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national uniform, having, In compliance with 

 the fyftem and principle of the revolution, 

 fubdued all the antiquated prejudices of con- 

 fcience, ftole and plundered without referve. 

 The law of force being their only rule of 

 juftice, they found no difficulty in attaching 

 the term emigre^'* to whatever they defired 

 to poffefs. If emigrant property was found, 

 it was toffed out upon the open road ; the 

 packages emptied, and whatever was valuable 

 taken away : and thofe perfons who were 

 difcovered to be emigrants, were, further, 

 robbed of their fhoe-buckles, knee-buckles, 

 car-rings, and the like, and fubjeded to every 

 low and degrading infult that could aggravate 

 their misfortune, or augment the diftrefs of 

 their retreat. For more than a mile, between 

 Verfoy and Geneva, the road was ftrewed 

 with interrupted carriages — with trunks,boxes, 

 imperials, and other packages, expofed to the 

 rough examination, and the plunder of thefe, 

 Jot'dlfans^ fons oi freedom* Whole trains of 

 carriages were thus detained for many hours, 

 and others were not fuffered to proceed. 



Multitudes of perfons hearing of therjid€ 



