Star.
London, England, 1817-02-15 00:00:00

FRENCY PIPERS.

PARIS, FEBRUARY U.
The Court of Assizes of Mont-de-Marsan has been
occupied for several days with a case, of which the
following are the .details ;—:Towards the end of the
month of October last the Count de Carrere, Prefect
of Landes, was informed that certain persons, already
mar ked by pubiic opinion as seditious, had en-
tered into an impious and secret plot against the Go-
vernment of the King; that they meditated devasta-
tion and pillage, and sought to rekindle among us
the flames of civil war. Persons were em oiled in the
cause in several communes. The name of the Usur-
per was invoked. Reports not less absurd titan cri-
minal were propagated, and at these nightly meet-
ings the seditious combined and settled the means of
accomplishing tl:e greatest of crimps. The precise
time of the execution of the conspiracy was find, but
the Chief Magistrate, whose vigilant eye followed all
the steps of the conspirators, completely defeated their
criminal manoeuvres, by the arrest of the principals.
The interrogatories which They underwent before the
Prefect, and the important discoveries made to him,
enabled the public Administration*, to winch the case
was in a few days after referred, to follow this horri-
ble conspiracy in all its details.
The discussions upon this important affair com-
menced the 27th of January, and lasted until Satur-
day, February 1. Fourteen prisoners appeared at
the bar, named Pierre Bagneres, Jean Latargue alias
Jonanicot, carpenters ; Pierre L,casaaigne, teacher ;
Paol Bordes, labourer ; Jean Legoffun, goatherd ; J.
Hazze, a tailor ; Domin Casteia. journeymen; J.
Defies, cartwright ; Henri Louslau, laci•-maker, a
rJeased galley-slave ; Jean Durou, a domestic ser-
vant; Pierre Darin, tavern-keeper ; Datninique 1)u-
-prat, labourer ; Jan Lannelougue, a blacksmith ;
Poloumot alias Ponton, journeyman ; all charged
with the crime of coocealment or misprisirn. A
great number of witnesses were !lewd, and their &pia-
skims confirmed the truth of the following facts :
The conspirators, who were to meet at a place
called Le Pin Tram/rear, the Sunday after All Saints'
day, bad resolved to enter Mont de Masan, at four
Jifferent points, and to the amount of about 400 men
in each of three different directions, to arrest the Pre-
fect and principal Functionaries, and seize the public
chests, to put the Royalists and rich Merchants under
contributiot., and in case of resistance, to deliver up
their houses to pillage, and ta proclaim finally the
Juthcrity of the Usurper. The conspiaitors wet.
then to march to St. Sever, and effect there the saint
operation, and afterwards proceed to Magron, Das,
and Bayonne, where the accomplices oftheir criminal
enterprise would meet and swell the number of testis
band. Seditious proclamations were to be posted up
in the cities and communes which they should enter.
The testimony of the witnesses has clearly proved the
guilt of the accused. In consequence, Pierre Bagneres
and Jean Lafargue have been condemned to death.
Pierre Lecassaigne, Lanneloague, and Poloumot.
have been acqtotted. The mae others have been
condemned to impriscnment for years and a fine.

Mr. PARKHURST brought hp the Twelfth Report of the
Committee appointed to manage the befits of the INL'ebb 4:1)e
Carnat:e to the Honottrable the East India Compahy. The
Report wa; ordered to be printed.
A Petition pr.f.enteil for Kaye to bring in a Bill to anyznd
the Edinburgh Pace Act.

•Sir FRANCI' litlltOliTl' presented a Pe•itlon from the
tradomten and Inhabitants of IZurr;s•strtet, liayb.arket, coin-
plaittinit nt c. main toi:ories su,tained front the execution of the
New :Art et'Act. The llonourstde Damen deinucated such I.
terferette wait p:ivate property a. had befit occurred, and cum•
plaetet: it:at the Watt to:lowed errs rre that which had been sub.
tooted to the C'oot I ttittew, anti rec• tied th, Speaker's *gesture.
1 t,e Prtiitior w.vt reirired so a Ceinnekete, *halving up.
poit:ted, buds, ling the names of the Members of the Conuei:tee
who tiammed the oripin.titiranht at the bil!.
Exclietiutl tills Lill wa, read a second time—third time
on hlond.ty. '

The fif Supply art Ways and Meads was pod.
pm:eil 611_11 ~,,, 14y7

Gibr4lrai I :ale Bill MS read a third time, and pasaed.
r(oximitrix CIF SHCRECY•

Mr. ROBINSON obitiving that a formal omission
had occurrel in the instructions given to the Ct•m-
mittve of S. crecy, who uere appointed to examine
into the pap-as referred tai them, but were not in-
structed to report, begged to mnve that that inaccu-
racy be corrected. Tlia present Committee, from
that thouo they had finished their labours,
could wit.lty them before the House.--.lllc Motion
that it be instructed to repair •A'AS agreed to.

SAVINGS, DANK&

Sir JOHN NEWPORT rose, pursuant to nnece,
to move for leave to bring in a Bill to protect and
encourage provident Institutions; or Savings &silks
in Ireland. The Right Hon. Barcniet went over the
grounds which he st tied last night, in sapport of the
propriety and necessity for an Act of this kind adapt-
ed to the circumstances of Ireland. The English
Bill for similar purposes was necessarily modified to
the peculiar circumstances cf a country where Pi or
Laws eiisted, and had in its provisions particular
reletence to them and other local details. In Ireiand
the case was different. There was no syst• .n of Pont.
Laws, and consequanly there could be no enact.
merits in the Bill which be moved for leave to intro-
duce connected with them. There were other sources
of distinction between the state of the two commies,
which evinced the propriety of separate measures,
and rendered one plan inapplicable to both. There
was a Statute still in fetce in Ireland, which preclud-
ed a Banker from giving interest for balances'ity Ws
.hands. This restriction, so far as ii.viotild all'. et
Provident Institutions, ht would propnie to repeal.
Another provhion, which he rot; tided as quite ne-
eetsary to the prat. ction and eisconramment of such
Institutions, would go to secure these viho deposited
their savings in them front bring endangered by the
bankruptcy of the liAnkkr in chose hands they were
placed, and 11.• wrath) do this by making them first
creditors. The object of the measure was pCCUllarly
to protect thin Poar, and to encourage them to the
formation of provident habits, by shewing them the
advantage that would result from the accumulation*
of the small surplus of their earnings beyond the
supply of their immediate wants. Nothing but the
certainty of etsjo;ing these savings could induce tl:emi
to make them. lie would propose, therefore, that
all the effects of a bankrupt with whom such savings
should have been deposited should be liable, in the
first instance, for the balances of this kind in his
hands, and that mimic of his other creditors should be
allowed to come in for their shares of his property till
this claim was satisfied. The other parts of the plan
might be examined by the Committee. The fluctu-
ation of the Public Funds constituted an objection to
the measure of investing she savings in them. It
might so happen that persons who should contribute,
their small savings is the Stocks might find a fall in
the market between the time of buying in and selling
out, that would materially affect their amount. The
Right Hon. Baronet suggested to Ministers, there-
fore, whether it did not deserve their consideration,
that a new fund should be fz)rnted less subject to
fluctuation, something in the nature of Exchequer
Bills, bearing an interest of live and a halt per cent.
The Right Hun. Mover then went into a variety cf
statenn nts in a few words, to thew the advantage of
Savings banks, and tl.e good that might be eipec:ed
to result from them in behind ; and concluded by
moving [or leave to bring in a Bill to encourage and
protect them.— Leave granted.