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London, England, 1815-11-03 00:00:00

nished only with the penalty of the tMed doss ? Dom
not the Legislature hold in its hand an equal balance ?
It must give an account of the melt makes of it to
the country, to the world, and to posterity. Juries,
it is said, will not award punishments at which their
feelings will revolt; but are thiy not obliged to pro-
flounce ? Ought we to sacrifice what is right and ne-
cessary to their repugnance ? This eloquent expres-
sion still vibrates in my ear—France quill have justice,
peace, and fur King ! Why will she have a King ? Not
only. because she loves him—but also because she
stands in need of him, who lives only for the people.
And the Apostles of the contrary doctrine, which has
been so long in vogue, dare accuse us of crimes which
they have committed;—they have committed them
at our expense.—lnhabitants of the west, whom the
horror of the regicide stirred up to insurrection !
Inhabitants of the south, so taitliful to the royal
cause ! —lnhabitants of the east I—No,—such a crime
cannot he imputed to you, you have not ratified—
The PIIESIDEN r.—l call the speaker to the question.
M. Purrs.—My object is to cause the Royal Ma-
jesty to be respected, which it is difficult to establish.
(Violent murmurs. It is established in our hearts, cried
a great nunekr of voices.)—The King's person is sa.
cred—every attempt against his supreme magistracy
is punishable with death,—but without the itrqet of
law the crime will remain unpunished. I will quote
for this purpose the case of the Vicar of St. Nicholas.
(Murmurs and laughter.)-1 propose then the adoption
of the law as it stands, with the substitution of the
penalty of death instead of transportation, in the two
first articles. This alteration is but trilling. (A line.)
M. Da CHALAIDUL.-11 propose an additional article
to the Chamber, the object of which is to prevent the
negligence of public Functionaries. It is this :
Ordinary Commissioners of Police, Justices of the
Peace, Mayors, Adjuncts, and Officers of Gend'ar-
Riede% are personally responsible for the execution
of this present law. Those who shall be convicted
of negligence shall be prosecuted corroctionally and
condemned to imprisonment, not more than one year,,
and not less then a month.
M. GEIININY asked who those were that the law
wished to reach, by 'article 7, the object of which is
to suppress false alarms respecting the national do-
mains, tithes, and the feudal rights ? There are
people who still foster visionary 'toper.; others whom
adversity has rendered discontented, but whose hearts
reject every idea of revolt. Ought he who complains
of his father, and he who slanders him, to be confin-
ed in the same cell ? Let us sacrifice our resent-
meats ; let virtue in distress be ever respected.. This
duty is as sacred as our oath. This is the sound-
ment which I propose :—Are guilty of seditious acts,
those who shall tukhee4 and designedly circulate re-
ports tending to the subversion of the Government.
M. 'far replied to the objections urged against
the plan of the law. The principal was the alleged
insufficiency of .he punishment of transportation ;
some have proposed to substitute for it, in certain
cases, . capital punishment ; but a fundamental prin-
ciple in legislation was to observe, scrupulously, the
gradations in punishments. The first and sicond
articles point to offences, giving to understand, that
there are others more severe. They refer to the penal
code the cases where the menaces and acts shall have
been followed with mischievous effects, or connected
with some conspiracy ; and that code inflicts death
on such crimes. •
M. &comm. D'Aussas endeavoured to spew that
the 7th article was useless, and that it might be mis•
chievous. Its object was to prevent the factious horn
creating enemies to the government, by spreading
reports as to the re-establishment of old privileges,
and the restoration of the old proprietors to their pro-
perty. What have these chimerical alarms pro-
duced ? No disagreeable effect —(Marmurs).—
These reports, disseminated for this year past, have
misled no one—(Agitation in the Hall).
The PAISSIDENT.—Permit me t../ observe, Gentle-
men, that there smothers who mean to rise, and the
speaker may be contradicted regularly, without being
interrupted.
M. D'Avamts then proceeded.
After some farther discussion, of little interest, a
Member proposed, that the seditious cries uttered in
the very presence of his Majesty, should be punished
with marked severity, but was interrupted by mur-
murs.—The Sitting was then adjourned.
The 12th October, the Minister Secretary of State
for the Department of the Interior, addressed to the
Prefects the following Circular ;
M. La PIIfIGT-Tbe Circular of the 40th July last of
tborised you ps suspend and replace provisionally during the
first month of your installation, the Mayors and Adjuncts wheat
it should appear to you t'angerous to sailer to continue in dice.
Several Prefects have thought, that at the expiration at the
month a new authority was required, to enable than to replier
the Municipal Functionaries, and they have requested a pro-
longatioa of this extraordinary power; ethers abstain front
proposing to me useful changes amongst' the Functionaries, per.
*nailed that they have no longer the right, because the term of
the authority given to them has expired.
" Both are mistaken as to the interpretatioa that ought to
given to the circular of the 110th July. The Prefects have.
always bad the right of proposing changes amongst the Fuse-
toionarf reptesadligh°thafr:n4apdrciervisionalltheir ZsdthseyusPehrne rind:de-WI% and
useful to the service and the interests of Gott-fitment. The cis%
akar of the liOth July had less for its object to confer on them.
ih this respect an extraordinary power, than to induce them as
account of circumstances to use their right in such .a manner,
UM In the month of their installation there should nu looser be
In also any but those Functionaries who should be capable et
Mean ting the views of Government tor the re-establishment of
traajalllity is France. It is important that this species sif.rene-
mum should take place as soon as posdble. If this uptration is
net teesalnated In your department, the expiration of the delay
fixed by the circular ought not to prevent you from contineing
it, for I repeat you have the right of suspending Mayors and
Adjuncts, saving the proposing to me the replacing of them, if
they ate in the King's maininatiop. lu the central y case, you
are not yourself definitively to replace them until I gall have
determined on their revocation."
PONDICHillitr
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chequered ; but their troops are so well disciplined,
their officers so experienced, and their restnoces of
every kind so great, that it is impossible they should
not succeed. It is thought they would already have
obtained greater success, had they not, in the begin-
thenteraoo feeble seta. and formed their flintt
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VITAKSeIIt. •
" The brave Government of Calcutta list de•

Glared war against Scialiah. It is generally betke,e,
at Madras, that war will also soon be declared agaii,st
Holkhr. The forces of the Presidencies of Madre,
and Bombay amount at least to 50,000 men. Colop.:
Doveton, at the head of a corps of 12,000 men,
encamped on the frontiers of the King of Bevan,
States, and holds that Pr ince in check. The Pesb,,,,,
does not appear inclined to detach himself from tilt:
English. These different wars wilteurcnntroldittlitoenualvs
tage of the British Government, which will falai,
reduce the Maltrattas to the b.
other Powers of Hindostan. Gene.'a 'Woe,
Commander in Chief of the Madras ;'res.gieney,
taken the command of the troops in the
se All Ceylon is now in possession of
Government. That island, well administev:d,
will be by the English, will become one of the tichN
counties in the world."
OPINION or THE COUNT DE LANSUINSIE, ON MP. 'sr
VoitatENING THE MEASURES OP SAFETY A 64,:,
THOst ACCUSED OF sEDITioN, rantsouNexn
SITTING or TUE GRAMME or runs, OcToithe 2(.
66 Messieutts—ln ascending this tribune, 1 cep,
rience two sentiments, extremely painful—grief a;:d.
astonishment; grief, to behold so disastrous a liw
proposed. under the government of the best of Kia2s.r
astonishment, (to say the least of it.) at hearing te7„t
who propose it-declare, in the onset, that it can be
objected to only by hypocrites, by the tactteus, by
the accomplices of the guilty, and by the tarticans
of a sanguinary despotism. Never, during a year
which I dare not recal, were permitted eboilitiens
oratorical fury more dreadful. Is there, in tau, a
necessity for any extraordinafy measure ? Is the 1,,t0
which has been proposed to us so necessary, so inJe-
pensible? It certainly is not. In fact, do ;he Mi-
nisters omit any arrest when they think the public
safety requires it ? Is there a single department where
they have had any scruples upon this head ? No.—.
They assume, as they 'confess, all the respfnsNfty
of the matter.
• 66 la truth, no man who reasons, can accuse them
of this as a crime, and nothing can mitigate the zed
or the obedience of their agents. Did ever any Pr.,
feet refuse to execute their most dreadful LICAMPI
Prefects and Sub-Prefects are not, in this resifrrt,
amenable, except to them, the Ministers, or to the
Council of State ; and they, the Ministers, are re.
sponsible to no one, since there is no law respecting
their responsibility ; for during 18 months this impta.
:ant measure has not been agitated. There can be to
crime or punishment without a law, which previously
defiles and determines it. Where then is the necess,ty
'of the law ? But what is not problematical is their din.
ger. I shall return to this point when I have explained
what it is. I cannot find any object of ccmparisr.n,
these latter times, except the law relating to suspected
persons which passed in 1793, and the imp; jnrneir
executed in a neighbouring kingdom by itooonOke
of Safety, whose too tardy destruction has excited
the acclamations and the joyful transports of the
whole people.
The Speaker was interrupted by cries of (Wry.
The Duke de Sr. AIGNAN insisted upon callirl
him to order.
64 The Speaker replied—Explain yourself :
said nothing but the truth ; I decline, however, .
peating it, since it is unpleasant. line are my proofs
as to the inconvenience and extreme impolicy of :he
proposition. Some hundreds of thousands of police
officers may, according to the project, arest '
crimes of state; and the simple fact of the arrest
thorises the government to keep the individuals
prison iudefinitely for one year, eighteen miinth,
many years, without any necessity if bringing thin
ki trial. Suppose only one arrest to be executed
each officer, a million of Frenchmen may tot
detained in arbitrary confinement : where wonli
find prisons to put them ? Yes, they are mixt:a,.
or if you will, inculpated, according to the rill
code ; suspected, for they are not even tretilli,
though called such ; the great as well as the mall
fteerlention can be constituted only by the judges.,
Such is our criminal code, formed under a quail!
and for a tyranny.
66 It is said that nothing is changed as to tlieclee
petency of those who issue the 'minders; but ever;
thing is changed, because there are now wily
mandate of appearance, and oo longer those of at:cit.
which cannot be issued except by a Judge, and tr,
alone contains the imputed crime, and cites the.
that punishes it ; because there is no longer a ;We•
spent which declares the suspicions suffideede
blished, nor the consequent ordonnance for tai
the body of the offender. Your law, therefore,
only produce detained persons, and not reach thee
who are really suspected. It is demanded that thee
shall not be tried ; then they are, in fact, like those
of the celebrated year, and I could easily prove
the suspected of 1793 had more resources than those
of 1815 for redress. This is not all. It is propose,'
to apply to these persons the penalty of placing &a
under the inspection of the high pike : that is. '
send them to reside 400 leagues, if they like, '
their homes, or to keep them where they please, if
have not the means of providing bail. These are
you call suspected. And to what amount? Egad
that of the men who have the initiative of each r
sure. In what places ? Tnroughout the whole
dom, without excepting a single deparment.
what time.? For six months, a year, or many year.
$6 What fatal consequences must ensue to the Wit
duals, ruined in their circumstances; accused by
debtors, or their servants, or by the subornation
their wives or daughters—and where will all this!
Will there not be conspiracies in the prisons ?
the experience we have had, who will venture to
that a new second of September may not arrive
Thus the ruin of individuals and of Tamilies would
completed. What Shall I say tithe Goverun"h
the Ministers, of the Chambers ? Where are the;
Authorities who sanction this measure ? Where
they who sanctioned a similar one in that total
An indelible stain is affixed to their names, 411,
reprobation that has fallen upon them is irrevoc.
Lastly, while the inspected arc groaning in pm
tar from their families and from their business.
will pay the taxes? Who will support the chaps
the State ? What terror! What irremedi.tble
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tion of commerce and trade in the
which is atready so languid ! Forgive rind theme
dications. I cannot forget that my mother an
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sister, my brother and my daughter, were ricrac
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and likely to perish, because I then,
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