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      " Singular Obder is this , having disorder for its basis , in the negation of ail rights , 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 the 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 the 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 ^ gui lty of a heinous crime : they are tlie 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 the State stole 25 millions out of the Bank ; ' the false witness will say to the judge— ' The Chief of the State swore an oath be / ore God and man , and that oath he broke ;' the man accused of arbitrary sequestration will say' The Chief of the 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 Ms 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-by 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 be shaken off "; after the scandalous triumph of crime let there not be witnessed the far more scandalous indifference of the civilized world ; if that were 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 face in the midst of the common degradation , and take refuge in the immensity of contempt . I Jut this will not be , men will awake and arouse themselves . This book has no other object than to rouse them from their sleep , " < fcc . &c . &c .

      This brochure circulates , as I have Baid , clandestinely . Thousands of copies have been sold , and create a prodigious Horisation . Public opinion is deeply moved , Every effort is made to introduce it into the provinces , especially the rural districts . Tlie latest ordounance 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 of Commerce of Itf 45 , between Franco and [ Belgium , lias been suffered to lapse without any provisional renewal by the two CJovoriuiionts . The Moniteur ascribes this result to the Mini . slcrinl crisis in Belgium ; and assorta that negotiations , " which it is hoped may terminate favourably , are fltill in progress . In some quartan it is surfriised that Belgium looks with no favourable oyo on these conventions , ana is indisposed to renow them . A jp « rifl letter in the Emancipation , of Brussels , mentions the expulsion from Franco of the correspondent of a Hungarian journal , who camo to Paris with M . Toloki id ' 48 . M . Persigny is at Dieppe , on eong f , M . Magno taking lii « portfolio of the Hrirne Department . The President sot oufc oh 8 atur < l * y lost , quite suddenly , to visit his recently purchased estate in Lo 8 ol <> gno , where extonuive works ofdrainago are in progress . Ilo returned to St . Cloud on Monday night , arid on the following moruinr hi * dtoporttore wda tCniwunCGU id the Moniteur .

      Prince Jerome Bonaparte is taking a cruise from pprt to port . He has visited Havre , Cherbourg , and St . Mfilo . The inauguration df the statues in bronze of Bernardin de Saint Pierre and Casimir Delavigne took place onSundav , at Havre . The statues are executed by . DfT " ( d'Angers ) . The Academic Frangaise had deputed MM . de Salvandy and Alfred de Musset to represent that body at the ceremony , but M . Salvandy woe prevented from attending by a sudden indisposition . The arts and sciences were respectively represented by the Count de Nieuwerstatues wefe

      kerque and M . Michel Chevalier . When the 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 tbe graceful tenderness of the author of " Paul and Virginia , or the manly genius and pure st y le of Casimir Pevigne , 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 Besancpn . 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 lie was on the 3 rd instant . He was expected at Vienna on the 14 th instant . _ , , ,,, The presence of the Archbishop of Pans at the Faculty recent occasionis considered

      of Letters of Paris , on a , 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 chefs-d ' eeuvreof 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 . and the

      The dispute between the ultra-clerical party 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 new law as ipso facto excommunicate : bis wife a concubine , and her offspring illegitimate . The Sardinian Government has taken no notice of this 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 Basle Gazette announces that the petition of the populace of Friburg against the Government imposed on , them was rejected by the Federal Assembly , on the 6 th inst ., by a majority of 79 to 18 voters . Filangieri has resigned , and since resumed the governorship of Sicily . The trials for the revolt of May 15 , have again

      commenced at Naples . An electric telegraph has been put up between Naples and Gaeta . This is the first experiment of the sort in the kingdom . The material is all English . The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa quotes letters from Borne of the 4 th , stating that Austria and France have it in contemplation to withdraw their troops from the Roman states , leaving only about 2 , 000 French at Civita Vecchia , and a small Austrian garrison at Ancona . This is to be done as soon as the Papal troops shall have been organized . Wo need scarcely add that the materials for a Papal , as distinguished from a national army , do not exist at Home .

      Our Mediterranean fleet , increased by the screw-squadron from Lisbon , under the orders of Admiral Dundas , is cruising off Cape Le Gatt , trying rates of sailing , exercising crews at gunnery , &c . The Firebrand employed to take the mails to and fro to Gibraltar , bos lately been indulging the " rank and fashion" of Malaga to a grand ball given by the officers of the squadron in the offing , who , no doubt , wore glad enough to refresh themselves from their labours at sea by a peep at the " beauties" of the Spanish shore .

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      " VON BECK "—ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE . Aocokding to promise we present the reader with the important evidence contained in Mr . Touhnin Smith ' s pamphlet on the Von Beck inipoHturo : — The Statement , of the United States' ChargS d" Affaires . " The book itself , published under pretence of its liaving 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 , as it does , (• familiarity with the details of places and events . Several such instances were pointed out at the hearing before the Magistrates at Birmingham . But an illustrative instance can now bo g iven of the absence of authenticity , even in points with which , us tho servant of the principal spy , Racidula mig ht bo supposed to have been acquainted . On page 30 , Ac , of Personal Adventures ( first edition ) , it is told how tho protended writer this woman of 64 , an Hworn by Dorm at the trial at Warwick—was sent , to the United States Embassy at Vienna , and how she concealed hor despatches . Mr . wtilos , the United States Charge" d'AH ' airos , has lately published his own narrative of what then took place . Let tho two bo compared . It will bo found that they aro wholly irreconcilable , both as to the person and tho mode of carrying tho despatchon . Tho upholders of tho Impottturo must necessarily charge Air . HtiloH with wilful and motiveless falsehood . . Every ono oIho will nee , a » tho fact was , that this Impostor never wont on such a mission at all . It was tho person named in Mr . Pulszky ' a and Mr . llajnik ' a loiters , aa tho principal spy , ' who waB sent on that mission . Jlacidula picked

      up only a clumsy and erroneous account of it—wronc even in the dates . . B TO The IinpostOr'b Acbount . « G&rgy entrusted iii 6 with a despatch for We - iRii » bossy at Vieiiria . ...... 1 had entrusted to Ihe a tet 5 £ from Kossuth to the Embassy [ &e . &fe , indud ™* another blunder in calling Mr . Motoschitzk y a Barm which he is not ] My military friends advised me to conceal the letters in ndy haversack . . This did not appear to me gobd counsel . . . . I caused one of the planks offcte cart to oe hollowed out at the end ,, without breaking the surface of the side , and placed all Bay letters in the space thus formed . The plank was then replaced , and the win . ing at the end nibbed over with clay . . . . On . the evening of December the 6 th I left , Presburg . . . . Earl y on the 6 th I entered Vienna . ... I repaired to the Hotel bt ffie —— Embassy ; where I was rebeived with , the greatest attention . ... In the evening I received the promided answer of the Ambassador to Kossuth ' fl letter . '

      Mr . Stiles' Account . " On the nig ht of the 2 nd December , 1848 , the author was seated in the Office df the Legation of the United States at Vienna , when his servant introduced a young 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 tier manner , the fluency and correctness of her French , at ottce 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 hay for the horses during a journey , was composed of small slats , about two iiiches wide b and about the eighth of an inch thick , ci-odsing 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 iis but a pile of slats ; but the fair courier , taking them up one by one , and examining them very miniitejy , at length selected a piece , exclaiming ; « This is it ! ' Htf 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 to hold a folded letter . ... , . . . .

      " The statement , therefore , of d person assuming the title and name of Baroness Beck , 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 1848-0 , 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 . '"—Ib ., p . 403 .

      Diary of one of the Impostor ' s Comrades . " Some very remarkable additional evidence relating to this imposture has been furnished by 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 dr mark indicating who was the writer . It was not written by the principal impostor herself , for she could neither write nor speak Hungarian . Two of her comrades ( besides Derra ) visited her while there : but each of these , like Derfa himself , denied , at

      Warwick , that he had ever called her as she is called ill this Diary . "Who was the writer is , however , of no importance . The contents , of which the opportunity of inspecting a translation has b een afforded me , 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 the 26 th of August , 1851 . The first noticeable fact is , that tho impostor is therein many times called ' Baeidula ; ^ never , oxcept once with a Bneer , spoken of as ' Baroness ^ Where not called ' Kocidulo , ' she is called simply ' Beck ,

      with tho feminine termination . , " On the 6 th of January is tho entry , ' Conspiracy [ conjuratio is the force of the original ] at ' s : ' and several other entries occur , showing the sort of thing that was going on in this direction . . i " Attention must now bo recalled to tho document * No . II . and III . above . * Tho date of each of them is 16 th January . Now in tho Diary there occurs , on the 12 th of January , the following entry : — ' Consultation At ltacidula'a . ' And , on the 15 th itself , the writer , expressly that

      enters : — 'At Itacidula's . ' Thero can be no doubt , these letters wore planned at the ' consultation' of tho lM' }' Irt tho begging lottor of tho 15 th tho impostor says she 18 ' abandoned by her friends , without acquaintances ; ana declares sho must die of hunger if not relieved . Wt » is proved , by this Diary , that , » t tho very time this letta was sent off , the writer of tho Diary was flrequon ^ ly *» her ; that ' consultations'woro hold with hor ; andoh . tne Oth of February Is the entry , ' With Bock and her comrades . ' And it appears by tho same Diary that , with no moans of lawful income appearing since the date of Jjne letter of tho 16 th January , this woman and hor oomrttioi

      lived in anything but a starving state . , " From tho same Diary it is demonstrated that t «« l writer of it was also tho concoctor of tlie whole or & $ F ~ part of tho book which Was * to bo foisted on tho pub »« » tho Autobiography of the Baroness Von Beck . ««> ' *" tlian tlireo ' agreements' with her are expressly metittdn <* j-Tlu > following entries speak for thonwelvos : — ** fV * l ' < My work nleiuKtf Bock / March 7 . ' Beck has had W work copied . ' March 20 . ' Beck has great need oif nio , April 25 . - ' Much Writing of Bock ' s Memoirs . ; Apt * ij ° ' First volume of Memoirs . ' August 8—two days "J ^ is recorded in tho same Diary that the woman ma g »» fvnm l . ntwlnn » y » ttirrmnirliam . the writOT of th © D » ary *»

      maining in London— ' Now beginning , of Book « f *™" ^ grauhy ? August 11 . ' Memoir writing / ln ^ tuo _ gg _ * Two bomyrftig letters , stating that Von Bedfc ^« & starving and friendloM condition .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1852, page 768, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1947/page/4/