The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-22 00:00:00

THE CABINET HISTORY OF ENGLAND,

Vol XXII
As an abridgement of the chapters entitled, " Civil
and Military History," in the Pictorial History o
England, accompanied with a continuation up to the
present time, by the author, Charles MacFarlane, this
pocket edition of our national records is singularly
complete and sensible. It has now proceeded to a
sufficient extent to enable us, in a great measure, to
estimate the value of the work as a whole, and it is
impossible to deny that it is deserving of particular
commendation. While the main narrative possesses
all the staidness of Goldsmith, its minor episodes are
sketched with a brilliant and effective pencil. As an
example, we may quote the description of the closing
scene of the Reign of Terror. The master murderers
are caught in their lair, at the Hotel de Ville. Ro-
bespierre has broken- his jaw-bone with a pistol-shot
in attempting suicide. Coffinhal has hurled Henriot
from a window into an open sewer. Lebas has killed
himself with a bullet. Saint Just had armed himself
with a dagger, and Couthon has crawled under a
table, when they are surprised by Leonard Bourdon
and his associates.
" When Leonard Bourdon burst into the room, fol-
lowed by some gendarmes (himself, according to some
accounts, including his own, being disguised as a com-
mon gendarme), Robespierre was sitting bleeding on a
preparing for
chair, with a knife in his hand i Couthon was lying
uurfifidceerrsthe table as though he were dead ; the municipal
were throwing off their scarfs, and apparently
wounded, disfigured,
in the Uled
the flight. One or two pistols were fired. by
submitted to gendarmes,be taken
then all the conspirators quietly
Robespierre u taken and bound. Henriot, badly
who were now crowding
covered with filth, was dis-
coveredwas alsofr found alive, though with limbs
place where he had fallen ; Augustin
running over every fractured. Some of the armed people,
broken and a skull
the council-chamber and
part into
out Couthon by the
heels
soff the vast building, dragged
throwing his carcase into under the table, and pro-
posed
he opened his eyes d into the Seine ; but here-
uponthat he was not yet dead,"gave them to understand
wounded were put upon norb so much as dying. The
shouting " Victory ! Vietorran!,?ards or stretchers, and,
ducted them to the Tuileries,Leonard Bourdon con-
between three and four o'cloci in B this time it was
o'clock in the afternoon, after they morni9g. At four
p
rages, and tortures, which suffering insults, out-
triumphed were as ferocious aarotvbeodse who that those who
pierre, his brother Augustin, Saint Just, coithon, fell,
Hen-
riot,Robes-
and sixteen others, were carted at tse
to be carried through the busiest streets of
ParisConciergerie
Place de la R6volution. The carts were followedto b aret
countless multitude, and the windows and housetops he
a
said to have been more crowded than ever they bad been
before. Jestings and laughing, filthy puns and quodli-
bets, were mixed with dire curses, shrieks, and anathe-
mas. During a Init., v. band of women, formerly his own
Tricott-tses, er IF itri(L, ~ ttp: Guii',llle, ,7:•ccuted an in-
fernal dance rounu nes cart, with clapping of hands and
other dernonstsationF, of joy. On arriving in the Place
de la Revolution they laid him down on the ground at
the foot of the scar.(9ld, for he was to in executed last of

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