The Arkansas advocate., 1831-05-25

While all the nobler and more heroi, passions were wrought into ecstacy q the reported destruction of one of tb, most eXecrablc sretches that ever dis graced humanity.
 Charlotte was apprehended, but sh, exhlbited no sign of lear;aud when tolt that death would assurcdly follow th, deed sine had committed, she heard i with the utmost sovereign contempt.- 0n being brought before the tribunal and questioned as to her motives for kill Ing Marat she showed the same unshak. on llrmness. She defended the decd on the grounds of justice, and necessity Marat though moi tried and condemned hY ahoflicial tribunal, was already look ed upon by his country as q criminal al- ready deserving of death. She only did that which the laws ought to have done. and whichfuture times would applaud her for doing. q slew him" continued she, "becausc he was the oppressor of my country; slew him that France might have rest from his cruclties; slew him to save tue lives of thousands, that would have perished by his dccrees sand my sofefegret iss that did not sooner rid the earth of such q monster"
 She heard the sentence of death pas sed upon her with an unconCcrn which woHld have done honor even to stoicism itself. For short time she conversed with hercounsel and some of her friends and rising mp walked quietly to the pris- on. During the interval between her condemnationand death, she wrote three letters. Two ofthem to her friend Bar baroux, relating her adventures from the time of Ter quitting Can. Tie third to he, father. was couched Tn the most solemn and affectionate strain. and concluded with the celebrated line of corneiilc: "C'est to crime pui fait Ia hon te. ct non To Chafaud.e
 lis crime which brings disgrace and not the sca4Icld.a ,
 The front of the Thuilleries was the place selected for the execution. A null tltnde of people had assembled to Wit- hess the ceremony; among others were crowds of barbarous women who drew together for the purpose of insulting her last moments. However when she came forth from prison, she appeared so love- l iy and interesting that their base pur- pose Was instantly laid aside, and not a voice was raised against her. She was elegantly dressed, and appeared smiling on the scaifold. Her dark and beauti- ful locks waving gracefully over her shoulders. When the cXecutioner re- moved the handkerchief from her neck and bosom she blushed dcepl, and when her head was held up after death, il was observed that tho farc still retain ed the mark of offended modesty. 4 deep feeling was produced among the spectators, all accustomed as they were to such scenes; and when the axe de- scended, there was a shudder which showed that the death of this young he roinc excited admiration and pity more than any thing else. By an emotion of general respect, almost all the men un- covered themselves; those of her own sex who came to revile her, stood mute and abashed. Many of both sexes were observed 10 weep, and when the crowd separated, it was with a melancholy which proved evcnat this dreadful period that the kinder feelings were not unsus- ceptibfe of emotion.
 When on her way to the scaffold, a circumstance occurred, which from it's romantic nature, well descrvest to beme toned; a young man named Adam Lux a commissary from Mayencc, was acci- dentally passing. He saw her and in an instant fell in love with her. His heart became sooyerpowered with this strange affection, that from loving her he came to love the guillitHc-rcgardiag 1t as q sacred altar at which the blood of royal ty and virtue are offered up. He imme. diately published pamphlet upon the occasion, purposing to erccta a monument to her memory, with the inscription 'sGreater than Brutus' engraved upor it; and ina sort of frenzied enthusiasm invoked hcrshadc fromthc Elyslanficlds where it dwelt with those of the reyolu ton. This brought him to the doom he aspired to. lie was thrown into tho prison of Lalorcc, and afterwards execu ted. During his confinement, his whole talk was about the object of his alice ton.
 One of the first acts of the French after the death of Marat, was 10 give him sumptious funeral. For this pur. pose. a vast sum of money was raised by public subscriptions, and his body fol
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