Daily National Intelligencer

NEY'S EXECUTION

PARIS, JAN. 10.

The following are some further particulars respecting the last moments of Marshal Ney:—When the judgment was announced to him, he said, "it would have been more military to have said, you are to bite the dust." At the execution, he endeavoured to protest against the iniquity of the sentence, and appealed to God and posterity.—The officer commanding the veterans, attempting to give the word, appeared struck dumb. L'Espinois (the commander of the military division) then said, "officer, if you cannot command, I will;" the latter remaining silent, the marshal himself said, "soldiers, do your duty," upon which, the platoon ordered for the purpose fired at random; only five out of sixteen balls fired, struck the marshal, who fell upon his knees and died instantly. The officer recovering himself, said, "there is still a platoon let them shoot me also." The officer is put under arrest. Marshal Ney was yesterday buried at the cemetery of La Chaise. Madame Ney was accompanied to the Thuilleries by her four children and sister; she remained in the salon de la paix some time before the duc de Duras came to inform her that she could not be received by the king, and leading her down the grand stair-case, acquainted her with the mournful execution; she fainted, and was with difficulty removed to her carriage, amidst the cries of her children and the lamentations of the spectators of this distressing scene. She had several times endeavoured to see the Duchess d'Angouleme, near to whose person she had been brought up when a child: the duchess, however, as well as the princess, constantly refused to see her. Madame Auguie, Madame Ney's mother, was in the service of Marie Antoinette, her grief at whose death was so severe, that in a moment of distraction she threw herself out of a window, and died upon the spot.