1. For each day's delay, reckoning at the highest receipts taken in the theatre, from 1 March 1822 to 1 April in the same year, being at a rate of three thousand six hundred and eleven francs ... 144,408 fr. 2. Restitution of money.. 30,000 " 3. Amount paid in advance, forfeited. 20,000 " 4. Damage and compensation.. 60,000 " 5. For one hundred and twenty-two days which have expired since the first claim.... 440,542 " 6. For the seven years and ten months which remain to run before the end of the engagement.. 10,322,840 " 7. Finally, as damages and compensation in respect of this period of seven years.... 200,000 " Total. 11,217,790 " If the manager of the Porte-Sainte-Martin had had the misfortune to win his case, he would have been obliged to pay Potier, in order to notify the sentence, a registration fee of three to four hundred thousand francs. The Court condemned Potier to resume his engagement within a week's time: as to damages and compensation, it condemned him, _par corps_, to pay them according to the estimated scale. Three days later, it was known that the matter had been settled, less a discount of eleven million two hundred and seven thousand seven hundred and ninety francs made by the manager. On 8 February it was the turn of Magallon, the chief editor of the _Album._ Magallon appeared before the seventh Chamber of the Police Correctional Court, accused of having hidden political articles under the cloak of literature, with intent to incite hatred and contempt towards the Government. The Court condemned Magallon to thirteen months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of two thousand francs. It was a monstrous sentence, and it created great uproar; but a far greater scandal still, or rather, what converted a matter of scandal into an outrage, was that for this slight literary offence, and on the pretext that the sentence exceeded one year, Magallon was taken to the central prison of Poissy, on foot, with his hands bound, tied to a filthy criminal condemned afresh to penal servitude, who, dead-drunk, kept yelling unceasingly the whole way, "Long live galley slaves! honour to, all galley slaves!" When they reached Poissy, Magallon was put into prison clothes. From that evening he had to live on skilly and learn to pick oakum.... We content ourselves with relating the bare facts; although we cannot resist adding that they happened under the reign of a prince who pretended to be a man of letters, since he had ordered a quatrain from Lemierre and a comedy from Merville....