Whenever an irritated mob resorts to violence there is no safety for any one.  The protecting power mast then exert its utmost authority to stop mischief.  The Senate of ancient Rome, so jealous of its prerogatives, assigned to a Dictator, in times of trouble, the power of life and death, and that magistrate knew no other code than his own will and the axe of his lictors.  The ordinary laws did not resume their course until the people returned to submission.

The event which took place in Hamburg produced a feeling of
agitation of which evil-disposed persons might take advantage to
stir up open insurrection.  That feeling could only be repressed by
a severe tribunal, which, however, is no longer necessary.  General
Dupas has, accordingly, received orders to dissolve it, and justice
will resume her usual course. 
J. Bernadotte
DENSEL, 4th May, 1808.

When Bernadotte returned to Hamburg he sent.  Dupas to Lubeck.  That city, which was poorer than Hamburg, suffered cruelly from the visitation of such a guest.

Dupas levied all his exactions in kind, and indignantly spurned every offer of accepting money, the very idea of which, he said, shocked his delicacy of feeling.  But his demands became so extravagant that the city of Lubeck was utterly unable to satisfy them.  Besides his table, which was provided in the same style of profusion as at Hamburg, he required to be furnished with plate, linen, wood, and candles; in short, with the most trivial articles of household consumption.

The Senate deputed to the incorruptible General Dupas M. Nolting, a venerable old man, who mildly represented to him the abuses which were everywhere committed in his name, and entreated that he would vouchsafe to accept twenty Louis a day to defray the expenses of his table alone.  At this proposition General Dupes flew into a rage.  To offer him money was an insult not to be endured!  He furiously drove the terrified Senator out of the house, and at once ordered his ‘aide de camp’ Barrel to imprison him.  M. de Barrel, startled at this extraordinary order, ventured to remonstrate with the General, but in vain; and, though against his heart, he was obliged to obey.  The aide de camp accordingly waited upon the Senator Notting, and overcome by that feeling of respect which gray hairs involuntarily inspire in youth, instead of arresting him, he besought the old man not to leave his house until he should prevail on the General to retract his orders.  It was not till the following day that M. de Barrel succeeded in getting these orders revoked—­that is to say, he obtained M. Notting’s release from confinement; for Dupas would not be satisfied until he heard that the Senator had suffered at least the commencement of the punishment to which his capricious fury had doomed him.