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Excerpt from The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, or Monthly Political and Literary Censor, Vol. 14: From January to April, 1803; With an Appendix, Containing an Ample Review of Foreign Literature
At this time, 'a firong party of the Paris militia, eonfitiing chiefly of butchers, who had long been abfent on predatory excurfions, returned to the capital, and communicated to the populace, already inclined to 3618 of defpcration, the fame ferocious and fanguinary rage which glowed in their own boforns. They propagated a re rt that the friends of the dau pain only waited for an opportunity to ur rize the town, exterminate the Burgundians, and releste the conftable ith all the other prifoners. Thel'e rumours, it is faid, ' were encouraged by lille-adam, Guy de Bar, Mailly Bournouville, de Lens, and other leaders of the Burgundian fac tion. The queen, and the duke of Burgundy, who were then at Troyes, being informed of the futcefs of their plans, fent a meflitge to their confi dential friends, intimating that the total annihilation of the oppotite party would be the only eti'ctftual method of etiablithing their own authority; and that, without that, neither of them durti venture to come to Paris. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
