Star.
London, England, 1816-04-26 00:00:00

St.COND DAY, 11DISDAY, APitiis tt.
This day the examiaation of witnessed was cond.

nued.
The Colonel of the Staff Grisenoir, and the Major
of gendarmerie Jensac, attest, the one verbally, at 4
the other in writing, that, having been charced,with
the command and internal superintendence of the
Conciergerie durin7 Marshal Nu's trial, they slw
Roquette constantl7 exercise and recommend the,_
most eXaCt vigilance; and these witnesses were con-
vinced that the attachment of this gaoler to h:s du.
ties was suppfted and increased by Lis excellent
principles and opinions.
Similar testimony WAS &et.. for him by sr:et-11in--

spectors of Pelice.
Tile widow Dittoit, aged 7'2, corfrclentlal women
of Madame I etvalette, called for the, accused, declared .
that she did not recollect any of the circtrustaeces
which preceded or :Iccompani.,l the fact of the escape ; .
,he did not even recollect whb the per.eon wes that
iatroduted her e Wenn permissirin into the Chemher
of the convict. It was in vain some of the Judge: and
Jorymen prase ,1 her with Ttestiors—in vain the Pre.
sidAit reminded hee of the oath she had taken. se.e
persisted in saying, Cleo a severe indisposhicn pre-
vented her from retaining any recollection. M. tt e
President, unwilling that she should perjnre herself,
dismissed her, obsvezing-44 Something, I kuaw net
what, prevents me from arming the hands of justice
against you."
. The woman Gorse, a neighbour of Eberle's wife, ,
stated, that, at the period of the entrance of the allied
troops into Paris. the wife of the accused spewed her
a sum of WOO fr. about which she appeared alarnae?!,
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and consulted her as to the means of plating it in
;safety. ' .
Laporte, one of the ordinary chairmen of Madame
Lavalette, and who, on the day of the escape, had
been replaced by Brigaut, deposed, that the day after,
when he asked Brigaut why he had not finished hiss
job, the latter made no mention of offers having been,
made to him, but excused himself by saying, that two
days before he had made A severe journey, which had
strained him.—llene ended the exarnination of the
witnesses, upon which
M. Ilya, the Advocate-General, rose and ad.
dressed the Court :
" A criminal, he observed, n convict, has escaped
from justice : happy for hen it he escape freer re. .
ea,,ese, and it he can and a plane whe-e he may •hew
with serenity a forehead whieh the j•oliciel thritidar
has se:tilled : a wife has screed her husband ; let it f:e
the subject of her joy, prioeidecl the act which has •
done her honour shell not enmpromise any nee. it
' is easy to acentro ter the cle!re which some rr the 7'7.
Cilieili on whose fate yen have to p7oncullce, tunic 'Q
1 this enterprise ; their sentiments. their duties, their
interests, explain tile pert which they pleyed: tort
hew !repast:as it tit::: these three fercieners ;ye hzeee
%%in ? W /la: was the netere of ttle interest witieh they
took in teeing the conv;ct. ? •17,,y seere neither t. e
relative,, the friends; nor even the scretainter:es of
Lavalev.e. I.Vill they say that the; acree: trim views
el hutnathy ?
'4 But how charectetize that ?7'lll:ini:y wlich Cis.
plays itse.ilonly iiy a coritereet of pit lie oni:!r, and
the infraction ot te... laws ? ileev aeieeciate that he.
mane intention, it the cerresceeieeice et tt.e accused
I:loves, that hatred ot nor law; is in thcir hearts ; than
our repose is orliens arid !i.3:;1-re .Isla :0 Clem ;i; th. T
Slai Wit tat that escape :any teelfg nett en- reitrie;cs tal
aatho,iiy. :1 seditious means of torn:into; a revitiU-
nein ? if this act, feeble in ite•if, was a sot I. ef itiitia-
tive of the prej-ct, it became the ditty of pelaUc jus-
tice to search it to the bottom, and to trace to you the
machination to its very toete,. The Alvocate.Gene-
ral applied bimseltin the first instance to compare and
appreciate the facts relative to the escape of Lava.
tette, and with great order and precision ma: ked the
share which each of the accused had in the act, and
the motive which might have actuated him. He die.
tinguished, with the most judicious equity, betweem
crime and simple (4.:nce ; and essignel to each, as
it were, the punishment which he incurred; Without,
however, depriviug aity one priemer of the hope of
the indulgence of the jury. Ile then naturally came
to the effence of concealing the convict, aid it was
here drat the three Englishmen came upon the stage.
4' The tiest part rif this afreir, he said, is intelligi-
ble enough. An the frets have a resemblance tO
every-day occurrences. We have a woman who sjves
her husband—a wend who neglects his charge—anoe
then- who allows himself to be c.orro?ted—a dortwoic
who devote; himself for his nw.t,•r—lnd a me; canary
who is seduced by the attractant: vt a great teihe.
The origin of all this is to be found, not in the yin.
ciples, but in the pess:ons and affections of men.-:.
liitherto we have tee:minted a history—we now come
to a romance. Yon have been seized with this 'tee.; ;
you have put this first question to yottrae:ves—svhy
were the English engaged in this affair ? Their inter.
ference cannot he explained on or .:iiiery princr,sles.
They themselves declare and protest on their horioer,
that, before their participation in the crime, they did
trot knew the individual in whose service they t e..
cued all their effdt's. We are hound to believe their
assertions,. but it is incnmhent on them to explain the
motives of their conduct. One of them- (namely
, 13ructe), who was the first conalent in this affair.
will. declare, that, advertised of the retreat of La-
valette in Paris by an anonymous letter, in which
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Ihe himself received compliments, he believed, ac-
cording to the declarations of the said letter, that he
was the only person who could save him. At first
his pride was flattered ; then his natural. sensib;iity
was excited ; and, hot of all, his understanding was
exalted by discovering in the escape of Lavalette
something romantic, and even miraculous, which
powerfully struck his imagination, and impressed pis
heart. Tire other (Hutchinsen) did not feel the ,
same decided warmta of talky. It was, in his mind,
a sentiment of humanity which exerted' itself in the
cause t.f Lavalette : he only yielded to the desire of
saving an unfortunate tnan. The third (Sir Robert
Thomas Wilson) derives the motives of his conduct
from higher considerations. He imagines that .the
honour of his own government would have been de.
r;oyed, if a sentence of the royal court of Paris was
executed. He does not concern himself with the
rights of sovereignty, or the unquestionable authority
of the judicial power in France over the French su -
ject. Ah ! truly these are cemn on rules. Theca.
pitulation of Paris, however, is his law. It has been
viol aed, and he conceives it to be his duty to clear
his goverament of the opprobrium which that viola.
ti u Lasts tit In it. Thus the convict was to irrsaved