The Sun. — 1837-09-04 (London, England)

PARAMOUR-ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.  BOLT LOGNE-SUR-MER, AUG. W.—Considerable excitement was crested in this town yesterday morning, in consequence- of the following occurrence :—lt appears that for some time past Mons. Robeir Volant, the Maitre des Postes, residing at the termination of the Rue Royale, on the Paris road, has had some suspicion of the fidelity of his lady, whom lie bad long narrowly watched, but without making the anticipated discovery. The suspected party was M. Genoux Courtenier, a married man, and an extensive and wealthy corn merchant, residing in the Rue de l'Hopital, wl:o had been observed to pay Madame Volant those attartions which were incompatible with propriety and decorum. The result of those attentions at length became so apparent (the injured party not haying cohabited with his wife for the last eight months) that the husband bit upon the following expedient to arrive at the truth of his conjectures. He pretended to his frail rib that he was under the necessity of proceeding to his father's at St. Omer, on most urgent business, and that he would be absent from home three or four days. He left Boulogne on Monday, and was bade adieu in the most affectionate manner by his young wife. He remained a short distance from the town until about three o'clock on the following morning, when, determined to be convinced of his wife's infidelity, and to punish her betrayer, he returned home, armed with 3 pistols loaded with ball. Upon entering his chamber, he there discovered Madame Volant and her paramour together. The first pistol he fired at his wife, which but slightly wounded her in the abdomen—the agitation of her husband preventing him taking the deadly aim he intended. The report awakened Monsieur Courtenier, vshn thereupon flew to the window to escape. The second pistol, aimed at the seducer, flashed in the pao, and he was thus fortunately enabled to make his exit from the window in a whole skin, "sans everything," with the exception of his drawers, and took refuge in a neighbouring wine and beer-house, where he procured some clothes to enable him to return to his own residence, in the Rue de l'Hopital. The report of the pistol alarmed one of the po,tillions, who slept in the house, and who entered the room just in time to arrest the arm of the excited husband, who had raised the third pistol to his head, with the intention of blowing out his own brains. An alarm being given, the police immediately repaired to the spot, and a p;•oce,s verbal of the affair was drawn up by the Commissatre, who took possession of the whole of the apparel left behind by M. Courtenier. The husband was removed to the house of a friend in the greatest anxiety of mind ; his frail partner was sent home to her parents, and the gay Lothario is non est invenius. It is the intention of the wife of Monsieur Courtenier to commence immediate proceediAgs against her husband for infidelity in the Cours d'Assizes ; he having rendered himself liable to three years' imprisonment, and the woman, Volant, to two years' solitary confinement. The brother of the seducer was to have been married to a young lady of high respectability and great beauty ; but in consequence of this unfortunate affair the ceremony has 'been postponed, and, it is feared, will be entirely broken• off.  - The Scotch Papers announce the death of Mr. J. D. Carrick, well known in the North as the author of some exquisite comic effusions, and as the editor of " Wbistlebinkie," a lively collection of songs, and " The Laird of Logan's Jests." He seems to have been greatly beloved by his friends.