The National Register. — London, England, 1822-09-30 00:00:00

MIMI A, o t ie - - -07 , •:..---4 .- .r.,, 40 , 0 e .V ° 4 ° ...9 .16 ,, L ...41 0 e- ...,.,12 s, 4 --- 7---- -,1 P ,* -...• , 44 I tOt IP ' ' tionat ,:ik\ t tLii _ + , *est' MP No. 1,388.—V0t. XV. EXECUTION OF THE ROCHELLE CONSPIRATORS. ....1m..•••••• {FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.) Pants, Stmt. 23.—About eleven o'clock the walls of the difreftut public buildings were covered with the " Arrct de la Cour Royale de Paris," announc ing the condemnation of Buries, Pomier, Goubin, and Raoulx, four sub-officers (serjesnts and serjeant majors) of the 45th regiment of the line, for conspi racy, treason. &c. Almost at the same moment, and simultaneously through the entire of the city of Paris, the same Arret, adding, " that it would be carried into execution that day on the Place de Greve," was in the hands of the hawkers, who cried it about the streets precisely as " last speeches" are announced in London. Up to two o'clock half a dozen mounted gendarmes were the only military on duty in the Place de Greve; but strong detachments of the same descrip tion of force, horse and foot, were posted at all the commanding points in that quarter. In the Place du Chatelet, particularly, a numerous laxly was drawn up. I proceeded towards the Conciergerie. The people were crowding towards the place of exe cution. No symptoms of sympathy for the miserable' struck my eye. In a cafe, within twenty yards of the guillotine, officers were playing at billiards, the shops were open—the passengers laughing, enjoying themselves—showmen were exhibiting—and low gaming going on even where I passed. A great crowd had assembled round the prison of the Con ciergerie, to which the condemned had been remove.] between the hours of five and six o'clock in the, morning, under a guard of 50 mounted gendarmes. On their teaching that, their last human living abode, they were placed in a chamber very different from the condemned cells attached to English gaols. It is well furaiihed,and centains a clock that strikes the quarters, which consequently intimates inces santly to the unhappy ajounsers in that melancholy apartment, that their moments, already numbered, are fast expiring; but neither that circumstance, nor the presence and wearied exertions and exhorta tions of the clergymen by whom they were attended, produced any effect upon the condemned men. They are said to have been all of good families, more par ticularly Bories and Raoul:. In the course of the morning, one of the Judges of the Criminal Court of Paris had an interview with them, which lasted nearly two boors ; doubtless he endeavoured to pro cure front them some information respecting the plot for which they were to suffer, or that to favour their escape from the Bicetre, which hod been detected. No one believes that they gave the slightest infiir minion respecting either, although the journals may probably assert the contrary. From the moment of their conviction, up to that of their quitting the Conciergerie finr the place of execution, they mani fested constantly the same levity, or rather volatility, accompanied by allusions to their unhappy laic. About two o'clock five hundred soldiers of different regiments marched into the place, preceded by drum;, and binned a square. Numbers of mounted gendarmes issued from under the porch of the Hotel du Ville (or Mansion-house), which is the centre of the eastern side of the place. The only persons al lowed to remain near the guillotine, except the exe cutioner anti his assistants, were the people who crowded the flauway by the front of it ; on the edge of which, and within tau yards of the seafliold, sat a number of women, although made aware that they would be deluged with the blood of the condenmed at the moment of execution! About halt' past two o'clock the two WaggollP left the Place de Greve for the Conciergerie, under an escort of gendarmerie. The executioner (a tall, elderly, decent-looking man, wearing a fitshionable blue silk handkerchief on his neck, and a black straw hat) billowed, leaving behind him a small, rough, white dog, call e d a bat h e, who took his post on the scidlidd at the top of the ladder. The animal appeared as watchful as those dogs which you see on waggons in London. The crowd continued incessantly to increase—new bodies of the gendarmerie traversed the place. About 50 of the gendarmes d'elite finally marched in, and remained stationed near the scaffold. The usual amusements of a mob went on. Four o'slock at length arrived, and ittere being no appearance of the sad cavalcade lIMIIIM - • - wminm Our fling, eonfitttution, anti Kabul. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, ISM the hopes and doubts of the spectators were excited. This continued until within five minutes a five o'clock, when a hackney-coach, attended by some gen darmes, drove rapidly across the place, stopped at a. tavern'exactly opposite Jo me, aockespernon dinned in some sort like a clerwalut descended from it, and entered the tavern. " Ahlrlhhieis no holier -wild a French gentleman near Me; " that is a Greer of ' the Court, or Repportessr, whose office is to see the sentence executed, and to make a report of it. In another quarter of an boar you will see the misera ' bier themselves." Five o'clock struck, and yet they had nut arrived. At that moment the coup d'cril was strikingly awful; the whole area of the Place de Greve, and as much of the Quai de Greve as I could see, were filled by a dense crowd, now incapa ble of increase. Saint:l4Aß)% was the force produced by the sligthest motion. that the soldiefs were mo . mentarily compelled to give way, and the hollow square became gradually contracted. The windows and tops of all the houses within view, the quays opposite, the Punts (Bridges) tl'Elite and de Marie, even the towers of the church of Nitre Dame, in the distance, were crowded to overflow. A great deal of amusement was just then excited by a sweep, who kept his position on a shed against all the efforts of the owner and some gendarmes. A movement amongst those who had a view of the Quay Pelletier announced the approach of the fatal cortege, but the spectators continued encituraging the Savoyards, by shouts, plaudits, and clapping of hands. Precisely us the clock of the Hotel de Ville struck a quarter past five, the first gendarmes, forming the escort of the condemned, entered the Place de Greve; a universal cry of " Hats off" took place—all heads were uneenered. The two waggoes in succession appeared; in the first was the executioner, the pri soners Buries, Goubin, and two clergymen ; in the second were Raoulx and Punier, each also attended by a clergyman. The prisoners sat on boards placed across in the waggons, snd beside each a priest with a crucifix in his hand, who seemed apparently moat anxious to impress their unhappy charge with some sense of religion, but certainly without a particle of success. During the whole line of march from the Conciergerie to the Place de Greve, the prisoners had never attended to the priests for an Instant ; they looked round them incessantly, acknowledged acquaintances in the crowd, made loud remarks to each other, and Dories and Goubin repeatedly ad dressed the people, notwithstanding the efl b rts of the priests and the gendarmes to restrain them. Arrived at the scaffold, the same spirit continued to animate them up to their lust breath. Buries sat next to the horses in the first waggon, having been first brought out of the Conciergerie. He alone wore a regimental jacket, or any thing solitaire. In common with his unfiirtunate associates, lie had no hat nor cravat, and the millers of their shirts were loose and open. The waggons advanced at a smart walk, the priests straining every nerve—it was useless—they halted at t h e Mot of the seaflidil. I now perceived a gen tleman on foot in a brown miaow, near them. The instant the wa-gon reached the se,dbilil, the execu tioner descended, went up to the guillotine, and ar ranged a cord. All the prisoners rose, threw a hasty glance round them, made some remarks loudly to each other, and prepared in a hurred manner to quit the waggons. I then perceived that their hands were tied behind their backs. The confessor of Bo- , ries appeared to inform him that it was his unfortu nate companion who was to have the fatel precedence, and to entreat him to be calm and resigned. !onics, with u gesture of impatient acquiescence, sat down, and Goubin sprain ; ; from the waggon. All were then permitted to .. descend. The gentleman in the brown coat now advanced to Goubin and Boles ; he was connected with the Ministry of Jusiice. He made a last appeal to the condemned. The priests redoubled their entreaties and exertions; they were lost, for those unthrtunute young men appeared to have no other feeling than that they were brought there to sutler, amid that to have it over suddenly and expeditiously was the only thing desirable. Goubin addressed los companions, and was either replied to, or addressed in the stoic nine, by Itaoulx, who stood furthest from hint; for the clergyman in attendance open him appeared shocked, and retemetrated with ' Paw' 9 him. Raoulx turned his back, and walked about with the air of contemptuous and constrained sub mission. They continued to talk loudly, always turning away with impatience from the clergyman. who, with the gentlemen already mentioned, teemed at length to express despair. A liple bustle occurred .-Goubin flew up the steps of the scaffold—bo Was instantly seized by the executioner and his assistants . -bound to the plank—shouted " Viva la Liberte" —he was thrown down--1 shut my eyes, closed my ears, but a general groan from 150,000 people an nounced that the bold and daring Goubin had ceased to live. The cool, intrepid, lisoulx exchanged a significant smile with Holies, a mixed expression of sympathy and congratulation, to which their fine dark eyes gave peculiar force Pomier ascended next. with a cheerfulness, although not so animated as Goubin ; afterwards Raoulx, whose handsome face can never be forgotten by any one who has seen him. He wore very long whiskers, and had all the ap .peuranoe of esprit, and was deemed a most intelli gent and respectable young man; he was the only one who seemed to possess swig froid ; the others looked and acted as if nervously excited. Finally, the brave mercurial Dories ascended. I saw his last look of apparent triumph: be was seised like the others by the executioner. I ran into an inner apartment; a young Frenchman shrieked " Oh. Bones, Buries;" rushed through the room, and fell lifeless in the passage—it was all over. Front the moment of the arrival of the cavalcade at the entrance to the Place de Greve, seven minutes had only elapsed, and Buries, Goubin, Raoulx, and Pomier, were dead. The priests were departing—. the crowd separating—the women, unmoved to tears, were making observations on the bloody scene --the executioner and his men were basitd is posing of the mangled bodies, and in dismantling the guillotine—water was poured profusely on the blood-stained pavement, the soldiers prepared to march: in short, at 35 minutes past five o'clock the troops &filed, with drums beating, and few remained near the scaffold, are the gendarmes. MADRID, Si.IE is Armed that various General Officers and Colonels, who are go-greens! at Valencia, have just been ordered to go into exile, as follows Lieut.-Generals—PereHos, to the Canaries; and Conde de Calderon, to lines. Brigadiers—lbarra and Licertlit, to Centa; Ma rimon, to Baclajos; Garcia, to Ibiza; Nlatalenares, to Manilla ; Gaxtelu, to Porto Rico: Valparda, to Vigo: Barrera and Delto, to Mahon. Colonels—Novella, to Tarill4: and Anillo, to Ibisia. It is added that the Government has given orders to investigate the conduct of Brigd. Pcyeda, who is stationed in theisame place. Sr. PE TIRSBURGH, SEPT. 6.—Capt. Wassiliew, who commanded the two vess.:ls who have just re turned from their voyage of discovery, has performed a great service to geography. He discovered in the Great O,.ean a group of inhabited islands, passel through Behring's Straits, and reached a higher la titude than Cook ; determined the true positin of North Amerisa, iron' Icy Cape to the Peninsula of Alaska, and found to the north of it another inha bited island. Lord Harrowby has signitial to his Majesty his desire to resign the Presidency of the Council. 111 health is stated by the Noble 'Lord us his motive for wishing to retire from public lite. ENtract of a letter true► tile Agents to Lloyd's at Buenos Ayres, dated June t:3 :—" It is reported* th•it the isiand otloe has surre►:dered to the force which was sent aphis: it by time Government of Chili ti►e end of Maven." On Tuesday were marled, by special license, by the Lord Bishop of Lando.i, ut Hampton-coort Pa. lace, the Earl of Liverpool, to Miss Nlary Chester. .Ir. Canning has hod ot:.• of the rooms iii the Fo. reign-office fitted up as a Wit-room, so that when the House sits late, the Right Hun. 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