The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-08 00:00:00

PARIS

COURT of PEERS, PALACE of the LUXEMBOURG.
TRIAL OF THE ACCUSED OF THE PLOT AND INSURRECTIONS OF
APRIL, 1834.
SECOND DAY—WEDNESDAY, MAY 6.

The agitation which had manifested itself towards the
close of the sitting of yesterday, after the Court had de-
cided that the prisoners should not be authorised to choose
Counsel for their defence from among persons not members
of the legal profession, still continued after their return to
prison. Nothing precise transpired respecting the nature
of the scenes that occurred within doors ; but at seven
o'clock in the evening three hackney-coaches were seen to
leave the prison, escorted by horse Municipal Guards, and
which were said to convey several of the prisoners to the
Conciergerie.
Immediately after the sitting the Counsel of the accused,
who had held a general meeting in the vicinity of the Lux-
embourg on hearing of the order made by the Court of
Peers, determined on drawing up a protest against it, and
appointed a Committee to that effect. But before they
prepared it, they deemed it advisable to confer with the ac-
cused, and proceeded to the prison in which they were con-
fined. M. Berryer, who had undertaken the defence of
M. Genez was among the Counsel, and gave his unre-
stricted assent to the resolutions adopted by his Repub-
lican colleagues. But on arriving at the prison they were
refused admission, and told that they could not communi-
cate with the accused before morning.
As early as six o'clock this morning the avenues leading,
to the galleries assigned to the public were occupied by per-
sons anxious to procure a seat. Yet it was only at eleven
that the gates were opened, when a frightful rush, like that
of yesterday, took place, which the Municipal Guards,
aided by a detachment of troops of the line, were unable to
withstand. Fortunately, a strong palissaded gallery, through
which the people had to pass, prevented the invas►on of the
Palace, and only about s►xty could obtain seats in the tri-
bune raised for the public. The other galleries were occu-
pied (as yesterday) by the Ministers, the Corps Diploma-
tique, the sons of Peers, Deputies, and other privileged
persons.
At half-past 12 o'clock, the prisoners were brought in,
accompanied by the same cortege of Municipal Guards as
on the preceding day. Their appearance and deportment
were, as on Tuesday, decent and calm. One of them (an
accused of Paris) wore a Phrygian cap. The others were
coiffed as yesterday.
Shortly afterwards Baron Pasquier, the President, took
his seat ; the Members of the Court entered in the usual
order ; and M. Martin du Nord, the Attorney-General,
followed by his four assistants, dressed in red gowns, placed
himself at the bureau, laid out for the prosecuting officers
of the Crown.
The President having announced that the sitting was
open, a secretary called over the names of the Members of
the Court. None of them were absent. .

After this operation was over, the accused rose in a mass,
and declared that they protested against the decision taken
by the Court on Tuesday. The President in vain at-
tempted to prevent the accused from speaking. Martin
(one of the accused of Lyons) protested warmly, in the
name of his colleagues, and was proceeding to read a written
statement, when the President imposed silence on him. A
general cry of " Let Cavaignac speak !" arose from among
the accused of Paris, and M. Martin having declared that
he would call for the infliction of penalties against those
who should disturb. order, all the accused rose, and, in one
voice, cried, "We are all answerable!" Here the utmost
tumult ensued. All the prisoners, with the exception of a
very few from Lyons, with their hands lifted, exclaimed that
they " insisted on all being included in the sentence about
to be pronounced against Cavaignac." Nothing could equal
the imposing scene presented at this moment by the ac-
cused. In vain did the President call on the Municipal
Guards and officers of the Court to impose silence. The
soldiers remained still as statues, and refrained from com-
mitting any violence to execute the orders of the Court.
After the tumult had somewhat subsided,
M. Martin du Nord again rose and read an article of a
law of 1822, which enacted a penalty of from 15 days to
two years' imprisonment against any prisoner who should be
guilty of disrespect to the Court, and demanded that it
should be made to apply to M. Cavaignac for contempt
of Court.
All the accused again protested that they were " unani-
mously of the same opinion as M. Cavaignac,* and de-
manded that the law invoked by the Attorney-General
should be applied to them all. Cavaignac, in a loud voice
which o'ertopped the whole, cried " Let me be condemned
to two years 1" " Let us all be condemned to the same
penalty," exclaimed the whole of the accused.
The tumult was here indescribable. The Peers seemed

detrified, remaining immovable on their benches. The
President was consternated. At last he made a sign to
the Court to retire, and the Members hastily withdrew to
the Council-room, to deliberate on the steps to be taken in
respect of the demand of the Attorney-General against

Cavaignac.
Whilst the Court was deliberating, the accused became
calm by degrees, sat down, and awaited in silence the re-
turn of the Court. M. Cavaignac was the object of the
particular attention of his co-accused and the entire audi-
tory, who, with the exception of the few individuals seated
in the privileged tribunes, sympathised evidently with him
and his comrades. The soldiers, seated on either side of
them, composed mostly of combatants of July and some
Royal Guards, seemed actuated with the best feelings
towards them, and engaged in friendly conversation with
them. The young sub-officers of cuirassiers, by their manly
deportment, also received marks of the liveliest interest.
The Court had been for upwards of an hour in delibera-
tion, when the accused formed into several knots round
M. Cavaignac, the sub-officer Thomas, M. Lagrange, of
Lyons, M. Marrast, and others. After consulting toge-
ther, and taking the opinion of M. Fabre, an Advocate of
Lyons, several of them were seen to leave the hall, escorted
by soldiers, and return shortly after with a written paper,
which was handed round for signature to all the prisoners.
The nature of that paper was not known, but it was sup-
posed to be a protest against the decision about to be taken
by the Court against M. Cavaignac, in whose fate they
solicited a right to be associated.
At half-past three the Court was still deliberating in
the Council-room, which they had entered at a quarter
to one.