The Sun. — 1804-04-06 (London, England)

ATROCIOUS MURDERS.-01 the_6tli of March, a gentleman was accosted in the Street St. Martin, at Paris, ''by a beautiful little girl, about six sears of age. She was covered with rags, and told him that , her mother-Was dying for want, in the fifth floor of a house, in the same street, and that far herself she had not eat a morsel for forty-eight hours. Touched with compassion, the gentleman said he would follow het home, and if- he found her story true, relieve her and her mother., On entering the room, he saw a woman' lying on a bed, on some straw, instead of a mattress. Her looks and voice seemed to confirm the story. of the child. In taking his purse from his pocket,' it fell down by accidlf.nt on the floor : stooping to cske it up, he saw clearly a man under the bed. Alarmed, but without losing his presence of mind, he said—r" Good woman, "here are four crowns, -I have no more upon me, but let your child accompany me home, I will give her twenty more." Instead of returning to his lodgings,_ he took the child to a police Commissary, where, after Some examination, she acknowledged that the per. son under the bed was her father, and that within the last fortnight, during which they had lodged in the Street St. Martin, six persons had been stabbed by him, plundered and stripped ; that two corpses had been carried out by him after dark, some nights before, and thrown into the river, but that four corpses yet remained in the closet behind • the bed. The Police Commissary, with the gen. tleman, and some Gens d'Armes, went immediately to the house, but they found nothing but the four corpses in the closet. The man and woman were gone, and have not since seer heard of. In consequence of the discovery made by the child, six former lodgings of this cruel erwple have been traced, where, according to her report, and several • other circumstances within the knowle►#ge of the Police, during the last winter, not less than twenty_ two persons of both sexes are supposed to have been murdered by them. It was the custom for the woman, as from gratitude, to take hOld of her • bentfadors' hands, and draw them to her lips as she lay in 'bed; when the man stole behind and stabbed them through their. backs..  DESPERATE SUICIDES AT PAR isq—On the agth of last Feb'ruary, the day after Pichegru had been apprehended, between one and two in the afternoon, a hackney coach stopped upon the Pont Royal, opposite the Castle of the Thuilleries, at Paris. A lady and two gentlemen left it, and in one instant 'Jumped over the low stone parapet of the bridge, into the Seine : notwithstanding several boats went off in search of them, they were dead before they were found, and carried on shore. Nothing was discovered upon their persons to identify them, or to ascertain the cause_ of this rtsh aet, but in the hackney coach, was left a paper, upon which was written With a pencil, " Tremble, Tyrant we shall soon be 'revenged !" It is not said to whom this threat was addressed. The coachman took them up in the Rite de la•Loi, and they are supposed to'be either persons cated in 'the late .conspiracy, or some of those who had concealed Pichegru. . . •  The following curious receipt for curing fresh pro• visions to carry abroad, has been tried by a gentle, man who has twice made the experiment on a,voyage to Atchangel, and once to. the' West Indies. Let the meat, whether beef or mutton, be fresh killed,' and when hung to be perfefily cold, let it be cut up in quarters : lay each on a block, and sprinkle it over with ingredients prepared in the following manner : lignum vital fine chips one pound ; common salt four' minces, coarse sugar four ounces, salt prunella, half an ounce; when it hasrbeen well sprinkled in, close the whole in sheet lead; which done, lay it in a chest, and, as each lot "is laid in, cover it with fresh saw' dust; ram-it well down and cover the whole close. Meat (particularly fine fat bee() has been eat fresh co' prepared, six weeks or two Months afttr sailing from England ; the beef must be in fine order, and when taken out for dressing (it roasts best) it.should tie wiped and scraped clean, and put down to the fire as quick as possible. On Monday se'nnight, as Mr..and Mrs. 13owling, ofiowerhead. row, in Leeds, were sitting' near th© fire, a luminous flame issued from 'the chimney, and atter setting fire to Mrs. B's. gown, and severely burning- her arm, and burning one side of Mr. B.'s wig, streamed a considerable way into the room, and instantly disappeared, being succeeded by a volume of suffocating smoke.  LON1).)N; l'tnred by BUCHANAN M‘hlll.l. AN, (of Bow-Street, Covent-Garden); and I At the. Su-N.6Frict. No. x 1 Z, Strasd ; where iidvertirements, Order' for 1