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the English ship, immediately liberated the American, 

 and sent him to London, where he was at this time 

 receiving assistance from the government, which 

 enabled him shortly after to reach his own country. 

 The whole adventure was now at an end. The 

 exiles were received with great civility in London, 

 and with peculiar attention by the government, who 

 had rather hastily adopted the idea that they were 

 the martyrs of their zeal to restore royalty in France. 

 Some of them soon after returned to the continent. 

 Some, among whom was Pichegru, the noblest and 

 most sincere of them all, remained in London, fruit- 

 lessly involving themselves in the tortuous plots of 

 the counter - revolutionists, and the equally zealous 

 and often betrayed politics of the Bourbon Princes. 

 Pichegru's fate is painfully known. A severe con- 

 sciousness of the infinite crimes concealed under the 

 name of Eepublic, gradually compelled him to become 

 loyal. The very sound of freedom was heard no 

 more in France ; the Revolution had run its natural 

 course, and, after plunging the land into bankruptcy 

 and blood unexampled in the history of ages, and 

 insulting alike the human heart and understanding 

 by the hideous blasphemies of Atheism by Law, had 

 delivered the wretched and guilty nation into the 

 grasp of a man of craft and blood. No land within 

 earthly record was ever so thoroughly enslaved. To 

 break the chain became the manly ambition of 

 Pichegru. But he was betrayed, seized, and assas- 



