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lured like them It a bag and cruel sa.
*iotawould not to-day have been heard
I may have seemed for a time to
, field of battle, hitt I warn my enemies
encamp there in too mach security—l am re-
- yield up the victory to them without a
and I swear that my conscience tells me
prevail. They have been able to enjoy
.7 triumph ; circumstances, I confess, hale
themselves at the will of that hatred which
in a manner to justify some degree of fear
of those who are interested in my fate.—
had I preferred my complaint against the
aors of my character, than all of a sudden I
" accused of having conspired against my
this pretext they have thrown my best
prison ; they have carried off from my
7 papers, letters which I hid received
Isters, orders which they had given me.
thrown me between two conspiracies, the
of which has no other object than to
credence to the first. It is net surprising that
enemies should have thus attacked me. For
years past, the same men have made
same resources. I shall defeat their ma-
But, urgent as the necessity is of placing
light the important events at Lyons,
more necessary that I should previ-
t the odious suspicions with which they
the perfidy to load my reputation. It is
that I should free myself from an accusa-
-1 detest. I esteem the defenders I have
well not to be convinced that they would
the aid of their counsel were such an
to rest upon me. It is necessary that
recover the papers, of which I have
)bed —that I should assemble witnesses
:ies who are concerned in the process.—
then, Gentlemen, that all proceedings in
daint which I have brought before you
suspended until the charge of conspiracy
tyself 'shall have been determined. I shall
liately and surrender myself to the Judge
:don. I shall learn, perhaps, what the gua-
those laws and tribunals is, against which
doubts have been raised, but in which I can
t.icipate, as long as I know that a Bourbon is
I am henceforth under the protection of
•ws—under that of the public opinion. I fear
because I am under the protection of my
:e. Whatever may happen to my person,
igh shall be for my King, and fot the pros-
my country.'
XGUIN, advocate for M. Fabvier, then rose
tressed the Court in these words :—" General
,as spoken in a tone of wonderful confidence
. result of the judicial contest in which he
tosen to involve himself before this Tribunal ;
fore expressing himself in so triumphant a
he would have done well to have waited
card what his opponents had to say for them-
He would then have seen that it is a dis-
which he can never come out of with clean
that M. M. Fabvier and Senneville are far
inking from the complaint ; and that they have 1
Al nothing but what they are able to prove.'
teneral demar.ds from you that the cause may
,erred.—and on what grounds? On the ground
has the misfortune to be implicated in another
acv with which we cannot and do not wish to
ty thing to do here. There can evidently be no
nnexion betweenease two affairs—between a charge
' - against the General himself and the charge
le has prefered here against my clients. We
certainly give our consent to any adjourn-
Our honour is compromised. We are ac-
of being calumniators ; and it is necessary
trance should immediately know to whom
tpt obrious name belongs—whether to us or
adversary. General Canuel alleges that the}
leprived him of necessary papers; but he has
ig to prove—he has no need of clocume.r...
on us the burden of proof lies—it is we that
,reduce the legal evidence of the facts we have
:ed, and for whicli we are denounced as ca-
aors. If General Canuel had asked a delay of
lays to prepare his attack, we should not per-
lave been so ungenerous as to refuse acceding
but when he demands an unlimited delay, it is
ity to oppose it. He has cited us before this
nal to-day ;we are here in obedience to the
us—he is here also. Why then ought not the
to be determined ?"
DuPIN, for M. Senneville, also opposed the
trnment on similar grounds.
Courutte, Advocate for General Cannel, in
support of the motion of postponement, began by
stating the fact that it was the Procureur-General,
, in a firm and and not General Canuel, who had fixed the present
than frightened at as the day for hearing his complaint. "If those,"
HAVE NOT FLED, he proceeded, " who are accused of calumny, have
has been pro- need of legal proofs for the facts which they have
ital. I have only advanced, it is just as necessary that the complainant
to present myself should have the means of repelling these imputa-
The complaint tion;, and vindicating his innocence. It is quite
my calumniators, erroneous to say that there is no connexion be-1
I esteem, and for i tween the two processes. It is by the persons
have sacrificed r against whom the General has brought his corn-
Tearing at this au-1 plaint that this ulterior proceeding has, by way of
my complaint, and , reprisal, been instigated. He has thus become both
firmer than ever. complainant and defendant at the same moment; it
'iv-grant of arrest issued is therefore indispensably necessary that he should
with any Wl:o==w have the support of the documents of which he has

similar lataude

been deprived. It is in vain the accused wish to dis-
semble—in vain they deny a connexion so obvious

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as that which subsists between the present pro-
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cess, and the charge of conspiracy which has been
so recently fulminated against the General. If
they wish to make it believed, that at Lyons the
General, in place of counteracting conspiracies, has
imagined them ; that in place of repressing the
sedition% he has excited them ; and that in the hope
of obtaining places, recompenses and honours, he
has not hesitated at the revolting attempt of wad-
ing to them through a sea of blood, can it be
pretended that all this has no tendency to give
a degree of probability to the part which they
wish to exhibit him as acting in another process? I

demand that the proceedings in this cause be sus-
pended until General Cannel has an opportunity of,
presenting himself before the Judge of Instruction, and
vindicating his character in these respects. In one hour 11
he will descend into the Conciergerie ; in one hour he
will be a prisoner—he will share, perhaps, in that ri-
gorous seclusion to which his unfortunate friends have''
been subjected for 20 days past, and to which he would
ere now have been consigned, had he not, by remain-
ing in concealment, preserved the power of appearing
to-day before you, and explaining before the public
the motives of the delay which he demands. You
cannot refuse him time to petition—to reclaim his
papers, so that he may not present himself unarmed,l,
to enemies armed at all points. Let the weapons be',
equal and you will not see him shrink from the contest."
M. MAnonis replied—" The General pretends
that he is come here to justify himself—but who is
it that demands such justification of him ? We have
not dared to make any such proposition ; we ask
only to justify ourselves. We know more about
Lyons than the General perhaps imagines, and we
do not believe that the documents he seeks after,
can inform him of any thing which other docu-
ments can testify that are in our own possession,
and ready to be produced, but which, doubtless, the
General has no desire to see brought forward. As
little do we believe that the ministerial orders he
speaks about can have had for 032ir object to send
provocations to rebellion into the country. The
General talks of a " pretended" conspiracy. Can
it be believed that the Government would fa-
bricate such a thing? If you do believe it, General
—if you do say so, we may believe and say also,
that they have fabricated such a conspiracy at Lyons;
nay mol c, we will do better, we will prove it. I
persist in opposing the adjournment.-
The Tribunal, after deliberating a few minutes,
adjourned the cause till Saturday, the Ist of August.
After leaving the Court, General Cannel repaired
to the house of M. Meslier, the Judge of Instftiction.
The Judge told him that the Commissary of Police
who would examine his papers, was not then at the
Palace, and he therefore requested the General to
return to-morrow at mid-day. General Cannel, after
having given his word of honour that he would do
so, then returned to his own house.

A letter received to-day from our private Corres-
pondent at Paris, contains the following additional
observations on the conspiracy, and other circum-
stances connected with it. It was written, it will be
observed, before the fact of General CANCEL.S reap-
pearance was known:

" PARIS, JUIN to.

" it has been sometime whispered that the Duke
of Ragusa (Marmont) has been forbidden to appear
at Court. Having discovered that the rumour may
be regarded as well-founded, I hesitate not to com-
municate it. The cause is his letter to the Duke of
Richelieu, in which he declares that Colonel Fabvier
only wrote by his orders, and that it was with him,
and not with his agent, that General Cannel would
have afterwards to do. The Ultras say it was
coxvardly of the Dake of Ragusa to write such a let-
ter, when he knew that an order had been issued to
crest Cannel. To this it may be answered, that the
Duke of Ragusa was not at `,iris when he wrote the
lettter, and could know nothing relative to the or-
ders for arresting Canuel for a conspiracy against
the King and the Government ; and whatever grounds
there may be for any reproaches formerly addressed
to the Marshal, it is certain that his soul is too ele-
vated to seize the moment of an enemy falling, to
kick him.
As to the Duke's disgrace, it is of course inter-
! preted according to the different opinions of the par-
ties. The worthy Ultras regard it as a just punish-
! mint for his execrable conclac: at Lyons others ac-
count it an odious persecution by Gover nnent. of an

illustrious warrior, on whom they could not impose
silence; and who preferred incurring disgrace to the
concealment of afflicting truths, the publicity of
which was necessary. Others, again, think that this
paternal correction' of the Marshal by his Majesty,
had no other object than to make him feel, that being
in the service of Government, he could not, withoot
failing in his duty to the King and to himself, become
party in an affair in which he had appeared as Judge
and Mediator, in the name and by the orders of the
Supreme Authority, which he represented.
We incline to this opinion, for how can it be

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imagined that the Ministry wr.3hed to favour General
Cannel at the very moment when it was prosecuting
him, as suspected of being implicated in a conspiracy
to destroy the Charter, overturn the Throne, li ht up
civil war, and re-plunge the whole of Europe in the
dreadful state of anxiety from which it is bt:t just

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APPEARANCE OF GENERAL CANUEL. developed the
The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this morn- pursues me, i
ing, and are more than usually interesting. General on the part o
CANUEL has at length made his appearance. He Scarcely had
had not fled as was generally supposed, but merely calumniators
concealed himself for a time, for purposes which are was myself a
I explained in the following Report of the proceedings
King. On t
which took place on Tuesday before the Tribunal of
friends into
Correctional Police, when the complaint at the Ge-
house all my
neral's instance, against M. M. SENNEVILLE and
FAaVIER came on to be heard, and when the Gene- They have tl
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ral, to the great surprise of all present, made his per- from Minisv
most recent
I, ; , sonal appearance in Court. gain credenc
1 TRIBUNAL OF CORRECTIONAL POLICE my enemies
ACTION OF CALUMNY. twenty-five
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LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CANUEL AGAINST MM. DE use of the s:
SENNEVILLE AND‘FAI3VIER. nceuvres. f
! TUYADAT. JetY 21. in a clear
• At an early hour this morning, every avenue to it is still
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4 the Tribunal was filled with persons anxious to hear ously repel
1 the first proceedings in this important cause. As have had t
soon as the doors were opened the ball was instantly necessary th
filled in every part. The crowd was so excessive. tion which
that MM. de Senneville and Fabvier had great diffi- chosen too /
culty in obtaining a place beside their Advocates.— refuse me
Every person looked around most earnestly for their imputation
adversary.
I should
Various reports were in circulation among the au-
been robb(
dience. Some persons maintained that General Ca- and parties
J , noel was at• Brussels: others announced, with a tone I demand t
of assurance, that he would appear personally in the compl.
Court. In England there would have been betting shall be st
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about the matter : in France they affirm, but do not against my
. t bet—a practice more economical. go immedi.
,
I t When the Judges took their seats, the whole of Instruct
a,ssca,bly were silent.
, - rantee of tl
. 4 Several matters of trifling importance first occu- injurious d
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pied the Court, in the midst of which the attention never parti
of the audience was suddenly attracted by a bustling our King.
i noise in the corridor situated behind the scat of the the laws—
Public Minister, which was immediately explained
t . nothing, b
I by the entrance into the body of the Court of—Ge.
conscience.
resat CA:a:a., attended by M.M.bIM COUTURE, and
. . my last sig
BEERIER, jun. his Advocates. perity of n
A number of persons saluted the General, others M. MM
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1 , . 4 went up and shooks hands with him. One of the and addre
Gentlemen of the Bar rose from his place and made Cannel ha
the General accept of it.
as to the I
In a few niiirtzes afterwards, the cause " Caned has chose:
a" moinst Senneville and Fabvier" was called, and the
but befor
President proceeded to demand of the parties their
manner, I
names and designations.till he he:
M. CANCEL.—" My name is Simon Canuel. I am
selves. 1
. I a Lieutenant-General in his Majesty's army. cussion w
M. SENNEVILLS.—" My name is Nicholas Same- bands ; ti
i Ville, Master of Requests." from shrit
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M.FABWILIL--" And mine Charles Nicolas Fabvier,
el advanced
Colonel." The Gen
The whole three were dressed in plain clothes, and be deferr
decorated with ribbons of the Legion of Honour.
that lie h
General Canuel wore besides the Cross of St. Louis.
con nirai
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The PRESIDENT.—" 13efore the citations are read, have any
have the parties or their advocates any observations connexio
, 1 to make ?" brought
r,'. General CAtsuet., on this, rose, and proceeded to which in
address the President front a written paper which he
4 cannot c
i held in his hand :—" Mr. Pre adent, I be, that the ni„t. 1
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cause may be postponed, and I wish to state the con- cused a:
siderations upon which I found this request. When
I , that Fr,
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I commanded in chief for the King in the nineteenth this opr
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military division—when I employed all ntyefforts to
to our a
E counteract the plots of the factious, of the abettors of
have de
sedit!an—l was far from anticipating that the enemies nothing
,1 1 t c: the King and of the State would one day have the _it i, ,
1 audacity to accuse me of having excited them to must pi
I CI: Me ; still les, did I imagine that I should ever be advance
ected of haying conspired against a Prince whom
sosp g iu
maim
I have served with so much zeal"—
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Mr. PRUSIDENT.—" You must confine yourself, haps ha
b eiAt th
, , General, simply to your reasons for requesting the to it ; b
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adjournment of the cause." our dui
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General Camunt..---,, These are the reasons of my Trihun
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it demand"— citation
3.; M. CONTURE.—" Permit the General to make his cause t
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reasons known."
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M. De;os.---,, For ourselves we have no objections. adjourt
We desire that the General may have every latitude M.
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in his attack, reserving to ourselves a similar latitude suppor
in our defence." stating
General CANCEL then continued, in a firm and and nc
animated tone—" Marc astonished than frightened at as the
the manoeuvres of my enemies, I HAVE NOT FLED. he pro
as toe journals have reported—as has been pro-
need c
claimed in the streets of the capital. I have only miyan,
i i I wished to make sure of being able to present myself shottic
this day at the bar of your tribunal. The complaint tion,,
0i which I have instituted against my calumniators, , errant
being for many functionaries whom I esteem, and for twecn
f myself, of extreme importance, I have sacrificed ! "„i„,,
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every thing to the necessity of appearing at this au-; plaint
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1 y I dience, to declare that I persist in my complaint, and .1 repris
i that my resolution to maintain it is firmer than ever. , comp
/ —lf I bad obeyed at first de of arrest issued , is the
against ono—thrown into prison with my unfortunate . have
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