Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-06-09

nearly finished. The countcnance OF the president,
family lighted upwh the reflection from pane OIL
volent aud young was talking almost gs1y
as he played with his bard, with fine womai placed
by favor behind him
1.-The jury alone appeared wan and depressed; but
it was apparently with the fatigue Of having sat up
ul night. Some of them gaped; nothing i'll their
countenances indicted that they had brought III sn
teuce OF death: could divine nothing Ill the faces
of these good ctizchs, except strong desire q Sleep
s:Condcinne,i to death. We'll, why nut Men,
remember to have read somewhere, men arc all
denlned to DEATH and repricvcd rom time 20 inlc.-
What then is so changcd in my situation'
From the hour when ny sentence was pronnun-
ccd, how many are dcaf who preparing for
long life! How many lave preceded me who, young,
free, and healthy, 9'ere reckoning upon such, or
such day on goiar to the Grevc to see my head fall
Low many age there, who now walking ut lib
cry, breathing Inc open air, and going III and out at
pleasure, VIII still go before me.
II lmvG just made my Will. 80 what end, am
condemned i'll costs, and all that have will scarcely
pay ZEN. The gIliotinc is very dear
"tIeavc mother Il leave wifc-l leave n child
- !ittla girl OF three years old, gentle, rosy deli
cate, with large black eyes and hair uf chcsuu:
She was two Fears old and month when last
her
'''rlus after my death three females withou. son,
without husband, without father; three orphans oi a
different kind-thrcc widows by one deed ot law
''Since the day did Not yet appear. what was to do
with the night. An idea has lust occurred 10 me
arose and carried my lamp round the four walls 81
my dungeon. They covered with scrawls, rude
drawings, droll figures, names upon another II
would seem that each prisoner had wished to leave
sumc trace behind him, here Mt least. Here Isl pen
Gil, chalk, charcoal, letters black, white and gray.
some lines deep cut in the stoun, here and there
rnddy characters, as if drawn in blood Assurcd!y il
my mind were less occupied should take inter
est III the strange history which opcus upon INC, plge
y No.. L.
with my pillow there two flaming hearts pierced
with an arrow: above them the words Love for life
The unhappy man did not engage for long. On one
side sort OF three corcrcd hat, with a very little
figure cOarscly drawn, and beneath these words
'Five FEmpercur, 1924
Again flaming hearts, with this inscription charac-
tcrstic of prison, Il love mud udorc Matthew Dan
vim. James, On the opposite wall is the name of
Papavoie the large 7. oruamentcd with oil sorts Of
fine tourishes.
"The stanza Of an obscene song. 4 cap of !ibcr-
ty deeply cut in the stonc-wh Bores' below sThc
Republic T~is was one OF! the snhalterrs who
joined in the affair Of La Rochelle. Poor young
man! Oh these political necessities are ideous; for
on dea dream, abstraction, this horrible reality
called the guotne.--And I, / pretend to complain!
who have committed real crime, who have shed
bhoud
THE ORDINARY.
NO low as may be fallen, I am no unoc!cyer.
God is my witness that believe In him. But what
is 1t that the old Ordinary has said 10 me? felt
nothing, was not affected. never went; nothing
lard hold OF my SOUL; nothing from his lreart to
inlnc--n0thlng which was his and then mine. On
the contrary, all was vague, nonotonous, applicable
to all and every body; emphatic where he ourht to
have been impressive, fiat where he should have
been simple: sort Of sentimental sermon or theolo
gical eegy. Here and there Latin quotation: St
Augustn, ST. Gregory, or what not. And then he
had the air OF repeating lesson for the twentieth
time, OF running over theme obter.ed from his mem
DRY by the mere force of familiarity. S glance
IN the eye, accent in the voice, gesture il, The
hands. And how should it be otherwise? This
priest is the official clergyman ofthc gaol. His bus
mess IS to console and exhort and he lives by SO do
ing The prisoners, the patients, are the wheels on
which his eioquence runs. He coniesses them, and
supports them. because it is his place to do so. For
a long time he has been infatuated to that which
would make another shudder; his well powdered
hair never stands erCc the galeys and the scaTold
are everyday circumstances for him. He is blunted
Perhaps he keeps book, on one side tho service for
those who to be transported, and on the other
Tor those who are to be executed He is informed
IN the evening who is To be consoled such an hour
he asks whether he is to be transported suffer DEATH
and he reads the page and then he comes.-Then
both they who going to Toulon, and they who 90
to the GreVe, are but place for him. and
thus he Is bat common place for them.
''Oh! let them 20 seek Tor me young citrate
or worthy vicar it may chance in the first parish
they arrive at let them take him fran tile corner OF
us HcdlLi, iChulH DOoh ana never. expecting
that he is about to be told'Thcre Is man who is
going to die and it is you who must console him
you must he there when they tic his hands behind,
there when they cut Off his hair-you must 90 with
him i'll the cart, and hide the cxcCutioner from h,
with the crosSyou must traverse with him the horrd
and bloodthirsty crowd, embrace him at the foot Of
the scaolj, and remain till his head is here and his
body there Then let them bring him to me- palp-
tatng shuddering from head to foot; let ne throw
myself into his arms, on his knees and he will weep
and viii weep, and he shall be eloquent, and shall
be consoled; my bursln. heart will subside into his,
and he will takcm my soul and will take his God!
But this good old man, what is he to ne? what
am to hn?-an individual of an unhappy class a
shadow such as he has seen any,a unit to aid to the
Number Of his cxcrtions.
cit is extraordinary that am nccgsantjy thinking
the King, caDnot help it; ip vain try to drive the