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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18569, 19 December 1925, Page 15

SPECIAL ARTICLE.

IN ENGLISHMAN 'jg NORMANDY. *- PUBING REVOLUTIONARY DAYS. *'Wmw wimm *° b ' ,Tm ™™"" ) lv.?/n-W Douglass Andrews.) # n. ' Its* new Bastilles, or Maisons , .£r*t had sprung up lite mushrooms Kr Prance, and the committees of Stance, licensed spies with cxtrafEy wide powers, existing in all communes of France, took S ttat they should bc ™ ll nlled ' Sttign ° f thiß now tCTTor began m S imt it WW October before arrests , JJCrftfc in Torigny. The £wTroßtle was seized for the local 2» It WM Won filled with Ttoyalist JfaL aw* relatives of 6migrcs, with by fortune or talents, < JJteonhle peasants who still clung Sold faith, with everyone, in short, ILekttC-d t« u ™ a Becrct cnCmy ° n I JJtommiitw- T llO municipality, into kit* p ol * o7 of iUßtice moderar Irtbjjdid their utmost to secure the A&oiej' release, bat in vain, and, says ; Krthor ** * burßt ° f gcnuine cmo ' almost triumphs over his pet Wm to» writing, "I shall ever recol*fp. ... —ui_j- that noble courage oidst the cruel imry government (the were accelerated as ise and succour the rst life in the prison . All were friends. ations of music and attics and cards, games. For some en almost freely reriends and families the discipline soon ;s from friends out:n newspapers were [ the prisoners kept lgh they numbered groat family. Yet read of greater all heart for their They no longer in the castle yard inrrels between the lurveillance and the t in the unwelcome them of members of nd in Juno (1794) i enacting at Paris, a her sable mantle, gh the long "vaulted son. Our eyes are 'emendous dangers surrounded." And agedy deepens, and ts are now made lOrting many of the >uao to the fatal id in a court just ready to take their ugerß. The list of nich the names of late companions are g about within our Eore, *he. dawn—in i than a false dawn On the 9th of 28th) Bobespierre s met their awful famous chapter in ic, and read those nes. The relief of rs- can be imagined, a now cringe where icnstomod for many We have again the 5 onr friends. They a miracle we have ;>u'ty of Convenl in mission in our >l!-choeen satellite of erre." By October ly empty, bwfc not ary, 1795, did the of a loyal French lease of the English only were they reooce of any offence i they were oompenlent of SOd a day i of tbeir inqarcenbte Government paid » crown's worth of worth threepence, skance at them, urtisans of the revo- > living through it it with -a capital tants, fearful of to take in excorn a money of which they E> back their grain und detachments of is search daily the without finding 'a orn. The farmers, n able to conceal ispoee of it for > poor, who have money, exchange [sic) or linen for a ntfty «f flour. "It the released prisoPantoo crimes were ills of a child of i the heart as she dow the passage of in troops, and of a murdered as wanold wife were sitr fireside. All this (pressing, and to on Greene lost by he prince, and for ad no employment, on in a foreign and st he could, larder and harder, ly were often withld himself, continuroicioa, and on one ailing in search of jt before the munishow his passport, nd nervous body, ill cried out: "Boof Pitt are already tvernment that suci, though less openre occasional gleams en Greene had the Beeing Barrere, Bills, former numbers Publio Safety, shut ers in an iron cage tfanche on the way ams were few, but years wore away, overnment became allowing parents oyalist emigres to part of their properthe Duke of Valenis Citizen Grimaldi, r's castle and such s as 'remained imaad in the most estored Mr Greene ii.and emoluments, t happily coincided f Miss Greene to a b in the neighbouri lasted barely a rectory France was into gloom. The were oacc more

confiscated, a national agent appointed, and the unfortunate man once more thrown on his own resources. - Again he tries for oassports to England and secures from his friendly municipality a passport to Paris to ena-ble him to plead his ' cause. He reaches Paris, to find it in tho throes of an election, and confiding his interests to a friend, returns to Torigny only to be once more arrested by order of the Minister of Police and hurried before the Commissary at St. Lo to be put through a searching examination. Nothing being found, either in his papers or in the course of his examination on July 15th, 1798, to criminate him, he was naturally pot under arreet, in spite of his spirited appeal to the 9th article of the Bights of Man. Twice during this imprisonment he found himself in the common gaol, but most of his time was passed in the citadel, where he and manv" other victims of tyranny, among them, an aged priest m his 86tn year, and quite infirm, oxisted in a room "seventv-two feet high from the fosses of the tower," an octagon some 25 feet in diameter, and six in height, enlightened hy three narrow embrasures in a wall at least five feet thick- guarded with double rows of massy iron bars; no other movable within but some trusses of straw, and a lone wooden form; 9re-plaoo wo have mine. It At first he was allowed visits from his family, but soon even this consolation was denied him, ana added to his other distresses he was torn with anxiety on their behalf But time and hour wear through -the longest day. On November 9th, 1/99, the Directors gave way to the consuls, who at once instituted a milder policy. La Manche and most of the Western Departments, where the royalists were still strong, were placed under militarv law. Generals possessing the confidence of the First Consul were sent to -orotect the innocent, to redress their wrongs, reconcile, the ~3ul»te, and overawe the terrorists. The maasons d'arret were soon emptied, the prisons began to thin. In due coarse Greene'B case was encruired into ana the commandant of die town and his two aid-de-camps (sic) who "after obserying to one another that a parallel act of injustice would not have been committed at Constantinople," promised speedv redress. Events marched. Anneal was made to General L AmarnueTcommandant of the Department, and within a day or two, he was addressing Greene in the words bo, citwen, and conduct yourself as I find by various reports you have always done, as an honest man; and if 1 can ever be of any further service to you, command me." The upshot was Passports for the whole family, return after the weary absenc© to iaigSnd, the publication in 1802 of the letters, and the present article! (Coacdnded.)