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such a transaction to pate unsindeed, would be a sus-
picious person, and lia6le, wider the recent law, to
immediate imprisonment. •
"4 The first stip after the arrest of the &ceased
miens was to put certain interrogatories to them, and
till these interrogatories were answered, the practice
of French proceedings was said to admit neither in-
tercourse of friends, nor even the access of profes-,
sional advice. One of the prisoners in this instance,
recollecting the maxim of our huinane law, that no
man shall be compelled to criminate himself, and de-
barred of all mut of learning the French Mu en the :died,
refused to answer such questions as he thought might
be injurious to his cause. On this he was thrown into
• fluelerc, the walls of which were damp, the flour
brick, and covered with dirt and moisture, the furni-
ture a bedstead, a chair, and a stove, and the dimen-
sions ten English feet by nine I In this solitary den
he was to pass day and night, though we believe the
humanity of the gaoler procured him some little re-
laxation of that severity, when the gates of the prison
were closed, and night commenced.
" He had no copy of the charge against him, and
it seems on this, and probably on other occasions,
prisoners are arrested and examined, not only without
a copy of their charge, but without charge being
brought against them, or any evidence taken to sub-
stantiate it. It was not till the English Ambassador
by an open letter to Sir ROBERT lammed him that
he knew of his arrest, that he agreed to answer any
interrogatories, but when he bad seen Lady WILSON,
and communicated by letter with Sir CHARLES Sru-
ART, and through Lady WILSoN with his legal ad•
viser, M. Duero, and when he had ascertained that
his friends Messrs. Deuce and HUTCHINSON had an-
swered the interrogatories, and that his further refusal
would only tend to postpone the trial, and lengthen
their imprisonment, he at last, and accompanying
his compliance with a protest, agreed to answer the
interrogatories.
44 On Wednesday evening M. DUNN, Judge d'ls-
etruction, examined him, an] on Thursday night, when
our accounts came away, it was expected that Sir
ROBERT would be permitted to see his friends, and
consult with his lawyer, M. DUPIN.
We are happy th Sir ROBERT WILSON has at
length conformed to the practice of answering the
interrogatories, at it vas broadly hinted to him, that
unless he did so, he might remain in solitary continT.
ment Inr life. and v••• •,ave no doubt that a pertina-
cious refusal on his Fart would have atl,nered
plirpoe but that of prolonging •;• 5ut1..1,,.!5. We
c Innot, however, wonder ;it hi• septic/nowt to cornp;y
with a -nsire rt moral torture, as contr.,' y to Olt: um-
mutab'o p•;.lciples justice' as to the maxims of
law of England."

PRIVATE LETTER.
"1 PARIS JANUARY 47..
_ .

" The disqnietncle • which has for some days been
Tis;ble amongst the' Rcyaiist: purr, may now be in
some degree explained. It is now po,,i;ively known
that the Pris:ce de Schwartzenberg and tt,e Prince de
Wrede have been completely disgraced, and that
Prince Eugene has been appointed Generalissimo of
the Bavarian army, and it is feared he has a gmt in.
3uence in the Austrian Cabinet. Tho PAris
have announced this nominati,,n of the Prince Eu-
gene; and one of them (the Arend de Pori') was
suspended by order of the Minister of Police, for in-
serting it under the Paris head, instead of placing it
simply under the other heads of intelligence.
44 It appears that the Austrian and Bavarian Ca.
binets have entered into some private treaty, the
bases of which are not known, but which is not, it
is said, of a nature to give much wisfaction to the
Bourbons. A report is fruitlessly endeavoured to be
spread, that there is a misunderstanding between the
Austrians and Bavarians, but it is Without founds.
lion. It is suspected, on the contrary, that these
two Powers have made an agreement to the cime
!effect as that before the battle of Waterloo, and it is
positively known that then there was no idea of re-
calling the Bourbons to the Throne.
04 To all these circumstances may be added the
rumours and the movements which have arisen in
several places, and particularly at Lyons, where it
is certain that the tricoloured flag was hoisted at the
Hotel de Ville, and that it remained for several hours
in the Faubourg de la Guillatiere, on the next day,
after receiving the intelligence of the Amnesty, with
the amendments relative to those who voted for the
death of Louis XVI.

.6 At Paris, aho, there is some high conversation
upon the subject, and the Constitutional party are
every day gaining strength, amongst those who are
not amongst the retainers of Government.
" The arrests continue; several hundred persons
'have been taken into custody, and the prisons are
crowded."

"LYONS, JANUARY n.

It The most alarming and ridiculous reports have
been malevolently spread here, which several indivi-
duals of the most ignorant clisses receive with a de-
plorable credulity. It is to these manoeuvres that the
sudden decrease of our commerce is attributed. IVe
do not know whether the great number of arrests
which have taken place within these few days, is to
be ascribed to the same cause. Among the persons
arrested yesterday, we noticed one of the name of
•Rousset, a paper.eolourer, and employing several,
workmen. The armed force, preceded by the Cow
misbary of Police and his agents, came to his house
during the night. As he refused to open the door, it
was forced. Haviag taken refuge in his shop, be re-
sisted them for some hours, and, at the moment of
being seized, he snatched up a bottle of Squafortis,
which lie threw upon the persons who approached
him. He was at, length secured, and is now lodged
is prison.
" A person invested with three decorations, isnd
who is said to be at least a Colonel, but whose name
we do no: know, was also arrested this morning. A
Commissary of Police, charged with this operation,
writ to meet him Gn the road to Paris, and brought
•aus here in a carnage, foliovied by two gendarmes
He was takers to the Hotel de Vile, where he now
,
1 remains."