The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-30 00:00:00

AIERCANTILE SHIPPING.
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TO-DAY.

SINGULAR RECOVERY OP A FEMALE
UNJUSTLY EXECUTED. ,

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The following account of the case of a poor
irl who was unjustly executed in 706, is giro' by a celebrated
?ranch author, as an instance of tire injustice which was often
committed by the equivocal mode of trial used in France :-.-
"Abollt I,' years since, a young peasant girl, ristseessed of
very agreeable figure. was placed at Paris in the service-of a
man depraved by all the vices consequent on the corruption of
great cities. Smitten with her charms, he tried every method to
seduce her; but she was virtuous, and resisted. The prudence of
this girl only irritated the passion of her master, who, not being
able to make her submit to his desires, determied on the most
black and horrible revenge. He secretly conveyed into her box
many things belonging to him, marked with hie name.' fie
then exclaimed that he was robbed, called in a commissar,..e
(a ministerial °nicer ofjustice), end made his deposition. The
girl's box was "searched, and the things were discovered. The
unhappy servant was imprisoned. She defended herself only
by her tears ; she had no evidence to prove that she did not put
the property in her box ; and her only answer to the intern . gatories was, that she was innocent. The Judges heti no suspicion of the depravity of the accuser, whose station was respite-
table, and they administered the law in all its rigour; a rigour ,
undoubtedly excessive, which ought to disappear front our code
to give place to a simple but certain penalty which leave fewte•
crimes unpunished. The innocent girl was condemned to be
hanged. The dreadful office was ineffectually performed, we
it was the first attempt of the son of the great executioner.
A surgeon had purchased the body for dissection, and it
was conveyed to his house. On that evening, tieing about
to, open the head, he perceived a gentle warmth about the
body. The dissecting knife fell from his hand, and he placed la his bed, her whom lie wars about to dissect. Ultieffbrts torestere
her to life were effectual ; and at the same time he. sent fore;
priest, on whose discretion anti experience he could depend, in or-
der to consult with hint on this strange event, as well as tohave
him fin a witness to his conduct. The moment the
tunate girl opened her eyes, she believed lie.rself in the other world, and perceiving the figure of the privet,. who lied .i
marked and a majestic countenanee (for I know hint, anti it is
from him that I have this feet), she joined her bands trona,-
ling,ly, and exclaimed 'Eternal FATHER, YOU know stay ,
nocencee—have pity on me !' • in this manner she continued
to invoke the Ecclesiastic, believing, in her simplicity, that
beheld her Ciodi T
hey were long in persuading her that slid was not delid--so much had the idea of the purnshnsent and te'
deed' posseesed her imagination. Nothing could be snore
touching and more expressire than the cry of an innocent being,
who thus approached towards hire whom she regarded as hit
Supreme Judge ; and, independently of her affecting beauty,
tine single spectacle was suffielent to create the most lively in
terest in the breast of an observing and sensible man. What
scene for a painter 1 What a mond for a philosopher ! What
lesson for a legislator
" The process wits not submitted to a new revision, as was
stated in the Journal de "Pori:. The servant having return-
ed to life, recognized a man in him whom she had adored,
and who directed her prayers towards the wily adorable lit:istee
quitted the house of the surgeon, who was doubly ant
on her 'acconnt •and his own. She'
retired to hide herself in
a distant village, fearing to meet the. Judges or the Oft..
errs, who, with the dreadful tree, iacessantly haunted le 1-
iinaginetion. The villaneus accuser remarried tutptinie!,eJ,
because his crime, though manifested the eyes of two indi
shinel witnesses, was not so clear to the eyes of the trates anti of the laws. Thepeople euhtiequently became
quitinted' with the resurrection of this and loadedwitlt
reproaches the exe-crable author of her tniseryi but, in this
rnense city, his offence was sour) forgotten, and the irwriNter
per) . 13•4 • still breathes •st least, he lies net publicly suilieed the
punishment which he tieserveS. •
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IiXeIIANIIE, May 30.
There are again ilsiod arrivals of all kinds-of Grain
especially of Oats; Wheat is very heitivy in sale, at Is. to
per quarter less thaw:l.l44lday t- Barley ill very dull, and rather.
cheaper; in Beans no trade at present; (fats finds but few
buyers, at Is. per quarter reduction frOill Altaldijr.

SMITHFIBLI) MARKET, MAY an.
There was a good st!pply. this morning of all description* of
Cattle ; Beef remains in price as per lan market-day, but Ve4
and Lamb are autnewlist higher in price.

DEAL, MAY 29.—WintIN.E.—Cathe down from SheerneS
'the Loyal Briton transport, with a detachment of the lOth
regitnent, for Crok; the Drissott, Holder, for Dominica ;
Aueona, Whitehead, foi New Brunswick.
Po R T SlllO U Tirt MAY 29.—N-Vind Southerly.—. Sailed his
:Majesty's ship Calliope, for Falmouth.
Rot stouTss, MAY .28.,Wind N.ArriVed the Friends
Goodwill, Phillip, frOm Amsterdam. Sailed the Marquis of
Wellington, Blanchard, and Princess of Wales, Gribbie for'
Madras and Calcutta; and Two Brothers, Lawson for Arm •
FA L 1.1 OU T MAY, 28.—Wind N..—. Sailed the 'llingstone,
Boiven, for Bengal ; and allot, Paton, for Quebec.
NEW HAI, Ei4, NAY 29..--Artived- the Madeira packet from
St. Thomas's : the last news from thence is, that the
tants of St. Domingo are engaged in a cause against the 'Vest
India Islands, and will not allow vessels to enter:their ts.
A deviation therefrOtru'stibjects the vcssel to forfeiture, and the
Master to I:3 months' imprisonment.

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and the plot will not be the less complete. In spite, however,
of Its being a truistn, it must be admitted that today is a portion
of our existence. ranted, exclaims the idler, but, after all, '
what is a single day?—A question which is peevishly repeated
three huedred and sixty-five links in a year, when we commence
a new scoreof Slinger interrogatories: so that we might as well sal
at once, " what is a single life ?" Short as the interval niii4-ht be,
and however indolently we may have passed it, to-day has not
been altogether pnimporta nt. Perched upon our goodly vehicle,
the Earth, we have swung through space at a tolehibly brisk
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proach ourselves for meanness of spirit were We to hoard it
rate in the performance of our annual rotation round the sun i
so much nearer to its end; they are struck off from our ac-;
count; we shall never travel over them again. With every
tick of our watch in that brief space of time, some hundreds or
thousands have started froth the great antenal infinite'to lig
and life; while as many hate. returned into the darkness of the invisible world. And we ourselves, though we sometimes ex-
claim, like the Emperor Titus, that we have lost a day, may
be well assured that to-day hits not lost sight of us. The foot-
steps of Time may not he heard when be treads upon roses,
but his progress is not the less certain ; we need not shake the
hour-glass to make the sands of life flow faster ; they keep per,
petually diminishing; night and day, asleep or awake, grain
by grain, our existence dribbles away.. 'We call those happy
moments when Time files most rapidly, forgetting that he is
the only winged personage that cannot fly backwards, and that
his speed is but hurrying us to the grave.
Those individuals who seek happiness will withdraw them=
selves from this whirl and vortex of excitement. They will not
aggravate the diseastsl enlargement of the public heart, and
share the painful intensity of its pulsation,: by residing in the
Capital. There is no holy calm, no sabbathi of the soul, no
cessation of strife, in that vast arena of the passions, where
life is a ceaseless struggle of mone-getting and money-spend-
ing; a context of' avarice and luxury; a delirium of the
senses or of the mind. If we desire peace and repose, let us
laok out upon the variegated earth, ever new and beau.
tiful—upon the azure doom of !leaven, hung around with
painted clouds—upon the wide waters, dancing and glittering
in the sun, or lying in the stillness of their crystal sleep. Let
us listen to the music of the sky, when the boughs are singing
to the wind, and the birds are serenading one another ; or
surrender ourselves to thin more pleasing sensation, when the
serenity of Nature's silence imparts a congenial balm and trail.,
quillity to the !wart. Gazing on the face, of Nature, we
shall encounter no human passions—no distrust—no jealousy
—no intermission of friendship or attraction : even her frowns
are beautiful, and we need not fear that death shall tear
her from us. We look upon an immortal countenance. A
morning thus dedicated is an act of the purest piety ; it.is offer.:
ing to the Deity a heart made happy by. the contemplation of
his works.; and if I can prevail upon a single reader to detach
himself for a time from crowds and entinalments, and betake
himself to the sunny meadows or the green twilight of the
woods, I shall felicitate nivatelf on not having quits unprofitably
employed the morning of-;-" To-slay.”