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apparel, contradicted their '.vords 

 by their ov.n appearance. Some 

 bf the conspinitors had been so 



•daring as publicly to aiention the 

 namos cf ihnsc rcpresenlatives 



•whom they de-'tiied deservi^ig of 

 .death, amitocirenlate bills in the 

 ^Kipital" and it's vicinity, instigating 

 •people to rebellion, and to biealc 

 open the ])ri!ions for the procuring 

 of assistants and accomplices. The 

 guaids at tlie prisons were to be 

 massacred, and the mint and I rcasnry 

 seized: but iiappily, at ihemoiiitmt 

 ■^vhich theconspivalois had fixed for 

 tile execution of their plot, ii was 

 discovered:, and frustrated by the 

 seizure of the cons-prfrarors. 



Such were the allegations agaiiVst 

 Hebert and his party. They have 

 been enuirerattJ, to shew the sus- 

 picious temp.r of the times, and. 

 with what facility people could b« 

 induced lo believe the niost incon- 

 sistent n ports. 'Jhey prove also 

 the sanguinary dispositions of the 

 parties opposed to each other, and 

 the atrocious means they emplojed 

 to etl'cct each otlier'.s destruction. 

 ]t appeared on the trial, that non; 

 of those charges could" be poperlv 

 sup])orted. All that was proved 

 amounted to no more than ra .h and 

 violent expressions, uttered in the 

 moment of unguarded passion. 



■ But the slightest imputations were 

 ndmilted as valid jiroofs before liie 

 lievolutionary 'I'ribunal, which was 

 wholly tompo^ed of individu- 

 als piedetermined to find every 

 person guilty that wa.i pointed out 

 a,s inimical to the ruling partv. 



-Out of nineteen persons who ac- 

 companied FIcbert at his :;cci;ir.- 

 plices before this tij^viual, several 

 of wh<im wiiuo'of alow class, and 

 one of t!;cni a %\'omaii, only one 

 <\'as acquittod. 



Among those wlio vero tlnv' 

 condemned was the noted Ana- 

 eiiarsis Clootz^ a German by birth, 

 but a Frenchman by choice. Hs 

 was the only nian who had the coa- 

 rage to ^^edk fii-mly w his defetice, 

 Tiie otheis seemed spiritless, and 

 were wholly siUnt. This extraor- 

 din.iry man, whose wild notion? 

 bad led him to ;issume the title of 

 Ambassador and Orator of the Hu- 

 man Race, solemnly appealed to 

 his fancied constituents from the 

 sentence passed upon him, and 

 met his fate with ancommot* 

 fortitude. H is fellow-sulferer He- 

 bert d'd not behave with the 

 same firmness, and betrayed a debi- 

 lity or mind iliat accompanied him 

 to the last. He died unpitied. 

 His pernicious principles, and the 

 Various scenes of mischief in which 

 he had particrpated, rendered him 

 ,in object of- abiiorreufc to all but 

 his own party. The Parisians, whoni 

 he had considered as friendly to his 

 designs, did not seem afflicted at 

 his tlestiny : imd yd there iiad been 

 a time when he stood high in their 

 fav<-,ur; .-wjficlUe and feeble isthear^ 

 taehment that is piodnced thro' the' 

 V-it)lence of popular commotion. 



Tlrs execution of persons whose 

 guilt at most was problematical, and? 

 whose fall v/a? beheld with so much 

 apaHhy,now convinced Robespien"© 

 tliat he might proceed without fear 

 ot much opposition, in eonipleting 

 the scheme he had in Goniempla- 

 I on 5 which appears to ha\e been 

 no lesti than that; of rendering; 

 himself supreme and uneontroulcd" 

 ruler of the state There still stood 

 however between him and fhe ac- 

 Cu-mplishment of such a'schi^me, 

 some individuals of talent* and rt- 

 soiuiion, of whose .sub:,erviet)cy to 

 h;s'vic-R-s"h?hnd no reai^yn to think 



