The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-11 00:00:00

itEMARkABLE-

The Moniteur of Sunday last contains the fol--
-lowing trial of- Antoine Shizbn Desirtrilins, `sus-
pected of having been an accomplice in the assas-
sination of the late Duke de 13ealui
man was impliCated in the information filed
against Lbuvel ; but by a Decree of the Court
of Peers, dated the 30th of March, 1821; -it 'vvas2 -
declared, that there was no ground. for a prose
cution against him on that account. They, how-
ever, sent him before the Tribunal- of First
Instance for ;the D'epartment of the Seine,
charged with holding language in public, places'
and assemblies, tending. to excite the assassina-,
tion of the Royal Family. The indictment set
forth, that on the 10th of February, 1821; Des-
jardins uttered the following expressions, to al
person named Gonet, in a public house:--
" I was the accomplice of Louvel. There were,
seven of us to strike the blow. We drew by 14:
the
.name' of him who should 'undertake 'the
task, , The lot fell on Louvel. At the moment;
of putting it in execution, he appeared waver.":
ing and trembled. We made him drink a
bottle of- wine to give hini conliden•ce'.
two years there shall he no • Bourbons itt'
'France. It was myself that made the poig-.
nard which cut short the days Of the D.ike;
of Berry. I walked a whole day ie th 6 woOe
of Boulogne (near Paris), armed with a mkts'.
ket, in hopes that the Prince would corn°.
there to hunt, and with the intention, if he did,.
of not missing him." The Court &blared there,
was sufficient proof to go to a Jury :—.lst, That
an the 16th of February, 1821, Desjardins, in 3
public place, outraged public morals,
.by
proving of the attack on the person of the.Dull;-°
of Berry := 2d, That he had uttered ekpressiono,
offensive against the Members of the Royal
a-
mity, crimes provided against by Articles Ist'
Bth, and 10th of the Law of the 17th of igaF7
1819 ; and that he should be sent for trial bef"re,
the Court of. Assize ; and accordingly his trial
came on last Saturday. To the interrogatories
which, according to the practice of -the French
Courts, the President put to, the- criminal as t°
his guilt or innocence,- the prisoner denied ever
having uttered such expressions.; and declare"t;
the whole to be a conspiracy on the part 0f
the witnesses against him to 'destroy him,
what reason he could not tell.. The pril'ci;
pal witness against him was a man named
Petit, who swore that one day Desiardin9
came to Gonet's shop, and went ,up stairs tohim ; and that Gonet :s mother came down an,
told the witness that' she was in great alarrils„
t"
consequence of Desjardia's having boastedtb3
he was one of the assassins of the Duke of lierr:"
In order to get him out of the house, Petit to°
him to a public-house, where the former bec3me
very. noisy ; and; after having again asserted that
he was one of the accomplices; that they were
seven in number, and that they drew lots- fr"' a
hat, he took
.from under his coat a pair of pistols'
saying that one should be reserved for him ~v.ho
should arrest him, and the other to blow out his
own brains. lle said, among other things/
that
in two-years there should be no more Bourbons
in France. Desjardins was badly clothed, area'
.witness expressed his surprise that be should be
so, when he had said that he was a servant of
trust in a house of such consequence as that 9-1,
the Duchess of Montebello (the widow of Marsha,'
Lasnes :) but he answered that he had as 111""".
money and- fine clothes as he liked.; and that ti►©
Duchess furnished the conspirators with resources'
Ile also told witness that he had sought to-assas-
`situate the Duke of Berry, but that no opPertu;
,pity had offered itself. Gonet, the maste,.
of the shop, declared, that he was so drunk
he could not recollect the 'infamous things that
Desjardins uttered,;- made.-him so that
he was obliged to go to bed ; and if -he bad not
f
been in that state he would have put.hinl gut
doors; but he told his wife to do it. The
declared, that she was a little bard of hearii4itgl
and she recollected nothing that passed `ut
wine 'vaults, except that Desjardins 1)00 °
two pistols, sayinc, one was .for him who -
vin4
arrest him, the other for the purpose of hi°'ll.
out his own brains. Goner's mother beard 'e; -
say, That in two years there should- be no 'no!
acquittal
at
but she did not hear any person inentienea/--
'From the depositions of other witnesses, it ail);
geared that Desjardins was an empty bragg3.,o,l
on all occasions ; that he had never
sheen
rated with any Order ; that he had never bear
in the army ; that so far from having sell.eer.
Buonaparte at the Isle of Elba, he haa
been out of France; that it was equally 'a .1
that he had been.-employed in any capacity rd
the house of the Duchess of Montebello; aid,
that his real situation was shopman to a a°Lati
smith.—The Jury found that the prisoner
," a
held the language imputed. to him, but not 'n
the. of
publicp r place,soner ; which
was amounted
instantly
stnelt
after being admonished by 'thp President
more cautious of his tongue in fowl-0.

COAL-MARKET, OCT. 10.
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BIRTHS.
At ,Bath, on the 7th inst., the Lady of Thenlas
Wetzt2rn, Esq., of a son. - of MS'
On the 4th inst., the Lady of Stair Stewart, Esq.,
gill, of a daughtei.

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MARRIED.
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On the 211th nit: at St. John's, Clerkenwcll, alltc*
Robert Booth, of 11;1 Lion-street, to Catherine, second tir'ese•
2
of Francis Search, Esq. of Clerltenweil-‘reen • after
mony the happy couple'left town for Windsor.
On Tuesday, the 9th inst., at St. Clement's Chttrce.t, %t-
-ings,.Stie,;ex, Capb.. Margoty, of Upper •Beikelcy,6*-. Aro
man-square, to Ann Grace, only daughter of Mr: '
ford, of that place.

DIEII.
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On. Saturday, the 29th ult. at ICennington in the lstc 4 •
of her age, Jane, relict of Nathaniel Tucker, 1111-'"
Ilull, Yorkshire. . . icaijg"
On Tuesday, the 9th instant, -Mr. Henry BatleY, °t.
pg,
ton, Surrey, aged 73.
On the 9th instant, Christiana, the wife of Jaynes 13('''4e'
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,cat of
Assembly-raw, Alile:.end.• -
On Tuesday,. the 9th instant, at Rea.ling, in
his age, George. Goodwin, Esq., of the Inner Tomple, 11°i101 •
On Saturday last, at Woburn-park, Bcdfords!iire, Mt' ~, the
Salmon, aged 60 ; upwards of 30 years resident survey-0T ' .!
late and present Duke of Bedford.
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the 4P Y „doll'

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