American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-08-15
\ FRENCH TRAGEDY.

The French beat the world in the getting up
Of domestic tragedies Below we give spe
cimen, as translated by the U. S. Gazette from
the Courier Des Etats Unis
An event has just occurred in small town
in the department of the Tarn which has struck
the whole population with horror, and carried
mourning and desolaton into an amiabe iam-
ly. Mr., who was married about three
years since to young and charming wife, by
whom he has two children, had become jeal-
Gus of one of his most intimate friends. This
friend had however, as he supposed, succeeded
i'll removing these suspicious from the mind OF
Mr. partly by his strong expressions of alb
horrence of the baseness and treachery imputed
TO him, and partly by making HIM the conf
dant OF his deep attachment for young Gre
ole lady, a resident Of the town. Thus the
clouds winch had begun to gather around the
unhappy - seemed to be disappated, and
nothing announced the storm which was soon
to burst in blood and horror over him and ak
within his sphere,
Mr. became suddenly again gloomy
and morose; his friends (and they were nu-
merous from his many excellent qualities per-
ceiVed the change with regret and anxiety;
some Of them begged hum to make them the
sharers of his griets but his answers, at first
evusive, soon became threatening and strange
to such degree, that they beganto suspect liz
sanity, and communicated their suspicious to
the family. His wife, naturally alarmed al
these ccCentrcltGS, had already several times
proposed to him to call in a physician: but he
rejected these pro posdls; and he, in general 50
kind, ailectlonate, curessng, even re-
pulsed us gentle companion with harshness.-
At last this conduct was carried 50 lar, that al
ter consultation with her father, the lady deter
minedt to send to Paris for celebrated physi-
clan, and the friend who had been the first OBJ
iect of Mr.. IS jealousy undertook the mis-
sion. In the mean time, the poor young wife,
again likely to become mother, supported
with resignatont those thousand inGescrbabien
things, which combined, go to form such mass
Of suffering for a woman 80 loving and hereto
fore so fondIy loved, and she waited with III
concealed impotence for the arrival OF the doc
tor. When she presumed that the travellers
must be near at hand, she went two or three
times day to the wOodman'S hui, situated III
small wood at Il short distance i.om the town,
where il had been settled she was TO meet them,
never sospectlng that, by tins innocent proceed
ing, she was liking IN her husband 2: mlAd me
most atrocous Calumncs. During all this
time Mr., -- was becoming daily more re-
eG'fcu "hu gloomy, ana Mao Utcu Eti!u TO- u
, ter words OF dark and sinister ngOtt---aaddca-
ly long cry Of horror rcsounds through the
town, CROWDS Of people are seen hurryIug t9-
"olda the wood, every mouth is filed with lie
news Of some terrible event; 1t is said Dir. ----
had been found gasHgd with woaals, aad wci-
tcriog in h.s oNn blood, and that Of his wife
and friend, whom he had murdered ia parJN-
ysm OF mauucss,and afterwards committed SUI
eide. The next day it became public that, b.
iyIe expiring. Mr. had made the lo!iuNiu-
statement: hat, Tor month past, he had bees
constantly receiving anonymous letters waru,
I ing han that sWie betrayed him, that at frs,
I he attached no credit to them, but that having
observed the frequent resort Of his wife TO the
wood after the departure Of his friend, which
he now began to believe only pretended, his s.,s-
picions returned and he determined to watch
her, and that at last, when he saw this friend
arrive at the rendezvous and rush eagerly to-
wards his wife, his rage knew no bounds; with
a single spring he threw himself between them
and stabbed them both to the heart, and after
wards turned the dagger against himself. All
this took place in the sight of the strange ply
sican whose cries alone saved, from his rage,
his eldest child and its nurse. He had scarce
v finished this statement with a falterlng voice,
when Young man, pale and horror stricken,
rnsbed into the room. He said but these words
I'd was mad with love for the young Creole,
and hoping to excite her jealousy and thus