The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-15 00:00:00

CRIMES IN FRANCE.

PARIS, Auo. IS.
On the 3d instant, a shoemaker, named blazon., *ea tried at
the assizes of Rouen for the murder of his wife.—From the period
of their marriage the prisoner and his wife became remarkable itt
their neighbourhood for bad conduct, drunkenness, and incessant
domestic quarrelling. On the 17thof March last, at seven o'clock
in the evening, Mature informed his neighbours that he had found
his wife dead in her bed ; but soon after recollecting that he could
not suecred in concealing the state of the b, dy, which was welterin
in blood, and had a deep wound under the left breast, he went to n
commissary of police, and declared that his wife had committed
suicide. Mature was some time after arrested. He at first denies!
being the author of her death, but afterwards avowed the crime, of
which he gave the followitio account. On the morning of the
murder, he and his wife hail been consulting the cards to learn their
future destiny, and in this ease the predictions drawn from them
proved but too true, as it appeared from the disposition of the
cards that they were menaced by some great misfortune. Mature
said, that if such should be the case, it would be the result of his
wife's misconduct. To this she replied in a manner that so irri-
tated her husband, that he snatched up a knife that lay on the table
benne them, and plunged it into her breast. She Wm, but soon
after staggered, when the prisorer caught her in his arms, and laid
her upon the bed, where, in a few momenta, she expired. After a
brief deliberation the Jury returned a verdict of guilty against the
prisoner, who was sentenced to 'hard labour for life, and to be
branded. Ile heard his sentence without evincing the slightest.
symptom of emotion.
The same day a man named Lerieur was tried for having mil-
, treated and struck his father. At the assizes held in the month of
May last, Imereur had been tried under the horrible charge of hav-
ing poi oned his father and a pan of his family. A majori y
seven of the Jury touts& him guilty ; bet ebtinedovity of the t :oun
being of a contrary opinion, he wea acquitted. The proceedings,
hos/o'er, having furnished proofs of the brutality of his conduct
towards his father, he was detained in confinement, and a new in-
dictment preferred against him. The chief witnesses on the re.
sent occasion were a man and his wife, who lived next door to the
prisoner's father. They deposed that on the 24th December, 1824,
they heard the sound of blows proceeding from Leeceur's (senior,
apartment, which were tbllowed by cries for assistance front the
old man. They also, shortly atterwards, heard the prisoner's step-
mother address Inns in the following terms: —" Unfortunate
wretch ! how could you dare to strike your father—he to whom von
are indebted for life, and who took care of your infancy? Qui:
the house, and return to your own dwelling."- The prisoner de-
nied that any such scene had ever taken place. The Jury, as on
the former trial, found a verdict of guilty, only by a majority of
seven ; but the majority of the Court coinciding with this deci •ion,
Lemur was condemned to ten years' imprisonment (the maximum
of the punishment), to stand in the pillory, to ay the coats of the
prosecution, and to be subjected all his life to the surveillance of
the police. Lemur. who appeared to expect a different result,
was moat violently *Meted on hearing his sentence.
A T aociut a Catme.—An atrocious crime, followed by suicide,
has been committed in the town of Bente: Mr. 13—, a man of
rank and fortune, inveigled a little girl of six years of age into the
fields, and there exercised the most brutal violence on her. Through
the intervention of some of Mr. 111--'s friends, the mother of
the child was prevailed upon not to prosecute him. However, a
rumour of the outrage having got abroad, the Magistrates ;flan-
toted an inquiry. Mr. D—, on learning this, went to his coun-
try-house, took a razor, and, while standing over a deep well, cut
his throat. This took place in the morning: in the evening, he
was found dead at the bottom of the well. The wound in his throat
appeared not to have been sufficient to have caused his death under
other circumstances.

(ADTEnTisEsiENT.)
No RIOTS ! ! !—For the Community and the State will
be greatly benefited, and the amiable Ladies of the United King-
dom highly gratified.
Facts are stubborn things." Are not they? (pardon the query.)
Ye noble, and ye generous, and ye sympathetic, and ye truly
Christian Ladies of his Moat Gracious Britannic Majesty's vast
and extended dominions ! Thousands of thanks are due to Messrs.
Iluskisson, Canning, Robinson, and Peel ! And ye Spitalfieles
and other Weavers, be ye ever grateful to the }tench matter-
manufacturers, who employ ye ! But, ye English permanent
Dyers and Finisher+, yours is the triumph ! ! !
The Proprietors of the British and Foreign Commercial Etn..
potions most respectfully. and energetically announce to the entire
Community of Great Britain, and its prodigious dependencies, th..t
in consequence of the long.continued unparalleled distress of the
English Silk Weavers, they have, contrary to a previous actual
intention, positively declined purchasing French Silks, and their
anxiously add, for the information of the whole world (as it spe-
cially concerns all commercial nations) that it is well known to meet
ladies of taste, and of the /rout ton, in the great cities of Europe,
that the genei tiny of French Silks spot immediately on wearing.
Those that do not spot are principally arid assuredly of English
manufacture, but have been, and are, sold by unprincipled traders
as French.
N.B. At the Commercial Emporium no goods are ticketed, no
abatement made, and every article warranted perfect, and are Re-
-1 tailed at the Wholesale and Manufacturer's Prices which is not
done at any of the pretended Cheap Shope, where goods are ticketed,
and customers either deceived or cheated. This sasettion is not
more harsh than true (and affects not the upright dealer), for it Is
notorious truth, to the great annoyance of many respectable people.
that this is actually the case, wherever goods are marked cheap
deceptively, and Where very low prices are stated in advertisements ;
therefore, to prevent mistakes, the public will please to notice that
the British and Foreign Emporium for decidedly cheap, fashion..
able, and durable Silks, linens, Cottons, M'oollens, and nosier'',
is a narrow-fronted, very long Warehouse, with a golden lion in
the window, and is conducted by
Joux Pittr.LlPs and Co.

Wholesale and -Retail Factors, No. 47, Bisiiopsgate Withc.r
(not Bisbepsgate Within).
P.S. British Manufactured Goods exported to all pasta of the
world, especially to his Majesty's West India Colonies. Country
and Foreign orders (containing remittances) executed with promp-
titude and fidelity. Benevolent private Ladies and public Institu-
-oons supplied with Charity Articles extraordinerily cheap, for cabit
payments only.
N.B. The British and Foreign Conitnereid Emporium opens at
ten o'clock, and closes earner at night than is usual with Retail
, Houses in the City. Although the Proprietors must necessarily
I have private interest in view, yet they dunk a generous public witl.
I consider them justified in affixing the moat.—
" Pm Woo reblica

ESCAPE OP Paisoweas..--Two pop were last week put
into a boa at Kirriemuir, for the purpose of being con.
veyed to a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Forfar. and
were consigned to the care of the mail-driver, who placed
them in the boot. On his snivel here, be found the box,
but the inmates had eloped. The fugitives have not as yes
been discovered, although a reward bag been. offered f
their apprehension.