Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-11-19
FOREIGN INTELLIG ENCE.
EXECUTION OF THE
ROCHELLE CONsPiRATORS.

PARIS, SEPT. 92-About ! O'Clock the
walls of the different public buildings
were covered witbsthe Arret de la Cour
Royale de Paris" announcing the con.
demnation of Borles, Pomer, Goubin, and
RaouIx, four sub-oficers, sergeant and
sergeant majors) of the..s45th regiment of
the line, for conspiracy, treason, 49.c. al
most at the same moment, and simultane-
ously through the entire OF the city OF "a
fiS. The same .Ayret, adding that 1t would
be carried into execution on that day, at
the Place de Greve," was in the hands OF
the hawkers, who cried it about the streets
precisely as :" last speeches are announ-
ced in London
Up to O'Clock, half dozen mounted
gen d'armes were The only military on du-
~ IN the Place de Greve but strong de-
tachments OF the same description OF force,
horse and foot, were posted at all toe COM
m.nding points in that quarter. In the
Place du Cbatelet particularly, hume,
rous body was drawn up. proceeded
towards the Concergerie. lie people
were crowding towards the place OF exc
cston. No symptoms OF sympathy tor
the miserables struck my eye. In cate,
within twenty yards o: the guIlotine, 9TH
GERS we're playing at billiards, the shops
were open-tbe passengers aughing--en-
loving Observation-Disclosures were eXh
biting-and low gaming going on even
where passed. A great crowd had as
sembled round the prison Of the Concler-
gerie, to which the condemned had been
removed, between the hours OF five and
six O'Clock in the morning under a guard
of 6hy mounted gendarmeS. On their
reaching that, their last living human a.
bode, they were placed in chamber We
~ different from the condemned cells at
tached 10 English goals. 1t is well fur
nIshed, and contains clock that strikes
the quarters, which consequently Intimates
necessarily TO the unhappy sojourners IN
that melancholy apartment, that their mo-
ments already numbered, are fast expl-
ring but neither that circumstance, nor
the presence and unwearied eXertions ADD
exhortations of the clergymen by whom
they were attended, produced any effect
upon the condemned men. They are said
to have been all of good families more
particularly Bories and RaouIx. In the
course OF the morning one OF the Judges
of the criminal court Of Paris had an in
teryiew With them, which lasted nearly 9
hours, doubtless be endeavored 10 procure
from them some information respecting the
plot for which they were to suffer, or that
to favor their escape from the BIcetre,
which had been detected No one be-
IieYes that they gave the slightest informa-
ton respecting either, although the jour
nails may probably assert The contrary -
From the moment of their conviction, uP
10 that of their quitting the Conceirgerie
for The place OF execution, they manifest
ed constantly the same levity, or rather
volatility. accompanied by illusions to their
unhappy fate. About 9 O'Clock FIVE hun
dred soldiers of different regiments, march
ed into the place preceded by drums and
formed a square.
Numbers of mounted gendarmes issued
from under the porch Of the Hotel du Vile
Cor Mansion house,, which is in the centre
OF the eastern side of the place. The on
ly persons allowed TO remain near the gull
Iotine, except the executioner and his as.
sistants, were the people who crowded
the foOtWay by the front OF 1t on the
edge of which, and within two YARDS oil
the scatfold, sat humber OF women, al
though made aware that they would be
deluged with the blood OF the condemned
al the moment of execution! Aoout half
past two o'clock the two wagons left the
Place de Greve for the Conciergerie, I'M
der an escort of gendarmerie. The exc
cutioner, Ga tall, elderly, decent. looking
man. wearing fashionable blue silk hand
kerchief on his neck, and a black straw
hal, J followed, leaving ehnd him small
rough white dog. called a barbs, who took
his post on The scaffod at the top OF the
ladder The animal appeared as watch
full as those dogs which you see on wagons
in London
The crowd continued necessarily to in
crease--new bodies of the gendaimerle
traversed the place. About fifty OF the
gendarmes d'elite finally marched in, and
remained stationed near the scaffold. The
usual amusement of mob went on. Four
O'Clock at length arrived. and there being
no appearance of the sad cavalcade, the
hopes and doubts OF the spectators were
excited. This continued until within five
minutes of FIVE O'Clock. when hackney
coach, tended by some gendarmes, drove
rapidly across the place, stopped al ia
vern exactly opposite to me, and person
dressed in some sort like clergyman,
descended from it, and entered the tavern.