sued this mode of recruiting the national stock of Horses before, experience will direct them tolerably well as to the magnitude of the allowance to be made on this head. "The Horses seized by the Representatives in Brabant, in

Holland, and wherever they went, were "crowded together in places where they died "by hundreds; some for want of hay, others

from diseases produced by hunger (1)."Traders and Merchants also are to be compelled to supply the Insurgents at rates to be fixed by their Revolutionary, Committees, with whatever they shall be pleased to deem necessary; and men of every rank be liable to taxation by a Convention to be nominated by the Insurgents themselves; and the property of every man whose situation they shall think must naturally render him inimical to their plan, is to be confiscated(2), and themselves massacred.

It

(1) DANICAN'S Memoirs, p. 169.

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(2) The punishment of all those c6 prove hostile to the cause of Liberty*," that is, of all suspicious persons, nominally extended to Confiscation only. I shall give BACHETIER'S Comment on this text of the Law, although it might better have found a place before. All the rich were suspected persons; we were obliged to * Report of Committee of Commons of Ireland, p. 20.

It has been shewn that Britain has to fear from her unnatural progeny, wounds as deep as those which Frenchmen, abandoning the feelings of their common nature as Men, have inflicted upon their Parent Country; and besides, from the Foreign Enemy, in case they can effect a Descent, all that the embittered malignity of hostile vengeance can add to this. The crimes which have been perpetrated under the name of Liberty in France, it becomes, highly interesting to all to know.

I shall here give a rapid sketch of some of them, and chiefly upon juridical evidence. It is known in general terms, that great enormities have been committed; but general terms make feeble impressions. Enormity itself has its gradations and degrees, and one may almost be relatively innocent, compared to another.

"strike not only them who did, but them who could do "harm. However, VERY FEW PATRIOTS WERE SACRI" FICED. We aimed principally at the former Nobility "and Clergy; at those who hoarded up provisions, and "all such as possessed great riches."

Bloody Buoy, p. 90, from Procés Criminel des, &c. Trial of the Members of the Revolutionary Committee at Nantes, and of the Representative CARRIER, vol. 3, p. 31. This Process will be afterwards quoted by the word Trial only.

That

That those which have been acted in France may produce the proper effect upon the mind, and kindle a due spirit of exertion to prevent a reign of such horrors here, they ought to be viewed in their full detail. Something of a more particular sketch shall be given of them here; but those who wish to know duly, must consult the authorities I have made use of. To a great part of the respectable classes to whom I am addressing myself, the particulars of this black series of crimes are almost unknown; their terrible character imposes upon me the manner in which they must be described: the most terrible of tragedies, guilt that overwhelms the mind with astonishment, which at no distance of time or place can be surveyed without terror, cannot be treated like an ordinary subject of historical narration of the lower or the middle tone: he who should so view it, is imperfect in one part of his nature, his moral passive powers; and such moral frigidity should be torn with indignation from the judgment-seat, if it should dare to think of placing itself there (1).

New names and forms of murder, of sweeping whole multitudes, sentenced or unsen

(1) Bloody Buoy, p. 63. Com. Rep. v. 2, p. 186, et alibi. tenced,

tenced, instantaneously from existence, have been invented, and put in practice almost without limit: The Noyade (1), executed by a new machine, the dreadful Drowning Boat: old men, pregnant women, and children, are crowded by hundreds in each, bound down to its bottom and deck; at its plugs being drawn out of the bottom and sides, as the water in

(1) Noyade-General Drownings performed in boats with plugs in the bottom and sides, which are drawn out when the water is admitted to sink the machine: a boat will contain about 250 victims (CARRIER's Trial, v. 3, p. 50). All the volumes of this Trial were not in the hand of the Writer here followed. One Witness (Trial, v. 3, P. 55), deposes to the drowning of 9000 persons in the City of Nantes alone. When CARRIER committed the plan of his machine to the Convention, he was applauded as the author of an invention which did honour to his Country (La Conjuration de ROBESPIERRE, p. 162). These drownings received the burlesque names of Water-parties, and Civic Baptisms. Forty women were precipitated from the top of the Cliff Pierre Moine, into the Sea (Trial, v. 5, p. 85). The dreadful Execution of the Countess of PERIGNAN and her three Daughters, exceeds this in barbarity. They were stripped, rubbed over with oil, and roasted alive in one of the Public Palaces in Paris-the Palace Dauphine. The agony and shrieks of her eldest daughter, of the age of 15, induced a bye-stander to shoot her. The others flung him into the flames; many, both men and women, underwent the same fate at the same place. Bloody Buoy, p. 13. BARRUEL'S History of the French Clergy, p. 327.

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creases upon them (1), "shrieking in the "agonies of despair and death! oh! save us! "it is not now too late!" Six hundred children, the age which excites no fear, and can commit no crime, have perished together in one Noyade. The savages, in mockery of human misery, have found this a subject of burlesque science (2): what art thou! machines invented for the abridgment of the labour of murder. The waters of the Loire were poisoned with the thousands of putrid carcasses which they rolled along; and the air of the Country rendered pestilential by those it left upon its banks (3).

Multitudes were crowded together in a narrow space, and swept off with vollies of mus quetry or grape-shot; the wretches retaining more or less of life, were cut down by the sabre. To this dreadful scene Women were driven naked (4): the interesting tender spring of beauty

and

(1) Lady's residence in France, p. 215, 216, 217.Bloody Buoy, 257, and Ib. p. 79. Trial, v. 3, p. 38.(2)Death occasioned hydraulically." General DANICAN'S Memoirs, p. 130, Translation.-(3) Trial, v. 3, p. 23 and 66. Lady's Letter, v. 2, 217 in the Bloody Buoy. (4) Trial, v. 4, p. 256, and Memoirs of DANICAN, p. 18, Bloody Buoy.-These Executions were called fuissillades