wer be respected, or would
condescend to use to maintain his government. Such principles led or
drove him to a course of desperate violence, having then no parallel in
any country pretending to a government of laws, or any civil rights. We
shall give his proceedings in the language of our historian.

"Towards the last day of August, the people were alarmed by the
arrest of Foucault, the commissary-general and ordonnateur, De
Noyant and Boisblanc, two members of the superior council; La
Freniere, the attorney-general, and Braud, the king's printer.
These gentlemen were attending O'Reilly's leve, when he
requested them to step into an adjacent apartment, where they
found themselves immediately surrounded by a body of
grenadiers, with fixed bayonets, the commanding officer of whom
informed them they were the king's prisoners. The two first
were conveyed to their respective houses, and a guard was left
there: the others were imprisoned in the barracks.

"It had been determined to make an example of twelve
individuals; two from the army, and an equal number from the
bar; four planters, and as many merchants. Accordingly, Marquis
and De Noyant, officers of the troop; La Freniere, the
attorney-general, and Doucet, (lawyers,) Villere, Boisblanc,
Mazent, and Petit, (planters,) and John Milhet, Joseph Milhet,
Caresse and Poupet, (merchants,) had been selected.

"Within a few days, Marquis, Doucet, Petit, Mazant, the two
Milhets, Caresse, and Poupet, were arrested and confined.

"Villere, who was on his plantation at the German coast, had
been marked as one of the intended victims; but his absence
from the city rendering his arrest less easy, it had been
determined to release one of the prisoners on his being
secured. He had been apprized of the impending danger, and it
had been recommended to him to provide for his safety by
seeking the protection of the British flag waving at Manshac.
When he was deliberating on the step it became him to take, he
received a letter from Aubry, the commandant of the French
troops, assuring him he had nothing to apprehend, and advising
him to return to the city. Averse to flight, as it would imply
a consciousness of guilt, he yielded to Aubry's recommendation,
and returned to New-Orleans; but as he passed the gate, the
officer