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The FATE OF THE INVENTOR OF THE
GuILLoTINE.-flis retreat was so profound
that it was said, and readily believed, that
he too had fallen victim to his own inven-
ton. But it was not so; he was indeed
imprisoned during the Jacobin reign of
terror, his crime being, it is said, (Gugo,
p. y that he testified an indiscreet indig


nation of proposition made TO him by
Danton to supcrin,end the construction Of
triple suillotnc. There is no doub. that
double instrument was thought of, and
it is said that such a machine was made.
and intended TO be erected in the great
hall of the Palais dc Justice, but il was
certainly never used; and we should very
much and for many reasons doubt whether
1t could have been design of Danton.-
The general Jail delivery of the 9th Thcr-
midor released Guillotin, and he afterwards
lived in a decent mediocrity of fortune al
Paris, esteemed, it is said, by a small circle
of friends, but overwhelmed by deep sem
sibility TO the great, though we cannot say
wholly undeservcd, misfortune which has
rendered his name ignominious and his
very existence a subject of fearful curiosity.
He just lived to see the restoration, and
died in his bed in Paris on the Goth of Nav,
1914, aged seventy-six.-Qu1r. Rerier.