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Report of the Council of State of the Imperial Go- [And other Works.] ART. XIV.-HON. MRS. NORTON'S LETTER TO THE QUEEN. A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill. By the Hon. Mrs. NOR- ART. XV.-FOREIGN EXILES, REFUGEES IN ENGLAND 149 159 - 181 185 192 - 206 THE LAW REVIEW. ART. I.-JUDICIAL ORATORS AND WRITERS IN FRANCE. Mémoires de M. Dupin, Souvenirs du Barreau (continued). AMONGST his military clients M. Dupin had to defend not in a Court of Justice it is true, but before the tribunal of public opinion, the men who were accused of having participated in the murder of the Duc d'Enghien. Two of these are particularly entitled to interest and sympathy, from their position and the honourable susceptibility of feeling which made them, more than the others, feel wounded by the calumnious reports in circulation. We allude to General Hullin and to the Duc de Vicence (General Caulaincourt). The latter was for years a prey to the severest moral suffering (severe because concealed), occasioned by the idea he well knew to be spread about in France of his complicity in the infamous assassination of the Duc de Bourbon's son. At last in 1823, on the appearance of the "Letters" of M. de Rovigo, M. de Talleyrand, and M. de Dalberg (the last of whom hinted at Caulaincourt's participation in the crime), the Duc de Vicence applied to his friend, M. Dupin, commissioning him to publish in his name a Mémoire Justificatif, which he did, and after the publication of which, he remarks: "No doubt remained on any one's mind, and the justification of the Duc de Vicence was complete." The trial of the Duc d'Enghien has for more than half a century so preoccupied the public of all Europe that our readers will probably excuse us for the length of all details we may be able to afford them upon this famous event. In regard to the publication of his Mémoire for M. de Caulaincourt, M. Dupin says: "The greater part of the incidents of this trial would have been for ever wrapped in mystery, if an unforeseen circumstance had not revealed the whole. The dossier containing the original documents of the trial was not deposited as it ought to have been in the archives of the Ministry of War. It remained in the hands of the President of the Military Commission, General Hullin. He, having been exiled in 1815, in virtue of the 2nd Article of the Ordinance of this 24th of July, placed the dossier with other papers in the hands of a third party. There it was that I was enabled to copy the whole. Fourteen editions of M. Dupin's pamphlet on the Duc d'Enghien's trial were sold in a few weeks. But neither this, nor his defence of Caulaincourt, is, to our mind, the most interesting part of what in the volume of Mémoires before us concerns the death of the Duc d'Enghien. We cannot refrain from translating, whole and entire, the two pages devoted by M. Dupin to the case of General Hullin, and we are persuaded our readers will not find the quotation too long. It carries us so thoroughly back into the heart of the fearful event it describes, that we almost fancy we were present at the prologue of that dark drama which so sullied the fame of the glorious victor of Arcola and Lodi. We follow M. Dupin step by step. After alluding to the calumny which sought to mark out Caulaincourt as one of the accomplices in the murder, "There then remained," says he-(Caulaincourt's reputation once cleared)"the judges themselves who had condemned the prince. General Hullin, who had presided at the court-martial, was returned from exile: he lived in Paris. Grown quite blind, he caused himself to be brought to my house and presented to me. He told me all the facts in such detail and which such military frankness that I was strongly impressed. Why don't you tell the public all that?' asked I; 'I am sure you would convince every one as you have convinced me.' 'Eh!' retorted the General, 'do I know how to write? why should you not do me the service of writing what I can tell? My wife is a Nivernaise, and by her, therefore, I am your countryman: think of what my situation is.' Much moved, I replied, 'Well, General, I will do it, but upon one condition you will again convoke together the members of the court-martial who judged on that night under your presidentship; you will preside over them again; I will hear from their lips as from your's the slightest declarations respecting the slightest facts; and when I shall feel certain of all that did in reality take place, I will publish an account of the whole affair.' "General Hullin adhered readily to this proposal. Generals Barrois and Dautaincourt were called upon; they came to their comrade's house at the day fixed upon, and took their seats to the right and left of the arm-chair, where he sat with his austere and imposing face and figure; his wife was also present. I arrived; it was eight o'clock in the evening. The scene was truly dramatic. Hullin commenced a narration of the circumstances. At every instant nearly I stopped him, asking of the other two, 'Is that so, General Barrois?' Is such a fact strictly exact, General Dautaincourt? collect your impressions accurately;' and as it were under their directions I wrote. There was a moment of true and fearful anxiety. General Hullin told how, at the very moment he was writing to the First Consul to try and touch him in favour of the Duc d'Enghien, the man, who all through the whole scene had never left his elbow, snatched the pen from his hand, saying, 'This is not your affair, General, this is mine.'... The unfortunate General (we must remember he was stone blind) yielded to a kind of shiver at this remembrance, and involuntarily turned half round upon his chair... 'Be calm, General,' said I, remarking his impression, 'the man is no longer near you now; you are with us alone.' The scene came to a close. "Next day, a few hours were sufficient for me to trace a rapid sketch of things, as I now felt sure they had really passed. To be doubly certain, however, of my exactness, I returned in the evening to the same persons who had met together the day before and read to them what I had written. The pamphlet was published by Baudouin under the title of Explanations furnished to the impartial, by M. le Comte Hullin, on the subject of the Military Commission instituted in the Year XII. to Judge the Duc d'Enghien. It had an unhoped-for success. It may even be said that it was received with unexpected favour, for at Court, at the Tuileries even, more than once was repeated afterwards the words, Poor Hullin! he is truly most unfortunate!"" After the causes were pretty well ended in which the mili |