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Your Majesty is nut ignorant that * revolution of
nature to awaken all the attention of:the Goierninent
had reached the Emperor Alezander, in the month of
June last year, from a person named Sherwood, sub-
, altern in the 3d Regiment of the Lancers of the Bong.
purported, that in several regiments of the first and
second army there were individuals who plotted the
overthrow of established order and state, emit:hat they
belonged to a secret association, which irie'reased:grz-
, dually the number of jis members. In naming one of
them. (Theodore Varkowski), Sherwood begged -per-
mi.sion to repair to Roursk, to comverst with him and
several others whom he believed implicated; loping
obtain more clear and circumstantial knowledge of
their intentions. He, in fact, communicated to the Go-
vernment, in the month of September; the new inforati-
,
tion which he had obtained. .
Other information, ccinformable fp *M.°, Sherwood,.
and More detailed, was carried io Taganrog by Lieut.,
General Count de Witt, who had been_ acquainted;
with the existente and the object of,ito association of
consirators by an agent, who had pretended to join it.
A letter received from Taganrog, the lsr (13) Sept.
confirmed this intelligence. It had been addressed to
'the,late Emperor 4lexauder, by Captain Mayboroda,
of the regiment Of Viatka, and appeared the more im-
portant, that Mayboroda himself had been a member of
the above association. Immediately the Commandant
of the second armyb and 'an aide-de-camp of your
Majesty, sent to Taganrog for thai purpose, adopted
measures for preeaution. • .
According so the information of Mayboroda, several
individuals suspected of plots Vert arrested, some of
,their papers were fouhd and seitird;:.and preliminary
'iuterrogatoriee, rook: place.. Meaminie,. their accom
plias at St..Petershurgb, eitier consisted that the Go-
vernment had already a knowledge of their projects, or
actuated with the impatieticieof ereooting them, under-
took to deceive *party of the regiment: of the Guards
on the occasion of the oath to be takermo your Majesty,
and excited the.tuovernent which wss witnessed by the
inhabitants of the capital on the 14th (26)0 Deeeintwas
On th'e evening of.tbat dey, they were, lmost all in the
power of Geverament,.and their;depositions served
to titer up, and to complete the informatibns previously
rettived respecting the existence of a plot.
. Ae this. epoch; the labours of the conimilsioo. eons.
Mewed. Eesry day the mass of facts increased, 'Which'
made it.netessary to extend the inquiries; nevertheless,
alwiys faithful to the principle established by your Ma-
jesty, the commission. employed the, power with. which.]
.it was ievisted•unly, in cases of evtderit.
Among - the members okbe secret associations them-
selves, it only required the arrest or evidence of those
whose testimony worthy of belief authorised it to con.
sidle as accomplices in the most, criminal designs, or
whose depositioas skere indispensable to convict the
priticipal. conspirators, and disclose all the plans which
they had formed.. The individuals whose names will be
lazuli's a separate list knew only in a very imperfect
manner the objects of the associations of which they
formed a part, and the commission leaves them to your
Majesty to decide upon their fate in your equity and
clemency. .
On thcothee hand, all the accused who claimed" the
special attention of the commission have been carefully
examined. Their answers have been compared,. and
have been confirmed by concurring testiononf;,‘and
they all agree in the principal circumstances relative to
the object of the plots the organisation of the secret so-
ciety which formed it, earl the acts of its directors.
From the'whole of these facts it results that-in the
year 1816 some young men returned from abroad after:
the campaigns of 1814 and 1815,. and knowing the po-
litical tendency of several went societies which 'then
existed in Germany, conceived the idea of establishing
similar associations, in Russia. The first persons who
communicated this idea were Alexander hloaravielf,
at present Captain on half-pay, and Captain- Nikita
Mouravieff, and Colonel Priece :Treubetsky. Their
motive, according to the written testimony of Alexander
Mouravieff, was an ill-uuderstood love of country,
which concealed from their own eyes the movements of
a restless ambition., They did not then see, what they
confess now is all their depositions, that the means
which they employed could not 'conduct them to any
object of-real utility ; that the existence: of such a so-
ciety was contrary to the laws, and to public morals;
and that sooner or later its consequence would be crimes
which would entail destruction upon thermelves,,,and
calamities upon the state.
At these first conferences there were present,_ besides
the persons whose names have been trientioned,:tbove.
M. Yakouchkine and Serg, as well is Mrattheye4for,
ravieff Apostol, officers of the disbanded regiment of
Semenouchy. They did net proceed-,at thug .tirp.e..ta
the execution of their projects, and. it Will a r an the
month of February, in the following year, *lit they
organized the first secret society, under the del, of Tie
Union of Safity, or The tree and faithful Sens of the
Country, Captain Nikita Mouravieff having then formed
an acquaintance with Calomel Pestel, add put him in
communication with Alexander Mouravieff, who had
previously entered into habits of intimacy with Prince
Troubetsky. This society included three. classes,
that of brethren, that of men, and that Of heron. It
was from this last class, superior to 'the oiler two,
that every month the Elders and Directors were chosen,
namely, the President, the Superintendent, 'and the
Secretary. Their receptions were accompanied with
solemn ceremonies. The candidates took an oath to
preserve secrecy in every thing' that should . be con-
' Tided to them, even when their opinions and their
views should not agree with those of the :relay. At
their adinissioty they took *second oath f they bound
themselves to proceed. towards the object of their
union, and sitbsnit to the decision of the seprtme
council of boyars; although, according tothe declara
tions of Prince Teclubetsky,- this title Of loysis was to
remain unknown to all the i the inferior
classes. ft was granted to the pirnitiee meraberep or

These plans" had. no, result, and an association of
which the General had conceived an idea, namely, to
prevent the erection pf a tingdons in Poland, was • not
formed. That which had already existed made no
progress. Some of its members, and particularly Pestel,
left Petersburgh ; others discovered an inconsistency in
its views, and inconveniences in its laws. Others still,
and especially those who had simply received the pro-
positions to fraternize with the soden of safety, required
that the society shoOld limit itself to act slowly on the
public mind;-thatit should change its statutes, which
had for their basis the principle of a blind obedience,
and the employment of vipleot .means, and that it should'
adopt id place of them others, the principal provisions
of Whitt should be drawn from the presumed code of
the Terra Bead (society 'of virtue.) The primitive
meraliets of*. union, who were then at Moscow with
a division oldie guards, gp'peieit, for a long time this
proposition.i'atid it desves remark, that it was during
these discussions, and any sitting which Alexander
Nikita, Serg, and Matthew Mouravieff, Yakouchkine,
Von-Viesen. blueing, and Prime Theodore Schakous-
ky, anent de. that the 'first mention was made of the
rightful idea Of regicide:.: -
One of the Members, Alexander Mouravieff, had- re-
ceOrsd a letter from Prince Troubetsky, which announ-
ce& ihaUthe Emperor had the intention of restoring to
Poland' all the provinces conquered by Russia, and that
forese:lag on the part of the Russians discontent, and
even opposition, he thought of retiring to Warsaw with
all his Court, and leaving the country a prey to troubles
and anarchy. This intelligence, of which the conspi-
rators themselves acknowledged-the absurdity, produced
nevertheless upon them an effect scarcely credible.—
They cried "out thit an attempt upon the life of the
Emperor hid become an object of urgent necessity.—
Prince The3dore Schakousky, according to the deposi-
tion Of Matthew Monravieff, proposed not to delay the,
execution of it Sanger than the day on which his Regi-
meats should mount guard. They even wished to draw
lots who should be the assassin, when, after the torture
of au unhappy passion which caused him to hate exist-
ence, excited by the agitation of his companions, and
-inflamed by their discourses, Yakouchkine offered his
,arm for regicide. He appeared nevertheless, even in
his madness, to feel the enormity of the crime which be
meditated. " Fate,* said he, M has marked me for its
victim.

Having become a criminal, I shall no longer
able to live, I shall strike the blow first, and then I
shall kill myself." All the rest were terrified, their
fury was reduced, and they stopped in their career.
General Von Viesens exerted himself to prove to them
that the news was devoid of foundation. Sergio: Mou-
ravieff-Apostol chewed them that the projected crime
would be useless, because they-were not yet in a situa-
tion to take advantage of it. Yakouchkine came to his
senses, and broke off all connection with the society,
which -then changed its organization, and adopted new
regulations, drawn up by Alexander and Michel Moo.
ravieff, by Prince Sergio: Troubetsky, and Peter Ka
'whine, The first part of these regulations was in
imitation of a •similar society in Germany. The mem-
bera declared that they had no intentions against the
Government, and that they pursued their labours in
4retAsaly -to avoid the perverted constructions of ma-
levolence mill hatred. The members divived them-

osekes.into four branches ; the first had for its object
phihinthrophy and beneficence, public and private.—
The • second had for its object intellectual and
moral education—the. establishment of schools, parti-
cularly on .the Lancaster system, and in general co-
operation in the instruction of youth. To the members
of this section was confided the inspection of all schools.
The third had for its object to watch over the proceed-
ing: of the tribunal... Its members engaged themselves
not to refuse any judicial appointment that should be
offered, to fulfil, their duties with zeal and exactness, to
encourage persons of integrity employed about the tri-
bunals, and to denounce to the Government those who
betrayed their trust. The members of the fourth class
were to devote themselves to political economy, to en-
courage industry, to consolidate public credit, and to
oppose monopolies. The interior orgarixation of the
society was as follows : Its founders were to form the
central union. From this union was to be drawn the
central council, composed of a president and four as-
•essors. When the members of the central union joined
this council, she assembly took the name of the Celdral
Lisediset. The. central council exercised the executive
'power, and the central direction the legislative power in
the union. The direction had besides tbe power of no-
minating a tenlio; ary chamber of legislation to examine,

Mr. Seastraerr said Ph was an action for a compen-
sation in damages for an- injury sustained by James
Milne:, a stone-mason, in the loss of his. lee, through
the unskilful treatment of i person named. Taylor, au
irregular practitioner of surgery, living near Hudders-
field. The plaintiff, in the month of November last,
met with an accident, by which he fractured his left
leg, just above the ankle, and unfortunately for him the
defendant, who professed to have great skill in the re-
duction of such fractures, was called in to attend him;
and his first effort at replacing the bones was made in
so extraordinary a manner, that the Learned Counsel
observed he could not pass it over unnoticed. He had
caused three men to pull the unfortunate man's foot for
a considerable time, and then tied a large handkerchief,
twisted like a rope, -round ,the ,atekle, just below the
fracture, with a slip-knot, so that the harder it was
pulled the tighter it became, and caused the unfortunate
plaintiff the most excruciating torture. After having
done this, and straitened, he applied a huge plaister,
some pieces of wood called splints, and bandaged the
whole so tightly that he almost stopped the circulation
of the blood: The ordinary reduction'of broken limbs
was generally effected in three or four weeks, but it
would be found, that at the end of that period, the
plaintiffs limb became worse, the toes quite black, and
the appearance of certain insects from under the ban.
dage denoted its disseeed state, repeated applications
during that period had been made to the defendant to
remove the bandage, but be declared that course to be
totally unnecessary, and so it remained on till some
'persons, totally ignorant with the nature and cureiof
such wounds, became so sensible of its dangerous WM
tote that they called in two regular surgeons, who de=
clared the entire treatment to be grossly bad, and or.
deted the bandage to be removed; but the defendant,
who had been sent for, scouted theist opinion, declaring
that he knew more of the matter than any one else, and
ordered the bandage to remain in the same state; the
consequence was, that mortification became manifest,
and it was found necessary to resort to amputation to
save the man's life, and the leg was accordingly re-
moved from above the knee, and. the poor man had
now brought his action for the recovery of such a com-
pensation for so great a loss as he had sustained, lie
did not mean to say that a medical man was responsi-
ble for the consequences of a cure in which, having ex-
etched all that his judgment had suggested, and which
was founded or prescribed-upon the rules of the profks-
sion, he failed, but any man, who, when grossly ignorant
of those rules, had undertaken such a cure under the
display of surgical knowledge, then that individual was
'must assuredly liable if he -failed, and was bound, as
was indeed every man pursuing the practice of medi-
cine, to give his patient every attention and care which,
in his judgment or skill, was required under the de.
CUMStinCeS of the cue. Here was a case in which that
charge had been taken by a person (who he understood
had made a large sum of money by practising the trade
of bone-setting among the rustics of his neighbourhood)
evidently having no surgical knowledge, but only ex-
ercising the utmost ignorant presumption; and for that
,presumption the Jury were to consider what damages
he ought to pay.—The Learned Counsel said, that to
this poor man no compensation could atone for the loss
of his leg. He was differently situated than the opulent
—he had to support a large family, and who would
employ a men situated as he was, who could not per-
form the same work as other men? He was, by the act
of the defendant, deprived of his limb, and the Jury,
under every circumstance of the case, could only give
him ample damages.
The facts stated having been insbetaatiMad y auliketos
waslilmr.LeedsecertaiPailmutenitaitk
for the Airy to determine.
Irmo dinaingaugeel4,ebesrthe iglituntalitot"hearhichidalatilwi:s
The Jury, after about tau sanitise dellberoilii% returned a ye&
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DRANSTIELD O. DIXON.

This was an action to recover the OM of 2812.
which the defendant had been indebted tO pleura/4 who
had given him that sum on the 9th of December, iwtbe
notes of Dobtods Bank. of Huddersaeld. which stopped
'payment on the 10th. and afterwatdp
,ircaase tsar
bankrupt. The plaintiff's dedaratissaaerriag that de-
fendant at the time of paying she notes was aware of
the insolvewel On OVA% and baying colketeif them