Star. — 1825-09-09 (London, England)

SEPTEMBER 3.—Six days before the murd-r, Mar:in li isson rnet a nian in the forest, who said to him, that M. Courier was a villain, and deserved to have his wood burnt and hi, brains knocked out. Madame Courier said, that the only person she sespeeted was L-uis Frimont. On t; e prisoner being asked if Me could attribute this suspicion of Madame to anything ? he replied, he had been employed by his master to watch Madame, who was suspected by him of being too familiar with Pierre Dahois, the carman.—The President asked Madame Courier if she did not derive any clue from the'desctiot ion given by Brisson of the pet son he met in t'te woad ? she replied that that clue led them to suspect persans of some importance, who must have employed Frimont as their agent. The Procureur da Roi explained this evidence, by observing that Madame Courier coincided in the opinion formed on 'Change, at Paris, that the murder had' been Committed at the instigation of the Jesuits. Two females were called for the defence, who said that they saw, a few minutes before the murder, a man dressed in blue enter the wood, armed with a gun; the first thought the man too tall for Frimont; the second knew Frimont, and was positive that it was not he. The Procureur du Roi then went through the whole of the evidence, and in the course of his speech appeared to abandon the point Qf premeditation. "lk sure," said lie, addressing himself to the Jury, " that whatever your decision may te, the murderer of M. Courier will not AO unpunished:. M. Fain]) ux, Counsel for the defence, then addressed the Jury. He observed that the prisoner could not possibly have any motive for the commission of such a crime. In remarking on the evidence of Madame Courier, I e observed, that if the eye of justice had rested on a relation whom she was anxious to save, he could have understood the manner in which she had delivered her evidence, but no such motive was apparent in this case. The conclusion of the junior Counsel's address was in the fol:owing words:—" M. Courier has left a it •me dear to letters, and his fame will but be coitested when time shall have silenced the zavils of parties and the passions of politics. He was an author in whose compositions may be found the irony.of Voltaire joined to the vivacity of Pascal=the simplicity of Amiot united with the naivete of La Fontaine. This man, so praiseworthy for his private life, has fallen under the dagger of an assassin ; may blood so pure be syeedily revenged. ' May the Public Minister one day hit tipon the real culprit! And may Heaven preserve me from the misfortune of ever advocating his cause!" The Procureur du Roi observed, that it was improper in a Royal Court to enter into an eulogiom of the' works of M. Courier, as they chiefly consisted of poll., tical pamphlets, most of which had been condemned by the Tribunal. After the President had summed up, the following question was put to the Jury—" Is. Louis Frimont guilty of voluntarily, and by premeditation, murdering Paul Louis Cent*, on the 17th of last April ?" Alter half an hour's consultation, the Jury returned an unanimous verdict of Ant Cuing. Time prisoner heard the verdict with the same indifference which he manifested throughout the trial, and was set at liberty.  ~•.-:  I