The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-22

q Ais Count Mseo~'s) ,oifs; Aas he had iscarrea De
e''mity Of Count de Aoyy he refused 10 ailou ues
make hl house place Of rvndesuols, and TIA. there
sscStion c0ai him. and had determined 70 proven, him
Prom sitting az member for the Haut Rim The Oourt
below held this to be altogether false and c
nous, and proof OF they cited III their Judgment
letter OF August 49, 1857 written Count de Moray by
Oount De Mgeon, IN which he spoke him with the ut
most 0eierence expressed confidence the Of
bis character and appealed TO his honor able feeling TO
1sconcert me ntrgues Set on foot deprive him Count
geon o. the confidence Of the government Before the
Court of Appeal Count Mgeon all ged by his that
tne letter IN which he addressed Count M,rny
quous Terms was formal letter, written 10 him 10 his
character OF President Of the Corps Legsat but that
week later he wrote another letter the Count de Morny
as private individual, in which alluded to his griev
ances, ana threatened to complain of them 10 the Empe
ror copy Of tins letter put in evidence aud also
an answer In the third person from the Count dc Morny
90 isss FMS s4 ., the latter 'I Which
bfryer denounced as forgery, accusing Count
n seeon with having added tail to a 70 make
ierred TO the manifest difference in the color of the
apparent the letter ITSELF and also TO the fact that
letter book Of the Corps Iegislaf in which copies all
answers sent 70 members letters kept contained no
copy OF any communication to Count Mgeon but one OF
August 90 in answer TO his letter OF the 10th above
toned.
The Imperial Court unusually crowded. when NJ
Jules Favre appeared 10 offer explanation serious
charge. The highest celebrities Of the bar8erryer Dn-
faure, Marie, Mashaud-were in their places and NJ
Chaix dEst Ange occupied the Procureur Generals
N. Jules Favre, who evidently unwe and had the
lower part Of his face tied up with apollo
gzed for appearing before the Court in that condton.
he sad he mad LEFT bed of suffering 70 perform solemn
outy 70 Client When the accusation had been first
brought against Count Mgeon he had been astcnsh
ed by II that he had advised him, II he was guilty. TO
put the between him and France and 70 hide his head
forever But Count Mgeon had assured him he limo
cent and demandednay entreatedthe fullest investi
cation Jules Fayre, wishing 70 speak with the ut
srminased letter did strike him possible that the
tai Of the might have been added to the The down
stroke did appear TO have been made slowly, and was
thicker than the generality OF the writing. But it
emneny unsafe TO rely upon such indications, and he
observed in the body Of the letter a. the tail Of which
seemed to be made in the same style as that which had
attracted NJ Berryers attention in the O. and which he
a. Favre) was now persuaded was mere popularity
10 the handwriting Of the secretary who had written the
letter. He had now, however, been furnished with ad-
d'onal papers, proving distinctly that Count Mgeon
could have had no motive TO commit the forgery.
IN the first place he produced acknowledgment
from the Corps Legislatf, dated August 20, OF the
letter Of August TO- 1t was clear therefore that Count
Migeon had written two letters, to the President in
that character and the other 10 Count de Morny
dvidua 1t was quite consistent with this statement that
the books OF the Corps Lga should contain record
OF the latter Further he produced several let
ters written by Count Mgeon to different friends the
Of which were proved the posmarks upon them show
Ing that long before he inv oved in this he had
formed the plan, the opposition to his taking his seat for
the Hau Rim was persisted in to write first to "the
President Of the Corps Legsat next to the Count de
Eorny, and lastly, to the Emperor If Count Migeon
guilty, he a. Jules Favre) regarded him than
doned him to the utmost severity of the law But beev
ing him to innocent he had left his bed to defend him.
AMI he could not help saying that was perhaps an inter
position Providence that he should have been i'll the
last OCCASION to which circumstance owing that
there had been time to bring additional documents to
flute o charge which perhaps he should not have been
able TO meet at the time IT was brought forward.
Chalk Est Angels reply to NJ Jules Favres defence
simply that all the new documents forgeriesl
The letter purporting to be dated Cops Legsat Aug
TO- bad not been written by officer of the house, and
was totally unknown to them. 1t upon paper die-
that invariably used for the Presidents correspon
dence. But written upon paper distributed in the
committee rooms for the use OF MEMBERS and to which
Count Migeon, az member of the house, had access.
The dates OF the letters In Count Mgeons handwriting
were, true, atested by postarks but he alleged
that the parts relied upon postscrps and had been
wgten by him subsequently for the purpose of making
out his story In support Of this charge he exhibited
Of the letters which had been opening and showed
that postscript had been written just at the edges Of the
torn parts
The Court adopted a the Of the Court below,
tecreed the separation with costs against Count Mgeon
and ordered the documents alleged to be forged to be
impounded in order that proceedings may be taken upon
them.
in the course of his speech NJ Chalk DIST Ange re.
greeted that the Court, in its wisdom, should have pro-
Aeei report Of the case Count dc Morny could only
the utmost publicity while secresy might raise the
false Inference that there something to be concealed