Star.
London, England, 1815-11-13 00:00:00

COURT OF ASSIZE AT PARIS.

On the 7th of November, this Court was occupied
with the case of Pierre Mauban, called d'Argens,
in the service of M. Ouvrard, accused of having
robbed Sir Cohn Campbell, Aide-de-Camp to the
Duke of Wellington, of from 16u to 2UU pieces of
gold of 20 francs, 19 guineas, and five Portuguese
pieces of the value of 120 francs each. This rob.
bery was committed on the '22d of July last, at the
Hotel de Reyniere, in the apartments occupied by
the English General and the persons of his suite,
which were left in the care of M. Ouvrard's ser-
vants. Sir Colin declared to the Commissary of
Police, that a small box bad been broken open, and
a leather bag with the money taken away. Two per-
sons, who were first suspected, were apprehended,
but no cnie had the least mistrust of d'Argens, who
was about 30 years of age, and son to the coachman
of Louis XVI. fie had been long in the service of
Ibis master, who never had reason to be dissatisfied
with his conduct. Meanwhile, one of the Portuguese
coins was seen in the hands of d'Argens' wife, who
said that she had received it from her husband. Their
chamber was searched ; some of the pieces of gold
were found, together with Bank.notes to the amount
of 3,500 francs. D'Argens confeszed that he had
found a bag containing a great number of pieces of
gold near the apartments of Sir Cohn Campbell ;
that he had applied part of the French coin to the
payment of his debts, and changed the rest for notes
of the Bank of France, but he positively denied hav-
ing had any hand in the theft. D'Argens persisted
in the same story before the Court of Assize. He
acknowledged that he was wrong not to inform Sir
Cohn of his having found the bag, but he was afraid
of being taken for the thief, and therefore said no-
thing about the matter. Notwithstanding the se-
riousness of the accusation, d'Argens excited a strong
interest in all the spectators. His countenance seas
far from indicating a base mind, and his whole ap-
pearance seemed above his condition. These favour-
able prepossessions, however, combined with the elo.
qucnce.of his Counsel, had but a partial effect in the
minds of the jury. On acquitting him, upon the
charge of effraction and nocturnal robbery, which
would have incurred die penalty of hard labour for
lile, they resolved the principal question in the affir
mative. The Court sentenced him to hard labour
for five years, and exposure in the pillory. He heard
his doom with a composure that seemed to border
on apathy.
DECLARATION OF THE CONGkESS OP VIENNA RE,
LATIVE TO HE Si.AVr. TRADE.

" Vienna, February R, 1815.
44 The Plenipotentiaries of the rowers who Imre
signed the Treaty of Park of the 30th of May,
1814, assembled in ceofirence, Wing taken lino con.

sideratioa that the commerce known by the appella.
tion of the Traffic in African Negroes, has been repro.
bated by every just and enlightened man in all ages,
as repugnant to the principles of humanity and gene-
ral morals—that the particular circumstances to
which this commerce owed its rise, and the difficulty
of suddenly checking its course, have been able to
cover to a certain extent that which is odious in its
continuance ; but as at length the public voice is ele-
vated in all civilized countries to demand its sup-
pression as soon as possible ; and as the character and
details of this traffic have been better known, and the
various evils produced by it are completely deve-
loped, several of the European Governments have
taken in effect a resolution to abolish it ; and as, suc-
cessively, all the Powers possessing colonial territo.!
ries have recognized, either by their legislative acts
or by treaties, or other formal engagements, the obli-
gation and the necessity of abolishing it; that by a
separate article in the last Treaty of Paris Great liri.
tain and France have engaged to unite their efforts
at the Congress at Vienna to induce all the Powers
of Christendom to effect the universal and definite
abolition of the Slave Trade ; and as the Plenipoten-
tiaries assembled in the said Congress know not how
better to honour their mission, to fulfil their duty, or
manifest the principles by which their august Sove-
reigns are actuated, than in endeavouring to eft e•
mite such engagement, and in proclaiming in the
114M:5 of all, their desire to put an end to a scourge
which has so long desolated Africa, degraded Eu
rope, and afflicted humanity, the said Plenipoten.
tiaries have agreed to open their deliberations on'the
means of accomplishing this great and usefol object.,
by a solemn declaration of the principles which have
guided them. In consequence, and duly authorized by
this act of unanimous adhesirm of the respective Courts
to the principle laid down by the said separate ar-
ticle in the Treaty of Paris, they declare, in the face
of Europe, that, regarding the universal abolition o!
the Slave Trade as a measure worthy of their carnet
attention, conformably to the spirit of the age, and
the generous principles of their august Soveteigns,
they are animated by a sincere desire of concurring
in the most prompt and efficacious execution of that
measure by every means in their power, and to act in
the disposition of such means with all the ze.tl and
perseverance due to so just and noble a cause. Too
well aware of the sentiments of the Sovereigns not to
know that, honourable as may be the object, they
would not pursue it without a due attention to the
interests, the habitudes, and even the prejudices of
their subjects, the Plenipotentiaries recognize, at the
same time, that this general Declaration cannot pre-
judge the term in which each particular Power can
decide on most suitable for the definitive abolition of
the Slave 'Trade. Consequently the determination
of the period at which the traffic shall unive:sally
cease shall be the subject of negociation between the
Powers, with an under standing that they shall not ne-
glect any means to assure and accelerate the progress of
the sew k ; and that this reciprocal engagement, con-
tracted by the present Declaration between the Sove-
reigns, shall not be considered as fulfilled until the
moment at which complete success shall have crowned
th: ir rffolts. In issuing this Declaration to Europe
gmrally, and all the civilized nations of the earth,
the said Plenipotentiaries hope to engage all the oilier
.Governments, and especially those who, in abolish-
ing the Slave Trade, have already manifested the
same sentiments, to contribute their support in a
cause, of vithicii the triumphant end will be one of
the most glorious monuments of the age in which it
shall be accomplished."—Jouraal der Debuts.

TRIAL OF NEY.
PARIS, NOVEMBPA 9.

The Cottrt•Martial charged With the trial of Mar-
shal Ncy, rnzt in the Grit:At Hall of Assize, at the
Palace of. Jihtice. It consisted of

Marshal Count Jourdan, President.

Marshal Massvna, Prince of Es ling.
Marshal Augereau, Duke of Caitig!ione.
Ma, sisal Mortier, Duke of 'Froiiao„

Mutenant-General Count Vallute.

Lieutenant-General Count Cliparede.
Lieutenant-General Count 11%.ison, Governor of Paris.
Baron Joint/alp, Comtni%sary Ordnnnateur of the First Mill*
tary Division, mill perform the functions of King's Commissary.
Count Grunt!ler, ;.i :1r :dial-de-Camp, those of Judge Advocate.
And M. Both.bu, those of Greffi.yr.

So, early as eight o'clock in the morning a detach-
ment from every legion of the National Guards, pi.
quets of Gendarmerie and Sappers and Firemen,
took their stations at the various doors of the Palace
of Justice and in the vicinity.
The interior of the Hall was guarded by National
Guards and Veterans. The places generally occu-
pied by the Jury, and even the scats for the Crimi-
nals, were given up to the Public.
The place allotted to the accused was near his
Counsel, in the semicircular space below the Bench
of Judges.

We need scarcely add, that the influx of ♦isitors,
both French and foreigners, was very great. Prince
AUGUSTUS of Prussia, Lord and Lady CASTLEREAGH,
and* some other persons of distinction, occupied places
which were kept for them.

Messrs. B&KRYER senior and junior, and M. DUNN,
appeared as Counsel for Nett.
It appeared from the Proce: Verbal of arrest, that
at the moment the retreat of Marshal Ney was dis-
covered, it WAS thought that Murat might have been
arrested at the same time, as information was ob-
tained that both of them were at the chateau or vil-
lage of Rochefort.

Seldom has there bees a spectacle so imposing as
that which was presented this day at the Palace of
Justice. At ten o'cllck Marshal Jourdan opened the
Council by reading a letter from the Minister at War
convoking the Council. Count Mahon was replaced
by Count Gozan. The Proces-verbal of the arresta.
tion of the Marshol was read. The letters from the
Minister of War of the beginning of March lust, and
the Marshal's answas were then read; the Order of
the Day, and the Marshal's Proclamation of the 21st
of March, wire also read, and all his letters to the
Aufhorit;cs, ordning the arrest of a number of per.

sons for their attachment to the King. The Gietrwr
of the Council then read a copy of his examinati
before the Prefect of Polic : it was very le ag, and t 1..:
Marshal's ipecch, at its conclusion, was as follow:::
" I have several times been on the point bf corn.
mating suicide, but I did not effect it, becausi.
would live to justify myself. I know well that I 11:m.

committed great faults, for which honorable
blame me: I blame myself also, but I am no traitor;
what I have done I was drawn into. H. lix

willing to betray, I would have given false advice t.,

Marshal Suchet. when he wrote me word 114 trooi,
were in a ferment."

A second interrogatory was then read, at the end
of which the Marshal said :

44 I left Paris with the intention of sacrificing 7r,2
life for the Kiag. What I have done k a great ne
fortune. My head was deranged. I would hav
passed over to the United States, but I thought propt.t
to remain for the honour of my children."

More the first interrogatory, the Marshal g4VC
the interrogator a paper, in which he declined t'
Council of War, as haviag suflic;vot pawer v tt y .. n,.

The Marshal reverted to the letter which l-.
ceired the 13th March. at Lor.6-le.Saninier,
General Bertrand, in which he was iMOrnted that t!•.•
enterprise of Bonaparte was concerted in cm.j,inctto:,
with Austria and England. And after this letter
thought all defence useless.
The instructicars given on the 9th cf March l?-1,j7
the Minister of War (Si ult) to Marshal Nzy,
minding the 91) Military Division, v.ere as t'ilow:
4. Monsieur the King's brother, has atrived
Lyons, and taken the command of the army asset.
tiling at that poirt. Every measure must be :ILi4
to pursue with vigour ard without rernision,
party at the head of which Bonaparte has dared to
penetrate the French territory. Evet y g'rLi
grounds to hope for the most prompt success.
" In the absence of the Duke de Berri please ta;:e
the orders of Monsieur. Correspond daily wrth tt.e
Prince. P, contrary to all expectati:.ns, the tneri.f
advances towards Lyons, make your lisp itiaus t
manoeuvre so as to harass him ar.d thwart his
and finally to destroy him if you have an oprortnna,."
Extract of letters written in the mc,nth of
last by Elie Prince of hloskwa, to the hlatis..cr u:
War.

" Besancon, 10th March.—Gencral C..uet EJVT.
moist has given you an account of tiie wilule rfz.
troops of the 7th division having been directed uFn
Lyons. I have no positive intelligence as to the o.
terprize of Bonaparte.
It is said here that he has presented himself he.
fore Grenoble, and that lie will probably throw hit .
self into Italy by the Simplon."
" 11th March, Nine o'Clock, A.M.—The Dole
de Maille hes arrived fiom Lyons to inform
the troops at Grenoble have gone over to &nape!,
with the exception of one detachment, which 1.11
thrown itself into fort Barrens. I set cut for Lens.
le-Saulnier ; I shall occupy Macon and Bourg, and
if I find a favourable opportunity, I shall nut het.
tate to attack the enemy, Sec."
" Lons-le-Saulnier, 12th March.—Your Excellency
will herewith find some proclamations of Bnnaparts
which teem to deserve an etargefic answer to the her whei
they contain."
" Yesterday I countermanded the march of troop,
which, conformably to the orders of the Dai::
Tarentum, were marching by Chalons upon !.1-1.
lins. The troops would have been lost to the
Cause the whole country from Auronne to Bein•
con would have been uncover( d, and the plAcrs es•
posed to be tak?n. It would be essential to adcpt.,
pher for the correspondence, Sec."
ge Lons le Saulnier, 12th March.—The retrofire::
march which Monsieur has been obliged to mike
upon Moulins is very distressing : Marshal
seems to want confidence in his troops; neveithAt,c,
it is not by withdrawing that they are to be led
against the enemy, if they have any iiitention of doing
their duty. They must be made to light in the tie:
place. I am absolutely without artillery for the wart
of horses, Ste."
The Pi eclamation of Ney, beginning with e:f.
words, " Yie cause of the Bourbon: it lost fir ever, Ste."
was read to the Council from the iffeeeeur of ga:e
21. An order was also read from Nil- to arrest G.
ncrals Bourmont, Lecourbe, Delaure, dory, Ch.lect
and several other superior eflicers.
The examination of Marshal Ney before the re
feet of Police, M. Decaze, is as follows :
" I am not obliged to answer you. I ought iv
to be tried by a Military Commission, bat by di
Chamber of Peers. You wear an uniiorni which i
that of the Royal Authorities; but there is nothie-.
to prove to me that you are a Prefect of Police. I
am ready, however, to answer all questions, and t
say things which will astonish many people. if
had known of the Ordennance of the King, I shoul•
have come to Paris.
Question—•" Did you not solicit in confidence free
the King a corps d'armee to march against Bun
;
I only obeyed the orders which were given me.
Answer:.—"' I made no request to his M'aPj4erst:
saw the King before setting out to requts. his fin
instructions. 1 think I said to his Majesty that ti, s
conduct of Bonaparte's was like that of a ma .0100
and that he dsserveri, if he war Mel, t') it browsk to
Paris in an iron cage. They pretend that I said
would bring him my self in an iron cage : 1 do net
recollect distinctly what I said. It is also p
retClide

it I kissed the King's hand. All this is false: I
J,l not even make the King any protestations of my
gleiity : I had no Occasion, for it was my intention
:„ serve him, and I would have done so if 1< had seen
th3t it was possible. (Rec ,llecting himself),
do kiss the King's hand: his Majesty presented k
so we, and wished me a good journey. •
is The landing of bonaparte always appeared to
u: very extravagant; but at Auxonne his age:tts re.
inoented tEings in. a different light. I allowed
isyself to LC carried away to prevent a civil war, and
the assurance which Bonaparte had given me,
.hat the AlPed Powers were reconciled to him; that
IL. Austrian General Koller had come to the Island
) to announce to him on their part that the
6,lurbJllS cont.i uo longer reign ; that the King of
orue and his Mother would remain as hostages at
, ,:oe I, until he :Wald have given to France a lib*.

COniUtUriolle
of The proclamation ascribed to me. and which I
A not publish dotal the 14th. Was known on the
,ith in Switzerland: it hid been sent there before.
vui to Joseph.
This is precisely Banaparte's tactics : in dui
orse the lust campaign in Russia. he caused to
inserted in the Moniker. a letter. in which hemacle
ie speak in a very unhandsome way of the Russians
of political affairs. I only knew of it by his
lying to me in a jocular way next day. • Marshal.
have made a man of letters of you. I have imbued
•:t ii to you.! lie had already done as much to

'tince Eugene.
6, I add that he said to me, in order to prove that
to I:,;3lish consented to what he was doing, that,
.fit days before he left Elba, he was on board a
i;" id war of that nation ; that General Campbell,
e English Commissioner, set off the next day, and
lerwarls he made his preparations to embark."
The following witnesses were then successively
tamined : M. Jacques Duval d'Espresmenil, M.
Aftardy, M. Philippe de Segnr, the Duke de
animont.

Tile Prince of Poix, in his examination stated
:ing present when the Marshal took leave of his
rajesty ; he heard the King say to him, " Geo 1
cFca wponyoNrjdefity." The Marshal answered, that
t felt homed certain of bringing Bonaparte back
an iron cage. He kissed toe King's hands and
ithdrew:

General Kerma Was next examined, and Baron
;autier, the Duke de Maille, the Marquis de Sau-
.at, the Duke de Duras, M. de St. Amour, the
oust de See, Cpunt de la Jennetiere, Count Triant,

,
Lie Marshal's Circler of the Day of the 14th was
.el read, in which he'says..64 Let its join the Zaps-
r;" thisorderprescribesthe restunptionof the eagles'
the tri-eolaured flag.
The declaration of M. de nothemoit was then
ad. He stated to have been employed ta the Dewitt
!Isis at Loini-le;.Saulnier iu March last& He learnt
Itat search was making fat a person, faithful enough
to his King, to be employed on a mission to Macon
ie witness offered Mansell; it was to observe the
army of Bonaparte and to give an attousa of its forte.
:le rsceived five Napoleous tor his travelling
es-
enses and set off. He etrived at Bourg, and was
I,imped in his project bY the bad news which was
hint, but he persisted, and Walt to Macon. His
-,,tviport was revised, and a se:Wiring informed him
would be atrested ; he gave two Napoleons
o ti.e gefidaime with thanks, and returned back to

Co'ant Villara deposed that after the proclamation
A Nlarsh4l Hey, and the insurrection of the town of
ins and several others,—Generals Lecourbe and
3ourntont arrived next day, 16th. He saw the tri.
cockade in General Lecourbe's hat and re-
;mulled him with it, but the General answered :
What the devil can one do,—the soldier's will not
igbt—we resemble the Roman Empire in its fall."
M. Pierre Boulogne, merchant of Paris, declared
!hat on the 12th of March, on hii return from Lyons
:0 Paris, by the way of Logs-le-Satilnier, that, he
T4S taken before Marshal Ney, he gave the details of
Zonaparte's entry into Lyons;—the Mantel an..
.wered...." that he had concerted with Marshal
Xissena, to take him in the rear, that the enterprise
f Bonaparte was nothing, and that there would soon
an end to it."
The next declaration *di that of M. Gamier, who
'epmtcl, he was admitted to the presence Of Marshal
'efi on the 15th, and heard him use the most indig-
;ra expressions against the dynasty of t Bourbons
1t ot.d.::cd the illuminations of the town of Dole, and
spread the same proclathaeion he ;silted the day be.
..:e at Lons-le-Saulnier. The witness was to have
-.11 arrested, but be made his escape and hid him-
self fa thirty-two (Jaya in a forest, and was not taken'
de thinks the Marshal could haie stopped the enter
prize of Bonaparte.
The Count de Bourmont deposed, that from the
a=th to the 14th of March, he was under the orders of
the Marshal, v.lio told him be arlst beat Bonaparte.
1_ ley took measures in concert; on the 15th, the
'l,ll'skal read a proclamation, which he intended to
publish ; witness opposed it as much as he could, as
the publication spewed the Marshal to he no loner
itztached to the King.
W'aen the Marshal read it to the soldiers, it excited
hie cries of Yoe rEmpreur. Witness thought the
'K. %%void base remained true to the Xing had a

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bade taken piaci,. but thisstbiele matron overthrew
all, the under oldie's anders overpowered 'the
Generals and superior officers,, any o 1 whom re.
tired. On the 13th of March thesbal assembled
the Generals, and told them there teas no longer'any
balance, and they must unite themtelves_to Bona-
parte. The proclamation had the worst effect, but
the witness adds, that they were too near Lyons to
retain the soldiers mach lobger.
Marshal de Ceinp Jarryi commanding the Depart-
ment of the Jura, stated, that Marshal Ney gave him
his word of honour that the Atom of Bonaparte was
concerted by a treaty with Aitstria and England.
Thereupon M. dairy p.m in his resignation, and was
put upon the proscribed last.
Baron Capelle, Prefect of a Department, stilted,
that on the 13th of March, Marshal Nei seemed to
bins to have no longer and confidence in his troops,
and said, 44 I cannot stop the water of the sea with
my hand." General de Bourmont was more secure
on this head, in consequence of the w.irm manner
it which the subaltern officers had individually taken
the oath of fidelity to the King the evening before.'
The witness asked Count Bintrmont it the fidelity of
Ney could be depended on?
General BOurmout answered t " I cannot believe
In his devotion, but !reckon upon his fidelity." The ,
wham' wilt not discouraged by the march of Bona.
parte upon Paris i for Ney proposed to defile by
Lyons stpon his rear, and jt In Marshal Mamba, who
he thought was marching with the troop from
Provence.

The &line witness gave an account in nearly the
following terms, of a conversation which was related
to him by Generals B urmont and Lecoutbe, and
finally by the Marshal himself.
The Marshal having sent for Generals
and Lecombe, told them that the cause of the B mr-
bons was last ; that what was then going on was the
result of a project settled between him, several Mar.
shills, and the Minister at War ; that tl.e troops had
been posted by the Minister in such a w..y as to be
on Bonaparte's line of march, and go 0v,.,r to him :
he added, that, determined to Lha:•ge the dynasty,
they first thought of crowning tin ll.tke of Oilcans,
but that they had acquited the calainty that lie
would not lend himself them ; that in the interval
Madame Hortense had propsed the teturn of 11,,na-
pane to France ; that the force and urgency ut events
hid constrained them to 'Old the cons;iracy in spite
of themselves. Persons attached to the King's Coun-
cil were, he said, privy to it.

The Marquis de Vaidchier, Prefect of one of the
Departments, made a deposition nearly similar, as to
the pretended plans concerted with the foreign Cabi-
nits, the Minister of War, and other Frenchmen.
M. de Champneuf deposed, that he proposed to
the Marshal a plan uhich met his approbation. It
was to put in the front, gentlemen dtsgiiised as com-
mon sjldiers, and who were to have fired the first
shots. Colonel Daubanel (one of those who re-
mained faithful to the King) agreed that this mea-
sure should be put in execution in the corps which he
commanded, bin events succeeded each other so ra-
pidly, that there was not time to have recourse in this
' expedient. The witness besides deposed, that Ney
remained a faithful servant of the King up to the last
moment, i. e. to the moment of issuing the fatal pro.
clamation.

At balf•past five o'clock the Court was adjourned
till ten o'clock nt.xt morning.

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