The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1822-08-15 (London, England)

PARIS PAPERS.  PARIS, AUGUST 11.  the Constitutionnel contains the following account of a liortible murder committed, u it is sup• posed, by a priest, from the Mayor of the Commune w liege the critue took place:— . . _  " On Monday, May 2, 1822, in the afternoon, 111. M• • °, ecclesiastic, of the age of 08, Care of Quentin•sur-Isere, went to the house of a young woman, whose trsgicol end I annoonced in my notice of June 5 (Marie Germ, whose married name was Charnalei), and remain. d there about two hours. This woman, who was very pious, was to have gone the next day to communicate at Veury, a neigh.. blurs.% pariah, where the fit-at commuuton of cilantro was to take place, and it appears that the Cure appointed her an hour to hear her in confession io the evening. She was seen entering the church about six in the evening; she went in alone, end was not seen to tome out.  " About half-past four o'clock in the morning, an inhabitant of the town, descending towards the plaits by r path, not frequented at night, perceived a little from it, and about t.'o hundred yards from the parsoosge, blood in abundance, a penknife stuck in the ground, and a ►tnug, shout IliZ metres lung, bath bloody. to the same plaice were found togs of limb and some fragments of bone. Traces of blood led other persons to the bank of the Isere, where the neckerchief of the unhappy woman was recogward, without doubt placed there to give rise to the idea that she had drowned herself. The idea of asses. staation occurred to no one in a country which, in the memory of man, had got been stained by soy crime. Suicide was thought of. It was imagined, contrary to all probability, that after having stabbed herself with the knife (which was afterwards recognized as sot belonging to her), she had preserved strength to go and throw herself into the Isere. It is MA paces frog the place where the knife was found to  the.bink of the isew, *Left the necteichief vat.  " Toe despair of the woman was explained by the great rigour of the Cure in confession; and it was imagined, that having been refused absolution, she had destroyed herself. Her death was said to be the work of the devil, and credulity and supei. tuition propagated the story. On the 161 h of the tame month, however, the character of the terror that was created was changed. when some shepherds discovered in a creek of the Isere, two hunched paces Poll the place where the neckerchief was found, the thteit and the left leg of the victim. On the Thureday following, the day of the Ascension, the bust wits found about six leagues below St. Quentin. The idea) ity was established. " It appears hence certain, that the body of' the victim was carried whole by the assassin to the place where the rope and knife were found-, and that he there dismembered the body 1 " On Friday, May 17, about ten in the morning, the gendarmerie came to St. Quentin, sod went to the parsonage to make invoingations. Almost immediately after the departure of the gendarmes the Cure went off himself, and the same day gained Les Echelles, 8 frollllrf of Savoy. lie was arrest• ed a few days after and conducted to the prisons of Chanthery, where he remains &word. No other inhabitant of St. Quentin has left it since May N. I could eater into other details—speak of groans heard the evening of the name day in the neighbourhood of the chinch. But the procedure will undoubtedly dissipate the dam knees in which crime would envelope itself. (Signed) " Davis, Mayor."  We are somewhat ►urprised (says the ConstituSimone!) at learning that a man accused of so execrable a crime has not yet been delivered up. The Piedmontese Government made no difficulty in giving up Didier, an cused of a political conspiracy ls it that men accused of murders that make one shuddrr appear leas dangerous than those cast forth by our sad civil dissentious?