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outraged PROVIDINCS? The final liberatioa of South
America from the degrading tyranny under which it
bad so long groaned, is a subject of universal joy, mi-
tigated only by the contemplation of that black super-
stition and intolerant religious spirit, whiclt, while it
holds sway, mast naturally paralyze the energies and
check the prosperity of those countries.'.
Mr. John Miller's Narrative possesses griat merit,
and deserves to be estensively read.

PARIS, DEL 8.

to !ding(' of the slackniss
said—k Oh, 'tis no ma! kir If thtre'is. iit biyirifte,
old maid, who .furnishes me with As mockescineras I
want, and. if I cannot, pay 1r; a twist: of the•neck. wilt
settle all accouttu." -On another occasion, and to
same country, be also observed—u-It would be bitter
for me to remain at home, and cut the thriat lof strtne
person there, than foliew this wret,cbed..busioeuolitig-
dealing." On aliether occasion he was beard to say--
.g There is in my country an old maid, who has Wistip
of Loci, ; it I could cut
.11e; throat without refloat
!mowing it, my fortune vmuld be maJe."
larly atrocious expressions-on the part Of the pristrtr
were depised to.
' &vela' wirnessei give tbeir teseiniony to !be.ginieral
good character of the prisoner. . .
The Jury, by a majority of nine to three, fobadalrim
:Guilty, and, sentence of death was pronounced tn.lshri.
During. the Ws; he riihrlayeds great .firinness;- autos
,the condemnation, this his given Wee
.to .the fast
violent despair.
TRIAL OF A HUSBAND FOR THE *tnit,tigit DID
NIS WIPE. • •

A trial for murder has taken place at the Assizes foe
the Department of Cants], held at St. -Flour, which
ilasted siz days, and excited the mo.t intense interest in
the country, both on account of the victim, a wealthy
old maiden lady, and that of the party accused, a re-
putable farmer. Upwards of a hundred witnesses were
-examined. The following are the principal facts de-
tailed in the indictment:
On the 24th June, 1827, the canton of Maurs was
throvin into consternation on the discovery of the mur-
der of ►Mademoiselle de Bouterie, a maiden lady, up•
wards of sixty years old, add possessor of a vet,
large fortune. The crime had been.committed in her
chateau of Laborte, whe►e she was, at the moment
'alone,' all the other inmates having gone to high mass,
it being the feast of St. John, at Abe Church of St.
Maurs. Mademoiselle de B irterie and her brother, a

feeble, helpless old man, also unmarried, lived togetlr-r,
and it was the former who received the rents, and hack
charge of the money. These circumstances were
well known in the country. At issue distance from
theghateau de Labnree, which was completely la.-
lased( lived with his numerous family, a respectable
fariallr mama Gerard 'Aortas& ibis man bed b
treated fa
.a long time with great confidence anclkind-
ness by Mademoiselle de Homeric, who frequently lent
him considerable sums of money ell his verbal promise,
and without ssitnesses. She had even been known fte-
quently to carry these sums of m ney to his house,
when he was on the point of setting oat for Languedoc,
whece he went to purchase-swine. Meynard, who,
though supposed to be well riff in the world, had the
manners of a rude and uncouth peasant, .seemed but
little gratelul for this kindness, and for the last two or
three years all cominunication between him and Made-
moiselle de Bunter ie hid been broken off. Since then

ASSISBII 4T RUBIS% ••
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11444 Denjg was recently tried at these Assivw. fir
tire wisp der of his. wife, ii).4le- =oath of January but.
'The prisoner, who had been several, year's married to tb
deceased, was a shoemaker, a man of Very violent
passions, and had often beaten and • therveise ill-streated
her. On the 10th of January lay,• two young -wetness
entered the prisoner's house, and saw his wife emended
on the ground without life; her head was under the
grate, and -she was bum in a horrible manner. TI..
surgeons:who were called in gave it as their 'opinion that
death had not resulted from the burning, bot that the
skull of the deceased had been fractured by a blew
from a hammer, or some other blunt instrument, which
11A41 occasioned de ith ; and that it could not have bees
produced by. an attempt at suicide, or an accident. Qa
an attentive 'examination of the premises, it was
covered that the door of an inner room was sprinkled

Mademoiselle de Booted, appeared to be in A continual
state of alarm,, and had been frequently heard to say,
" We shall be murdered, and know by whom:—
:She matte her brother change his bed room, and
sleep in a chamber'next to her own, and expressed
a de.ire to have pistols in tier room. Two months
before her death she cautioned her brother to beware of
\leynard, for that he was a sill:tits. On the morning
of the day of the.tauriier she manifested some repug-
nance to be left alone while the other inmates of the
house went` w high mais, and tohl one of the farmers'
vie!" to es:joie:aid keep her c )mpany.. Blaze this
woman cithe.tcracar, the presentiment 1114demc4selle
de ISOtert"hail 'W,A(hut, too fita)lY realized. About
haff-past tort O'clork, a young boy who had cliothed a
tree close to •the. chataanr.to -rob a bias nest, saw a
man, whaloi)ked foment if to ascertain that no'crne
beheld him, enter the' chhteait. About the same time

with blood, and it was inferred that the. murder had
been committed near that place, and that the body bad
afterwaidi been dragged to the Sp-it where, it wet
found, and it was inten led to destroy Vie body, in holies
‘4- removing the indices of the crime. 'Suspicion in.
scantly fell upon the prisoner, at well from his peneral
Gopduct as from his selling, his wife's property intrust..
'dittely after her death. end with thi pror.eed (nM*
4,000 francs) endeavouring to leave the country. 4.
hammer was found 'vereted.' in the prisoner's WO,
which was • known t' belong to Mtn, on which were
several spots of bloods He had ails, been hears to
threaten to kill her a few hours befora the. body, fatty
found. Other circumstances came nut in etitleoce oft
the tiial again 4 the prisoner • and Jury fOuncl
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Guilt, of llansloughle.,- -
The Cotter sentenced him to the gallies for life.
Toe following extraordinary read.* of an escape is
given in the Memoirs of Viddeq:--,44. Jaccivard (a police
ofßcei) learnt one Jay that I was going to dine in Roe
Notre Weirs. Flr. immediately spent with four isast-
aht.S. Wid3ll) he left on the gruund Iber. and 04enderi
the staircase to the room where I was about to sit
down to table with two females ; a recruiting set.
jeant, who was to have made the fourth, had not yet
a, rived. I recognized Jacquard, who never having
seer) me, had not vie same aJvantrge; and besides,
my disguise would have• bid defiance to any de.
sciiption of my poison. Without being at all uneasy.
approached, and with the iiiht funeral tone 'I
begged bib, to pas into *closct, the glass door of which
Jutiked ibtu the banquet room. It is ViJocq whom
you are lookin for. said k; if you will wait f r aft
9301,tas yNu wdl see him, There it his cover, he cam.
n,qt be
_long; when hp welt I will make you a sip;
but if mate alone, 1, doubt if you can seine him. as
he is awed and resolved to &few). hianself: 4 I bate
my genditeuses on the staircase.' aeseered he,' and jibe
escapes I Take care how y. u. place them, thee,'
said, 1, with affected baste ; if Vidocq 'should see thee,
e woul.l spittryat some plot, and thee farewell to *be
bird: . But where shall I place them?' 6Oh L sibs
io thiseloset. Mind, no noise—that would spoilablit
and I have more desire than yourself that he should nit
suspect any thing." My Commissary was now shutcp
in our walls, with his agents. The door, which wan
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very strong, closed with a double I ;clc. 'Den ,certain
of time for escape, I cried to my prisoners, sal(no arq
looking for Vidocq: well, it is he who his caged you...a
farewell and away I went like a dart. leasing thzparty
shontitig for help, and making desperate effortato escape
Freon the unlucky closet." •

a liege dog belonging
.to Mademoiselle de Bouterie,
whinff had. been by Chance' shut out, howled in the
most 4ft:dent Manner, and made repeated. eff ,rts to
force opeo, # clew,. and get ,into the mansion... Half
an. bola after a .milt-mind, who had brought back
sotau tows freak pasture:. heard, while in the cow..
houses the door of the tirden-gate open and shut.
but, supposing that it,wesi her mistress going. in or
coming out, pita no furaher attention to the circum-
stance. After.quitting the cow-house she wer:t ir.t.i
the chateau, and in one of the rooms on the wound..
flour she saw Mademoiselle 'de Boutelie stretched on
the fin r, and supposiog that she ha.' (Alen in a fit; s':e
ian to raise her, hot on lifong her up by the ;:ois, the
head fell complete'y bock between the shoulders.- and
disclosed a wide 4ud gaping- wound, essearlingsh round
the neck to the spinal vertebra on each side. The girl
fled, horror-struck, from the chateatf to the tillage, cry-
Mg hot that her mistress was murdered. On the arrival
of die ainhoritieS at the chateau; it was ascertained
that there were five flesh • wounds upon the bosom;
the left" hand, two fingers of, which were cut, suss in
the pocket of the arms of the deceased, and held
tightly grasped a chaplet of beads. AU the blood of
the :body had already. flawed frost the enormous
wooed -ill the neck. • Oa eaaruining the other rooms tit
the chatekt.,ii was found that several desks and drawers
tied been foried open, and ; considerable sum of money
taken aware Seterril persons-who had been. arrested on
susincion-were,,:fli the absence of an. proo...c* discharged.
sortii'clariniebuiglarjei. and the Murder af4,travellerii,
who was koown to have.* large sum of money on his
person, which took place in the same weekohrew th;
country into the•greatest alarm, sad helped tostrard of
suspicion from the priLmer. It was not tiltlit rve months
*after thspaurder that Public rumour p...intedotit-Geratd
Meitiard.at the author of the crime. It was not without
great reluctance that the local authorities resolved to act
upon this rumour, and impeach of so foul a crime a
wealthy and hitherto respectable farmer, the father of
nine children.. Indeed so little were they inclipe.d to give
credit to the intputation, that in the first instkocoMey-
nard was not arrested, but only summoned SO tipper
and givievideliee before the Magistratls. It
.was re-
markable that Meynard, on quitting horn,. look -leave
of his family in a very affecting manner, saying " It k
possible I may not return," and left directions with his
sons, similar to those of a man setting out on every
long journey.
On the first question put to him by the Magistrate-
be became confused, and seemed not to know whas-to
answer. He said, on the 24th of June he had been to
the first mass at Maury but could not tell the name of
the priest who officiated, or of his neighbours who were
neat him in the church. He added, that during high
mass lie was occupied in fishing in the river. Thew
assertions were found to be true; at least that he had
been at mass, and that he had been fishing oothe
ing in question.. • •
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A Women (*edged that she saw, from hat-window,
a man stealing towards the chateau ; that *aboUt tine
same time the dog barked violently ; and that, twenty,
minutes after, she saw the same man come
_front the
chateau; and creep along the hedges. as_ if anitiouv to
conceal himself, and that this man appeared to hit mere.
like Meyuard than any one else she knew. : .
The boy also, who from the tree saw the assassin
enter the chateau, declared that be was a man of the
the same sine ai Meynard.
The other suspicious circumstances against the pri-
soner were, his not having gone, like all the other ed.
lagers, to the chateau after• the murder had been dis-
coveted, and-the contradictory reasons he gave for not
,haviwkdone so. 'He also denied tharthedeceased bad
ever does -him any. service, or :that pilled ever been
isdebtelf to her.
Amongst the witnesses was at pig dealer from Laa-
guedoe. who declared that, four years before, speaking

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By accounts from Rio 'de Janeiro of the 14& of
October, we learn that M. Gutman° and M. Monztwww
D'AMIQUERQUZ, who left this country soon after their
arrival from Lisbon, for the purpose of .apprising Dori
PeDRO Of the real state of affairs in Portugal, had ar.
rived serrid day? previously, and were most graciously
and kindly received by the Eupzzon who was fully
infOrmed of everything that had occurred in LiOson up
to the 16th of August, and also of the arrival of the
.young QUIIN at Gibraltar, and her subsequent depar-
,ture for Englind, of which he highly approved. It
"vissigeneratly believed, 'in the best infolused circles at.
Rio, that the mission of Lord STRANOPORD would C9lllO
pletely fail, as the &IMO*" and the Brazilians gene•.
rally, were warmly indignant at the conduct of Dot!
Mrouir,'- •
Tlfeltbelinsford Assizes commenced yesterday:- The
calendar is very heavy, and contains upwards of 100
prisoners, many of whom stand charged with very ag-
gravated offences, but no important case was tried
yesterday.
A man named Jahn Evans, who has long been a no-
torious character in this part of the country, was last
week apprehended in Montgomerysbire, owing to tl
Gentleman who resides at Hadley, and was on a Chit
to some relations in Wales, recognizing and causing
him to be secured. The fellow is supposed to be imPla.'
cared in robberies almost innumerable. When appre.
hended, he parsed as 'Squire Smallman, kept his setters,
gun, and horse, and was a very ardent sportsman. He
was taken in a state of intoxication, in a public how,.
and had upwards of VOOI. in his possession at the time.
In consequence of his apprehension. a poke officer from
Montgomery arrived at Pencoyd, is this county, whets
the parent; of Evans reside* and proceeded to starch
their houge,yrheu a vast variety of stolen articles. many
of which have been already claimed by different per.
sons. were found packed its boxes, and the parent% Jas.
and Susan Evans, have been committed to our county
gaol.—Hereford Journal.