t; at Montpellier, seventeen for the affair of Bedarieux,
Mercadier, Delpech, Denis, Andre, Barthez, Triadou, Pierre Carriere,
Galzy, Galas (called Le Vacher), Gardy, Jacques Pages, Michel Hercule,
Mar, Vene, Frie, Malaterre, Beaumont, Pradal, the six last luckily
being out of the jurisdiction; and at Montpellier four more, Choumac,
Vidal, Cadelard and Pages. What was the crime of these men? Their crime
is yours, if you are a good subject; it is mine, who writes these
lines; it is obedience to Article 110 of the Constitution; it is armed
resistance to Louis Bonaparte's crime; and the court "orders that the
execution shall take place in the usual way on one of the public
squares of Beziers," with respect to the last four, and, in the case of
the other seventeen, on one of the squares at Bedarieux. The _Moniteur_
announces it; it is true that the _Moniteur_ announces, at the same
time, that the service of the last ball at the Tuileries was performed
by three hundred maitres d'hotel, habited in the liveries rigorously
prescribed by the ceremonial of the old imperial palace.

[4] Read the odious despatch, copied verbatim from the
_Moniteur_:

"The armed insurrection has been totally suppressed in Paris
by vigorous measures. The same energy will produce the same
effect everywhere else.

"Bands of people who spread pillage, rapine, and fire, place
themselves outside of the law. With them one does not argue
or warn; one attacks and disperses them.

"All who resist must be SHOT, in the name of society
defending itself."

Unless a universal cry of horror should stop this man in time, all
these heads will fall.

Whilst we are writing, this is what has just occurred at Belley:--

A native of Bugez, near Belley, a working-man, named Charlet, had
warmly advocated, on the 10th of December, 1848, the election of Louis
Bonaparte. He had distributed circulars, supported, propagated, and
hawked them; the election was in his eyes a triumph; he hoped in
Louis-Napoleon; he took seriously the socialist writings of the
prisoner of Ham, and his "philanthropical" and "republican" programmes:
on the 10th of December there were many such honest dupes; they are now
the most indignant. When Louis Bonaparte was in power, when they saw
the man at work, these illusions vanished. Charlet, a man of
intelligence, was one of those whose republican probity w