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was thrown into one of the rooms which had held the 

 late king. "Ha, ha," laughed the jailer, "here is 

 another of them. Show the gentleman into the 

 ' Chamber of Opinions' " The general was not left 

 long alone. In a couple of hours the victorious 

 drums were heard outside, the gates were thrown 

 open, and a group of the arrested members of the 

 Council, with Pichegru, its president, at their head, 

 entered. Another group followed in the course of 

 the day, headed by Ladebat, president of the Council 

 of Elders, and all were alike flung into the apart- 

 ments which had witnessed the last melancholy 

 hours of their unfortunate sovereigns. Never was 

 there a history which the finger of retributive jus- 

 tice wrote in deeper characters of fire and blood, 

 than the history of this furious, guilty, woful 

 Revolution. 



The latter group, when they had recovered from 

 the first shock of arrest, and found that they were 

 still unconsigned to the guillotine, had demanded to 

 be brought before the Minister of Police. Before the 

 Minister they were brought accordingly ; and there 

 they heard the true republican law laid down with 

 republican plainness. On their demanding to see the 

 order for their seizure, in violation of all the oaths 

 and promises of half-a-dozen constitutions, " Gentle- 

 men," said the Minister of Police, Sotin, with a smile, 

 " it can be of no consequence whatever to you to see 

 the order. The fact is, that when we come to these 



