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BRUSSELS, JANUARY U.
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Lieutenant General Count Excelmans, after having
escaped from his _house where he was guaided. by
gens d'armes, bad engaged in writing to surrender
himself as soon as he should be legally summoned be-
fore a competent tribunal. Though two of the charges
against him have the penalty of death affixed to them,
he 'has punctually fulfilled his promise. •On the 14th
he repaired voluntarily to Lisle, where the Court-
Martial is to meet, and wrote to Lieutenant General
Count Erlon, Commandant of the itlth Military Di-
vision, President of the Court Martial, the following
letter :

41 Ltst.t, lANITAItIr 14.
" The messuriii taken against me about the middle of last
month, having appeared to me to be Illegal, I thought myself
allowed to withdraw from their effects. However, when I got
out of the bands of theta who had constituted themselves my
k eepeta, it was my duty to engage, and, in fact, I did engage vo-
lxitarily to present myself as soon as the tribunal formed to de-
cd.: upon my conduct should be known.
" he fulfilment of this obligation, which the necessity of de-
fending my honour bad prescribed me, did not then give me any
lea., because I was convinced that no criminal act could be
justly imputed to me, and because I was too well sainted of the'
purity of my intentions In all I have said or written, to fear the
con.equences, under a Prince whose justice I always admired.
" Bewg now acquainted with the Members of the Court Mar-
tial who are to judge of my conduct, and full of confidence in
their justice and enlightened sentiments, I tem to declare to you,
Count, that I am ready to appear before them, and that I entrust
to them with the greatest tranquillity my honour and my person.
Please to accept, &c. (Signed)
" Lieutenant-General Count EICILIAL424.i.
After the delivery of this letter Count Excelmans
surrendered himself prisoner at the citadel of the
town to which he had been ordered to repair ; it was
not till then that the charges against him were made
known to his Counsel. They are laid down in - the
Report made to the King by Marshal Soult, Modem
at War, on the 29th December lint. The Wales,
expresses himself as follows:.
" The acts of which Lieumnant-Oeneral Omni Amin*
has been guilty, are of a naturoloilnitety serious
" t. He has kept ups cotrespondinos with the essessy, with
a permission in wddng from his superiors, while be was
employed in the character of himettosuGeneral of the crodry Is
the first military division • I say with the ene your
Majesty has not recognised Joachim Murat u(Naples;
and.even if be bad written to a Prince who w or ally
of yoir Majesty's, his conduct would have been reprehensible.
" 2. He has committed lin act of espionage, by welds( to
Joachim Murat, that' thousands of brave dicers, fanned in his
school and under his eyes, would have been ready at his call, If
things had not taken such a favourable tarn for him.'
" s. He has IN ritten tbinp that were offensive bath to the per-
son and the power of your Majesty.
" 4. He has disobeyed the orders given him f 12411 your Ma.
jrsty by the Minliterof War.
" 5. He has violated the oath which be took when he received
the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis."
The inhabitants of Anspaeh and Bareeth have pre-
sented a petition to the Congress, expressing their ar-
dent wishes to be re-united to Prussia. This petition
has been in general favourably received.

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