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of art was lavished on them in 

 vain. Yestevday evening, at nine 

 o'clock, tliey were buried. It 

 seems that this woman, whose 

 mind was doubtless deranged, 

 had meditated this great crime 

 dming the whole of the 3d. On 

 that day she performed her de^ o- 

 tional exercises, and distributed 

 abundant alms. 



Madame I'apillon had formed 

 the project to destroy all her fa- 

 mily ; besides the three children 

 who were the victims of it, she 

 had two others ; her eldest son 

 was at a boarding-school at St. 

 Ghislain, and the youngest at 

 nurse in the country. This mo- 

 ther, wJiom one does not know 

 by what name to call, had sent an 

 order to the nurse to bring her 

 the infant on the day destined for 

 the accomplishment of the tra- 

 gedy, which the woman refused 

 to do. At the same time she 

 charged the St. Ghislain carrier 

 to carry to her son a.Jian (a kind 

 of oake, which was poisoned, with 

 a letter, desii'ing him to eat it 

 alone, without giving any part to 

 his schoolfellows.) On the road 

 this fern was spoiled, and the car- 

 rier, fearing he should damage 

 the other goods which he had with 

 him, threw it away. Jf we add, 

 that this wretched woman was 

 five months ad'.anced in her preg- 

 nancy, we shall have an idea of 

 the destruction which she had 

 calmly meditated. While the 

 dreadful scene was passing, her 

 husband was at the coft'ee-house : 

 she liad had the cruel precaution 

 to leave a note on the table, 

 pointing out the well as the grave 

 of l\erself and chihhen. 



G. The bea\itiful church of the 

 Angustincs at BrusselSj which 



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has been abandoned since the de- 

 j)arture of the English army, and 

 which was used as a i)lace of wor- 

 ship for the English soldieis, has 

 been put in order again, that the 

 professors of the reformed reli- 

 gion may have divine service per- 

 formed in it. The first sermon 

 was preached in it last Monday. 



A letter from Jersey gives the 

 particulars of the shipwreck, upon 

 that island, of the Balance, a laj'ge 

 French transpoit.cajitainLe Sage, 

 having a crew of '21 men and 84 

 passengers, mostly women and 

 children, bound from Havre de 

 Grace to St. Malo, to be embaiked 

 on a frigate for conveyance to 8t. 

 Pierre and Miquelon, where they 

 were to settle. They had turned 

 their whole proi)ci-ty in France 

 into ready money, and brought 

 all their eft'ects with them. It 

 Avas very dark when the vessel 

 struck on the rocks, in which her 

 head Avas fixed, with her stern 

 only above water. The tide was 

 then nearly out, and the weather 

 moderating, many of the passen- 

 gers got upon deck ; but the 

 water rising, took oif all ho})e of 

 escape. The women clung to the 

 rigging, held their children in 

 their arms, and their slnieks and 

 lamentations were distinctly heard. 

 Some boats from Rozel reached 

 them by break of day, but 36 per- 

 sons w ere previously drowned. As 

 soon as the last boat left the vessel 

 she instantly went to pieces. The 

 j)oor peojiic were brought into 

 tlie barracks at Rozel, whei'e all 

 hastened to their assistance ; and 

 nothing could be more aifecting 

 than the expressions, partly of 

 gratitude, partly of anguish, of 

 tbe unhajjpy sufferers. Mrs. 

 M'Kenzie, wife of captain M. of 



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