ing towards a sad end. Inevitable: what could desperate
valour and Precy do; Dubois-Crance, deaf as Destiny, stern as Doom,
capturing their 'redouts of cotton-bags;' hemming them in, ever closer,
with his Artillery-lava? Never would that Ci-devant d'Autichamp arrive;
never any help from Blankenberg. The Lyons Jacobins were hidden in
cellars; the Girondin Municipality waxed pale, in famine, treason and
red fire. Precy drew his sword, and some Fifteen Hundred with him;
sprang to saddle, to cut their way to Switzerland. They cut fiercely;
and were fiercely cut, and cut down; not hundreds, hardly units of
them ever saw Switzerland. (Deux Amis, xi. 145.) Lyons, on the 9th of
October, surrenders at discretion; it is become a devoted Town. Abbe
Lamourette, now Bishop Lamourette, whilom Legislator, he of the old
Baiser-l'Amourette or Delilah-Kiss, is seized here, is sent to Paris to
be guillotined: 'he made the sign of the cross,' they say when
Tinville intimated his death-sentence to him; and died as an eloquent
Constitutional Bishop. But wo now to all Bishops, Priests, Aristocrats
and Federalists that are in Lyons! The manes of Chalier are to be
appeased; the Republic, maddened to the Sibylline pitch, has bared her
right arm. Behold! Representative Fouche, it is Fouche of Nantes, a name
to become well known; he with a Patriot company goes duly, in wondrous
Procession, to raise the corpse of Chalier. An Ass, housed in Priest's
cloak, with a mitre on its head, and trailing the Mass-Books, some say
the very Bible, at its tail, paces through Lyons streets; escorted by
multitudinous Patriotism, by clangour as of the Pit; towards the grave
of Martyr Chalier. The body is dug up and burnt: the ashes are collected
in an Urn; to be worshipped of Paris Patriotism. The Holy Books were
part of the funeral pile; their ashes are scattered to the wind.
Amid cries of "Vengeance! Vengeance!"--which, writes Fouche, shall be
satisfied. (Moniteur (du 17 Novembre 1793), &c.)

Lyons in fact is a Town to be abolished; not Lyons henceforth but
'Commune Affranchie, Township Freed;' the very name of it shall perish.
It is to be razed, this once great City, if Jacobinism prophesy right;
and a Pillar to be erected on the ruins, with this Inscription, Lyons
rebelled against the Republic; Lyons is no more. Fouche, Couthon,
Collot, Convention Representatives succeed one another: there is work
for the hangman; work for the hammerman, not in building. The very