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of the chiefs, who endeavoured to prepare the minds of others
for i; and with this view to increase as much as possible the
number of the adepts.

4. That in 1821 it was discovered by them that these men.
sures had not yet answered their . expectations; that they then
held a third meeting at Moscow, at which deputies from all
the sections of the society were-present, but when their' opi.
nions differed; and the leaders 'having convinced themselves
that the majority disapproved of their political views, proposed,
in order to get rid of them, to dissolve the society,—a proposal
which was sincerely adopted by some, and _which otheis pre.
tended to approve. From that time most of the persons who
belonged to the society is question, in fact, ceased to make a
part of it: •

5. That, however, • the fragments of this society, like true
conspirators, formed new•ones,
,where some were initiated, but
with extreme precaution, and the reciprocal relations of which
were carefully in profound secrecy.
ti. That from that time the principal associations were formed,
those of the North and the South, the directing committees of
.which sat at Petersburgh and Tulczin, on which depended
other committees which took the title of district jurisdictions;
but that in the sequel a third society was formed under the
name of the United Selavoniana, with which the members of
the association of the South were intimately connected.

7. That the chiefs of those associations, uniting their efforts,
conceived at the same time the idea of effecting a revolution by
means of the army, and that with this view they endeavoured
to engage commanders of companies and of regiments.
43. That in these associations various plans of reform were
proposed, according to the views and personal interests of the
members; that some wanted a Government in which the
supreMe power was to reside in a Triumvirate, of which they
hoped to make a part ; that others thought of dividing Russia
into several independent'governments, united by a federal„pond
which would have been called States, and of which they hoped
to be the heads ; that others again thought of detaching seve-
ral provinces from the empire, either to give them complete
independence, or to cede them to the neighbouring Powers.

9. That in this confusion of ideas, in this collision of insu-
lated pretensions, equally blind and cri►ninal, no definitive plan
had been adopted : but that some of the principal conspirators
revived the horrible project they had conceived in 1817 to assas-
sinate the truperor Alexander of glorious memory.

10. That even in 1823 two of the members of these secret
associations resolved to carry this dreadful purpose into effect ;
that they went for that purpose to Bobrouisk, where the ,Em.
peror was to pass, but the noa-app6arance of their accomplices
hindered thaw from attempting the crime which they meditated.

11.
That In 1825 this same crime was again resolved upon;
that a man loaded with favours by the Emperor was the per.
son who vehemently expressed the desire to assassinate him;
that he opposed all delay ; that it was then resolved that the
regicides should be sent to Taganrog, where his imperial Ma.

jest)! was staying; that these regicides were members of the
society of United Scluvonians,; ani that nevertheless, after fur.
ther deliberation, it was agreed that the Emperor Alexander
should not be assassinated .till May, 111211, when the conspira-
tors supposed that he would review the troops at Bela.Tserkoff.
12. That lastly, another desperate villain, who had arrived
at Saint Petersburgh, from the extremities of Russia, in the
autumn of 1823_, and who had joined the association of the
North, offered his arm to assassinate the Emperor. '
13. That when a short and cruel malady, fulfilling the in-
scrutable decrees of Divine Providence, deprived Russia of
a Sdvereign and a Father, the conspirators conceived new
plans of subversion; that the persons designated as the first
victims, were all the members of. the imperial Family;
that they were all to be sacrificed at the same time ; and

that insurrections should break out at once at Saint Peters.
burgh, at Moscow, and In several cantonments of the army.
—The men, unworthy of the name of Russians, who, medi-
tated these designs, strangely deceived themselves both with
respect to the extent of their means, which were null, and
to the possibility of the revolt which they thought they
had prepared. Their-attempt at St. Petersburg!: on the 26th
of December, and that of,Muravieff Apostol, near Kieft; have
proved that they could not rely on assistance from any class of
the nation ; for the few soldiers, and even some of the officers,
who followed them, were only deceived, and thought that they
were combatting for their oaths : they have proved that such
plots, even if the combination had been less absurd, could not
attain their object in Russia.

'e repeat it—the number of conspirators, and especially
that of the great criminals, is not considerable. All the se-
cret associations which they had established are known ; all
the projects which 'their hifatuation or their villainy formed
are revealed ; all the means they were to employ to. exe..
cute them are discovered; and thus, as. we have already had
occasion to state, important distinctions appear, as it were of
themselves, among the accused whom the commission of in-

quiry has to examine.
_Some were the founders and chiefs of the secret societies ;
others, their accomplices, were initiated into their frightful
mysteries; Otheri were to be the instruments of instructions
with which they were, in fact, unacquainted.
Lastly, there are some who, like the misled soldiers, did
not think they took arms against order and their legitimate
Sovereign.
These differences could not but prolong the labours of the
commission of inquiry. Though the chief criminals are already
convicted, the exepaplary punishment due to regicides, to pro-
moters of troubles, or to men taken with arms in their hands,
has necessarily been deferred; that the commission might con-
front them with their accomplices—that it' might, by means of
the whole of the examinations, and the proofs resulting from
them, be able to determine the different degrees of punishment
—above all, not to exaggeratb them, and to arrive at conclu-
sions, the justice of which should be incontestable.
For the rest, the conclusion of its labours 18 nut far off; and
and we hasten to add, that it has orders to point out to the Em-
peror, without delay, all the individuals arrested from a for-
tuitous concurrence of circumstances, on suspicions which have
:proved unfounded, and that his Imperial Majesty immediately
had set them at liberty.
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REMARKABLE DAY.—This day, John Wesley,
founder of the Methodists, died 1791; Sir Ho-
race Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, died
1797: Francis, Duke of. Bedford, died 1802;
Nicholas Boileau, the French poet, died 1711 ;
Solomon Gesner, a German poet, author of the
Death of Abel, died 1718 ; St. Chad is called
Bishop of Lichfield, he lived in a very early
age of the Church, the present Cathedral being
first founded by Oswy, King of Mercia, and de.
then Bishop of Lich.
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