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Show ltiiziuuc'tt Trial. Paris, $. In the Bazaine court , martial to-day, the reading of Revier-re's Revier-re's report w:ts continued. licviere argues to show that the means of communication between Metz and Paris were amp'c, and that Bazaine's refusal to combine his forces with the other armies in the field was criminal. The marshal is accusitl ot pursuing a personal policy, by which the enemy ene-my profited. There is evidence that he even refused to assist in the effort made to provision Metz. Bazaine's inaction is attributed to the hesitation caused by the news from Sell an nd and Paris, and partially to his secret negotiation with the enemy. What ever government tnere was in r ranee he should have fought for it instead of listening to the overtures of the enemy receving their agent, Regnier, and plotting the restoration of the empire. em-pire. He only thought of maintaining maintain-ing the army in goexi condition, and to plaj the political part he designed. Had Bazaine done his duty by taking his army to the interior of France, leaving Metz to defend herself with the garrison, which could subsist on tho resources of the surrounding country, Metz would have held out until an armistice, and Lorraine could never have been ceded, Kevierre continues. " A foreign war was not enough ; our unhappy country was condemned to the horrors of a civil i war ; and what did Marshal Bazaine i do then ? lie united with the enemy 1 to overthrow the government of his oauntry." The report condems the i Marshal for failing to destroy ' t the material war he left at Metz, ; while he was careful to destroy all : correspondence which might compro- - misc himself; for frequently receiving, r in person, the visits of German ofU-1 ofU-1 ccrs, and generally for manifesting an i undue haste to capitulate to the ene- - my. The reading of the report was 3 not concluded at the adjournment of court. The hearing of the remainder, together with other documents touching touch-ing Bazaine's management of the artillery, ar-tillery, and the commissariat of Metz, will probably occupy the entire week; and the examination of witnesses will not begin till Monday next. The German government at first refused to allow subprenaa for witnesses to be served in Alsace or Loraine, but special negotiations have overcome the objections. |