We have the relics of his fanatical persecution here.  We are in a condition to judge of the merits of the persecutors and of the persecuted:  I do not say the accusers and accused; because, in all the furious declamations of the atheistic faction against these men, not one specific charge has been made upon any one person of those who suffered in their massacre or by their decree of exile.

The king had declared that he would sooner perish under their axe (he too well saw what was preparing for him) than give his sanction to the iniquitous act of proscription under which those innocent people were to be transported.

On this proscription of the clergy a principal part of the ostensible quarrel between the king and those ministers had turned.  From the time of the authorized publication of this libel, some of the manoeuvres long and uniformly pursued for the king’s deposition became more and more evident and declared.

The 10th of August came on, and in the manner in which Roland had predicted:  it was followed by the same consequences.  The king was deposed, after cruel massacres in the courts and the apartments of his palace and in almost all parts of the city.  In reward of his treason to his old master, Roland was by his new masters named Minister of the Home Department.

The massacres of the 2nd of September were begotten by the massacres of the 10th of August.  They were universally foreseen and hourly expected.  During this short interval between the two murderous scenes, the furies, male and female, cried out havoc as loudly and as fiercely as ever.  The ordinary jails were all filled with prepared victims; and when they overflowed, churches were turned into jails.  At this time the relentless Roland had the care of the general police;—­he had for his colleague the bloody Danton, who was Minister of Justice; the insidious Petion was Mayor of Paris; the treacherous Manuel was Procurator of the Common Hall.  The magistrates (some or all of them) were evidently the authors of this massacre.  Lest the national guard should, by their very name, be reminded of their duty in preserving the lives of their fellow-citizens, the Common Council of Paris, pretending that it was in vain to think of resisting the murderers, (although in truth neither their numbers nor their arms were at all formidable,) obliged those guards to draw the charges from their muskets, and took away their bayonets.  One of their journalists, and, according to their fashion, one of their leading statesmen, Gorsas, mentions this fact in his newspaper, which he formerly called the Galley Journal.  The title was well suited to the paper and its author.  For some felonies he had been sentenced to the galleys; but, by the benignity of the late king, this felon (to be one day advanced to the rank of a regicide) had been pardoned and released at the intercession of the ambassadors of Tippoo Sultan.  His gratitude was such as might naturally have been expected; and it has lately been rewarded as it deserved.  This liberated galley-slave was raised, in mockery of all criminal law, to be Minister of Justice:  he became from his elevation a more conspicuous object of accusation, and he has since received the punishment of his former crimes in proscription and death.