Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-10-05

cXeCra0te WretCncS mat ever OlSSSA-
ced humanity.
Charlotte was spprehended, bat she
exhibited DO sign Of fear; and when
told that death would assufedly follow
the deed she had committed, she heard
il with the most sovereign contempt.
On being brought before the tribunal,
and questioned as to her motives for
killing Marat, she showed the same IN
shaken firmness. She defended the
deed Oh the grounds OF justice and ne
cessity. Marat, though not tried and
condemned BY an Official tribunal,
was already looked upon BY his coun-
try a. q criminal deserving Of DEATH
She had snly done that which the
laws ought to have done, and for which
future times would applaud her for do
ing. 81 slew him." continued she.
~because he was the oPPressor OF my
country / slew him, that France might
have rest from his cruelties: ] slew
him, to save the lives Of Thousands that
would have persisted by his DEGREES;
and my sole regret Is, that did not
sooner rid the earth Of such a mon
ster.
She heard the sentence Of death
passed upon her with an unconcern
which would have done honor to sto-
icism itself. For short time she con-
versed with her counsel and some of
her friends, and rising up, walked qui-
city away to the Prison.-During the
interval between her condemnation
and death, she wrote three letters.
Two Of these were to her friends Bar
baroux, relating to her adventures
from the time Of her quitting Caen.
The third to her father, Was couched
in the most solemn and adectionate
strain, aud concluded with the celebra-
ted lines Of Corneille:
"C'est 10 soims qui fait IL homie, ct non
pas l'schafaud,"
sit il crime which brings Disgrace; and
not the sc26old."
The front ofthe Thuilleries was the
place selected for the execution. A
multitude Of people had assembled to
witness the ceremony; among others
were crowds Of basbarous women, who
drew together for the express purpose
Of insulting her last momenss. How
ever, when che came from the prison,
she appeared 20 lovely and interesting,
that their haze purpose vas laid in
stsntly aside, and not voice was raised
against her. She was elegantly dres-
sed, and appeared smiling upon the
scaffold; her dark and beautiful locks
waving gracefully over her shoulders.
When the executioner removed the
han dkerchief which covered her neck
and bosom, she blushed deeply; and
when her head was held up after death
It was observed that the face still re-
tanned this mark Of offended modesty.
A deep feeling was produced among
the spectators, all accustomed as they
were to such scenes. and when the fatal
drop descended, there was q 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 men uncovered themselves: those
of her own sex who came to revile her,
stood mute and abashed. Many Of
both sexes were observed to weep; and
when the crowd separated, it was with
a melancholy which proved that even
at this dreadful period, the kinder at
fections we're not unacceptable Of en-
otion.--When on her way to the scat
fold, . circumstance occurred, which
from its romantic nature we'll deserves
ia be mentioned: A young man named
Adam Lux, a comnissionary from
Mayencc, was at the nome Mt accident
" passing. He saw her. and in an in
slant fell in love with her. His heart
became 80 overpowered With this
strange a4ectien, that, from loving her,
hs came at length to love the guillo-
tine--regarding it as sacred altar, at
which the blood Of royalty and beauty
and virtue, was offered up. He imme-
diately published phamPhlet On the
occasion-proposed to erect a monu-
ment to her memory, with the inscrip-
tion-~Greater than Brutus," engrav-
ed upon it--and in a sort Of frenz,ed
enthusiasm invoked her shade from the
the Elysian fields, where it dwelt with
those ofthe revolution. This brought
him to the doom to which be aspired.
He was thrown into the prison Of La
fne~n and offnp~~r6s ovo~nt>A n,,e-