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proclamation , recalling the peaceable persons who bad quitted Lite town 5 they obeyed this order atid a great number were assassinated . " From the 20 th to the 29 th the pillages and assassinations did not discontinue . Those who sought their safely in flight were assassinated on the ror-Js . Some *» vore cond . nctot' into prison-, where thev are still A . 7 m gToa-iin ^ . "O :-i the 29 th t ;> e Prefect of the Xingarrived . The other TYolYvt Tjod Ireon named
& } — , vac j . - ~( yya . i i oninnssioner . u On the ;) Oth rj 7 ' , Deum was clianted . On t " h « 31 st the ihmv Prefect , published a very prudent pvoo ! a ' . n ; i ? ioi > j !• it he quitted Ni . ' - ' . r . e-i . " On the 1 st of : 'U-: ; i !^ , IT . dfc Caivt ^ rb , . L ^ pnrson v / limiA k"h «; Koval Commissioner : uid named , resumed the functions oi * Pre- * foci :, a . 'id 1 \ i Pr < - 'le .- ' .: r = n : s were massacred *
Thev v-oiil ; i"bont s *» azi 2 i < v them in their houses , anil il ; fy o ?? t their throats before their own do ^ rs . '* ¦ : _; iy were massacred in the fields . The iii ^ -nt b ^ ivroeu the 1 st and ' 2 ( 1 was the most cruel . M . de Calvieaf . caused an order to Le posted up , which seeivis to have S ; v . newliat calmed these pretended Royalists . On the 4 th several country seats were set on tire . " The peaceaMe citizens , the members of the . CJrban Guard , have been attain forced
tv > flee to sav themselves from destruction . Ti ' . e Prefect sent an order to them to return ^ T 5 ii der the penalty of having the laws respecting esiii ^ ration put in force against them . Tlusc : who returned into the town experienccl eithor death or captivity . It is uncertain whether M . de Montcalmoi * M . de
Calvikke is most guilty of allowing- or causing * the conunisdioii of all these horrors , but suspicion falls principally on the former , who is Royal Commissioner , and whom it is said the . Kin ^ had a considerable time ago ordered to cease his functions . " Xolhing * r . romises any security to the friends oford ^ r \ foiull the authorities , with the e \ cei > tion <>( Iwo ixtsohs , are composed
of the most tiinid and feeble incn . u TIk , ' AtUjinies ; ( "Notairesj and ihe Avocuts have f <> nrif . ( l resolutions not lo retain or to recoive Into iheir bodies any but Roman Catholics . * ' IN i : mes h ;« s air * ndy lost its rank amongst \\ w . cjimiKirrial towns . It is on the brink
Oi COlll | H (!! 0 UlllimilUllllll . u 7 . he i ' jelV-ct isumrd by the King was a M . dWitBOT ^ h < : has done no j ^ ooil . The f <» rei ^ n t roops huv e been in » plor < Ml to force the brigands to reposr , and to assist the true KoyylislSj for the brigands abuse this name , \ yliich they will render universally odious . " The number of deaths is prodigious 5 we have not an exact enumeration . u Horrors of the same kiudaref continued in the oeighbuuriiig to ^ A 11 s . "
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Intelligence . — Persecution of the Protestants in France . 593
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Persecution of the Protestants in the South of France . Extract from the Bulletin of Nismes . "On the 5 tli of July several domains belonging * to Protestants were burned , and on the 6 th a still greater number . The steward , ( flerisseurj 01 the estate of Guiraudin was stretched over a lire ? . After his desith they
took him down and exhibited the body to passengers . The 7 th , 8 th and 9 th v / ere more calm days ; there were only pillages . On the 5 t ! i they massacred almost all the prisoners who were Protestants . A pretended national guard , formed of all the malefactors , and of all the worthless wretches of the environs and the town , are accused of these crimes . One of the captains is a
person of tht ; name of ToiSLAJON ^ a sweeper of the streets , who atone has killed fourteen Protestants . They "hroke o ' peu the grave of a young prote-tant girl . to throw her into a common ' receptacle of tilth . Those protcstantswhom they do not kill they exile , and throw info prison , and yet there were a great member of royalists amona * them .
" From the 10 th to the 14 th July no courier from Paris arrived On the 16 th the Kino was proclaimed hy the Urban Citard ( composed of men between 40 and (>() years of age ) followed hy alii lie most respeelahle persons in the town , and the white flaj »* was hoisted .
On tfu 3 17 ih armed hhrstls of brigands , and the national g-nards of Beaucairc rame ^ disarm the military , who sustained an MailIt in the harrui-ks , vlu <\ they were aln"wt sill massacred ^ Their numbers amoinit :-ed to 200
"On the 18 th many peaceable citizens w massacred——many houses pillaged . On the afternoon of that cruel morning , the roadvvretches ran about the to ^ tn culling oii i that tliey wished a second Saint Bartl > p > iny . w * i | 4 e lytfi the Protect published - *
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St-vr Orlcnns , to solicit arms from the i ' nitfcd States ; they have established maiilinic ' commiiiiicRtions with New Orleans , thnrfigh the means of the CVdiagena pri vatfiers ° which frequent their ports , and what is still more hiijjoi'taiit J ^' they have estalilisliet ? a National Cong-re&s , out of the routth of S ;> iinish bayonets . "> 'hf details rlil t / ti' mind with horror a ? ui
dismay . Massacii-s and devastation appear on th « face of each pagfe , and « g * aSn remind us of the conquests o ? € ohtez and Pizakro . Their cuiis ^ q ^ ences , will li . Aveyen , Lure a contrary eri '^ jt . ' 1 'Jif late peace witli the [ Jnited S'ates , begins to a . fFo » d the fjicilitsL-s
of amis 5 ' atul Earope , porider , whilst it 3 s vet time , for it is- the Republic r » f I < ort ? i America , that is about to reap trie greutc > f share of the honour , glory and . iVi , "< i-. ot rescuin 01 the oppressed discoveries of Columbus from an iron and jdegrading * yo'ke .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/61/
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