The trial of M. BASPAIL, and his twenty-six brother members
of the "Society of the Rights of Man," the commencement of which we mentioned last week, has terminated, in accordance with general expectation, in the acquittal of the accused. The means taken by the parquet, or body of Crown -lawyers, between thirty and forty in number, to procure a conviction, were infamous. They even went so far as to insert in the body of the indictment a false copy of some paper found in the possession of one of the prisoners. When this fraud was discovered, M. Pi START, one of the counsel for the defence, exclaimed, "That is a falsification—I say it, and will maintain it." M. MICHEL, another advocate on the same side, said, "That expression is mine also ;" and M. DUPONT told the Advocate-General, that the papers produced were not in the handwriting of the prisoner, but that " he recognized the red pencil of one of the bar." Upon the conclusion of the trial, the Advocate-General, moved the suspension of Messieurs. PINART and MICHEL from the performance of their professional duties, and that M DUPONT should also be struck off the roll of advo- cates. The Court deliberated for two hours, and then suspended DUPONT for one year, and PINAlti and MICHEL for six months, from the exercise of their calling in the courts of justice. It is to be remarked on this extraordinary proceeding, that the advocates were defending men on trial for their lives, and that the falsifica- tion they denounced is admitted to have been made. Looking at the whole trial from beginning to end, it is impossible to conceive any thing more disgraceful. It reminds us of the doings in our own country in the evil times of CASTLEREAGH and SIDMOUTH.
