The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-31 00:00:00

TRIBUNE OF CORRECTIONAL POLICE.

(PROM TOM !!INCH PAPERS.)
The affair of the editors of the Journal du Commerce
and of the Courier Francais has been decided before the
Tribune of Correctional Police. M. Carrion, the editor
°f the Journal du Commerce, was first heard for the ar-
ticle in that paper of March 11, 1823, which was de-
nounced to the Chamber of Deputies by M. Frenilly.
The Court condemned Cardon to three months' imprison-
ment and a tine of 3,000 francs, ordered that be should
be hound to insert the present sentence in his paper
within three days, and condemned him besides in costs.
The tribunal then proceeded to try separately the accu-
sations against the Editor of the Journal do Commerce
and of the Courier Francais, for having given an account
(without being authorized) of the secret sitting of the
Chamber of Deputies, on the Bth of February, for the
discussion on the Address, and for having, besides, ex-
cited the citizens to hatred and contempt of the King's
Government, by attributing to the President of the Coun-
cil of Ministers, language which he did not hold, viz.—
That M. de Villele, replying to Messrs. de la Bourdon-
naye and Delalot, had said that the French Government
has, relatively to Spain, done all it could to favour the
intrurgents.
The King's counsel, after some observations, prayed
for judgment oe both the accused, and that they should
be sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment, and a fine
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of 3,000 francs each.
The Court sentenced Messrs. Cardon and Legraiveaux,
responsible editors of the two journals, as they refused
to give up the names of the authors of the articles, to
three months imprisonment, and to a fine of 2,000 francs
, eacji ; declared the seizure of the numbers of the 9th of
February to be valid; ordered the copies to be torn to
pieces ; and condemned these editors also in costs.
The affair of the young men arrested in the tumralt of
the 3d and 6th of March, was divided, and tried by the
Court of Correctional Police, on two separate days: on
the first, six persons were implicated; viz. Blochet, aged
40, tailor; Choffard, apothecary pupil; knout, 33,
merchant's clerk ; F.vrard, cutler ; Diolot, 26; and Claitte,
traveller. The last appeared on a summons, the others
were prisoners. M. Bellot, the King's Advocate, gave a
summary of the grounds of the &cessation. Blochet
was accused of having violently resisted gendarmes, who
wished to !tinder him from crossing the Pont Louis XVI.,
and of having insulted, by gestures, a Commissary of
Police, in seizing him by the collar. , The others are ac
cued of having added seditious cries to those of " Vise
Manuel!" " Vive le Cote Gauche! Vive la liberte."
The witnesses being called, most of whom were gend-
armes who had assisted iu arresting the prisoners, one
deposes! diet Diolot had cried, " Down with the hussars
of the guillotine." M. Blain% Mier, a young advocate, in
his defence of Choffard, pretended that the assemblage of
the 3d of March was not seditious; and was interrupted
by the President, who told him he was preaching resist-
ance to the armed force, and the defence of the sove-
reignty of the people. After hearing the counsel of the
other persons, the Tribune condemned Blochet to two
months' imprisonment and a fine of 50 francs; Choffard,
eight months and lOU francs; Aruout and Diolot, each
six mouthu'.and 50 francs; Evrard, two months and 25
francs; and Claitte, fifteen days' imprisonment and 16
francs fine.

By a Flanders mail which has arrived since our last,
we have received the following intelligence :-
11.ti.t.e, filancn 21.—1 n French Flanders and Artois,
which forms the 16 Military Division, there is.a great
number of officers on half-pay, who, while they are in
the receipt of it, await the time when they may be em•
ployed in active service. These officers have chosen the
places where they desire to liz their abode, and cannot
quit the Department without permission. Yet we are
informed that several of them have successively disap-
pe • ed. It ',supposed they have found means to embark
for England. and thence, without doubt, have proceeded
to Spain, which has given occasion to stricter measures
of turveillance.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 27.—1 n the Sitting of the Second
Chamber on the 24th, some chapters of the new civil
code were discussed and agreed to. In the Sitting of
the 25th, the Order of the Day was the new project of
law on the Stamp Duties. This project met w►th very
great opposition, and was at length rejected by a majo•
, rity of to 9.

• German Papers to a late date have come to hand. An
article from Bucharest, dated the lit inst. informs us,
that according to a decision of the Divan, the Greeks
who are iu the Principality of Wallachia must give se-
curity for their good conduct under penalty of being
obliged to leave the country. There is now not a sinee
individual of that nation who holds any place. The
Divan besides importunately solicits the expulsion of all
the Greek Bishops, Priests, and Monks, and it is affirmed
that the Igownenos, or Abbots of the Convent, founded
by the Greeks, and belonging to them. are to be dismiss-
ed, and iVallachians put In their places.
BERLIN, Menem 21.—" The consultation (at which his
Royal Highness the CROWN PRINCE has presided) with
the Deputies of the State from the various provinces of
the Prussian Monarchy, and which have now been con-
tinued for nearly two years. are at length terminated,
and it is expected that an official statement of the result
will be shortly published; hut it will however relate ex•
elusively to the provincial atsemblies."
The King of SWEDEN has proposed to the Diet, to
mitigate the penalty of death which the law now decrees
against those who are guilty of expressions against the
Uoveronrmt.

It is calculated that the Import duty of 61 per lb.
on foreign nool, with the additional capital required
in manufacture, amounts to a tat of one shilling and six•
pence per yard upon broad cloth. From this tax the
foreign manufacturer is exempt; and yet, according to
the warehonsing bill, he is to be allowed to meet the ma-
nufacture of Yorkshire and Oloacestershire in the Lon-
don market.
MußlMlL—Sarnuel Follows has been committed,
after the investigation of a Coroner's Inquest, to Ches-
ter Castle, to take his trial at the ensuing Assizes, for
the murder on Friday evening the 21st. instant, of Betty
Shallcross, at Butterhouse-green, near Stockport. The
unfortunate woman was a servant to Mr. R. C. Morrey,
of that neighbourhood, and was pregnant by Fellows.
Her parents were very respectable people, and her father
has occupied the same farm for more than 30 years.—
The prisoner is also a respectable farmer, and has oc-
cupied for several years, the same farm which his father
held for above 40 years. The connection between him
and the unfortunate woman had existed fur some time to '
the grief and vexation of her parents. When the body
was found, in one of the out-buildings belonging to Mr.
Morrey, it was in a sad mangled state, and excited sen-
sations of deep horror.—(Stockport Ado.)
EXECUTION.—On Monday morning, Johnson, the
murderer of Richard Walker, of Leckonfield, was exe-
cuted on the New Drop, behind the Castle, at York. At
the time .of his conviction, he seemed obdurate and im-
penitent, but the near prospect of death subdued his
haviened heart. On Saturday morning he made a full
confession of his crime. On Sunday he was much en•
gard in prayer,and received the sacrament of the Lord's
Supper, and at the place of execution his demeanour be-
came his situation. He united fervently in prayer with
the clergyman that attended him, and was in the act of
exhorting the multitude to take warning by his fate, when
the drop fell, and precipitated him into eternity.