Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-06-29

| ms qgahhcauon OF frenchmen, by accept
ing offices under the sovereign of the Isle
| of Elba, and that he thought his duty COM
| PEELED him to follow and obey him IA all
| mis- acts of usurpation. He, like General
| Druot, disowned the proclamation dated
| from Gulph Juan, the LIST of March. such
as it has been inserted in the Moniteur,
and posted up in the Streets Of Par
| is.
No witnesses were summoned to appear.
Certificates were only produced attesung
that during the years 1872 and 1898, Gen.
Canbrone, then an officer in the Nantz
Legion, rendered eminent services to NUM-
bcrs of FrenChmen who were fighting a.
gainst him underth white flag.
Such are the principle circumstances as
the reading of the documents by the ro-
porter Delon at the sitting of the Court
this day, has unfolled after which. the
prisoner was introduced.
General Cambrone is tall man of
movable fsatures and stamped with mill
tsry rusgedness. A large wound, scarcely
healed, sinks in his forehead and divides
MS left eyebrow his ia k, gestures and
sound of voice, exactly corresponds with
the expression of his physlognony. He
was born at Nantz in l77O.
The Court proceeded to interrogate the
accused.
Fl sdefeuce rested upon the basis that ha-
wing made part of the guard granted to
Napoleon 20 resi- .e at the Isle of Eba. a
greeable to the treaty of the 18th of April,
he repaired thither he took no oath to
the king, he considered himself in the SER
vice of a foreign prince. He did sign the
proclamation of Gulph Juan by order of
Napoleon, but he was neither the author
nor editor of it.
The reporter, having risen up and said
he considered it in his place to offer some
reflections respecting the duties of the Off
GERS charged with fulfilling the functions
of reporter of the Councils of War, and
upon the manner in which those officers
ought to exercise them.
These reflections are far from being idle
they are far from being inapplicabe to the
present case. The remarks that have been
made through the public prints upon my
conduct, and my report in the affair of
Lieut.. General Druot, rendered these re.
marks necessary. They impose on ure an
arduous and painful obligation. Being de
nounced to the inhabitants of France, nay,
even to those of foreign countries as having
deviated from the path of duty in perfor-
ming the part of the advocate of the accus-
ed, rather than that Of the reporter of the
tribunal, which is TO pronounce upon his
tate. 1t is then forgotten that the public
| accuser is equally bound to look for the
acquittal as well as for the condemna-
ton!
Here the reporter enters at full length
into arguments, showing the sort of i'm
Partially which becomes the Office of pub
lie accuser in every court of justice, but
more especially relating to court martals,
whose attributes and organization are
widely different. These are, he said, the
| principles by which he has been actaated
during fifteen years of exercise in his func
tions. He then resumed the cause, and
| urged, in favor of the prisoner, nearly the
same motives that had been set forth at
| the trial of General Druot. The prisoner
| persuaded himself he had become for
eiguer to France. Even that opinion,
| however erroneous, justifes him for hav-
| ing carried arms against his country, in
the eye of a tribunal, which, setting alto
| gether as judges and jurors, ought to Judge
the intention. The king, said he, meant
only to punish the abettors and instga-
tors of the horrid conspiracy which brought
back Bonaparte. The prisoner at the bar
| Cambrone, acted as soldier, he had nc
hand at any plot. The public accuser wa:
therefore in favor Of acquittal.
Mr.. Berrver. jr. the prisoners advocate
next addressed the court. He represent
ed Gen. Cambrone as acting consistent
in obeying blindly the orders of his sover-
eign. He had not even the right ef max.
ing representations to him. as did Genera
Druot, whose good advices Bonaparte
| despised, though he had surnamed him tht
Wise.
The acquittal of General Druot, is the
pledge for the safety of the prisoner. At
ter having spared the chief, shall the sub
altern be doomed to an gnominious pun.
ishment, who has violated no oath, ant
who knows how to fulfill the engagement
he contracted for the first time on the
goth of July last, towards the Legitimate
King.
General Cambrone having declared tina
he had nothing further to offer in his de.
fence, one OF the judges, Captain Degony
questioned the prisoner whether in the
proclamation he signed at Gulph Juan
there was not an invitation to the king
soldiers to forsake their colors x to fill the
ranks Of the usurper. General Cambron,
replied that there was an invitation to come
under tie orders of Napoleon, and to throw
oifthc white Cocksde and re-mount the tri
coloured one.
The prisoner being remanded 70 thu
Abbaye, the Court retired IN the Council
Chamber. at half past two o'clock.
At half past 7, the Court pronounced
judgment rs follows:
LIST. Unanimously, Marshal-dc- CamI