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out, Vive la RepubUque ! commenced a general system 

 of embracing, walked away with the whole corps in 

 his train, and sent the few obnoxious officers to 

 prison. The treatment of Kamel, the commandant 

 of the guard, a general officer who had flourished in 

 many a revolutionary page, was characteristic of the 

 time. Augereau ordered him under arrest, with a 

 tolerably distinct menace that he should be shot. 

 The captain-general murmured ; Augereau gave him 

 a rapid lesson on the value of submission the rabble, 

 both soldiers and mob, were instantly suffered to take 

 him into their hands. He was knocked down, his 

 sword broken, his clothes were torn, he was dragged 

 along the streets, and on the point of being murdered ; 

 a sergeant whom he had put in arrest for some offence 

 a few days before, took this opportunity to discharge 

 his arrears of justice. He drew his sabre, made a 

 rush at the unlucky general, and would have plunged 

 the weapon in his body. But Augereau, who probably 

 thought that this mode of managing military officers 

 might be turned into a precedent, or who may have 

 wished for a more public exhibition of blood, with 

 his own hand dragged the assassin back, comforting 

 the crowd, however, with the promise that they should 

 have their indulgence at no distant date. " Let him 

 alone," exclaimed the little general ; " I promise you 

 he shall be shot to-morrow ! " 



The luckless officer was sent without delay to the 

 Temple, and there, bruised, bleeding, and half naked, 



