Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-06-13

peated an assertion so ialse, 20 furnish their
proofs.
NJ de Conny, who was advancing TO the tri-
bune, was stopped by The President, Who said
Gen Lafayette had the right TO SPEAK as to
personal matter.
Gen Lafayette embrace the occasion Of
fered of giving formal contradiction to an asser
ton which have several times heard and to which
am GLAD to explain myself from this tribune. No.
gentlemen, have never invoked the Intervention of
foreigners to decide the fate Of my country, and
should feel hurt, it not that the party who
accuses must. from ancient habits, regard the Of
fence (peche) as a venal one. Bsauos on the Ieftl
A U0ice on the ief. Is ii Cubleutz accusing
the captive Of Olmutz!
Gen Lafayette AS TO myself, after an unfor-
tunate experiment may call il, when saw strangers
ready to invade my country for the first time since the
name OF Emperor nay the name Of the First Con-
sui for life, had heen pronounced, believed it my duty
to rally every effort to defend my countrymen, and re-
pei foreign invasion. listened to no other considc-
| rations when had the honor of being named mem
Der of the Chamber Of Representatives, and of being
chosen, with my honorable colleagues, to attend the
conferences OF Hagneneau. That mission accepted
with regret, because never believed my interrogation
could be as useful my resistance might have been in
| these precincts. However, submitted the wish
expressed by my fellow.cizcns and colleagues /
never asked for foreign Intervention, for foreign
prince; and honestly should have been at loss to
hHoW WHICH OF thuse foreign princes 10 ASK IOr.-
Ia Laugh All my desire was that the French nation
should have time TO give itself, as thought had
right TO do constitution Of its own choice. Such,
gentlemen, has heen my conduct viii avail myself
| OF this OCCASION to make onr other remark. For a
long time, may say daily, ,ave heard the Cortes
suited this tribune, nn,smars the right, those
patriotic Spaniards Louder marmurs.] Allow me to
protest against this habit Question:, will not
dwell on principles facts; do rot like to agate
these questions provoke irritating discussions To-
/ Ia ~. -
Spaniarls of whom much evil is spoken Poice on
| tie right And who have done 50 much more Those
patriots defended the liberty of their country and even
the crown OF Ferdinand VII. (frona the right-1hey
| held him prisoner! from TIE Lett-SilenceD At an
| epoch when that Prince clarifying Napoleon ut
valencay congra,usting thu Emperor the conquest
| of Madrid, and requesting King Joseph to accept his
| oath of fidelity!
NJ de Conny declared that, The fact he had adj
appeared him result from the deliberations
| OF the Chamber Of that period. e-
| General SEBASTIAN protested that among the
diplomatsts there any question of foreign
Prince they aho treated in the of the foreign
Sovereigns would attest
! he grant, slightly modified by the Commit
| tee. was then voted by ma inriy Of 20l against
81 Adjourned.
The assassination of NJ. Calemard Lacay-
cite, which we have already announced, caus-
ed much sensation in Paris. He was the De-
putty OF the Upper Loire, and the assassna-
ton took place in the face of day, and in the
middle of the Place Louis XVI. A. NJ.
Plagniol, the assassin, lay in wait, il seems
for the Honorable Deputy, and, going up TO
him, discharged pistol at him, and the. ball
passed through his breast. The report of the
pistol brought the guard to the spot, but the
assassin blew out his own brains before he ar
rived, and died on the spot.
The assassin who wore the cross of the Legion of
Honor, was land owner IN the Department of the
Indre and Loire, aged So years. He was personally
known to the Honorable Member; and it is generally
supposed that he committed this to CRAFTY private
ycngc; but the ground Of his annosi'y is unknown
W. c. de Lafayette Wa worthy noffensive man.
His opinions as Deputy only by the place
which lie occupied on the right of the Chauber. IL
st ems that Plagnio had mcdated his crime, and the
suicide which followed it, with atrocous resolution
In the morning he put six letters in the post; and he
was seen proving about in the garden of the Tuiile
ries and in the Place Louis XVI Watching undoubt.
eddy, for an opportunity to strike his VICTIM"
ANOTHER BATTLE IN THE EAST.
The st. Petersburgh Journal of April 90,
gives the following accounts of another bril-
liant victory gained by General Piskewitsch
over the Turks, in Asiatic Turkey:
ST PETERsRURGu, April 3O,-By means Ola report,
dated March Is, Adut,nt General Count Paskcwsch,
Of Ervan has forwarded to his Majesty the follow ing
details of another victory gained over the Turks:
Maj. Gen. tlcssc, who had received orders TO con-
cenrate his division in Gure received information tina.
the Turks had shown themselves in considerable force
the boundary of Ksbule, so as TO keep the neigh
boring villages Of Gurel in constant state of alarm.
1t had been asceraineI that ksyaOgu, the Pacha OF
Trapezunt had advanced at the head OF 200 men,
and had received further rentorcements to the extent
of 5000 men from Batuin Kabulet, 1shanctes, Tsha-
-roy; that he had formed an entrenched camp the
banks of the lake situated between Kinrishi and the
fortress of st Nicholas; had erected other works upon
the pass between the forest and the lake. and
had it in contemplation to attack our division, and
make himself master Of Guriel he should be
joined BY reinforcement Of 10000 men, which was
daily expected from I'rapezunt Major General iiesse
Immediately resolved upon anticipating the cnemv
On the 5th of March, the General proceeded with
battalion Of the Mingrclia regiment OF infantry, three
companies Of the 44th rigmen in all ,ll6 men, with
four light field pieces and two howtzers, together
with SIS of the Gurie militia, the river Nato
neb and advanced along the Shore directing the
militia take the upper road through,he forest Three
wersts from the passage of the RIVER the Turks an