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London, England, 1816-07-09 00:00:00

ASSIZE COURT.

TRIAL OF THE SOI-DISANT PATRIOTS OF in&
SITTING OR THE 4TH JULY.

The general interest excited by this strange trial
collected this day a numerous auditory. The first
row of seats was reserved for the ladies, a little too
fond perhaps of this kind of spectacle, where they
must expect to receive only painful impressions.
M. VANIXEUVRI6 the Counsel for the prosecution,
was heard at great length on the evidence against
the prisoners. He began by remarking, that it might
be asked how men in such low life could indulge the
lofty idea of conspiring against the Government?—
How could curriers, bootmakers, notaries, flatter
themselves that they would become the arbiters of
our destinies ? To this he would reply, that it was
the natural consequence of revolutions to inflame the
passions, confound the ideas, and drive men out of
their natural sphere. Amidst the vicissitudes of re-
volutions men were seen rising from the lowest ranks
to the height of power and opulence, and hence a
sinister ambition was often roused.

' He then proceeded to nate the law on the subject
of the crime with which the prisoners were charged.
The law pronounced it a plat where there was a pro.
posal made and adopted to assail the safety of the
State, and where the tesolteion to act teas concerted
and settled by one or mare persons. The object of
the plot was to arm the citizens against the Royal
authority, to evertern the Government, and to de-
stroy the Kieg and the Royal Family. The overt
acts in this plot were tie: drawing up, the printing,
the distribution or tae iledetes of the soi disant Pa.
the iiiitiatka, i,y means of cards, and above
all the drawing of a elan of the Thuilleries. In
ordinary eases, said M. Vimdcenvre, the law only
punishes the crime when it has been committed, or
openly attempted: but in State crimes it reaches the
guilty even before the attempt, because it is impor-
tant to the wielare of society, net only that tile crime
should not be committed, but that it should nut even
be attempted. Bet the plot being once proved, there
was in fact that kind of commencement of execution
which characterizes a wicked attempt (atten:at), for
in law the cliental manifestation of the will to act is
sufficient proof of the commencement of an act.
He then pioceded to review the evidence, and to
mark the share which each party had in the plot.
.Pleignier and Carbonneau were the inventors of the
conspiracy, or reeler the first agents of the invisible
chiefs. Tolleron knowingly engaged in their plans.
It was he who pointed out Charles as the man to
print the Proclamation, and who initiated in the
secrets of the coniteracy the brothers Ozere, Dervin,
and others. He thought it proved that the Proch-
nutien was printed by Charles. Lefranc was a mys-
terious personage. Though he had not asked, like
Pleignier, to speak to the King, yet he could proba-
bly make much snore important discoveries. He was
busily engaged in circulating the Proclamations ; he
was the enemy of all Governments, and had been in
all the revolutions which France had undergone. He
commented on the zeal which the woman Picard,
unmindful of the duties and the virtues of her sex,
had strewn in distributing cards and Proclamations.
The Learned Counsel, after in this manner recapi-
tulating the evidence, and applying it to each indivi-
dual prisoner, drew the following conclusion, viz.--
That Pleignier and Carbonneau were the authors of
the plot, and Tolleron, Charles, Lefranc, the woman
Picard, Desbeunes, Dervin, Descubes, and Philippe,
were accomplices. With regard to the rest, it would
be the business of the Jury to decide whether they
were guilty of the offence of concealment, or of that
of distributing seditious writings, or signs of rallying,
not authorised by law. The Learned Counsel con-
cluded with an eloquent peroration, which, notwith-
standing the gravity of the place, and the solemnity
of the occasion, excited the applause of a numerous
audience.
M. NIANGUIN, Counsel for Pleignier, was next
heard. He admitted the tact of his having composed
and distributed an incendiary Proclamation, but con-
tended that the wild conceptions of his client could
not be dignified with the name of a plot. He begged
as a favour that Pleignier should be banished to
Cayenne. Let him go beyond the seas to that burn-
ing clime which receives men only to devour them.
Here the Counsel grew warm, and described the ter-
rible effects of deportation. Pleignier covered his
face with his hands, sobbed, shed tears, and seemed
delivered up to gloomy despair.
The PRZSIDENT.—Advocate, the law, full of wis-
dom does not permit you, even in favour of your client,
t r paint the consequences of a sentence. When cooler,
you yourself will allow that this interruption was un-
necessary and ill placed.
M. MANGUM felt the justice of this remark, and
finished his pleading.
Carbonneau spoke for himself e he declared that
Pleignier had deceived him, by saying that be bad
powerful friends. At soon as he was aware of the
imposture, he abandoned all connection with this
dangerous man ; and on the evening of his arrest he
was upon the point of enrolling himself in a company
of comedians. It remained, he added, for him to
dissipate any alarms which might be felt. It was
suspected that this machination might be directed by
great personages : it was no such thing.
M. Dostcgotao, Tulleron's Counsel, defended him

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on the ground of the instigations used to seduce hird.
The other Advocate Will be heard to-morrow.
PRIVATE LETTER. DATED PARIS, JULY 4.
al Three regiments of the Royal Guard set out
yesterday morning for *Lyons, in consequence afresh
disturbances which are said to have taken plAce in
that city. The Due d'Angouleme leaves Paris for
the South, in order to dispose the minds of the people
favourably to a general levy, which Government will
attempt to effect in that quarter. The politics of
the Continental Powers become daily more evident,
and little doubt remains, even in the minds of the
King's friends* of the Russian Government being
completely estranged from the French Court. The
intention of the Emperor Alexander to place his
brother.in.law on the throne is again confidently as.
serted. It is even said that the Prince of Orange
states himself to be well assured of this Sovereign's
support for that purpose. Russia is endeavouring in
the mean time to strengthen her alliance to the pre-
judice
of England : with this view she has proposed'
to Prussia and Hovland the adoption of her Tariff;
she even adds to it prohibitions which would render
its operation against British manufactures little short
of that produced by the Berlin and Milan decrees.
Russia is stated furthermore to have, in conjunction
with America, promised to countenance the Mexican
independence; in return for which, some ports in the
Pacific are to be conceded to her.
44 The evidence given by Made Verneuil and M.
de Mathis, both Knights of St. Louis, against the
conspirators of 1816, has not been a little mortifying
to the members of that honourable Order ; the title
of Chevalier henceforth denoting to society the office
of a spy. The Minister instructed the Censorship to
suppress that circumstance of the trial. but it w:is al.
ready printed in the Corudisaionadand .kurnal de Paris,
and many copies of the former were already distri-
buted. The Censorship received orders, at the same
time, not to suffer any thing but the initials of agents
of Government to appear on like occasions. This M.,
de Verneuil employed under Bonaparte for she Police
des Salons, at the rate of 500 lilacs a month.
46 You will observe that the Paris Papers state sim-
ply, that General Marchand ( who commanded at
Grenoble on the landing of Bonaparte) has been ac-
quitted, carefully withholding from the public all
particulars of.the trial. The police, which enjoined
that caution, has also forbidden any mention to be
made of the Government of the Low Countries hay.
lug acceded to the Treaty of the Holy Alliance.
The following lines were struck out by the Censorial
pen, of a new Tragedy entitled Absalom :
" Le chatiment d'un peel suSt a ma vengeance,
" Pour sal Rol sans our, he Cid est Ms clemence."
44 A circumstance that would indicate the little
faith placed by the petty States of Germany in the
French finances, and iu the permenancy of the pre-
sent order of things, is, that several of them have di.
rected their bankers at Paris to sell off their claims on
the French Government at 50 per cent. loss.
Tt.e new President of the Board of Controul
lately evolled in Parliament the Protection granted
by the French Government to their Protestant sub-
jects. This Minister,. unless he be egregiously mis-
informed, certainly belies his own conscience. The
celebration of the Fete Din, at Nimes, had created
apprehensions of fresh excesses being committed upon
the Protestants ; is eons, quence of which, many de-
termined to absent themselves from the town during
that period. It does not appear, however, that any
assassinations took place on the occasion. The help-
less Protestants were nevertheless exposed to acts of
oppression and indignities of various kinds through-
out the department of the Gard ; a remarkable in.
scam,: of which is that of their being compelled to
pay the entire expenses of the processions attending
that Fete."

EXTRACT FRObt A PRIVATE LETTER, DATED VILLE.
FitANCHE, NEAR LYONS.
66 Numerous meetings yearly take place at Whit-
suntide : the youths of the town celeL.ate this pe.
liod by rejoicings, by sports, and vat ions public
amusements. They this year deemed it prudent to
confine these entertainments to a ball, to which all
the authorities and persons of respectability of the
place were invited. A bust of the King, together
with a white flag, had been placed in the hall, and it
might have been expected that this entertainment
would have been the signal of reconciliation between
all parties : the Royalists, however, not only refused
partaking of it, but resorted also to every means of
disturbing it and provoking quarrels which might
j ustiiy measures of persecution and exile. A Com-
missary of Police, attended by a numerous military
escort, intruded themselves into the meeting, com-
mitted much abuse of authority, and gave every kind
of offeuce, calculated to irritate the minds of the as-
semblage ; fortunately, the latter, by their modera-
tion, disconcerted the plans laid by the agents of power
to cre.ite disturbance, in order to find an opportunity
of making themselves necessary to Government by
quelling it, and of obtaining thereby similar rewards
to those bestowed on the public functionaries of the
department of the Isere.
" Nu union of parties takes place here. The
Ultra-royalists, do the contrary, daily limit the small
number of those whom they deem worthy of serving
the legitimate cause. An instance of this disposition
is afforded by the answer which the Archbishop of
Rheims lately made to a person who entreated of him
a letter of recommendation to M. Berger Collard, the
President of the Committee for Public Instruction.
This charitable Prelate said, g I will do any thing for
you but write to a Jacobin."
EXTRACT ON A PRIVATE LETTER PROM NANTEL•
66 This town is a prey to a-state of terror similar
to that established here by Carrier under the reign of
Robespierre. This system of terror has been orga-
nized by a M. Cardaillacy formerly a bankrupt,
from Limousin, also Procurator-General of the
Lyceum of Avignon, and now Commissary. General
of Police in this place. In Consequence of his mea-
sures of exile, proscription and transportation, taken
in a most merciless and arbitrary manner, he has ob-
taMed the surname of souveau Carrier: A lady hav-
ing recently had occasion to implore his favour for
her husband, addressed him in these terms-4 I pre-
sent myself before you, as I formerly did before Car-
rier for my father, ands I now implore you for my
husband.' The latter is one of the first Civil Magis-
trates of the town, who continues exiled from it.
•' Many of our principal inhabitants have been
compelled to quit their homes end abandon their con-
,cerns. Several young mew of our best families have.

been embarked by force for the West Indies, without
their relations being able to learn the precise place of
thrill, transportation."
PRIVATE LETTER FROSt PARIS, DATER JULY 4.
a Lady Wilson's health being considerably ame-
liorated, Sir Robert has expressed his readiness to re-
turn to the Conciergerie, in consequence of which he
is to repair there to-morrow. The expiration of the
term of their legal captivity is oil the 24th instant.
" QUARTER BEFONE 81L—An order has been this
instant received from the Police, directed to the dif-
ferent Journalists, to compose an article on the great
tranquillity of Europe, and the unrivalled prosperity
in which France is placed. This ingenious mystifi-
cation is to appear, if passible, on Saturday."

GERIIAN PAPERS.

AUGSBURGH, JUNE N.

A new Proclamation of General Maitland, Goya-
nor of the lonian Islands, gives the most favourable
account respecting the Plague at. Corfu. All the,
suspicious, except two, were sent back
to the villages;
all the re-convalescents began their last quarantine.
• and all the infected were recovering. The General
hoped, that by the 15th of June, in the whole district
of Leftimo, the communication would be again
allowed in the interior, though not with the other
parts of the Island.
On the I Ith of June arrived at Leghorn, the
English ship the Abundance, having (in board a
considerable quantity of works of art, taken hack
hum Paris, particularly 30 statues, wtich it took
on board at Antwerp, and is to convey to Civita
Vecchia.
The iltutriast Observer asserts to have learned from
good authority (which, however, is a matter liable to
so many doubts, deserved, perhaps, to be more ex.
deity pointed out,) that in spite of all the assurances
of the London and other Journals, the number of
persons arrested in consequence of the law of the 29th
October last, never exceeded 1163 persons; of these
514 were under surveillaiice in their usual place of
abode. 87 under surveillance out of their usual place
of abode; in another commune of their department
19 were sent from departments to which they did not
belong, to the above ; 127 were still in arrest, in
consequence of a measure of police; 211, respecting
whom only imperfect information had been obtained,
were under examination, and 33 wholly set at liberty.
In the Grand Duchy of Baden 19,018 children
were vaccinated in 1814, of which the 37th child
was not inoculated with genuine vaccine matter ; in
41 the inoculation produced not the least effect. In
the same year SB6 children had the natural small-
pox, of whom 75 died, or the fourth child. Thus it
appears, that the small pox was as destructive in
1814 as former periods. By the vaccination, above I
4,500 children were saved in one year in the Duchy
of Baden.