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Authentic Particulars Relative To The Death Of Robespierre.
AUTHENTIC PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF ROBESPIERRE .
BY AN EVE WITNESS . I ' } OBESPIERRE was found in an apartment , leaning against the v wall , pale and trembling . A gendarme fired-two pistol ' shots at him , which struck him on the head . Me fell without uttering a single word . He was placed in a red leather chair . His under-jawwhich
, was separatedfrom the upper by one of the pistol shots he had received , was made to approach it by a bandage passed under his chin , and tied on the head . It was in this dreadful state that lie was conducted , about half past seven in the morning , to the Committee of General Security . He held , in his right hand , a white handkerchief , with which he supported the lower jaw , and kept it in this position , by placing the
rig ht elbow in the palm of the left hand . When he reached the Committee , the Convention was asked , If it was its pleasure that he should appear at the bar ? 'No , nol' was universally exclaimed : 'it is not fit that this place should be polluted by the presence of such a villain ' . ' . At the Committee of General Security , he was stretched upon a table , his visage pale , his head open , and the features . hideously disfigured , and blood gushing from his eyes , nostrils , and mouth . The miserable wretch had there to encounter the insults , the reproaches , and the curses of those who surrounded him . He seemed to bear
with patience the parching fever vv . iich consumed htm , and the acute pain by which he was tortured . No groan escaped his lips ; nor did he answer any of the questions put to him by his colleagues of the Committee . He remained two hours among them in this deplorable situation . He was at length again placed in tbe chair in which he had been brought to the Committeeand removedamidst a multitude of
peo-, , ple who had flocked together to shower curses on him , to the hospital formerly called L'Hotel Dieu , where a surgeon dressed his wounds . After having received this melancholy aid , which , without alleviating his pains , mejrely served to prolong his life for a few hours , Robespierre-was removed from the hospital , and thrown into a dungeon of the Conciergeriethere to await the execution .
, His Brother , Henriot , and Couthon , did not suffer less . The former , in endeavouring to escape from those who pursued him , threw himself from a window , and in falling upon the pavement broke both his thighs . Henriot had recourse to the same expedient , in trying which he had ' no better success . He was crushed by the fallandcrawling upon his
, , dislocated limbs , attempted , like a vile animal , to hide himself in the common sewer . The gendarmes , who discovered him there , pricked him with their bayonets , to oblige him to come out , In this way one vta . vin . Ff
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Authentic Particulars Relative To The Death Of Robespierre.
AUTHENTIC PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF ROBESPIERRE .
BY AN EVE WITNESS . I ' } OBESPIERRE was found in an apartment , leaning against the v wall , pale and trembling . A gendarme fired-two pistol ' shots at him , which struck him on the head . Me fell without uttering a single word . He was placed in a red leather chair . His under-jawwhich
, was separatedfrom the upper by one of the pistol shots he had received , was made to approach it by a bandage passed under his chin , and tied on the head . It was in this dreadful state that lie was conducted , about half past seven in the morning , to the Committee of General Security . He held , in his right hand , a white handkerchief , with which he supported the lower jaw , and kept it in this position , by placing the
rig ht elbow in the palm of the left hand . When he reached the Committee , the Convention was asked , If it was its pleasure that he should appear at the bar ? 'No , nol' was universally exclaimed : 'it is not fit that this place should be polluted by the presence of such a villain ' . ' . At the Committee of General Security , he was stretched upon a table , his visage pale , his head open , and the features . hideously disfigured , and blood gushing from his eyes , nostrils , and mouth . The miserable wretch had there to encounter the insults , the reproaches , and the curses of those who surrounded him . He seemed to bear
with patience the parching fever vv . iich consumed htm , and the acute pain by which he was tortured . No groan escaped his lips ; nor did he answer any of the questions put to him by his colleagues of the Committee . He remained two hours among them in this deplorable situation . He was at length again placed in tbe chair in which he had been brought to the Committeeand removedamidst a multitude of
peo-, , ple who had flocked together to shower curses on him , to the hospital formerly called L'Hotel Dieu , where a surgeon dressed his wounds . After having received this melancholy aid , which , without alleviating his pains , mejrely served to prolong his life for a few hours , Robespierre-was removed from the hospital , and thrown into a dungeon of the Conciergeriethere to await the execution .
, His Brother , Henriot , and Couthon , did not suffer less . The former , in endeavouring to escape from those who pursued him , threw himself from a window , and in falling upon the pavement broke both his thighs . Henriot had recourse to the same expedient , in trying which he had ' no better success . He was crushed by the fallandcrawling upon his
, , dislocated limbs , attempted , like a vile animal , to hide himself in the common sewer . The gendarmes , who discovered him there , pricked him with their bayonets , to oblige him to come out , In this way one vta . vin . Ff