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Letters From Paris. [From Our Own Corres...
" Singular Order is this , having disorder for its basis , in the negation of all rig hts , its stability founded on iniquity . In these days let every man who wears a scarf , a robe , or a uniform , let all who serve that man know well , that when they deem themselves tbe agents of a Power , they are but the comrades of a pirate . Since the 2 nd of December there are no more functionaries in France—there are only accomplices . The moment has come for every man to declare what he has done , and what he is still doing . The gendarmes that arrested the citizens whom the man of Strasbourg and Boulogne calls insurgents , arrested the guardians of the Constitution : the judge who tried the combatants of Paris and the provinces , set in the dock the upholders of the law . The gaoler who turned the
dungeon-bolt upon tbe condemned prisoners , held in durance the defenders of the Republic and of the State . The African general who imprisons at Lambessa the transported victims sinking under the burning heat , shuddering with fever , digging furrows which will be their graves—that General , I say , robs , tortures , murders men with whom is the right . All—generals , officers , gendarmes , judges—all are guilty of a heinous crime : they are the _persecutors—I do not say of innocent men , but of heroes—not of victims , but of martyrs ! The present aspect of things , seemingly calm , is really troubled . Let none be mistaken : when public morality is eclipsed , a dreadful shadow creeps over the whole order of society : every guarantee is lost—all protection vanishes .
" Henceforth there exists no longer in France a tribunal , a court , a judge that dare administer justice or pronounce a sentence upon any man , in any matter . Drag before the assizes what criminal you will , the thief will say to the judge— ' The Chief of _tlie State stole 25 millions out of the Pank ; ' the false witness will say to the judge— ' The Chief of the State stvore an oath before God and man , and that oath he broke f the man accused of arbitrary sequestration will say' The C 7 iitf of t 7 ie State arrested and imprisoned , in spite of every law , the representatives of the sovereign people / the swindler will say— ' The Chief of the State swindled his mandate , swindled his power ,
swindled the Tuileries ; ' the forger will say— ' The Chief of the State falsified the suffrage ; ' the footpad will say— ' The Chief of the State plundered , like a cut-purse , the Princes of the house of Orleans ; ' the murderer will say— " The Chief of the State mowed down by grape and musket shot , sabred , and bayonetted the passers-b y in the open , street ; ' and all alike , and with one voice , swindler , forger , false witness , footpad , burglar , assassin , will cry— ' And you , judges , you went to salute that man , you went to praise him for his perjury , to compliment him for having so adroitly forged , to glorify him for having swindled , to congratulate him on having robbed , and to thank him for having murdered . '
"This is a grave posture of affairs ; to fall asleep on such a state of things would be one disgrace the more It is time , I say , that this monstrous lethargy of the public conscience he shaken off ; after the scandalous triumph of * crime let there not be witnessed the fur nieire . scandalous indifference of the civilized world ; if that wore to be , avenging history would record the recompense ; and from this very day , as the wounded lion seeks solitude to die , so the man of justice would hide his facte in the midst of the common degradation , and take refuge in the immensity of contempt . . But this will not be , men will awake and arouse themselves . This hook has no other object than to roust ; tJiem from their sleep , " Aze . _A'e . & c
I his brochure circulates , as 1 have said , clandestinely . Thousands of copies have been sold , and create a prodigious sensation . Public , opinion is deeply moved . Kvery effort is made , to introduce it into the provinces , especially ( he rural districts . The latest ordonnancc against hawkers of pamphlets was specially directed against this terrible denunciation . You may conceive how the Government dreads its power . S .
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Continental Notes The; Treaty Uf Commerc...
_CONTINENTAL NOTES The ; Treaty uf Commerce of 1815 , between -Franco and _liclgiiiin , has been sufli-rcd to lapse without any provisional renewal by thc two Oovcrninents . Tho Moniteur ascribes ( bis result tot In- M inisteriiil crisis in liclgium ; unel asserts that negotiation ** , " whie-h it is hoped may terminate favourably , " nr # - _nti . 1 in ]> ro _^ r * - _\ i > . In some ; quarters it is surmised that _llidfrititti I _^ A . _i with no favourable _, eye ; on these' convention « , and ii inftii * ft _>'?*** t \ i'i renew thoni . A Paris letter in the _Fmfnyt'zitj / _ir'lu'm _, t , i Brussels , mentions the expulsion from I ' raw * - ni the . . _( _arroqiondenf of a Hungarian journal , who came : to I ' ttrw with M , Tclcki in MB . M . Persigny is at Dieppe , en _rangt , M . Magno taking his portfolio of the Home Department . The President se ; t out . on _Saturelay last , quite ; suddenly , < e _> visit his recently purchased estate in I . o ttedogno , where extensive works of drainage are in progress . lie returned to Nt . Cloud on Monday night , and on the following morning his departure was announced in the Moniteur .
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Prince Jerome Bonaparte is taking a cruise from port to port . He has visited Havre , Cherbourg , and St . Malo . The inauguration of the statues in bronze of Bexnardin de Saint Pierre and Casimir Delavigne took place on Sunday , at Havre . The statues are executed by David ( d'Angers ) . The Academie _Franchise had deputed MM . de Salvandy ahd Alfred de Musset to represent that body at the ceremony , but M . Salvandy was prevented from attending by a sudden indisposition . The arts and sciences were respectively represented by the Count de .
Nieuwerkerque and M . Michel Chevalier . When the statues were uncovered in the presence of the municipality , M . A . de Musset made a brief speech , in which , alluding to the unexpected absence of M . de Salvandy , who was to have made the speech , he said he could not venture to dilate upon the graceful tenderness of the author of " Paul and Virginia , " or the manly genius and pure style of Casimir Devigne , without study and reflection . M . Ancelot , of the Academy , read some verses composed for the occasion . Count de Pelleport , a relative of Bernardin de St . Pierre , thanked the town of Havre for the honour done to his ancestor .
M . Franoni , the recalcitrant Archbishop of Turin , has been on a visit to the Cardinal Archbishop of B _^ _sanejon . The Grand Council of Neufchatel has passed a law for the punishment of high treason , rebellion , and sedition . This law is intended to restrain the manoeuvres of the Prussian monarchical faction in the Canton . The latest accounts of the Emperor of Austria ' s progress in Hungary are from Klausenburg , where he was on the 3 rd instant . He was expected at Vienna on the 14 th instant . The presence of the Archbishop of Paris at the Faculty
of Letters of Paris , on a recent occasion , is considered a demonstration by the head of the church in France , in favour of the classical system of education condemned by the Univers and the Abbe Gaunie . A thesis in Latin , and one in French , were delivered ; the former was a defence of Pope St . Gregory against the charge of having persecuted letters and destroyed the cliefs-d ' ceuvre of antiquity ; and the latter , on the study of profane literature during the early ages of the Christian era . The conclusions of the candidates were altogether in favour of the system . followed for so many ages in the French schools .
The dispute between the ultra-clerical party and the State on the projected Civil Marriage Law , is still raging in Piedmont . The Bishops of Savoy have issued a violent address declaring any catholic married under the ne _^ r law as ipso facto excommunicate : his wife a concubine , and her offspring illegitimate . The Sardinian Government has taken no notice of thia _ecclesiastical protest ; but M . Peinati , the Minister of the Interior , has in a circular warned the provincial authorities against the factious agitations of the priests . The Pasle Gazette announces that the petition of the populace of Friburg against the Government imposed on them was rejected by the Federal Assembly , on the 5 th inst ., by a majority of 79 to 18 voters . Filangieri has resigned , and since resumed tho governorship of Sicily .
The trials for the revolt of May lo , have again commenced at Naples . An electric telegraph has been put up between Naples and Gaeta . This is the first experiment of thc sort in the kingdom . The material is all English . The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa quotes letters from Rome of the 4 th , stating that Austria and France havo if , in contemplation to withdraw their troops from thc Roman states , leaving only about 2 , 000 French at Civita Vccchia , anel a small Austrian garrison at Ancona . This is to be done as soon as tho Papal troops shall have been organized . We need scarcely add that the materials for a Papal , as distinguished from a national army , do not exist at Rome .
Our Mediterranean fleet , increased by thc screw-squadron from Lisbon , under the orders of Admiral ] _3 undas , is cruising off Capo Le Gatt , trying rates of sailing , exercising crews at gunnery , & e . The Firebrand employed to take tho mails to ami fro to Gibraltar , has lately been indulging the " rank and fashion" of Malaga to a grand ball given by the officers of the squadron in tho oiling , who , no doubt , wero glad enough to refresh themselves from their labours at sea by n peep at tho " beauties" of tho Spanish shore .
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" VON BECK "—ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE . AooomiiNU to promise wc present the reader with the important evidence contained in Mr . Toulmin Smith ' s pamphlet on the Von Heck imposture : — The Statement of the United Stales' Charge di Affaires " Tiie book itself , published under pretence of its having been written by this woman , contains abundant internal evidence of its want of authenticity . This evidence would pass unobserved by the ; mass of English readers , requiring , iih it deies , a familiarit y with tho details of places and events . Neveral such instances were pointed out at the hearing before tho Magistrates at Hirmingluim . But an illustrative instance ; can now be givem of the absence of authenticity , even in points with which , as tbe servant of the
principal spy , Raciilula might be supposed to have been acquainted . On page . ' 10 , Ac ., of Personal _Atliuintnres ( first _, edition ) , it is told how the protended writer this woman of 54 , as sworn by _Dorru at the trial / it Warwick- —was _Heinl . ( ei the United States Embassy at . Vienna , and how she concealed her despatches . Mr . Stiles , the United ( States Charge' d'Affaires , has lately published his own narrative of what then look place . Let the two be compared . If will he ; founel that they are ; wholly irreconcilable , both as lei the ) person and the mode of carrying the despatches . The upholders of the Imposture must necessarily charge Mr . Stiles with wilful anel motiveless falsehood . Every one else ) will see , as the fact was , that this Impostor never went on such amission af all . It was the person named in Mr . Pulszk y _' s anel Mr . Ilajiiik ' s letters , as the ' principal spy , ' who was wont on thut mission . Racidula picked
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up only a clumsy and erroneous account of it—wro-n _» _™ in the dates . on _& even The Impostor ' s Account . " _G-orgy entrusted me with a despatch for the _i ? bassy at Vienna I had entrusted to me a 1 _* _S " from Kossuth to the Embassy [& e . & c includ _" another blunder in calling Mr . Motoschitzky a B _^ _3 which he is not . ] My military friends advised me T ' conceal the letters m my haversack . This did not _axmeZ to me good counsel . . . . ' I caused one of the planks of th cart to be hollowed out at the end , without _breaking th surface of the side , and placed all my letters in the % _nux , thus formed . The plank was then replaced , and the _job ing at the end rubbed over with clay . ... On the _evening of December the 5 th I left Presburg . . . . Early on the 6 th I entered Vienna . ... I repaired to the Hotel of the . Embassy , where I was received with the greatest attention . ... In the evening I received the promised answer of the Ambassador to Kossuth ' s letter . '
Mr . Stiles ' Account . "On the night of the 2 nd December , 1848 , the author was seated in the Office of the Legation of the United States at Vienna , when his servant introduced a youna female , who desired , as she said , to see him at once upon urgent business . She was a most beautiful and graceful creature , and , though attired in the dress of a peasant the grace and elegance of her manner , the fluency and correctness of her French , at once denoted that she was nearer a princess than a peasant . ... [ A wagon rack was fetched into the room . ] This rack , which is a fixture attached either to the fore or back part of a peasant ' s wagon , and intended to hold for the horses
hay during a journey , was composed of small slats , about two inches wide , and about the eighth of an inch thick , crossing each other at equal distances , constituting a semicircular net-work . . . . An hour nearly was consumed before we could get the rack in pieces . When this was accomplished , we saw nothing before us but a pile of slats ; but the fair cornier , taking them up one by one , and examining them very minutely , at length selected a piece , exclaiming , ' This is it ! ' Ij y the aid of a penknife , to separate its parts , the slat was found to be composed of two pieces , hollowed out in the middle , and affording space enough fo hold a folded letter . . . .
" The statement , therefore , of a person assuming the title and name of Paroness Peck , and who , in a work upon the Hungarian War , published in England about two years ago , claimed for herself the credit of having been the bearer of the despatch referred to , is altogether without foundation . "—Austria in 1848-9 , vol . ii . p . 156 , note . " Mr . Stiles expressly says , on the 12 th December of the same year , that he had ' heard nothing more from either side . ' "— -lb ., p . 403 .
Diary of one of the Impostor ' s Comrades . " Some very remarkable additional evidence relating to this imposture has been furnished hy a Diary written in the Hungarian tongue , which was found in the house whose hospitality the impostor had abused in Birmingham . It contains no name or mark indicating who was the writer . It was not written by the principal impostor herself , for sho could neither write nor Speak Hungarian . Two of her comrades ( besides Derra ) visited her while there : but each of these , like Derra himself , denied , at Warwick , that he had ever called her as sho is called in this Diary . Who was tho writer is , however , of no importance . The contents , of which the opportunity of inspecting a translation has been afforded mo , speak for themselves . It will bo enough here to call attention to a few points .
" The Diary extends from the 1 st of January to tho 26 th of August , 1851 . The first noticeable fact is , that the impostor is therein many times called ' Racidula ;' never , except once , with a sneer , spoken of as ' Baroness . ' Where not called ' Racidula , ' she is called simply ' Beck , ' with tho feminine termination .
" On tho Oth of January is the entry , ' Conspiracy [ conjuratia is tho force of thc original ] at ' _s : ' and sevoral other entries occur , showing tho sort of thing that was going on in this direction . " Attention must now ho recalled to tho documents No . II . and III . above . * Tho date of each of them is 15 th January . Now in tho Diary thoro occurs , on tho 1 . 2 th of January , the following entry : — ' Consultation at _Raciduhi's . ' And , on tho 15 th itself , the writer expressly enters : — 'At Racidula ' s . ' There can bo no doubt that these letters we ; re planned at the ' consultation ' of tho 12 fh . is
In the begging letter of tho 15 th tho impostor says she ' abandoned by her friends , without acquaintances ; ' and declares she must die of hunger if not relieved . Jhit it is proved , by this Diary , that , at tho very timo this letter was sent off , the writer of tho Diary was frequently with her ; that ' consultations' wero held with her ; and on tho SHh of February is the entry , 'With Beck and her comrades . ' And it appears by the same Diary that , with no moans of lawful income appearing since tho date oi the letter of the 15 th January , this woman and hor comrades lived in anything but a starving state . tl )
"From the same Diary it is demonstrated that « writer of it was also the eoncOetor of tho whole or greater part of the book which was to bo foisted on the public as the Autobiography oJ'the Paroness Von Peck . No " than three ayreeunfits' with her aro expressly inention eth Tho following *; nlrie ; s speak for themselves : —March 'My work p leases Bock . ' March 7 . ' Bock has hud mjr work copied . * March 20 . ' Beck has great need of m _» - April 25 . ' Much writing of Beck ' s Memoirs . ' Ap ril _*» . ' First volume of Memoirs . ' August «— two days after n is recorded in the same Diary that tho woman had g <>»" from ' London to Birmingham , the writer of tho Diary romainiiig iu London ' New beginning of Beck ' s A utobiography ? August II . ' Memoir writing . ' In the su "
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14081852/page/4/
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