The Sun. — 1836-02-15 (London, England)

SITTING OF FRIDAY, FEB. 12.  At a quarter past 12 o'clock, as usual, the prisoners were brought into Court : their appearance was much the same as on the preceding days. As soon as Fieschi was seated, a letter was brought to him, to which he wrote a reply upon the spot, in doing which he several times interchanged signs with Nina Lassave.  M. Dupont—Another capital charge existed against Morey from the depositions of the girl Nina Lassave, and this he was now going openly to attack. At the intelligence of the attempt Fieschi must have been considered as a dead man by Morey, whether it was supposed that Morey had adopted the perfidious precautions which had been attributed to him, or that accident had taken off the prinCipal author of the crime. Would it be possible to be believed, then, that when all the proofs of culpability had been destroyed, Morey would go and create for himself another witness that might conduct him to the scaffold ? This was a moral impossibility, stronger than even a physical one. Would it be believed, too, that Morey was under any necessity of revealing his crime to any one, of furnishing arms against himself; and that he would have confided his secret to such a person as Nina, a. young and lost girl, who was on the point of destroying herself in.order to escape from the pursuit of justice? There was no intelligent Judge who would believe that a guilty person would thus gratuitously create for himself an accusing witness interested in his destruction.—(Sensation.) But there was still another and a second key to the mystery, in the- character of the girl. Fieschi had already informed the Court of her being his pupil ; she was well instructed for the purpose of lying, for she had been formed by the man who, from the beginning of the proceedings, had not uttered a single word of truth.—(Fieschi here made a horrible distortion of countenance.) It was not at the present time only that Nina had profited by the lessons of her master ; Fieschi bad lived in a state of concubinage'with the woman Petit, the mother of the girl Nina ; every morning he used to rise, as he said, for the purpose of going to work ; but from the bed of the mother, he passed to that of the daughter, and this infamous commerce continued for four months, without the woman Petit knowing anything about it, so well had Nina shown herself to be the pupil of Fieschi.—(Sensation.) What interest, then, it would be asked, could Morey have in getting Nina out of the way, and furnishing her with the means of returning to Lyons ? It was nothing else than the interest inspired by a young girl endeavouring to save herself from the hands of justice. Morey knew her despair, and her projects of suicide ; he became her benefactor, and she, like a worthy pupil of Fieschi, turned against the generous old man. Fieschi had an accomplice whom people might have taken for Morey ; this was an incontestable fact. If, therefore, his client was acquitted, his task was ended ; but if he was condemned, lie himself should never know a moment's repose till he had found out the man whom Fieschi had saved by bringing Morey to the scaffold. He bade the Court beware lest he should find him, and lest, when Morey was no more, he should return and place the true culprit in the midst of that assembly. (This able defence was followed by prolonged agitation throughout the Court.) M. Marie then offered the defence of Pepin. The accusation against his client depended upon the isolated declarations of Fieschi ; but he would beg the Court to read again the first declaration of Fieschi,—they would then see how be could lie with address ; they would find bow he bad talked of his wife and children, and yet at the time he had neither the one nor the other ; he had corrupted and violated the girl Nina, and raised an incestuous jealousy between her and her mother. He had lied while in prison at Embrun ; he had been driven from Croulebarba ; he had offered his -seevices to the police-=they had been refused ; he had affrighted his protectors by the savage nature of his gratitude ; he had offered them the services of his poinard,— this was the kind of man! this was Fieschi ! Because some men could look on death unconcerned, they therefore imagined that they had a right to the respect of their fellow men ; but were they (the Court) reduced so low as to seek in such a man an object of admiration ? He would appeal to them as philosophers, as magistrates, as all that was illustrious in France, whether it was possible that Fieschi's word could obtain the slightest portion of their confidence. It could not be so ; and it was impossible that they could pronounce a condemnation to death upon the faith of such a wretch.  Mr. I'aillet, counsel for Boireau, pleaded in behalf of his client. The Court would find some method of extending mercy to the young man his client., who, at the very worst, had only been a blind instrument of the conspiracy. M. Paul Fabre offered a few words for his client Beschcr, begging the Court not only to acquit him, but at the same time to mention in the decree that not the slighest suspicion attached to his character.: this was the only reparation that could be made him for his long and unjust detention. The Court then adjourned at a quarter to six o'clock.