Star.
London, England, 1815-11-27 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF PEERS, NOVEMBER 21.

The Chamber met this .lay, in pursuance of his
Ntajesty's Ordinan'p•s of lith and 142 th
lesperting t!►e tri .1 of Maistril Ney.
When the Peers had taken their seats, the Chan-
cvlior gave orders that the accesej might be bought

1h r.
Cite question arises, said he, if Marshal Ney, ac-
cused ut Treasan and of conspiracy against
the State, can be bi might before this Tribunal ? In-
vite tl:e public, for the first time, to witness our pro-
ceedings; but I forbid ail marks whatever either of
approbation or disapprobation ; and cause
those who torget the respect due to this august As-
sembly, to he torcitny (tuned out.
Let the witne-ses enter, and afterwards the ac-
cused.
The former immediately made their appearance.
The Keeper of the Seals, and the Ministers ot the
Marine and the Interior took their seats on the Mi-
nisterial lit nch.
After the Appeal Nominal. Marshal Ney entered
the Hall, escorted by four royal grenadiers, and took
a seat between M. lierryer, his Advocate, and M.
Dupin his Counsel.
After !tome hither preliminary forms, the two
Ordittitnees of his Nlajesty, anti the Act of Accusa-
tion against Marshal NI. (such as have already ap-
peared) were read,
The Chancellor then aCtlressed the accused...-
0 .M. le Marecl:al—The facts of which you thus
stand chargeit ate odious to all true Frenchmen ; but
it is not in the Chamber of Peers that you need fear
that the hatred of these crimes w;11 operate unlit-
voitrably agaiiist you ; on the contrary, the recol-
lectinn is fa v_ittrahle to us all, that we are constituted
rather as your del enders with respect to those particu-
lar offences chariled against you. You can then
speak wittioat tear or liesitarioil, and you will find
In art.:ll6:Al Vitlai impartiality."
Oa wliich oie Ni.or,h.drosciand s3;l—.
:ily Lords, tl:e Peers—The C 'Amber having Ise.
knot.lesfged my ri.g!it to sal nt t my preliminary
means ot th:fence, I pray you to attend to my Advo-
cate, who is About to illustrate Vivo."
M. BI RRYERI the elder, then submitted to the
Chamber, that as in his view of the 4th Article of
the Constitution, and of the reservation in the 3 Ith
Angelo, a law was necessary to fix the attrilintions
and the modes and forms of the Chamber of Peers,
when erected into a- tiibunal of juslgment, all pro.
ceedings in this Case should be superseded, until such
a law should be enacted.
• It was painful, he :.bstlved, for Marshal Ney still
to take excepti.ins, and before such an august as-
sentlaiy, bni not only his own, but the. interest of all
l'ienchmen required it. He qu.:stioned not their
eorri;:etence to cry, butfelt that a general law was
n!icesiary to estabiish the forms and modes of pro.
ceeding ; and to organize their functions as Judges,
either as they related to their decisions upon the in-
tcAtions ot the party, or upon the circumstances laid
before them in evidence.
His client lonicvd with confidence for the greatest
impartiality in • that assembly, and which induced
• him to seek it pith:LAW), to a terrible Council of War
or a Prevoial Court. It teas incumbent, lie argued,
in such a case, that the three lev,islative powers should
concur in making the law. The basis, however, on
which such a high Court should be constructed, ought
to be must deliberately chatsidered. Those Coatis,
whose names he could 'not utter without horror, had,
he observed, ordained that two-thirds of their voices,
at least, were necessary to decide.
The objection, that clic course of justice would, in
the mean time, be suspended, he regarded as inade-
quate. There was eau danger of the esc ipe of Mar-
shal Ney —the day of justice was sure to atrive, either
fur his acquittal or his condemnation. The proposition,
he urged, Was moss important, and its justice would
be appreciated by all France, nay, by all Europe.
Their own dignity and the purity of their future
proceedings were alike involved. 11, however, they
should over-rule this important objection, he should