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plished my task, and I hope to have done it like a friend,
and also like a man of honour. Yours is now to begin, and
it is a noble, a great duty you will accomplish, it is worth,
of your high wisdom, and certainly, no external influenc;
will bare any power over your decision. Let those who pre-
tend that you will be biassed by any kind of apprehension,
let them count the Peers of England in the trial of Strafford,
let them also count the Peers who are in this assembly, and
they must remain convinced that their criminal attempts
would prove abortive."
The other defenders made a few observations of minor im.
portance, and the Court then retired into another room to
appoint the hour of their deliberation.
The audience was adjourned at half-past one, when the
prisoners were removed, and the court cleared for the Peers to
deliberate upon their sentence. Every thing of the trial we,
this day evidently hurried so as to get rid of this melancholy
source of so much public excitement with urgent despateh.
The sentence was not passed when the express left Paris.

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STATE OF THE CAPITAL.

M. Keratry having inquired what cause had given rise to the prod.
' mations posted up in Paris,
N. Latitte replied, We are led to expect that the disquietude which
prevails to-day in the capital would penetrate into this Chamber, and
chat explanations upon the subject would be asked of us. We
have received from the King and from you a difficult and Pa.
cred task—that of enforcing respect to the harm We have
employed our efforts to fulfil it. Amidst the grave circumstances in
which we are placed lively apprehensions have been expressed, fears for
the King, for the Chambers, for justice, that is to say, for France, for
all these things are connected,: and at present form but one. Thee
apprehensions, we declare aloud. are exaggerated. The Govern.
ment, however, has nevertheless felt the necessity of acting
and in order sot to take upon itself the great responsibility of a
deplorable error, if it should happen to deceive itself by too mush
confidence, acts as though these fears were well founded ; it takes
precautions as though they had for their object certain and incontestable
facts. Perhaps there is a conspiracy against the public tranquillity •
the Government acts as though it was certain of is.—( Hear, hear
It will not be taken by surprise, nor will you. Force will remain with
the law, or every one will have been wanting to his duty, which is
impossible. The Government is certain that every one will do his duty,
because it will do its duty to the utmost extent. Who are theee enemies
secretly coalesced against the public tranquillity ? It would not be inn.
possible to point them out. On the one hand, the partisans of that
which exists no longer, or that which cannot exist, of the Government
dashed to pieces in July, treacherous partisans who assume all kinds of
masks ; on the other hand, inpatient and misled minds, men of deceived
ambition—in a word, anarchists. These are the enemies who combine
to threaten the public tranquillity. They have laid hold of a pretext.
Yes, gentlemen, a pretext—the trial of the ex-Ministers, and
would avail themselves of this pretext to violate the laws, and give
themselves up to excesses, the termination of which is unknown.
The Government., as you may well believe, has given them no reason
to suppose that it wished to contribute to a denial of justice.
The Goverment had no opinion to express upon this trial. It
expressed but one sentiment, and the only one that became it.—
namely, the desire that justice should pronounce with liberty
of conscience. It has not encouraged either to pardon or to
punish, because it had no encouragement of any kind to give, but said
merely, " I will cause the laws to be observed." It said so, because
every government exists but to cause the laws to be observed ; because
a government that does not do so tails 'in its most essential denies,
and betrays the country. Men IO; are little uneasy about the
fate of the four accused ministers, but who cannot endure order,
have said on their side that the laws should not be observed. They
have said so, and this is what they wish. It matters little to them
whether this or that individual falls beneath the severity of justice.
What is of importance to then, is to attack the existing state of things.
Here is the secret of the premeditated disturbances, if they are real.
Gentlemen the brave population of Paris must know that it is not
against the existence of the ex-Ministers that they direct their efforts,
but against order. Now you may reckon, gentlemen, upon the Govern-
ment protecting order, because It is its duty. It has not to occupy it-
self with the issue of the trial of the authors of the criminal ordi-
nances; this is not its mission e it will defend the laws, the security of
the citisens and property. The Government, gentlemen, reckon upon the
brave and magnanimous population of Paris, who have never been
wanting to their duty, and who will flee together, if it be necessary,
to repress the agitators; it reckons upon the illustrious General and the
National Guards ; it reckons upon the army, and upon all France; in
sheet, who would not aid it in saving social order, when an attempt
would compromise it,not only at Paris, but throughout the whole world ?
We believe, gentlemen, that the disquietude spread in the capital is
exaggerated, but whether well founded or not no matter; we hold it
for well founded, and have combined all the means necessary to dissi.
pate it. Every one will do his duty—the citisens and the King, and
forte will remain with the taw. (Cheers.)
11. Lupien said, although the Government has not affirmed the reality
of the grounds, for the apprehensions of which it has spoken, it must
be admitted that there is something serious and positive. deans have
been provided, and we will not suffer ourselves to be alarmed. As to
the Chamber, which now forms a court of justice ? would it not be the
most abominable crime to snatch violently from she place of its sittings
men accused before it, and who ought to exercise the sacred right of
defence, or to attempt by threats to influence the decisions of justice. It
is contemplated to dishonour the Revolution of 1830, the capital, the
eternal city. Another danger would threaten the second Chamber.
And what right have men calling themselves Frenchmen to come and
impose their will on the Representatives of France ? Rob-
bers, Gentlemen, and anarchists alone could, in this city,
threaten the high powers of the state. The third project In the con-
spiracy would be to attack the authority of the King—of that popular
King, whom we have torn from private life, all the delights of which he
has, by a generous sacrifice, abandoned to devote his life to the public
good--to the safety of France. Nothing is so easy as to begin a nen.
lotion, and nothing so difficult as to finish it. Has Belgium finished
hers ? We have done every thing that could bring us to it. Let us
take care to preserve it. The agitators seek the public ill; Monet we
yield, we must always yield No, gentlemen, we will resist. Tee
'King will place himself at our head; for ourselves, we will remain st
our seats, and, calm amidst the tempest, will do our duty.
M. Wilton Bum enumerated the titles of the King to the national
eoftedence, and the criminal wishes of those who seek to serve them.
selves of the people for their own profit—a people whom they have left
without instruction. and who, nevertheless, have shown themselves great
and heroic, and who will listen to our voice, which never flattered any
one. "We must," said the boo. deputy, " 'meanie the people from
thou who would use them as an instrument. It belongs to us to tell
them, that they would compromise the country by using violence; they
would compromise its internal safety ; and bring back the reign of terror
and the attacks of foreign powers."
M. Guisot thanked the Government for the frank manner in which it
had explained itself, and added—" It was by publicity that we over-
came the Government of Charles X. and escaped from the plots that
were formed against our liberties; it will mill be by publicity, sod
complete freedom of the tribunal, that we shall defeat our enemies, and
cause all their plots to miscarry."
The Minister for Foreign Affairs said that it was the duty tithe Go-
vernment to make known to the Chamber and all France the present
troubles, and the imposing force it bad to display. Men who had
formed least associations had sought to deceive those generous youths
to whom the country was indebted fur the triumph of the great week
they had sought to mislead those simple and courageous men who
earned their bread by labour, and who knew that disorder MU a mot"'
enemy to industry. The Government, however, had its eye upon
them, and, when the time should be come, would smite those who
wished to smite society at large. The day of danger would not come.
and the National Guards, who never tailed is duty or in any perilr
ought to give confidence to the Chambers, to France, and to Europe.