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' '^^ •' i'"^' ' '* > # i ' ' ^ * te*j*iifl feiMaiteB^^ -- ) « i> ADDRESS TO -THE READER. •mammmumm •■WVi WE recommend moft ferioufly, to you, rtllow Countrymen, the perufal ot the following pages ; on the truth of the fafils contained in them, you may implj^dtly depend, and if, at a crifis like the prefi^iit, a want of zeal could be fuppofed to exift in any defcnp* tion of perfons, to re fi ft the enemies of their country, a reflexion on the cruelties, to which a fuccefsful French Invafion muft iiifallibly expofe your families and yourfdves, caa hardly fail to have the eflFe£l, of roufing you to a proper fenfe of your duty. The enormities of the French Nation, tincc the commencement of their revolution, have no parallel in hiftory, and for this it is not difficult to account; moft revolutions have been attended with horrors, ftiocking to hu- manity, but thcfe have been great in propor- tion as religious and moral principles hav« been eradicated from the minds of men. The French rulers Were aware of this; they begun their work, therefore, by teaching men to blafpheme their God, children to accufe their parents, fervants to betray their maf- ters, tenants to rob their landlords, and ul- timately fubje ft s to rpurder their innocent So- vereign, whom they had lately fwom ro prote6^. The confequences of tbefe criines aie before 145926 -'.t^ fody in which they are buried, a^nd fee to what they amount. Xi^y Melius that Thelwall, Har- dy, Tookc, and about four or five others, vrero ■■■■*«WBW'W«WR '■^ ■^ ''e-mV ^m^ detained fome months in prifon; and that Muir, Palmer, and Margarot*, with two or three more were tranfported; and all this, (they fay) for having done no more than what the good o£ their country diftated. I am fure the reader is very well fatisfied, that thefe men were all guilty of the crimes laid to their charge; but to avoid difputation with refpefl to this fa£l, I fhali fup- pofe them all innocent, and then the fum total of the tyranny againft which thefe foeieties ex- claim, will amount to eight or nine falfe im- prilonments, and five or fix unjud fentences of tranfportation. This is certainly a great deal too much : may the hand be withered that ever wiields a pen in its judification T but, as they wifh, as a means of avoiding fuch a6l/of op- 'preffion m future, to overturn their monar- chical government, and eftablilh a democra- tical one in its (lead, it becomes incumbent oti the reader who would not be their dupe, to contrail the condu6l of the government which they wanted to overturn, with that of the one they wanted to adopt. They have repre- fentod the Britilh Government as bemg arrived ^t Its lad ilage ol tyranny, it will not then, I hopo 1 1 , •Of Palmer I know nothing, but that he is atBdtany Bay; Muir it now in France, where he is Ipiriting up the Diretloty to the invafion 6F England; and Margarpt has ionj fince repented of his poli- tics, and is become a peaceable man, to the great fcandal of hii %Maad«m alfociatei ia treafon. !^- it i!tr I- i loph, be cftcemed unfair, if I oppofc to ft the Democratic Convention of France, in the yery beginning of its career. h IS not ray intention to give a general cha« raaer of this affemblv ; it would be fuper. fluous : nor will I give way to that indigna- tion, which every man, who is not by nature a flave, mufl feel at the very mention of luch a divan. General charges againft any man, orfet of men, as they are very feldom accu- rate, fo they are little attended to, particularly when addreffed to a reader who is rather in- clined towards the party accufed. For this reafon, I fnall confine mylelf to a particular epoch, and even a particular fpot. Lyons affords us the properefl fcene to be defcribed oil theprcfent occafion ; not becaufe the dread- ful deeds committed there furpafs thofe at Nantz, and many other places; but becaufe taking place within a fhort fpace of time, they admit with more facility, the form of a com- pa6l relation. In the perufal of this relation the candid reader will make me fome allowances; my talle is far from the tragic; fcenes fuch as thefe muft lofe half their terrors when drawn by a hand hke mine; Melpomene alone fliould re- cord the adions of the National Convention. Some time after the death of Louis XVL the city of Lyons was declared by the Conven- tion tion in a ftate of revolt; it was attacked hj a numerous army of Democrats^ and, after having ftood a fiege of about two months, was obhged to furrender. What foUowedf this furrender it is my intention to relate ; but fiift, it is neceffary to go back to the caufes that led to the revolt; for, though no earthly crime could jiiftify the cruelties inflided up. on the brave and unfortunate Lyonefe, yet thofe cruelties do not appear in their deepeft hue, ti ' the pretended crime of the fufferers is known. By the new Conftitution of Frarce, the kin^r could not be dethroned, unlefs found at the head of an army marching againft his country. This was to be regarded as the highefl crime he could poffibly commit, and even for this he could be punidied no otherwife than by being dethroned. *'No crime whatever" lays the conftitution, *-lhall be c^Jrued to affeSt his life. " This conftitution every Frenchman had fworn. ^* to obey ^ and ^'maintain with all his w/;§-A^."-~When, therefore^ It was propofed to the Lyonefe, by the emifla- nesof the National Convention, to petition for the death of the king, thev replied, almoft with one voice, ** No; we have fworn, with all ••France, to maintain the New Conftitution with "all our might; that Conftitution declares that **ao crime whatfoQyer fhali affeti the Jife of the I; i 'h. ill ?i 5 • < '' P'ot. not. «ithftanding the precautions of the confpira. Sw '''/'"'^ difcovered ; the prelident from .n 1 ^'"' J,^' democrats were driven trom all the public offices, and the former magiftrates reinftated. volT5!'\°^/'oP''''''''"''"°" '^^» ""ed a re. of tirr "'' '^'P"''"*^' ^"''' '- confequence Lvonef/7i? '^'=\'\''»d deftruaion againft the a conflitution which declares refiftance againft cppreffion to be a natural right, palTedan a£k of profecution againft a wholecity. becaufe ther had dared to lift their hands to guard thehr throats againft the kniv« of a band of affaS l-heeuy now began to arm for its defence- but being totally unprepared for a fiege, having ^ena-i""'*"'"""/.""' magazines.tnd beinf menaced on every fide by miriads of ferocioul f'^'=^ °" ^» » P"^«" of Jn- W fc°"!lu_''_T:'. ^5*^? «.>^« revolution, and. f.nce the revolution. where, therefore, about ten thoufand men Who had the courage to take up arms ; but the deft perate bravery of the fe amply made up for every want. During the fpaee of fixty days they withftood an army of fifteen times their ftrength, plentifully provifioned, and provided with eve* ry inflrument of deftruaion. Never, perhaps, where there fuch feats of valour performed as by thishttle army; thrice their numbers did they lay dead before their injured city. The members deputed from the Convention to direa the attaa, left nothing untried that might tend to the accomplifhment of their ob- jea. They fucceeded at laft, in opening a communication with their partizans in the city, and in feducing many of the mob to efpoufe their intereft. This was the more eafy to eflPea, as the befieged were, by this time, upon the point of ftarving: the flefli of horfes, dogs, and cats, had been for fome days their only food, and even that began to grow extremely fcarce. In this fituation, without the leaft hopes of fuccour, fome of thofe who wiflied well to their city, and who had not borne arms during the ficge, undertook to capitulate with the ene- my ; but thefe, knowing the extremities to which they were driven, infifted upon exe- cuting the decrees of the Convention, which ordered them to put to death indifcriminately all thofe who had taken up arms againft it3 authority. The ''■***''PiiiP!iiiii}B!i)Kiwffi!re>P'ai'i'^^ I H I The bericgcd, then , feing no hopes of a ca- pitulation, feeing the city without another day's provifion, and the total impoffibility of fuccour from without (being completely invef- ted on every fide,) had but one meafure to adopt; to cut their way through the enemy, or fall in the attempt. A plan of retreat was| therefore, fettled upon ; the out pofts were to Recalled in, and the whole were to affemble at the Vm/e» ' In the mean time, the deputies from the Cottventioti, who were informed by their fpie« •of all that was pafling in the city, took care to Jhave the road by which tb*! retreating army was to pafs well lined with troops. The whole country round was under arms. Every per- fon was ordered, on pain of deatn, not to let pafs or give flielter to a fingle Lyonefe man. woman, or child. The out-pofts were hardly called in when their ftations were taken poffcfTion of by the democratic army. Being fo clofely preffed, rendered the aifembling ? the Vaife more dii- •fioilt i all was buftle, confufion, and terror. Not half of thofe who were und^r arms, had ctime to join. A little corpfe was, however, at laft formed. It confifted of between three and ifour thoufand perfons in all, beaded by four ^cld pieces, and followed by fix. waggons, bear- mg the wreck of many a fpleadid foriuiit. Thvu 'i>f,tiiii<^Si'-iSi"£~ to Thus marched off the remains of thcfe gene- Tous defenders of their city, bidding an eternal adieu to the fcenes of their youth, the dwellings of their ancellors ; refolving to die bravely, as they had lived, or find an afylum in a foreign land. ^ It was midnight when they began their re- treat, lighted by the blaze of bombs and burning houfes,— Reader, caft your eyes on this devo- ted city. See children cling to their fathers diftraaed mothers to their fon; wives, holding in their arms ,what they held dearer than life, forgetting all but their hufbands, marching by their fide, and braving death from ten thoufand liands ! They had hardly begun to march, when ak difcharge of artillery, bearing full upon them, threw them into fome confufion. One of their waggons, in which were fieveral old menand fome children, was fet on fire by a Ihell. Morning coming on they perceived themfelves befct on every fide; they were charged by the cavalry, expofe to the fire of a numerous artillery, har- raffed at every turning, fired upon from every houfe, every bank imd every hedge.^— Seeing therefore, no hopes of efcape, they were detc^ mined to fell every drop of blood as dear as poffible. They broke off into platoons, putfi. tmg their wives and children in the centre of ^ch,and took differcrcm dircOions, J, order to , s< i I IK 1^ 11 to divide the force of the enemy. But what were they to doagaind fifty times their immber? The whole, ahout fifty perfons excepted, were either killed or taken. The vidors (hewed iuch mercy as might be expe6led from them; not content with butcher- ing their prifoncrs in cold blood, they took a pleafure in making them die by inches, and of infulting them in the pangs of death. Placing feveral together, they killed one of them at a time to render death more terrible to the reft. — Neither fex nor age had any weight with them; above two hundred women, thirty of whom had children at the breaft, whom conju- gal love had led to follow their hulbands; more than fifty old men, whom filial piety had fnatch- cd from the affaflin's ftab, were all moft fava^ gel y butchered. The desith Madame de Vijagut deferves particular notice. This young lady was about feventeen years of age, and very near her time of delivery j a party of the democrats found her behind a hedge, to which place (he had drawn her huft)and, who was mortally wounded. When the canibals dif^overed her, fhe was on her knees fupporting his head with her arms ; one of them fired upon her with a carbine, another quartered her with his hanger, while a third held up the expiring hulbandto be a fpeftator of their more than hellilh cruelty. . Several wounded prifoners were colle6led %.! together, ^m : what mber? , were ^ht be atcher- :ook a and of Macing i at a 5 reft, t with irty of conju- ; more natch* fava* Vijaguc g lady y near locrats ce (he artally d her, d with with a anger, dtobe uelty. leaed ;ether, together, and put into a ditch, with fentineh placed round them to prevent them from kil- ling themfelves, or one another; and thus were they made to linger, fome of them two or three days, while their enemies tellified their feroci. ous pleafure by all the infulting gefticulations offavages- • Such was the fury of the triumphant demo- crats, that the deputies from the Convention gave an order agaiuft burying the dead, till they had been cut in morfels.— Foto, the infamous Toilet, a democratic pricft (that is to lay, an apoftate) of rr^vcJMx," went bloodhound like, in queft of a few unhappy wretches who had €fcaped tho bloody 9th of Odober; and when, hy perfidious promifes, he had drawn them' from their retreats, he delivered theai up to the daggers of the alfaffins. Of ail the little army that attempted the retreat, only about forty.fixefcaped; fix hundred and eighteen were brought back in chains: fome of them died of iheir wound, and all thole who were not relieved from life this way, were drag- ged forth to ignominious deaths. ° During thele dreadlul Irenes, the deputies from the Convention, who were now abfolule mailers of the unfortunate city, were preparini^ others, ifpoflible, ftiU more dreadful. As a pre- hminaiy Uep, they rcorganixcd the democratic focuty. To this infernal rendez vawi fhr^ rl^,^,, ill !■■* il ' 1. ty Javogttes repaired, and there broached hit fpeecb, the fubftance of which was nearly as fol- Jows. After having reprefented C^jZ/fdr as a, mar- tyr, in the caufe of liberty, as the hero of the Re- public, and the avenger of the people, he ad- drelTed himfelf to the alFembly in nearly thefe terms. «* Think," faid he, " of the flavery into which you are plunged, by being the fervants and workmen of others; the nobles^ the priefts, the proprietors, the rich of every defcription, have*long been in a combina- tion to rob- the democrats^ the real fans- culotte republicans, of their birthright; go, citizens, take what belongs to you, and what you fhould have enjoyed long-ago. — Nor muft you flop here; while there exifls anari- (locracy in the buildings, half lemains un- done; — down with thole edifice*, raifed for the profit or plealure of the rich; down with them all*: commerce arts are ufe- lefs to a warlike people, and deilru8ive ** to << u fi ti it (< <( << 4( ■ n (!• (< ti «t the foTiI; yet this was attempted, and in iome degree efFedcd, by the deputies of the Convention -Perceiving that thefe fcenes of b.ood had fpread a gloom over the conte- nances of the innocent inhabitants, and that even (ome of their foldiers (eemed touched with compunaion, they iffVied a mandate, declaring eveiy one fufpeacd of ariftocracy who fhould diicover the leaft (ymptom of pity, either by his words or his looks; The preamble of this mandate makes' the hiood run cold:-~''BY th£ thunder of GOD r in the name of the reprefentativcs of the French people; on pain of death, it w ordered," &c. Who would believe that this terrific man. date, forbidding men to weep or look for* rowful, on pam of death, concluded with Ttrte la liberie?^ (Liberty for ever /;)—Who would believe that the people, who fuffered this mandate to be ftuck up about the city like a play bill, had fmrn to live free, or die ^ However, in fpite of all rhtir menace.v^ they ftill found that remorfe would fome- times foilov/ tho murder of a friend or re- lation. Confcience is a trouble Iome gueft to the villain who yet believes in an hereafter; the deputies, therefore, were refolved to bal nifli this gueft imm the bofom- of their par*^ tJzans, as it had already been baniflied from their own. VJxth 16 With th.'s objea in vkw, they ordered a rolemn civic f eft ival in honor of Challier. His image was carried round the city, and pla- ced in the churches: thofb temples which had many of them) for more than a thou- fand years, relounded with hozannas to the Supreme Being, were now profaned by the adorations paid to the image of a parricide. All this was but a prelude to what was to follow the next day. It was Sunday, the day confecrated to the worfhip of our blef. fed Redeemer. A vaft concourle of demo- crats, men and wdmen, affembled at a fig- nal agreed on, formed themfelves into a fort of mock procefTion, preceded by the image of Challier, and followed by a little detached troop, each bearing in his hand a chalice, or fome other vafe of the church. One of thefe facrilegious wretches led an afs, cover- ed with a prieft's veftment, and with a mi- tre on his head. He was loaded mih cru- cifixes and other fymbols of the Chriai^n religion, and had the Old and New Teftament fuipenJed to his tail. Arrived at the fquare called t']e Terreaux, they then threw the two Tejiamaits, the crucihxes, &c. into a fire pre- pared for the purpole, made the afs drink out of the facramental cup, and were pro- - ceeding to conclude their diabolical profa- nations with the mafiacre of the pnloners (ta Ill r~^ llli 17 a few hours. ,~^ deputies. The paule was not ""g- ^" with which profiting by '^^ rT°Ztv^Idth^ «nob, They had ir^fpired the foldury »f ^abl, and by the conlternauon or he P ^^_ inhabitants, conunocd thur \-^%y ^^^ doubled fury. 1 hole wno ordered fufferersto e=cecu"on were no ^ong to confine themfelves «> ^"'J^f J,"., penni, ted to take wn ^^^ ^1^^ de.uo- '''" tole rich or even thought rich, was a crats, to be ricn, or „<,Wmni», taken indifcriminateiy a- mong all clairts rad all ages* were led to BroUeauz^ ?'dthcre tied to trees. In this li* tuation, they w6r#6red upon with grape fhott here the cannoneers of Valenciennes (who had not the courage to defend their own walls, who owed their forfeited lives to the mercy of royalifts) valiantly pointed their cannons a» gainli them, when they found them bound hand and foot! — The coward is ever cruel. Numbers of thefe unfortunate prifoners had only their limbs broken by the artillery ; thefe were difpatched by the fword or the raufquet ; the greateft part of the bodies were thrown into the Rhone, fome of them before they were quite dead; two men, in particular, had flrength enough tafwim to a fand bank in the One would have thought that, thu» faved. AJ.VCi". fenced at the bar of the Convention the devafiation and carnage to. which their city was a prey : bat in place of being heard with that aner tion they deferved, they were thrown into a dungeon, and the Convention decreed that Lyons Ihauld be dtftroyed even to its very name, which was in futuie to be commune affranchit (free diftrift,) and that a cohimn (hoo'd be erected to commemo* r»te its hiiving warned agund Z,i^«r/j^i ^ mmtmim h «9 faved, as it were by a miracle, the vengeaiice of their enemies would have purfued them no further; but, no fooner were they perceived than a party of the dragpons of Lorraine crofi ed the arm of the river, (tabbed them, and i^tt them a prey to the fowls of the air.— Reader, fix your eyes on this theatre of c t- nage ! You barbarous, you ferocious monftersi you have found the heart to <^mmit thefe bloody deeds, and Ihall no one Save the heart to pubhOi them, in a country that boafts of an unbounded liberty of the prefs ? Shall no one tell with what pleafureyou plunrjed your daggers into the d.fencelefs brcafts of thofe whole looks had often appalled your coward hearts? Shall no one teil with what heroic^ what god-hke conftancy, they met their fate ? How they Imiled at all your menaces and cani- bal geftiGulations ? How they delbifcd you in the very article of death I^Strewtd with every ' Iweetell flower be the grave of Mms. Chabuis de Maubou7g, and his name be graven on every faithful heart ! This gallant gentleman, ^^ha was accounted one of the firll engineers m Europe, fell nto the hands of the democrats ; they offered to fpare his life, if he would lerve in the armies of the Goiivention —they repeated this offur with their carbines' at his breaft;^- No/' replied he, - I have never fought but for my God and my king; delpi- t* cable coward:>, fice away I" The Jngearnce them no rceived, ne crof- -m, and e air.*— of CT- tonftcrsl it thefe be heart oafts of ►hall no ?d your if thofe coward heroic^ if fate ? d cani* you in . 1 every ^puis de every 1, wha eers in )crats ; would — they at his never defpi- The The murder in mafs did not rob the gui!- lotme of its prey;— there the blood flowed without interruption. D^ath itfelf was not a refuge againft democratic fury : the bodies of the prifoners who were dead of their wounds, and of thofe who, not able to fupport the idea of an ignominious death, had given themfelves the fatal blow, were carried to the Icaffold and there beheaded, receiving thou- k" u ^^ ^*^^" ^^^"^ '^^ fansculottes, becaufe the blood would not run from them. Per- fons from, their fick beds, old men not able to walk, and even women found in child* bed were carried to the murderous machine. Ihe refpedlaWe Mons. La^^r^uwas torn from his family of ten children, and his wife big with the eleventh; this diftraaed matron ran with her children, and threw herfelf at the ieet of the brutal Deputy CoM D'Hcrhon. No mercy. Her conjugal tendernefs, the cries ot her children, every thing calculated to (often the heart, prefented themfelves be- tore him, but in vain.—** Take away "laid he to the officious ruffians by whom he was Wunded) take away the Ihe rebel and her Whelps. * Thus fpurnedof him who alone was fi able * The reader's indignation certainly will not be leffcncd whc-n was^?f'''":K"^''^1^'^^^^''"' thi/ arbiter of life aad d«th vraj before the revolution ' a biaMtr^ It \u -«•« r •>! i! -uch .f u.. Wood rhcd « ^„. j^^bT-^fc'rib'cd"' "hil^'L'!:;: tt abletofave her beloved huftand, fhc fol- lowed him to the place of execution. Her Ihricks, when flie faw him fall, joined to Ihe wildnefs of her looks, but too plainly foretold her approaching end. She was feiz- ed with the pains of child-birth, and was "carried home to her houfe; but as if her tormentors had Cncvm her too much lenity the fans-cul otte commi(&ry foon after arrived, took poffeffion of all the eflFeas in the name of the fovereign people, drove her from her bed and her houfe— from the door of which jQie fell dead into the ftreet. About three hundred women hoped, by iheir united prayers and tears, to touch the hearts of the ferocious deputies; but all their effoits were as vain as thofe of Madame Lau- ras. They were threatened with a charge of grape Ihot : two of them, who, notwith- ftanding the menaces of the democrats, ftill had the courage to perfift, were tied dur- ing fix hours to the pofts of the guillotine ; their own hufbands were executed before their cyts^ and their blood fprinkled over them J , , .... }AademoiJeu&. I Tome years before, been hlfTcd from the ftage m that city. There «re a thoufand perfons now in England who have feea him m the charaacrof Harlequin. Bleffcd revolution! that expofes a city of a hundred and fif.v thoufand iuhabitant* to the wanton vcn, 4c«n€C of a vagrant uufiboni i . 2« . 'Uademolfelle Servan,\ lovely 'young wo- man about eighteen years of age, was exe- cuted, becaufe (he would not difcover the re- treat of her father! '* What ! " (laid (he nobly to the democratic committee) '' what ! betray « my father! impious villains, how dare you •* fuppofe it?"* Madame Qochet, a lady equally famed for her beauty and her courage, was accufed of having put the match to a cannon during the liege, and of having offifted in her hifband's ef- cape. She was condemned to fuffer death; fhe declared herfelf with child, and the truth of this declaration was attelled by two fur- geon?. In vain did Che implore a refpite ; in vain did fhe plead the innocence of ths child that was in her womb ; her head was fe- vered from her body, amidR the death-howl of the democratic brigands ! Paufe here, reader, and imagine, if you can, another crime worthy of being added to thofe already mentioned : yes, there is one more; * Too much cannot be fald in praife of the intrepidity of the Romijh priefts. No terrors, no torments, could bring them to confefs that they had done wrong in adhering to the Catholic church. They fuffcred death with a decree of chcerfulncfs that never has been furpaflcd— Mr. Maupetit JiUo deferves to be im- TOortalizcd. He was taken prifoner during the {^t\\t ; but he did not, like the pohtoon Brutus, put ar. end to his life for fear of the feoffs of his enemies. He fuffered himfclf lo be buried alive, up to his neck, in which fituation his head was mafhcd to pieces by four-pound balls that his enemies toffed at it in derifico^ all whick .lie ciidiircd withuui Owe plauitiVv accent. lH Is.; ■ 11 M and hell would' not have been fatisfied, if i^i minifters had left it uncommitted — Ubidinous brutaUtyl Javogues, one of the deputies from the Convention, opened the career :.^his ex- ample was followed by th€ foldiery and the mob in general. The wives and daughters of almoft all the refpe6lable inhabitants, particu- larly fuch as had emigrated, or who were murdered, or in prifon, were put in a Jlate of requijtiion, atid were oidered (on pain of death) to hold their bodies [I fpare the reader the term made ui'c of in the decree^ in readinefs for the embraces of tlie true republicans I Nor v/ere they content with violation.: — the firtt ladies, of the city were led to the tree of Liberty (liberJy !) and there made to take the hands of chimney I'weepers and common felons ! Dcteftable wretches! — at the very name of democrat, humanity judders, and modefly hides its head ! I will not infult the reader's feeling by de- firing him to compare the pretended tyranny of the Britifh government with that 1 have here related : but I will aflc them to produce me, if they can, an inflance of fuch confum- mate tyranny, in any government, or in any nation Queen Mary of England, during a reii^n of five years, caufed about 500 inno- cent perfons to be put to death ; for this, jpofterity has, and very juflly too, branded Jidr •)■ her with the furname of Bloody, What fumansc then, (hall be given to the Affembly that cau-. fed more than that number to be executed, in one day, at Lyons ? The maffacre of St. Bartholomy (an event that filled all Europe with confternation, the infamy and horrors of which have been dwelt on by fo many elo- quent writers of all religions, and that has held Charles IX. up to the execration of ages) dwindles into child's play, when com- pared to the murderous revolution, which a late writer in France emphatically calls '* a •* St. Bardiolomew of five years*." Aecord- ing to Mows. Bt^ueti there were about ^0,00O perfons murdered, in all France, in the maffa* ere of St. Bartholomew ; there has been more than thai number murdered in the fingle city of * Charles IX. blgotted and bloody Tninded 39 be was, diirft not attempt that tone of tyranny which has been affumcd by the Na- tional Convention ; there was fontic honour among the Ficnchmen of thofe days The Governor of Bayonne hnving received the •rderfor the maflacie of the Proteftants of that ci'y, wrote to the king ; •' Sire I have found in your city of Bayonn* none but loyiJ *• lubje6ts, and not a Tingle cut-throat." At Lyons, the common hangman being ordered to enter a prifon and difpatch two or three proteftants: ♦* No," faid he, " I am an executioner, but wo mur- ** dererV Let any man product- me a fingle iuftanct of thit kind among the republican French : let hinri tell me, if hfe can, when a democrat has been known to refufe to fhcd blood. The 'Common hangman at Lyons, when France was a monarchy, en- tertained a highv' •ff:nff pf. -bcnouf sb'vh ha; ;^ci>b»ca cxpreffcd^ aiiy mcinbaafv^