Albion (Newspaper) - December 20, 1830, London, Middlesex MONDAY DECEMBER Price IMPERIAL OF FERGUSSON presented petitions from Castle vi reform and from praying fur of presented petitions from ilic riew a similar petition the liberty of a petition from the overseers of the liberty of Saffron assessed taxes and similar petitions from die of presented petitions from md against colonial same noble lord presented petitions from Galway relating fp the elective franchise from against colonial slavery from arid others ill the of against the taxes the trade in The same noble lord gave notice on the 17th of fie should submit a motion to the house on the subject of the Evesham presented a petition from of an efficient iri and the practice of a rigid economy a county petition from Renfrew to the same effect especially urging the vote by ballot petitions ftom the incorporated tailors of in favour of parliamentary reform from the of Nairne to the same effect ftom in also to jhe same effect ftom the borough and town council of in praying for an extension of corporate rights from in favour of reform from praying for a more equal distribution of the grants for in Ireland from praying for reform and for reduction of and especially for the removal of the tax upon which the petitioners de clared to be an odious monopoly of petition presented by the member was from the incorporated trades of in favour of HUME moved for a return of the number of officers who had been added to the list of the army since the accession of his present of the rank of and in ferior to and whether they have been so added with or without The member also gave notice that on Monday he should move for certain returns respecting the customs and excise duties of tlie Isle of with the civil and military establishments of that the salaries of the officers employed in that establish presented petitions from three places in praying for reform in parliament also from another place in the same against the duty on PRYSE PRYSE presented three petitions from Cardigan and three from other places in against colonial DENISON presented a petition from Mary against the assessed and ftom a congregation of dissenters assembling at the New Jerusalem in the Water against colonial GEORGE BANKES presented a similar petition from the Protestant dissenters of Corfe JOHNSTON presented a petition from for par presented petitions colonial slavery from and from WYSE presented a petition from and another place in the county of for a repeal of the RYE Alderman THOMPSON presented the report of the Rye Election appeal finding that tie right of election was in the and paying scot and and that the two petitions referred to them did neither of thein set forth the parties in whom the right of election to be CORRUPT The Marquis of in presenting a as we from took that opportunity to give notice that after the holidays he should submit a motion to the which afford the and still more an opportunity of their characters from the imputations which had been extensively circulated with respect to On the other should those charges prove well the house would have an Opportunity thus afforded it of considering whether or not it would be desirable to punish the offending parties by dis franchising a borough in which such flagrant acts of bribery and cor ruption had been ELLIS intimated that on Monday he should move the ad of the house on the following Adjourned at four oclock to TRIAL Continued from our Paper of The President to de you not act ac cording to what you called a political gospel My motto has always The King and the Charter Justice and firm I had no other political creed Did you oppose the ordinance in the council I opposed them in some which were contrary to the opinions I have always Why did those sign the ordinances who were opposed to them The majority decided the Did you not yield to a powerful authority The respect which I owe to the King should impose silence such points but I think I am at liberty to say that never did the King attempt to exercise any authority over his Ministers at least I can speak lor myself of which they could de formerly Minister of gave the following evidence regarding the ministerial conferences after the had been voted At this period there were two opinions in the cabinet which gave rhe to serious Some thought that the which had declared opposed to the should be dis solved that the royal prerogative warranted the King in retaining a ministry whose to which alone the chamber was to had not been They hoped from the great prosperity of the manifested by so many the rise of the of the activity of and the improvement of the revenue that men of enlightened and patriotic minds would unite to prevent a struggle which might compromise all these ad Such were the ideas of one part of the The of whom I was did not indulge in these This to the resignation of M Courvoisier and The depositions of twentyfive witnesses were taken this and a number of interesting and curious facts We proceed to a selection formerly Commissary of I went on the Tues day to the Prefect of Police for instructions he said he had none to and appeared much embarrassed he told me Paris was about to be declared in a state of On the Wednesday he in formed me positively that the city was in a state of All civil said is at an I am no longer Prefect of Police you are no longer Commissary you are nothing at so away with A On the Wednesday I took an there was a cessation of the to venture out in order to visit a I saw a group of people standing by a shop a hosiers near my Rue Neuve de One man talking very He said he had his pockets full of catt continual pelting with without offering advocate of the Cour and engaged in up a history of the gave tlie following I have no personal knowledge of the but am collecting them with as much accuracy as could not have in the same manner at at the Hotel of the Minister for Foreign Affairs the people the attack while at the Palais Royal the troops and gendarmerie first used It may be important to know how the troops generally behaved to wards the if will permit me to the result of the investigations I have made in collecting I must declare my conviction however deplorable the calamities that finally the military displayed neither animosity nor but wore for the most part extremely I will state some examples which perhaps will he thought A superior officer was at the head of a regiment on the boulevard Saint when a man issuing from a shop immediately con took a deliberate fired two shots at the both of which The instead of commanding his men to return the rode up to him and You mutt ac yourself to be a very poor marksman you had j return into your j This from an intimate and an I will adduce another example which I think and for the truth of can bring men These two men were in ambush behind some on the roof of a house which commanded the and from this station had fired repeatedly at the soldiers At length it was ascertained whence these shots The commanding officer caused a piece of cannon to be pointed towards the behind which they were and their death would thus have been The before putting the match to the sent into the house to warn the men of their and they instantly escaped through a window in the Sufficient time having been the camion was dis the chimneys were shivered to and the men found themselves safe and I might cite facts of an opposite For I have been told that in the beginning of the a gendarme wanj tonly killed an old after trampling him under his hones I have also heard that after a man who was escape had been the soldiers amused with running their bayonets into him but I will these as facts they are simply Commissary of deposed to the following fart I witnessed what I am about to on the in the Place du There had been a funeral and a mourning coach was returning in which were two Unfortunately they were recognised by their and loud cries arose of Down with the The two ecclesiastics in the carriage were an old man and a young The former sat still and was safe but the latter had the imprudence to open the door and perhaps intending to address the A dozen were in stantly levelled and discharged at He fell dreadfully but not mortally I him away into a neighbouring and he still Some short time afterwards when he had been placed on a a number of people taking refuge from the I told them it Was one of their comrades who had been and thus preserved Alexander deposed that he had been employed j by the Marshal to bring about a cessation of in order to afford time for the of political He offered his with this between the people and the in the place Vendome and the always waving a white handkerchief on his approach as a token of his pacific His evidence tends to that the troops were always ready for an ac and at place hung handkerchiefs on their muskets as an offer of truce but he the firin did not cease on the of the On one where the troops were sustaining an he heard a soldier excl in answer to the Are you not Frenchmen French man I like Vive la but I say Vive le Roi Roi avant advocate and one of the National deposed that he had travelled about the streets from curiosity during the three and became exceedingly tedious in his The following conversation occurred de understand the witness knows much about the events of the three Let him state them Masson to the Rue dss I saw woman in a round General a young woman in a round The hope silence will be Let the witness state his facts say then that it was a young woman in a round and she had the pockets of her apron filled tricoloured There were two robust men with her who protected and she walked with an air of I great many other but 1 always got out of the way when there was I have something more to Saw the guard take the arcade Colbert on Wednesday they carried that post in the same way as the Place an historical painter whp lodges in my is preparing a and I have no doubt will represent this Marshal Count Girard was next who said he was one of the commissioners sent on the Wednesday on the part of the people of Paris and the to the to if it were possible to stop the sanguinary conflict of winch the city was then the He in nearly the terms of his depositions al ready the particulars of the interview which these orders for arrests of July my attention was drawn to ah article in the which I thought it my to im although I much it as well as the necessity of making it the subject of as I had an affection for the government it 1 thought myself bound to follow up the 1 soon received the orders for arrest from and transmitted them at once to the Prefect of who called before him Chief the The latter snid the execution of these arrests would take a long as he should have first to inquire the address of the person who signed one of the impugned articles in the on the other the tumult in the capital would in all the efforts of the police these believe they were since destroyed by the Judge of Here the witness was pressed very close by the commissioners for the prosecution to relate the name of the person who lie said was privy conversation with Mangin on the subject of the projected after a good deal of he named Rivers at present a judge of the Court of The witness did not name this person till repeatedly called upon by Count and his not to withhold name in delicacy whatever to his and declared with that he had no whatever that towards him should withhold the court the fullest information upon every part of his Rivers was here sent and the that he could riot at the moment be An order for his speedy formerly head clerk at the Prefecture dc said that the Prefect called on him to inform him that ing the several newspapers had been and ordered him to proceed to the seizure of the printing Wit ness that in consequence of this he prepared the war and the prefect gave to witness 43 being the num ber of persons wlo had signed the protestation against the ordi Witness delivered the warrants to the Kings who declared that they could not be put in On the next day the warrants were sent for bythe and he delivered them inlo the hands of a de formerly Prefect of the was then and that on being informed of the he paid a visit to the Minister of the to whom he declared that he thought to resign his as his ad ministration had always been of a mild and paternal The minister replied that the public tranquillity would Soon be and invited him to continue to fulfil his ordinary On the de was that the insur rection appeared still more and that a great number of men were marching towards the Hotel de and the Ministry of the He immediately got into lus and went to de whom he badly informed of the nature of against the unhappy troubles of the and had actually seon the Prefect of on the Sunday the necessary orders for the production of this Just at this moment the Duke is Broglie and de who were not in court took their seats behind the Presi The first witness this day was who deposed as we have already given in his depositions to the particulars of his to Marshal Marmont at the with and in the hope of negotiating fur pension of the Parisian a revocation of the and a change of the ministers cf Charles He exactly it the terms already employed in his published the t expressed by Marshal at his melancholy situation as which compelled him to passive and the message Prince dc that as he had no power of acceding to their it was useless to receive the It was on the sug gestion of Marmont that name was when asked if they had any objection to see The answer whatever but when the Marshal retired to an adjoining to speak to the Prince and rejoined the answer above such an interview would be staircase an officer that Prince great pleasure to receive which in the to be a The Marshal said he would communicate to the King what had but hinted no hope of de here rose and expressed a wish that the Court would ask if upon Marshal return from Prince to announce the presence of the had observed any change in the Marshals countenance which would tend to convey a notion that he had encountered obstacle in the on the part of the to the pacific intervention of Lafitte and his on being desired by tlie President to said that he had observed no of that The Marshals features were as those of a man who had no expectation of success from the beginning to their and who merely on his return to them wished to that he had any further communication to make to they should hear from There was a crowd of officers in the anteroom as they whose countenances a hope of a successful issue to their but on retiring these appearances were changed to disappointment and it was Laroche who said to under a tha Prince wished to see The Marshal always said he should send a despatch to Cloud of their uni indicated by words and he had no hopes of our proposition being acceded but that if any change took he should let us The evidence of both Lafitte and Perrier was re My question the I entered the group and asked him to explain He that the soldiers had been at tempting to frighten the people by firing cartridges without balls taking a number out of his offered them to my I as a and advised the people to return home as it was plain the military did not wish to harm them iii tlis first witness here produced the cartridge in compliance with the desire of the and con I heard of another fact of similar In the Rue de separated from their were surrounded of One them was seized and liis when one of the ir Look here there are no halls in these cartridges Tlie this to of a major of Several witnesses were with the view of if whether the firing was first commenced by the military oi the All appeared agreed troops submitted to j as their had with Marshal Marmont on that day at the Tuileries the regret of Marmont at his unfortunate as a soldier and obedient necessarily to higher authorities tlie demand of the commissioners to have the ordinances the ministers of that day ami hostilities instantly stopped by an armis On these the commissioners were to endeavour to appease the popular and restore the dominion of the He likewise described that their message was taken to Prince whom they said they were ready to see bin that the Prince as he could not accede to their terms he could not see de was intently occupied with Marshal Girards examination but declined asking him any His the from the de positions hehad already with a view to if possible that Marmont could not have had time to communicate with they remained at the Tuileries on the day in ques except for and whether they had not ascertained the perfect readiness of Prince to receive the deputation if they had thought proper to enter the apartment in which he was occupied at the Prince here and the moment he was in formed of the arrival of the he had expressed his perfect readiness to meet He had certainly sent them a message that if their object were to demand a repeal of the as an in dispensable there was no use iri his seeing as he had no power to repeal them without reference to the King but that he was at the same time quite ready to see and confer with them upon anything within liis province to His only reason for not coming out into their chamber that it would be useless for him to discuss which he had of himself no possible authority at the moment to comply Procureur of the was then and his statement differed very little from that which we have already pub He described the communication of the and his visit on the Monday to the Prefect of and afterwards to Count and de and the utter hopelessness in which he found himself when called upon to sec the executions of these decrees of the He related over again the dangers he encountered in passing from the Tuileries and the Palace of He repeatedly declared that on the Monday he did not receive from any of the or more particularly from de any instructions relative to the execution of the which he only knew by the He said that he tried to see de on the Monday but could Here Count and expressly declared that he wss the whole of that evening in his engaged in receiving perr sons on and might have seen at if the witness had called to see him upon official The witness in tlie confusion of the confound The witness here underwent a long the part of the commissioners for the in which he was and earnestly to tell the whole according to the terms of his injunction which he declared to be unne as he wished to state every to the recol of what passed at the He said he saw Count de Pey ronnet on the Monday but he positively declared that he did not see him afterwards on that He ap prised by that he had seen and conversed with and that 46 be from the arid he required large reinforcements to enable him to establish provisional municipality at the Hotel de On re turning to the Hotel de Ville the Prefect found all in an apparent state of tranquillity but ere he saw several columns coming down the adjacent headed by several resolute The guard retired without being and the seeing that his intervention would be retired The people soon be came masters of the Hotel de and began to ring the and hoisted the tricoloured The troops soon arrived great arid a fire which lasted six oclock in the During the night the Hotel de Ville was but it was retaken in the and tables were brought for the establishment of a The Prefect finding himself in such a painful left the place and wrote a report of what he had without knowing whether his report would be About 11 oclock he was informed of the capitulation of and from was de Chabrol that on seeing the Prefect of he found him far from being might then have taken measures most effi for the restoration of When were you acquainted with the declaration of siege Wednesday Mhen you saw Mangin on did he speak of the siege alluded to that but did not speak posi of de witness has spoken entirely conformable to On the Sunday I received no kind of and was to tally ignorant of what had On the Monday I remained in the same state of On Tuesday I was just getting into my in go to when I saw de i and I spoke to him in a tone of surprise and not of complaint for if I had any complaints to I should have made them else Boddon de the Commissary of Police of the that lie had for some time before the end of July by public of the expectation of coup and he and asked Prince about The Prince assured him that the Government had no such and desired him to an assured communication to that effect to the commercial people which was accordingly and the report to the contrary attributed to Musset was examined to show that the ministers had at tempted to convene a Council on but Paris being in a state of the state of things was such that such a meeting was found of the that they were early apprized at his office of the promulgation of the but had then received no orders respecting the distribution of troops through the Having heard since the accusation of the ministers by the Chamber of that Prince had been charged with some participation in the fires in he felt to come forward and declare that when these conflagrations no man than Prince to have them fully and that to the knowledge of the witness he had put every engine of the administration of the into play to detect I the This he knew to his personal knowledge as an i employee of the The had you a knowledge of Paris being placed in a state of siege On the Wednesday de desired me to prepare a council of as the city was declared iri a state of and 1 took the necessary arrangements at the and transmitted an account of them to the My arrangements were to send him the names of the staff these he but I am not aware any council of war was actually indeed I believe The Prince here rose and explained that he PS a matter of to know tlie system of legislation of a council of and he had sent to require the official particulars at the War Upon these he gave me some technical explanations rela tive to the information he Joseph to Marshal a colonel on the was then examined as to the operations of some of the Garde Royal during the His account was exactly the same as that of others already given in the published narrative of the three Rives was here forthcoming upon the subject of the allusion made to his name by the du He that upon reading the ordinances in the on the Monday he repaired to Mangin at the who told him that he had been to the Minister of the Interior to complain of not having been apprised of the ordinances before their Count here rose to declare that he had not kept himself out of the sight of Mangin to avoid imparting to him this He certainly did not go to look for him on the oc as he had not the honour of his personal acquaintance nor had he ever spoken to him on the Sunday except in a general way but on the Sunday ten he id most positively pi for these ordinances on the fol at the same express to him his great ap of the last sentence was delivered by Count with great The Procureur du Roi was here recalled and placed next The former again that though Mangin had said he was only officially apprised of the ordinances through the on the Monday yet that he had intimated some general knowledge of the intention to issue them on the preceding but that it was then too late to avert the consequences of want of preparation to enforce The at a quarter past adjourned till THIRD peers met this morning at ten as and the prisoners were conducted to the bar as on the former When the Court was formally counsel for Count rose and addressed the respecting the visit of to the Count on the He that an employee of the Minister of the who had read the evidence of had called upon him to that he wished to be for the purpose of showing that Count great attention by the and these gentlemen were immediately accommodated with seats on the floor after the delivery of their Perrier was the next witness and he deposed in full confirmation of Lafitte s narrative of the interview with Marmont at the and exactly in the words already in his depositions already Hewas asked no questions on the part of the The two next witnesses the in attendance upon Marshal who were called depose to the occur rences which they witnessed near his person while on duty during the three Oils of them the requested the indulgence of the court for his manner of speaking the French de Guize that as aidedecamp to the Marshal Duke of he knew that on the Monday morning the who was appointed to the command of the troops in had set out hastily to Cloud but whether lie saw there either the King or Prince witness could not Ke then narrated the orders given on the Monday to the troops to arrange themselves in different parts of Paris from the Tuileries to the and on the tj stop the popular The orders of the Marshal were for the troops to their arms with the greatest reserve and caution and only violence in case of imminent constant communication Byline of the the motives for issuing J had throughout evinced Ihc utmost anxiety to take precautions He believed that the Marshal kept up a with the King during the and had him of the On the Tuesday he knew the Marshal wrote to the that all was and the troops undisturbed in their it on that day Paris was declared to be in a state of Later the same all things were and ftom the accounts received by the he to the King to that it was not a popular tumult but a real revolution which was impend ing in Paris and it was just after lie had written that Lafitte and the deputies came to the the moment they were wrote another letter to the winch was instantly despatched to He could not tell what answer was re turned from Cloud but he believed a letter did come late in the and it was that the order was given to distribute a months gratification extra pay to Did ihe Marshal take any steps to stop the effusion of blood He did he desired the troops to cease and ordered a mation to be to forbid the from resorting to The witness was lie proceeded to when da and dArgout arrived at the but he knew no thing of the particulars of their interview with the as he went out at the time to order a carriage but while there for a mo these visiters in a very warm conversation with the Marshal and Prince of the Commissioners of Do you know what orders the Marshal received during the Tuesday except that he was constantly holding communications of one kind or To did you communicate on his part throughout that day Repeatedly to Prince Do you know what orders or communications the Marshal received from the Prince de here and that Marshal had his orders direct ftom the and had also commu directly with the King at and this was proved ti the witness who had gone straight to Cloud with thi Marshals The witness I certainly did on the Wednesday carry letters from the Marshal to the King at The you carry any letters from the Marshal to Prince while they were both in the Tuileries that would have for they were almost always in adjoining apartments at that He proceeded to that the letters to the King were always and sometimes forwarded by the and at other times by Tlie President then asked Prince if he wished to say any thing upon the matters deposed to by this Prince de have already said that we held cations with Marshal but merely received informations taken from and which often I main that no official correspondence ever took place between the Marshal and otherwise traces of it would be found and I never received any report from I wrote twice to the Kins after the departure of the deputies froni the again on Wednesday but merely to inform him of the course of Persil By what did Marshal Marmont receive the distribute to The Witness de had it from the Did the Marshal ask an order from the King to obtain this money from the Treasury I dowt I can only affirm that the order was given in the course of the and that the money was distri buted during the read the ordinances on the Monday morning in the he repaired to Marshal Mar and informed him of In the course of the upon hearing that a crowd were going to Bagatelle to carry off the Duke de he ordered a troop of lancers to repair hut only to use the sides of their swords in dispersing the On no crowd was the Duke de Bordeaux was already removed to On morning the witness was sent to Prefect of desire him to issue a proclamation to the He went in of the day to the residence of de with jie found several mi and on his return of the placing of Paris in a state of was by the Mar shal to carry a despatch to and he to his The King caused it said to the that he should occupy the Place de Carrousel and the Place Louis act in The witness carried this reply to the Do you know if money was distributed to tVe and by whom the order for distribution was given I knew that was but not by whose order it was The President to de Explain yourself as to the distribution of By was the order given de All that I can say that I was totally a to I this distribution of 1 nave since heard that money was dis on Thursday or the
