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London, England, 1816-05-13 00:00:00

you' kihisit, it It that t have
in his praise? Is it that his conscience
me with a too exaggerated recital of
•' These questions ate doubtless
bupin, but the complaint which I
against you has another object. As
contest that vanity, or rather pride
viro stifles all exatitinatinn of the j'
logy, and I cover myself with r
serve the honours with which you

I'o put an end to your disquietude,
'fold my grievance.
" When the Advocate-General
the trial that I had made an illegal
to me that you not only did not coi
tion, but that you were ready to gi
tion of your assent.

" I did' intend to advert to this
but upon maturer reflection, I k
overluAd my defence, and particui

ready existed in my answers to the interrogatorias
before the Juge d'butruction, sufficieht meter to opt
the *discussion before the public tribunal of tulle.
I am, neverthaess, too desirous of your esteem
to wish to make an attempt to erase this unfavourable
impression from your mind, and to justify is per
eyes, if not as a French Lawyer, at least as Eel&
pean Publicist, my conduct from the first moment of
my attest., both as a man and as a citizen of k free
nation.

's I affirm that, even in the first moment; of my
arrest. I never wished to resist the French 6%1_1
merely opposed myself to usages which t cnai,eitti
as a gross abuse; I protested agitate do togii,„4 to,
the morel tortyre, which appeared to tue to be subgi,
tuted amongst you for the material icrtun, althnugh
the abolition of both systems bad been solemnly pro.
flounced by the French Legislation,* and registered
in the code of Europe amongst the principles ei
civilization.

" Imbued with the Oinciples of this 'aegislitiona
could 'not believe that there existed the right of taking
away the liberty of an individual, wnliout having
proof of the crime imputed to him, rib less that,*
could by cafaiosa patios: addeJ to the system of
mural torture, be compelled not only to contest him.
self guilty, but even to criminate his frieods.
" I know that the Code Napoleon gave to judicial
proceedings the forms which they were to foilow,but
I have songht in vain in that Code for an Article, by
virtue of which the Ministry of Police is authorized
to pin the accused to the penal and physical questioc,
and to keep him in its prisons for an unlimited
period.t
gi I have also sought is vain for any article that
authorizes, as Jugs d'lndruction, to exact from an
accused person answers which may serve to betray
his own interests, his friends, and his honour.

" Oa looking, on the other hand, into the great
Laok pi reason, of justice, and of the law of nation.,
I have read in characters not to be effaced, that every
species of tertute is a crime 2g.inst humanity, the
inteltigence of civilization, and the sect,' pact.
" 1 have read that even re igion has rejeete,l this
system of the Inquisition,t that every legislaturelias
voted its eternal extinction, and that its hoh•rezvrratios
is placed under the safeguard of all men, and of all
nations.

46 There are acts of partial legislation which
conic stets respecting which no re.actiou ean evt r take
plate; these are the homages rendered to civilization,
and which no Government has the right or 'evoking,
particularly when its reclamations can only be made
to the prejudice of the society to which it Lis Already
made the sacrifice. The result of a general nil tt
communicates itself throughout §, and becomes the
property of the civilized world. bock is the akliti,sl
of moral and thrical, or material torture; and the
duty of every man, native or foreigner, being traced
out according to the common welfare, and according
to the laws which civilization has.estabiished, to urn
as a rampart against the return of Barbarism.
4. It is on the ground of these principles that I made
my protest, and had I only been arbitrarily detained
a single hour, I should have brtrayed Society if I
had not demanded its being received.
s. You are perhaps obliged as a Frenchman to sub
mit to the usage, without examining the legality of
the power. the Spaniard also, who is racked m
the wheel, has not the means of making available, a
of even causing his protestations to be heard in Eu.
rope, but an Englishman would be unworthy of his
country, and his country would b: unworthy of het
reputation, of her liberty, and of her power, if she
did not make common cause to annihilate a system,
that outrages personal safety, the principles of ja-tice
and honour, and the law of nations.
" It is to you as an enlightened man, as a lawyer,
and I shall be able to add in a short tittle, as a lega-
-1 lator, that I submit those observations. Ido not re.
quire an answer, I only wish you to make known my
Manner of thinking, on a subject which is laigLly de.
servipg the consideration of every une, who has any
knowledge of the imprescriptible rights of emanci.
pates! nations.
" I have not written this letter to be teeret and conj.
Initial, I know toa well the dangers <f see: ry and
toe:idea-a, I am even desirous, that it should be ful44
and eirchthr, and I owe it you, to inform you that I
intend to communicate the contents to my friends is
England.—Ever your's in Ilea:Lund soul,
(Signed) " CERT W I 1.80" C"
• Decree of the Constituent Assembly of October 10, IA
for the rem:nation ol criminal proceedings, founded 011 thethos
follbwiwg principle': '1 he Abolition at every species torten,
moral, physical, or material The Abolition si.t all secret pm'
etedings. Ihe granting of Counsel to the accused. •
The following phrase appear. in the report of M. Bunnies ea
this Decree:—" You wished that in a few days three rilitiPll
sources of cress and oppression should disappear hum the tae,
without the law itself hems annihilated."
Since our arrest, another subject of England, Mr. James
Smith, was detained in the prison of the Prefecture for 74 dart
although during that time be had thrice nearly perished iliniaga
the want ot air and exercise, as the Physician of the Prefettsie
has himself declared. He was told u every iuterrogyery
he would be made to submit. " Yoa shall have your liberty 35
soon as you have given up the names of the two Frenchmen to
whom you allude In your letters; sal these letters were a.u.lucti
but a family correspondence which Mr. Smith kept up hi tot
months of September, October, and November lea. 1 tr. singls
lirtnly.t closed to may the curiosity of the Poke; and as be re'
remained it:finable, and all persecution was touni uvel4o, 14
was transferred to the house cif arrest of La Force, where his Ps
, remained twenty:eight days, and where he still le, withcut loxes
ing what fate awaits hint.
The Journals have announced that the Pope
the inquisition hi his Stairs, and that he has common:cited i:a
OA of abolition to the Court of Spain.
§ When the Constitutional Assembly abolisbtd *very ger*
albinism in trance, be:tibia and tiolatod did the sant, 1,1% Oa
gate par. bas abolisbid

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ice would mom,'
of his setvicie
very natural, the
have now to make
As thr tortes .
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justice of your a?r,
rout shield to pie.
efs!
have ennobled lbe.
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Real said, finding all PM
al protest; it stetted 3
ontrovert that amt.
~ive it the confirn,
point in my :path,
determined not is
ularly as there al. _L _ •