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fiueiice. It rages wide and wild, and, like a 

 ferocious beaft of prey, feems only eager to 

 devour and deftroy. 



At an early hour of the morning, long 

 previous to the ufual moment of perfons being 

 allowed to enter the city, crowds of diftreffed 

 and terror-ftruck emigrants, flying from the 

 adjacent country, thronged to the Chamberry 

 gate, to feek prote£i:ion within the walls, re- 

 porting that the French army had feized the 

 town of Chamberry, and was proceeding 

 ^gainft Geneva, 



The news was unexpedled as alarming, 

 and the fudden apprifal Introduced a fcene of 

 terror and eonfufiou not to be defcribed. An 

 uaiverfal coafternalion prevailed. The emi- 

 grants expedted to be maffacred if they fell 

 into the hands of their implacable foes ; and 

 the ariftocratic party of the inhabitants looked 

 to nothing but plunder, indignity, and in- 

 fult. 



A general council was called, and it was 

 |:efolved to demand the Swifs fubfidy of 



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