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London, England, 1816-07-10 00:00:00

ORDINANCE OF THE KING.

" Lotus, by the Grace of Coo, King of France, &c.
" During the unhappy period that succeeded the
%fat of March, 1815, the pupils of the College of
Vannes formed into companies, armed and equipped
at their own cepense, made part of the Royal army
in the Morbilian, and fought with valour. Six of
them tell gloriously, many received honourable
w,tat,ds, all have given proofs of their fidelity and
their attachment to legitimate Government.
Walling to manifest the satisfaction we have felt
at 'this courageous devotedness, and to secure i s re
rnernbrance, on the report of our Minister Secretary
of State for the Interior, we have decreed aad do'
decree as follows t
" filar. i. —Annual pensions are granted front the Royal
Tr. awry to the relatives of the six pupils who perisbed in the
different combats in which that company were engaged, viz.—A
pe taut' of COO francs to the mother of the twin brothers Nicolas
(Jean Marie, and Yves), the one a Captain, slain •u the 10th of
Jutie, the other a Corptval, who fell on the 6th of July, 11116.
ihis pension (tweets to her third son. A pension of 400 francs
to the brothers of the Sub.lkatenant Quecel ; a pension of 400
francs to the father of I.ethiec, a Serjeant; a pension of 400 francs
to the mother of Gregory, a fusilier ; and a pension of 400 francs
to the mother of Rio-Colonsban, a Corporal, slain on the List
of Jute.

" Aar. 2.—Nomlnates some of the pupils Chevaliers of the
Legion of Humour
" ART. s.—Gres the tide of " Royal" to the College of
Vannes.

" Art. 4. The Council Getters' cf the Deparownt of the
Mothiban is authorised to tipund, to the Ruyal Communal
Ciillege of Vanes, sit fellowships, to which we will make the
ntanitlations according to the report of oar Minister, Secretary
of State fur the Interior.

" These fellowships *ball be granted In preference to the
pupil. who formed part of the Company; awd after them to
the children of those families which supplied comhatiuns doling
the 10u days.
" Our Ministers, Secretary of State, Ste. are charged with
the executiou of Ibis Ordinance.
" July 27th, 1616. .64 LOUIS."

PARIS, JULY 6.
The accounts from the southern departments an.
nounce, that new rye is already in the market; the
vineyards are superb, the blossoms have experienced
ne check, and the vintage will be most abundant.—
The silk-worm harvest has been very good; the
pods have been sold at 42 francs the pound, and the
mulberry leaves at 26 francs the quintal. •
It may be observed, that reports of war have hi.
therto been always' renewed when the interior is tran.
cal So constant an effect can only be produced by
a single and uniform cause; that cause is not diffi-
cult to divine; and the more narrow the circle within
which the means of malevolence are forcibly circum-
scribed, the less we are liable to become the dopes of
artifice and perfidy. When efforts made for die.
turbing public order by positive acts are disconcerted,
and remain unsuccessful, it is endeavoured at least
to`trouble the imagination by vague rumours, and by
reports equally vain and sinister. Thus a sort of fer-
mentation is kept up in men's minds, which affords
consolation for unsuccessful attempts, and nourishes
hope. It must be confessed don the malevolent never
had more need of this kind of consolation. All their
projects have failed, all their plots are discovered as
soon as formed. Nothing is undertaken which does
not turn to their shame. Corivicted of impotence,
covered with ridicule, and engaged in a contest with
an active and vigilant administration, which is se-
conded by an excellent public spirit, and which allows
no movements to escape observation, they can no
longer sustain so unequal a struggle, and must retire
from every combat with a still more marked confu-
sion. The source whence the false rumours to which
we have alluded proceed, would suffice to render
them suspected. We know that impure source.—
Some malcontents noir abroad, prophets of misfor-
tunes of which they can no longer be the artisans,
endeavour to menace us with a future similar mutat
past which was their workmanship.
One great advantage has resulted from the frightful
and too lengthened evil, to which the most civilized
part of the globe was a prey, during the first . ;ears
of, this century. Never was the inestimable value of
peace beater appreciated tbaa at this moment—nevdt

'hate the salutary sweets. of cojc.corel. More enjortitil
all the niacin: of Europe are setback themselves
their , obtained after so monk figitationi en •
ciao v tiraOt -
Thal imagination Of every Soveriign ti struck with
the misfortunes which the ambition af Princes sheds
around them, and on their own subjects. Great and
living lessons have only confirmed in them those pa.
cific inclinations which existed already in their cha.
fewer:, and are as it were their natural whites. In
their eyes, enlightened by the instructive events of
which they have been' witnesses, war, even the most
fortunate, is without glory if it be without *plaice
and they are well aware that the splendour of mili-
tary qualities, and the burst of a warlike spirit, pos-
sess no charm in the present day to mislead minds
too well undeceived of those cruel illusions, and too
much on their guard egainst these dreadful en-
chantments. Reunited under the ascendant of a great
social principle, which appears rather moral than po-
litical, by what they have achieved for the trio mph
of this principle, they have given a pledge of what
they would still perform for its maintenance—and,
such is the influence of those high maxims on which
the order of society and the happiness of mankind are
founded, that none of them can be more partitulaily
proclaimed and honoured, without shedding its light
and splendour on all the others.
This /hour war, which placed the King of France
on his throne, this holy league formed in favour of
legitimacy, have drawn all European policy into its
true paths, confirming ac once all the thrones on their
natural foundation, which are united one to the other
in a common link. This sacred principle of the le-
gitimacy of the Royal dynasties is become the rule
and torch of all other kinds of le:Oink:tier, or, what is
the same th.ing, of all other sorts of justice : thus,
before resolving on a project, we will examine whe-
ther it be legitimate—before we yield to the attractions
of a seductive enterprise, we will demand of it to be
legitimate. A spirit of justice and of good faith per-
vades every State, Government, and Cabinet of Eu-
rope, and has succeeded to that spirit of ambition,
selfishness, and injustice, which from every quarter
breathed storm, agitation, and destruction.
Is it not then absurd to credit the dissensions an-
nounced to us ? It would be melancholy to believe
them ; fur where would the conflagration terminate ?
What evils would we not still have to anticipate ?
What a future would the terrified imagination pre-
sent ? What disorder, what thaes would follow the
infraction of the treaties, so solemnly, so religiously,
so recently sworn ?
Away with such horrible and chimerical sepposi.
Lions ! reproved by eery consideration, by the neces-
sities of the people, by the characters of the Monarck,
by the purified doctrines of policy, by the testimony
of foreign Journals, and by our own extended corre.i-
ponden'ce, which alone would enable us to contradict
those rumours, which have no foundation but i. the
desires of those who are enemies to the public tran-
quillity.
But the source whence these falsities proceed would
alone be sufficient to render them suspected. Some
malevolents abroad, prophets of evils they can no
longer achieve, threaten us with a storm similar to
that which has passed.
We despise these oracles of falsehood and despair.
We will nut listen to the men whom the light of our
1 ;ovum happiness, and of the tranquillity enjoyed by
' Europe, renders so cruelly and so justly miserable.
Leave them in their merited exile to dream away to-
'
anances of destruction, after having lost the reality ;
but let us not suffer their impostures to poison the
repose and happiness we now enjoy, and of which so
: many pledges ensure us the continuance.
COURT OF ASSIZE—SITTINGS OF JULY S.
TRIAL OF VIE SOI-DISANT PATRIOTS' OF 1816.
'the Court resumed its Sittings at half-past seven
in the morning.
M. BOULANGER was heard in defence of Lefranc.
From the severity with which his client's character
bad been treated by the public prosecutor, he thought
it necessary to enter into some details of his former
life: Lefrarte, who had been represented as implicated
in the affair of the notorious Babeuf, was nor among
' the number of those brought to trial. He was merely
included in the bits of the men enjoying the esteem
of the labouring classes.
After the explosion of the 3d Nivose, which Bona.
parte's tyranny ascribed at once to the most opposite
parties, Wheel's lists were re-opened : Lefranc was
there designated as an anarchist, which sufficed to
cause his deportation to the coast of Malabar. He
was abandoned od the Sechelles Isles, and only saved
by a miracle. On his return to France, he was placed
under turwillance in the vicinity of Bourdeaux, and,
owed his full liberty billy to the arrival of the Juke
d'Angouleme in that part of Trance. Lefranc, in
December last, wrote a book in favour of the Bola.'
bons, and against the bylines rate of Bonatarte, (these
were his very expressions). He sold his book to a
publisher, reserving to himself profits on subsequent
editions.' He must have reckoned, therefore, on the
stability of that Government, which he is now accused
V .
of having wished to oserturn in the months of JA.
nuary and February following. Proceeding to the
facts of the case, the Counsel dal not deny his client's
knowledge of the seditious Proclamation, and corr.
tended that the whole of his guilt amounted to that
of erne-rsotalmeni.
M. Puidebat was heard in defence of Charlet the
pointer. .
M. Poultier solicited the interest of the Court and
Jury in favour of the woman Picard, whom he re-
presented as having bad the misfortune to be seduced
by the false and absurd reports which Pleienier com-
municated to her.
M. Axon spoke in defence of Desbaunes, whom
he represented as belonging to a most respectable
family, whose principles and opinions for the legiti-
mate Sovereign had been tried both before and atter
ti:e Revolution. It was not likely that a young man,
educated in such principles, should have forgotten
them at once, and become, without motive, without
interest, a base and criminal conspirator. A garde-
du-corps of his Royal Highness Monsietr in 1814,
and decorated in 1815 with the Cross of Honour, he
was one of those who on the 20th of March display.
ed the greatest ardour against the Usurper. His
corps having been disbanded at Bethune— .
Preaident.—lt seems to me that you had better
avoid pleading from unascertained historical facts.
No one here knows, in all their extent, and under all
their aspecti, the circumstances that took place at
'Bethune. Leave them to history; and be pleased to

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confine yourself to your brief. —M. Bexon. It is nut.
ter of public imottety.—President. You are briefing
to recollectioi days of mourning.
M. Brion—He is charged in the ad of access.
don with ha'ing abandoned the cause of the King.
President,There is nothing sajd al)", the
re.
tended disbanding at Bt.thune. He is reproached
with havitip stbandoned the cause of the King. It,
cause stly)ut the end 'of June, basin:: been made pri.
soner by sane g:trdes.du-corps, lii 10113:er eomrades,
he shouted Vire l'Empereur f .

M. Sexton proceeded to tie real facts or the cue.
His clients connexions with the woman Picard were
the source of his misfortunes, and made bins p.,in_
fully feel how much better fir him it would have
b.ten haelie kept himself in his rank and station in
lite, winont firming ciincexions by which he might
be mislel and betrayed. However, these relations
%vele not washout exciase : he had known her from
infancy He had been imprudent enough to chat
with her about the absurd reports then in circulation,
and he received cards, but merely from curiosity.
Her: the Advocate, repeating the language of hii
client, said it was M. Verneuil who engaged him to
penetrate farther into the. secrets of the associates;—.
and having applied some injurious expressions to the
character of this witness, the Presidcut interrupted
him, saying--., How dare you treat as a conirtimi
informer a loyal subject of the King and a Chroaret
of St. Ltiu;s, who, faithful to the oath whithM
mote oft rnceivit:g this orJer, and spedking before 4
Colat of Ix...flee, revealed all that he had learnt hos.
tile to the safety of the King and Government?_
Make use, M. Bevan, of all the arms given you
the laws for deleitding your client, but do not athici
a soldier, who must preserve his honinor in all i.l
purity. The Chevalier De Verneusl is not here to
answer you : he is under the proter.tiini of the law ;
and Itfuifil the functions of my ollice in obliging
you to respect hint."
A smart discussion then ensued between the Ad-
vocate and the Court.

M. Beson declared he had witnesses who toad
weaken the deposition of the ChevAlitr DeVetneuil.
The President then asked what were the tact that
the witnesses would prove ?
M. Bezoin—lt is nut nil. p trt to tell; that belongs
to the wituessc.

President.—Let your client tell us.
M. Berm.—lle dues not knew them.
President.--Continue, M. 13eson.
M. Bexon.—Shall I then renounce my defence?
President.—You attAck an Aly.ent so:41.os; I must
take him under my protection.

M. 10.!xun, after a silence by.::ich excited curiosity,
spoke again.
President.—M. Bexon, you again attack M. de
Verneuil ; confroe yourse:li.o your defence.
Al. Beton.—l throw col scit up•:n the clemency of
tl.e Gentlemen cat the )ary.

M. Bexon he eat down, and a silence ensued.—.
After some p4ii,:e he resumed tl!e defence. Deo-
bAunes, he said, did not ask !,-or the proclanntions
And cards but I'm the Advce of M. Vernend. The
Jury would judge of the interainn n! boil of them.
M. Gouin ple..:ded for the ini.:.rner Dervin, on the
ground that he, together I.:lth Scheltien, who had
been his guest and his friend, had mutually concerted
to penctiate into the secrets of this odious and extra.
vagant enterprize. It was with this v!ew, and to
gain the confidence of the chief agents, that they had
drawn a rough sketch of the Thuilleries. But Dervia
had been denounced and betrayed as one of the prin.
opals by this same Scheltien, who was indebted to
hint for subsistence.

The brothers Osere were defended by M. Gautier
Bianzat. In the course of his spec ch, the Owlet
took occasion to ask, whether the testimony of such
a man as Sourdon could be of any weight ?
Sourdon.—l beg the President to ask ikt. Gautier
Bianzat, whether it is me he speaks of ?
M. Gautier.—lt is.
Sourdon (with a sardonic glin)—h is very well;
I shall answer you.
The Counsel then proceeded to contend, that the
whole charge to which his clients were liable was
that sf non-revealment, which, though contrary to'
the existing laws, was yet natural to the French cha-
racter. The uhl gation of revealing a plot is a prin-
ciple of legislation quite new, winch should net be
too rigorously extended.
President.—You place me in a very painful situa-
tiou ; I must remind you of Art. 103 of the Penal
Code, which has eipresAy provided"tor this oflence..
Tht Counsel then remarked, that, t,upposiog a
plot bad existed, it could hardly be expected thvt ore
of the Oseres should denounce it v;t::n two of his
brothers might be compromised.
The pleading being ended, the President said—.
Gautier-Biauzat, I Lave listened to you with all the
indulgence that is due to your noble prefecsiou ; but
you should have been more E.ua:de.i in your detente.
The sitting was in this c aitri-r prolonged, v iin
only two short intervals of repose, till halt.past tell
at night, when all the pleadings of the different Ad-
vocates were term;tetted. To.merretv mauling, at
halt-past eight, the President will bum up. It is
probable that by mid du)* the Jury will ue able to
retire to their chanther, and deliberate or. the nume-
rous qu.stions that will be proposed to them bj the
Court.