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mind and the promotion of civil liberty—it was, he said, the corner
stone of Reform. Every' clergyman who advocated the cause of
Education, he considered a Refornaer. The cause be advocated
he considered would advancewith the progress of Education, and
that every day would add to the number of those who thought with
him. They would be led to acknowledge that party is the ruin of
the country, and that the principles of independence can alone
save us from the impending danger.
Between eleven and twelve the President left the chair ; and
Mr. Beaumont and his friends, with the principal part of the
company, - retired at the same times highly-delighted with the en-
tertainment.
During the afternoon, guns were fired ; the ships in the harbour
had their masts splendidly decorated with flags ; and in the even-
ing there was a brilliant display of fire-works, while the populace
danced in the streets amidst shout, of joy and exultation.

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"6T. PITICASSURGII, JULT 1.
" Your Majesty is not ignorant that a revolution of a
lature to awaken all the attention of the Government, had

reached the Emperor Alexander in the month of June last
year, from a person named Sherwood, subaltern in the 3d
Regime Tit of the Lancers of the Boug. It purported, that
in several regiments of the first and second army there
were individuals who plotted the overthrow of established
order and state, and that they belonged to a secret asso-
ciation, which increased gradually the number of its mem-
bers. In naming one of them (Theodore Yatkowskine),
Sherwood begged permission to repair to Koursk, to con-
verse with him and several others whom he believed im-

)licated, hoping to obtain more clear and circumstantial
cnowledge of their intentions. lie, in fact, communicated
:o the Government, in the month of September, the new

information which he had obtained.
" Other information, conformable to that of Sherwood,
and more detailed, were carried to Taganrog by Lieut.-
General Count de Witt, who had been made acquainted
with the existence and the object of an association of con-
spirators by an agent, who had pretended to join it. A
letter received from Taganrog the first (13) September,
confirmed this intelligence. It had been addressed to the
late Emperor Alexander, by Captain Mayboroda, of the
regiment of Viatka, and appeared the more important,
that Mayboroda himself had been a member of the aboVe
association. Immediately the Commandant of the se-
cond army, and an Aid-de-Camp of your Majesty, sent
to Taganrog for that purpose, adopted measures of pre-
caution.

" According to the information of Mayboroda, several
individuals suspected of plots were arrested, some of their
papers were found and, seized, and preliminary interroga-
tories took place. Meantime, their accomplices at St.
Petersburgh either convinced that the government had
already a knowledge of their projects, or actuated with the
impatience of executing them, undertook to deceive a party
of the regiment of the guards on the occasion of the state
to be taken to your Majesty, and excited the movement
which was witnessed by the inhabitants of the capital on
the 14th (20) of December. On the evening of that
day, they were almost all in the power of the Govern-
ment, and their depositions served to clear up, and to
complete the informations previOusly received respecting
the existence of a plot..
"At this epoch, the labours of the Commission MM.,
inenced. Every day, the mass of facts increased, which
made it necessary to extend the inquiries; nevertheless,
always faithful, to the principle established by your Mi-
jesty, the Commission employed the power with which
it was invested, only in cases of evident necessity. Among,
the Members of the Secret Associations themselves, it

only required the arrest or evidence of those whose testi-
mony worthy of belief authorized it to consider as seem-.
pikes in the most criminal designs, or whose depositions
were indispensable to convict the principal conspirators,
slid:disclose all the plans which tlwy had fortned. The
indivlduals whose mines will be found ilka separate
knew only in a verk.itnperfect :srumartEile objects of the
associations of which they forinetVii7liart, and the com-
mission leaves them fo'yonr Majesty to dceide upon their
fate in your equity and clemency.
" On the other hand, all. the accused who claimed the
special attention of the Commission have been carefully

examined. Their answers have been compared, and have
been confirmed by concurring testimony, and they all
agree. in the principle circumstances relative to the object
of the plot; the organization of the secret, society which
formed it, and the acts of its directors.
" From the whole of these fiters; it results that in the
year 1816 some young men returned from abroad after 1
the campaigns of 181.1, and 1816, and knowing the politi-
cal tendency of several secret societies which then existed
in Germany, conceived the ides of establishing similar as-
sociations in Russia. The first persons who. commtini-
isited this idea were Alexander Monrovia, at present
Captain on half-pay, and Captain Nikita Mouravieff, and
Colonel Prince Troubetsky. Their motive, according to
the written testimony of Alexander Mouravieff, was an
ill-understood love of country, which concealed from their
own eyes the movements of a restless ambition. They
did not then see, what they confess now in all their depo-
sitions, that the means which they employed could not
conduct them to any object of real utility ; that the exist-
enee of such a society was contrary to the laws, and to
public morals, and that sooner or later its consequences
would be crimes which would entail destruction upon
themselves, and calamities upon the State.
" At these first conferences there were present, besides
the persons whose names have been mentioned above, M.
Yakouchkine and Serg, as well as Matthew-Mouravieff
Apostol, dicers of the disbanded regiment of Sernenou.
Chy. They did not proceed at that time to the execution
of their projects, and it was only in the month of February
in the following year, that they organized the first secret
society, under the title of The Union of Safety, or The
true and faithful Sons of the Country; Captain Nikita
Mouravieff, having then formed an acquaintance with
Colonel Pestel, and put him in communication with
Alexander Mouravieff, who had previously entered into
habits of intimacy with Prince Troubetaky. This society
included three classes—that of brethren, that of ?nen, and
that of boyars. It was from this last class, superior to
the other two, that every month the eiders and directors
were chosen ; namely, the President, the Superintendent;
and the Secretary. Their reception was accompanied with
Solemn ceremonies. The candidates took an oath to pre-
Serve secresy, in every 'thing that should be confided to
them, even when their opinions and their views should
not agree with those of the society. At their admission
they took a second oath; they bound themselves to
proceed towards the object of their union, and to
submit to the decision of the supreme council of boyars,
although, according to the declarations of Prince
Troubetsky, this title of boyars. was to remain unknown
to all the individuals of the inferior classes. It was
granted to the primitive Members, or the Founders of the
Society, but afterwards new Members obtained it by de-
grees, and some even received it immediately. Those of
whom this Society then consisted, were Alexander, Nikita,
Serg, and Matthew Mouravieff, Prince Serg Troubetsky,
Novikoff, (formerly Direetor of the Office of Governor-
General of Little Russia, but . since dead), Michael Lou-
nine, and three other Membere; but the latter haying
subsequently abandoned this SocietY at different periods,
and' broken off all connection with the more ardent of their
from the beginning,
colleagues, have been thought worthy of the generous
Clemency of your Majeaty. -The object of this Ussociation
insti-
tutions of the Empire. Such are the unanimous de-
was a change in the existing
c.larations on this subject of Alexander, of Serg, of
;Matthew, and of Nikita Mouravieff, as well as Pestel. As
to Prince Troubetaky, he affirms that, aware of the weak-
ness and temerity of their enterprize, they diseussed at
their meetings the Means Of munoting
of every
theood of their
ofu ntryand 'of furthet`inft Am accomplishments
useful design. The 'principal object witty to-increase the
force of their society by the acquisition of new mem-
, hers, whose talents and moral qualities were to be sup-