The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-11 00:00:00

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to he *toweled f...m a public trial, gave directions to
etl the Civil Trihosisli to declare their incompetence
I. proceed in the enquiry, mi the alleged ground that
the purport of the orders could not be explained by
those who signed them.
Ogi the 18th of March, 1816, Ds MAUBREUIL was
liberated from prises by order of Loots XVIII. and
the suit against him pronounced to be unjust. On
his etelatitement he a Oaf to St. Germain, where, on
the re-eppesrance of BotrAlo%aTl soon after, he was
again attested, handcuffed, and ironed. For 28 days he
was Ito: t in this painful state of degradation, during
which time threat+ and promises were alternately
made, to induce Itim to accuse the Bonenotts of hay-
iv.g been the planners of the intended assassination.
With ;Itch a proposition truth and honour would not
allow bins to comply, and M. RIAL, before whom
he was Pasmined, gave him plainly to understand.
that nothing but such a disclosure could prevent him
being shot.
0:t 11.«. 18(h of April, De Mattenzum, almost mi-
raculously escaped from prism), and disguising him-
self in the hoh;t of a peasant, after encountering many
perils, and being severely lamed in the left foot,
reached Brussels on the sth of May. Here he met
SOULE, the Royal Commissary, one of the party
who had urged on the plunder of the Bonsparteen
family. This men, with a smile of complacency, and
en air of sincere friendship, strongly recommended
Da MAU/MEWL to proceed immediately to Ghent,
'and he presented to Loos XVIII. from whom
&MALI assured him he would meet with a most gre.
cious reception. He went directly to Ghent, when
a Council being summoned on his case, his very hu-
mane, sincere, and honourable friend, Sex %Ls, took
the opportunity of hinting, that he was come for the
purpose of assassinating the King.
This was enough—and De MAUIREVIL was again
thrown into a dungeon, from which, after having been
confined for three weeks, he was released by order
of the Kieg of HoLLAND. The order for his enlarge-
ment, commanded him directly to repair to Brussels,
accompanied with an intimation, that he should be
sent to the frontiers of Germany. lie was, how.
ever, from weakness and the wound in his foot,
enable to proceed, and on the 3d of June was
admitted a patient in the hospital of Louvain.
e--Statat.sl his worthy friend Seress.s! and M.
Astotts, having heard of his unfortunate situation,
and fearful he might divulge some tales they had
good reason to wish should be kept concealed, caused
him to he forcibly taken away from that asylum of
humanity at the dead of night, pot into a cart,
and in that wretched plight carried to Tirlemont.—
Here he remained a week, and at the end of that
time was again hurried off to Liege, for the avowed
purpose of being consigned to the costody of the
Pruotisns, who were to convey him to Russia, that
he might afterwards be went to his final destination—
&arms ! The orders, however, not being sufficient-
ly explicit, and Mr. Parte, Chief of the Presidency
of Erekail, not being io the secret, that excellent
man liberated De Mauaneutc, and on being inform-
ed of the hardship sod cruelty of hit case, became
his real friend and protector.
On the 10th of July, De MAVISREU/L left
Frrkall and went to Palk. From that period down
to almost the present, the persecution of this unfor-
tunate man has been unceasing, vexatious, and
crop!. Two parties, the 13ourbonists and Bona.
partists, who never could agree its any thing else,
cordially united in &voting to destruction DE MAU-
BREUti., with only this difference, that the object
of the first was to compel him to conceal the truth,
while that of the latter was to force him to declare a
fslseh.bod ; but neither speaking nor silence could
please both. The consequences of this combined an.
tipathy to Dr. :Amami, were a ten months close
implsonmetit in the Conciergerie, at Paris—similar
treatment at Rouen—at Douay, from which last pri-
son he, with marts difficulty, made his escape only
on the Ist of last January. No less than 33 de-
crees absolving him from crime, or declaratory of
incompetence in the Court to try—sit hundred and
eighty•five days close confinement, with every kind
of wanton oppression that power could inflict—are
among the frightful features of this melancholy case.
And for what has all this rancour and revenge fol-
lowed a helpless individual ? Why that the knavery,
baseness, and cupidity of Ministers, Deputies, Com-
missaries, and favourites, should be concealed from
public view, and buried in oblivion. With some of
these men originated the plan of assassinating Boxes.
PARTE ; and with others of them, the mean and ra.
pacious robbery of the Queen of W erten kLia. To
them were delivered the whole contents of the plun-
der, and they clone can account for i:s distribution.
De MatranculL, according to his owes account, had
no kind of participation in the guilt, and has there-
fore, on that score, nothing to answer for, either to
his conscience, his country, or his Gorr.