PALM, JOHANN PHILIPP, a book-seller of Nuremberg, who has acquired an historic celebrity as a victim of Napoleonic justice in Germany. He was born at Schorndorf in 1700, and succeeded his father-in-law, Stein, as a book-seller in Nuremberg, the old name of the firm being retained. In the spring of 1800, a pamphlet, entitled Deutschland in seiner tiefsten Erniedrigung (Germany in its deepest humiliation), which contained some bitter truths concerning Napoleon,- and concerning the conduct of the French troops in Bavaria, was sent by this firm to a book-seller in Augsburg in the-ordinary course of trade, and, as Palm to the last moment of his life averred, without any regard. on his part, to its contents. Napoleon's police traced it to the shop in Nuremberg, and an investigation was ordered, from which nothing resulted. Palm was in Munich. and perhaps escaped imprisonment there because his name was not the same with.that of the firm; but supposing all safe, lie returned to Nuremberg, and was there taken prisoner, and examined before marshal Bernadotte. whose adjutant represented his arrestment as
the consequence of direct orders from Paris. An extraordinary court-martial, held at Brunau, to which he was removed, condemned him to death. without any advocate being heard in his defense. All intercession on his behalf was in vain. Gen. St. Hilaire declared that the orders of the emperor were positive; and the sentence was executed at two o'clock on the some day on which it was pronounced. Subscriptions were raised for the family at St. Petersburg, to which the emperor and empress of Russia personally contributed; in England, and in several German towns, as Berlin, Leipsic, Dresden, and Hitmlug. Some French writers have endeavored to throw the blame of this murder on marshal Berthier, instead of Napoleon.