number of perfons perifhed, and a tract of country of more than twenty leagues in circumference became a prey to the flames;-men, women, and children, fled to the Catholic army, to escape violence, or death. As a proof of the destruction made by this calamitous war, we may take the report of Carrier." In the month of Auguft, the rebels had 150,000 men in arms; but the victories of Montagne and Chollet were fo fatal to them, that the reporter paffed over fourteen leagues of country entirely covered with their dead bodies " " "On the fifth of August 1793, Le Quinio wrote thus to the Convention- I have caufed 500 prisoners to be hot and drowned, at Fontenai le Peuple. Le Vafleur de la Sarthe caufed 700 prifoners to be fhot and drowned, between Saumur and Orleans, in parties from fifty or fixty to an hundred.' The commiffioner Garnier wrote thus to the Convention on the tenth of December: I have caufed fifty eight priefts to be drowned.' The fame perfon wrote on the twentyeighth of November, 1793- Ninety priests have juft been brought to me; I have drowned them, which has given me great pleasure.'-Barrere, in his report of the twenty-fifth of October, fays, La Vendée exists no longer; this country is now a vaft defart-we have retaken 8000 prifoners.'-From whence, it is evident, that the royalifts did not shoot those whom they captured." Life of Charette, p. 32. In every In the fhort space of two years, almost individual of the principal actors in the Revolution of the tenth of Auguft, was brought to a violent end. Danton and Wefterman, the one who directed, and the other who executed, the counfels of the infurgents, perifhed on the fame day, and on the fame fcaffold. A fimilar fate befel many of thofe who decreed the death or imprisonment of the King. Of the fix hundred and ninety-three Members of the Convention, who voted that the King was guilty, feven were affaffinated, eight were fuicides, thirty-four were profcribed, ninetytwo were imprisoned, and fixty-five were guillotined P. Thus, for a confiderable time in the interior of France, each recent event furpassed in horror that which preceded; and the Metropolis was the centre of Maffacre, Atheism, and Anarchy. The conduct of the governors and the governed was equally an outrage to all decorum, humanity, and confiftency of conduct. WHILST THE • New Ann. Reg. 1794. p. 364. P Hift. Epochs, p. 149, &c. The addition of thofe who have fince suffered in various ways will fwell this account to a far greater number. LEGISLATORS SAT IN SOLEMN COUNCIL Such was the fate of Danton, Egalité, and "The maffacre, in cold blood, of prisoners of war; the condemnation of persons accufed, without form of trial, or proof of guilt; and private acts of cruelty and oppreffion, are, unhappily, not without example in the records of human depravity -but the conflagration of 1820 towns, villages, and hamlets, in one portion of its own territory; the deliberate affaffination of women and children, by hundreds and by thousands; the horrid pollution of female victims, expiring or expired; and the establishment of a tan yard, under the auspices of government, for manufacturing Hift. Epochs, p. 110. Moore's Journal, vol. ii. p. 458, 9. "This establishment was inftituted by the Com mittee leather out of the skins of its murdered citizens, are facts, which exclufively grace the blood-ftained annals of the Gallic Republic, and give to the Revolution a dreadful preeminence in guilt.” "The maffacre of St. Bartholomew, an event that filled all Europe with confternation, the infamy and horrors of which have been dwelt on by fo many eloquent writers of all religions, and that has held Charles IX. up to the execration of ages, dwindles into child's play, when compared to the present murderous Revolution, which a late writer in France emphatically calls, a St. Bartholomew of five years. According to Mr. Boffuet, there were about 30,000 perfons murdered in all France on that day-there have been more than that number murdered in the fingle city of Lyons, and its neighbourhood-at Nantz, there have been 27,000-at Paris 150,000 -in La Vendée 300,000.-In fhort, it appears that there have been two millions of perfons murdered in France, fince it has mittee of Public Welfare, of which citizen Carnot, afterwards one of the five Directors, was at that time a leading member." Gifford. called called itself a Republic, among whom are reckoned 250,000 women, 230,000 children (befides thofe murdered in the womb), and 24,000 Chriftian priefts "." I forbear to mention examples of female ferocity, of infant barbarity, produced and encouraged by this truly diabolical system. -It is in vain that English advocates for French liberty bring forward The Jaquerie" to notice, and attribute the atrocities of the Revolution to the peculiar character of the French people.-Auftria, Bohemia, Hungary, and Tranfylvania, Suabia, Franconia, and Ireland inconteftably prove, that its abominable principles will every where produce the fame effects Y., S s Gifford's Preface to the Tranflation of Gen. Danican's Banditti Unmasked. * See Ann. Reg. p. 118. The Jaquerie was an infurrection of the French peafantry in the reign of John King of France, in the year 1358. It was foon fuppreffed by a party of the nobles and gentry of the kingdom; and the leader of the infurrection, one Jaques of Clermont, was taken and hanged. * See Barruel, vol. ii. p. 250. y See Jackfon's Narrative of Cruelties in IrelandIrish Manifeftoes in the French ftyle of extermination. "To |