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whittrindiatteethe origin, the development. and
tbgAlieers-ImensW the secret. association, the horrible
dodos of-,nfilX,Tillei elfish! hive been accomplished,
would 1440 prlodisied in Ruth greaekiimes and great
anidormoes. We Will give-aauccinct and preliminers
Tien, of Fasts, all taken from the examinations and
eke eeillm of the crindeili•themselves.
Their/meatless ',scree.* that the number of Men
who would have cemented to participate is them and
execute them could not bat be very limited. For the'
honour of the Russian name, and tolhe joy of all good'
citizens, this consolatory fact is proved to convictions:
The ;circumstances which we are going to relate prow.
hesidei, that the absurdity of the plot equals its wicked.-
mess-; and to demonstrate that it could not succeed.' it
wigwam in a -few words to show the incoherence
all the plans of the conspirators, their hesitation, dm
Mariner in 'which they themselves often shrunk ink
oil
from their own projects, and the impossibility tinder
which they found themselves of eateodiog their prin.
OPles and their iouigues. _
The first-idea of this conspiracy was conceived by
young men oLan ardent and wild imagination, who,
led away by ffie pernicious examples of the revolutios,
of which Europe has been for thirty years the theatre,
and seised with the blind desire of overturning every
thing 'which has visualized by so many disasters the
ego so WWI we live, forgot the noble traditions of
true pattidtion which were preserved in the bosom of
the Russian nation, their most sacred duties to the &-
Vertigo and the State, the oaths they bad taken and
their place in society, to indulge in the reverie of an
abitdute reformation in Rossi*, and to combine in the
dill the means to accomplish it.
Vivaldi. (run whit they havereveated--
1. That for this purpose they laboured at the end of
1815, and the beginning of 1816, to form a secret also.
ciation. which was to be divided into numerous branches,
the object of which was twofold. its apparent object
was beneficence; its real object, known' to a very small
number of persons Initiated in the secret, a political re.
foam in the empire.
• !. That it is so far back as 1817, the latter, as a fresh
proof of the sentiments which animated them, delibe-
rated on the manner of attempting the fife of the Em-
peror Alexander, at the moment when he came with
aegust family to visit that capital which his exploits
tot his munificence bad raised from its ruins. The
I'lf pr an ad&ed Sotereign appeared to them an in-
vincible obstacle to the execution of their projects...
They intended to draw lots which of them should be
the essesaits, when one offered himself voluntarily. But
-whether at the decisive instant the voice of their con-
:sciesee struck them with terror, or whither they thoupht
it accessary to maturwtheir plagiarism' whereat
.thes resolved to defer this patio& : • . ,
- - S. Thai* 131.16 Godiof their asseeiosion see AS-
tarsal eateadedolter again met at Mame. MA eve
,ite,neirtergenioaajworuodey the name of the" Society
of leiestts of tbe_Pitblic Good, or of the Green Book.'
ills mein, mistimed to haws a two•fold *Jodi but
egiehemembers were sot May to • in eats of
.charity--that' were bound, at the slow to coati•
howl to . the progress of koowledge, and the inspresve.
Amos of Meals. This -political reform remained the
MOO .of the chiefs, who endeavoured to prepare the
minds of others for it. and with this view to increase
as each as possible the number of the.adepts.
4. Tnat is 1881 it was discovered by them that those
simetuies had not yet answered their expectations; that
.obey then bed a third meeting at Moscow, at which
deputies lions.all the actions of thesoiety were pre.
seat, but where their.Optnions differed ; and the leaders
having convinced themselves that the majority disap-
proved of their political views, proposed. in order to
get aid of them, to dissolve the society,—a proposal
which WA sincerely adopted by some, and which others
peeteaded to approve. From that time most of the per•
spas who belonged to the society in question, in fact,
ceased to make a pert of it.
S. That, however. the Intloolott of this social'. like
woe conipiratore; formed sew ones, where some were
iiiitietods but with extreme precaution, and the recipro-
cal relations of which prise carefully involved in pro-
thaad decreer. ~ -
6. That from that time the rieelpal assOCiations wen
formed, those of the Masthead the illeoth, the directing
committees of sbich sat at Petersburgh and Tolczin, on
which depeided other committees which took the title
-of district jurisdictions • but that in the sequel a third
Willy was formed coder tbe•name of the United Seta-
simians, with which the members of the association of
the Swath were intimately connected.
7. That the chiefs of those associations. uniting their
asiste..tonctived at the same time the idea of effecting
a /ovulation by means of the army. and that with this
view they eucliravimited to engage c on:winders of cilri-
polies and of tegirnents.
S. That io these associations various plans of reform
one proposed. according to the views and personal
• image-As of the members; that some wanted a GOVettl•
anent an whirl the Supreme Power was to reside in a
Triirrosoirete, of which they hoped to make a pail; that
-others thought of dividing Russia into several independ-
,• ant 'overawes% united by a federal boad.whish would
have been celled States. and of which they hoped to be
the beads; that others again thought of detaching se-
veral peovieces lions the empire. either to give them
wonspieseliodepsodessce, or to cede them to the neigh-
bours's'. POWCFL
IL That its this confusion.of ideas, in this collision of
*elated protemmioaa. equally blind and criminal, no
• definitive plan had-been adopted; but that some of the
rincipol conspirators revived the horrible project they
had eorweived in 1817 to assassinate flee Emperor Alex.
wider of glories:: memory.
10. That area is ll= two of the members of these
secret associations resOlviad to carry this dreadful pur-
e"e into effect; that they west for that purpose to
nottroutdr, whets the Smpoor was to pass but the nun.
oppeardnce of their oenwespliars hindered them ,Iroat
attempting the crime which they meditated.
11. That in 1825 this tow trime was again resolved
epee ; that a Mao Seeded with favours by the Emperor
wal/ the person who ly eadressed the desire to
assassinate him; that be o all delay ; that it was
thew weeleed that the snick's' shoubi be sent to Ti-
‘ irearszposbese bit Imperial Majesty was steOlikt this
algae •
it-gritted% were oseasbers of the society of uitheil d
5C1.V.011.1; and that nevertheless, after further deli-I