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London, England, 1816-04-26 00:00:00

But the plat) was foolish ! Doubtless

%vas : dill, however, we gust ; examine it. :We
lutist see by what hands the apple of discord was
to be thrown amongit us ; and the correspon-
dttitee teaches us, that some toreigners were se,
riously einployed on the happiness at France, that
they were ar work upon it, -and that they would
derive great {fly from their success ! It is true,
however, that they arc in need of assistAiice, and
that we shall take good care to ..give them none.
1-110/, then, were they to make us happy in spite
of ourselves 1 • How, !Gentlemen ? Why, as
was done in 1793. The :Correspondents did

tint know any better means apparently, because
there are no other. Thus an typal .was to be
made to the ,frienils of liberty, who were to poi
themselves iu 'notion ; there were to be .move-

monis in the provinces ; and, above all, u goo(
means of agitation would be the persecution o
the Protest:lms, real or pretended ! Oh ! excel
teflon 1 This is an idea which catches IVe6 wild;

fire, which spreads lil,e.contag*ion among the people
in general, (And mark this) which engenders a spi-

tit, lf muritil hatred and contempt foi the new ay

stusiy:
it is clear that if the people—tvere so tot►illy
misled, the revolution would be Complete; and
it is fur this very reason that revolution is impos-
bible. Edward ‘Vilson, at London, iiitiged bet-
ter of the state of France than his brother did at

Paris. He begsn tar dißtrust his predictions, and
wait roe facts. He 'marks, that if the French

nation generally were strongly disinclined to the
Bourbons, proofs of this would by daily mani-
fested. And he adds this observation :--711 an hap-
pens that there is no :unitary force in the provinces,
end yet the provinces are traniptil. On this sob.
ject he becomes inflamed, and says that if it is
wiAlted to overtian the existing order of things,
the fire mast _he constantly kept, and constantly
visible, like; a beacon of alarm in France, and in

foreig.: countries.
May (Ind avert this from as, andirons alt foreign
rniutries also We tiave of us seen the sinister
Planet, portentous eif storms : the storm is pass-
ed, o»ti new signs announce to us that the earth
i. pacified. lies, we are at peace among ourselves,
and we will he so wit% others. The nations are

at peace, with the single exception of some tur.
indent men, to nitwit peace is war, as .4inr old
Montaigne has observed. Very well, let them
remain in war, its theatre shall not be extendedi
but let them nut irnag'r►e in their foolish thoughts
that they will agitate France : if their-beacon- of
alrirm is perecive4l,l we shall only hasten to extin.
gnisis it, as we run to put ottte fire.

Attend to these words :—There is no military
forte in the provinces, and the provinces are trait-
_

till. Yes, ihey are so, though they' suffer; but
ttiey arm themselves with fortitude against their

vnisiortunes, a►►d turn their eyes towkiills that le.
gitimate King whoa► Providence' has restored to
us I for he hr's brought with him both the paternal

virtues which make Kings cherished, ,and the an.

c;ent principles on which-at all times the welfare
f)f Fcatice has reposed. Re is come to give sta-

hility to that country which revelations had shaken
—to unite, to repair, to absorb, by his inexhautible
400duess, those fratricidal hatreds which party-
,pirit had excited among Frenchmen. lie has come !
'lid already hope has occupied the place of man.
—ne already by anticipation emerge from our
,altunities, and the nieces of prosperity which be_
lng to France are incontestably fixed. Sire was
eat fof moment, because bhe wap wisled and

dlvided. \Visdoiti an stnion *ill 'restore to firer
strength, and the illitatrious rank which She can
never lose among the 11311011 S. Thiti is a point
demonstrated to all just-thinking ahem, 6t it is
one also which can never • be appreciated, which
cifinot be compreheuded by the Mk t:5 Intl the
Wilsons of England.
In fine, the correspondence is a tiiiiie of vi-
sions, calculated, indeed, to throw a.ligltc hptini
though they do tint change the rtatoie be the of-
fence. And if it be asked why jtisilte has adiOrt-
ed to them at all, it may be Gutty replied, that
she is entitled to do so for her then information.=
I shall now, however, confide myself to the tering
of the indictment, and shall Investigate whether
the three prisoners were accomplices in the con-
cealment of Lavalette. As to the tact of the dis-
covery of- the documents, all that justice knows'
of them is, 'that-the has received them as proofs.
Should the prisoner Wilson renew his complaints
on this head-,--shoOld he (which I do not,antici-
pate).• attack the good faith of. Government, I
would say to hint—Represent to your own mind
the position in which yoO placed yourself; reflect
that you were, at least iu intention, in a state of
war ; you seereinarketi at Paris as a dangerous
and turbulent being ; the Police had-its eyes npOn
you as upon your fellow prisoner Bruce ; the Po-
lice of London would have done as notch in a si-
milar case; there is no Government so• simple as
to respect the pretended rights Of chose who do not.
respect its repose..
Art. 248 of-ilie Penal Code dedarea•guilty those
who'have concealed; or enticed to be concealed.
Such arc-the terms of the law. The nature of
t,he facts is such, that there is already a 11101'al
conviction, that those Who concerted to get Lava-
. kite out of France,- also'canie to nit: understand,
ingas to the mode of its accomplrshment, the MO..
inent the escape fri'on prison took place ; he who
wills'the end, wills the- meal's.. It is also equally
•Certain that Lavalette, 'issuing from-an unknown
retreat, had need of some •place of alepbt,•Where
he might be at WC disposal of those Mu; meant to
-carry him off. You have not heard it said that
there was on their part Any communication with
the first asylion where Lavalette was secreted ;
this was not necessary; it was qiinicient that they
provided for him -an intermediate 'asylum.; and by
his passing the night there,' that asylum became
the place of coneystomtit. This, first proposition
is il)CollieSiible.
There is a, seernol observation which . will not
escape you. A person may conceal a man either
at his own house;.or that of another, according
as be shall believe that he will in either way the
better provide for his security : and hence the
law speaks of concealinq, or causiaa. to be eon-
cealed. • He, then, who furnishes the asylum may
be far from being the alotie guilty person. lie
who procures it ; be who Res made- arrangements
for procuring it; in fine, the introdocer who fa-
cilitates his- entrance into it, are: All' evidently
ithettora,'Accoutplicts, and adherents in this spe
cies of crime.
What now happened ) For the accused Hut.
chinson the fact is material. Lavalette passed in
his opart!Hents in the rue- •Helder the night he.;
tn'een the 7th and the Bth of January last. lint-
chltlion knew well that Lavalette was condemn-
ed, and it was indeed his 'condemnation that ex
cited" the interest which he felt in his fortiies.-
Tints; With respect to him, all the conditions of
the law arc- fulfilled, or rather all the probihi
tions-are of the law violated, and the accused
stands convicted of the crime charged. -
The prisoner Brace is not in a situation that
admits of greater doubt". It was to him that the
first flischlure was made.' He was the:man who
inspired a predilection into the cOndemnedi for
hu who &a:tared hiMself so zealously in the' affair
of Marshal T'r'ey, woad naturally be expected to
sympathioxe with the situation of Lavalet te. Re-
liance was' placed on him, therefore, before- trial
was made. You see how he prided- himself on
the action, how he claimed the first-share in the
inheritance of glory. If any one i 'guilty, lie is
the man. • •Nothing farther could be- required to
establish' the crime of which he is guilts'. lie
concealed likewite the condeumeth The hour and
the place- of meeting were agreed upon with the
rest. 'lti coosequence, he is found with Hutchits-
eon on the evening of Sunday., he there ITCCiV6.La-
valette. It is he who receives him principally, lot at
the appointed boor he descends to meet Laralette.;
he conducts.hint from the street-door to the apart-
ment which was appointed foe 'him, and into it
be leads the condemned with his own hand, for
in such a delicate matter he must do every thing
himself to make sore of success. No question is
astted of the porter, whom they shun—they do
not address themielvei to Servant. It is nest's.
sary that an official usher should attend to introa
silica the stranger as a friend of the fatally.if
-
such conduct does not establish 'the 'offence

concealment charged nn the prisoners, let it 1;e
declared where a more marked co-operation could
be found.

As for the accused Wilson, he will pretend,
perhaps, that he is not included in the same proof,
of guilt ; fur in strictness he can say, "1 hap.
petted accidentally to be with my friend Machin-
son ; I went to his lodgings to • enjoy my share of,
a bowl of punch, and I saw M. Lavalette arrive.
The meeting was accidental, and shall I be liable
to punisltent for having merelk.seen Lavalettc
This language, if it came from the lips of a
man who had no other communications with La-
valette,, might be' conclusive. As matters areat
present,it signifies nothing. Theris here a compact
between three men to forward the escape of La-.
Yakut, and, of course, to conceal his person pre-
vious to his escape. To effect the project of sav-
ing him without knowing where to find him,
wotild amount to an absurdity that the accused
Englishmen cannot be supposed capable of enter-
taining for a moment, If, instead of a CoMmou
operation, there had been merelyindividual actsif
every one had carried on his projects apart from
the rest, it might be conjectured that he who saw
part Would not be able to see the whole,, and that
his operations being without any certain end
could not succeed. But, in truth, this is not the
fact. It is impossible for Wilson, who was on the
morning of the Bth at the gate of the house in
the rue de Helder, for the purpose:of receiving
Lavalette, to say that be did. not- know his re-
treat, and still further to declare that he had not

cuatributcd to supply him wit 4 (tie, Do we 1)ot lierc

peiAt of 'One stmt tte same transaction concerted
61‘'veen them.) To conceal Lavalette, and lead
him of, the three coadjutors, therefore, must ne-
eciitirily have concurred in a plan arranged for the
whole transaction. I might ask it the oftenCe Of
caticealtiient (le rreek) does mit coriiii4i entirely in
the act of affording an trsyliim ; if i o disguise a Mill
be mint likewise dim of the Means of courealing him,
of secreting him from the ptirsitit of justice; if he
who ordered his measure to la! tatOn, who fur-
nished the Uniform Of an EngliSh Officer, lie who, to
tile ha expression Of his own, dressed him on the
road (Init hi toilette en route,) by cutting off sonic
white hairs which appeared from below his.
coVire ; if all these are not indieeriainately guilty
Of having disguised, concealed, and protected
(recelee) Lavalette ) lint on this point I shall not
enter into cdntroversy ; it will be terniinated in
another way. An asylum at Paris was not enough,
another was necessary On the roach—==they ;topped
at Compiegne! At this time Nilson, who accOm-
punted the traveller who had given orders that the
carriage should arrive at CoMplegneat such an hour,
• and should stop at such a house, was not it stranger
to the choice of his lodging i it was pre-engaged be-
fore their arrival ; they concealed in it Lavalette.
Ile himself has told us why, the place was appro-
priate—how retired, how solitary it was, and how
little there he had to encounter the gaie of the
curious and inquisitive. I must add, that there,
contrary to the dictates of justice, Wilson con-
cealed (receloit) Lavalette.
The Learned Counsel entered into a variety of
further arguments, which want of room prevents
its from inserting, and concluded as follows :
" I trust that I have sufficiently developed the
facts, and I shall conclude by calling your atten-
' tion to the eirenuistartves Which aggravate them.
I speak not of the intention, although the inten-
tion constitutes the ,essence ,of the offence, and
though. in this cast the intention was trimly per-
verse and detestable ; i'''speak not to you of the
material :eiretunstance of the offence
,generally ;
the facts of the escape and: concealment are in
themselves timid acts7---they are effected by Fn.
dence and stratagem ; he tvly flies, or who con-
ceals himself, has no wish to brave stay one;
but here the &nil escape was cot-lam:tea with
arms, and both he who fled, and those whnoic-
companied him, were determined to - employ
force, if necessary:. I pa 34 over the circtini.stauces
of the led-horses, in order that 'the fight might
be more, rapid, in case of obstaelee4---this was in
the, nature of the transaction, in tire necessity of
their situation—but their possession of aims ! and
against Whom were they to be need ?—against the
public agents of French authority---against those
who are charged with its orders-4--against all those
indiscriminately to whom the superintendence and
defence of public, order have been intrusted.—
Here, therm, the offcrrce partook of the initiative
of an attack on the State ; and in this point of
view, which it is impossible to disjoin, it acquires
all the gravity of which it is perceptible. It has,
then, called for the warmest .reprobation, the
strongest repression, and the inmost ex tetitof the
punis:onent which the law provides fur similar
Offences.

Attar he- ended, the sever3l Advocates for
the I.l`rencli Prisoners, Eberle, lieuuit, :AL!. tke.
ntade their respective speeches in support each of
his separate client ; and atter these were heard,
the Court adjourned till. Wednesday, on which
day M. Dtipin, in behalf bf the English, opens
the proceedings.

aitittvev—t Dur—t Gottenlmtgli, I Dubin,
1 Waterford.

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