Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-10

MALIsHERpES cousin of Maria
Edgeworth, and his las. confcssor. Resisting
the assistants OF tho executioner who had
laid hands on him, he yielded to the persua-
sions OF tho priest. When they were about
TO adjust his head to the frame, he tore him
self from thoir grasp and exclaimed excited
ly. ~ die innocent OF any crime; pray that
God may not visit my blood upon France"
Tho revolutionists were determined hs
should not speak-they feared its effect ON
the crowd--and his voice was drowned by tho
rolling OF tho drums. llo was forced down;
the clamp board fastened ON his throat. His
coufessor cried, "Son Of st. louis, ascend 10
heavenn% The glittcring knife descended,
tho blood spurted; the royal head fell into
the basket, and was shown TO tho people
Franco had beheaded Its first king, aud tho
populaco rejoiccd, shouting wildly ut tho
death Of him they declared a traitor and
tyrant Who can assert that he was the last
Of tho French sovereigns that viii perish in
that wnyi or that nation nothing can be
predicted and everything Is possible.
~URY OF THE CIVIL STRIFE.
The decapitatiou OF tho king, IL might bo
thought, would have qucnched tho popular
thirst for blood 1t only increased tho thirst
with which the whole land seemed parched.
Having slain the chief OF the realm, tho rab-
ble and their leaders were moro sanguinary,
more denoniac than ever. Tho wholesale
massacre, under the namo OF law aud order,
had not then begun; but from that day no
man, no womnn's lifo was safe in Paris. Tho
purest and noblest were liable to sacrifice at
tho intimation Of q scullion, at tho frantic
cry; "Tho country IA In danger" Such
country, In such madness, certainly ought TO
have been In a thousand times more danger
than It really was. Tho extreme revolution
lists were its greatest danger, aud they would
have ruined 1t had they noe been overthrown
and extirpated.
Chaos prevails In France after the royal
execution. England dismisses the French
ambassador on receipt OF the baleful news,
and Joins tho coalition with Naples, Spain,
Holland, Germany against the distracted
land Revolts occur in every department.; !;
tho yendee Is In blaze. The iBsurrection is
half religious, beginning with tho peasantry,
| OH proclamation Of tho republic. The Ven
| Oceans arc royalists TO tho core; their ma
tonal ardor extends over Lower Poitou, An
| lou, Lower Maine and Brittany. Jacques
| Cathelinean is ut its head. mason and
peddler be Is, ut 20, poor, with numerous
family. His piety Is 80 rampant that he Is
called the saint Of Anjou.
Tho attempt OF tho revolutionists to
strengthen their army causes sanguinary
fight at st. Florent, and rouses Cathelineau
to determined resistance. In command Of a
force Of young men he drives of the garrison
|
| This story has been denied. Elgeworth him
self said that he had recollection OF using the
words
Of Jallais and Chollet. His followers increase,
and he wins several battles with irregular
troops only half armed. Ho becomes pop
uiar leader and Is made general. Varied
success attends him, and he dies OF wounds
got by All attack on Nantes, at 50. After the
restoration his children are pensoned, and
monument is raised TO his memory, His sol
declares against Napoleon in the Vendee II
1915, and Is shot, fifteen years later, whil'
acting In the Duchess of Berry's conspiracy.