The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-15 00:00:00

DREADFUL INFLUENCE OF INFIDEL
WRITINGS.

rARI4, Jotv 7.—A Very extraordinary example of the
fatal itt:lneitee of the doctrines of Voltaire and Rousseau
occurred on Friday evening at the Royal College of •
Henry IV. in the infint person of a scholar not fourteen
years of age. The youth's name is —, brother to the
Director of . In a walk the lads of the

College were taking, he rleviated a little from the ranks,
and was punished according to the.discipline establighad,
with several hours' imprisonment. In this prison he
formed and perpetrated the resoluton of hanging himself ;
and previously to its completion, left the ,following•croeu-
tuent on the table which I translate verbatim.

My WILL—I du: happy!
I bequeath my hod% to the peuants—my soul to the manes of
Voltaire aiul Juan Jacques Rousseau, who taught mete despise
all the Wain superstition of this 'world, and all the absarditics
propagated In the fatuity of wen, and the atrocious •ahtletiee
of dectitfol prkgts.
I have :Away: acknowleAlged n Supreme Being. .1 hare al.
ways thou:J.lA the only Religion worthy of that Being was %ir- -
the and probity. I dare affirm that I am. guilty of No trans-
gression, notwithstanding mortal wtakr.i.-ss and fragility.
I appear before thy Supreme with the woad: ut BBL
taire— Un Bonze hooncte !Incme,

U R Der% iS
Trouveroot plotin ;race a tes yeaus,
Qo'ito Jaiiseniste impituyabie,
(,)11 Potaitie umbilicus.
" A virteouS limize, a charitable Dervise, will sooner find
mercy its thy eyes, than a pitiless Jansenist or •an ambitious •
Ponta." . .

-
himia debentur morti, rattlumcine moreti,
Serioa aut l'itillS Pe,lt.m prnpi•ra%nov ad iiimun, •
Tenelium)ll4c. moat., bar est dolmas eltita,
Ovid.
As to vkliat oonceros terrestri.a property, I dispose. of is
thus—To _ .

De!stye my Rarrark.
Devilliere .•• my LlnrelrY•
Levallois . my two Coffers.
Flaucond
Bunnifoux
Flamand
: my Lot Supirer.
Of ail pedacts, those whir love most tormented me are
to these especially I attribute this robbery of torture, in cutting
myself the thread of my exl4ence. At the instant of dtssola-
timid do.not. cease repeating. with Jean Jacques, "If you wish •
to quit life, let me know whether you have yet begun it.
I die a victim of injustice.
Adieu, mortals and weakness, •
(Signed)
College Royale de Ifenri IV. Friday the Ztli•dmie,
at seven in the eveniag.
.. We need scanely remark to our readerk that this guilt"
and silly boy, at the time he was saying that he died happy.
was the victim of mortification ai the slight puniadmient
inflicted span him. But the system of cant/Alan in;.
France, for the lust five-and-twenty years, has tended to .
make men thus immoral, irreligious, shallow, and pre-
sumptuous.
N€wG EXTR 1(:)RD INA 1111.—A Journal artftoll7l:es this
morning u marriage between a son of the Prince Regont
of England, and the daughter of the King of Sardinia
—(Casette de France.)
- The Journal dta DelAats states,. under the Least of
Frankfort—" We are assured it is in contemplation is
England, to establish a steam-packet between Wervic.t
and Frankfurt, and which will make the voyage in tiv,-

or Si% dues !"
flow iittle•do some of the good People of Pitrig seem ~
to latow of .per::ons or places in this country E- The son
of the Prince Regent, will, doubtlesS, go over to the
Coutincut in the identical steam-boat, which they say
will rail from Warnia to Frankfort ! It would scars.,:iy
surprise us, after the late specimens of their k.,evor.ittee,
to read in them, that Gigtheite is the name of one of the

English counties.
- We quote from the Muniteur the following French
bull, by way of consoling our Irish reader.—Svcalting of
the departure of the Duke of 'Wellington t'rom Paris. the
Paper says—Le Noble Lord est parti fruit swirahtP.,
truisheures de niatem—'l'he Noble Lota set off
the tilefokosr-
ino, tii 4tl three, dcluck ;11 or
• WrainCl
A liarrirter observing :t I.ora Chttneellor„ whom he
wishel to tulase.es, very much engaguti with.the-Cazcife,
.aid, 6, I beg your Leraship's see yea tale btiF
with your gurvest."