The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Accounts from Lisbon have been received to the
19th. The outbreak of a military revolution against
the domination of Costa Cabral was apprehended. The
Queen had ordered him immediately to return to
Lisbap. It was rumoured that Silva Cabral and the
Duke, of Terceira would enter the Ministry. It has
been arranger to refer to the arbitration of the Pre-
sident of the French Republo the differences between
Portugal and the United S::ates on the subject of the
General Armstrong.
Esic'aange operations at Lisbon were done on a very
limited The rates for three months' !ills were
541 to 54i. Pkirtuguese Five per Cents. 47i to 48i.
The experimental squadron re-entered the Tagus
on tin 19th inst., and was awaiting orders from the
Admiralty.

Oporto-lettors of the 19th state that a heavy rain
had set in on that day, and fears were en!ertained for
the vintage.

Gil raltar 2dvices of the 14th quote the'Exchange on
London, at 50i; Spanish pillared dollars, 14 per cent.
premium.

ITALY.
The Statuto of Florence quotes letters from Rome
of tho 12th, stating that the two organic decrees pub-
lished by Cardinal Antonelli have not been favourably
received by the Romans ; but, on the contrary, torn

and dirtied everywhere. The paper money has fallen
3 per cent. in consequence of these decrees.
The result of the communal elections of Florence
was known there on the 14th. The list proposed
by the Opposition journals has won the day; but
the most important feature of the election lies in
the circumstance that Signor Cosimo Vanni, late
President of the Legislative Assembly of Tuscany, is
at the head of the list with 1,206 votes out of 1,383.
The Opposition journals look upon this fact in the
light of a protest on the part of the people of Flo-
rence in favour of the existence of the constitution,
which, according to general belief, was seriously
menaced. •

TRIAL OF A FRENCH NOBLE-
MAN FOR THE ABDUCTION OF AN ENG-
LISH YOUNG LADY.
Great sensation has been caused at Tours and its
vicinity, especially among the resident English, by
the trial last week, before the Court of Assizes of the
department,'of the Count Fore stier de Coubort, on the
charge of enticing from her home a young girl named
Isabella Hamilton, daughter of an English clergyman
resident at Tours. Some months ago M. de Forestier
went to live in that city, for the benefit of his wife's
health,:and in his walks he fell in with Miss Isabella Ha-
milton, who, with her bonne, accompanied her young
sisters and brothers in their promenades. He com-
menced an acquaintance by giving the children cakes,
and afterwards made a point of being every day on
the promenade when Miss Isabella arrived. After a
while it appeared, according to the indictment, he
began to make :love to the young lady, and she re-
ceived his advances with a good grace. She used
also to indicate to him, by placing a flower-pot in a
particular position in her window, in what promenade
he might meet her. He at last, said the indict-
ment, persuaded her to leave her father's roof, and,
in company with the bonne, a girl named Adele
Gendron, aged seventeen, go to Paris, where he
said he would secure her an apartment, and would
provide for both. Isabella, it seemed, was very glad
to get away from home, as her parents were about to
send her to school in England—a measure to which
she bad the strongest possible repugnance ; she even,
it appeared, had gone the length of telling Forestier
that she would sooner commit suicide by poison
than be sent away. Forestier, it was alleged,
arranged with Isabella that she and her servant
Adele sheuld leave the house of the Reverend Mr.
Hamilton in the evening of the 22d of May last, and
that they should go to Paris. „Ile had previously
written a letter to a friend of his, the Baron Eugene
de Vivier, telling him to meet the girls and provide
lodgings for them. This letter he began by saying—
" I send to you, my dear friend, a young English girl,
aged 15, with a pretty little face, light hair, clear
blue eyes, delicate nose, sensual mouth, and a slightly
prominent chin. She is4he daughter of an Irish mi-
nister, who has a host of children. She will be accom-
panied by a little bonne of 17, with auburn hair, &c.,
named Adele." He then went on to say that at a future
time he would tell the friend all the history of the
affair, but that he might then mention that the young
lady had threatened suicide. "Don't make me any
objection," he added; " I have only acted after long
deliberations. I beg of you to meet them at the
railway-station on their arrival—lsabella (that is the
name of my charming pretty miss) will have on a
plaid gown, a straw bonnet, and a black woollen
cloak ; the servant, an old black bonnet of her
mistress. They have been told you will be there, and
will expect to meet you. That they may recognise
you have a white flower at your button•hole, or ra-
ther keep a pocket handkerchief constantly to your
mouth. I laugh at the thought of your meeting
these poor creatures I Take an apartment for them
—let it be simple, but becoming." He next recom-
mends the friend to be cautious, and then says,—" The
father will no doubt take some measures, which it is
important to render vain. I shall therefore
continue to show myself in the public prome-
nades, that I may not be suspected ; and then
I will relieve you in your guard. My wife is
better. Bretonneau is tending her as if she were
his own child. She is surrounded with devoted at-
tendants, has a good house, and her physician in ordi-
nary is one of the princes of the science. What can
Ido more ? I may venture to give myself this little
gratification. Don't scold me. I tell you that the father
is an Englishman and a clergyman—two animals I
detest, and who are, as it were, grafted one on
the other, expressly to take from me all sort
of remorse." The Baron Eugene de Vivier
replied in the same strain, saying, among
other amiable things, "I had some thought
of moralising with you, but what's the use !
The wine is drawn, and you must drink it !" On
the 22d May, as arranged, the two young girls met
the Count de Forestier at the appointed rendezvous.
He accompanied them to the railway, and paid their
fare to Paris. At Paris they were received by the
Baron de Vivier, and he took them to a lodging-
house in the Rue de l'Universite. There the
young lady refused to give her name, and di-
rected that no One should he admitted to her ex-
cept her uncle (Vivier) and her husband, whom
she said she expected. Vivier visited her several
times during tha day. Meanwile Forestier remained
quietly at Tours, in order that he might not be
suspected of having been concerned in the flight. But
it so happened that the family at once suspected him,
and the Rev. Mr. Hamilton immediately laid a com-
plaint against him before the Procureur de la Repub-
lique. This functionary, in order to avoid scandal,
went to Forestier's house, and called on him for expla-
nations. Forestier declined to say anything, and there-
upon the Procureur de la RCtpublique resolved to have
him arrested: But it being then after nightfall, the
arrest could not be legally effected. The Procureur
accordingly caused the Count's house to be surrounded
by police agents during the night to prevent his
escape. On this, Forestier wrote off to Paris to
Vivier, to send back the girls immediately, and he
constituted himself a prisoner. The next day Miss
Isabella and her attendant arrived in Tours, and the
former was restored to her parents. The public prose-
cutor, however, deemed it his duty to detain Forestier,
and to prosecute him. The Rev. Mr. Hamilton, on the
contrary, was anxious that the matter should he
dropped, and he wrote an affecting letter to the
public prosecutor, formally withdrawing his com-
plaint, arel entreating him to drop the prosecution,
But the Procureur represented that the law must
take its course. In the preliminary examination,
the Reverend Mr. Hamilton, Mrs. Hamilton, and
Miss Isabella were called on to give evidence. The
first named declared that his daughter was born
in 1836, at Clifton, near Bristol ; the second I
described the young lady's flight, and communi-
cated the substance of a letter she had left behind
her. Isabella herself varied in her statements. In
her first examination she declared that she had re-
solved on the flight herself, and that Forestier had
scolded her on her folly, and had dissuaded her
from it; he only, she said, consented to aid her,
when he saw that she was quite determined to go.
She was not aware, she declared, that she was to
meet him at Paris, and she had resolved, she
said, to change her name. She solemnly took
God to witness to the truth of all this. But when
Forestier's letters were read to her she expressed great
indignation, she neverthelesss did not retract her
statement. In her second examination, on the con-
trary, she declared that it was Forestier who had
first proposed to her to fly, and that he had offered
to abandon his wife, notwithstanding her illness, to
go with her. She had at first, she said, considered
this was a joke, and had laughed at it, but he had
pressed her and had got the ,servant Adide to do so
likewise. It was only .by their entreaties that she
had gone. Oa arriving at Paris, Vivier told her
that Forestier was in love with her, and would die
if obliged ,to live without her. When told of the
way in which he had spoken of her in her letter, she
burst into tears, and said, "Ah! it is painful to see his
contempt for me I I opened my heart to him, and he
learned that I loved him. Yes, I knew he wes mar-
ried. Ala 4 ! I know not how I could have acted so l"
Isabella was then confronted with Forestier, and she
persisted in declaring that it was he who bad
enticed her to go. Forestier said that the contrary was
the fact, and he complained to her that she was not tel-
ling the truth. " You cannot wish to ruin me, Made-
he pressed and supplicated .I,r t Well
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refused, and he said at last,aving;ofimn avdaiein.
made an appeal to the honest sentiments
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third examination Isabella again varied her story.
said she had laid too much to the Count's charge that
in consequence of dissensions with her sister, she had
resolved on leaving her parents ; that she had de-
clared to Forestier that if he would not take her away,
she would poison herself, and so on. She added that
she had spoken against him on the last occasion, be_
cause she had been told that he had declared. that he
wougalleys for We than marry
her. ldlsnoohnerer
examinationthe she again formally and
positively declared that it was she alone who had re-
lagsot to
had never per-
solved on leaving home, that Forestier _
sanded her go, never promised to leave his wife for her
—and never, she added, attempted to introduce himself
into her apartment. At the trial (which took place
before a court crowded to excess), Isabella, her father,
mother, and elder sister, aid not appear to give evi-
dence, though all bad been summoned. The principal
evidence for the prosecution consisted in the reading
of the indictment, and in the testimony of Mr. 80,-
ley, Lieutenant- Colonel Campbell, and a younger
brother and sister of Isabella, as to the precise age of
that young lady. They all stated that she was about
14. This point was important, as by the French law,
the crime of what is called detournement d'une jeune
file mineure, can only be committed when the girl is
under 16 ; after that she is considered a free agent,
and is accountable for her own actions. Baron de
Vivier was examined, but his evidence threw little
light on the affair. When asked by the President
how be could have acted as he had done, he said he
bad been -influenced by his friendship C,onut