The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-10-26

was the oppressor of my country; slew
him, to save the lives of thousands that
would have perished by his DEGREES; and /
regret that did not sooner rid the world OF
such a monster.
She'heard the sentence OF death passed
upon her with an unconcern which would
have done honor to stoicism itself. For
short time she conversed with her counsel
and some of her friends, and rising up, Walk
ed quietly away to the prison. During the
interval between her condemnation and
death, she wrote three letters. Two OF these
were to her friend Barbaroux, relating her
adventures from the time OF quitting Caen'
The third, to her father, was couched IN the
most affectionatc strain, and concluded WIN
the celebrated line of Corneille -" rs
crime which brings digrace, and not the
scaffold."
When. on her way to the scaffod, Cir
cumstapce occurred, which, from its roman
tic nature, we'll deserves to be mentioned:-
A Young man named Adam Lux, a COM
mssary from Mayence. was at the moment
accidentally passing. He saw her, and in
an instant fell in love with her. His heart
became so overpowered with this strange at
fection, that, from loving her, he came at
length to love the gullotine-regardlng 1t as
sacred altar, at which the blood OF royalty,
and beauty, and virtue was offered up. He
Immediately proposed to erect monument
to her memory, with the inscription "Great-
er than Brutus," engraved upon it-and in
sort of phrenzied enthusiasm invoked her
shade from the Elysian fields, where 1t
dwelt with those of the Revolution. This
brought him to the doom to which he aspir-
ed. He was thrown into the prison OF La
force, and afterwards executed. During con-
fnement, his whole talk was of the heroic
object of his affection.
Such was the fate of Charlotte Corday.-
Had she lived in ancient times, statues and
columns would have been erected to her
memory; her name would have lived record
ed in the annals of time, and she would
have stood IN the foremost rank of the pat
riots.
One of the first acts of the French, after
the death of Murat, was to give him sump-
tuous funeral.-For this purpose vast sum
Of money was riased by public subscription,
and his body, followed by crowds OF politi-
cal atlorers, was carried to the Pantheon.-
There it lay in state for many days. The
coffin was allowed to remain open, and the
body of the Tegicide was exposed to the view
of countless multitudes who thronged to sec
it. 1t was at this time the hottest season o
the year, and the face of the corpse having
become black BY the process of decay, il
was white washed, the better to preserve II
in a condition to be seen, till the day of in,
terment arrived. He was at last buried il
place allotted to sases and heroes. regard
ed by his friends as a martyr for liberty
and by all good men as one OF the wors
charaters who has appeared in modern
times
But mark the changes of human opinion
This man who was inferred SO sumptuousl,
this man whose reputation stood SO high
was at last denied grave. His superb cof
fin was torn from the vault in which it hat
been placed, and broken in pieces; while hi
carcese, dragged from it by the mob. wa
thrown like carrion into one of the publ
sewers which run into the Seine.