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ought to have praise et blame leeotding to his desetts.
This was the custom in England, and hitherto Eng-
land had flourished under it.
Various amendments were proposed, and various
other speeches were made : finally, however, the fol-
lowing were adopted as Standing Orders :
1. The Proces-verbatm of the Chamber of Peers shall be
vrinted-.-they 'shad be distributed to the reds, and Members of
the Chamber of Deputies.
2. The Keepi r of the Records is authorised to send to tt.e
Editor of the Mcniteur-a summary of each Sitting.
Adjourned till Tuesday.
CHAMBER OF Dttitmrs--OCTOBER 21.
M. BLI.LART. brnly:;llt up a Report, in the name of
the C”itral Commissi,m, which was appointed to exa-
mine the Law Project on the detentioa of those ac-
cused of attacks upon the safety of the King and the
State :
" Grimm:au—l have the honour to subMit to
you the opinion of your Commission.
44 Among the Romans, when the spirit of faction
threatened the safety of the State, a simple formula
Was pronounced, and iustantly the power of the con-
suls had no limits.
44 In a country adjoining our own, and which po-
litical writers have characterized as the classical land
of liberty, very often, without even the appearance of
internal disturbances, and merely because a foreign
war gave occasion to suppose that the enemy would
practise secret manceuvres to call domestic traitors
and agitators to his assistance, the law is suspended
which declares that no individual shall be detained
but in virtue of forms merely judiciary.
" The social pact of that nation does not al-
ways admit of this measure. But the great motive
of public safety ought to be always on the side of the
social pact, to defend its esistence against popular
commotions.
a, The Legislators of that nation thought, with wis-
dom, that words are nothing when compared to acts:
in order to have liberty they must begin by having
civil society, and that madmen only can amuse them-
selves with discussing vain sophisms to know if they
have any right to defend themselves, when their ene-
mies are plotting.
is Our Charter has been more attentive than the
public law of the country: which we have men-
tioned. In itself it has founded its means of defence
and of safety.
46 While a Legislature, full of respect for indivi-
dual l.betty. kis established delicate forms for pro-
tecting every cititen from arb:trary power, and has
confided for a limited time to judicial bodies alone
the ri..;irit of disposing of his person; the 4.:‘!: Article
of t! is grand contract, utvotheless, leaves to the
law the indifinite tight of regulating every thing con-
nected with individual liberty.
66 It will require a law to procure the slightest di-
minution. Nowhere does our law prohibit the law
from extending in this respect, its power and fore.
sight, as far as the safety of the State may require.
It is in order to conform to these scruples, so legiti- '
mate of the charter, that the law now before you has
been drawn up.
44 At present, and during the actual state of le-
gislation, several administrative functionaries and
others, are charged with what is called the Judiciary
Police.
66 They have the right, or rather it is their duty
to seize and search for those accused of any descrip-
tion of crime ; solely after a lapse of time not rigo-
rously determined by the law, and which was given
them to enable them to collect all possible evidence
as to the act alleged, they are obliged to carry the
accused before the tribunals, which shall instantly try
them, and instantly condemn or set them at liberty.
46 It is this preliminary delay, and which may be
called the delay allowed for finding proofs, which the
project of the law extends indefinitely in the case of
crimes against the State.
64 The object of this proposition is therefore on the
one hand a rapid and anticipated indictment, when
the nature of the sedition might be very hurtful to
the State, and when 4 traitor might escape for want
of time to bring convicting proofs against him.
i! On the other hand, there may he a traitor so
arlful as to elude successfully a judiciary conviction,
when he will be completely caught by an universal
and humane conviction.
Ought we to set at liberty that dangerous man,
who will become more so by the impunity :hewn to
his first crimes ?
6, Men who do not allow themselves-to be abused by
mere terms, must acknowledge, that, in certain cir-
curnsrances,: discretionary power must be given to
the Governinnt, und4 the penalty of seeing society

dissolved.
"6 Do these circumstances exist ? This is the only
and the true questiori.
Look around 4on, listen, judge for yourselves,
and be not afraid of speaking out. The aceorpplices
of the gtnity thequelves can alone deny the 'existence.
of circumitances..
66 Nevdr wi:* Rome or any other State in a aims-
' tion in which'4 was more legitimate andtiore urgent
to prououncithc formula—' Caved* Conntlai ee quid
darinteati caftiat.'—this point is evident,
• •
nay, it is too much so. 'The CoMmittee has examined
the law saint scrupulonsly. It has discovered that
the resp‘.,ct fur liberty was sagely combined with the
dteemiry precautions required by Prudence: Na
iubliortuthority which did not possess the right be;'