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have other points to submit necessary to be ptev;ously I
decided—to request the hearing of witnesses upon
those prelitninary pointi—.44o implore an interval ne-
cessaty to prepare his defance—a defence so consi.,
-Aeroble And so ;nvortant as to itz cons,Tiences, hot
he trusted what he Itai said was tmlicidist to c:,llvince
the Chamber or the necessity of eaActing thz law be
had suggested.
M. Dupts, th^ other Counsel, Navin; alinced
some. arguments is sitppol-t of this •nbjeetion, the
President annottuced that tl:e Chamber wrrlld teem,
to deliberate. It wat rwar o'e.,:ock. At
three the Chamber rem-ted its sit•eng.
The PtttitntorT pronAttncei the arret, that the
King's Commissioners should he imme.liately heard
on the objections urgld by the accused. •

ACT 010 ACCIISATMg.
The King's Commissionersi, charged by his MI.
jestes Decrees of the 1 Rh and 1(2,d1 ri: t,is month,
with arraigning before the Chamber of Peers, Mar-
shal Ney, &c. for the crime of high treason, and at-
tempts against the safety of the State, declare that
the documents which have been laid before them by
the Bonn Segnier on this sulijcet, have furnished
them with the following facts
" Marshal Ney came to L'aris on the Gth or 7th
(which day is not correctly known) instead of re-'
pairing to the p;ace of which he was Governor, as he
was ordered to do. The reason he has given is, that
he had not got his uniforms ; this is pliusibie. Batt
what is less so is, that according to his own account,
he was ignorant, even when he arrived at Paris,
1 either of the fact of the landing of Bonaparte at
Cwines, or of •he real cause of the order which was
sent to him to repair to 8e541.9 an. It is very imnro- '
Kahle that the Aid-de-Camp of the Mic Her at W.tr,
who cart ied the order for his immediate departure,
made such a great secretof this nt-ies, which bad b-
come the object of general attention and conversa•
; one cannot even suspect any runtive for his
keeping such a matter secret, any more than one can
believe that the Marsh d would not have been indu-
ced, from curiosity, to ask him what ware the causes!
of this sudden order, as the Ail—te-Camp most na-
turally, if asked, have inforMed Nita of the fact. The
Marsh il, however, wishes it t. b: believed, that 111
did not hear of this important news till his arrival at
Paris--and then only by chance, and at his notary's.
This ignvranze is not natural, and rather tends to in-
crease than to dissipate the suspicions that the Mar-
shal vas concerned in the inancenvres which led to
this invasion, which has been attended with such

fatal results.
Our suspicions that the Marshal has taken part
in these releesures are considerably strengthened by
the depositions of a great number of witnesses, who
hart: reported, various circumstances, tending to prove
that the Islereleil was informed of this landing. By
the evidence of the Sieur Beausite, the Count de la
Geneiere, and Cie Count de Feverney, we learn that
the Marshal asserted, that toe return of Bonaparte
had beep prepareei fur three months before, and that
those who had made contracts with the King's Go-
vernment, nit to have known that they were mat-
ing with or for the legitimate Si3vereign, Bonaparte !
The Count de Faverney, in particular, asserts, that
General Lecouthe assured him that the Marshal had
said to him that he had taken all possible steps to
render the defection of his troops necessary and ine-
vitable, which he would afterward; settle and deter-
mine by the reading of the proclamation.
U Several other witnesses have deposed, that they
were told that the Marshal publicly declared, in an
inn at Montereau, thet the return of Bonaparte had
been long preconcerted. Many other witnesses could
depose to the sime effect—nen-ley, the Baron Ca-
'stile, the Marquis of Vulchier, the Sieur de Beau-
garde, and the Sieur Gamier, tha Mayor of Dole ;
hut ae they have been heard before. the Council of
War, it is not necessary to fecal them. In fact, they
are no longer on the spot, but their testimonies are al-
lready on record.
" Justice, however, also demands, that we should
state, that several other witnesses, who observed the
conduct of the Marshal till the time of reading the
proclamation, seem to believe that till'that period he
was strictly loyal, and they depose to facts which in-
dicate, that sinless the Worsted acted with the
deepest dissiontilatioo, be was even then inclined to be
faithful to the Kin,*
61 However this may be, whether this demonstra-
tion of fealty was real. or feigned, the Marshal before
leaving Paris had the honour of an interview with
the King, who spoke to hint with the most effecting
kindness, and reposed in him the greatest confidence.
The Marshal appeared affected by the good opinion
of his Sovereign respecting his loyalty and fidelity,
and in a transport of passion, either real or simulated,
he protested, that he would bring Bonaparte to Paris
in an iron cage, and sealed bis declarations of devo-
tedness, by kissing his Majesty's hand. The Marshal'
at first wished to deity both this expression of enthu-
siasm, and the liberty which the. King had permitted
him to take. But he ultimatelyacknowkiged the facts.
" It was on the Bth or 9th of March that the Mar-
shal left Paris. He found at 'Besancon the instruc-
tions of the Minister at War, which were in sub-
stance, that he was to collect all the disposable forces,
in order efficacieusly to second the over:owes of
Monsieur,' and to mavens's.* so as to distutb or de-
stroy the enemy.
" Although the different statements of the wit-
nesstts have been duly considered, there are certain
points on which there can be no diet!its. All must
agree as to the line of' conduct which the Warshal
adopted at Lons lr Sauleiet, on the lash of March.
" The Marshal had sent to that town al! the troops
which were dispersed throuehont his district. Sonic
officers, military and civil, who were correct obsetveis
of events, and who were justly uneasy at existing
circumstances, and the insitinetions of certain persous
who held different ranks in the many, pointed cut to
hint, as a means of frustrating their bad intentions,
the propriety of mixing with them es much as possi-
ble, the good and faithful s remits of the King, who
might be chosen from the National Guards. The
Marshal, however, at once tejected these propositions,
even with a sort of distant, by saying that he wished
not to have with him ree,tiaa ahremios, either male or fe-
male; and though he tette( led a hole Own this senti-
ment afterwards, it was with such slowness and re-
pugnance, that the me.i sure intim tonately could not be
carried into execution, nor could the evil, which the
Marshal seemed to foresee, without uneasiness, be
preveuteit.
" Some witnesses seem to think that till the even-