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Rh any one, she was calm, dignified, and eloquent; but, alone—tender recollections would cause her to weep for hours. She could not but feel for her husband, her daughter, and even for herself—A mind so feeling, and so warm an imagination, could not remain cold to what she was going to suffer. On the day of her execution, dressed in white, her long dark hair flowing on her shoulders, she went cheerfully to her death, encouraging her companions, and exclaimed, "Oh, Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!"

No sooner did the account of this murder reach the ears of her husband, than, as she a little before her execution had prophesied, he prepared for his fate; and, lest a female friend, who had risked her life to preserve his, by affording him an asylum, should suffer, he left her hospitable mansion, and shot himself, on the great road to Rouen, in 1793, in his sixtieth year. . was married to one Mr. Clerk, and afterwards to Mr. James Basset; and, being from her childhood instructed in languages, was mistress both of the Greek and Latin, and left behind her some specimens of her abilities, viz. Orations in Greek and Latin, translated into English by John Monser; The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, a translation from the Latin into English, M. S. &c. .