Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-21
THE CONSPIRACY IN FRANCE.

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Singular Story of its Discovery IL
LOnd0n--Arrests i'm Paris-The Ir
recOnciIabIes' Meeting-The ''PlO
OF IS52.'' Stts annl
About a week ago an English gentle
man, literary man, went by chance Il
dine at q foreign eating-house in SOht
kept by foreigner. While he was eat
ing, two Frenchmen came and sat at th,
table next him, but before they com
menced talking one of them addressed
some remark in French to this gentle
man. He was tired, and, as he tells me
very sulky. So, not wishing to enter into
conversation with these dubious-lookinl
Frenchmen, he pretended he did not un
derstand what the other said to him.
The one foreigner then observed to the
other that they might speak in safety, foi
the Englishman did not understand theil
language. He then commenced to talk
very freely, and my friend could not but
hear all they said, the more so as he really
does understand and speak French like
native. Without, therefore, wishing to
do so, he overheard all that they talked
about, and very soon learned that plot
was on foot to murder Napoleon III, and
that Frenchman named Baur or Beauri
was to leave London the next morning
for Paris with the intention of carrying
out this devilish design. Deeming it his
duty, as it undoubtedly was, to give such
information as he could to the police, he
at once went to the Scotland Yard and
told his story to one of the chief officials
there. The latter hardly believed that
there was anything serious in the affair,
but after some considerable hesitation
consented to telegraph what he had heard
to the Rue de Jerusalem in Paris.
He did so and the result was that the
intended murderer was arrested with a
number of papers upon his person that
gave the French police a clue to several
of his accomplices. A'o aoli
The plot had been hatcned in London,
and was to form part of the programme
for general rising of the revolutionary
party throughout Europe. ,iwt
see that many Of the London papers,
with their accustomed and utter reckless
ness, throw doubts upon the whole affair
this morning. But the truth is as | tell
you.g English Journalists would have
sung very different song ifsthe plot
discovered had been against the life of
Queen Victoria instead of against the life
of the French Emperor. London Let
ter, May g. gw
the ooSsrlRAToRs. % gAA
NJ Lermina was the mover of bill of
indictment against the Emperor, propos-
I'M, n ,,lah;oo,ta to dao1o.o hin, s,n;lt,- of
capital offense, but that the Republic,
wishing to abolish the penalty of death,
only sentenced him to penal servitude
for life. The meeting at which this &C.
centric motion was made is the only one
hitherto dissolved during all the plebis-
citary period by the Commissary of
Police in attendance. Even in this in
stance the Commissary, after listening
to such violent language, seemed asleep
until he heard the Emperor described as
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, alias |
Napoleon III. Then he started up from
his seat and declared the meeting dis !
solved. At many of these meetings,
several of which have been attended by !
three or four thousand people, cries of
: Vive Ia Republique " and Down with
the Emperor have been uttered without
Up to certain extent the
Government believes itself gamer by
This outrage of the Opposition, and short
hand writer's are employed to take down
all the most intemperate passages of the
speakers, which before the plebiscite are
o be collected together and largely dis
Fibnted in the provinces, with the view
If corroborating NJ. Olivier statement
n his first address to the elsctorS of the
Var, that Republicans only seek to pill
age and cut throats The ordinary re-
,orters of the Senate and Corps Legisla-
if were detailed for this duty; but, .
hough offered high pay refused to per-
orm it. They were willing enough to /
ttend any meeting and give a full re-
,ort Of all that might take place, but
hey would not do police duty and pick !
ut particular passages to serve par q
icnlar purpose. Other people, however, {
ave been found TO do the service re- (
uired, and in all probability on inter a
sting collection of irreconcilab!e elo- (
uence, published in an attractive form, S
)gether with the latest news of the plot &
nst discovered, will appear next week, Il
nd have a great effect upon many well c
isposed persons. ..... b
The conspirators intended, we are o
I'D, to blow up the Tuileries with picrate
potassium. .... ID. ...-,....... ~ il
The Paris correspondent of the Lon a
on News writes upon this point thus: l.
Several papers connect NJ. Ledru Rol- Il
n'f sudden disappearance from his villa Z
contemporaries with this plot
I. Cernuschi, the Italian banker who
described 100, ,000f to the anti-plebisci-
ry fund, has in compliance with the Il
iierated demands of n. Paul de Cas- II
ignac, been expelled from France pur- bl
lanf TO the undonbted iaw which en-. m
lies government TO send away any for u
Ener without reason assigned. Three m
legged aocopplices of Beauri have been hs
rested on The strength cf confessions 70
ade by him. NJ. German Cassie. Of az
e eMarseillaise. is arresfedl Beauri, the Ell
garo asserts, had upon him a letter sli
lm London Of q most compromising IL
aracter, signed "Gustave Flourens" fe
have already mentioned thearrest of le
rec aceomplces. The Fgaro. u q in
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