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u Little reflecting that, morally speaking, the 
hand of heroes, of whom the example was recited, 
might have been considered, individually, equal to 
an host, acting under the direction of divine Provi- 
dence, towards the attainment of a particular object 
— the punishment of human depravity — these mis- 
guided men, with their senses steeped in wine, did 
not hesitate to place themselves on a footing of 
equality with warriors so renowned; not without 
arrogating to themselves a decided advantage in 
point of numbers, since, upon counting those present, 
they found that they amounted to no less than four 
hundred persons, in the pride of health and man- 
hood. That very moment they accordingly quitted 
the imperial encampment in a body, for the pur- 
pose, as they conceived, of carrying their besotted 
plan of universal conquest into immediate execu- 
tion, without taking into consideration the perils 
to which, at every step, they must inevitably be 
exposed. 
“ The day following, when it was observed that 
none of them were in attendance at their posts, and 
no information could be obtained as to the cause of 
their absence, a suspicion arose that they were not 
employed upon any very loyal or justifiable design. 
A division of a thousand cavalry was, therefore, 
immediately dispatched to look after them ; and not 
very long afterwards, the whole of these infatuated 
visionaries were brought, bound hand and foot, to 
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