, 1872-11-07
BAZAINE.

BAZAINE.
The marshal In Prison-Outsido and
Inside Scenes - Prospects OF the
Trial.
Versailles {oct. 15 Correspondence Of the London asls
Some Paris newspapers have lately been pub
fishing stories respecting the imprisonment OF
Marahal Rezaine which simply prove Pt!a1s thas the
called upon the distinguished prisoner yesterday,
and can testify that nothing has been changed
in the surveillance exercised over him, and that
his health is very much the same as it was six
onhs nth ~ Snst that hs 81 ns ro
the fragment Of shell, has caused him con-
siderable annoyance. To man who, FOR
half century, has led an outdoor life, who,
for more than thirty years, was On active service
as q soldier, and who in mind, as we'll as in
body, has never known what it was to pass an
idle hour, five months confinement in 3 very
small house,-with the alternative OF going out
into q garden some forty yards square. IN which
can see all he does, as well as hear every word
he eays-wou1d, in all likelihood, cause some-
thing akin to insanity. But Bazaine seems to
be made Of sterner stuff I found him in very
before court martial, to defend himself to
sion to visit the Marsha1. Those who have
such permits have-as I had-tlrst to up
ply to Colonel GailIard, OF the Staff Corps,
Chief de Ia Justice M1litaire, who submits tho
name Of the applicant to the Marshal himself.
# the latter expresses wish to grant the inter-
view, q pass is given on which Mr: So-and-so
test autorise communiquer avec IL. le Mare-
chal Bazaine the permit being duly stamped
Service de Ia Justice,'' and signed by Colonel
Gaillard-an officer who will not, trust, take it
amiss if choose this opportunity Of thanking
him for his great courtesy and klnoness toward
old acquaintance now in his charge as prisoner.
The house in which Marshal Bazaine ia con-
fined is small detached villa at the further end
Of the Avenue de Picardie, close to the grille, or
It was for many years the doIuicile Of an English
gardener named Walter; and the place was after
ward rented by Colonel Waugh, an Anglo-Indian
officer, whose name was familiar to newspaper
with the failure Of joint stock bank in London.
The garden and the house are both sInan-about
the size of what be rented in the outskirts OF
London for $50 or E35 per annum: The gate OF
the garden ia OF iron, and outside it s SEN
try-box, with soldier OF the line on duty. When
visitor approaches the gate, he Is told by the
sentry not to ring, but to knock; and, this being
done, non-commissiooed officer, who has charge
Of the premises, opens to admit him, lnspects tho
pass and calls the Marshals servant, who takesup
garden, 1 began to realize the fact that the
promises formed q part of what are called in the
| permit "Ld Prison Mazszalre Anne1e." There
| was sentry close to the windows on the ground
floor another little to the right of the house,
| some ten yards distant !; third to the s. left
'front.'" as soldier would say, Of the drawing
room window, and a Fourth q little further
| round to the lett Of CAST. No one could, by
possibility, move in any part OF the small garden
without being under the eyes of at least two SEN
tries, nor could any conv ersation be held in the
ground without the so1di., hearing all that was
| said. About fifteen yards from the house, sepa-
| rated from the rest OF the grounds by a thin
hedge, are four or five be u tents, in which the
| guards-a Captain, q sub altern, and hfty men-
are quartered. The gua' :ds are changed every
| twenty-four hours. The sentrles inside the gar
den, as also those who y atch around the premi-
ses outside, are doubled every night There is
| also subaltern officer under Colonel Gaillarda
| orders, who reaides and sleeps on the premises.
The Colonel himself does not sleep in the house,
but comes once a day TO- visit the prisoner In
curious contrast to all this show of military pre-
| vention was the 11arshals little boy,
| Achille, 8 pretty child Of some years
! old, playing gleefully in the garden. when
I went in. The rest Of Marshal Bazaine's chill
dren-he has five, the eldest being, only 7
| house situated in the grounds OF the convent
! Notre Dame de Refu ge, short distance from
| where thu Marshal is confined. They come to
see him every day wl4h Nine. Baza1ne, ana 70.
1
is obliged to leave the premises of the :" Prison
] Militaire Annexe," except the officials. The
! Marshal has two aids-de-camp, both Colonels OF
the staff Corps, named 'lllette and Magnan. n
! These two gentlemen have all along stood by
their chief, in evil as well as in good report, and
| they take it by turns in alternate weeks, to
share his captiyity-the one On duty Tor the
time being considered equally prisoner with
his chief.
| Ifound Marshal Bazaine in very good spirits,
! considering that for five long months, he has
been confined tothe small house and garden he
| nog occupies, He declares that he has nothing
who have charge Of him, all Of them treating
him with as much respect as 1t he we're still u
command OF the Army Of the Rhine: He tole
me that when, net long ago, one Of his cnldrel
Was dangerously i'll at the house where Anne
ed, sent word that the Marshal might go to SEE
the child, simply accompanied by Colonel Gail
lard. The danger, however, PASSED away q
Quickly that there was no OCCASION 1or him u
take advantage OF the Minister'S klndness-t
Blindness, which, as the Marshal says, he belevel
to have been prompted BY N. 4hlerH- of tht
latter, he speaks in the highest terms asket
him whether he did not fear the result OF th
trial. He replied that, for himself, he did no
in the least fear; but that, in defending himself
he wonld be obliged to show up the 1ncapacAty
the want OF obedience, the general softnes
| (n1onesse}, and want Of energy IN others, owe
which it would have been far better " to Pass
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in nv former letter, that he has neve
been told upon what charges be is to be tried RE
and Of what crime he is deemed guilty
or whether it is Of military or OF ,polltlca
offence that he is accused. spoke Of the asser
ton from time to time reiterated by the He
Radical press, that more than once he had
while in command at Metz, held aptery1eTa y @ VIII
Prince Frederick Charles and other German
Generals. He laughed HEARTILY at the idea, AM
replied: "Now, my dear sir, do You, who f!s, hey
been military man-do you beleye It posss1npi
was assembled in the Crimea to slip in and gu
of an invested town like camp~fohoWer wh
wants to steal o few vegetables? Is not an otfi
Ger holding such command always under "a
eyes Of dozen or more stah cthcers, n1as-oe M
camp, officers Of his escort, and the like? Woul
It have been possible for me to meet any OF tn
German chiefs without the facts being Knew n, y,
ward getting wind through the city Of Metz
When has my officer Of the immspne % aImy Eigg
I held. Of course, written intercourse with th
Prince was obliged to do 50 in order to settl
: | the terms Of the surrender; but never saW o
J .,olo r. them 11Dti] gave mVseH llp prisoner