New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-27

brOuch ut into the Court Of Kings Bench anu ~ U
arr Igned as a criminal; in the other cas-, ",.n
tie British nation was lbeed and ts ro!ai pae's',
in the official gazette Of France, styled the eSarder
Of assassins, the matter wac To be selIeu u! ID
"explanation, and that explanation so scorer, U''
as not to admit Of being communicated 70 rarnat
meut. Encouraged by the apparent yaeIils.fvh VI
the EDglsh Ministry, Otto, on Aug. IL, ioVS, calne
out " ith a most impudent note to LORD Ia"hc
bury in which the demand ia formally put 70 adoP'
efectual measures for putting down all the unoI
coming and sedtious publications OF the hnsh.n
prints TO send out Of Jersey certain lndlVidus, W
expel the French bishops TO transport Georges ana
his adherenfs To Canals and TO send the FRENCH
princes to Warsaw. With reference To tue au'u
law NJ. Otto insists that the Ministry must possess
"a legal and sufficient power to RESTRAIN ioregnei
" without having recourse TO the courts Oh ia"'
and he adds, The French Government, "nr
" offers on this point perfect RECIPROCITY ,hinh'
" il gives new proof OF It's pacific intentions, oy de'
" mandDg that those persons should be cent avn!
whose Vaccinations uniformly teld to SOW as
" cord between the two nations" Lord iiawhes-
bury's answer, dated Aug y, sent IN the form vi
dispatch to the English PlenpOtentIary NJ fatls'
has during the late quarrel with Bonaparte III;
been quoted by the London press as a modei o.
staesmanlike dignity; but it must be confessed thht
in spite Of the terms OF yirtuous indignation III
which it is coucbed, promises arc held ont OF sac
rifcing the French emgrants TO the jealous FEARS
of the First Consul.
In the beginning of the year 1893 Napoleon took
upon himself to regulate the proceedings OF Parli-
ment and TO restrain the liberty of speech among
its members. With respect to the ex-Nlnls'er',
Mr. Windham Lord Granville, aud Lord Mimic, ne
ntmated literally in his MOaiteur, &" IL would be
patriotic and wise law which should ordaln that
displaced Ministers should not, for the first seven
years after their dismissal competent 10 SIT in the
English Parliament. Another law, not less wise
would be that every member who should insult a
friendly people and power should be condemned
to silence tor two years. When the tongue oi
"ferds, the tongue must suffer punishment AZ
the same time Gen A1dreOssy, who had meanwhile
arrived at London, complained in note 10 Lord
Hawkesbury that the despicable pamphleteers and
lbelers of the British press :" have found them
"seyes invariably supported in their iDsolent OBJ
"seryatons by particular phrases, taken from the
"sIceches OF some leading Members OF Parla-
'ment.' OF ,hcse speeches it is said that every
reasonable Englishman must be Inundated by such
"unheard-Of righteousness" In the name OF the
First Consul he expresses the wish that means
"should be adopted to prevent in future any
mention being made OF what Is passing III
France, either in the official discussions
cor in the poemical writings in En-
gland as in like manner, in the French official
- discussions and polemcal writings, no mention
" should be made Of what is passing in England"
While BOnaparte in this tone of mingled hypocrisy
ala dITOGdHCt privately lnt DIltlsH uO'-
erDment the MOniteur teemed with insults against
the British people, md also published an official re-
port of Col. Sebastian containing the most ljurl-
Gus charges against the British army in Egypt. On
Feb. ), 1903, the French COmmSsdire de Relation
Commercials at Jersey, though acknowledged in no
public capacity, had the insolence to prefer com
plant against some printers for inserting para
graphs from The London papers offensive to Bona
parte and 10 threaten that if the practice was not
punished BOnaparte would certainly revenge him
self upon jersey. This threat had the desired
effect. Two of the printers were brought before
the Royal Court and the positive Injunction was
laid on them not TO publish in future anything oien-
siye to France, even from the London papers. On
Feb 90 1903 one day before Peltier's trial. Lord
Whtworth the English ambassador at Paris,
summoned into the presence of the great man him
,elf Being received in his cabinet, Wntworth
was desired to sit down after Bonsparte had
sat down himself on the other side Of the
table. He enumerated the several provo
cations which be pretended TO have re-
" abuse thrown out about him in the English prints,
- but this he said he did not much regard as
% that which appeared in the French papers pub
lshed in London. This he considered as much
" more mschevOus since it was meant TO excite his
country against him and his Government. lie
complained of the protection given to Georges and
I" others of his descriptions; he acknowledged that
L" the irritation he felt against England increased
daily because every wind which blew from En-
gland brought nothing but enmity aud hatred
against him. = As proof of his desire to
maintain peace, he wished Ia know what he had
- to gain by going to war with England. A de-
scent was the only means of Offense he had, and
that he was determined to attempt by putting
/" himself at the head of the expedition. lie &C
n1wledged that there were one hundred chances
TO one against him, but still he determined to
attempt it if war should be the consequence of
the present discussions; and that such was the
disposition of the troops that army after army
would be found for the enterprise. To
preserve peace the treaty of Amiens must be full
filled, the abuse in the public prints, if not totally
suppressed, at least kept within bounds and con-
fined to the English papers, and the protection
| so openly given to his bitterest enemies must be
withdrawn"
On Feb. 81, Peltier WAS tried before Lord Ellen
borough ard special jury for libeling Bonaparte
and intending to excite the people OF France to
assassinste their ruler" Lord Peterborough had
the meanness To terminate his address to the jury
with the following words: /" Gentlemen, | trust
your verdict will strengthen the relations by
which the interests of this country are connected
with those of France, and that 1t will illustrate
and justify in every quarter of the world the con-
a. yctiOn that has been long and universally enter.
" tanned of the unsullied purity Of British ju1ica-
ture." The jury without retiring from their
box, Immediately returned the verdict of Guilty
In consequence of the subsequent rupture between
the two countries, Mr.. Peltier was, however. not
called upon to receive Judgment aud the prosecu-
ton thus stopped Having goaded the British
Ministry into these prosecutions of the press and
wrung from them Petier's condemnation, the truth
ful and heroic Monitcnr March 2, 1903, published
the following commentary:
"A person OF the name Of Peter has bsen found
guilty, before a count OF justice at London of print
IL and publishing come wretched lbes against the
Fnst Consul 1t is not essy to imagine WHY the En-.
glsh Ministry should affect to make this IN alter of
Il, ..lnt A.. L.. L.. =