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THE EVENING STAR.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25.

We are indebted to the politeness of our contemporary,
the Morning Herald, for having furnished us with a third
edition of hie Paper of this day,' conveying the following
important intelligence :
We have just received, by express from Paris, the Papers
of Thursday, and the Messager des Chambres, dated Fri-
day, 24th Sept. The express, having been detained by
contrary winds, has arrived at so late an hour, that we
can only say, that the Messager contains, in 11 columns,
the Report of the Committee appointed to examine the
grounds of accusation against the Ex-Ministers, and the
Resolutions of the Chamber in consequence, to prosecute
them for High Treason.
The same paper contains the following articles :
" The followiug fragment of a letter from Brussels has
just been communicated to us : it is dated September 21,

4 o'clock p. m :
For the last hour the drums have been beating to
arms, and the tocsin sounding. The advanced posts of the
Royal troops are at our gates, and a smart fire of musketry
has commenced. The disorder is frightful. The peoples'
minds are exasperated. Six hundred of the Burgher
Guard hare been disarmed by the populace. Part of these
(;uards has joined the people. Every body is hiding his
valuables. The women and children are leaving the city,
which is unpaved and barricadoed. How will all this end ?"

PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 23.
Five per Cents. 97f 90c 93c 80c 80c 70c 80c 70c 60c 80c 70c 00c 25e.:
Four per Cents. 88f 25c.
Three per Cents. 67f 55c 70c 65c 55c 40c 35c 40c 25c.
Bank Stock, 1715 f 1725 f 1715 f.
Rente de Naples, 69f 68f 80c 60c 35c 30c.
Rente d'Espaigne' 191 19.
Royal Spanish Loan, .50 491 50.
Petite Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 40 40/1 40 40b 401 40.
Iltytian Loan, 395 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One Month, 25f 45c; Three Mouths, 25f 30c.

We have seen private letters from Paris this morning,
datt,d on Thursday. These bring us intelligence from
Brussels to the 20th. It seems that place was in a state of
great excitement; and the troops which had arrived from
Liege, or rather the armed Leigois, had marched out for
Vilvorde, with the intention of attacking the Dutch troops

result of this action was not known at Brussels, when
this letter left; but the people seemed sanguine of success.
It appears that in the recent engagement at Mons, nine in-
dividuals were killed in the streets, and from fifty to sixty
wounded.

It appears by accounts from Mecklin, that two parks of
artillery are stationed there; one in the town, and the other
on the road to Brussels. They consist of 24 pieces of cannon,
and their detachments extend to Vilvorde. Sentinels are
placed along the Mecklin Canal, fifty paces apart. The
troops at this point are estimated at 15,000 men.

It appears by the Report made to the Chamber of Depu-
ties, by the Commission on the accusation against the ex-
Ministers, that very little of what would be considered here
as legal direct evidence, in proof of their treason, can be
brought against them ; and that the only proof of treason is
the grand presumptive one of being the Ministers at the
time when certain treasonable acts took place. The report,
we are glad to observe, is temperately worded, and concludes
by saying, that " justice, not vengeance, is required."
Another rather interesting article of intelligence in oar
French news of to-day, is the detail of the ceremony which
has taken place, in honour of four young men, executed for a
conspiracy at Rochelle in 1822. Our Correspondent was
present at this ceremony ; and although he reports every
thing to have gone off, without the slightest interruption to
the public tranquillity, he rates the number present to have
been much greater than the correspondent of the Times has
done.

We find that in September, 1822, in giving an account
of the trial of the La Rochelle conspirators—as they were
called—our predecessor, at that time, as Editor of the STAR,
characterised the proceedings as " a mockery of justice."
The fate of these young men excited, at the time, a most
extraordinary interest. Several advocates embraced, and
wept over them in the open Court. In the affair,
called the conspiracy of La Rochelle, twelve persons
were accused of having participated in a plot to de.
stroy or change the Bourbon Government, or the order
of succession to the throne, or to excite citizens
to arm themselves against the Royal authority. Thirteen
others were charged with misprision, or concealing the
plot, during twenty-four hours, after it came to their
knowledge. The Procureur-General, on that occasion,
described the offence of the prisoners to be a conspiracy of
vast extent, not only against social order and thrones, but
against every family of citizens. He characterised it as the
work of Carbonari, spread through Italy, Germany, Swit-
zerland, and Greece, and which had penetrated France.
Ho quoted the oath of the affiliated, which he said was
conceived in these terms :—" I swear to value li-
berty above all things ; to face death on all occa-
sions for the Carbonari; to abandon, on the first sig-
nal, the brothers of my own blood, to aid and assist
my brothers—the Carbonari." The defouce of the prisoners
was ably conducted by M. BeaviLLE, who sheaved how con-
temptible the conspiracy really was, consisting as it did of a
young advocate—a schoolmaster—a student of medicine—.a
clerk in a counting-house—a superannuated captain—
three serjeant-majors—and one soldier !—" Such," said he,
"is the vast conspiracy against all thrones." Four of them,
were, however, sacrificed to the apprehensions of the then
Government of France ; and Bonus, POMMIER, Got;
and RAOUL', fell under the axe on the 22d of September,
with the cries of Vive la Liberte. on their lips.
Our reflection on this transaction is, that mercy on such
political offences, is always the most substantial policy ; and
we trust that the present Rulers of France, will cease to
follow the example of their predecessors. That
brutal, unforgiving line of policy, which induces men
to deprive one another of life, in what is expressly
called in our language, " cool blood," we are sure is
not consonant w ith the principles of Christianity, or any
other rule of moral conduct, and tends directly to perpetuate a
spirit of revenge. Had not the Ministers of Louis dix-huit
in 1822, executed the four youths, whose history we have
referred to, would the populace of Paris, in 1830, (we would
put the question seriously to all Governments,) be less, or
more likely to call for the blood of the Ministers of CHARLES
the Tenth, now in their power. Thus, does one un-
merciful act perpetuate a spirit of revenge, and prompt
to others. But we hope the age is rising itself above such
examples. It should be recollected, to the credit of
CHARLES X. with all his faults, that no public execution
for political offences, we believe, occurred in his reign.

We have not time, or we would say a few congratulatory
words on the wise conduct which is said to actuate the Go-
vernment of Prussia. We said sometime ago, that we ex-
pected better conduct from the Court of Berlin, than from its
neighbours.

Prince TALLNYRAND, the Ambassador of the KING of
the FZENCH, to the Court of St. James's, has this day
arrived in town.

We have, by Express, the Gazette de France of Thurs-
day's date, and papers and letters of Wednesday night:
From the Journal de Debats.

COBLENTZ, SEPT. 9.—Prince William of Prussia, son of
the King, quitted our town yesterday. The troops assem-
bled in the Camp of Exercise, have returned to their quarters.
—The Prince, on receiving the authorities of Coblents, ex-
pressed himself in the following terms :
" The King has charged me to express to his subjects of the
Rhenish provinces, how much he regrets being unable to be
among them. The recent events in France, however, call
for his presence in the capital. However, the King is firmly
resolved not to interfere in any way in the affairs of this
country, and to let the volcano consume itself on its own
bosom. But if the French attack our frontiers, then the
King will assemble all his forces to combat them. The
works which have beat erected at Coblents, and which form a
powerful barrier to the monarchy, proves the importance his
Majesty attaches to the Rhenish provinces, and his firm reso-
lution of defending them to the utmost extremity.
" The developments that he has reeeived,leince the insti-
tution of the Landwher, forms also the good spirit by which
the Prussians of these provinces are animated. These ef-
fects can only be produced where the wishes of the subject
accord with the measures of the Government. That the au-
thorities neglect nothing to encourage this good spirit, can-
not be better proved, than by their maimed efforts for the
happiness of the people, and a lively desire of aseouraging
all things for their welfare. his by a similar conduct that gas

fuctionaries meet the approbation of his Majesty, who is
habituated to judge of men, not by their words but by their
actions."

The Prince concludes with desiring all those who bear
him, to make known as much as possible to the public, the
sentiments which actuate his Majesty; and lastly, that the
country will see in these sentiments a new proof of the
paternal love of the king, for his subjects in these provinces.
(From the same Paper.)
Serious disorders have broken out at Mons in the night of
the 19th and 20th. We are assured that seven persons were
killed, and the number of wounded was fifty. The de-
spatches from Brussels have been intercepted by the troubles
at Mons : the courier, instead of arriving at Valenciennes,
and thence to Cambray, by the hour the mail passed, leaves
this latter town, not having arrived until five hours after the
mail passed, after waiting three hours, having continued its
route. The journals from the Netherlands have thus not
reached Paris to-day. We learn by a letter written in haste,
that Mons has been the theatre of renewed disorder, but we
are unable to add any particulars.
(From the Journal du Loir.)
It is reported that Don Miguel has fled from Lisbon
and retired into Spain. Tho Spanish General, Mina, passed
through Toulouse on the 16th of this month, and advanced
towards Catalonia. Many of the Spanish refugees also
passed through this town, directing their route towards the
Pyrenees.

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