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Rh was shot. He was at least saved the long suspense which befell his fellow-countrymen. Two of these were silk-weavers, Louis Badger, aged thirty-five, and Pierre Badger, twenty-seven, natives of Lyons, and apparently sons of John Badger, who in 1789 was receiving a pension of 2300 francs for having introduced spinning-machines and for selling English tin-ware. He was seventy-seven, and had lived nearly forty years at Lyons. According to Beaulieu, Pierre Badger, when the town surrendered, was laid up with a wound received in the rising of the previous May, was arrested by mistake for his brother, might have saved himself by a word, but went cheerfully to execution. If this statement is correct, the sacrifice was unavailing. Pierre was shot on the 28th November, and Louis on the 5th December. The latter was one of 208 prisoners who were pinioned by the wrist to a long rope, the two ends of which were fastened to willow trees. Soldiers were stationed four paces behind, and fired on the signal being given, but not nearly all were killed. The survivors uttered fearful cries; the cavalry charged them with their sabres; it was a long and horrible butchery. On the following Christmas Eve, Samuel Warburton, a retired English officer, fifty-eight years of age, and described as a Londoner, was shot with another batch of victims. One of them was a