The Enquirer

EXPATRIATION.—The following paragraph copy from a French paper. It shews that even where the constitution or penal laws of the country, as in France prohibit expatriation, unless under certain regulations, [proving, by the way that the law of nations does not in the most despotic governments prohibit expatriation] the severity of the law is seldom enforced. Of the lenity which the sovereign is compelled in such cases to extend to even his acknowledged subjects, violating the law of the Empire, this is a conspicuous instance.

From the Indicateur.

JOSEPH DARGUINES, born a Frenchman. Lieut. Colonel of the Spanish troops, made a prisoner of war with the garrison of Figueras, condemned to death in the month of June last by the special court of Paris, for having borne arms against his country, has obtained pardon from the clemency of his Majesty by a decree of the 12th of December last. The letters of pardon will be confirmed to morrow in a solemn audience of the Imperial Court.

This unhappy man has just addressed to all the Journals of Paris a very interesting letter, the object of which is to celebrate the august clemency of the sovereign in regard to him, and at the same time to shew his gratitude to the lawyers Cheaneau, Lagarde and Clavean, who by their active and generous care caused his petition to reach the foot of the throne.

March 22.