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n that. change whieb, according to ray opinion, and
the best of my intelligence, was desirable—an opi-
r ion in which almost the whole of England at this

re nt COMM.
ti:av aside whatever relates to abstract no.
ions ot Government, and confining myself to what
personal to the King, I ask why you have attacked'
character, so well known to France, and to all
rtrape, in observing, 44 I suspect he is not sincere,
hat be trifles with his profe.ssions of clemency, and
that he will support the Terrorists ?"—Perhaps I have'
done wrong to the intentions of the King, whom I
:ace personalty knew, and who inseired me with a
;rig of respect which has been testified by me in
public services with which he is well acquain-,
hrtt when 1 saw that the King did not confer
cie iN.r.iral in some degree promised to Madame de
vrr'.. tie, and that the King's Ministers • were °IA.
v.: rtal.ra their measures of clemency already
annovr.c...l to the Chambers, I at first ascribed this
e. between promise and reality to a want of
sii :erity on his part, especially as he has the right,
tr.in Lis sovereign character, to say, " I will." On
my arrival in France, I brought opinions entirely fa-
vourable to his happiness, although I ditrervil as to
the means of accomplishing it, and have always
nought that amnesty alone could lead to that desir-,
rrie result.
Q. But aft, r you had conceived a desire to see the
Government overturned, you supported your conjrc.
ores in this respect with the opinions of Foreign Mi.
:ricers ; and yon so little concealed this desire, that
io reporting their conversation on the subject, you
'to ope as*. letters* " it is not that I regard
then, ~.oracles, but the publicity of Their predictiortr
renders them important." It would seem from this,
that you attached a great value to this importance
—Na desire on my part similar to that which is sup-
posed can be inks red from the use of the word 4, im-
portance,".which signifies nothing in our language,
or in the passage where I have employed it, more
;ban the authority communicated to the intelligence
by the sources from which it proceeded.
Q. But at the end of this first refl”ction, why do
you.sptak of an individual departed for Milan in the
character ot an Austrian courier, to carry the
iatelli-
geoce that the crisis had arrived at maturity ; ought
it not to be concluded, that at this pe;;Od you were
in the ee:,adellee of a conspiracy which had for its
object the subversion of the Government ?—I an-
nounced this intelligence which I had received in the
diplomatic circles without any peculiar object ; and
such a communication I had a right to make : but
with respect to any conspiracy tending to over-
throw the French Government, I repeat, that my
political conduct has been always unitorki on that
subject, never to interfere, either personally or for My'
creamy, if charged with her interests, in the internal
rfrairs of France ; and I defy the world to prov.
;:rat I have ever swerved from these principles.
_ .

Q. What would appear, however, to establish in
a :arm el and positive manner, that you attached the
west lively interest to the circumstance of the con.
7;tt's departure, and to the objezt of h s mission, :ire I
the exnressions which you ad.l lower ;ha: the
majority of the people 2rotilenze f.,r the yout.g N,t. :
rieon, and that hti I); etegsions, supporte.i by the
ktnsians and Austriar.4, will finally prevail :"—:
IA reason at this time to attach importance to the I
deprture of the courier, but some time aftenvards I
wai informed that I had been deceived. I had how- i
'vet a right to Iselieve and to announce that 4.
was approachinf.T, v:lien I saw the Englis!i troops de.;
lay their iepartore from day to day, notwithstanding
t..:? Treaty o Peace.
Q. But did not you proceed farther than canjne•
tares, and speak of a particular and positive know-
ledge, when you observed, 66 sanguinary scenes will'
take pl..ce before the revolution can be coast-Lama.
fed ; but the point is fixed, and the impulse given ?"
A. I did not say 46 will take place," but 66 y take
piace," which changes the sense of the phrase, and
,onverts certainty into possibility. In other respects,
t.:e preceding news justified my opinion up to the
p..rio..i ...len I was undeceived; and this news was'
confined to the departure of the courier, but re-
iated to all the political events which formed the sub.
I:ct cif general conversation.. I shall finally add,
iny political opinians (and this declaration is
rille with perfect candour) had no influence on my
thcai al with regard to the measure • submitted
bc me for saving Mons. Lavalette. My only put.
pa= was to save an unhappy man, of whose life or
e-Ath eireurwtances had, in some degree, made me
the arbiter, and who addressed himself to me, not
is t,fidence of my personal humanity, but of
national generosity.
The devsia n being read, the accused declared,
Oat answer s contained the truth, and that he had
tailing to alter or to add.
It was then signed by us and by the Clerk.
• RODENT WILSON, DUPUY, AND DEROSrE•

INTERROCM,TORY.-7Ea. 23.
2. State your name, christian name. age, proles-
l'9%, place of birth, and •of residence.— My name is
It..pert Thomas Wilson : I am 38 years old, I was
too in London, am a Major-General, not in. active
•:,:rtice, and have resided in Paris three months, at
11".21, rue rie la Paix.
Q. Dr/yeti acknowledge A your production, or at
1.1:a as copied by you, the report which I present to
3'.h, and which its title attributes to M. Pozzo di
minister plenipotentiary, and said to be-ad.'
‘r.'swd by him to the En3pm:or of Russia ?—:The
French government has calumniated me, or permit-
I'd vie to be calumniated, In the journals published'
11:•.!.irr its directions, by stating that the original draft
r^ Ins report was found amongst my papers, written
rny hand, and chat I was its author. I now tender,
""rdet that it nasty he j•rined to the present minute,
winch I addressed on this subject to M.
h'zz) di Borg() on the 23d f January last, and
'hid, I caused to be printed in the English journals.
Q• Did you not at least assist in promoting the cur.
c 'mon and publicity of a work which was calcula-
t--; 'ori produce so pernicious a result to Europe in
iy.ral, and to France in particular ?—No; a copy
_,iz was merely lent to me, from which I drew an-
-7,-1;:r for tile English government ; the copy which
c' n to me was borrowed by me to be communi-
t'!"ito a subject of the Emperor of Russia, in order
,Q,tave his opinion as to the authenticity of the work,
LEttli I myself believed to be an official document.
the around of the extract which it contained from
i,szer of Lord Castlereagh, which could be known
one who had access to the poste-feuille of the.

Emperor. As ai hist:akal state ptperbr, had a right
to have it in my possession ; but never lent it to any
native of France., .
Q. Did you not at least seek to accredit it in de-
f.:l-4ring your sentiments en the principles therein de-
veloped, and which, if enforced, must hive caused
the subversion of the system adopted by
.tll the powers
of E'irope, and have carried agitation. and disorder
into the bosom of France, whose legitimate Sovereign
had been just re-established by all the allied armies ?
—lt appears to be forgotten that I AM an English-
man, and that the rights of an Englishman are not
understood. My former answer is definitive, nal- will
I be drawn into a •rnetaphysical discussion of politics.
Let me be accused and judged ; and when I shall be
before the tribunals, I shall know how to defend my-
self and maintain my rights.
O. Do you acknowledge to be of your writing the
letter which I present to you, and which has been
' found among the letters of Lavailette ?—No, Sir, it
is not my hand.
Having taken thc answers o!' Ow accused, we have I
closed the present proces-verbal, which he signed atter
reading it with us and the clerk; and has also signed
and marked with a ne varietur the letters which we
presented to him ; the repot t attributed to M. Pozzo
dr liorglio, and the lert.e..- which he deposited in our
hands.
PROTEST OF Eft Io 3! : %.—L.SaNt lIIIIINTIONED IN THE IC.
NUTS Or THE 'ZVI II j Vs.:IA.IY, AND ANNEXED TO Toe
MINISTE ENCLOSrD. " January '34, 1816.
" Before replyin.; .. zit.: f7ftviTiv!!atories, it is my duty to state
the motives which have h iiii4le dissuaded me from so doing,
and those which now cit.-A.:a ma to a change of conduct. l'ir,,,
, I have received an assurance that Mr. Bruce and Captain Hut-
...n..., oh *i..ve a'-ea fy .! .T2.e., ...el 1 ;;:x :h'l3 7a.'st7bri :',•vm, ...I/
restraint with regard ro their proceeding's.
" Secondly; the application of the moral question no longer
existing in its former rigour. I have taken occasion to make my
situation known to the English Ambassador, and to transfer to
his re.ponsibili,y the defence of those rights and principles of
justice open which ..depend, and which I should have known
how to defend to every extremity, without opening this commu-
nication

" 'ly.: '.nformed that by my perseverance, In wh:ch,
after the 'Messrs. Bruce and Iletchinson, and nly coin-
inutiica:iors t!),... /t:nbassador of my coml. ry, 1 stool alca.e, I
was delayitlg •he and prolonging the sufferings of my fri,ods.
%. lit :az, also to appear before the Courts, yet always
!iroteitic in the ii.ost solemn manner again,t the itifractii.n of
tws nati.ois. the civil and ini..taty laws of my cnitii•ry,
isms the most sacred principles and strongest sznctions of jusiti
the adoption id. an inquisi:orial system; ar.d protesting always
against the protin:t inn and use of any t vitlence nbta!tied, or ougilt
to be obtained, by these Illegal means, in order to prttpare anii
establish the act of accusation against me ar.d my friend;; I wait
o hear and rei.iy to the interrog iinries, re.ery inys.lt
rii,ht of giving such answers as .et m to nie : tie pt,apt--, not
upon a principle of vanity, but for the sake of every ver-tin
ac-
cusrd in ftittwe, and in order to give weia;lit to an r.:l*.ur vhich
raftiA bec mie siuto:t4l.

" I have supported the pretensions and the rights of ere citi-
ztr,e or Great I;crant. 1 rely with confidence nu my c•Al.ery tor
thy ur.,tectiq:s wh:c3 I chins. N. WILV.N."
1:11 ERIWC,ATORIES OF MICHEL BRUCE.
Ftitsr 'II:IIItUGATORV—.I.I LLI ICY Is.
TLis day, being the 13th .1 014.41 y, 1316, at three
o'clock in Cie elit'..l"itooll, we, the tuidersignrcl, Pierre
Georges Fr.tnc,...;:s Mosier and Pierre Cara •1
l!olice, of the City of Paris, in exectniln
t:f his Excellency the Secretary of State, ,
;..linister of Ge..-.eral Police, repaired to the hotel of
tito eirtei:Lurf. I'o:ice, where, bring in the•cabinet
(4 M. lasp:!ctor-General Faudras, we trans-,
v..,-1):•.1 oruer to the gaoler of the depot esta.
.011..::•1.1 in hotel, to bring before us the Si, ttr
Critze, :.r. ::rrealed this morning, as tap-
p.c4rs frt.ni the minnzes of cur colle:lgut Befrara,
thew, 4.48 ay:Trig

eXmilinltlo3.
as to his name, surname, etc. ?—I am
narnzd Michel Brune, a native 01 London, aged 26
year, an English Gentleman, residing in London.
Q. How long have you been in Paris ? Fur what
object ? Where is your place of residence ?—I have
bees at Paris about a year; some days after Bona-
parte's departure for the army, in June last, I quitted
Paris, and went towards Switzerland ; but I was not
porinitteci to leave the frontier, and thus was forced to
return to Paris: I was then absent about three ..ce:ks..
I am at Paris for my arrite.ement : my re.:ide:,re is
Rue St. George's, No. 21..
Q. Who -are the persons whom you most visit at
Patis ?—I mix a great deal in society : 1 visit a great
number of persons; 1.1,t for the la .t three or four
months I have led rather a retired lite.
We then presented to him a little box, in which
were enclosed the pipers that had been seized in the
morning : he acknowledged that the seals had not
been touched. We proceeded, in his presence, to
open the chest, and unfold the papers. We formed
them into two packets, one of English papers of a,l
date posterior to 1814, and the other of French papers
of the same date; and 'we returned all the other
papers, together with pamphlets and other printed
articles, into the box. And we proceeded no further.
The above having been read to Monsieur Bruce, lie
said that it contained the truth, and it was signed by.
us. Closed the above day, month, and year, at five
o'clock in the afternoon. (Signed)
MICHEL BRUCE, MONNIER, AND AIALLEVAL.
SECOND INTEFtROGAToRY, JANUARY 14.
Q. Did you not torn the plan of procuring the
escape of Marshal Ney ?—No.
Q. Did you not take very active steps in his fa-
your ?—No : only my personal opinion hat al wai s
been, that he could not be tried without violating the
Treaty of Paris.
Q. Were you not in correspondence with Marshal
Ney ?—1 saw him almost every day. I had known
him for some time, that is to say, ever since I have
been in Paris.
Q. Are you not connected with General Wilson
and with Captain Hutchinson ?..-1 am connected
with both. - •
Q. Last Sunday, at about eight o'clock in the
evening, did you not pass part of the evening at Mr.
Hutchinson's, rue de Helder, No. 3 ?—I was certainly
there : but before I go further, I beg you to inform
me positively of the motives of my detention. We
are not accustomed in England to give answers be-
fore we know what is imputed to us.
Q. You are accused of having favcured the escape
of the convict Lavalette, and of having feat your
cabriolet to conduct him out of Paris: what have
you to answer ?--When I shall come to my trial, I
will furnish the necessary explanations. . •
Q. Are you not connected with M. EUiston of the
sth regiment I—l do not know him.
Q. Where did you send your cabriolet last Mon-
day, half an hour before day 3—l will answer when
I come to my trial.
Q. Have you not a cousin who is a General, and

commends an English brigade in France ?—t cer-
tainly hate a cousin who is a General, and who com-
mands an English brigade in France. He has net
been here these two weeks.

Q. On S.iturday, the Gth of the month, was not
the Aide-de-camp of this General at your house ?
Was there not a conference at your house between
General Wilson, the Aide-dc-camp, and yourself ?
Whet was its object ?-1 know nothing about it, ua
such meeting having taken place at my house.
Q. You hod not your cabriolet on Monday the Bth
of this month : when was it returned to you ?—I be-
lieve that it has not yet been returned : I am not
certain, for 1 have not been in my stable for several
days.

Q. To whom have you lent it ?—I will tell in
Court.

Q On the .sth or 6th of the month, did you not
send to Captßia Hutchinson a measure, according to
which he caused to be made a military riding coat,
waistc at, and pantaloons ?—I will expkiin myself on
this subject before the Court.
Q. Last Sunday evening ditl you not sve the con-
vict Lavalette metamorphose 4 into :in English officer,
at Mr. Hutchinson's will answer to that before
the Court.

Q. Do you know whether the convict Lavaktte
ba: lett Paris or not ?--1 know that lie has left Paris.
Q. On what day t At what hoer ? With whom.
and how ?-1 cannot answer this question : bur I
have no difficulty in saying that I co•operated in the
flight of Lavalette from a teelinn of humanity.
Q. How did you co-operate in his flight ?—I lent
mY cabriolet for that purpow.
• V. *Co whom did you lend your calirioict :—To the
person who accompanied La7alette in his fliAht.
Q. Who was that person ?—I will not point him
out.

Q. Where did you take the moasitrr, of Li...ileac
by vhieh his English clothes w. s ma& ?-1 buyer
to ,k such me:tuire.

Q. \Vl:ere, and by whom, was it scut to you ?-4
nr.,t answer that qu-stion.
Q. li.dor,!-LavaLtte left Paris, did yon nrq.
for sane d.tys v 11(.m he w rs cuncs•alri ?-- No : I h .d
not 'evil him s.iiiee his acre; ; whorl I saw bon at Ntr.
Liu Snully
O. W. .s he itt,t dust as an Eiylish officer ? I bv-
h...:‘..! he WAS. •

Q. Did be go alone to M. lintchinson's, or accom-
ra•decl, and by whom ?—I don't know.

Q Who were the persons present. at M. lintchin-
soll's when M. Lardtette w.ts there ?—I nut
answer thAt question.

Q. Was it not then tint you promised to lend
your cabriolet, in order that M. Lavaiette might set
off eaily the lien: day ; and did you not concert all
the measures fit to iiivour his flight ?—Before this
.neeting at M. Huteliinson'a; 1 had promised to lend
cabriolet for 4. Lavitlette.
And no fertJ•.er question w. 14 asked. The above
examination having been read to him, he said it was
true, and signed it with us.

gßucg, moNNIFit, ASD sittu.s.vAL.
THIRD noreitnonATonr--JAN• 15.
13ei1g as his name, surnime, age, profes-
s:on, bit th-pl.tcy, and residence,
He answered ; 1 tin called Michel Bruce, my age
is 26. I and a gentleman, born in London, residing in
!'aril, tue George's, No. 21.
O. From your first e:;antination, rur answers have

'frip-T: Ji-ri. 7%V:tied t.yr :: partieoia r it-hlract-qt of jrant.
ot is and good faith : you ILIVI: s.iid, that, ilidepen.
dently of some discovei ies w7.ich you have trade, you
cyanid make known the whole tatitl,, when you shouki
be in the presence of justice : you nnv: api..ear befire
a member of the tribunal: are you toady to keep
y.:tur promise ?—I am ready tce.t.:ll flit truth: I ex-
, preised a wish to see M. de Cazes, .111iiiisti.r of Police,
I ar.l if lie can listen to me, 1 win explain myself with
ail 'let fraiikm...s that ought to be expccted irom me.
Q. T:te forins of justice oppose what you ask..-
M. L.t.k eazes, as c:iief of the administrative police, is
sf,eci..lly charged with the. prevention of crimes; but
•oi.ce committed, the cognizance of them is referred
to the judiciary police, and M. de Cazes must himself
refuse, if he was acquainted with your deshe to see
him. That which you cinder a favour would be an
i:Lval thing, of which you would yourself have a
right to complain. I will receive as well as lie the
information which you can give for the assistance of
justice: it is in the interest of truth that I question
you, and not in order to turn your information against
yourself. —A. I demand, in order to preserve a greater
freedom in my de!laratior., that the persons here pre-
sent may retire, and I will disguise nothing. 1
And immediately we directed the two gensthrmes ;
and the different persons- who had accompanied the
Sieur Bruce to go into the next room.
The Sieur Bruce then went on in these terms:

I was never connected in fricndshT with NI. Lava-
lette : 1 was never at his house : he never came to
ray house ; yet I knew him a little heron: his arrest :
his personal qualities, his sweetness in society, his
amiability, inspired for him in my mind a greater in-
terest than is usually felt for persons whom one is not
in the habit of seeing. His trial, his detention, and
rte sentence pronounced against him, added to the
iiataaiteents•with which I was di.posed towards him;
bit since his arrest I have had with him no connec-
tion direct or indirect. I was entirely ignorant of the
phce of his retreat after his escape. I even th.ught
that he had a long time left France. I did not know
ni; wife. I never saw her in my life. The or
;lc of the month, a person unknown brought me an
amnyrnous letter, in which was exalted the goodness
nt my character, and it was added that the confi-
dame which it inspired induced a determination to
renal a great secret to me, and this secret, it was ad-
ded, was, that M. Lavalette was still at Paris : I alone,
' it was said, was capable of saving him, and it was re-
quested I would explain my intentions on the subject.
1 did not .10 so immediately, but I promised an an-
swer at a place which I pointed out, and which I
think myself bound in honour not to make known.
I add, that my caution prevented me from patting
any questions as to the name of the person who sent
me the letter, and as to the place of M. Lavalette's
retreat. I thought that in an affair of this nature in-
discretion could not be too carefully avoided. Gene-
ral Wilson was ignorant of all these details. It was
piyself who acquainted him with therin ; it was my-
self who engaged him to join his efforts to mine in
favour of M. de Lavalette; and if there is any per.
son culpade in this business, I declare that it is m)-
salt aleae, sifce it vat ray entreaties w)ich &terrain-
.

ed him, mho is falsely coniderea a: the author of
this scheme.

Q. Did n.' political opinions, rather than persona
affections, you +7 serve Lavalette ? And did
you not do so as a consequence of those sentiments
which you had manirested since the alirair of ntrshal
Ney ?—I allow that my political opinior s oplr ,zed to-
gether with humanity on my conduct slime the affair
of Marshal Ney : I firmly believed that the capitula.
Lion of Paris was an obstacle to his bdry put on hit
trial. As to Lavalette, I declare u; on my honour,
that I was moved solely by t...e commiseration which
his- casa had czcited in me : the adventure of his
escape appealed to me to have something tomantic
and even miraculous about it, which forcibly struck
my imaginati,:n, and excited in me a kind of lively
interest for his person.
Q. `Vas it Lot you who procured the measure of
Lavalette fir tiieur liut.chinsmi to be s•w to the
tailor ?--I do not know to whom I gave it. cir.
cumstance, which appeared inditfercit to me, has
esc:sped my memory ; hut it is t: tie th.:t I procured it.
Q. Do lon !maw the tail& vdic was employed to
make th,.. clothes ?—I do not know : I nev..tr saw him.

0• (-)3 the 7th of Janu 4ry, in tiao evening, when
you saw L:lvAlette at Si, ur Hatchins 3,'s, did you
Icarn LiVaitnEC had ciAm: thew, and the place
from which he had come ?—I did not Ask him; and
I declare that I (11l not even wkh to know.

Q. Do you know, at least, whLater he came on
foot or in a cinriage?--I bciieve he came in a ca.
brioht; 11(0. ...ever Idr not affirm ; when I met
hint at the tkw he was on tent.

Q. Do you not know, that as soeu as he was in.
trodaced tht: tf.partm.mt of Captain I !.utchiusna•
ohe of his blends came to the door, to bring him a
pair of pistols braid it said so, but I saw no per.
sun ; no ?e:.son'tnwrA the mem.

O. ikt.w:)At hour ifd you quit the I.partment of
Captain Hutchinson ?—ilbout midnight.
(2. Tr' g.) there was it r t hece..try to cress the
ap:utment of the S:vur S tuvagy, alga whom !ha
C vain hy!.gcd hunk! name of the
::it ar S tuv.r,-;e : I :.:cer iy.!rzeivrd either him or any
pru-soii of Olt. house, at iu4“ to my and I
vatvc:. lny comnaunication from the apArs-
nitmt of Captain flutchiusco with that of Any other

\Vas it not in yrur cabriolet that Lavalette
escaped ? HAS this cabriolet been sent bark to you ?
—[ have nut ascertained whLth :the c.:!niolet has
been sect l•ack : I can say noiLing pu,ieive on this
subject : t do not deny that I lent it : the documents
which 'have come into your hands perhaps ieare no
doubt a$ to the name of the person to wh(gn I it t
but it is tut my business to make it kite xi). I speak
the truth on every point that respects myself perso-
nally : I ilo not think it a duty to de su wizen it may
compromise others.

Q.
Q. Was it not you who sent to the hair-dresser a
sample of hair and three measures to make a peruque
for Lawalette ?—No, Sir.
Q. Yet the contrary would Appear to result from
the note which I now chew yot:, as w.ll as the sam-
ple, and which were found in your part-tenille !—I
certainly acknoraledge both the sample and the note t
but I declare that thither of them !me,: any connec•
tion with M. L?valette : J afri:aa that it was a COM.
liiiSSlOn Niell6 I received .:bout a year ago from a
i person namel Zerthold, who v:at then at Constanti.
I n..sple, and 1 believe attach:Ai to the E.iglish embassy.
I 'T:le- t-i:,"" ; rviiere will be founu ir. my perte‘
teuil! , i which w,ll coat 1m this ‘Lclaration.
Tfla!rore helot; read over, the prisoner said that
his an:we: s containe 1 the until ; :hat he persisted irt
them i ..::at he ii...d rn.thiug tc change or to add to
them ; and ..igned with us and the clerk, as well the
preset): r;:.4unnation as the note thercin alluded to.
raucc, DLPUY, /IND DZROSTZ.