Colonel Rossel was shot at Satory on Tuesday morning, in
company with Ferre, convicted of complieity in the murder of the hostages, and a serjeant named Bourgeois. Rossel, who was a Protestant and by his mother's side a Scotchman, just before his death wrote a letter to his pastor, M. Passe, begging his party, if it over achieved power, not to avenge him, and on the execution-ground asked for one of his military judges, to tell him that be had done his duty. In an entry in his diary, written the day before his death, however, he calls his execution a "murder," and regrets the mischiefs it will cause. Ile took an affectionate leave of his father, wrote to his mother a touching farewell, and met death without either swagger or fear. We have elsewhere stated, as fairly as natural horror will allow us, the reasons for his execution, but it will work evil nevertheless. It is said to have produced a profound impression on the Army, which may be beneficial to discipline ; but Democrats have as long memories for blood as the Aristocrats who eighteen years after the massacre executed the Septembriseurs. Ferri, the typical Communist, died with a cigarette between his lips and his oyes unbound, frankly defiant to the last, as did Cremieux, one of four Com- munists shot at Marseilles. Already the Democratic papers pub- lish injunctions to "remember Rossel."
