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-J1t'1r." /XFEliXAL M, :i(, HlXE PLOT. ~f T:1C trial of r:="cri lets h22: s protracted, ard th evidence adduced has been so voluminous, that V J. ') j l 1 in i weekly Journal ii!c-» it would he impossi- hi. to :e ercn a:l ai (erne.t of:t. 'he fact.. w ich have been detailed in the extracts previously Ui.'ea in the Gazette and fwiictrd'in, were th:> most in.portaut that have been disclosed, and t,)o ai -I long drawn cut minutirj of tha subsequent pro- ceedings would jive litre sntisfac'ion to our rca-'ess. M e now subjoin the Speech of F^sehi ill hi-; defence* a- it em¡ucat:y shew, the dMr¡cler!('s of ¡he \i¡;n) ar i half-destracted creature who made if. The sit'ioii'neiri j re- umed Ft s hi rCèP, upon w-Vrh ti u;r«t pre found silence prevailed iu the Kail. He leaned for a xl->rt tiims on she bar, and then exprc.-ssu h; r;sc-lf in the tolTo-.vng terms:— Honourable Peer?,—I have begged you to be indulgent to my faults in language, and I hope you will now pardon n. for the blunders I may commit. I am happv in hi ving lived to this day; to-morrow I may die and i \1\ tell civ manner of thi:1kiu.; hereafter. ] happy in bavins; lived to this dav, because I have been able to di clo-e rnv accomplices. AJy conscience, piy reason, a: the Gospel dictated to me the duty of being useful to In country, It is not alter the brilliant add res* of my acvocate that I shall endeavour to defend myself. I do »n ■. pretend to whitewash my affair: no, gentlemen, ] kr-jw that 1 am suilty. 1 became a soldier when vBry yeunz; you have seen the renters of my service. I made the campaign of Calabria, and went thrrJIIgh It w h honour; 1 was made a prisoner in Sicily, and tJ'i.!1spol'trd 'o T>T 11a, whence 1 escaped, came ad jo ned the army and made the disasterous campaign in H'lssi>t. Do) my breast shone the star of honour which I gained in Ktisdci I will not speak of the unfoitljnate circumstances by whicn it was torn from mc. It will fodow ine to my burial, and 1 will have it placed upon ir y grave. I have been annihilated for these three rl:,s and have need to recover my noral strength arter b wing been stoned by the advocetes of rn accomplices. E'it I forgive thetr.. It was I that told of the attempt it was I that declared the plot: not that I wished lb save it v seif, for 1 am desirous of going a/one to the scaffold. Icutler,"n, yon judge with the law, and you can- n >t do otherwise. Lut the advocates, wtiy are they anxious io see me go to the scaffold ? However, I par- dm tnetn. I have been a captive at Embrun; and I h ive already allowed myself to tell the Court that I am m a ) observer. When a prisoner I always conducted n -vt.e, as an P,htatici entitled myself to the c"nh';f;ncecfnr,ychi;fs.Iwasappointedforerr:.in. I remained ten ygars at Embrun; but why? It was b--ca!i»-c °n my register the-e was a note which said, If l'ie?chi resume his civic rigdits he will return into our country. and thev v.-el! knew that I was no fool. ( Laughter) country. and thev v.-el! knew that I was no fool. (Laaghtcr) J »u will not find prisoners, gentlemen, who conducted themselves so well as I did, and yet 1 was not pardoned. L'U 'ct a director of a prison be asked why I will tell juu. Ia a prison those who behave ill and will not work, v. no pass the lives in the black-bole, or who disturb t!'e repose of the chiefs, are got rid of by being par- d 'ned but I remained ten years in prison. On comIng ° 't of it I arrived at Lyons. I will not speak of my sojourn there I will speak of another circumstance; of Llat unhappy woman who will have to reproacn herself «-) her life for her conduct towards me, and whom 1 still ic,,er to have seen. However, I am unwilling to speak to you any longer about that atter. She turned me out of doors naked, without a shirt to my hick, without five sous in my pocket. I found a good old man (my heart bled while 1 accused him) who gave me his shirts, lodged me and ted rne it is not, therefore, from vengeance that I have spoken against II im. If I light a candle in mid-day, in the presence of the sun, the strongest will prevail. Well, then, if I have aeeusvdMcrey, it was to say to my country, take care of thy- s< -f! Let men who have studied in their cabinets travel, b ;e me, from Calabria to the Moskowa. they will then know what arc the manners of different countries; there- fore, as for myself, while at Nforey's, I made toy machine f'r amusement; for I have a habit of always doing some- thing. I can never eat except standing; it is a custom 1 have. good or had. Good God I Sir, you see I were without resource. I had a benefactor, but mv tenefactor rcc«.i\ed me, ill, and he were right "I r 'U persuaded 'hat at this day to-dui/ people regret me. j ut the scaff .ld is waiting for me — I shall march to it. ■very thing conspires in a few words for the truth. There I' n^lhing remaining behind as far as I am concerned. I eiun and Morev saiu to themselves before the 2Sth, we » "Jst keep ourselves ready—we must say that the Carlist P'llty are t? str;ke the },10w. nut people say that I was c^sunu.aung; must I then have been like that young lamp oireau? (Laughter and noise in the court.) I >o-v o only three persons to whom a secret ought to bJ trusted; a friend, an advocate, and a confessor; i °r m;e 'iavi? not many friends. I have not i anx.ons to destroy my accomplices; I wished uly to enligtitcn ju-uice and France. Perhaps there are j.nf r accompl.tes, hut I do not know them, I did not 1 l'S '°.mat:e songs5 I am no poet. I come to the fact. oiey ,3 not a bad man he is kind, Generous, and cou* rigeous; out a shot with a gua is what suits him. After t iat, every thing is indifferent to him. Pepin is not to be p 1 ared but he has a skewer for drawing chestnuts out (f the fire. His courage is no great shakes, Therefore 1 «fore committing ruy project, I was sad and cast down; 1 did not sleep I had not the eharros of conversation— l one of the sweets of hfe. Pepin dragged at a distance L it is not the man for dragging; I needed to 1 ave my Head broken, in order to he prevailed upon to t i you worn tor \vor;i the truth against him. My accotn- j..ice_ wi say thorest after me, do not be afraid of this I r that my country and the world should j. i ir that I have said the truth. I have a conviction i .'rr) t i°r?i.'0ac*c(l the barrels in a manner so that I £ t' k».ed; hut [have no desire that he should die ] "o 'che' lV°'.on the contrary, he will liave great re- i ani' -"l L° !r'3K'' himself. Look at this shattered > iee'e-' ^'lat ^1Pa^' 0l:t °( which they have taken 24 S ° o_0!!P- If I wanted to die it depended only sh 'iave t''e means of sleeping when I like, onl'°'1'1 r"'t ^'lvn poisoned myself: but it depended t'. °a hether I died of my wounds or not. I sdVth "Cen ".9w'lli::g to die. in order that I might te.l you *-aV('cat 's rny benefactor he is the m-' '")'vpriug mv machine, and I am happy, Hough 1 made some victims. 1 went to my dungeon »ai to tnyselt—Fieschi, yon will never go out from ^•nce tiil yi,u g,0 t0 ,jig J wished to die under of I said to iii) scif, lb What paii-I it II! give my former benefactors to know that Fieschi is F 'Ing to the,caffo! :\1 Lavoca came to see me; hfil took J 1(: by the lhlld anù said, I am M. Lavocat doyourecol- jcct!" I said to atn an unhappy wretch go ,.ay I do not know you. I was lost; I saw the torno to which I wi s to descend, but not in my old age. remained two and forty days without revealing any t 'in*, without naming any body. I said to myself, if ca speak they will say that you are an informer; no, I no. lieci an intormer; for an informer denounces Is accomphccs before the blow is struck but I could r >t breathe I had a horrible weight oppressing me. i ):,I,c at las. something to say about/my country. You l ave been told that I nm a Corsican no, I am a French- man. C rsican has been French for the, last SO years j was a Frenchman long before those who called me' a Corsican. People were always coming to me to a-k me to say something. I q;lij to a;j the world. to the Mi- lliters, to you, Sir, that I would not do so. I said to :1. neirs. "1 10»11. upon you as a good Minister and a in, iut You do not inspire me with any couli. i.once if I say any thing it shall be to M. Lavocat. I 1 ave met many people whom I like, but when I have race pdg.;ted faith to any one, I would brave any thing 1 eiorc hmi. I woo d leap over a barrier the first. At ILe s;:ir.e tunc I said to myself, my future fate is ruined you aie lost, poor Hesehi; but I have no feelings against my accomplice*. I pardon them. J shall be fa.i-.hetl it Jie Coortdoes methejus'ice of declaring that J have sani tee truth, and that rny country si-,all know M:ether I liave been useful or not. It is Nature that rpeaks to u., after God, and let us go on; she says to 11 I have piven you life march en 1" Weil for my part, I tound two roads—two branchings off; I took the r or, a v c n ,n wrong ot: I i.ave committed a great crime, and I shall with courage. But I beg for the lives of mv com- pamoiis, not I »r myself; I beg it for Morey, that old an, good and generous, who is dangerous no longer. j epin! him I wish to annihilate him by sayiuj what -te is, Pepin he made hitnself a name in the affairs of •bine; his house was riddled with balls; but it was not iiimself that invited them thither. A patriot, as he fays, an unhappy man, came to hira. Because lie had ™"e money, he gave him a few sous worth of silver, i i.is -a as ai. that he did. Pepin is a man decorated with the order of July • but may God punish me if ever he won it a. the barricades he and fear have never been separated. -Pardon him he is not to h- feared. Asfor myself, there t,c an I know it. I cannot have my any more. '1 can never asain be happy. I am waiung for my sentence. I hope it may be within the oti.s. [ have wished for pardon, peop'c have said; p'Ut w 1,n 1 spoke to M. Lavoeat, he knows that I did not was on account of that poor thing, Nina, 'tlT } Sf,'a Have patience we must still hope l ianios are not yet come for the wolf to eat them, hfe"' Se;I NVfcli enough that I was no longer worthy Ie, }1~yeaS}i ^°U ^ve minutes more. The crime which I ,o" etC-,T?;Vud' n's great, hut it does not belong to n-.e th-v Lk-~ S° as 'ds Majesty. But the French, Louis P»C-i n 's f°T the people. I always called rcnorr nf" 'C ^*aPu'eou of Peace. And then at tin- he pun,1"! explosion I assure you he was not troubled which wv. 'he ^whole artillery of the great assassin, violence']* I^sct'' [Here Fieschi struck his breast with hence thev' W3S nowise troubled and foroig;.ers "wr,rit )' ^ve R°l an<' from this day p-ittin>» bin Louis Philippe is very capable of Philippe vQ" dt t,lp head of armies and Louis to niav qav his See, i-,y P-deon sts tho'31 i.a crown exposes one." The N'a- governnient "ave rallied round the actual I leave the rr,C.a"S° '1" have their national flag. accomplices"rKeatlf,1inM?' 1 1>° ],le cl -ill tell yoVth^Jo,"0,1 k'-U that «ood "'an; he ,t("l Y()Il ti.e triltil ,,ciniied I shall be con- and 1 shaH be hau) in d hl.t to go down to posterity. ,0 S^; I am w-u1 f S0' I have nothing more and 1 *hall .n»rch't<ht «Vt TT.Ut °f the ,UH fiag; I shall ,„„ul t tT'h, "doubled steps. I shall 1,11st'It e t ie a,1<1". and then commend and 1 yll 1 my political confession. ").) coniession. I aln uot a 19 1tl()re to say. I ai. t Some moments to consider anything tnore; but the Presi- '■>e nation by addressing himself leschl then folded his arms and

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