Prosecution of a corpse

Paris, April 27. The publick cannot guess what may be the crime of the counsellor who drew up the memorial for Ambrose Guy against the Jesuits: it is to be supposed that the judges of the Chatelet, by whom he has been tried, knew what they were about. His sentence imported, that he should be whipped, branded, and sent to the galleys for three years. After this sentence was read to him the 22d instant, he found means to cut his arteries, and the next day he was found expiring in his cell: upon which a prosecution was instantly commenced against the corpse, and in the afternoon of the same day it was hung up by the heels, and then dragged through the streets in a hurdle. [Probably it was not the drawing up a memorial, but forging an arret of the council of state in favour of Ambrose Guy's heirs, with which the Jesuits were regularly served, but which the the council soon after disclaimed.]