The Sun. — 1804-04-18 (London, England)

PARIS, APRIL 7.  h_i_ ~,,,..s..ieneral CHARLES PtcHEMttt has hang_ I ' a -fr"6l in his prison. The following arethe particulars of the suicide : givil °" the repeated requests he had made, and on t his word of honour that he would not make ,any attempt on his life, PreHEGRxr had obtained thenturnin distnisial of his -guards during the night. Every g an attendant in waiting came to light his • fire with a bundle of w the preceding mornin ood. PICHEGRU on one of ' - faggot, by which hegs had laid aside a part of a thought he might put an end to his existence. atter having o'clock,, went to bed a supbpeout textdely heartily at eleven ve. The attend in waiting having retired, PICHEGRU drew fro ant tinder his pillow, where he had placed it, a m black silk handkerchief, which he tied tight round his neck; the piece ofwood which he had kept in reaeerie, he then made use of to assist him in the projo of suicide ; he introduced this piece cf wood . into the two ends of the handkerchief where it was tied ; he turns this little stick close ,to the of the neck, as often as he thinks necessary to i,ot a glands 4rteop. to respiration. When on the point of losing throwssp:ratio.n, he draws the stick behind his ear, and himself on the same side of his head, in order to prevent its ShiftinP full of blond, ff. '• naturally fat, PICHEGRU, ..._ ate su ocated by the full meal whit I had just taken, and b made, expires duringytht eheniggrielta.t pressure which lie Next da% ' , to the morning, the attendant came to kindle his fire ; he looked tovvards Prc sr s o ku's bed; saw him, as he supposed, in a profound sleep, and retired to do his other work. About half past seven the attendant again went • head o. f ---- up, again saw the Pr CHEGRU quietly resting on his pillow, and again sv.ent away, still fearing :to interrupt his sleep. At mne o'clock he went up a third time, and observed no alteration in the re ofthe Prisoner,'who usually spoke to him when he w attendant bean to be surprised at il jassasv. e. The.i •t te went up to the bed, when he sees sleepinghis facesopaoleng.),nd dis. totted ; he then moved the body and fund lifeless, and without motion. He im i• 1 • • r . met tate y gtves in o illation to the Jailer, who went that instant to inform THURror, the judge and Solicitor in this im- ' portant trial. Eight Physicians and Surgeons were t mployed• to draw up the paces vesbo/ of the. state in which the body was found, and this pi-Gess verbal and the corpse were brought before the Criminal Tribunal on the 6th, about one o'clock in the afternoon. The four SedionB of the Tribunal immediately assembled, appointing eight Physicians and Surgeons to open in the presence of four Commissary, iudges,• assisted by C. LASFUTE R I E, the 1)649 and State the circumstances of his situation, and the cause and nature of his death. Its consequence of these circumstances the body of CHistter.s PICH ECRU was placed at length on a table iil the Grand Hall of the Tribunal. As soon as the .04 was identified, the Surgeons opened the head in which the blood was found to be very much Drged. After this preliminary o peration, the body was opened and the state of the intestines was exa„rnioned- The four Seaions of the Tribunal, and '"e Commissartituty of the Government, with his three Subses, heard the Report of the Judicial sentence transmitted by the Officer of Health. After describ`o fiche appearance of the corpse, the result lien is stated t that CHARLES Pica Foxy died by strangula.