ate prisoner, while their own
were clotted with the gore of his friends, and had been just raised to
shed his own. Few, indeed, and brief, were these symptoms of relenting.
In general, the doom of the prisoner was death, and that doom was
instantly accomplished.

In the meanwhile, the captives were penned up in their dungeons like
cattle in a shambles, and in many instances might, from windows which
looked outwards, mark the fate of their comrades, hear their cries, and
behold their struggles, and learn from the horrible scene, how they
might best meet their own approaching fate. They observed, according to
St. Meard, who, in his well-named Agony of Thirty-Six Hours, has given
the account of this fearful scene, that those who intercepted the blows
of the executioners, by holding up their hands, suffered protracted
torment, while those who offered no show of struggle were more easily
despatched; and they encouraged each other to submit to their fate, in
the manner least likely to prolong their sufferings.

Many ladies, especially those belonging to the court, were thus
murdered. The Princess de Lamballe, whose only crime seems to have been
her friendship for Marie Antoinette, was literally hewn to pieces, and
her head, and that of others, paraded on pikes through the metropolis.
It was carried to the temple on that accursed weapon, the features yet
beautiful in death, and the long fair curls of the hair floating around
the spear. The murderers insisted that the King and Queen should be
compelled to come to the window to view this dreadful trophy. The
municipal officers who were upon duty over the royal prisoners, had
difficulty, not merely in saving them from this horrible inhumanity, but
also in preventing their prison from being forced. Three-coloured
ribbons were extended across the street, and this frail barrier was
found sufficient to intimate that the Temple was under the safeguard of
the nation. We do not read that the efficiency of the three-coloured
ribbons was tried for the protection of any of the other prisoners. No
doubt the executioners had their instructions where and when they should
be respected.

The clergy, who had declined the constitutional oath from pious
scruples, were, during the massacre, the peculiar objects of insult and
cruelty, and their conduct was such as corresponded with their religious
and conscientious professions. They were seen confessing themselves to
each other, or receiving the