Were found the wreck f bis
machine still smoking, a wed
• but till nowu The assass;- his crime,
up„:.. • —.Ls was acknowledged
..is in declaring that he had accomplices. _ o
of straw and a fire still burning'_:o
against d.,
Peers
It is the intention of Government that the Chamber O3O
shall take judicial cognizance of the attempt
King's person. The Peers were summoned to an estraQr