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rctturncd wit ^ i their old prejudices , and the lower orders of the people began to threaten the Protestant * , who conoeiVed on their part that there was a strong tendency to go back to the old fegtme . iPhey Were aot much alarmed by the ^ circumstance , o £ the charter issue *! hv Louis , declaring the Catholic
th ^ estafclf shed religion of France , because the otherguards which it afforderf appeared sufficient to protect their rights : they could not forget also that the king had just returned from a reridence hVia land ! of Protestants , where
h $ must have Witnessed the effects of religious toleration ; and they looked fbrwarCto a season of tranquillity and enjoyment . But circumstances soon compiled them to change their ideas . "Fh&v w ^ pe iniulfed by the populace on-the ground of their religion ; songs Were » uhg ^ iblieiy in the streets of N ismes ,. in which thsy were threatened with , the renewal of the horrors of
St . Bartholomew ; gibbets were drawn on thefr doors . In this situation of tilings , Buonaparte suddenly made bis appearance in France , in the month of Match I 8 ^ 5 i It was a trying
oocurrcnce for the Protestants at Nismes : but urtlting with the established authorities , they declared their detcrminatidn f to support the government He ha ^ m hia possession the original declaration to this effect made at
Nismes on the 13 th of March last y ^ r , and which was signed by the principal Protestants , the five Catholic clergy , and three Protestant ministers of the town . ' The Bst of Protestants \^ ho signed it was grease * iii proportion to their respective numbed than ifcat of trie Catholics . It contained * an e ? t-
afttfcbi 6 %$$ thfe waimest attachment to tUftii ^ ovefimiont of' tW kii > g , ai > d cAlte # vkpon ^ i ^ people of tho departititm for th ^ ir Aippo Ft . Si > oa after tfcfe the l > Uke ^ Angopleme ftxed hi ^ h # dMkW * ets at Msnies , and here it
w ^§^ all 0 * edt titotfc the Protestants did ^ r ^ tehi % e ; Ikike \^ th much ^ acritjr . hfel ^ e ^ f ^ it ^ Sd amo ^ 4 l ^ tt ; ami ^^^^ I ^^^^ T ^^^^^^ K ^^^^^^^^^^^ B ^^ V ^^^^ m ^^ ^^ L ^^^ fl ^^* ' ^ ¦ v ^ B * l ^^^^ L ^^ li ^ ^ ^^ C «^ K ^^^^^ E ^^^ V * ^^^ V ^^^^^ b ^^^^ ^^^^^ w ^^ >^ I ^^^ V ^^^ B ^^ b ^^ h ^^^^^ L ^^ ^^ ^^ H ^^^^^^ L ^^^^ v ^^ v ^^^^^?^^^^^^ i ^ r ^ fr ^^^ rW ^^^^^^^ B ^ ^^^^(( ^^ ' ^ r ^ ^^ ^¦ T ^ r ^ r ^^^^^^ r ^^^^^^ ri ^^^^^ j ^^^^ J ^^^ f ^ f ^^^^ V ^^^^^^^ " ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ r ^^^^^ ^^ r ^^^^^ t ^^^^^ 9 ^^^^^ " ^^^^ ^^^^ tn . *^ ti i » gno i n ?> d 3 & £ ii owW ^ ru ^ 7 -,- » 1
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fW VTZmperew . It Had been reprc . geiitedv tliat during the se ^ brid reito of Buonaparte , acts of the greatest violence were coniibkted % y the Protestants ; and ^ 4 k * s $ ^ % h Nismcs again became a rbj ^ al t © Wa pn At tTth / of July , tlfc * atrocities which ensued were merefy retaHiative . The fae * was , however ^ thit no acts of violence Wera « 6 mlnitte 4 * ^ during this
liiteFvail—no persons were insuttedno houses attacked ^ nofte were killed , at least in the towti of Ntsines , though it was said that some stragglers of the Duke d'AngouleAie ' s arB ^ f ^ ere murdered by the peasants , l ^ bn the 15 th
July many of the royal volunteers , as they were called , returned to Nismes ; numbers , of armed nien flocked ir ^ from the country , and required the garrison -Which hekj it ; in Buonaparte ' s name to surrender . - This garrison , consisting : of aboat ^ OO men . conserit *
ed to lay down their arm ^ 5 but they were ail of them , witfer ^ ltfe exception of a few who contm ^ d to make their escape , massaered -aaCiffiic ^* x oat of thek barracks . For some successive fa y % the whole of the FVoteatants of Nismes ^ sttera ex posed to outrages of ev ^ r ^ kiid j their hquses were > pluncfere ^ or pelted dciwn , the rich were laid under contributidtis , the J 6 om ^ of
the poor manufaottt'rer ^ were deatroyed , women wei % stripped ^ a ^ d ^ coiitged m , thm streets y n ^ \ tesst t ^ iai 30 * fem ^ lfes were subjected toMthis zfaa&Sfy , one of whom was fa * aiivai ^ ed in preg ^ nancy . He wottld re |> eat \^ hat he had stated that 2
to a fermer ocdasi 6 n , Q persons were murdered : iu cblc ^ bloofd , bwkie ^ ' ^ , 000 ' ^ div kf ^^ y t ^ ho werc perieeuted ^ ia' their fief ^ r ^ and property ; 0 n * i i ^ ari ^ a > M ¥ ? EM ^ iid , % r advanced itt Hf ^ , these VvTe ^ hes thi £ w from th ^ bdl ^ W ^ de ^ o ^ Ki > ciwn stkir T ca ^ e , attd ^ € > n stilV discovering ^ o ^ ne sign ^ ^^ hfe , Uiey cyif ^ him ' tcrV ^^
x&m mm Sabres . The ^ even sotntf a Jilt ; Ii ^ eblanci 5 mc » the ftve spns of a M ^ fi Ch ii-Ar , 4 t ^ fr tt ^ til ^ A ^ wretch of tH * hrtme of Tr $ fflM&p vr * s ^ chief leader in * h ^ T ait ^ o « 9 Sto ; ' Thi ^ rrr ^ hba ^ gz ^ h ^ t Gh * vfer > tKfe father , was tom # m * & bis Wye « me to HiH TMC ^ P ^ J tJMPJp JyBj |[ MW |*? HI'MjH ^ g ^ < 3 MnfTCB ^? flJM > # M % . qHL ^ A' ^^ % ^ 4 ^ n ^ y
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360 Inf € tUgencc—Delate in the House qf Commons on ike French Protestants
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/52/
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