The Sun.
London, England, 1819-05-03 00:00:00

FLANDERS mu,.

CONSPIRACY AGAINST' I.IIE EmpEßot OF RUSSIA.
A Flanders arrived last night with Brus-
sels Papers to Friday last. The following is an
Abstract of the further proceedings in the case of
the alleged conspiracy to seize the Emperor of

RUS9IA :-

BRUSF•RIA, APRIL 23.--The Court -.of Assizes
coniintied to-day with the proceedings against the
persons,accnsed of a conspiracy to seize the per-
son of tire Emperor of Russia. The •sitting of
yesterday was almost entirely taken up with the
depositiou of .M. de Kuyff, Chief of the Police.
This morning, %ellen the sittings, were opened, lie
continued his deposition. Several witnesses were
brought frnin prison, and placed before the Court
to give their testimony in this affair. They then
prneeeded,:to interrogate the witnesses. The,
public pleadings:will be given to-morrow.
'Arum 29..—This morning, -at -half past nine,
the Court of-Assizes proceeded on the trial. M.
substithtelor the Attorney-General, in a
speech of 'dirt e hours, shewed. the' prisoners to
have been' guilty' of a plot, concerted between
them, which was began to be executed,' Ist, By
sending Piger to Bossert • to collect •stnugglers,
who were to aid them in their project to seize the
Emperor. 2,1, By the letter sent to Gandry,
leader of the smugglers, on whom they depended.
3d, By the itinerary of the route which t hey were
to take to proceed in their plot, by the corre-
spondence of Piger with the other accused. He
considered Piger as infinitely less guilty than Bu.
choz and Pottillot (alias La Croix), who organised
this conspiracy in the hope of deriving great ad.:
vantage from it ; that the delivery of the pistols
to Piger, and the cane, with the portrait of Na-
poleon Buonaparte, which was to serve as a ral-
lying sign, as well as the conversations of La
Croix with the other conspirators, was a proof of
the guilt of the-latter. The Learned Counsel vio-
lently,declaimed against Buchoz, he
ed as a perfidious agent, who had employed false-
hood to consummate his crime: He concluded
by demanding the_ application
,Uf the lust article
-of the law of 6th March, 1819, which maintains
in force the-royal decree of 20ib April, 1815.
• Messrs. Counsellors Leroi, for Piger ; Garcia
de Lavega, for Berth ; and Pleasant, for Dierekx,
pleaded successively, and:represented their clients
as the dupes end victims of Buchoz and La Croix.
They asserted that the latter had denounced at.
once their clients, the Police of Brussels and'that
oi France, whose agents they were,' and that the
whole plot tended only to screen the Ultras,
by
makitfg. the Emperor of Russia believe that the
tranquillity of France might be disturbed, in or-
der to induce him not to agree to the departure of,
the Army of Occupation. The first of their CC/Un-',
Set even _found a coincidence between tlis
nceuvre and what happened at the same time in
Morbinan and Britugne. The Court broke up at:
two o'clock, and adjourned till half-past four in
the afternoon.

SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES••GENERAL,
APRIL 27.

The order of the day was the discussion of the
proposed laws respecting the duties on wine, vi-
negar, and beer, distilled liquors, of home manu-
facture, and those of foreign countries. They
were all agreed to, except that on distilled liquors
of home manufacture, which was rejected by 53
votes to 33. The most distinguished speakers de-
clared it ruinous to the distilleries, and highly in-
jurious to agriculture. .

DEATH OF LORD RESTON.—It is with extreme
regret that we announce the death of this Ho-
now able Judge, who expired suddenly at the seat
ot his brother-in-law, Mr. Craigie, of Glendoick,
where lie had stopped for a day or two, on his
roan to open the Circuit at Perth. There. is no-
thing; that can Si7OW mitre strongly the estima-
tion in which Lord lies:on was held as a judge
than the strong feeling of regret universally ma-
nifested on this melancholy occurrence, particu-
larly by the members ot il.e Court, who had best
HCCC63 to know and appreciate .his merits. Lie was
a sound lawyer, Nell versed in htriness, and most
unremitting in his exertions for the due dispatch
of it. Joined to a mind upright and honourable,
and faithful in the dist harge ot important duties,
he possessed manners, mild, simp:e, and unas-
suminz.—His Lordship was a .near relative of the
great Dr. Adam Smith. He entered to the bar
in 1791, was for some years Sheriff of the county
of Berwick, anti succeeded Lord Craig, as a Judge
of the Court of Session in 1813, and Lord Mea-
dowbank, as a Lord of Justiciary, in 1816.—He
was .hardly six years on the bench, and it is
striking and affecting to all to consider how such.
(lefty, like the late lamented President Blair, be
hurried front almost the very seat of. justice
to eternity.—(EdiOurgh Courant, April 29.)

11ovt,E-13nEAKING.—John and Simon Piper,
(brothers,) were fully committed to Horsham
Gxol, on Fticlay, on various charges of burglary.
These daring fellows had carried on a complete
career of plunder, and for some tune past Brighton
has been in a considerable alarm from the number
of robberies perpetrated. This morning, search
warrants were obtained,`and the houses of the
two offenders examined. The boards of the floors
were taken up, where was discovered upwards of
fifty pieces of silver plate, tea-caddies, beds, pro-
visions, and, in fact, every part of the house pro-
duced almost every article that can be ennmerat-
ed. The wife of John Piper was taken into cus
tody, • and it is likely that she will impeach the
whole gang.--;-(Brighton, May 2.)

SincinF.--Yesterday morning, about .one
o'clock, a man of genteel appearance was ob-
served walking backwards and forwards over
Westminster Bridge, apparently in a very.melan-
choly state. At kngth he mounted on the balm-
trade of the bridge, and precipitated himself into
the water. The alarm was instantly made, and
shortly after the body was got out and con-
veyed
,t St. Martin's workhouse. Every assist-
ance was rendered, but it proved-ineffectual. The
deceased was Jort y-ii v e years or age, and, upon
inquiry, turned out to be a .persini will) resided
near the spot.