The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

conspiracy :

" PARIS, May 7.—A rumour prevailed yesterday that a
conspiracy to murder the King had been discovered, to
which, however, little credence was attached, the more es-
pecially by the silence observed by the government journals
last night, and the absence of all allusion whatever to it by
any of the journals of this morning. I find, however, upon
'inquiry, that the fact is but too true, that a discovery has
been made by the police, which leavos no doubt of the ex-
istence of a plot not only to murder the King, but to in-
volve in the same fate as many members of the Royal Fa-
mily as should be with his Majesty at the chosen moment for
putting the atrocious plan of the conspirators into execution.
It appears that during the summer months the King is in
the habit of driving out from Neuilly, in a large open
caleche, accompanied by the Queen and other members of
the Royal Family. Upon such occasions the carrinvo is un-
attended by a military escort, and the horses are ~aat a
merely ordinary pace. These. circumstances seem to have
suggested the idea of an infernal machine, and one has been
invented of a simple character, being in form an ordinary
sized ball, calculated to burst upon falling, and to shatter
everything near it with irresistible force. The principal ma-
terial is said to be a fulminating powder of a very powerful
character. The instruments for working, the materials, and
some balls, were found upon the premises adjacent to Con-
sider's wineshop in Rue Montmartre. This Considere has
been twice tried for complicity in plots to murder the King.
and each time acquitted. He was one of those tried
in connection with Quenisset. Considere has been ar-
rested, with seven others. This conspiracy will lead, in all
probability, to more stringent laws. The police authorities
complain that they have no preventive power—they say that,
no matter how strong the moral certainty may be on their
minds that marked and suspected persons are planning wicked-
ness, yet that they cannot interfere; and then when the plot
comes to light, people ask what were the police about? Of
what use are they ? And what has been done with the secret
service money voted for preventive objects? Upon the other
hand, the abuses to which so dangerous a privilege might
give rise cannot be lost sight of. Up to Thursday night the
police remained in ignorance of what was hatching.
" On Sunday evening last the king sat at an open window
looking upon the garden of the Tuileries during a whole
hour, while a musical band was performing below in honour
of his fete dry. The garden was densely crowded, and it
was observed that the greeting of the multitude was of an
unusually cordial character. The public mind has latterly,
thanks to a wise and moderate government, been so calmed
and regulated, that a return to loyal feelings appears to have
taken place, and the discovery just made will excite horror
and disgust universally.

"The chartist petition, which excited some curiosity, no
longer attracts attention. The dangers just discovered at
at home from regicide ruffians have destroyed all interest
if any existed, in the proceedings of the malignant and cow-
ardly demagogues of the other side of the water."