Star.
London, England, 1816-05-29 00:00:00

LILLE, MAT t.

The Ex-General Chartrand, has just undergone
the punishment due to his crimes.
After having been degraded, he was shot to-day
in the citadel, in presence of the garrison. He eshi.
bited the courage of a French soldier familiar with
danger. and his last words were an homage rendered
to the Commandant of the Division, for his having
softened the severity of his duties with grea chit man i y.
" Delespaul," he said, to his Rapporteor (Defender
or Counsel) at the moment the soldiers were about to
11 fire, "!beseech you to assure the biargois de Junta-
lac that I die fully sensible of all his kindness towards
me ; and if I had an instant longer to live it would
bz devoted to thinking of him."--Jearreal du Nord.
The following particulars of General Chartrand
were sent us from CarFassonne, where he was born ;
but we refrained from publishing them while General
Chartrand was under accusation: DOW that he has
been shot we give the article. because it explains, to
a certain extent. the reason why the King's clemenoy
could not, with any justice, be extended to this cri.
minal.
Chartrand was the son of a journeyman printer at
Carcassonne. At the early
,age of twelve, his father
bound him as an apprentice trumpeter in the dra.'
goons of Noailles, which Wasia garrison at Carcas-
sonne--tisis was in 1791.
Ho left off the business of a trumpeter in 1793,
and General Fabre Fens (brother to Fabre d'Eglan..
tine), took him as his groom. but soon dismissed him
because he suspected his bone Sty.
Shine time afterwards be. entered into a battalion
of volunteers, and served in the armies of the Py-
renees *ad of this Alps. as was in the 4th teginunt,

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of the line when it maae the canstiiign 6f 8.6V116
Under Moreau : he was then made a corporal, bad st
•
quarrel with his Serjeant-Major; who was found mgr
dered in a bye-place, and Chartrand jvas tried foe
his Murder. Ha was sentenced to be ahotkbot wee-
ral of his coincides frOdi the neighbotirhood of Cart
eassonne, succeeded in getsing his sentence changed
;:1 u. dismissal from the army, with what ip Called
a yellotas cartridte•lox, a badge of infamy.. He then
went home, and mauled by force, and against her
will, the daughter of a farmer near Carcassonne. He
thencaMe to live at
'and
with his wife, where
she fell with and When on the point of being
delivered, he beat her so unmercifully, thit she Was
scarcely able to crawl back to Cued, from whence
he had taken her, and where she died in a few days'.
Chartrand immediattly absconded, and enrolled him-
self in the Conuular Guard.

He waa so ill liked in this corps, that he did not
rise to the rank of corporal, lot a year, and lien only
by dint of importunity. In 1307 he was suddenlY
made an Officer, and then a General, for some sierra
services which he rendered to Bonaparte. Hii pro.:
motion chagrined all the officers of the army, for,
like all low-born ard illiterate upstarts, he was inso-
lent to his inferiors, and fawning to his superiors...•
Gault* de France.

PRIVATE LETTER. . • , . .
" Pitts, Mit !I,
" The massacre at Nimes begin at the celebration of a Pro.
teuant wedding. The parties viers grossly Insetted by mutts.
Catholics: blows ensued. The bridegroom fell in the affray—
and in the result, upwards of 160 persons, men, women, and
children, were massacred.. They also set fire to the house of tLe
Protestant in question, by means of wl.ich, several adjoin:tag
hour's were destroyed.
" A singular report circulatas here relative to the DoehesS.tie
St. Leo. It is said, that the authors of the late tamspirsey being
in want of money to carry ft into effect, applied to that. Lady for
assistance, confiding to her their plans, which of course heki out
to her and her family the Most brilliant prospects--that the
Ducheis, zfter apparently entering into their vkws, to beeont4
i more dm: ouglil7 acquainted with them,wrote to M. tie Cazes,who
was turmerly attached to her person, when Queen of Holland,ind
over Whom die is known to have preserved much influence,lo
inform him, that she had communications to make to him of the
highest moment to the State, add that the kind treatment she.
had experienced from the King, prescrilwd it a, a duty to her,
to give notice of des bus isi a,gitstion against his life and his throbs,
—that M. de hazes, in consequence, immediately rent her
ye paid-
' ports, lls WMCO she secretly came. up to Paris, and discloses!
to the Minister all the particulars of the conspiracy. This refir-t,
such as I give it, came from the Court, where they cannot but
be well informed on the subject ; bat, front the very circ.:n-
stance of its prweeilins front that source, it may be, and is con**
‘idered at a lahl.:, cu: rived to throw distrust among the N.To.
I cre tarty. ti,..nnpeorle even ga so far as to affirm, that there
1 never haired at.y coimp:racy a 7 all, save that of public opinion,
, w;,:cl: is a secret to in..nre, end that M. de Cares seeint his in.
!
1 fluency no die deciino, inv.iited this conspiraes hmtself, that the
service render,:d by its supposed discovery, !night strengthen hi=
in his ministettal teat.

lo the mean time, the pubic are kept in perpetual paltriest
by reunite of every detcript.on. W'aule, on the one hand, dcubt
is thrown upon the arrest of Caulanieourt, it is, on the other,
confidently asserted. that General Lafayette has arse been ar-
rested ; but the, I have every reason to think untrue.
" Both the affair of Grenoble aid that of Nismt:s, ire neer re-
presented as not being the result of a conspiracy, but as hash
originated in accident. Ihe first of these is attributed to the
arrest of a highly respected ir.dividtial in the neighbourhood of
Grenoble, whom the l'refect had ordered to be secretly averted
by the Mayor; the later having refused, the Prefect desired
bin to itiviie the indivie.ual in question to the Prefecttre, for
the purpose of n.tre expiatiatioo, promising he should not be
arrested. This promise was, however, broken; and the peasants
of the neighbourhood, informed of the circumstance, presented
themselves variously armed, to the number of IY or iSeo, before
Grenoble, for the purpose of drnunding his release. They were
fired upon, and hence arose the recent sitsittrbance in t kat quarter."

A Mail front Brussels arrived to-day, but its cone
tents are uninteresting.
This morning we r:ceivel Philadelphia Papers to
'the ;oth ult. and Baltitm,re to the 28tii, but they
contain no news of intrust. Our private letters from
the above places, of the same date, give a melan-
choly statement of the commercial distresses iu those
parts. It appears that an immense quantity of goods
bad been ;Inputted, for the Spring trade, in expecte.
tion of a great demand ; but the Contrary was the
case, as there was no probability of any consumption,
in consequence of the great scarcity of money. Fai.
lutes ware daily taking place, and the greatest distrust
existed among the merchants. Large losses must
inevitably accrue, and the intelligence, in general, is
of th most gloomy de. cripti.ut.
Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at
Marseilles, dated May 18 There was a vi,dent
insurrection at Tunis the beginning of this month.
The iesingents killed the Bey, and offered the crown
to his brother, who refused it ; tearing they ixere be.
trayed, they got posiession oh the g.ileta and forts
by stratag..m, and spiked the guns; thy then 'took
pos: essioa of five cur sirs, armed with ti.nsind twenty
guns each, viz, one brig of 20 guns a.nd .17n men,
use brig of 18 guns, two scimonets of 16 guns, with
v hich they sailed, taking with them a very rich booty
and several of the principal people. It is uncertain
where they are goue, but it is supposed to Constatt.
tinople."
esterdity, the Grand Metropolitan Pert Cult
had their Anniversary Dinner at the City of London
Tavern, Mr. BOOTLE WILBRAHAM in the Chair.—.
A great number of Noblemen mid Gentlemen were
present to assist at this comntemot ation of the event-
ful political era in which we live, and several elegant
and well-merited eulogiums were pronounced on the
high character of the great Statesman, whose loss bag
been so universally deplored.
morning, about two o'clock, a drea&
ful Fire broke out at the sign of the Plough"; Clap=
ham Common, which raged with unabated full until
the whole of the premises were destroyed : we are
'happy to say, the inmates were,providentially saved;
but all the property in the house, and the stables ad-
joining, have fallen a. prey to the devouring element.
The awful hour at which it commenced caused a
dreadful sensation in the neighbourhood, many of the
inhabitants being compelled to quit their houses watts
scarcely any covering.

► CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, MAY '29.
Although we have had very I;ttle Whe4 since
lidofiday, there was an abundant supply for this
morning. Irons the quantity ltft unsold t market
day. and having but tew buyers sales were very heavy,
anJ scarce any WAS disposed of, but prices condos)*
as on Monday.—O.us maintain their price, but go
off sold rather freely, and at lavt
Jay's pttces.—ln Pelf, Beans, and other articics,
thcte is lark or no VAllatice.