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to undergo a course of interrogation. At this moment, clasping his hands and lift¬ 
ing up his eyes, he exclaimed, 44 Is this the reward for {jprty years faithful service ?’* 
The interrogatory lasted six hours. At three in the afternoon it recommenced, 
and the Marquis de Bussy and Count D’Ache were successively confronted with 
him. They remained but a short time in the Court, and were reconducted by 
officers of justice. The sitting lasted till nine at night, when the Count was taken 
back to the Bastille, surrounded by guards, and several companies of the city 
watch. 
The following day, at six in the morning, the judges began to give their opinions, 
and they were not concluded till four in the afternoon, when they pronounced an 
arret, which contained only a simple recital of the proceedings against him, and other 
persons accused of abuses and crimes in the East Indies, with their acquittal or con¬ 
demnation, but without specifying the facts or reasons on which they were respec¬ 
tively founded. The sentence stated, that he had been accused and convicted of 
having betrayed the interests of the King and the India Company; of abusing 
his authority, and of exactions, Sec. from the subjects of his Majesty, as well as 
the foreigners resident in Pondicherry; for the reparation of which, and other crimes, 
it was declared that he should be deprived of all his titles, honours, and dignities, and 
have his head separated from his body on a scaffold on the Place de Greve. His 
goods and property were also confiscated to the King, See. Sec. and the arm of the 
public executioner terminated the career of the Count de Lally. 
