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CHRONICLE. 
JANUARY. 
Ist, EING the anniversary of 
the Unton, was distin- 
guished by the usual ceremonies ; 
the imperial flag was hoisted at the 
Tower, and the guns of that for- 
tress, and those at the Park, were 
fired. 
_ 4th. A personarrived in London, 
to communicate a shocking transac- 
tion to the English police, in order to 
procure assistance in tracing out the 
perpetrators, in case they should 
have crossed the channel. The hor- 
rid deed was committed at a small 
village between Marquise and Bou- 
logne :—A written paper, with three 
signatures, was carried to the house 
of the mayor of the village, appoint- 
ing a meeting upon business m the 
evening at a fixed place. <A neigh- 
bour observed three men at the 
door, and the mayor to go out with 
his great coat on, leaving at home 
his wife, daughter, niece, and a 
maid servant. Karly the next morn- 
ing, a nephew of the mayor’s, call- 
ing, found the door open, and, upon 
entering, first beheld the dreadful sight 
of the maid lying murdered in the pas- 
sage, the mother and daughter dead 
in one room, and the niece a corpse 
in another! With a neighbour, whom 
he called in to his assistance, the 
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nephew examined the house, but it 
appeared that nothing had been 
taken away; they found, however, 
the written paper, containing the 
three signatures, which induced them 
to proceed to the stated place ; when, 
as their minds foreboded, they dis- 
covered the unfortunate magistrate 
miserably strangled. In one of his 
hands was grasped a large lock of 
hair, with a part of the skin to it. 
This was taken immediately to the 
municipality, and an embargo was 
laid, in consequence, on, all ves- 
sels "hetween Calais and Boulogne, 
and the most active search was 
made: the diligences were all ex- 
amined, and every one obliged to 
take off his hat, but the monsters 
have remained hitherto undetected. 
The mayor was a very powerful 
man; he was much.cut, and by the 
hair, which he must have torn from 
one of their heads, probably made a 
stout resistance. 
5th. The following description of 
the first consul of France appeared 
‘in the Montteur. 
Sketch of Bonaparte.—The per- 
son of the first consul is small, be- 
low the ordinary size of men. The 
consular garb does not become him; 
he looks best in the plain uniform of 
the national guard, which he, at 
present, generally wears. His face 
Aa is 
