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IMIPACVONSIC• faivkis simesa.
• • - • . - • ..r.tess, summits 92
fib...et eleven (Mork the walks of the oliffereut public
wring, *me covered with the " Arne de le Corr %piste
de peril," senoseeing the remillaidiatiou of Bones, Pooh+.
Goohis, Mid Renal*, foie sulamMeihei (sejnints sod sowjeent.
injure) of the 45th panacea of the lie., etivrepteacy,
woos, Ike. Almost at the same Mouse's. mid simultase.
Duey through the noire city of Paris, the same Artrf,
"leer "that it would be earned into eareotisen eh that day
•t slit Plate de Germ," iota in the hands of the hawkers,
who cried ft about the e•reeti prechiely as "last Ipember
▪ sonogrieed is limedon
Imetediately I repaired to lb. iiskr de Gmet, where the
esecatioan's amistants had •Ire.dir strived, elthoirh it was
denim twelve o'clock. The rime 4. Greve is • parallel....
pre at right eagles with the ea., h• me, its breadth about '
that of Covent.garden, h.t rorm•og sear twice as Mag.
Tog see seam Ihit in Paris stisciiihs quays nn per
hi with the river. In the centre of the old of she rub
rte Greve, gal also of the quay. which traverse I,
fogad • "meth frame of • searild erected. It was
abort Ave feet Gem the etotiod, mot within two yetis oral.,
Peter* 1411 rem along the quay well. Neer this email'
the intrek, df *bleb two holies were hammer&
From these the exeestioner's assistants took in succession a
lot alba tif fedi% Alintiewith whit* they farmed • temporary
hoer; twat a basket short six 545 lute, three feet broad,
had Ili d'agy to depth (is this the toadies of the executed
tomb be plated) • soother basket egetgheing mad or saw.
Beret; the thole of the "militate., with its weed,* box to
menet the lead. of the sufferers ; and lastly, the goillother
Issetf war placed oe the scaffold, sad erected within • few
Odliutes This tieing &Mei several barkers of water were
?Need ander the scaffold, with which t.. wash away Ike Mood
of the menthes. 'thus I saw every thief( prepared fur the
trardy which wig to follow, The sight of tint horrible
zombie( • the object Air which it was erected; the purposes
it bad herked (for I was tanned it is the same *bah has been
used from the cemmescemeut of the Regulate's); the rend.
'crape that by it perished Louis XVI. sad Philip Beside,
Mine Antoinette, sad Madame noised; Ihrissut sod Fake
d'helsitine; the thoussads or Clifistsin and Infidel victims to
the cruelty of Robespierre, Denims, Herbert, Collo d'Her.
bets, Faaquire, Joaville, and afterwards done monsters
themselves—the place itself, ohtib had been the mese of a
bewared tbeemand meciatioes • all these reflecting. crowded
es Wilt once. My beast sickened; bet kitowitie that the
transactions of the day would be scarcely *taked in the
Frew& Jogreals, I roused meiself, aad determined, if pers.
slat, to view the whole slate, and acquaint you with dm
particulars.
Having secured a place at a window, on the first floor of
a house io the Plata de Greve, nearly at the corner of La
(Nal Peltetier, I resolved to ascertain what was going on in
the mighboorhood. Up to two o'clock half • doses mount.
ed gene-d'armes were the Daly military on dotty la the Plate
de Gene; but wrong detschaseats of the same description
of force, berm and foot, were pelted at all the command-
ing peals le that quarter. Its the Place du Chetelet par-
ticularly, a numerons body was drawls up. I proceeded
towards the Coseigerefie. The people wen crowding to-
wards the plate of iheeetteu. lho sympteme of sympathy
Ur eke igieerables" struck my eye. Is • cafe, within
heresy yards of the guillotine, °Seers were playing at bit.
bards, the shop. were oyes—the passengers ',teener —en-
joyiag themselves—showmen were exhibitiag—mad low
Weir guise as mei where I passed. A great crowd had
assembled round the prison of the Contiergerie, to which
the condemned had been mooed, between the hoer. of five
sod six o'clock is the moonier, nutter a guard of fifty
mounted gens.d'arnses. Oa their reaching that, their last
hems. living abode, they were placed is • chamber very
different from the amdemad tells attached to Englith
gaols. It is well furoisbed, and coalsies a clock that 'tithee
the quarter', which coaseqeently intimates incesaaatly to
the ealitppy frojeurners a that inelagetrely aparhweet,
that their seumente, already gembered, are fast expiring;
hot neither Mat car emminese, wee are peassae• aad
asetened reechoes ard imbeetatioas of the clergymen by
whom they were attended, oudeced oy effect upon the con-
doned men. They are said to have been all of good funi•
hes; more particularly Bones sad Rsoulx. In the emerge of
the morning ose of she Judges of the Criminal Comet' Pons
bad an inte,vsew with them, which lasted ready two hours;
doubtless be eudeavoured to procure from them some Woe.
ration magnetise the plot fur which they were to suffer, ot
that to favour their escape from the !Mitre, which bad beer
detected. No ewe believes that they gave the slightest
igfeematiee reepteliwg either, although the Journals may
probably assert the coateary. From the moment of their
coadictioa, up to that of their quitting the Conciergerie
fur the place of execution, they maairested coustantly the
same levity, or either volatility, accompanied by allusions
to their unhappy fate. Soma doubts existing es to the per.
rim memo of the minuted execution, I lamed my seeps
ewe. more towards the Place de Greve, which I reached with
diitalty, so considerably bad the multitude increased, eves
st that time—two o'clock. Just at that moment about 500
'oldie's a different regiments marched into the place, pre-
ceded b) drwms,aod formed • square. Number' amounted
pee earees issued from seder the perch of the Motel
de Ville (or Mansion House), which SS is the emigre of
she mere slat of the place. The may persons allowed
formai' oar the 'tonneau., except the executioner aid
hi. assistant., were the people who crowded 1110 footway
ly thiffeet of it; oa the edge of 'which, aud widths • leo
rodeo( the scaffold. sat • isentier of women, athirst:li
made swain that they would be &lard with the Mood of
the emdeseamliat the 11losseol of cocotte*: Alma halhpast
taw u'eleet the Iwo wagging; left the Place de Greve fur the
Louciergetie, madman eseartuf hoof
(t tail, elderly,deceet-looking ma *satins fashisolable blur
tole haudterehief ow his beck, and a black straw hat) fed-
beet, leaving behind bins a mealle rough, white dog, called
• lierde,abo took his pod ow the scaffold at the lop of the
ladder. The animal appeared as watchful as those dogs
which yea seems stogies' is Loader. Thetford cootinued
incerssally to increase—vow bodies of the gees-d'armerie
traversed the prince. About fifty of the gess-iradoes d'elste
lolly marched in, and remained sialinued near the scaffold.
TM usual soneserands of a mob vont on. Fore o'clock sal
knells strived, sad there being Ho appearance of the sad ca-
valcade, the hopes sad doubts of the spectators were excited.
This cuatinged said with., Ave minutes .1 five o'clock.
when • hickory coach. attended by some geostronues,
shove rapidly "croft the place, stoppeel at • tavern exactly
apposite to me, and a person des escd is some sort like a
rierta lean &weeded fine it, and mitered the lavers
" ihere is no hope !" said a Fleoch groins's arm
Sir ; that Is • Crel/fer of the Court, or leapporlear, whose
..thee is to see the ,entente mutated, sod to make • re-
port of it (pruees verbal.) Is oineher quarter of an hone
new al.. •sodossoilose thoweitives " Five o'stock
hood, tad yet ahoy had ass arrived. At that motored the
Mop tail wm strikingly sera. The whole area of the
Plane de Greve, sad as much of the (Juni de Grew as I
could Pee, Were filled by a dense creed, tow incapable of
increase. he irresistible was the fusee produced by she
slightest lumina, that the soldiers were inesnessioily es.a"-
pelled to give way, semi tine hollow square became gradoilly
evidfact.d. The windows and sups of all the how.," within
hew, the quite opposite, the f'or'te (Bridges) Chats sod
dot Jane, *VIII the towns of the church of Nuke Dame, in
de distal Le, ie..e crowded to overflow. • gnat deal of
loneencit was just thee excited by s sweep, tithe kept his
Pl'huen uti • shed against all the efforts of the sweet sod
Nele Was formes. A goovenieht ansugge Oahe who had a
*I" of the Qua Perkfier ..... need the approach of the
lee garters, but the spectators coutioord examinees the
Sevoyards, by sheet*, pleat's, and clappiee of hands.
Precisely se the clock of the Hotel de Vd le 'smelt • gear.
he past bye, the first ',us-transits, roomier the mega of
the coademued, twined the Place de (Acre, a universal cry
• `' lists on !" look place; all heads Were uncovered. The
hie oiggues in onteston appeared its the Aral woe Om
'hellhole., the Promotes Busies, Gambia, sad two
▪ in the mooed, ens Ratmslxidia Peonies, each ago at.
leaded by a ekrisesan. The priaemere sat on boarao placed
hems is the wows*, and beside each a priest with • cur.
fillt• la lus hood, who aressed appafeetly most aisles, to
Pee their unhappy dune with some scum of tahricie,

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