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before the Court of Peers on Monday. At t wt. and counsel took their seats in front af the bar : the nineteen accused were brought in. Prin.:, in first ; preceded by a Lieutenant of (hind, v. , Messieurs Berryer and Marie, his advocates. T., • in black, and wore on his left breast a all his princely origin. Next came Gentiall

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-k of clothes, Colonels Voisin, (with his arai Montauban, •and Laborde, 'AIes5rs. Lae.

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responded to their names. The naa facers - number ; and consisted principally at m.• n' of the old Army and Navy, and the Empire, members of the Chamber of Pe. r,. After the terinimation of the inqa! ii the Prince to rise ; and questioued himv. fession, &e.

" names," replied the Pe' . -e. t• Bonaparte. I ant thirty-two yeer, .n.a• ; exiled Prince, residing in Lawlat .

General Montholon.Colowa it.Paraiti- aeetiscd, severally retinal '1 us.

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motives which do not allow me to reveal, to them even, how powerful and ex- tensive were my reasons to hope in success. One word more, gentlemen. I represent before you a principle, a cause, and a defeat ; the principle is the so- vereignty of the people; the cause is that of the Empire; the defeat is that of Waterloo I The principle you have acknowledged ; the cause you have served under ; and the defeat you wish to avenge. There is no difference between you and me ; and I will not believe that I can be now devoted to bear the punish- ment of the defection of others. Representative of a political cause, I cannot accept as judge of my wishes and acts a political jurisdiction. Your forms deceive nobody. In the conflict now beginning in this place, there are only the conquerors and the conquered. If you are the former, I have no justice to expect from you, and you have no right to impose upon me your generosity."

When the Prince was interrogated by the Chancellor after he had made his speech, he stated that he persisted in what he bad previously declared in his examinations. In reply to the reproach of Baron Pas- quier that he had wished to overturn the Government established by the Charter, he replied, that he had acted for the good of the nation, in endeavouring to cause the principle of the sovereignty of the people to be uppermost. He refused any further explanations.

Count Mcntholon was next interrogated. He admitted that he had followed Prince Louis to Boulogne, and had been induced to do so from the paternal affection he felt for him. He had gone to London on his personal affairs ; and had the occasion of seeing the Prince often, with whom be discoursed on politics. He knew nothing of his Boulogne projects. It was only a few moments before landing that the Prince informed him of his plans. "It would have been an act of coward- ice," said he, " not to have landed with the others. I could not have abandoned the Prince at such a moment."

The Court was occupied till its adjournment with the examination of the other prisoners : they denied having participated in the previous arrangements for the attempt. Colonel Voisin, who is still sOffering from his wounds, admitted, however, that he knew of the Prince's plans two months previous. On Tuesday, Lieutenant Aladenise, an officer in the French army, was examined. Ile admitted having participated in the enterprise. He was on the Continent at the time, and joined the Prince at Bou- logne by concert. The prisoner Persigny, the Aide-de-camp of Louis Napoleon, also boldly avowed that he participated in the attempt ; and that he had been also implicated in the attempt at Strasburg. He admitted he did all he could to induce the soldiers to join the Prince ; that his object was to subvert the government of the Bourbons. In his previous exa- mination he avowed, that had it not been for the interference of Ala- denise, he should have fired at the officer of the Forty-second, who re- fused to join them, and that he should have killed the Captain of the Grenadiers but for the same.

After the prisoners had been examined, witnesses were called, who deposed to the facts already known. The case for the prosecution was closed on Wednesday ; when the Procureur-General summed up the evidence against the prisoners. He pointed to Aladenise as one of the most guilty, because he had broken his oath of allegiance to Ilia sove- reign. In speaking of Prince Louis, Ile said no language could depict his guilt. The Royal clemency, formerly exercised towards him, had produced no effect ; and though he seemed to disparage the justice of the country, justice would not be withheld from him ; and the Court would require that the law should take its course.

M. Berryer then addressed the Court on behalf of Prince Louis Na- poleon and General Montholon. He alluded to the numerous changes -which had of late years taken place in the Government of France, as having unsettled the minds of the people. He contended that Prince Louis, having beeu acknowledged, in 1830, to be beyond the pale of the law, could nut now be tried hy the law- " When, in 1836, it was acknowledged that the Prince was without the pale of the law, how can he this day appear before you ? A law forbids him to set foot on the soil of France—this was the law of 1831. I opposed this law at that period; I demanded that the Napoleon family should enjoy the same rights with ourselves : but you repulsed my application ; you made this law ; and shortly after you expelled this Prince from Switzerland, from the bedside of his dying mother. I say, therefore, that !leis a man without the pale of the law. If you wish to sit in judgment upon him, let us cast a stray glance at some re- cent facts. A splendid mausoleum is being erected to the memory of the hero of the Empire; a squadron has been sent liurth to fetch his remains; his memory is resuscitated, covered with laurels: and now you wonder that some men who Lad shared the glories of the Empire should have been carried away by the same illusions which have now brought this young Prince before you. This young Prince has said, It is my province to make this glorious name reecho across the frontiers : I should be the chief mourner in the forthcoming funeral ceremony, for I am the Emperor's nephew : I will go to his tomb, and there will I lay his arms, and exclaim—France, I offer myself to you, will you accept me ? ' (Gssat seusatim in the court.) If there be any crime in this, it is your men of the Government who have caused it. You will not allow the name of Napoleon to appear at the same time on a tomb of glory and on a scatIo'd. You will not associate the mine of Napoleon with the punishment awartled to infinny. It caunot be possible that you should do this. Cease to be Poles's and become men."

M. Berryer subsequently spoke on behalf of General Montholon ; and produced several letters to show that the General thought the expedi- tion in time steam-boat was a mere party of pleasure. The Court then adjourned. A correspondent of the Post, in describing the first days' proceedings, observes—" The prisoners came into court escorted by the Gend'armerie of the Seine ; but it was remarked that the guards did not, as is the ordi- nary practice, take the accused by the arm. Glasses of eau fercri.'e were handed front time to time to the prisoners; who seemed quite at their ease. ludeed, the whole proceedings were carried on with great good humour. M. Berryer was in high spirits, and chatted with the Prince as if it were a soitale instead of a solemn