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this dreadful trial, and gave time for the horrors of it 

 to pafs and evaporate. 



No fooner was this operation over, than he was con- 

 ducted along the rows of innumerable fpectators to the 

 farther extremity of the place de parade, where a co- 

 vered carriage ftood waiting for him. He was ordered 

 by dumb ligns to get into it ; an efcort of hufTars ac- 

 companied him. The report of this tranfa6Hon was 

 foon fpread over all the residence ; every window was 

 opened, and all the ftreets were filled by perfons whom 

 curiofity and furprife had brought from their habita- 

 tions. A mob ran after the cavalcade, who afTailed 

 the ears of the difgraced minion with the intermingled 

 fhouts of fcorn and triumph, and the frill more cutting, 

 repetitions of his name with terms of pity. At length 

 he was got out of their noife, but a new fcene of ter- 

 ror awaited him here. The carriage turned off from 

 the high road, down an unfrequented long by-way — 

 the way towards the place of execution ; whither, by 

 exprefs order of the prince, he was dragged Howly 

 along. Here, after making him feel all the torments 

 of the agonies of death, they turned again down ano- 

 ther crofs-road, much frequented by pafTengers. In 

 the fcorching heat of the fun, without any refrefh- 

 jnent, deftitute of human converfe, he palTed feven 

 doleful hours in this conveyance, which flopped at 

 laft, as the fun went down, at the place of his defti- 

 nation, the fortrefs of Crumwald. Deprived of con- 

 fcioufnefs, in a middle ftate between life and death, 

 as a faft of twelve hours and a conftantly parching 

 thirft had at laft got the better of his gigantic force, 

 they lifted him out of the vehicle — and he came to 



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