After having put to death
a considerable quantity of those who should be designated as rebels and
Jacobins by them (the emigrants), would replace France in the exact
position she was in 1789, and then depart.
Poor Marshall Ney's fate is decided. He was sentenced to death, and the
sentence was carried into execution not on the Place de Grenelle as was
given out, but in the gardens of Luxemburgh at a very early hour. He met
his fate with great firmness and composure. I leave Paris to-morrow for
London.
[47] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, VI, 20, 7.
[48] Virgil, Aen., VI, 620 (temnere divos). - ED.
[49] Louis Wirion (1764-1810), an officer of gendarmerie,
commander-general of the place de Verdun since 1804, was accused in
1808 of having extorted money from certain English prisoners quartered
in Verdun (Estwick, Morshead, Garland, etc.). Wirion shot himself
before the end of the long proceedings, which do not seem to have
established his guilt, but had reduced him to misery and despair. - ED.
[50] Richard Brinsley Sheridan's (1751-1816) Pizarro, produced at Drury
Lane in 1799. - ED.
[51] Three brothers Zadera, all born in Warsaw, served in the Imperial
army. - ED.
[52] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso III, 2, i. - ED.
