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Marbaroux, relating her adventures from the time of her quitting Caen. The third, to her father, was euuched in the most solemn and affectionate strain, and concluded with the celebrated line of Corneille: ‘ C'eat lecrime qui fait la hontc, ct non pas I’echa. fund.” ••' 1 is crime which brings di-grace, and not the scaffold. ” The front of the I uillcries was the place s.T.- ted ■nr her execution. A multitude of people had as sembled to witness the ceremony ; among others were crowds of barbarous women, who drew to. "ether for the express purpose of insulting her in her last moments. Uowcvei, when she came forth ti run the prison, -lie appeared so loved', and inti r •’sting, that their base purpose was !.cd in-tantli aside, and not a voice was raised ag, nsl lier. She was elegantly dressed, and appeared smiling upon tin- scaffold ; her dark and beautiful locks waving gracefull;. over her shoulders. When the execu tioner removed the kerchief which covered her cock and bo.-otn, she blushed deeply , and when hti • ad was held up after death, it was observed that - face st.il retained this mark of offended tnodes -\ \ deep feel: tig was jiroduccd among the spec. at< is, all accustomed as they were to such scenes . e .'.when tiie fatal axe descended, there was a shad ier, which showed that the death of this \ < uitg he oine excited admiration and pity more than any tidng else, li; an cm itimi of generous respect, al most all the u cu uncovered themselves; those ol •r own sex who came to revile her, .stood nude .utd abashed. Main of both sexes w ere observed ■i weep and. when the crowd separated,, it was .tii a melancholy which proved that, at this dread 1 period, the kinder affections were not utisuscrp . de of emotion. W hen on In r way to the s*:nfi.*11, a cii'cunist.iuce ! , .-Hired, which, from its romantic nature, wi ll dc. serves to be mentioned:—A \oung man named \ lam Lux, a commissary from Manuci, w as at ■!:is moment accidentally passing. lie saw h. i, and an instant fill in love with her. ilis heart he . ame so overpowen .1 with this strange afT-- etion, tnat, from loving her, he came at length to love the ip: :!otjne—regarding it as a sacred altar, at w hich 'no blood of royalty, anil beauty, and virtue, was off -red up. He immediately published a pamphlet upon the occasion—proposed to erect a monument 'o iier in-lie.iy with the inscription, “Greater than Uru'iia,” engruvt d upon it—and in a sort of pine i *.ed enthusiasm invoked her shade from the elj -.an fields, where it dwelt with those of the illustimus victims of the Revolution. This brought him the doom •• wl ,ch he aspired. He was thrown in'-i tlie prison of I .a force, and afterward-, executed. Dur ing his confinement, his whole talk was of the he roic object of his affections. Such whs the fate of Cluulotte Corduy—an honor to human nature—arid above all. an orna ment and an honor to the sex of woman Ji ,d ■he hied in ancient times, statues and columns would base been erected to her memory ; her name would have lived recorded in the annals of time, and she would have stood in the fore roost rank of patriots. It was the influence of a lofty ami romantic feeling which led her • •« the commission of that crime which will immor talize her. onian is the child of feeling. From (hi-* sjurce spring up all her good and had quali ties. It is seldom ambition or poll., which leads heron to any enterprise : it is the passions. It is jealousy, or love, or revenge, or pity, which are the stirring spirits of all her deeds. ‘ Win else,' to use the language of a modern French writer, ‘ is she. sometimes that atrocious Cleo patra, presenting a poisoned cup to her rival and her son—sometimes that sacrilegious Ame lia, who wished to immolate her benefactor—or the haughty Roxana, ready to deliver to the dagger of an assassin the heart of Rajazet, he came insensible to her charms ? Sanguinary and implacable in revenge, she pushes cruelty even to rage, for the same reason that she ear lies virtue to the most sublime excess! She i> \lecsta, living for her spouse! She is an In burn, throwing herself on tie' funeral pile which consumes her husband! She is a Lacedemo nian. sacrificing her son. shamefully escaped Ironi a deleat' She is Kponini. devoting her sell with Sjhinus to the long horrors of misery and exile 1 She is Arria. showing to lhetus the honor ol a virtuous death! She again appears in the character of those magnanimous French women, who accompanied in the proscription, in dungeons and punishments, their parents* liver sons, and their husbands, through the midst of our revolutionary torments. '* And it was under the- influence of such that Charlotte thir dly ji. i formed that act, which virtuous and generous minds, so far from eonsidi ringa crime, will look upon as one of the most heroic deeds oi recorded history, < *,!'■ nf tin- lii -d arts of the French. after the death of M, rat. »vhs to <riv a sumptuous lone fal. Far thi- purpose a vast sum of m-nnw iv.e raised hv public subscription, and his liodv. lb! lowed In crowds of political adorers, was car ri'd to the Pantheon. There it lav ill s;at>- for many dav-. The coffin was allowed to remain open, aad the f ade of the regicide was exposed to the vnav ill counties- multitudes who throng ed to see it It was at t!os turn- the hottest s,- , son of the year, and the face of the corpse hav ,11. become Mark by tie- process of ileenf. it was w hiti washed. the hitter to prrs--r\e, I; m a ci.r.-'itiott to be *ee>i. till the bay of inte::.ii ut arriv'd Ifo was a» la.- 1-n-iet] io a plan- »i!-,t t- d for saip-s m l «. la /ard-'-d I > ,.: tii- r,(K as n man;. • t r Id . rtv. and I y all o d men as mu- ofti.e vorst characters- who lias , p jw-aicd in tnoderi d -,cs. Ihit mark the ehanyi s of hum .n - ^1- .-a — i i.i' man. wh > n - s inferred so s-jnvpiouisi;— i this man.hose reputaooi a:n..v_ the revolu- I t» - ousts , ,d s , itto.Ii. was at just i. j.ietl a trr'uo ; iIts superh < ,lti:i was torn from the vauit in i which'it had been phr. d. o;,d broke--l in pit res ; j "bib- his careo -e. dr ti;aed ir,.m it In the mob. was thrown has carrion into i>i i if the pubhe sewers winch runs into the Seine. Ills memorv hits nu t with a fate even worse than hi' hmlv, and will lie accursed to (he latest posterity VARIETY. I'dii 1' If A IT or T U.I.KYltANI). iiv [am Mom;an. I had Irequenllv seen this celebrated j c sonage. ate! iutuie historical character, at com iijmn other public occasion.', in ihe hustle procession, at the nuptial pomp of rurally, .. der the hody dome of Notre Dame, at tin th c; c't tragedy, at the liveliest comedy, amidst 11. ■ solemnity of the royal idripel. and the render of the feasting court—hut 1 saw him alwaj to same : co.d. motionless, not abstracted, In.; im occupied, not al.isent, hut unmoved, no tint \urying the colorless hue of his viud ronijih ion. no expression marking its character , , i passive countenance His figure seemed shell of a human frame, despoiled of its o —, arrangements, or. if the heart heat, or the i.riu, vibrat.-d.no power of penetration could reaci the recesses of t!ie one, or guess at the woikin„ of the other From the mind of this man the woiid seemed contemptuously' shut out— and it his most impassible torrn and face ind: rated character or opinion, one would liar, thought, at the first glance, this is surely the being wlio said: yct-c/i was gitrn to mm (u conceal his thoughts."—It seemed as if tin- int in icy oi lot e. the contidence of friendship, tli' community of counsel, could never draw th mind lo that countenance, whicli, ami.Ft ,dl tin. vicissitude', versatility, changes, and contrast' in the life of it owner, had never been “ A book, in which men read tram;, thing it was indeed a hook, written in a dead lar \ Jau^!j:thj. inaaeut nociirr'n dnrii;;: a •■f this |n'Nm it' . t.» the 1‘rincc m C an'!", v, La. though lii: ‘-till p t .iricil hi? natural in hit nit v a i nl politeness, had in a un at i,,:, - m lost In- nieiiiiiry. He addressed M Tallevrand ~al lime- by a till" tliat did nut belong t.> liiti). and his it f-inii'iivon d tu s, t him :,1,■ *>y whisp.-i intr t.» him the real n tune .of his ti sitrr '1 in: ol-l prince, flying into a passion, de matnli'd of the servant, how he dare to merit;, i. t i him the liame of such a scoundrel ; and turn in* to Talleyrand hirnst It. asked him if he km w the rascal.’ “ My Lord.' replied this arrli hi p., r:'". “ tt ha-- been two years since I km w the person of w learn i on sp, ;.k NATIONAL IJAi{.\[)nXKs At a ronrcrmzt'mc parti in- -tr< > t. win p sei i d "entle.’iieii from Irei.irm and Set were pr -o nt. am! the iliseourse was turnii, ■ national peruliantie- Mr.-ohkeri rd. !' the three nations might he thus eiiaraeti :,/• ‘ Lit■■ Lngiishmart i« never happi t ut wb* n miserable: the Srotchman i* net i r at I, .me i when'"" is abroad . and til" it. ■ " ■. a :i ‘ v.' l,( ■ • ■htitiL'