M.Humann, of Strasbourg, sent out of France, it is said, enormous quantities of sugar, for which he received the bounty on exportation promised by the State; then, smuggling this sugar back again, he exported it anew, receiving the bounty on exportation a second time, and so on.

Notice, sir, that I do not state this as a fact; I give it only as it is told, not endorsing or even believing it.

My sole design is to fix the idea in the mind by an example.

If I believed that a minister had committed such a crime, that is, if I had personal and authentic knowledge that he had, I would denounce M.Humann, the minister of finances, to the Chamber of Deputies, and would loudly demand his expulsion from the ministry.
But that which is undoubtedly false of M.Humann is true of many others, as rich and no less honorable than he.

Smuggling, organized on a large scale by the eaters of human flesh, is carried on to the profit of a few pashas at the risk and peril of their imprudent victims.