The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-15 00:00:00

TRIAL FOR MURDER IN CORSICA.

Francis Feracci was recently tried at the Court of
Criminal Justice at Bastia, for murder of two per-
eons so far back as 1821. The circumstances of
the case were of a singular nature. In 1821 the
town of Corte, in Corsica, was exposed to a species
of civil war, which occasioned the greatest alarm in
the country; bands of armed brigands held posses-
sion of the country, and inspired terror in the hearts
of all who were not connected with them. The Go,
'vernment, to put a stop to this, had forbidden, under
pain of death, any Corsican to carry arms, unless
they had been registered. T 9 enforce this order the
Government sent out an armed force, which was

:iiigmented by a number of the inhabitants of COrti
who were opposed to the banditti, and who pursued
them day and night.
On the night of the 21st of November, 1821,
an engagement took place between the gees-darmes,
assisted by several of the inhabitants, and a number
of the brigands. After some time the latter were
compelled to abandon the scene of contest, leaving
one of their wounded comrades in the hands
of the Bens-darmes. The latter conveyed the
wounded man to a (lave in the 'vicinity, where tley
left him, in the custudy.of some armed men. The
brigands were not slow in getting reinforcements,
and returned in search of their woUnded companion.
After some time they entered the cave, and found
their friend, who Wei having his wound dressed by
a gen-darme and two natives of COrt6, one of whom
was the brother of the present prisoner. The bri-
gands fired their muskets, killed the two men on the
spot, and severely WOunded the "geudarrrie. They
then conveyed their. wounded comrade away in
triumph. The news of this fatal event spread the
greatest consternation in Corte, and at the same

time elicited great indignation, and a determination
to make reprisals on the brigands. The daughter
of one of the brigands haStened to inform her grand-
father, an old man aged 75, who was at work in a
garden near home with her brother, a young lad not
14, of the risk they run. All three endeavoured, by
cress-roads, to avoid the armed men, and were
hurrying to a place of safety, when two armed men
appeared and ordered them to stop. The boy threw
himself at the feet of one of them, and begged that
they would not punish him for the faults of his
father;. and the old man declared that he had had
nothing whatever to do with the disturbances, and
entreated that they would not injure hiirt. The asses-
sins,ho'wever; instantly presented their pieces and fired,
and killed both the old man and the boy. In the
mean time, however,, the girl had succeeded in escap-
ing lsy deacendink into a ravine near the wood. The
girl declared that these men were the prisoner'
Francis Feracci, the brother of the man killed the
day before, and. John Louis, who soon afterwards

left Corsica.
The prisoner, who kept out of the view of the
police, then formed a band of armed men, which
were opposed to the brigands. The existence of
these bands of armed men had greatly compromised
the peace of the country ; and as the Government
had ant then a sufficient force in the ceuntry, to put
them down, they entered into an agreement 1-1,1 the
heads of both parties, on the condition that they
should expatriate themselves; and safe conducts and
pardons were issued. A great number removed
from Corsica, and peace was restored, which has
not since been disturbed. The prisoner, who was
possessed of one of these lerters of protection, soon
returned to Corsica, and devoted himself to his do-
mestic affairs. The magistracy, how, ver, on hearing
the events above related, ordered him to be arrested
in the month of September last. The prisoner on
his trial denied that he was one of the assassins of
the 22d of September. He also produced the pro-
tection which had been given to him by the adminis-
trative authorities. The girl above-mentioned per-
sisted in her statement. Other witnesses declared
that they bad seen him isear the spot owthe day in
questior, and had heard him boast of having com-
witted the murders with which he was charged.
The Court held that the protection which the pri-
soner had produced was not sufficient to prevent the
course of jusiice ou a charge of murder.
The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to
the punishment of death. He has appealed from this
judgment.

A meeting of a few of the inhabitants a
Paisley took place in the Baptist Meeting-house, Bart-
street, en Monday evening, to consider on what would be
the most proper mode of expressing the general disapproe
bation that exists in that town against the systematic and
unexampled mode of murder lately carried en in Edin-
burgh. After considerable discussion, the meeting agreed
unanimously, that a petition to the King should be drawn
up, and submitted to a general meeting of the inhabitants,
praying his Majesty to appoint a . special commission to in-
quire fully into. the conduct of .all concerned in the hahn.
man systerdlately practised for supplying the anatomical
schools of Edinburgh with subjects. so that the public may
have their minds satisfied, and their alarms quieted, by a
thorotigh knowledge of the extent to which the unparal-
leled practice of murders Committed in that city has been
carried.— Caledonian Mercury.
Two distressing events have lately afflicted the
French Academy—the loss of M. Picard, and the sadden
disappearance of M. Anger, the secretary to the Aca-
demy. The latter had been in bad health for some time,
and was about to set out for Italy on the recommendation
of his physicians. On Friday the Ist, at half-past nine
o'clock, he talked over his projects with M. le Brun, a very
A second division of the Portuguese, amount- respectable young Academician, and at ten o'clock he
quitted his house, leaving the following latter addressed to
his wife :--,‘ My dear love, you know that I adore you,
mg to 168, sailed from Plymouth on Sunday.
but I cannot longer support life. I must die;—do not
Some time since a very young girl, the daugh- curse my memory, and pardon my weakness." It is not
ter of a scavenger, attracted the attention of a neighbour, ,known what has since become of him, but no doubt is
who pretended to be so much ietet sated by her appearance, entertained that he has accomplished his design. M.
that he volunteered to teach the child to read and write. Anger was in all respects in a fortunate situation..—.
The poor mother, anxious to avail herself of to kind a He treated literary criticism with indifference; his
source of education, thankfully accepted the offer, and an fatal resolution, therefore, can only be ascribed to
intimacy consoKluentlY ensued. On Saturday last this mental aberration. M. Auger was the illegitimate
hoary miscreant, whose years were sufficient to allay any child of a courtier of the Court of Louis XVI. It
suspicion of a sinister intention, asked the poor woman to has been retnarbed at the present moment that. the
allow her child to accompany him to the theatre to see office of Secretary to the Academy has been filled with a DIED.
On the 12th fact, at Solihull
Robinecs Crueoe, whiCh, after exacting a promise to bring succession of bastards. M. d'Alembert, M. la Harps, and , the Rev. Charles Curti
Rector of Solihull, in the county of Warwick, and of 8
her back in good time, she consented to. Ten o'clock M. Chamfort, preceded M. Auger in that office', and
came, but no child made its appearance ; eleven o'clock were all natural "children. It is believed that M. Arnaelt, Martin's, Birmingham.
arrived, still the mother was left in the same anxiety. At the author of " Marcus," and of " Germs.nicus," will On the 6th inst. at Bath, in the flOth year of his ag
twelve the distracted mother went to inquire of a relation succeed M. Picard in the Academy ; and that M. Etienne, Mr. Thomas Ridley, of Croydon, Surrey.
in the Canongate if she could give any tidings of the infant 1 the author of the clever comedy of the " Two Sons-in- •• On the 11th inst. at Cheltenham, Anhui Page, Esq.
—none were to he had. She then went house and come ! Law," besides several other dramatic works, will Le : Lincoln's Inn, Barrister. atelaw, in his 28th year.
municated her distress to her husband, and in this state of ; called to fill the place of M. Auger. Both these gee- On the 11 th inst. at Brighton, Anna Diana, widow
misery they remained till ten o'clock yesterday, when the : tlemen had been academicians under the emire, and the late MejoreGeneral Thomas Cox, of Henrietta•stro
poor thing was brought back, severely injured, to her were struck off the list in 1815. We have had two cot- Czvendish-squale, aged 84.
parents ; and they then learnt that, after taking her to siderahle fires at Paris within these few days,—that of the At Sydney-place, near E7ceter, William Swiney, Es
the playhouse, the miscreant had conveyed her to some house of M. Seguier, the opponent of Ouvrard, and Admiral of the
Red.
house, where he gaVe her whiskey, and afterwards slept that of Madame Crawford. The daughter of the former
with her all night. The child is only eleven years of age. iis -about to marry one of your countrymen (Mr. Elks-
-- Caledonian Mercury, !
more.) , i
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RKETS.—Jan. 9.

DUMFRIES M.
s.d. s.d. _ s. d. a. d
Wheat, Imp. Bush... 8 6 to 9 0 Butter, 160:............. 0 0 to 0 '
Barley .......... .... 4 6 4 9 Eggs, dozen 0 0 0
Oats
Flour, 141b........: 8 4 8 0 Mutton . ..... 0 3 0
Oatmeal ...... 2 8 2 4 Veal - ................... 8 4 0
Potatoes. cwt. 0 0 1 0 Quarters L0af......... 0 8 0
The Cattle and Pork markets were both largely sup
plied and well .attended, and about three-fourths
.of tb
whole were disposed 6f, at nnrly the late !potations.

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