Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1848-07-20

btat WIS IN 80 AWA1t et@tEs GtBnAu8 WV
unued with unabaied fairy. Large masses Of
troops poured in from al the neighborins
Departments, but siili the insurgents. hav'
ing rendered their position almost imPres>
nable, resisted more or less externally all
the force which cOnld be brought agains.
them. The red hsg-Ihe banner Of the
RePubiiQHe demOratiQue ct SOeraIt. was hois,
ted.
On Sunday morning at the meeting OF
the National Assembly the President an
nounced that the Government force had
cOmpietely succeeded in supervising the in>
suIsents on the Jeff bank Of the river after
a friehifnl sacrihce Of human lite-anu
that Gen Cavaignac had given the insur>
gents un the RICH. bank ill 10 o'clock to
surrender, when. If they did not Law down
their arms. be would stoim their intrench.
meDtA in the faUOOrg 81 .anfOnip, where
they were now driven, aud put the whole to
the sword,
The heaviest ariill' ~ had been brought
to bear upon them, and lille dnubt cOGld he
entertained that the IDsurreciiOn cOulo be
Put down. The hope thus held out of the
termination of the insul rectiUn was not,
however, realized. The fighting continued
the whole of the Sunday with fearful loss
Of life especially TO the National Guards.
On Monday the reinforcemen,s t;en. La
moriciere had received from Cavaignac,
enabled him to hem in the insurgents in the
Eastern part of the city. and although re-
du ed TO exHemi,ies they sill fought with
incredible Valor
II was thought on Monday morning early,
that they would surrender, but again the
hope thus held out, of the termination Of tn
insuuection, was not Immediately realized.
AT 10 | z o'clock the fighting was resumed
and i, was only after a frigh,ful struggle Of
about two m0re hours that the Government
troops. everywhere, prevailed, and the pact
of the insurrection being broken, the iasur-
gents were either shot, taken prisoners, or
fed into The country 10 the direction oi
Vincen ,es.
On Tuesday the in>urreclion was deti-
ni,e!v quelled. The los of life has been
T. ri6c-no fewer Than fourteen genei al of
fcers had been pm, hors du cOmbot-a great
er loss than 10 the most Splendid engage
men.s of Napoleon. Among those who fell
are Gems. Megrier. Dear and B'ea-0ens.
Cha colnel and Renauit and others severely
wounded.
Four 6r FIVE members of the National
r Assembly are among the killed, and us
m my more wounded, but the most touching
death is tina, of the Archbishop Of Paris.
The we've able PreIate on Sunday volun-
tecred 10 GU to the insurgents as LESSEN
gor OF Peace. Gen. Cavignac said that
such step was full of danger, bu. Chris
tian Pas."r persisted. lie advanced. at
tended by his Two VicAts towards the bar
ricaJes, with an olive branch borne before
him, when he was ruthlesSiy shot in his
groin and fell MORALLY wounded. The
venerable patient was ordered by the in
sursen,s TO the nearest hospital In 81. An
languished and has since died.
!, will prob IDLY he never correctly ascer>
tanned to what extent the sacrifice Of human
lie in this ffghtful struggle has reached.
Some ,mpute the hiss on the side of the
u,o, IS a, from 5000 TO 10000 lain, but we
hope dhs is exaggerated. The humber oil
prisoners capinred o: The insurgents exceeds
5000, all the prisons are filled as we'll as
the dungeons and vaults Of the TnlIeries.
the Louvre, Pai"is Royal, the chamber OF
Depa, es. and the Hotel de Vile.
Manv soldiers exhibited sublime courage
On the other hand the savage cruelty with
which The insurgents waged war almost
exceeds belief. They tortured some of their
own prisoners, cut of their hands aud feet
and inflicted barharities worthy of savagss
The women were hired 10 poison The wine
said 10 the sold ers, who drank il, reeled
that if the insur gents had succeeded in fol-
lowing up their mos, admirably concerted
plan Of operations, and having advanced
their line and possessed themselves ef the
Hotel de Vile, and followed up their sue
cess along the banks of the'riveT. ,hal the
whole city would have been given up TO
pillsge. Indeed the words Psiiogs and RAPE
are said TO have been inscribed on one II
their banners. No less than thirty 10000
stand of arms have been seized and cap
tused in the Famtorg 81. Anfonie alone.