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troops to defend the city. In the mean 

 time feveral of the fenators deemed it prudent 

 to embark fuch of their property as could 

 be conveniently moved ; and the whole 

 body of emigrants haftened^ without delay, 

 to feek their fafety in the more independent 

 territory of Switzerland. Of the inhabitants 

 alfo, great numbers faw no fecurity but in 

 quitting the town ; and many, who remained, 

 held it prudent to fend away their wives and 

 families. , 



The fcene which followed was not unlike 

 what we have, lately, witnefTed at Portfmouth,^ 

 but more general, and of a nature infinitely 

 more affliding. Indeed the fudden panic 

 that overfpread the place, together with the 

 alarm and confufion of the emigrants, begat 

 a day of horror and diftrefs, which might 

 have drawn compaffion even from the tigre- 

 hearts of thofe who caufed it. 



Penetrated with every fearful apprehen- 

 fion, multitudes abandoned their property, and 

 ran from the city to efcape, only, with their 

 lives J regardlefs whither they wandered, or 



