4^6 CHARLOTTE CORDE.— CHARLOTTE HUTTON. 
warmly adopted by several pei'sons in Scotland, which occasioned a 
controversy there, in which Dr. Cockburn distinguished himself as the 
opponents of the Bourignonists. It is scarcely necessary to add, 
that their disputes have long since sunk into oblivion. 
Charlotte Corde. 
This lady, a celebrated heroine during the French revolution, was 
born in 1768, of a good family, near Seez in Normandy, and lived 
chiefly at Caen, where she was greatly admired for her beauty and 
spirit. She is described by J. Baptist Lonuel as “ a stout, handsome 
young woman, of a most engaging air, gentle yet noble, modest and 
laeautiful ; in her face and carriage, which were those of a fine and 
pretty woman, there was a mixture of gentleness and majesty, which 
indicated her sublime way of thinking.’^ 
Among the many officers who were massacred by the soldiery at 
the instigation of Marat, there was one Besunce, a major, for whom 
Charlotte Corde had a particular regard, and the melancholy fate of 
this man animated her with vengeance against the miscreant, whom 
she considered as the chief cause of all the bloodshed and anarchy 
that then distracted her country. Regardless of her own life, and de- 
termined to revenge the death of her lover, and rid the nation of a 
tyrant, she hastened to Paris, got herself introduced into the presence 
of Marat, to whom she presented a paper to read, and while he was 
thus employed, she stabbed him to the heart W'ith a dagger, July 12, 
1793. Far from attempting to escape, she confessed the action; and 
from the conclusion of a letter which she wrote to her father on the 
occasion, “ Crime begets disgrace, and not the scaffold,” she seems 
to have cotisidercd it no crime nor disgrace. She was guillotined 
July 16, 1793; manifesting at her execution, as she had also done at 
her trial, the most undaunted courage. 
The extraordinary conduct of this woman was accompanied with 
conduct not less extraordinary, for as she was conveyed to the scaf- 
fold, a deputy of the city of Mayence, named Adam Lux, a young 
man, was so transported with admiration of her beauty, that he 
hastened to the tribunal, and demanded to suffer death under the 
same instrument, and he was accordingly condemned and executed. 
Charlotte Hutton. 
This most extraordinary genius was the youngest daughter of the 
late Dr. Charles Hutton of Woolwich. She was born in 1778, and 
w as only 16 years of age, w hen she died of a rupture of a vessel in 
her lungs, Dec. 24, 1794. Yet in that short period she had acquired 
more learning and knowledge than many persons do who live to four- 
score. She knew several languages, and almost all sciences in a con- 
siderable degree, and had acquired a knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, 
geography, astronomy, music, drawing, poetry, history, botany, gar- 
dening, besides all the usual female accomplishments in a superior 
degree and style. Most of these acquisitions were chiefly made 
by her ow'n talents and energy of mind, with little or no assistance 
