The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-02 00:00:00

2,7T14 OP JUNK.

in
this day the ilia' of these persons, ::113
number, COMMenced, Under the' presidency of M.
'Romain Deseze. The two benches de`stined for
prisoners being; insufficient to contain all who
were itpplicated in this trial, together with the
gentlarmmWhd gliarded them, e third knell be-
came necessary, Amitltt the face of
the greater part of the 111'44)11e114, some of them
displayed fin assurance very
.unbecoming thrir
sitnadon, while others bad an sir of stupidity,
which showed them to be mere subaltern tools.
The female Picard seemed to be very penitent.

After the reading of the Act of Accusation,
Which lasted two hours and a half, M. Conduct',
vre, Substitute of the Attorney,rieneral, opened
the proceedings in a speech of considerable Tength.
Among other obsereatioras, he remarked, " that
our age had seen men spring 'up who moved only
for crimes, whom. experience dues not teach,
Whom clemency cannot vanquish, and who ect,
!peek, breathe only for the ruin of their country.
Vindicators of a pretended liberty, which they
prostituted to the most odious despotism, these
pa!riots, as they call themselves, have never
known any other liberty but the power of doing
mischief, have had no other god but their own in-
terest. it is to that they have sacrificed, end
would again sacrifice, every thing- it is high
time to pet a period to their fury." Ile proceed-
ed to remark, " that it could hardly be con-
ceived that so extrusive an enterprise as that Nt h
which they were dialect] coeld have origiwtred,
with inen destitute of credit, the greater part of
them in the most abject poverty, and, in short,
the very dregs of the people. A great crime or-
dinarily supposes a great interest, and a man does
not usually expose himself to tertnitt peril with-
out some hope of a counte:wailing success. Could
the tteensed hope to succeed ley their own powers
in a project which went to nothing less than to
overt urn the Throne, nil to shake France from
its vrry fo.undationi ? They must then have been
frerOy instruments in the hands of more itoror-
14nt personages. This was the observetion %chid)
naturally occurred When the plot. was first disco-
Nered, and it was difficult not to repeat it now."
Alter this speech, the thirty-two witnesses Om-
mooed On the cause were,ordered to withdroti
onother room, and the prisoners were also re-'
moved) with the exception of Pleignier, the cur-
rier, Si' whoa' the itidge f,roceetled to put a re-
ritty nt tpiestious as to tlle share he had io
draw-
ing tip the prochtinatiuti, Svc. Nothitog of any
intertst transpilca iu Ott: p, kutter's enswrry,
are given at length in the French Papers. The
primiiiel either was, or aticteced to be, its it state of
greats feebleness both •ot body and mind. The
only novelty that appears, is 'a statentent of the
prisoner's having expressed a wisn to one of his
fellow-conspirators, that' Cat not, and Ciouriest,
one of the editors of the rain Juude, at Brossels,
were in rat is, because they here oleo of great de-
terminetion. The Judge its the course of the in-
terrogatory took occasion to 'remark, •that it was
very extraordinary that the female Picard 'should
engage in politics, her husband having pined
touch by the King's return, as he furnished hoots
to almost the . whole of the 'King's household
troops. •
, Carbonnesu, the next prisoner, was then inter-
rogated by the Judge at considerable length, t)ut
nothing of any interest transpired. Thus finished
the first day's proceedings, and the Court ruse at
'five o'clock.
FRANKFORT, JUNB 23.—The Court of Berlin
has demanded the adjournment of the opening of
the Germanic Confederation, till about the middle
'I of July, Austria had fixed on the 17th of'June.