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

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 eflbrts 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 the 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

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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. Gent. will be
able to tetite earlier to re,t, and with less fatigue,
titan iu l uitte so tar as Crloaetkr-intliie.

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