Star.
London, England, 1828-12-18 00:00:00

' COURT OF-ASSIZE:OF THE LOWER SEINE.

. The *tablet! of eoneersation at Rouen and thelaigh-!
bOurhood lox
.ersuse time
,pest .has been the lolinvaus
curinus.,eir cbszsstence:—.M. de Saint Germain, who lived
with a wife and lour cltildeeit at Gam nay. disNprated
in 1811, dtiriog a journey he made to R turn In receives
considerable so at of money Since then he has revel been;
"Itekucl4.f NI. Heude, at t':at time Ow agent or Ma !awl
Sint Gir main. and 35 )e its of aAe, obta'ned her c evi-
dence to st.ch_a dee lee. that he and his wife lived in tht
same house with het. Mende hii nothing. and must have
been a gainer by this corn •nunity cf good,. Far several
yea's they heed comfortably tnget'ier, but Mrs. lieu Je,
on returning to the house after an absence of three mirth%
found things entirely changed. Mrs. S :int Germain
complaFeed of havitape, been poisoned, and she suspected,
every person around her except Mts. Heu.lr, whose in-
offensive and pi las charade' saved her from such impu-
tati os, At length the susincions extended to her. and
'She was tleatesi w itii great ievet ity. Ou OstOber Ist,
1826, her husb ind made Ins appearance at the door oilier
I bou •e. told her she was tint to leave it, and locked her in.
-In the month s f August, 182:4, the Magistrates inter-
fered, and made M. Ileude open his wile's pi icon. She
Acctiseil.no person te hen set at fiber ty. Her imprisonment,
the bad treatment she had reerived, were knau ri to all
Germany. She was several times are ittifed with death
if she cal:ed fin assistance. Bring accused by Madame
Saint Germain with I;aving diffused a mephitic gas
through her chamber; as site was carrying her some
breakfast, her htishand staespea up ail the witidoa s, and
tier door. w.ax only opened.. So many cruelties practised
rem a woman 72 /ears of aye brought het to the brink of
•
Mit gave; she asked to hive a Clergyman—it was- re-
fuied; • bpt the was allotted, tn. see a surgeon. Some
Time afterwards the Vicar of Gournay was allowed to
see het, and receive her confession.' Then something
vas said of her confessions, but she deelaied she

wai infrocrnt. of the attempts to poison, of which she
was accused. M..Heude, to justify himself, spoke .of a
letter written by Madame lieu-le, containing avowals;
but this letter, deposited in the hands of Madame
S slit Gereiain, was copied by Madame Heude, under
constraint, from one drawn up by M. Heude. The trial
came on at Rouen on the 12th instant. M. Heude and
Madame St. Germain *me the accused. M,Heude is
a thin man, wearing his fiait in curls, and powdered.
Madame St. Germain was well dressed,.and has been
a handsome woman.- She appeared much affected and
trembling. She was b6tn at Cape Francais. in the
island of St. Dotningot and is fifty-two yeari of age.
Madame Heade, who appeared as a witness, stooped
much in her gait, and W 24 supported by a stick. S!ie
appeared suffering and ittfirm. She deposed that she
had known Madame Si. Get main 15 years, and had lived
on good terms with her for several years; and then she
gave in evidence the facts alseady stated: she was pretty
well treated during the first six months alter imprison-
ment, since that time she had been stinted in fooi, and
at length received only a pieCe of bread, which was
mimetitnes, so hard that she could not eat it. Sire de-
clared that the let er mentioned above had been written
by the direction of her husband, and under his dicta-
tion. The letter was read, and contained avowals of
attempts to poison Madame St. Germain and M. Heude.
M. Heude entered into long Jet ills of the causes which
led
.him to reside at Madame Saint Germain's, and of
hid reasoas for not leaving it. He must have perished
but for her ; he had been her adviser in regulating the-
property left-by her husband, and she had been grate-
ful. He hld-acted as he had done towards his wile lot
his own personal safety, and not from tyranny. •
Madame Saint Germain persisted in her evidence that
she had been poisoned by Madame Heude. She spoke
of her childieu: her daughter, she laid, was in a con-