Star. — 1815-11-13 (London, England)

TRIAL OF NEY. PARIS, NOVEMBPA 9.  The Cottrt•Martial charged With the trial of Marshal Ncy, rnzt in the Grit:At Hall of Assize, at the Palace of. Jihtice. It consisted of  Marshal Count Jourdan, President.  Marshal Massvna, Prince of Es ling. Marshal Augereau, Duke of Caitig!ione. Ma, sisal Mortier, Duke of 'Froiiao„  Mutenant-General Count Vallute.  Lieutenant-General Count Cliparede. Lieutenant-General Count 11%.ison, Governor of Paris. Baron Joint/alp, Comtni%sary Ordnnnateur of the First Mill* tary Division, mill perform the functions of King's Commissary. Count Grunt!ler, ;.i :1r :dial-de-Camp, those of Judge Advocate. And M. Both.bu, those of Greffi.yr.  So, early as eight o'clock in the morning a detachment from every legion of the National Guards, pi. quets of Gendarmerie and Sappers and Firemen, took their stations at the various doors of the Palace of Justice and in the vicinity. The interior of the Hall was guarded by National Guards and Veterans. The places generally occupied by the Jury, and even the scats for the Criminals, were given up to the Public. The place allotted to the accused was near his Counsel, in the semicircular space below the Bench of Judges.  We need scarcely add, that the influx of ♦isitors, both French and foreigners, was very great. Prince AUGUSTUS of Prussia, Lord and Lady CASTLEREAGH, and* some other persons of distinction, occupied places which were kept for them.  Messrs. B&KRYER senior and junior, and M. DUNN, appeared as Counsel for Nett. It appeared from the Proce: Verbal of arrest, that at the moment the retreat of Marshal Ney was discovered, it WAS thought that Murat might have been arrested at the same time, as information was obtained that both of them were at the chateau or village of Rochefort.  Seldom has there bees a spectacle so imposing as that which was presented this day at the Palace of Justice. At ten o'cllck Marshal Jourdan opened the Council by reading a letter from the Minister at War convoking the Council. Count Mahon was replaced by Count Gozan. The Proces-verbal of the arresta. tion of the Marshol was read. The letters from the Minister of War of the beginning of March lust, and the Marshal's answas were then read; the Order of the Day, and the Marshal's Proclamation of the 21st of March, wire also read, and all his letters to the Aufhorit;cs, ordning the arrest of a number of per.  sons for their attachment to the King. The Gietrwr of the Council then read a copy of his examinati before the Prefect of Polic : it was very le ag, and t 1..: Marshal's ipecch, at its conclusion, was as follow::: " I have several times been on the point bf corn. mating suicide, but I did not effect it, becausi. would live to justify myself. I know well that I 11:m.  committed great faults, for which honorable blame me: I blame myself also, but I am no traitor; what I have done I was drawn into. H. lix  willing to betray, I would have given false advice t.,  Marshal Suchet. when he wrote me word 114 trooi, were in a ferment."  A second interrogatory was then read, at the end of which the Marshal said :  44 I left Paris with the intention of sacrificing 7r,2 life for the Kiag. What I have done k a great ne fortune. My head was deranged. I would hav passed over to the United States, but I thought propt.t to remain for the honour of my children."  More the first interrogatory, the Marshal g4VC the interrogator a paper, in which he declined t' Council of War, as haviag suflic;vot pawer v tt y .. n,.  The Marshal reverted to the letter which l-. ceired the 13th March. at Lor.6-le.Saninier, General Bertrand, in which he was iMOrnted that t!•.• enterprise of Bonaparte was concerted in cm.j,inctto:, with Austria and England. And after this letter thought all defence useless. The instructicars given on the 9th cf March l?-1,j7 the Minister of War (Si ult) to Marshal Nzy, minding the 91) Military Division, v.ere as t'ilow: 4. Monsieur the King's brother, has atrived Lyons, and taken the command of the army asset. tiling at that poirt. Every measure must be :ILi4 to pursue with vigour ard without rernision, party at the head of which Bonaparte has dared to penetrate the French territory. Evet y g'rLi grounds to hope for the most prompt success. " In the absence of the Duke de Berri please ta;:e the orders of Monsieur. Correspond daily wrth tt.e Prince. P, contrary to all expectati:.ns, the tneri.f advances towards Lyons, make your lisp itiaus t manoeuvre so as to harass him ar.d thwart his and finally to destroy him if you have an oprortnna,." Extract of letters written in the mc,nth of last by Elie Prince of hloskwa, to the hlatis..cr u: War.  " Besancon, 10th March.—Gencral C..uet