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London, England, 1816-04-24 00:00:00

FIFTH INTERROGATORY-PER. 9.

Q. Do you acknowledge papers produced, first,
thirty-four pieces, composed of notes and &Tars exer-
cises in French and hail in I—Thirty-one pieces, com-
posed of divers letters, two or ttwee of which he, de-
monstrated to us wete not addressed to him. The
rest relating only to family affairs. Likewise a
small register, containing the accounts "of Mr. Hut-
chinson.
SIXTH IVTIIRROGIATORY-7111. 14.

Q. Was not the participation which you bad in the
escApe of Lavalette the commencement of the execu-
tion of a digested plot to which you were privy, and
which had for its chief object to destroy or change
the Government i—Nos I had no other thought but
that of saving an uatertuaate titan.

you not write a letter to Mr. Bruce on Fri- i
W•:::610;f1, the arrival of Lavalette at your locig-
day 7;i-which was Gated from the Helder Hotel ?
hip.
never resided at that hotel; it was my u :cle who"
lodged
42,,Did you not receive on the 13th of last Decem-
ber *letter from General Wilson, in which he slid to
*oth ei if these expedients are tried, success cer-
isto-r, What do thew expressions allude to
cacti perfectly well having received this letter ; hut
there.
I declare on my honour that it had no reference to
M. Lavalette—it related to priv,ite affairs, on which
I cannot enter into any explAnation.
SEVENTH INTERRIGATORV....FER. 23.
Q. Do you recognize the letter which I present to
you, and which was found among Lavalettc's pa-
pers, to have been written with your hand, or dictated
.by you ?—I know nothing of this letter ; it is not of
my writing. From the first lines, I perceive that the
person who wrote it speaks of a conversation which
he beard at Lord Castlereagh's, and I declare that 1
never was at his Lordship's house in Paris

BILL OF INDICTMENT.
Marie Chamons Lavalette had been, on the 22d of
November last, capitally convicted of the crime of
High Treason, by decree of the Court of Assize for
the Department of the Seine. Against this decree he
bas appealed ; but his appeal being rejected by the
Court, the sentence pronounced upon him was to have
been carried into execution on Thursday, the 21st of
December.
The strictest orders had been given by the Police,
that the condemned man should be guarded in the
prison wherein he was confined, called the Concier-
garie, with all the usual predations ; and. since the
rejection of the appeal, the Prefect of the Police had
ordered Jein Baptiste de Kerguisec. the registering
keeper of the prison, to redouble his vigilance, wad-
ing, that if any one should ask to communicate with
Lataktte, and should even bring an order for that
lurpese signed with his (the Prefect's) hand, still the
eeper should pay no attention to it, as no person
was to see the prisoner without the order of the At-
torneylGeneral.
Lavalette being informed by the keeper of these
new orders, immediately wrote to the Attorney-Ge-
neral, begging that he might be permitted to see his
wife, and a few other persons whose names he men-
tioned. The Attorney-General felt unwilling to re-
fuse this request; but in giving his assent, he parti-
cularly directed that the persons indicated should only
see Lavalette in succession, one after the other.

Nevertheless, on the 20th of December, the eve of
the day fixed for carrying the sentence into effect,
about half past three in the afternoon, Lavalette's
wife and daughter, accompanied by the widow Du-
toit, who is seventy years old, and attached to the
service of Mademoiselle Lavalette, were introduced
at the same time by the gaoler, Roquette., into Lava-
lette's chamber, though the name of neither Made-
moiselle Lavalette, nor that of the widow Dutoit,
was inserted in the list approved by the Attorney-
General.

Madame Laralette was carried to the Conciergerie
in a chair, borne by one Guerin, called Marengo, her
ordinary chairman, and by one Brigaut, a man sc-
lected for that day's service by Guerin, in the room
of one Laporte, who usaally performed this service
with him, but who happened at this time to be ill.—
The chairmen generally had conveyed Madame La-
valette into the Court-yard of the Conciergerie, but
on the 20th of Decenwer she got out in the Court-
yard of the Palace, and walked on foot towards the
grate of the Conciergerie ; Benoit Bonneville, her
valet, having told the chairman to stop, and that
Madame fount herself sufficiently strong to walk the
rest of the way. They accordingly turned the chair
towards the Palace of Justice, but out of it was taken
a cushion, coveted with green taffety, and a pretty
large package of an irregular form, which seemed to
contain bottles of vine. This package, as well as the
cushion, and a wok bag which Madame Lavalette
carried, were received into the prison, and taken into
Lavalette's chamber, without undergoing the previous
examination which the regulations of the Police re-
specting prisons always require in sitzril.r cases.
Madame Lavalette, on arriving at the Coneier:
genie, was clothed in a furred riding coat, of red
Merino, and had upon her head a black hat, with
various coloured feathers. She entered her husband's
apartment, with her daughter and the widow Dutoit.
The valet.de.chambre, Benoit, remained in the first
apartment called the avant-greffe--he was seen near
the fire-place during more than two hours. The
chairmen had been received into the guard-room of
the gendarmerie.
At five o'clock Jacques Eberle, one of the wicket
keepers of the Conciergerie, who had been specially
appointed by the keeper of the prison, to the guard
and service of Lavalette, took his dinner tohiin, of
which Madame and Mademoiselle Lavalette and the
widow Dutoit partook.
After dinner, which lasted an hour, Eberle served
up coffee, which he fetched from the coffee-house of
the Palace, and left Lavalette's apartment with orders
not to return till he was rung for. Roquette, the son,
maintains, on the contrary, that, on quitting the
chamber of Lavalette, he said that he had received
orders not to wait till he was summoned into the
apartment.
, However. Benoit, who was in the seems of what
was intended, and who saw the hour of execution ap.'
proach, had left the avant-greffe to assure himself of
the; chairmen. He found them at die guard-roan
and invited them to come and drink with him. Guerin
unnadiately acceded, but Brigaut would not Elf.—
" Come along, comrade," said Benoit to him ; you
need not take too much." Brigaut suffers himself
to be persuaded. Benoit, by way of trying them,
says, " Comrade, there are five and twenty Louis to
be gained : you will be a little heavily loaded, and it
will be necessary to go a little quick ; but you have
only ten steps to make." " It is Monsieur Lavalette
himself then that we aregoing to take," replies Brigaut.
" You have nothing to do with that; only do what
you are asked." Brigaut rejects the proposition,
which Benoit urges, and repeats to him several times,
" You are but half a man." Guerin, the other chair-
man, joined his entreaties, and said to Brigaut," What
does it signify to you, since Monsieur assures you that
there is nothing to fear ?" Brigaut wished to know
exactly whom he had to carry. Benoit and Guerin
constantly repeat' that it was indifferent to him, since
be had nothing to fear, and that one ought to make a
little money whew one could. At length, Brigaut
wing hard pressed, and beginning to this* of whatl

advantage it cedilla be to hi

threw down the chair-staff,
into'his hand, and, willow
ran home as fast as he conk
happened.
Guerin, v.•ithont losing
npon a coal•heaver, who

with two of his comrades

proposed to him to take the

seconded him, and cif they
now seven o'clock. Being ;
palace, at the foot of the
the Conciergerie, they foam
open towards the gate of
WAS the name of tiie coal-hi.
gaut's place) saw no one enter, the back part beirn,.
assigned to aim ; and Guerin, taking the lead, tavei
towards the grate of the paisce, and, after
passed it, took to the right, and tolloTed the v:eit
of la Barillcrie.

While Benoit and Gncrin were emtpilloeykeeiearseh4ats
been stated, without, a scene of a different kind toes
place within the Concierge: A short time after
coffee, and towards seven o'clock, the bell rang fro=.Lavalette's chamber, intimating to
his prisoner wanted s.-mebody. Roquette, the father,
was at that moment near the fireplace with Else;
to whom he immediately gave orders to go into
valette's chamber. He hears the keeper of the tvicl4:
open the door which }cads to that chamber, and, as
he advanced to know what Laval.tte wanted, hesets
three persons dressed in female attire, who wefe
lowed by Eberle, and who came in front of him in
the front lodge. The person whom he tout yet
Madame Lawaletto was sitessed in a bleak imam,
with a furred gown of red Merino : the had *ite
gloves and a woman's neckhandkerchief on, a black
hat with feather of different colours : in a word, she
was in exactly the same dress as that in whirls M.
dame Lavalette was first introduced to the apart!**
of her husband. A white handkerchief covered ;be
face of this person, who bad the appearance of sob.
bing ; and Mademoiselle Lavalette, who walked by
the side, uttered the most lamentable cries. Every
thing in that romantic scene presented the spectacle
of a family given up to the feelings of a last adieu.
The keeper melted, and deceived by the disguise,
and scanty light of two lamps, had not the puwer,
as he says, to take away the handkerchief, which
concealed the features ut the disguised person; and,
having neglected to perform this painful but nece,.
nary duty, he presented his hand to the person, (as
he had been used to do to Madame Lavalette),wl.em
he conducted along with the two persons to the last
wicket. Eberle then stepped forward, and ran to
call Benoit, who arrived with the chairmen. Lava-
kite, under the habit of his wile, was already in the
chair, which was immediately carried forward, fol-
lowed by Benoit, by Mademoiselle Lavalette, and the
wilow Dutoit. Eberle, having at this moment per-
ceived a .other wicket-keeper, took him away. to
drink, saying, at the same time, u It is sensetbing
singular that those three persons never spoke a word
to me."

The chair and its suite went, according to the or.
der of Benoit, of C'T•rerin, and Mademotsclle Lava-
tette, to the middle of street la Barillerie, and,
according to Chapy's account, whose evidence is net
to be suspected, as far as the Quay des Orlevres,
three or four homes beyond the street of St. Anne,
where the chairmen were stepped by order of Benoit.
The chair was opened, Lavalette tame out, and Cis.
appeared, and was immediately streceeLled to his placs•
by Mademoiselle Lavalette. Beafolt told the ctair-
man to turn towards the Abbaye a,.rc Bois. In the
mean time, the keeper, Roquette, enters for the first
time the chamber of Lavalette, where he sees no one,
but hears somebody stirring behind the screen. He
returns a second time, and calls: no one answers. He
begins to fear some mischief, advances beyond the
screen, and there recognizing Madame Lavalette,
cries our, Ah ! Madame, you have deceived me."
He wishes to run out, in order to give the alarm.
Madame Lavalette catches hold of him, and holds •
him by his coat sleeve—" Stay, Monsieur Roquette,
stay." " No, Madame, this is not to be borne." A
struggle ensues; the coat is torn ; Roquette rushes
ou', calling for help, and informs his son of the escaie
of the prisoner.
Roquette,, the son, darts from the Conciergerie,
where he meets, at the grate of the palace, Ebe.rl4
returning from drinking with Beaudiscar. He Bite:
him orders to follow the chair by the street of la Bk.
rillerie, himself announcing that he will take that of
Jerusalem, in order to get ahead of the chairmen and
stop their advance, and that they should meet again
at the street of Jerusalem. Roquette does in effect take
the street of Jerusalem ; at the bottom of which he
overtakes the chair, and stops it; but on only findin7,
Mademoiselle Lavalette in it, he returns with al
speed to the Conciergerie.
Scarcely had he quitted the chair, when Benoit,
who continued to follow the chairmen, said, " It is
very lucky that this has turned out so." As ft::
Ehes le, instead of executing the order which he had
received from the younger Rognette, of pursnitig
the chair by the street Barillerie, l; returned to the
prison, and went to the chamber of Lavaktie, under
the pretence of asiuring himself whether the laris,ntr
really had escaped. In coming out, he sad to his
comrades, with an affectation at zeal truly law-
-able, " There is still somebody shut up in the cell,
and I'll take care that they. shan't cony.: out without
proper orders." On saying, afterwards, that it was
very easy to have distinguished Lavalette nom Lis
wife, the latter being taller by half a heady and
being asked why he had not made that observation
sooner, he replied, It did not belong
I make any observati•ins when the head et the depart-
ment was there." to me to
The charge states, thlt Eberle, being attached to
Lavalette's service, as tee had b-21cre been to that of
Ney, had received from Ipith pi isoners dive's sows
of mosey under the head of gratuity. Eberle pre-
tends that what he had received of Lavalette oniy
amounted to 100 francs ; but on the day of the
escape, a search having taken place in his housel
there was found the sum of 1,700 francs, which his
wife had at first endeavoured to get away from the
Commissioner of Police. It cannot be doubted but
that the greater • part of that sum came from the
bounty of Lavalette.
[The accusation then proceeds to attach various
other circumstantial proofs of the guilt of these par-
ties. Roquette, the father, a appears. endeavoured
to 4a' qi Lhe guilt from biarica to Eberle; and the

im and his family to yield, F, which Giturin ti•td pot t
In entering the wire shop,
id to tell his wife what had
ii
a moment, cast hi, eyes
happened to be drinking
at the same place. Ile
e staff of the chair. Benoit tt
y immediately go. It Wag
arrived at the court of tko
stair-case which leads to
nd the chair, with the dot," aIP
the pris. n. Chapy (that
heaver who had taker, F:7i. •

WI!

Aare dces not attach to him any other criminality
than that of negligence. Benoit and Guerin deny
the facts, which are most clearly established by the
issffrogatory. Madame Lavalette, and the widow
Dutoit, were subjected to interrogations : the latter
reserved the most invincible silence, or shewed, by
the few answers she Rare, that she was afraid of be.
saying her master. Madame Lavalette goes further :
die justifies all that has been done, imputing to her--
self the plan, conduct, and execution of the enter-
rise; and the fertility of her genius furnishes the
accused with more resources than innocence itself
minetimes finds. Lavalette is then stated to have
sought the means of escape from his concealment,
not among those whom friendship or gratitude bound
to his family, but among the enemies of the King.—
It adds, that, among a great crowd of strangers
suited to be at Paris, the enemies of social order, and
the disturbers of the age, were Mr. Bruce, an English
Gentleman, already distinguished by his zeal for
Marshal Ney ; Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, a British
Officer, with the same predilections; and Hutchin-
son, a person of the same cast. The latter is said to
have been engaged with Ellister, another English
Officer, in some scheme of the same kind ; and that
Ellister would have played a similar part in the pre-
sent one, if he could have obtained leave from his
regiment : Wilson, therefore, was charged with the
management of the affair, and the act of accusation
permits him to give his own relation of the whale
enterprise in a letter addressed to one of his confiden-
tial friends (we believe, Earl Grey) in England, and
of which the following is a translation :3
h was agreed," says Sir R. Wilson, " that the fugitive should
pet the kagMah anifornia,that I should conduct hills beyond
the barriers in an English cabriolets myself also being dressed in
Oviform—that I should have a relay hone at Chapelle—and
thence go to Compiegne, whither Maier should repair with my
aniage, into which I should afterwards go with Lavalette, in
order to reach Mons by Cambray. I had no difficulty in procuring
frees Sir Charles Stuart, at my request and on my responsibility,
pipports for General Wallis and Colonel Lesnock—names which
we chose because they were not preceded by Christian names.—
The passports were duly countersigned by the Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs; but when they were presented fur signature, one
of the Secretaries asked Hutchinson who Colonel Lesnock was
He immediately replied, it is the father of the Admiral. This
object accomplished, Ulster took the passports for Colonel Leb-
o/Kt, procured post horses for his carriage, and finally, to avoid
all suspicion, took an apartment and a eoach-honse at the hotel
de Heider, in the name of Colonel Lesnock. Bruce fortunately
learned that the brigade, commanded by hi. cousin, General
Brisbane, was at Compiegne, and that his Aide-de-Camp would
quit Parisneat day, the 7th of the month, for Compiegne, with
the horses and baggage belonging to the General, who was then

in
i England.
“ We saw the aide-de-camp at Bruce's, where we met by ap-
pointment. We told him that very particular circumstances
obliging us to pass through Compiegne with a person who must
main unknown, we wished to stop an hour or two in a remote
and Mired quarter. He frankly replied, that hr would trust
entirtie taus on the subject; that his existence depended on pre-
serving his situation; but that he would net hesitate to accede to
air proposition, particularly ciiicr he saw we were interested in
thee/fair. I avow that I felt repugnance at implicating such a
penes in this affair; but the cause was too important to stop at
that consideration, and I encouraged the hope that a day would
out time arrive in which it might he possible for me to acknow-
ledge this service.
"Brace procured Laralette's measure, and Hutchinson gave
it to a tailor, saying it was the measure of a Quarter-Master of
his regimeet, who 11,"antiod a great coat, waitt Coat, and palms
loom, but lid not need a suit. Ihe tailor observed, that it was
the measure of a tall man, and that it had not been taken by a
tailor. /Ultra:tart alartned me so much, chat I thought It ac!vi-
able to send Hutchinson to say to him, that as the Quarter-Mas-
ter could not wait till Saturday evening, it was aelfeseary that
the clothes should be carefully packed up, and that they would
be forwarded to him after Iris departure. Hutchinson and Ellis-
tertook besides all necessary precautions with respect to the
bones, and reconnoitred the barriers in a promenade on the pre-
esding day.
" Envy psicantion for avoiding accidents being adopted, It
au [malty agreed that Lavaleue should be removed to Hut-
thiamin's lodgipgs on Sunday, January 7, at half-past nine in the
reetiog precisely ; and that next day, at half-past seven in the
owid
moreing:kquaily precise, I should be at his door with Bruce's ca..
sinuses, oily servant, the servant on my mare well equipped, as if
lwere,goilfg to make an inspection ; that Hutchinson should ride
to by the side of the cabriolet, keeping up conversation with
I and that, in case any embarrassment occurred, Lavalette 1
' mount soy horse, and I the mare, in order that we might
act mere freely, and ga nin expedition. I should certainly have
referred passing the barriers on horseback, but it was thought
tSat the manr.er of riding on horseback might attract attention,
eld that passing the barriers in full day, and in an open carriage,
eoaid slew too: much confidence to give cause for suspicion. The
List being at la:.t arrived, Ulster, Bruce, and m)self, repaired
tJ Eutcidissoit's apartments, under the pretext of a party for
p.inclo. At the n.tonent,w hen Lavalette was to preient himself,
truce advanced t• the top of the stairs, Lavalette took bins by
the h.r.ti, and we saw before us this Interesting personage. He
was dressed in a blue itniform, and sufficiently disguised to pas.
without remark lit the apartment of an Euglishman. The Iriend
who conducted bins did nut enter the room, but he delivered to
fisrehttuou a pair of double-barrelled pistols fur Lavalette. He
*wares% at bon moth moved. We did not permit him to give
sent to all his eentiinents of vatimtle ; but a sew moments after,
Ulster and I withdrew, and lett hint to the care of Hutchinson
and Bruce.

" Neu day, at haltpast seven, I was at Hutchinson's door.
la Ave minuses I had seated Lavalette, and we were on our way
to the budge of Chchy. We met au English Officer, who 'ap-
Pared stupefied at seeing a General °dicer whom be did not
toow ; but my servant avoided all questions: I passed the bar-
rier s: a moderate pace; the gendarmes looked earnestly at us,
ha the presnating of arms gave Lavalette the opportunity of co-
/trig his fat r in returning the salute. When we got through
*chanter, i ,avalet:e pressed his kg against mitre; and when we
rue out of the read: of ob,ervation, his whole countenance ap.
Wed roily( aril by :Lis hi st favour of fortune.
" 111: 113.11.1 was full of all wits of people ; but whenever we
trithe ding encc, I began to converse with loLd voice in Eng-
Li; and l remarked that my bat, which was mounted wi•li a
othlte plume, and which Lavalette held in his hand, attracted the
Dozier of the passengers, and withdrew their attention from us.
" Lavalytte Las such 'marked features, and his person is so
Sell know* to all the Postmasters, that the greatest cars was
ttttswel. At La Chapelle, where we changed horses, we experi-
tyced a nu tmeet's alarm at the sight of four gendarmi 6 who ho-
ered &barn us; but Hutchinson& on being questioned by them,
relieved is from their importunities by replying, that we were
riot to choose cantonments for a division of the English army.
—We wen' obliged to pass close to other gendarmes, who had
Ith them I containing the description of I.zvalette ; and hue
utight to r mark, that these bills bad been distribined to almost
fury Whyte:nal in France. On approaching Compiegne, I oh-
ktwd some grey hairs projecting from under the brown wig
loin by Lar alette. Fortunately I had scissors wi.h nie, and I
firmed the part of his friseur on the road.
On'tll'eeilig Compiegne, we found the serjeant mentioned by
,
"Ptai° fraviil, who conducted us through the town to a quarter
Irronely weal Chosen, for we were not incommodei by Ipecta.
's,rs in the Leeets. None saw us eater except the soldiers, and
.are Ebtlith servants who attended us. While we waited for
ulster with the carriage, Mr. F. presented us with refresh-
II:IRS' Finally, towards night, as had been agreed upon, Lill-
' arrived With the carriage, which bad loft Paris by the barrier
It St.
I ---,aid was followed to La Chapelle by two gendarmes.
utteted the hmps to be lighted, as well to show us our road,
to make k appear that we were under no apprehensions;
mE "'tint !liken leave of our friends, we set out well armed,
lA. Pt/Pored to make resistance, if we experienced any obstacle.
t were flub questOned at tl.e stations for the relays; bat we
nutted nu delay until we reached Cambray, where we lost
aleek_ Is at the gates, owing to the fault of the English guard,
ir__Tvint no orders for calling the gatekeeper, was not to be
to do's., notwithstanding all we could say to him—a
Witch ta
4111 has already been attended with inconvenience
leeerfttien t, aud well
might bam been fatal to us. ln

pudng thrones ValenefehtlN, We NOte orfedy amazed r
times over, and our pauports sent to the Commandant. We
underwent another examination at, some distance from that gar-
rison, and this was the last. We did not stop, except at Mans,
where we dined, and made arrangements for the future journey
of Lavalette. I wrote several ferrets to facilitate the means by
which he may teach his destination; end having provided every
thing that appeared best for his health and comfort, 1, took leave
of him, and returned to Paris yesterday evening by the mete of
Maubeuge. &Am% and la Porte St. Martin, after as absence
of sixty hours."
Such is the literal translation of Wilson's dispatch,
stripped of reflections which would have appeared
displaced in this recital.
• This letter, acknowledged by Wilson, is confirmed
in its details by the documents in the process ; and
theinterrogatories of the accused explain a number
of passages in it. It would appear, that it was on the
2d or 3d of January that the first proposal of saving
Lavalette was made to Bruce ; and Bruce states, on
this subject, that a person brought him an anonymous
letter, in which, after extolling the goodness of his
heart, the writer said he was induced, by the confi-
dence which he inspired, to disclose to him a great
secret ; that Lavalette was still in Paris, adding,
that be (Bruce) alone could save him, and begging
him to explain his intentions on this subjects that he
(Bruce) gave no immediate answer, but promised to
send one to a place which he mentioned, and which
honour did not permit him to name: that prevented
him from putting any questions as to the name of the
person who wrote to him, or the place of Lavalette's
retreat, thinking that, in an affair of this sort, indis-
cretion could not be too much avoided. General
Wilson was ignorant, he says, of all these details ;
66 it was I who told him of them ; It was I also who
prevailed upon him to unite hie efforts with mine in
favour of Lavalette; and if there is any one guilty
in this business, it is I. My political opinions might
have influenced the sentiments which I expressed on
the occasion of Marshal Ney's trial. It was my con-
viction that the capitulation of Pas is stood in the way
of his trial. As to Lavalette's affair, I affirm that
I was influenced solely by the commiseration with
which he had inspired me. There was in his escape
something romantic, and, so to speak, miraculous,
which strongly seized my imagination, and excited a
powerful interest in my heart for him."
Hutchinson makes the same avowals, and expresses
nearly the same sentiments as Bruce. He protests
that he had not the slightest idea of conspiring
against the French Government ; and if he co ope-
rated in Lavalette's flight, it was merely from the
wish to save an unfortunate man.

Sir R. Wilson assigns to his conduct a more ele-
vated object—he wished to efface from the Govern-
ment of his country the opprobium attached to the
violation of the capitulation of Paris ; and he protests
that it never entered into his views to make any at-
tempt 1,
against the French Government :—but he
avows his opposition to the principles w:iich at pre-
sent direct the Government of his country, and to
the political system of Europe, which is, no crime in
an Englishman : and he adds, that the Constitution
cf his country, its independence, and its happiness,:
art of much higher consideration in his eyes than the
safety of the French Government, and the repose of
Europe established on the ruin of England.
Bot if we wish to know the real sentiments of Si:
Robert Wilson, we most seek for them in the cc:re-
spondence which he held with some privart pusons
in England—a correspondence of whick the docu-
ments proceedidg from himself, or Hom his brother
Sif Edward Wilson, were submitted to his inspection
and acknowledged by him- in all his letters Wilson
professes principles the most opposite to all social
order, and to the tranquirtity of Europe. According
to him, affairs have taken a wholly couater-revolu-
tionary course, under the sanction of the Courts of
Austria and Russia. The dethronement of the King
is irrevocable. He gives the epithet of " legitimate
maniac" to a courageous friend who had refused to
listen• to his dangerous inspirations. He thus closes
a letter dated the 28th of December—a You will
soon hear of extraordinary events in Germany."
The third article of this correspondence is a letter
from Edward Wilson to R. T. Wilson, which shews
the conformity of principles and unity of sentiments
which exist between the two brothos. Edward
writes to Robert Wilson—that if it is proposed to
overturn the existing order of things, the 6re must
be constaialy kept up, and always visible, like a
beaion of alarm, in France and in foreign parts :
that matters become daily more favourable ter the
recovery of Sovereignty and independence for the
Trench people ; but that it is tote feared that they
should cool, and that efforts be neglected, which,
well employed, would necessarily lead to a general
emancipation.
. .

• Passing to the means which might weaken the at-
tachment the majority to The cause of the Bour-
bons, and insisting on the employment of means, Ed-
ward Wilson recommends, above all, 44 the insinua-
tion of a persecution, real or imaginary, against the
Protestants—ax idea (he says) which spreads like
wildfile, diffuses itself like a contagion among the
people in general, and engenders a spirit of mortal
hatred and contempt for the new dynasty. May this
new arm he that of the liberty of all nations!"
He closes his letter by a piece of advice which leaves
no doubt as to the dispositions of these implacable
enemies of our country. " If, however, our friends
thew ton much weakness, it would be better to at.
tempt nothing; for, unless the great mass of the people
put themselves in motion, no result will be obtained."
The fourth document proceeds from R. T. Wilson.
We there find the prognostics of this foreigner as to
the revolution which is preparing in France. 44 There
will be bloody scenes before the revolution can be
consummated. but the point is fixed, and the impulse
given. Revolutionary movements are also preparing
in Prussia."

In fine, the fifth document h the letter, from
which is extracted the relation of Lavalette's escape.
Wilson does not there dissemble the motives which
led him. to protect that mai.
Robert Thomas Wilson, after having in his inter-
rogatories protested against his arrest, against the
form of French criminal inquiry, against the seizure
of his correspondence, and against what he calls the
inquisitorial system of interrogations, has, however,
acknowledged that, according to the principles of the
law of nations, he was subject to the empire of the',
French laws for the prosecution and repression of an
offence committed in France; but he closed the inter-
rogatory with these words--" it would appear to be
forgotten that I am an Englishman, or that the right
of Englishmen is not known. I have given my fast

ifiswer—let me be brought to trial:—when before the
tribunals, I shalt know• how to defend myself as I
ought, and to defend my rights."
In consequence of all these facts, Jacques Eberle,
turnkey of the Conciergerie ; Jean Baptiste RoYstette
de Kerguidec, keeper of the Coneiergerie ; Benoit
Bonneville, valet-de-chambre of Lavalette; Joseph
Guerin alias Marengo, Robert Thomas Wilson,
John Hely Hutchinson, and Michel Bruce, are ac.
cured—videlicet, Jacques Eberle, of having on the
20th of December last. in connivance with Marie
Chamons de Lavalette, condemned to capital punish-
ment, whose keeper he was appointed, favoured
the escape of that prisoner ; J. B. Roquette de
Kerguidec, of having facilitated it by negligence;
Benoit Bonneville, and Joseph Gnerin, of having fa.
cilitated the said escape, by procuring to the convict
the means of escaping ; and Wilson, Hutchinson, and
Bruce, of having, in January, 1616, been accomplices
in concealing the said Lavalette, knowing that he was
condemned to capital punishment, and of having thus
facilitated and consummated his escaite—critne.: and
complicated offences provided against by arts. 59, GI,
210, and 248, of the Penal Code.
The Chamber of Accusation has dismissed from
prosecution the widow Dutoit, and Lavalette the wifedl