The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-11-18
ExECu.rloN
tffhe RochcNe Cons/srafors.

Weic covered WIN the "ATfatuc ia Court'l
Royals de Paris" announcing the con.
OF Bories, Pointer, Goubin,
and Raoulk, 4 sub-oficers, (sergeants
and serjesn, majors ofihe 45th regiment
Of the line, for conspiracy, treason, yc.
most at the same moment, and simulta-
neously through the entire OF the city
OF Paris, the same .drref, adding ssthat it
would be carried into execution on tina,
day at the Place de Greve,', was in the
hands ofthe hawkers, " no cried it abou,
the streets precisely as "last speeches"
are announced in London.
Cpto o'clock half o dozen mounted
gendarmes were the only military ON
duty in the Place de Greve; but strong
attachments of the same description Of
force, horse and foot, were posted at all
the commanding points in tina, quarter.
In the Place du Chatelet, particularly, a
numerous body was drawn up. L pro-
ceeGed towards the Conciergerie. The
people were crowding towards the place
ofexecution. No symptoms of sympa-
thy for the miserables struck my eve. In
cafe,wi.hin twentyyards of the guillotine,
officers were playing at billiards, the
shops were open--lhe passengers laugh.
ing-cnjoying --showmen were
exhibiting-and low gaming going on
where passed. A grea. crowd had as
sembled round the prison of the Concicr
gerie, TO which the condemned, had
been removed, between the hours of five
and six o'clock in The morning, under a
guard of SO mounted gendarmes. On
their reaching that, their last human liv-
ing abode, they were placed in cham
Der very different from the condemned
cells attached to English jails. 1t is well
furnished and contains clock that strikes
the quarters, which consequently init.
mates necessarily to the unhappy sojour-
ners in that melancholy apartment, that
thei: moments, already numbered, are
fast expiring-but neither that circum-
stance, nor the presence and unwearied
exertions and exhortations of the clergy
men by whom they were attended, pro.
duced any effect upon the condemned
men. They are said to have been all of
good families more particularly Bories
and RaoulX. In the course of the morn
ing, one of the Judges of the criminal
court OF Paris had an interview with them,
which lasted nearly two hours doubtless
he endeavored to procure from them
some information respecting the plot for
which they were TO suffer, or that TO ia
vor their escape from the Bcetre, which
had been detected. No one believes
that they gave the slightest Information
either, although The journals
may probably assert the contrary. From
the moment OF their conyiction,up 10 that
OF their quitting the Conciergerie Tor the
place OF execution, they manifested con-
s,antly the same levity orrather yolubili.
ty, accompanied by illusions to their un
happy tate About 9 o'clock 500 soldiers
of different regiments, marched into The
place, preceded by drums, aud formed
square. Numbers of mounted gend
armes issued from underline porch of the
Hotel du Vile. Cor mansion>house) which
is in the centre of the eastern side of the
place. The only persons allowed TO re.
main near the guillo,ine, except the exc.
cutioner and his assistants, were the peo-
pie who crowded the footway by the front
of it OH the edge of which, and within
two yards of the scaffold, sat number oil
women, although made aware that they
would be deluged with the blood of the
condemned at The moment Of execution
About half paste O'Clock the two wagons
left the Place de Greye for the Concier-
gerie, under an escort of gendarmerie.
The executioner Ga tall, elderly, decent
looking man, wearing a fashionable blue
silk handkerchief on his neck ,and black
straw hat) followed, leaving behind him
a small rough, white dog, called barbe,
who took his post on the scaffoid at the
top Of the ladder. The animal appeared
as watchfu' as those dogs which you see
on wagons IN London. The crowd con-
tinued necessarily to increase--new bo-
dies of the gendarmerie trayersed the
place. About fifty Of the gendarmes
d'elite finally marched in, AMI remained
stationed near the scaffold. The usual
amusemeDts OF mob went on. Four o.
clock at length arrived, and there being
no appearance of the sad cayalcade, the
hopes and doubts Of the spectators were
excited. This continued Until within five
minutes of O'Clock, when hackney.
coach, attended by some gendarnes
drove rapidly across the place, stopped
at a tavern exactly opposite to me, and
person dressed in some sort like a cIer.
gymaD, descended from it, and entered
the tavern. "Ah there is no hope -
said French gentleman ner me; srhat
is a Gre0fer of the court, OF Rahhorteur,
whose Office is to see the sentence exc.