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had a difference with him, in consequence of his having pried
into family secrets, in order to give piquancy to a biography he
had published. Vroin this circumstance I. inferred that the
prince himself had been hit hard.
11 parait" (continued the keen and delicate Fieschi, in a
figure which " Liberal shepherds" will easily interpret,) " pea
lai a tripe sat. le dos." - • •
Excuse me, gentlemen, (added he,) I am a soldier, brought
up in camps—one whose language is not tres recherche. Pepin
told me that the prince was a cousin of the king, but that they
were not friends. The king had appointed him his aide-de-
camp, but he declined the appointment. "Then," said I, "he
must be a Carlist ?"—" No—a Republican."—" Yes," rejoined
"A Republican, like the trousers of Charles X!"—(a laugh.)
"In fine," said Pepin to me, "the prince remains the king's
cousin, but is no longer his friend." Pepin once lent me a
book. It was a volume of the works of St. Just. I lent him
one; it was a volume of Cicero!—(Here a book was handed
him, which he declared was the same.) I did not mind the
number of domestics or inmates in the house of Pepin; it was
no business of mine. Pepin before company was very kind in
his manner to me. Behind backs his conduct was different.
He called me "Mon brave !" without knowing whether I was
brave or not. Better had it been for me that I were a coward,
for then I should not have been here!
Fieschi then went further into detail. Morey had been kind
to him, giving him money from time to time, and supplying
him, with clothes and shoes from his own tatior and shoemaker.
He then spoke of the preparation of the machine, and sought to
compromise M. Cavaignac in the affair (by hearsay only how-
ever.) The ammunition for the machine cost ten francs, which
Pepin gaVe him. It further appeared that Pepin doled out the
money to him parsimoniOpsly, and that he did not treat him,
hospitably. "1 am not a rich man," said Fieschi, in continua-
tion, "but I have feeling; I ant not difficult to please, nor a
gourmand, nor a love of good dinners; still I saw with pain that
he offered tne a morsel of bread at his table. He afterwards
disgusted me with his complaints about his pretended sacrifices,
and even of his friends. 1 accordingly determined on breaking
with him, and ou going to Poland with a friend. I had no other
means of living.—[llo.4, probably, originated that deadly hate
Fieschi now displays towards Pepin; but from Morey, whose
life he is equally destroying, he had only received benefits.]Morey continued to visit me at my lodging, in the Boulevard
du Temple. When going out anywhere, I used to say to the
portress of the house, that it 'my nude', called I was in such
or such a place. I took these precautions in order not to place
at risk the project I had formed, for when in an affair I seek by
all means to succeed."
Here the president alloured the chamber to to-morrow, Sun-
day, 31st January, 1836, at noon precisely.
During the whole of the examination the prisoner displayed
Coolness; calmness, and presence of mind truly astonishing, not
allowing a moment of pause between the questton and answer.
Morey and Pepin observed strict silence. The former, having
become very ill, was for a portion of time absent from the court.
The latter, whose height and countenance, as well as his snivel-
ling manner, is the very antithesis of Fieschi, meditates, it is
said, some very important disclosures, by which the Rohans and
the Carlist party will 14'conipromised. If lie have the power,
which is doubtful, he will make those disclosures, and indeed do
any and every thing else to save his life. His conduct will
raise a curious question for the clever people. Ile was an arrant
coward, vet he got into the insurrection of the sth and 6th June,
1832. He evinced the most pitiable fear on his trial for that
onence before the court-martial, and yet was saved by a miracle;
and, still as great a coward as ever, he plunged into another con-
spiracy, which went nearly to produce a revolution.
A number of the Mosellistinguished members of the Paris bar
were in attendance, viz.,'Messrs. Odillon Barrot. Cremiax, Pas-
quin, Chaix d'Estange Dupont, Philip Dupini, and Benoist.
The court re-assembled on Sunday at half-past twelve o'clock.
Fieschi began by giving an account of his connexion with
Nina Lassave, the only mistress he acknowledged. It was silly
to give him three mistresses, he said, one was more than he
wanted.. He never spoke on political matters with her. flow
could he speak with a woman on such subjects? She was not
aware of his plan. He had recommended Pepin and Morey to
take care of her if any misfortune happened to him, for it was
his intention after committing the estate to fly out of France.
They were to give her .each five francs a month. He always
considered Morey as a solid friend, on whom he could count.
Nina Lassave never saw Boireau, with whom he became ac-
quainted himself in November, [B3l. Fieschi met him repeat-
edly after, particularly when he had nothing to do, as he was
never in the habit of idling when he could gain money. On the
23d of July, at midnight, he called at Boireau's lodging, who
denied him admittance. On the next night, however, he slept
in his lodging, but that was the only time. Boireau never came
to see him in his room, on the Boulevard. Once only he had
come up, but Fieschi would not allow him to enter, as he was
working at his machine, and Boireau might have been curious
to know what he was about. Boireau often expressed in- his
presence republican sentiments. On one occasion Boireau said
to him that he would volunteer to kill the King; but it was af-
ter quitting his mistress—he meant his bottle, of which he was
very fond. Boireau told him that a plot to murder the king
was in progress, and that it was directed by a very adroit man.
It was not Morey, for Boireau did not know him. He was,
however, acquainted with Pepin, to whom he introduced him
afterwards. Fieschi never received at the time a fraction from
either Morey or Pepin. He had plenty of money. He was
working for M. Pereire, who paid him very liberally. As a
soldier he could live on very little. A basin of soup and a piece
of boiled beef were sufficient for his meal. The first time he
received 10 or 12 francs from Pepin was to purchase some gun-
powder, and on that day he witnessed the heroism of that indivi-
dual. He received about forty francs in all from him. He then
said that he considered himself bound in honour to execute the
crime. In addressingethe court, he was speaking to the world.
-He was very vain, he confessed, and that was his greatest
failing._ _ • • ,

Fieschi then gave an account of a suit of clothes which M.
Pereire paid for, and which were left at his lodging. He told
the tailor his name was Alexis.

On being asked how he came by the gun-barrels, he said that
Pepin had written for them to Cavaignac, but had received no
answer from the latter. 1 ieschi recommended hail to probure
short carabines. Pepin told him that he often saw Cavaignac,
who owed him 500 francs. Pepin represented the latter as the
chief of the palitical sections, and as a patriotic and virtuous
man. He could not say how Cavaignac came to owe Penh,
without that gentleman any to do in pro-
curing the mumtet-narrels. One day he
,met Pepin in the cem-
panT of a gentleman, who he said was the son of a deputy of
the juste milieu party. He added that this individual had given
Cavaignac a sum of 600 franks to buy the muskets, and was
sure that Pepin had acquainted the prisoners of St. Pelagic,
with the plan,—" Why," observed Fieschi, "did they escape if
they did not know my intei*on. I have been myself a prisoner
for many a year, and the' idea of escaping never entered my
head. It is the duty of a prisoner to obey the laws. Beinuse
a man is a captive he should notill-treat his guards, as the re-
publicans were, wont to do. I was"never guilty of such conduct,
and yet I am a man like another.
The president then questioned Fieschi upon the facts relative
to Bescher, and the passport procured in his name. Fieschi
" I was dying with hunger at the time, in a worse state
than a doy who.uins his liciny from door to door. In soy place
any other person would have gone mad ;—would have killed
himself. I f striking his breast) preferred becoming the assas-
sin of forty persons.
My head will fall, but it will not recal to
life those ()rave generals with whom I fought in former days,
(here he crossed hi& arms.) After a short silence, on being 're-
minded of the fact ()lithe passport by the president, he said, in
a solemn manner Morey is a good and generous man. He
gave me even to his shirts. He received me as if I had been
his child, but he is still my accomplice. I have proved this by
facts. It was he who procured me a passport by the means of
Renaudin."

After some other questions the president said--"Fieschi, there
is one question remaining for me to put to you; it is an im-
portant one, and I recommend you not to answer me without
having consulted your conscience. Do you persist in your avow-
als, and your declarations, as far as concerns yourselt and your
fellow-prisoners ?
• Fieschi (with solemnity)-1 do persist, and I swear to it on
the tomb of my father.

The president then proceeded to examine Morey, who denied
some of the admissions of Fieschi, which the latter, however,
persisted in declaring were true, and on several occasions en-
tered into further explanatory statements to prove the correct-
ness of what he had said.

MONDAY, Fan:l.—This day's proceedings commenced with
the examination of Pepin.
He said that in 1833 he had entered the Society of the Rights
of Man; 'he also belongedlo the Association for the Instruc-
tion of the People; but never entertained any 'exalted political
principles; knew Morey, but never remarked that be professed
incendiary principles; had known Fieschi under the name of
Bescher, under. Which name he' had been presented to him by
Morey as a persecuted patriot. Fieschi told him he had been
thrice condemned to death under the restoration, and had passed
ten years in the prison of Embrun. •
Pepin, on being asked did More,' 'Show him a copy of the ma-
chine drawn by Fieschi, denied the circumstance altogether.
All Fieschi had said on the subj€et was mere invention.
A drawing, purporting to he!!flie 'figure of the infernal ma-
chine, said to have been exeentled- by Pepin, was here presented
to the latter. who said he' inight have made such a drawing
when a child.

Pepin denied ever having spoken to Fieschi of the attempt
to kill the king ; had someiiines visited the political prisoners
confined at St.- Pelagic, and had never done so without taking
them some provisions; had never told Fieschi that he had had
a long conversation with a general who was hostile to the, go-
vernment, for a' very simple reason—he knew no officer of that
rank; he never told Fieschi that he would willingly give 500
iph
fr• to any one who, would shoot the king •he abhorred mur-
d such a sentiment was contrary to the principles of his
fe..
chipsrsisted in his former statements. The court was
left Sitting when the report of this day's proceedings was de-
spatched to England.