Offender, whose fate was anticipated, 
had been postponed five months for the 
purpose of affording him an indulgent 
Procrastination. At ten minutes after 
one, -he was sentenced to lose his head 
at four o’clock-in the afternoon! Mr. 
Carr summoned resolution to witness 
the execution: which we are sorry to 
learn appears to have passed almost 
unnoticed by the market-women, and 
‘who seemed only intent on the sale of 
their.apples. In describing the dispatch 
with. which the guillotine performs its 
office, Mr. Carr alludes to the fate of 
governor Wall, and concludes his chap- 
ter by relating an anecdote of the terror 
and infatuation of guilt, displayed in 
‘the conduct of this wretched man, in 
the presence of a friend of his, from 
swhom he received it. 
*¢ A few years before governor Wall. suf- 
fered, fatigued with life, and pursued by 
poverty, and the frightful remembrance of 
‘his offences, then almost forgotten by the 
- world, he left the south of France for Ca- 
fais, with an intention of passing over to 
England, to offer himself up to its laws, 
_- not without the cherished hope that a lapse 
of twenty years had swept away all evidence 
of his guilt. 
_ * At the time of his arrival at this port 
town, the hotel in which Madame H. 
Was waiting for a packet to Dover was very 
crowded—the landlord requested of her, 
that she would be pleased to permit two 
gentlemen, who were going to England, 
to take some refreshment in her room ; these 
peers proved to be the unfortunate 
rooks, a king’s messenger, charged with 
- important dispatches to his court, and go- 
yvernor W~—. The latter was dressed like 
“adecayed gentleman, and bore about him 
_all the indications of his extreme condition, 
» They had not been seated at the table long, 
before the latter informed the former, with 
- evident marks of. perturbation, that his 
mame was W-——, that having been charged 
_ in England with offences, which, if true, 
_ subjected him to heavy punishment, he was 
" anxious to place himselfat the disposal of 
~ its laws, aud requested of him, as he was 
an English messenger, that he would con- 
sider him as his prisoner, and take charge 
of him. 
__ The messenger, who was much surprised 
by the application, told him, that he could 
not upon such a representation take him in- 
to custody, unless he had an order from the 
duke of Portland’s office to that effect, and 
tin order.to obtain it, it would be proper 
for him to write his name, that jt might be 
compared with his hand-writing in the of- 
fice of the secretary at war, which he offered 
fo carry over with him. Governor W. 
ill pressed him to take him into custody, 
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the messenger more strongly declined it) by 
informing him that he was the bearer of 
dispatches of great importance to his court, 
that he must immediately cross the channel, 
and should hazard a passage, although the 
weather looked lowering, in an open boat, 
as no packets had arrived, and that. conse- 
quently it was altogether impossible to take 
him over, but again requested him to write 
his name, for the purpose already men- 
tioned ; the governor consented, pens and 
paper were brought, but the hand of the 
murderer shook so dreadfully, that he could 
not write it, and in an agony of mind, box- 
dering upon frenzy, he rushed out of the 
room, and immediately left the town. 
«« The messenger entered the boat, and 
set sail ; a storm quickly followed, the boat 
sunk in sight of the pier, and all on board 
but one of the watermen, perished !!! 
«‘ The great disposer of human destiny, 
in vindication of his eternal justice, rescued 
the life of this infatuated delinquent from 
the waves, and from a sudden death, to re- 
sign him to the public and merited doom 
of the laws.” 
In the course of the last’ war, we 
heard it frequently asserted, that no 
peace with the republic would be per- 
manent, because it must be fatal to 
the consular interests : the return of the 
French armies would be attended with 
new insurrections; it would be impos- 
sible that so many soldiers should settle 
quietly to domestic labours, they would 
be clamorous for pay, and the increased 
consumption of provisions would create 
scarcity and contusion. Too true, in- 
deed, it is, that the last. peace was not 
permanent; butin order to correct so 
false an idea as this we have now noticed, 
it is worth mentioning that Mr. Carr, 
in the course of his walks and conver- 
sations with the workmen whom he met, 
found that most of the masons and gar- 
deners of Rouen had fought in the 
memorable battle of Marengo, at which 
it appears that a great part of the mili. 
tary of France, within four or five hun- 
dred miles of the capital, were present. 
The change, he says, was worthy of ob- 
servation; we saw men sun-browned in 
campaigns, and enured to all the fero- 
‘city of war, assuming at the sound of 
peace all the tranquil habits of ingenious 
industry, or rustic simplicity. 
It may give some idea of the confi, 
dence of the present government of 
France in its own strength, that at the 
windows of the principal print-shops of 
Paris, Mr. Carr saw exposed to sale 
prints representing the late king in his 
full robes of state, under which was 
