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London, England, 1821-10-11 00:00:00

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" Illistrion msa, deriving boit4l.l. from the
spiehdour of his situation than from the dignity of his
mind, before whom all borrevreel greatness sinks into
insignificance, and all the Peteatalee of Europe (ez-
ceptitg the members of our own Royal: Pendly) be-
come little and contemptible : He has bad no occasion
to have recourse to any tricks of policy or arts of
alarm ; his authority Lu ben sufficiently supported ,
by this some.meaes by wkialtit Su acquired, isd his
coedact has been safari* &it...wised Weirdoes;
moderation, and firmness. Iffnerustoi with ale welfare
of a great people, he did not allow the mieceadues of
another, with respect to himself, for one moment to
withdraw his attend., frees their interests. He had
au fear of the Jacobins, be felt no alarm from their
principles, and considered no preemetion as necessary
is order to stop their progress.. The people over
whom he presided he knew to be acquainted with their
rights and their duties. He frusta to the+. own good
sense to defeat the effects of tbese.arts .which might
be employed to inflame .r mislead their-stied% and eras
sell 31614 that a Government °veld he is se danger while
[it retained the attachment and esejteleace of its salt-
jeas—attachment, in this hastened. net.loliwdly adopted,
avafidence nut implicitly given, US arising from the
insavictiou of its excellence, end the experience of its
/Innings." . .
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. REM:4III[4BL s FRIAL.
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The Afonieeue of Sunday last contains the follow-
,
ing trial of Antoine Simons Desjardins, saspeeted of
having been an accomplice in the assassination of the
late Duke de Berri.
This loan was implicated in the isfortnadoe Sled
against Louvel ; bet by a Decree of the Court of
Peers, dated the 30th of March, 1821, it was declared,
that there was no ground for a prosecution against
hilts on that account. They, however. sent him be-
fore the Tribunal of First lostanee for the Depart.
went of the Seine, charged with holding l'lngwige ler'
pnbiic places and assemblies, tending to excite the anh,
sassination of the Royal Family. The indictment set
forth, that ea the 10th of February, 1821, Diiiija7dins
littered the following expressions to a person na
(Janet, is a public-howatt;ll—" I was-the aocomplie.
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We drew by lot the name of him Who 'tumid under-

take the task. The lot fell on Loewe!. At the mo-
ment of patting it in execution, he appeared wavering
and trembled. We made him drink a bottle of wile
to give him confidence. In two years there shall be
no Bourbons in France. It was myself that made the
poignard which cut short the days of the Duke of
Berry. 1 walked a whole day in the wood of Bou-
logne (near Paris) armed with a musket, in hopes
that the Prince would come there to bunt, and with
the intention, if he did, of not missing him."
The Court declared there was sufficient proof to go
to a Jury : Ist, That on the 16th of February, 1821,
Desjardins, in a public place, outraged public morels,
by approving of the attack on the person of the Duke
of Berry : 2d, That be had uttered expressions offen-
hire against the Members of the Royal Family.
crimes provided against by Articles Ist, Bth, and 19th,
of the Law of the 17tis of May, 1819 ; and that he
should be sent fur trial before the Court of Assize ;
and accordingly his trial CAME on last Saturday.
To the interrogatories which, according to the prac-
tice of the French Courts, the President puts to the
criminal as to his guilt or innocence, the prisoner de-
nied ever having uttered such expressions ; and de-
clared the whole to be a conspiracy on Use part of the
witnesses against him to destroy him, for what reason
he could not tell.
The principal witness against him was a man named

Petit, who swore that one day Desjardiss came to
Gonet's shop, and went up stairs to him; and that
Bonet's mother came down and told the witness that
she was in great alarm in consequence of Desjardin's
having boasted that he was one of the assassins of the
Duke of Berry. In order to get him oat of the house,
Petit took him to a public-house, where the former be-
came very noisy; and, after having again asserted that
he was one of the accomplices ; that they were seven in
number, and that they drew lots from a hat, he took
from under his coat a pair of pistols, saying that one
should be reserved for him who should arrest him, and
the other to blow out his own brains. He said, among
other thinks, that in two years there should be no
more Bourbons in France. Desjardins was badly
clothed, and witness expressed his surprise that he
should he so, when he had said he was a servant of
trust in a house of such consequence as that of the
Duchess of Montebello (the widow of Marshal Lasses);
but he answered, he had as much money and fine
clothes as he liked; and that the Duchess furnished
the conspirators with resources. He also told witness
that he had sought to assassinate the Duke of Berry,
bat that no opportunity had offered itself.
Bonet. the waster of the shop declared, that he was
so drunk that he could not recollect the infamous
thine that Desjardius uttered; they made him so ill
that he nas obliged to go to bed ; and if he bad not
beer, in that state he would have put him out of doors ;
but be told his wife to do it. The latter declared, that
she was a little hard of hearing, and she recollected
nothing that passed at the wine vaults, except that
Desjardius pulled out two pistols, saying one was fur
him who should arrest him, the other fOr the purpose
of blowing out his own brains. Bonet's mother heard
him say, that in two years there should be no more ;
but she did not bear any penal mentioned.
Front the depositions of ether witnesses. it ap
,peered that Desjardius was an story b,aUast on all
occasions ; that he bad never besu decorated will. any