Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-11-01

bon, if they did not like it. In short, he
pledged himself that they should not be dis
turbed in the free exercise of their delibe-
rative powers. Such, at least, is the report
in the diplomatic circles; ard it is added,
that it is to Fouche that the King and the
Duke OF Wellington are obliged for the dis
solution of the Provisional Government.
and tor opposing the plan of Blucher.-
This accounts for the marked and public
intimacy that has subsisted between the
Dukes Of Wellington and Otranto ever
since, and for the rpmor that the Duke of
Wellington has uniformly declared for the
constitutional party that rally round the
King, instead of the Royalists Pares, who
are for ornamenting the white cockade with
tine green edging, the emblem assumed by
the armed bodies who have committed all
the devastations in the South"
1t is thought that the refusal of Money
has not been the only refusal Of marshal
to sit upon the trial of Ney. He is confiu-
ed In very narrow room, and allowed to
walk into the court Of the Conciergerie on
iy from six to seven in the morning. The
'dubitation of Money was intended to
strike terror into the other marshals. I
uoderstand that Marmont, Victor, and Au-
sereau, are the only marshals who have
consented to be members of the court and
that Massena, and even Oudinot, have ex-
cused themselves. The trial, it is now
said, Is to come on early next week.
Ihe number of pictures and pieces of
sculpture at the Louvre is every day be-
coming less but, like the books of the Sy-
oil, as they diminish in number, they in
crease IN interest, if one may Judge from
the daily increase of visitors, consisting of
artists, amateurs and strangers. About one
hundred pictures have been taken, and
twenty pieces of sculpture, not including
those taken away several weeks since by
the Prussians. No attempt has been made
by any person to impede the persons en-
pioyed to remove the pictures and statues :;
ont 1t was natural to expect some disorder.
The French are stung to the heart by los
ing these g fruits des rictories." This is
one OF the inscriptions ON the roof of the
gallery.
GENOA, August 2S.
Our wishes are at length accomplished.
Yesterday her Majesty, Queen Maria The
fesa, our august Sovereign, who has been
absent from her dominions for so MANY
years, has arrived within our walls.
1t is impossible to describe the ioy O. all
the inhabitants ofthe city, when, yester-
DAY morning at SUNRISE, vessel which
was known by her signals to be thar
which was conveying to US the august con-
sort OF our Monarch, was deserted at the
distance of 90 or 25 miles. The King
had gone, at 2 o'clock in the morning on
ooard the Berwick, to meet the Queen.
and the moment of landing, as well as the
rest OF the day, was marked by the strong
est demonstrations ofjoy. Atnightspecta-
cles and dances took place, and the city
was Illuminated.
Several Members Of the diplomatic
Corps, among whom are the Ministers OF
England, Russia and Austria, have alrea-
dy arrived here.
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
Paris, Aug. 81.
The sittings of the Cour d'.assize are
crowded every day by persons anxious to
hear the trial OF those who disturbed the
PnDhc peace, in several parts of Paris, by
crying piue PEmpereaT! Nothing of any
interest come out, and one trial is exactly
like another. The prisoners are in gene
raj persons of the lowest order. They call
no witnesses either to fact or character.-
The Law Officer { Procareur du Roi
corresponding with the Attorney General
In England, states, upon almost every trial,
that the prisoner before the Court was but
a subordinate agent-that the principal au-
thors OF the crime were persons of rank
and influence, but that the government had
not been able to reach in such a manner
as 90 bring them before the Court.
One OF the most interesting of these tri-
ais was that of an old man, a beggar and
cripple I; he was condemned to five years
imprisonment, and to pay 1.-THE usual prac-
tee IN France) the expenses of the prose-
cution. The Court corresponds in its OBJ
Jects with the sessions of the Old Bailey
a principal Judge presides. The proceed
ings are somewhat peculiar, but perfectly
impartial and decOrOus. Neither witness
or Juryman is sworn on the Gospel, they
repeat the declaration read by
the officer, each holding up us right hand.
The prisoner had counsel, but the witness
SEES were all examined and cross examined
by the Judge exclusively-neither the
counsel tor the prisoner or the prosecutor
asked them single question. Another
peculiarly is, that the prisoner was asked
by the Judge, at the close of each wit
ness's evidence, whether what the witness
sad was true. To this the prisoner uni
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