_Military Execution_.--I am very anxious to be referred to the authority
for the following anecdote, and remark made on it:--
"Some officer, or state prisoner, on being led out to be shot,
refused either to listen to a confessor, or to cover his eyes with
a handkerchief."
The remark was, that "he refused a bandage for either mind or body." It
smacks somewhat of Voltaire.