The National Register. — 1811-02-10 (London, England)

JAN. 22.—The Bulletin of the Allier contains the following letter addressed on the 14th instant, by the Sul-prefect of Gannat, to the Prefect of the department of the Allier: "M. Prefect—l know not how to give you the narration of a frightful crime, committed on the 15th ult. in the Commune of Biuzut. • My pen seems to recoil at tracing detsils so horrible. A young woman, 23 years of age, has just Murdered her father, her mother, and two sisters! " On the 13th December, Amarle Albert, of the Commune of Boizat, a respectable man, poor, and with a large family, was obliged, by the bad state of his affairs, to sell a part of his proiserty. His daughter, Madelaiue Albert, of a violent character, of suspected morals, and unfortunately accustomed to abuse her father and mother, reproached her father in language most violent, on account of his sale, and ended by imperiously demanding a part of the sum which he had received. The father refused, mentioning to her at the same time the state of his affairs ; she insisted and abused him outrageously. The father, vexed and affronted at the insolence of his clang:her, gave her several blows on the shoulders, and ordered her to go to bed —A quarter of an hour after, she seized an axe, and advan. ecd without noise towards the fire-side where her father, nu.ther,i and her brothers and sisters were warming themselves.— She aimed a blow with the axe at her father's head, laid open his skull, and. in spite of the cries of her family, she repeated her blows. He was killed by the first stroke ; any one of the wounds would have been sufficient to deprive this unfortunate man of life. They were so deep, that the monster must have been possessed of extraordinary strength to produce them. She then • threw herself on her mother, without being softened by her prayers and sOrs, struck her five times with the- hatchet, and bid her at her feet. Her two young sisters, one eleven, the other three years old, met with no greater mercy. She struck • the eldest both on the head and neck, but did not kill her, be. cause the poor creature crept under the bed.—These numerous crimes did not satiate the tigress. She Seized her youngest sister who held her mother's body, took her in her arms, and threw her, alive as she was, into a well. " Of all this family a brother 13 years old survived by a kind • of miracle. He was so fortunate as to creep behind a trunk, to • open the door, and to make his escape, calling for assistance.— ladelaine Albert. added to such atrocity the refinement of hypocrisy. She called to her brother, requested him to return, and promised to do him no harm. In a voice the most mild and -calm, she endeavoured to prevail on the boy to return to the bense but he was too much terriiied, he ran away, and took shelter in the house of a man of the name of Richard. In con sequence of his story, several of the inhabitants went to assist the family. They found Madelaine Albert walking with great agitation in the house, with a large knife in her hand, with which she threatened to kill any one tha should approach her. • (lat.kr:etc of the night, and the terror inspired by so dreadful a sight, paralyzed the courage of those lien ; they dorst not adto-seize het. In their .presence Madelaine. Albert took from her mother's pocket the key of the cupboard, opened it, took ont the money that was in it, and went out of the house, without any of the spectators having the courage to seize her or follow her. It is supposed that she is gone towards Riom or Clermont ; the gens o'sumerie are in pursuit of her. . " 1 have. the honour to be, &c. '6