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: last moments. However when she came forth from
the prison. she appeared lovely and intel esling,
that their base purpose was laid instantly aside, and
not voice was raised against her. She was elegant
~ dressed and appeared smiling upon the scaifold !;
her dark and beautiful locks waving gracefully
her shoulders. When the executioner removed the
kerchief which covered her neck and BOSOM she
blushed deeply, and when her head was held up Of
ter death was observed that the face still retained
this mark OF offended modesty. A deep feeling was
produced among the spectators all accuston ed as
they were to such scenes and when the fatal axe
descended, there was shudder, which showed that
the death OF this young heroine excited admiration
and pity more than any thing else. BY an emotion
OF generous respect, almost all the uncovered
themselves; those of her own sex who came 10 re.
vile her stood mute and abashed. Many of both
sexes were observed to weep; and when the crowd
separated, it was with melancholy which proved
that, even at this dreadful period. the kinder af1ec-
tions were not unsusceptibie OF emotion.
! When on her way to the scaffod, circumstance
occurred, which, from its romantic nature, well de-
serves to be mentioned ;-A young man named Ad-
am Lux, commssary from Nlayence, was al this
moment accidentally passing. He saw her, end in
an instant fell in love with her His heart became
so overpowered with this strange affection. that s,om
loving her, he came at length to love the gulIone
regarding as sacred altar, at which the blood
of royalty, and beauty, and virtue, offered up.
He Immediately published pamphe, upon the oc-
casion-proposed to erect monument TO her MEM
DRY with the inscription. Greater than Brutus,''
engraved upon it-and in sort Of frenzied enthu.
sasm invoked her shade from the elysian fields,
where it dwelt with those of the illustrous victims
of the Revolution. This brought him the doom 10
which he aspred He was thrown into The prison
of La Force, and afterwards executed During
confinement. his whole talk was OF the heroic OBJ
lect oil his affections.
A.. e n
TO human naure--and above all, an ornament and
an honor to the sex Of woman. Had she lived in
ancient mes statues and columns would have been
erected to her memory; her name would have lived
recorded in the annals of time, and she would have
stood in the foremost rank OF patriots. 1t was he
influence OF lofty and romantic telling which led
her on TO the commission oil that crime which will
immoftalixe her Woman is the child OF feeling.
Fton this source spring Up all her good and bad
qualities 1t is seldom ambition or policy which
leads her to any enterprise it is the passions. IL
is Jealousy, or love. or revenge, or pity VIII oh are
the stirring spirits OF all her deeds. Why eise,''
to use the language OF o modern French writer "is
she sometimes that nrocious Cleopatra preventing
poisoned cup to Der rival and her --sometimes
that sacrilegious Amelia who wished to immediate
he benefactor or the naughty Roxana, ready to
deliver 10 the dagger OF an assassin the heart OF Ba.
jazet, because insensible to her charms5 Sanguna.
ry and implacable in revenge, she pushes cruelty
even to rage. for the same reason that she carries
virtue to the most sublime excess. She is Alcesta,
dying for her spouse She is an Indian throwing
herself the funeral pile which consumes her hus.
band She is Lacedemonian, sacrificing her son,
shamefully escaped from a defeat She is Eponini,
devotng herself with Sabinns 10 the long horrors OF
misery and exile She is Aria, showing 10 Prtus
the honor of virtuous death She again appears
n the character OF those magnanimous French wo-
men, who accompanied in the prescription, in dun
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and their husbands, through the midst OF our Rev.
dictionary torments''* And j, under the in
Auence Of such feelings that Charlotte Corday per-
Tor med that act which virtuous and generous minds
so far from considering a crime, will look upon as
one OF the nos, heroic deeds of recorded history.
One of the first acts of the French after the death
Of Marat. Yves to give him sumptuous funeral
For this purpose, vast sum OF money was raised
BY public subscription. and his body followed BY
crowds Of political adorers. was carried to the Pam
theon. There il lay in state for many days. The
coffin was allowed to remain open, aud the body of
the regicide was exposed TO the view of countless
multitudes who hronged TO see II. II was at this
time the hottest season OF The year, and the face Of
the corpse had become black by the process of de-
cay it was whitewasbed, the better to preserve in
condition be seen, till the day of intermeni ar
rived. He was at last buried in place sliotted for
sages and heroes, regarded by his friends q mar
Tyr for liberty, and by all good men as one of the
worst rhatactcrs who has appeared in modern times.
But mark the changes of human opinion This
man. who was inferred so sumptuousy-this mans
whose reputation among the Re,outionists stood so
high, was at last denied grave. His superb coffin
was torn from the vault in which had been placed
and broken in pieces while his carcase. dragged
from It by the mob was thrown like carbon into one
Of the public sewers which runs into the Seine His
memory has met with tate even worse than his
body. end will be accursed to the latest poscri'y.
'yiery, de Ia Femme.