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deti.an;c;e.of li~~~pn and sensation, of GOlUpeHing the unfortunateinmatesof a. town, when once it has beenenvironed iudingymasonry under thename of ramparts, to immure them,sclves (a foretaste of the horrors ofmonkislJ. execqtions), at the most delightflll period of the twenty.fourhours in. the country, and iuthis clin,1ate especially, sun-set, was, is,andJ>~Qbably wiUlong continue the'law here. The whole population of thecity waS on a holiday in these channing meadows, enjoying the freshtlessof theevening after a ~lUltry summer's day, when the enormity ofthe crowd st.ruck the speculative mind of the unfortunate seIjeant ofthe guard at the town-gate, and time andall things seeming to him toÇ1.0Plbine ~or 1:1:i& purpose, the ~nost fatal and affiictiug project was withprecipit~tiefore ,the shU'tting of the.gates, togive notice to the people' outhe. outside to return*. To earn a few livres for himself, fromsuchas should he too late, tbis unfortunate man rang the signal a quarterof an hour before the time. AlI he saw' in the consequences of theaction :waS a few loiterers to extort upon; this was the whole front ofhis offending, so far as the malus a~ûmus extended, but far differentwere the results. The 1ll;ultitude .c.rowded aU al once to the gate anddraw~bfi