A pretender is on our shores; an armed assassin is threatening our peaceful liberties; a wandering, homeless cut-throat is robbing on our highways; and the punishment of his crime awaits him.

Let no considerations of the past defer that just punishment; it is the duty of the legislator to provide for THE FUTURE.
Let the full powers of the law be brought against him, aided by the stern justice of the public force.

Let him be tracked, like a wild beast, to his lair, and meet the fate of one.

But the sentence has, ere this, been certainly executed.

The brigand, we hear, has been distributing (without any effect) pamphlets among the low ale-houses and peasantry of the department of the Upper Rhine (in which he lurks); and the Police have an easy means of tracking his footsteps.
"Corporal Crane, of the Gendarmerie, is on the track of the unfortunate young man.