Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-01-06

institutions on conditions advantageous to the
erigrants. proprietor who has acquired M
tonai domains will be denounced, then arrested
,hen imprisoned, he will be threatened with a hea.
Wy fioe, which by the law may be carried to as high
rs 20,oOO francs but he viii be given to under.
stand that AN arrangement with the ci.H-yag.
proprietor may procure him his liberty, and Sc.
cure him from the line n'is thus they Will OBJ
tam what could be obtained IN no other man.
ner.
The author Of the Censegr has published the
fourth edition of pamphlet, the title OF which
IS, C. On me EaoossiGitg of estdjEshi,ie Co,isti-
nifionai Monarchy natler -biEtn'r Chief aud
especially ntor,' .Natoie~i;' but he has added 10
this edition some pointed remarks, and especially
AN introduction, in which he ridrules the doc
triue legitimacy in 4 very happy manner. The
police We're informed of it, and Immediately sez-
ed the pamphlet. The author, however, and the
bookseller, have put their names to il, and there
is no censorship established for pamphlets,
a very singular thing, that those who are 1T the
head of the party of reacton effect repeat that
they are the majority; CHAT affairs go on well ;
yet all the measures which lhey employ arc revo-
iutionary, and every whe'e, in spite of preca,I-
tons which are taken to suppress opinion, there
are seditous cries and movements.
The administration and the organization of the
departments are IN some degree, IN the hands o
the deputies of those departments. It's the
who Indicate To ministers SUSPECTED persons, VIII
ought to be deprived OF their employments, and
who should be put in their places. These pre-.
tects have but very little influence in their nomi.
nations. -st-s ats
French Criminal 1riais.-Three eau
SEES oil great interest have just been tried
by the Court of Assizes at Blois.
1. Catherine Larochette, dwelling at
Chinon Indre and Loire,) has been con-
demned to bard labor for life, and to b.
branded, having been convicted as an ac-
comPlice in the death of her young son,
aged five years and half, whose body was
found in aprivy. The dog of the accused
was the most eloquent witness in this af-
fair. Its cries and its marks of attachment
to the tender victim had something super
natural. This animal was found on the
clothes OF his young master, which had
been made bloody and laid in a meadow,
IN order TO put the enquirers in false
scent. a serious charge was brought a.
gainst the woman LarOchette she got
rid her dog some days after her son had
disappeared, repeating by an inconceiva-
bic faulty, dog is worth two witness
es.
2. A person named Metevier, the wo
man Couratin and Vincent Mercier, have
been condemned to death, convicted of poi
spning the Sieur Couratin, husband of the
second prisoner.
In the course Of the proceedings, the two
last named criminals accused one another
reciprocally. When the woman was told
that arsenic was talked OF, she cried at ono
( Arsenic arsenic /" and being asked if
she had any accomplice, she pointed out
MERCER, a baker Of Loches CRYING out
I" All the monster I, It's he has ruined
me !''-She added, that in the hone OF
marrying her, he informed her of his plan
and its execution.
On the other hand, the declaration of
MERCER was conclusive against the female
prisoner He declared that it was only by
her pressing solicitations that be went To
loves to buy arsenic that the apotnecary
OF Loches refused to sell him any without
the permission of the Mayor that satisfied
by this refusal, he returned to the woman
Couratin, who scOlded him, and, by the
promise of giying herself up to him, pre-
vailed on him So that he went to the apo
thecary, and gave the weman the first dose
of arsenic; that the same evening she came
TO sleep with him, and obtained from him
the second dose. He added at last, that
the woman COuratin lad proposed to him
to stlile her husband promising never to
betray him.
s. A miller of Blois, and his wife were
accused of having, by the counsels of a
witch of the village, inticed to their house
a shepherd, whom they suspected of having
cast i'll lnck on one of their children, who
was attacked by lingering malady of
having overwhelmed him with blows, to
make him undo his pretended malediction
and at last having made HIM expire in hor-
rible torrents. by burning his feet. The
father aad mother of the child were de-
clared guilty, but without generalization,
and were condemned to hard labour for life.
The old bag was condemned to death.
LoSDoH, November 10.
The SnuggIer detected.-The Brussels packets
have in almost every trip which they have recent.
ly made to this country, brought home some of
those gallant heroes who were Left at Brussels
FOR the recovery of their wounds. Towards such
passengers il has been remarked that the Custom
house officers who usually search with scrutin u
ing eyes for contrabaid goods, conduct them
selves with the most liberal forbcarance, remark
ing +" those gentlemen have already been randled
enough, without undergoing the ranoling of a re-
venue officer"--An indulgence which we have
reason to believe British Officer has too much
honor TO abuse. Not so with some Of those adj
yenturous gentlemen, who, in making trip TO
the late scene OF carnage, are DESTROYS ofconvert-
Il