Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-10-13

lst OF August mentions that conspiracy had been
detected there of the Don Carlos party, the design
of which compel the king TO abdicate. BY
the activity of the Superintendent of Police, it
was broken up before il had time to ripen. He
Immediately to the king, who at the Baths,
disclosed TO him the plot and told him that nothing
would save the country but change oil ministry
a general amnesty, and convention oil the Cortes
il in the time of Philip V. 1t was said that
the king, who is good deal influenced by this mi
mister, actually prepared and signed the papers, and
that they were to have been published in the Court
Gazette the next day, but the superintendent had
had no sooner returned to Madrid, and was taking
the necessary measures, when he was followed by
courier ordering him To stop the publication.
The clergy in the meantime had offered ninety mil
lions of reals buy off the amnesty, and it is pro-
bable that the kings Golfers too low to allow
him 10 refuse the offer. The affair was not def
ntvely settled at the date of the letter, and it
still thought that changes would take place,
blt il impossible TO predict what they would
be. The Portuguese constitution alarmed the go
vernment exceedingly, and had already occasoned
some trouble in some parts of the kingdom, parti
cu!arly at Sarsgossa AT Madrid it remain ed per-
fecily tranquil. The French papers which contain
information from Madrid several days later than
this letter, announce that the Duke dNnfantado
had resigned his station at the head of the cabinet.
What change in measures, this event was likely
to produce, we are not informed.
Boston DGi. .4do.
Russian Conspiracy We have been favored
with copies of several documents relating to the
conspiracy lately Discovered in Russia against the
government OF that country, published in French.
az St Peiefsburgh. Among them is the report of
the Commission the Secret Socie les discovered
In Russia, developing their origin, progress and
design, and the degree of participation of their
principal members in the design. The report was
concluded May 80. and has been already published
III this country. This was followed July TO- by a
report of the High Court of Justice, instituted
June /, for the uia of the indi, iCuals charged
with crimes against the state This Court examin-
Cd the report OF the Commission above mentioned,
with the documents accompanying it, and all the
evidence and circumstances relating 10 each Of the
accused They say that the t'more they penetrated
into the details, & The more they increase before
their eyes the abyss OF perversltv without bounds,
and decentralization without example, the first
sentiments of horror and Indignation which they
already felt, excited with new force" Hay
ing completed their examination, they proceeded 10
distribute the crimes proved agains, the several in
Gividuals into classes according their respective
degrees of cnormity.
There classes are embraced under three distinct
beads. Under The first head are ten classes all
Involving he design OF committing regicide but
varying according to the degree of participation
In the design, original authors, or subsequently
asserting proposing the determination of the
whole royal family, of its menpbers-or
asserting 10 measures of different degrees Of vio-
lence. Under the second head are embraced seven
Classes of offenders, concerned in directing or be
coming members of secret societies, having for
their object general revolt. Under the third head
are included those who were convicted of a parti-
cpaton in the military instruction, distributed int
ten classes, according to the degree of their parti-
cpaton therein.
Accompanying this report is list OF a hundred
i'll
of the crime of each, and the punishment to which
they were sentenced. Of these, five were sentenced
10 be drawn and quartered, thirty one TO suffer
death by deoapliation, seventeen TO political death
and to hard lab for life, thirty TO hard Ia
bour for different terms from four TO twenty years,
with perpetual exile TO Siberia, and privation Of
their rank of nobility ii,een perpetual exile in
Siberia, with priyation Of rank; three to depsrla-
iion to Siberia for life, with privation of rank, and
nine 20 serve in the ranks private soldiers
This report is followed by imperial ukase, by
which the Judgments oil he high court Of Justice
confirmed, but with a communication OF greater
part OF the punishments, rendering them less
severe. The FIVE persons sentenced 10 be quarter
Ell were ordered to be hanged. To those sentenced
10 be beheaded, the capital punishment was remit
tel, and they were ordered TO be deprived of their
rank Of nobility and condemned TO hard labour for
life for 20 years, and afterwards TO he exied to
siberia. To most of the others part Of the punish
mont was remtte1.
be following extract, which we are permitted
tY .fiend to publish, from letter dated ST. Pc
tsr-rl7gh July 16, o. S., will show the manner in
winch the above described sentences we're carried
into execution.
IS The five greatest criminals were hung on the
18th inst, The others were degraded, and pre-
zIue, b. this time, all their way to the
mines The manner of degrading them was as
follows: The criminals were brought from the
t1rress, where they had been Imprisoned, to
pirln adjoining dressed in their uniforms, with all
-helT orders. AT this place, which was surround
ed oy The different regiments of guards quartered
40 this city and neighborhood they had their swords
aroHen over their heads, and their ep8uletts orders
sni Uniforms torn from them and burnt on pile
prepared for ths. purpose.-The FIVE were then
dressed in jackets and trOwsers. one side white and
las other blue, with their names placed on their
1rs,s's in large letters and thus dressed were
hong 10 the presence Of the others. The rest were
clothed in halt used private soldiers garments and
= pared 10 march 10 their respective destinations
officers belonging TO The navy, concerned in
sic plot were sent 10 CfOas adj, to be degraded be-
t1e fleet, their epsuletts, &c. sunk at the
at- ,i he ships, and they dressed in halt worn
rDr's clothes, and brought back 10 be transported
auth Her accowplices.
" The conduct Of the emperor through the whole
q. us business meets with universal APPRECIATION
ore severe Struggle between the feelings OF
20 auy aud public duty, do not believe ba.
"a since The time OF Brmus. You will per
.ev. tas, the emperor has COMMITTED the punish.
a.1 o.. large proportion Of the rebels - the
tst, would not admit Of bis doing more
lt -rc.-or aud empress ieit yesterday for Mos
COW. 7hsi- .s coronation Is soon 10 take place &"
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