New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-20

| from his manner of telling them. An attempt is
is made to show that FlOurens had persuaded Fsyoe
and Asnon two soldiers of the 9TH ChGssers pted to
desert. which their own letter does not affirm, but
denies NJ Grandperret infers that a general revolt
was nstigated among the soldiers. 1t is enough 70
remark that Fayelle after his escape into Belgium,
declared Asnon his supposed cOmradc to be Police
! spy.
| We come now TO the arrest of Beaury and the
plot if any there be- of to-day. halt the thresh-
| old to remark that between all which has gone
| before and all which comes after, NJ. GrandpeTet,
with all his ingenuity has failed to establish
necton. The most positive assertion cannot supply
the place of logical copua and il is certain that
able man NJ. GrandperTet would not rest upon
mere assertion and distorted inference if he had any
better of linking together the two plots. In
all that has gone before there is other evidence of
plot for assassination than what / have stated
evidence which does not resist the least criticism,
nor touch either of the two men who figure in the
new conspiracy. NJ. Grandparents five preliminary
columns, far they have any significance, indi-
cate the existence of revolutionary plans, such
everybody knows are always talked over under a
despotic government. His sixth is devoted to evil
dence tending more or less to prove, not merely a
plot against the Emperor, but an attempt to carry it
into execution. 1t begins with the arrest of Beaury,
April 49, and the two points which NJ Grandperret
relies the confession of Beaury and the letter said
to have been found on his person.
Assuming that the confession of Beaury is genu-
inc and truthful it proves his purpose to kill the
Emperor, and makes Flourens his accomplice.
Beaury was deserter, but fled to Belgium, and
thence to London, where he found FlOurens. He
says: Il spoke to him of my plan against the life of
the Emperor, and he encouraged me in my resou-
n Il a III
with Flourens l received three letters from him;
the first two / have destroyed the third is that
which was seized on me, and signed Gustave." He
adds that he had received first 400 francs and then
100 francs from friend of Flourens, and that he
intended to dress himself a soldier to approach
the Emperor more easily; then to use his revolver
The real truth about Beaury is very different.
Whether he deserter is doubtful. If he
in fact deserted, he appears to have made his peace
with the authorities by agreeing to serve as police
spy and stool pigeon. He went to Belgium, and was
received with certain confidence by the French
refugees at Brussels. They gave him shelter, and
money. Among others, FRANCOIS Victor Hugo re-
ceiyed him into his house and aferward obtained him
situation. When his master wanted his service
elsewhere, BeauTy got himself dismissed from this
place. He had excited suspicious among the refu-
gees by his singular conduct, appearing and disap-
petually soliciting money on various pretexts.
He is known to have gone back from Brussels
to Paris, and is believed to have been in COM
munication there with the police, and afterward
in Brussels with Lagrange, chief of the French
police who look after political affairs. Whether
because of the suspicious excited against him in
Brussels or in obedience to the orders of Lagrange,
Beaury went over to London. FloUrens was warned
against him, but Flourens is of cOnfding nature,
and may have fallen into skillfully set trap. Ac-
cording to Bcaury's account it was not FlOurens
who proposed to him the assassination, but he who
proposed it to Flourens He says the latter encour-
aged it. On what police spy says 1T is plain no
sort of reliance can be placed. If Flourens is com
promised it is by the letter found on Beaury, and
which it is now time to give. The following is a
translation: ,o-o
MY DEAR FRIEND: have in fact received your three
letters regret that You sent them to addressed in
that way aud not through Mr. smalley, NETWORK
Tribune 10 Pail Mall London putting my d Tt name o0 on
write each other and that next week We snai
must have received my letter the 10TH addressed to
NJ Fleury, in which was Enclosed one Tor my Trend OF
the Bank II you have in fact received it, and II that
friend has sent you through Nine s. the sum OF 400 francs
burn the letter sent herewith for him, and let that be
the end of not send it to him. and Use at once the 400
francs received.
There is not moment to lose; the man ou orecet might
90 country and everything would be Delayed But
10 succeed reckon on yo your faithful friends. Go
out only at night in carriage re sparng OF money.
No imprudence. / heartily with you. Don fan.
may be very in Paris to help YOU Al depends On
y ax either not 10 undertake the affair or to succeed
Your GUsIAVE.
If we admit that this letter was written by Flou-
rens, what does it provei 1t must be judged by
itself and not in the light of Beaurys declarations
put all those aside as police instructions. The
theory of NJ. Grandperret is that "lhOmme au brevet
"a phrase which has intrinsic meaning and can
only be translated 1.-The man with the patent" say
French eXperts-refers to the Emperor. suppose IL
does There is no word of assassination, nor any
thing that points to it, Every phrase is perfectly
consistent with the theory that Beaury is agent in
plan for revolution and there is at least phrase
not expfcable on any other theory. What did NJ.
Flourens mean by saving II may very soon be in
Paris to help your Help him fire the revolver, with
which Beaury, by his own account, was to Kill the
Emperori Nonsense If FlouIens was coming to
Paris. it was to help on some scheme which did not
depend on single pistol shot. The letter. read with
| Beaury's statements by way of gloss, may be con-
sistent otherwise with the assassination theOry but
that il not enough Our doctrine of criminal law Is
that il must not be consistent with any theory OF
innocence. The accused is not bound to show that II
| may not tally also with theory OF guilt. so may
thousands of letters innocent in themselves, be con-
! sistent with theories of guilt.
As to the mention of my name and of THE TRIBUNE
in the Flouyens- Beaury letter, the explanation If
very simple 50 simple that have almost nothing to
add to the dispatch sent you last night The adj
dress given by NJ Flourens is that of THE TRIBUNE
| Bureau in London. Letters of mine heretofore
| written from London to THE TRIBUNE have referred
to nv acquaintance with NJ. Flourens, in which
there is absolutely nothing either to conceal or apo
ogize for. met him at the house OF valued h1end
liked him, and asked him to come and see me. he
WAS exile journalist, and republican-three quall