ber of these victims were, 138 bifhops, and 64,000 priests of the second order.

The month of September was difgraced by a far more fanguinary fcene than that which had happened in Auguft. In confequence of a preconcerted plan, a band of affaffins, compofed of Federés and Marseillois, violated the afylum of the prisons of Paris, made a mockery of the forms of law and juftice; and three fucceffive nights and days fcarcely measured their affaffinations of prepared victims, who had been, from motives of private hatred and revenge, imprisoned. Seven thousand fix hundred and five perfons were inhumanly murdered, and the affaffins publicly demanded their wages. Maffacres and butcheries were committed in all the prifons and religious houses. "During the fhort interval between these bloody fcenes, the paffions of the populace were fired-The relentless Roland had the care of the general police, the bloody Danton was the minister of justice, the infidious Petion was Mayor of Paris, and the treacherous Manuel was procurator of the common hall P. Thefe ma

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to observe their meetings; but there never was a shot fired within his jurisdiction, and he never had occafion to confine more than two priests on any fufpicion of feditious motives, and one of thofe was a Conftitutional rector perfecuted by the Constitutional bishop.

"The decree was paffed on the twentyfifth day of May 1792, which condemned the non-juring clergy to banishment. About the time of the Federation, which followed, many of the clergy were put to death, with circumstances more or lefs fanguinary; great numbers also were crowded together in gaols, and other places of confinement ; 200 at Mons; 300 at Cennes; others at Nantz, Port Louis, and other towns. They were for ever accused of creating those difturbances, of which they were themfelves the victims; and the whole was, with equal injuftice, imputed to the King even in the National Affembly itself1."

By an edict of the conftituent affembly there was a general fale of all ecclesiastical property, and every kind of property con

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nected with churches or charities was confifcated. The magnificent church of St. Genevieve, at Paris, was changed by the National Affembly into a repofitory for the remains of their great men, or rather into a pagan temple, and as fuch was aptly dif tinguished by the name of the Pantheon, with the inscription, Aux grands hommes la Patrie reconnoiffante, on the front, according to a decree proposed by the impious Condorcet. To this temple the remains of Voltaire and of Rouffeau were conveyed in folemn and magnificent proceffionTM. The bones of Voltaire were placed upon the high altar, and incenfe was offered. And when the infatuated multitudes bowed down before the relicks of this arch enemy to Chrift in filent adoration, a voice was heard to utter-in this moment of national idolatry—and of avowed attachment to his principles-a fingle voice was heard to utter, in a tone of agony and indignation, these memorable words: O God, thou wilt be revenged! Search was immediately

The fame compliment was afterwards conferred upon Pelletier, who was affaffinated for having voted for the death of the King, and upon Marat, the Nero of the Revolution; and Mirabeau, the cause of the German Union,

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giftrates were evidently either the authors, or the acceffaries of the maffacres of September 9."

After General Kellerman had given the firft check to the Pruffians, on the twentieth of September, 1792, he wrote to Servan, the war-minifter, for liberty to celebrate a Te Deum in his camp, on account of that important affair. "The Song of the Marfeillois," replied the minifter, " is the Te Deum of the French Republic; let it be performed by the mufic of your army, and by the foldiers."

A Difcourfe upon Atheism was pronounced by Dupont, Nov. 6, 1792, and applauded by the Conventions.

"The most shocking crimes are at this moment perpetrating at the prison of the Abbaye, hard by the hotel, in which I now write-a thing unequalled in the annals of wickedness! The mob-they call them the people here; but they deserve no name, which has the leaft relation to human nature-a set of monsters have broken into the Abbaye, and are maffacreing the prifoners." Moore, vol. i. p. 481.

Jan. 21, 1793. The King of France', after having suffered every indignity and hardship which the ingenious malice of his enemies could devife, was tried, condemned, and murdered upon the scaffold, in a manner that was an outrage to all humanity, justice, and law-for the imputation of offences and crimes, which his accufers had committed, and for the exercise of that prerogative which the new conftitution had given him. "The French nation, who had endured the cruelties of Lewis XI, the treachery of Charles IX, and the tyranny of Lewis XIV, condemn and exccute, for the pretended crimes of cruelty, treachery, and tyranny, the mildest, most just, and leaft tyrannical prince, that ever fat on their throne."

Oct. 16. The Queen of France", after having been expofed to every hardship and diftrefs, that could give torment to a perfon of her rank and sex, shared the fate of the King, May 12, 1794. The Princess

See Hift. Epochs, Ann. Reg. and Moore, vol. ii. p. 566, to the end of the volume. New Ann. Reg. p. 136.

u Ann. Reg. p. 272. P. 449.

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