SEVENTH DAY--FEBRUARY 14.

The proceedings of the seventh day began with the reading by the court

of a letter from M. Le Provost de Launay, a member of the senate, and

of a dispatch from M. Papillaud. The letter read as follows:

I have read the testimony of M. Jaurès. He must be mistaken, for M.

Papillaud, whom I saw the day before he met Major Esterhazy, and whom

I saw again the day after, said to me a very different thing. I am

ready to testify to it.

Following is M. Papillaud’s dispatch: