CABET, ETIENNE, leader of the French Communists, or Icariens, was born at Dijon, January 2, 1788. ilia father, a cooper in that city, give him a liberal education ; in due time ho was admitted a member of the bar; and he appears to have early acquired some practice. In 1816 he defended General Veaux, who, with several others, was tried for conspiring against the restored Bourbons; and Cabot's ardour on that occasion drew down upon him so largo a measure of official displeasure, that be found it necessiary shortly after to quit Dijon. At Paris M. Cabot, failing to obtain distinction in his ioneeeden„ tuned to literstare fee as well as fame. For owe year. be onineted the 'Journal le Jurisprudence His earn easy id and vkles had bengtit hue into enseeetion with some of the men satin prow:run of the remodel= of 1130, and shortly after that ...at lee was appolated procantairgeomed for Corsica. But ha was diseetialeal with the coontetiso of July as not su5eint1y demo crew. and be tee sow time delayed to depart for the eons of his sow dirties. At length when he was compelled to go, his first act ea era, at Beetle was to deliver an official arldreee, in which he the are charter, and pointed out in detail its deficiencies. The el neny o, ld not be tolerated, and M. Cabot was summarily rualled. He at owe threw himself into the ranks of the opposition. Chew by en of the electrical college. of Dijon, he med. himself neneplasses la the Chamber of Derain by the violence of his le and at the saw time he published several pamphlets, and ea.bliafiad a enema. he Populairo' of ultra-democratic needesciee. Fer metals mats-tarn on the king he was, in February I a#1, proes.ateoi. and being found guilty was coodeniscsi to two yeani imprisommeat and • hull penalty. He however escaped to England, where he rensained till the amnesty of 1839 permitted him to return to Paris ; eon after which be published • • Ifistoin de Ia Revolution de 1789; the (nit of his labour while in exile, but it gained him no update's. and was soon forgotten.
He now began to put forward his peculiar doctrines. Tha first direct pabliestioa of them amines to hare been In 1841, in ' Letters from a Ccannanitt to • Iteformer: But • more formal enunciation of them oPPslieed In his Voyage en Icarie.' published in 1842, in which leader the figment of • utopian republic be developed his views of • eemeealiet cutesy. The book at once attracted the notice of • large auseber of the working claws of Paris already strongly imbued with wallah opinions. la his scheme be had provided • complete coda for the moral and physical as wail as the political governance of the onannaity. and be non found disciples ready to place themselves Roder his direct.on lIe male • journey to London in 1317 iu order to °blast tte grant of • large tract of country in Texas, and haring anteousesed be wows, the first party of his followers deputed for the land of promise, as Cabot afterward, declared against his advice, and without any knowledge of the country or of the nature of the albeadt.e. they would have to encounter. They reached their death. satin, but mullion. quickly arrived is Paris that they were suffer ing the moot ternhla pricatioaa A great outcry was raised against Cebu, but the faith of his disciples was not shaken, and another band was win feeted to f-flow In the track of the pioneers. Cabot himself set out at the end of the year to join his disciples. lie found them divided into too parties. The larger section adhered to him, and aiannteeed than readies. to proceed with him in search of • more satiable bow. 'Me Mormon. bad some time before been expelled freest their city of Neon*, and Cabot in his journey through tbo United States had karat that than was • city finely situated on the linsessippi but now lying duetted, already provided to hie hand, and that he would find little &faculty in obtaining permission to occupy it. Ia May Cabot with his latrine was established in Nauvoo.