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 vi axoaAPmCL scClt oF VOAmOT. legiance to Fce, and, llke At, unpulous m, fo a conspicy to ae Buon- mti. His hou sunded in tM dead of nht, d k w only by throwing himself out of a window, amidst a discharge of pistols, that he escaped the hand of the assassins. Having with some difficulty effected his escape from Corsica, he returned to Paris, and from his known zeal and energy was immediately entrusted with a new and more dangerous mission. It was to suppress a counter revolutionary movement in Lyons, which the rich manufacturers and shopocrats of that town were industriously organising against the authorities of the Convention, and which threstened every movement to assume the character of a rebellion. These vampires, whose colossal wealth was derived from the luxurious spendings of the old aristrocacy on the one hand, and from the brutalization of teh workpeople on the other, were alarmed at the progress of Robespierre's doctrines of equality. To emancipate France was to strip them of teh means of robbing their neighbours; and seeing no security for the old system of monopoly and plunder, except in the reestablishment of Monarchy, they were all but in a state of insurrection before Buonarroti quitted Paris. The latter and Mfiot, another active tfiot, were m with we to quell the insucn spit. h they ho efft tranquilly, and by the aid of the municipal dy of Lyons, which h n revolu- ' tionily onised; but they had aly made hf their journey when the drod fidin reached em that the town w in actu re,Ilion ainst e Convention; that the municipal authofifi had n de, d my of them mascred, by the insurgent shop; d that Clir, the'fous Radical mayor (call a "fatic" on account of his ze and scey), had n judicily asina. e me fa de- si for Buonati d Mot, but this did not deter those brave patrio from ping on eir mission. As on they reach the insuent city, they were ested, and cied before the prident of the rebellious cfions, whence they were nt a dun- geon, prepamto to their undeog the te of Char. O,,,,d Googlc