Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-14

tial law would cease in day or two
One or two more who had been engaged IN the
recent disturbances had been tried and found gull
ty. The Court of Cessation was still engaged
with the appeals. No execution had taken place
under the sentence Of the Courts assembled ny
the authority of Martial law. One Of the Paris pa
pers mention that Louis Philippe will proclaim
a general amnesty in the marriage OF his daush-
ter with Leopold.
Pa.1s, June 23.-Yesterday the Chamber Of
Council of the Tribunal de Premiere Instance,
after hearing first report upon the accusations
against Messrs. Chateaubriand. Hyde de Neu-
vile, and de Fitziames, directed that further
examination should take place, and each OF them
underwent further interrogation in the course
of the day.
We regret to state that the Duke de Fitzjames
has had violent attack OF Cholera. Al the So
Iicitation of his family he has been removed from
the Conceirgerie to Mason de Sante.
The Courier de Gard, ministerial paper
published at Nlsmes, lately asserted, that when
the emblem Of 1893 the bonnet rogue was plac-
ed upon the coffin Of Gen. Lamarque, Gen. La.
fayette FASTENED to invest it with crowd of i'm
niorteiies; add further, that becoming alarmed at
the events which were likely to ensue, he regain
ed his residence after same difficulty. and on en-
ter,ng the house exclaimed IL am safe at last. I"
The faIsehood of this statement is best establish
ed by the following letter, written by Gen. La
fayette in answer to one addressed to him on
the subject by a gentleman who repeated the cir
cumstances upon the faith Of the assertions Of Sc
vera Of his friends.
ale GRANGE. June IS.
70 % ia rn
sous of respectab;iiy hare assured you, land as
you have repeated to your friends; that a crown
was placed by me on the bonnet rogue, present
ed at the funeral of General Lamarqur. not by
the people, that is to say, upwards of 100000
citizens. whose manifestations of patriotism were
widely foreign to such an exhibition, bu, by a
party whose character and object time will ex-
pose. If this concerned only such persons who,
supposing them to have any acquaintance with
history, have carried their forgettulness, their
credulty. their party spirit so FAR as TO suffer
themselves to be imposed upon by this fable, and
had lnnocentiy contributed to its propagation,
YOU WI! believe that should have found some
difficulty in expressing my sentiments upon the
subject But TO those who have asserted that
they were assured Of the truth of the facts by
persons who declared that they were eye witness
es of them, take pleasure in repeating. as some
of nv friends have already said personally to
some of them that their assertion Is bnth absurd
and false You are at liberty ~ give my letter
all the publicity you may wish. and with this ex-
pecta.ion. shall add one S,inr, remark. If
have ever opposed with open resolution those cri-
minal excuses of which in 1872 ana 1898 this
bonnet roueue became IN France the sanguinarv
symbol. I have been equally free from shrinking
from before tie counter revolutionary usH, pa
tons which have alternately retarded 'he Gem
ple'ion Of the freedom commenced IN l189 -
This perseverance for So years IN ms p1bIlc ca
reer is of itself sufcieneprotcst against the more
recent system. which of-the occasion ut an at
tempt. repre>,ed by forces fifty times more nu-
nerous than those who were engaged 10 II. comes
forward apres coup, to invoke the iliesallties and
immoral,lrs of SD many preceding regimes. to
promote the ann,hiaton of the principle. and
pledges Of our revolution OF July. 1880. Ii will
not, however, fail, Notwithstanding all our mis-
calculations. in accomplishing its own destiny
and the anxious wish Of my whole lie.
jsisned) LAFAYETTE
HOLLAND AND BELeIuM-A London evening
paper of the SOth, contains the following:
Up TO the hour of our going to press, the off
cial answer IF the King of Holland to the last
Protocol OF the Conference. had not, we under
stand, been received by Lord Pamerston The
last communication from our Minister at the
Hasue. and to which we alluded the other day.
leaves no doubt. however. we believe, that the
answer will be in the negative as to the e'acua-
ton of Antwerp
Baron Stockwar, the friend and Private Secre.
tary of King Leopold, has had several interviews
lately with Lord Palmerston. for the purpose OF
urging his Lordship to take active measures to
compel the King of Holland to comply with the
conditions LAID down by the Conference, and on
the 18th inst. an Official note was sent to Lord
PalmerstoD, by order Of Leopold, to similar
effect.
The Belgian King is quite ready for hosti'tIes.
either offensive or defensive. He has organized
Numerous and good army. and Is deficient only
in experienced general officers; but, in the event
of a war, he would probably employ French Ge-
nerals.
The simultaneous departure Of the Dutch Mi.
mister from this country. with the official recall
of Sir Charles B,sot, the British Ambassador at
the Hague, has given rise to many ~a''lke ru-
mors at the West end of the town. 1t was SAID
last nipht that the Talavera line 0f battle ship,