The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-18 00:00:00

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I 'first presented a favourable aspect, and Arnaud wi is
not detained in custody, but Prevenand died at tin,
end of eight days. Arnaud then came forward,
and avowed himself to have been the adversary of
Prevenand and the •immediate cause of his death,.
and as such was indicted for murder. He made
his appearance . before the Court • of. Assizes on
Monday, and, being interrogated by the Presi-
dent, again admitted the main fact, but refused to give
the names of either his own pr his adversary's se-
conds. On the subject of the duel he stated that he
had been a long time intimately connected with, and.
attached to a young woman named ileloise, and at
length introduced her to Prevenand, who was a
fellow-student as well as fellow-countryman.
After a time Prevenand endeavoured to seduce her
from him, till at length he, Arniud, felt his own
honour as well as feelings so violently outraged
that he was compelled to send a challenge to Pre-
venand. The seconds, he said, -did all in their
poWer to prevent the meeting, but, not being able to
succeed, placed the combatants at 50 paces distance,
with the liberty of advancing five. He, Arnaud,
advanced only one step, and then. fired. Preveneuid
staggered, and he was about to hasten to his assist-
ance, when he perceived that, his adversary levelled
his pistol at him. He stopped, and stood the shot,
which missed him, and Prevenand figl. The seconds
went to call the surgeon in attendance, and bring
up the coach, which was afterwards stopped as
before related, but, by some mistake; the seconds did
not return. Several witnesses- were heard, some of
whom bore testimony to the provocations which the
prisoner had received from the deceased. The Pre-
sident also read a formal declaration , made by Preve-
nand on his death-bed, that all the wrong doing
on his side, and that, if the same offence had been
committed by any one towards him, he would have
acted as Arnaud had done. The Advocate-General,
M. Hely d'Oissel, maintained the prosecution, and
insisted that there were grounds for a verdict, if not
of actual murder, at least of inflicting a wound which
caused death; but the jury declared Arnaud not
guilty, and he was immediately discharged.
The bodies now lying at the cemetery of Mont
Parnasse amount to 27, some of those at first brought
there having been removed. It is
.utterly impossible
to recognise one of them, every feature being gone,
and the whole body being more or less calcined. On
none can a finger or toe be seen, though the stumps
still remain. The teeth are generally white and un-
injured, giving another proof of the indestructibility of
that part of the human frame. It was by her teeth that
Madame Dumont d'Urville was recognised. The colour
is in all cases the same—a dark brown, such as is seen •
on smoked hams or bacon. The abdomen is in all
cases in better preservation than the other portions of
the bodies. The reason is, that the strong integuments
which covered it allowed the liquid matter below to
become heated, or even to boil, without the external
coat being destroyed. In one body the upper and
lower jaws, as well as the malar bones, are completely
destroyed, yet the tongue is perfectly soft and moveable
in the mouth. In another the upper part of the skull
is burnt off, and the adjacent bones completely cal-
clined, yet the brain is soft to the touch, and the thin
membrane unbroken. Five or six have the hands
held up before their faces, as if defending themselves
from the attacks of the flames. In that position they
met their fate. Messrs. Amussat, Majendie, 011iffe,
and other physicians, who have visited the cemetery,
have declared the case to be such as may never again
be witnessed. They have suggested that an applica-
tion should be made to the Minister of the Interior to
have these remains, if unclaimed, or at least part of
them in the Pathological Museum.
The Brussells journals give accounts of two capital
executions in Belgium—one in the morning of the
10th inst., at Bruges, of a journeyman, named De
Coene, of West Roosebeck, for the murder of his wife
in March, 1841. He died with repentence and firm
resignation. This is said to be the first execution
which has taken place at Bruges within the last 13
years. The second was on the 11th, at Lierre, near
Antwerp, upon Backer, the murderer of the cure of
Nylen, of which we gave an account at the time. This
man was so overcome by his awful situation, that, on
arrival at the scaffold, he was unable to ascend it
without being supported by the priest and the ex-
ecutioner.