HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
shot ‘was fired into the carriage ; 
and I think this killed M. Dillon, 
- forI never saw him move _after- 
wards : he was taken from the car- 
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riage and thrown into the street, 
when they trampled upon his body, 
and ran a thousand bayonets thro’ 
_ it. I neither heard from him com- 
plaints or groans. 
_ “Between seven and eight 
o'clock, I went to the market- 
ace where a fire was lighted, in 
which his body was thrown. French 
soldiers danced round the burning 
body of their General. This barba- 
_ rous scene was intermixed with the 
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most savage howlings.”’ 
Pi ochambeau, who had been 
_ made acquainted by Biron with 
_his different operations, had fore- 
~ seen and dreaded the event. He 
“was satisfied that no part of the 
failure could be attributed to him; 
; et it was with the utmost regret 
Pe rat he beheld the disasters which 
he ha _not in his power to pre- 
vent. _ To cover the retreat of Bi- 
' ron, he occupied, with all the re- 
i maining force, the heights of Sainte 
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auve, where he established | his 
‘ ead quarters. . Nothing could 
al his chagrin at this (as he 
med it) inferpal stroke. He 
ie tg the King in terms of the 
est disgust, at the injudicious 
erence of ministers; and both 
Biron demanded leave to re- 
The confidence between the 
als and the army was destroy- 
he former thought themselves 
ted; while the latter imagin- 
at the principal officers, who 
i ed the aristocracy of the army, 
d conspired to betray them, that 
e road to Paris might become 
ore accessible to the friends of 
we King. = 
t These acts of cruelty proceeded 
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from the same cause with the dis- 
grace of Biron, . The principles of 
democracy were now deeply rooted 
in the lower ranks of the army, and 
had even extended to the subaltern 
officers; between whom and their 
more immediate superiors there is, 
in most foreign armies, more than 
a becoming distance. 
From this epoch may be dated 
the fate cf royalty in France; and’ 
the rapid declension of the power 
of the King, and the consequent di- 
minution of his adherents ; for, the 
disposition of the army being thus 
publicly known, it both checked 
and overawed those who might be 
inclined to support the royal cause. 
In consequence of these unfor- 
tunate transactions, the small force 
which had been detached towards 
Furnes, under M. Carle, retired 
to the camp at Dunkirk. Their 
march was not marked by any ex- 
traordinary event, as they met 
with no opposition whatever. 
According to the pian of opera- 
tions previously agreed on, the ar- 
my under M. de la Fayette, on the 
94th of April, at night, received 
orders from the council to move to 
Givet, and to arrive there by the 
30th, in order to second and sup- 
port the operations of the detach- 
ments sent to Mons and Tournay 
from the army of Rochambeau.. It 
was impossible for Fayette to, quit 
his position before the 26th, when 
he sent off M.de Narbonne withthe 
artillery. The distance from the 
position of La Fayette was fifty-six 
leagues; and besides, 'the roads 
were very heavy and bad: yet such 
was the zeal and activity of the 
commanders, and the spirit of the 
troops, that this march was effect- 
ed in five days, and in the mean 
time all the troops in the neigh- 
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