EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_General Haynau's Corpse._--A most extraordinary account has reached us in

a private letter from Vienna to a high personage here, and has been the

talk of our _salons_ for the last few days. It appears that the

circumstance of the death of General Haynau presented a phenomenon of the

most awful kind on record. For many days after death the warmth of life yet

lingered in the right arm and left leg of the corpse, which remained limpid

and moist, even bleeding slightly when pricked. No delusion,

notwithstanding, could be maintained as to the reality of death, for the

other parts of the body were completely mortified, and interment became

necessary before the two limbs above mentioned had become either stiff or

cold. The writer of the letter mentioned that this strange circumstance has

produced the greatest awe in the minds of those who witnessed it, and that

the emperor had been so impressed with it, that his physicians had

forbidden the subject to be alluded to in his presence. Query, Can the

above singular statement be verified? It was copied from a French paper,

immediately after the decease of General Haynau was known in Paris.

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