The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

A famous brigand called St. Rochetto, has lately been arrested in Piedmont. He has been the chief and creator of barbets or robbers in the Alps, of whom 306 have already been executed. He never had any fixed house, but he knew perfectly well the Alps and all retreats in these mountains, and wherever he went, he had the talents to form new bands, and to inspire his followers with the most violent hatred against the French, of whom he acknowledges to have killed with his own hands upwards of 120, and that his comrades during the last war, have by ambuscades which he had prepared, destroyed upwards of 1500 republicans. The jealousy of one of his mistresses delivered him up at St. Benigno.

Memorials concerning many of his transactions were found upon him, and receipts from different priests and friars for 2,560,000 livres, which he had given to churches and convents, to have masses and prayers said, for obtaining the assistance of the Virgin Mary in his undertaking. He had besides upon him a list of thirty persons, whom he intended to have dispatched this year as soon as possible, among whom were two Benedictines, Vice President Melzi, Generals Menou, Murat, St. Cyr, &c. On his way to Turin, he knocked out the brains of a gens d'arme with his hand-cuffs, and bit the nose of another who attempted to tie his hands on his back. He is a very strong man, and his body is covered over with hair like that of a goat.