The National Register. — London, England, 1822-09-29 00:00:00

AK EXECUTION OF THE IMCHELLE COASPIRATCRS. (PROM A PRIV ATE LiTTER.) PARIS, SEPT. 23.—About eleven o'clock the walls of the different public buildings were covered with the " Arret de la Cour Rovale de Paris," announc ing the condemnation of Buries, Pomier, Goubin, and Itaoulx, four sub-offioers (serjeants and serjeant majors) of the 45th regiment of the line, for cousin . 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 body 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- cierg,erie, to which the condemned had been removed between the hours of five and six o'clock in the morning, under a guard of 50 mounted gendarmes. On their reaching that, their last human living abode, they were placed ig a chamber very different from the condemned cells attached to English gaols. It is well hirnished, and contains a clock that strikes the quarters, which consequently intimates inces santly to the unhappy sojourners in that melancholy apartment, that their meanest!, already numbered, "ire 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 contemned men. They are said to have been all of good families, snore par ticularly Buries and Uaoulx. 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 hours doubtless he endeavoured to pro cure from them some information respecting the plot for which they were to sufier, or that to favour their escape from the Bicetre, which had been detected. No one believes that they gave the slightest infor mation respecting either, although the journals may probably assert the eontrary. From the moment of their conviction, up to that of their quitting the Conciergerie for the place of execution, they mani fested constantly the samelovity, or rather volatility, accompanied by allusions to their unhappy fate. About two o'clock five hundred soldiers of different regiments marched into the place, preceded by drums, and formed a square. Numbers of mounted ! gendarmes issued from under the porch of the Hotel du Ville (or Mansion-house), which is the centre of l the eastern side of the place. The only persons al lowed to remain near die guillotine, except the exe eutioner and his assistants, were the people who crewded the footway by the front of it ; on the edge of which, mid within two yards of the scaffold, sat a number of women, although made aware that they would be deluged with the blood of the condemned at the moment of execution! About half past two o'clock the two waggons left the Place de Greve for the Conciergerie, under an escort of gendarmerie. The executioner (a.tall, elderly, decent-looking man, wearing a fashionable blue silk handkerchief on his neck, and a black straw hat) followed, leaving behind him a small, rough, white slog, called a ',tube, who took his post on the scaffold 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 &elite finally marched in, and remained stationed near the scaffold. The usual amusements of a mob went on. Four o'clock at length arrived, and there being no appearance of the sad cavalcade, the hopes and doubts of the spectators were excited. This continued until within five minutes of five o'clock, when a hackney-coach, attended by some gen darmes, drove rapidly across the place, stopped at a tavern exactly opposite to me, and a person dressed in some suit like a clergyman descended from it, and entered the tavern. " Ali ! there is no hope !" said a French gentleman near me ; " that is a Greffier of the Court, or Rapporimr, whose office is to see the sentence executeit, and to make a report of it. In another quarter of an hour you will see the misery'. tics themselves." Five o'clock struck, and yet they Lad not arrived. A t 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. So irre,istible was the force produced by the sligtheat motion, that the soldiers were me. THE NATIONAL AEG ISTER mentarily compelled to give way, and the hollow square became gradually contracted. The windows mud tops of all the houses within view, the quays, opposite, the Pont' (Bridges) WElite and de Marie, even the towers of the church of Notre 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 autiounced the approach or the fatal cortege, but the spectators continued encouraging the Savoyards, by shouts, plaudits, and clapping of hands. Precisely as the clock tildes Hotel de Ville struck a quarter past five, the first gendarmes, tixming the escort of the condemned, entered the Place de Greve; a universal cry of "- Hats off" took place—all heads were uncovered. The two waggons in succession appeared; in the first was the executioner, the pri soners Bories, Goubin, and two clergymen ; in the second were Raoulx and Poinier, each also attended by a clergyman. The prisoners sat on boards placed across in the waggons, and beside each a priest with a crucifix in his hand, who seemed apparently most 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 au instant ; they looked round them incessantly, acknowledged acquaintances he the crowd, made loud remarks to each other, and Buries and Guubin repeatedly ad dressed the people, notwithstanding the efforts of the priests and the gendarmes to restrain them. Arrived at the scaffold, the same spirit continued to animate them up to their last 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 nsilitaire. In common with his unfortunate associates, he 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 the loot of the scaffold. I now perceived a gen tleman on foot in a brown surtout, near them. The instant the waggon reached the scaffold, the execu tioner descended, went up to the guillotine, and ar ranged a cord. All the prisoners ruse, threw a hasty glance round them, muds some remarks loudly to each other, and prepared in a burred 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 fatal precedence, and to entreat him to be calm and resigned. Buries, with a gesture of impatient a& quiescence, sat down, and Guubin sprang from the waggon. All were then permitted to descend. The gentlemen in the brown coat now advanced to Goubin and Buries; he was connected with the Ministry of Justice. He made a last appeal to the condemned. The priests redoUbled their entreaties and exertions; they were lost, for those unfortunate young men appeared to have no other feeling than that they were brought there to suffer, and that to have it over suddenly and expeditiously was the only thing desirable. Goubin addressed ►us companions, and was either replied to, or addressed in the same tone, by Remits, who stood furthest from him; for the clergyman in attendance upon him appeared shocked, and remonstrated• with him. Raoul% turned his back, and walked about with the air of contemptuous and constrained sub mission. They ountinued to talk loudly, always turning away with impatience fium the clergyman, who, with the gentlemen already mentioned, seemed at length to express despair. A little bustle occurred --Goubin flew up the steps of the scaffold—he was instantly seized by the executioner and his assistants --bound to the plank—shouted" Vive la Liberte" —she was thrown down—l shut my eyes, closed my ears, but a general groan from 150,000 people an nounced that the bold and daring Guubin had ceased to live. The cool, intrepid, Raoulx exchanged a significant smile with Buries, a mind expression of sympathy and congratulation, to which their fine dark eyes gave peculiar force. Mintier ascended next. with a cheerfulness, although not so animated as Goubin ; afterwaeds Banda, whose handsome face can never be forgotten by any one who has seen him. He wore very lung whiskers, and had all the ap pearance of esprit, and was deemed a most intelli gent and respectable young man; he was the only one who seemed to possess rang froid ; time others looked and acted as if nervously excited. Finally, the brave mercurial Buries ascended. I saw his last look of apparent triumphs he was seized like the others by the executioner. I ran into an inner apartment; a young Frenchman shrieked. " Oh, Buries, Buries ;" rushed through the room, and fell lifeless in the passage—it was all over. From the moment of the arrival of the cavalcade at the entrance to the Place de Greve, seven minutes bad only elapsed, and Buries, Goubia, Beattie, and Punier, 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 busittl in die. posing of the mangled bodies, and in dismantling the guillotine —water WAS poured prorasely on the blood-stained pavement, the soldiers prepared to march: in short, at 35 minutes past five o'clock the troops defiled, with drums beating, and few remained near the scaffold, save the gendarmes. lIAMBURGH MAIL. FROM THE DANUBE, SEPT. 7.—The corps of the Russian army commanded by Count Woronzofr still remains stationary in the government of Volliynia, close to the Austrian frontiers. Some time ago it was reported that this general had requested leave to retire, but it seems now to be certain that he wfll retain the command. People connect this circum stance with reso;utions witieh they conjecture wivl probably be adopted ut the congress, with regard to those countries where the state of things has not vet attained that degree of solidity which the illustrious paeificators desire to be every whet confirmed for the general good of Europe. But this is much in need of confirmation. Accounts from Moldavia cannot paint in suffic , - ently gloomy colours the situation of Jassy. The finest palaces have fallen a prey to the flames, also the richest churches and monasteries, among the latter in partieular the fine monastery Collo, %here the aqueduct was. Of the li,ooo houses which the city formerly contained, scarcely the fourth part remains. The Turkish troops have not yet left the principalities. The new Prince of Moldavia is said to have been murdered on the road. FRANKFORT, SEPT 10.—Letters from Brandeil. burg say, that the investigations on account of Po. litical intrigues are by no means ended, and that a highly esteemed anti meritorious teacher in the uni versity of Berlin, who was on the point of taking a journey, has received orders not to leave the city. STocsiscoLts, 10.—His Majesty has rc. solved not to open the Norwegian Diet in perso. . . and has therefore deferred his departure tor Chris. It is now certain that Sir Benjamin Blomfichl• is appointed amba►sador from the King of England to our Court. We expect him in the cour►e of the autumn. SEPT. 13.—The day before yesterday Baron Stedingk arrived here express from the Crown Primer, and it is said he has brought ductl - wilts relating so the proposed marriage of his Royal Highness. Yesterday three Russian ships of war, two from the North Sea, the other from the Baltic, anchored is the roads. This morning they were joined by a Russian ship of the line. As a new proof, says a Danish paper, of the de preciation of landed property, we may mention the sale of a fine estate for 29,000 rix dollars, upon which public institutions and private persons had mortgaged to the amount of 100,000 rix dollars. FROM LAST NIGII7"S GAZEI7 E. mm•INNOMI BANKRUPTCIIIS ENLARGED. T. liveleigh, Devonshire Street, Queen Square, linen draper, from Sept. ttl to Oct. 31. 6., C., and G. Rix, Newington, Surrey, corn merchants, from Oct. 1 to Oct. It. J. Leigh, Jeffery' Square, St. Mary Axe, merchant, from Aug. 17 to Oct. a. RAiNKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Richards, Hythe, Southampton, ship budder. BANKRUPTS. J. Martin, Oakhatn, Surrey. wheelwright. Solicitor, Mr. Walter, Alitre Chambers, Fenchurch Street. W. May, Wellington Place, Goswell Street, baker. Sol. Mr. Dacte, Palsgrave Place, Temple. It. Lacey, Lynconibe, Somerset, builder. Sols. Messrs. Ad lingtun and Cu. Bedford W. 1-pencer, Swansea, Glamorganshire, papa maker. Sul. Mr. Price, Lincoln's Inn. V. Masson, Gedling Street, Bermondsey, baker. Sol. Nit.. ilkinson, New North Street., Red Lion Square. J. Everth, Pinner's Hall. London. merchant. Sol. Mr. Mar tindale, BeillOril Place, Russell Square. IMVIDENDS. 0ct.22, J. Massey, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, grreer-19.J• Ilandley, Carton, Staliordshiw, miller-19, W. Higgs, Strand, hatter-21, '1', Collier, Newport, Shropshire, liquor iiierchic , i 12, T. &ebb, Torquay, Devon, merchant-19. W. IludNoi , , St. George's Terrace, Bayswater, ship owner-21, W. ,Nlab,on , Kelsale, Suffolk, rainier. CERTIFICATES to be granted Oct. 19. M. Wasbrough, Camberwell. stationer—J. Burr, Hales °wee, Salop, iron master—D. Griffin. %Vats/cab, linen draper-1.• Robertson, Wapping. 'hip chandler—'l'. 11. llarbin, Devon, dealer—W. Heath, Cheadle, Stailisrdshire, grocer—%s • Emmett, Leicester Square, toile& Kma's BiNcit.—The adjourned sittings for Mid. lesex will commence on the 15th of October ; the Court will he occupied with common jury tria:s till the 19th inclusive, when the special jury cases w.ll commence and last to the 26th. The sittings will be in the Court of Common Pleas. On Nlouday, the 28th of October, the London adjourned sit tings commence with common jury cases, and on the 31st special jury cases will be heard, till the list of rewtakets is exhausted, for it is understood that the Lord Chief Justice will not try any of the new special jury causes. Ott Tuesday were married, by special license, by the Lord Bishop of London, at Hampton-court Pa. lace, the Earl of Liverpool, to Miss Mary Chester.,