The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-09 00:00:00

EXECUTION AT PARIS.

Victor Alphonse Daumas Dupin, ci-derant officer
and paymaster of one of the regiments of the old
Imperial Guard, and a Knight of the Legion of
Honour, being suspected of the murders of a young
man of the name of Prudhomme, and of his still
more youthful wife (only I 6 years of age,) at the
valley of Montmorency, on the 24th of January
last, was pursued by the police, whom he baffled,
and effected his escape to Milan, whence he wrote
to his sister, announcing that at length he began to
breathe—having, while still on French ground,
every moment expected to be captured :—" every
leaf that fell seemed to him the tread of the officers
of justice." This letter destroyed him. It was
intercepted, and in consequence, upon the applica-
tion of the French Minister, Dupin was arrested,
and handed over to some French police-officers, by
whom he was conveyed a prisoner to Paris. Shortly
after his arrival in Paris, he was transferred to Ver-
sailles, and brought to trial before the tribunal of
that district (the Seine et Oise,) in which the
beautiful valley of Montmorency is situated. On
his trial he defended himself with great ingenuity.
He confessed that ho had gone to the house (a small
inn) of the unfortunate Prudhomme with a compa-
nion, determined to rob it, and having gone out for
a moment, he found that his companion had, in
his absence, murdered the newly-married owners
of the auberge with an axe ; that he had par-
ticipated in the plunder, but with reluc-
tance; and that fear of his accomplice (who
has not yet been apprehended) had prevented his
denouncing him, &c. Notwithstadding this story,
Dupin was convicted, and condemned to death; but
the report of the proceedings not having been duly
signed by an officer of the Court, the judgment was
annulled, and Dupin was transmitted for trial to
Paris, being in a different district, and was, on the
31st of October, again convicted, and sentenced to
death. Ile appealed to the Court of Cassation
merely, as he himself declared on Thursday last, in
compliance with the entreaties of his afflicted rela-
tions. His appeal was rejected on the 24th ult.,
and Dupin was ordered for execution on Wednesday
last. Ileace resulted a circumstance truly French.
On Tuesday he recollected that the day fixed for
his execution was the 2d of December, the anniver-
sary of the battle of Austerlitz, in which glorious
field he had received the Cross of the Legion of Ho-
nour for his good conduct in that celebrated conflict.
He therefore applied for an extension of his life for
24 hours, not wishing to terminate his miserable '
career on the anniversary of that day on which he
had been decorated in the field of honour ! This
request was complied with, and early on Thursday
he was transferred from the Bicetre to the Concier-
gerie. At a few minutes after four, the cavalcade
entered the Place du Greve, the culprit, as usual,
attended by a priest, to whose exhortations, how-
ever, he was evidently incapable of attending, being
apparently wholly lost to a sense of all surrounding
objects. His countenance was pale, even to ghast-
liness, and though visibly attenuated by long impri-
sonment, his figure was that of a well-formed man of
the middle size. Arrived at the foot of the guillo-
tine, he rose from his seat, and descended the ve-
hicle with a feeble step, but without assistance. A
delay of a few seconds took place at the foot of the
scaffold, after which lie ascended, and being placed
under the fatal axe, he breathed his last within less
than two minutes from the time of his arrival at the
Place du Greve. The concourse of spectators was
immense, of whom females of the lowest order form-
majority.--Paris Paper. ed a great and disgusting

W. E. BURNABY, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn,
one of the City Pleaders, has beets appointed Junior Coun-
sel to the 13rnk of England, in the room of his late col-
league, W. BOLLAND, Esq., now one of the Barons of the
Exchequer.

An Englishman fond of turbot, on going to
a restaurateur's at Paris, asked for tierbot• The garcon
answered it was not the custom for gentlemen to take off
their boots in that place. It was some time before John
Bull was convinced that he had asked fora hoot jack in
place of his favourite fish !—Essex Herald.