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London, England, 1830-09-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGINCI.

FItANCR.

THE TREASON OF THE FRENCH MINISTERS.

A Copy of the Report made to the Chamber of Deputies by the Cont.
mission charged with the examination of the accusation against the Ex.
Ministers, has been received this morning. The Report is very long,
and we now give a few of the points. It commences by stating, that the
documentary evidence against the accused is but slight, as at the me.
meat of the catastrophe the most important documents had been de.
strayed; so that the great portion of the projects, which must have
been necessary for moving the execution of the Ordinances, were cc.
vend with a veil. But the Committee could not consider the Ordi.
:lances as isolated acts; and, therefore, had taken a view of antecedent
transactions, and had arrived at the certainty that they were the cons.
pletion of a plan which had been meditated by the Crown during several
gears. This was, in fact, but the execution of the designs of the emi.
grants; who, under Louis XVIII. and often against his inclination,
proceeded to take measures for the accomplishment of a counter mole.
tion. The Commissioners refer to the invasion of Spain, the acts against
the Liberty of the Press, against the Schools of Medicine, against the
Trial by Jury, and the appointment of Bourmont. The names of the
secret advisers of Charles X. had escaped their investigation, but it was
certain that Polignac was intimately acquainted with his projects....
It appeared that on the With of December, 1829, he stated t 4
General De Ranvilk, that it was wished by some of the most
zealous loyalists to dissolve the Chamber, and convoke a rev
one; after having modified, by a Royal Ordinance, the Electoral law,
and suspended the Liberty of the Press. They relied considerably on
the conquest of Algiers, as a means of exciting the national enthusiasm,
to direct attention from the proceedings against the public liberties. Th.
expences incurred for that expedition, without the consent of the Chain
bens, would alone suffice to found an accusation against the Ministers.
The Report takes a long review of the proceedings of the Chamber with
relation to the Elections, and also with relation to the transactions im-
mediately preceding the publication of the Ordinances. It appears that
Polignac took the lead in the execution of all measures, and that it was
the determination of the Royalists to proceed to every extremity attri-
buted to then,. The evidence, except that furnished by public circum-
stances, is extremely scanty. The Report thus concludes :

So. Sirs, the result of the long examination of your commission is—
That the Project of Counter-Revolution to be carried into execution in
the days of July, was long meditated—was often before resumed, or
suspended--just as the state of public opinion prevailed in France, for
or against the success of the attempt ; that the Ministry was formed to
the end of effecting the objects which were projected; that the Minis.
try, of which Prince Polignac was one, concerted plans of violence
for ob:sining the elections in their favour ; that the result being still
against tbcm, they at least determined die King to dissolve the
Chamber before it was met, thereby annulling the operations of Colleges ;
that by Royal Ordinances they changed the electoral system established
by the laws.—violated the Constitutional Charter provoked the
citizens to a civil war, and sent considerable sums of money to
strengthen the soldiers against the people ; that the President of the
Council subjected himself to be the promoter of this civil war, by the
appointment of the Duke de Ragusa to the command of the first mili.
tary division ; and by the other measures taken for employing an armed
force against the people. By these acts they have committed High
Treason, by Article 56 of the ancient Charter. This is the first time
you are to exercise the rights of astute and of the Charter, in accusing
these guilty Ministers. The country demands justice on men who vio.
lated the laws. All Europe looks to your proceedings on this occasion
....justice, and not vengeance, is what is required. Your Commission
proposes the adoption of the following