A barrister of the name of Protot has been also
arrested as con- cerned in the same plot. He seems to have made a very powerful resistance,—being a man of great physical strength,—and to have repeatedly appealed to the mob to rescue him. The official organs also assert that M. Gustave Flourens, of the Marseillaise, a chief actor in the insurrection of February, now believed to be in exile in London, is implicated in this plot, and has furnished the funds for the bombs. A letter to Baurie, signed only "Gustave," and regret- ting that some communication had not been sent to him "through Mr. Smalley, of the New York Tribune, 13 Pall Mall," speaks of the danger that "the man with the patent may go into the country, and all be delayed." M. de la Guerroniere rejects the notion that M. Flourens could be an assassin, hot-headed revolu- tionist as he is. But, at least, no denial by M. Flourens has yet been published. Another lettet found on Baurie, apparently an nnsent letter of his own, says, "The doctor has ended by declaring in favour of amputation, and speaks of that opera- tion as likely to take place between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m." The Associ- ation Internationale seems to be also implicated in the revolutionary designs, but that it can have had any conspiracy of a worse kind confided to it is in the highest degree improbable. Indeed, on the very day on which the assassination, as is alleged, was to have taken place, a democratic assembly was dissolved by a commissary of police because one of the speakers, after accusing the Emperor of all sorts of crimes, affected to sentence him, since capital punish- ment has been virtually abolished in France, to hard labour for life.
