Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1815-11-01
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE
Pans AUG. II


PARls AUG. 81.
The fittings Of the Co4y d .Eze are
crowded every day by peffons anxious to
hear the trial of thofe who dill urbed the
public peace in feveral parts of Paris, BY
crying Vive r Lmperesr Nothiag OF
any in,ereft came out, and on trial is ex-
aciIy ike another he prifoners are in
general perfons OF the loweft order. They
Call no witneifes either to fact or characs
ter. The Law Officer Z .procureer da koi
CORRESPONDING with the Attorney Gener
al 10 England. ifares upon almoti every
trial, thai the psifoner before The Court
was but subordinate aeent--that the
pri.cipal authors Of the crime were per-
ions Of rack and influence. but that the
Gayernmem had not been able to reach
them in fuch a manner as to bring them
before the Court
Ore OF the n,oft intereliirg of thefe
trials was that Of an old man. besear
and cripple he was condemned to five
years imprisonment, and to pay Che uiu-
al practice in France) the expenies Of the
profecution. The Court correiponds in
its objects with the seilions of thc Old
Bailey principal Judge preldes. The
prCcerdings are fomewhat peculiar, bur
perfectly impartial ard decorous. Meth
er wilncfs or juryman is f~orn OF the
Gofptl, they principally repeat the dec
lararicn read by the officer, each holding
up his right hand. he Priioner had
council, bus the witneAes were adcxarr-
ined and predetermined BY zoe judge
excluiivrly-neither the couniel tor the
prloner or the proiecution afk-d them
Jingle queition. another peculiarly IS.
that the prifoner as afked BY The Judge,
at The clofc Of each .wltpeh's evidence,
whether what the witnefs faid was tue
20 this the prifnner uniformly replied,
/" upon his honor it was iafe, every
word The ludicrous affectation Of grace
and falennnity with which he dlfpoied OF
cru.ches and large cooked hat IN order
70 deliver his shevsration upon his hon
our. in an appropriate attitude, and the
palpable falfchood Of what he declared,
created much merrimcnt-even the
.Juoge fsafcely reiiited it. lie was de-
Tended by very young advocate, and
with great ability lie { uched upon Pc.
siiieal circumstances with much freedom,
ia mitigating the offences of the prfoner.
ghc defence fer up for him was tha his
cfTencc did not come within the law,
which applied only to harrangues p'a-
cards, and pamphlets, not including iedi-
.ious cries that 1t was ab'urd TO imputs
10 a wretched mendIcant m mendicant
p,sbyspx) deign to fubvert the exis-
ing government thai it was not any pc
.,ical diipohtion to one party or the 9th
sr but the wrelchcdnefs OF his condition
Mat made him CRY " Live the Emperor,
who gave US bread ) and therefore, that
70 puniih him. would be TO punifh his
mifery, not his crime.
here is itudied correctness and Gle
vation Of ityle.in the fpcech Of a French
..dyocate upon every occafion, even
where neither the cafe or the parties are
6 much importance. The following
was, as nearly as ! could collect it, the
scntencc with which he concluded. refer
,ng 10 the mifcrable condition of the pris-
assr--" syons matbersux" (the Procs
,<w de Roy had drawn very animated
:ieturc Of the ealamities brought By the
fsturn of Bonaparte upon Fsauce)--
oysus maibersux--ppalDsns les anfeu,s
4. rs malbenrs mas ne fay MS paint crueis
--nf rmgl60ns pint is DlaAaur danfres :"
.'ht opening and concluiion of their
s.,gcch-s, have ~ general, an air Of pre-
!, rs'isp-they make frequent aiiuGons
/. be ancient orators. particularly iol
,hoie If Rome. From the exte 4ive field
4 erclamasicn into which they enter,
j. tn hlil oYical and ethical in what is |
Arm y .quettion ftrety TO be dc
Z I'D by sunIsipai law, 1t would appear
that law with them does not hold The