Herald Of The United States

Singular Instance of Female Revenge.

MONS. D'ESTACHE, formerly a cornet in Asfeld's dragoons, being fifty two years old, seduced young lady of seventeen years of age, whose name was St. Cheron, and then refused to marry her, under the pretence of having been too familiar with her mother in his younger days. The abused lady had two brothers, officers in the regiment of Briack, who would have fought D'Estache, but he wounded the eldest in the face, and shot the other brother from a window.

This injured family had a sister who for some time abandoned herself to grief and rage; but the last of these passions prevailing, prompted her to a revenge above the daring of her sex; for, being informed that her sister's seducer and brother's murderer was at Montpellier, she went thither from Gighack, where she lived, and found means, the very evening of her arrival, to be introduced to the guilty author of her family's disgrace, whom she instantly shot dead with a pistol. She then wrote to Mon. Le Blanc, Secretary at War, owning the deed, but denying its being an offence to which mercy was not due. The Ladies of Montpellier, one and all, approved of her conduct; they made themselves prisoners, to accompany her to the Throne, and she soon obtained a full pardon.