The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-22
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10.

At eleven O'Clock the sitting had not opened on ac
count Of the absence of the President and two Sec
retaries. Ii was demanded that they should be CEN
sured but the President VergineaI being indspos,d
and the Secretaries giving sufficient excuse the de-
cree of censure was repealed.
Several members spoke the question Of re-
spite.
M. Bujot represented the personal dangers which
threatened those who approved of delay. / con-
GLIDE with giving, as my opinion that the execution
of the sentence OF death be deferred till the expul-
sion Of all the Bourbons.
Mangeot-I demand that Louis be executed with
in "a hours and that the executive council be charged
TO take the necessary to insure the public
safety.
Legendrc-The hour Of justice is now come the
head OF Louis must fall on the scahold | am against
all respite.
After some debate, the question was determined
simply thus -" Shall there, or shall there not be
delay"
The nominal appeal commenced at O'Clock. At
midnight the President announced,
THAT no delay could take place, there being ma.
ory of 80 voices for the ion OF the sentence
at the expiration of twenty-iour hours" !.
MONDAY, JAN.2I.
The sitting commenced by reading the following
letter
Representatives;
will permit him TO give to Louis Cspet those funeral
honors which the dignity Of the national convention
ought allow him. lie requests therefore that they
will order the body Of Louis Cspet to be delivered to
him. that he may carry it to Sens, and depJsi,e II near
that of his father"
After an observation made by Chabot, that Louis
ought to be buried like other citizens in the usual bu
ryng place of the section IN which he lived the con-
ven,on passed to the order of the day.
bet adj mi cd IN he bar inf al a.,
convention that at the c-deyant Palais ROYAL he had
heard expressions in favor Of Louis, and among 9th
ers, the following:
'Lous, then, is condemned TO death, but those who
have abandoned him may perish with him" NJ.
Mangeot, added, that the expressions he had heard
seemed TO agree with the assassination which had
been committed on the person Of Pelleter.
Thurot-"Ope Of our colleagues whose soul was
always pure, has fallen by the hand of an sssassin-
II is Of the utmost importance that the convention
should discover the plot Of the conspiracy shall
then from what quarter the Blow has proceeded
Il Is no longer time TO Ensemble. There exists con-
spirscy against the purest patriots. All traitors and
conspirators must be seized, put in chains, and be
dragged to the scatfold | move that the Executive
Council be ordered 10 give account Of the circum
stances which preceded, accompanied and followed
the ,ransaotionwhelher Paris, the assassin former
" one of the body guards be arrested and hi. pa
pers sealed up"
Maure-"A friend Of Peletcr gave me the FOL-
lowing account Of his assassination He wa. dining
Yesterday AZ the Garden de lExsIts, 10 a coffee
house keps by one Terrier. Sir perops came from
an adjoining apartment and ,aid There is that
scoundrel Pelletier Saint Fargesu.' MY name il |
PeIIeter replied the deputy, but am not scoun-