itate their settlement in
the canton, or enable them to proceed elsewhere. Brousson was from the
first an energetic member of this committee. Part of their work was to
visit the Protestant states of the north, and find out places to which
the emigrants might be forwarded, as well as to collect subscriptions
for their conveyance.

[Footnote 26: Within about three weeks no fewer than
seventeen thousand five hundred French emigrants passed into
Lausanne. Two hundred Protestant ministers fled to
Switzerland, the greater number of whom settled in Lausanne,
until they could journey elsewhere.]

In November 1685, a month after the Revocation, Brousson and La Porte
set out for Berlin with this object. La Porte was one of the ministers
of the Cevennes, who had fled before a sentence of death pronounced
against him for having been concerned in "The Project." At Berlin they
were received very cordially by the Elector of Brandenburg, who had
already given great assistance to the Huguenot emigrants, and
expressed himself as willing to do all that he could for their
protection. Brousson and La Porte here met the Rev. David Ancillon,
who had been for thirty-three years pastor at Metz,[27] and was now
pastor of the Elector at Berlin; Gaultier, banished from Montpellier;
and Abbadie, banished from Saumur--all ministers of the Huguenot
Church there; with a large number of banished ministers and emigrant
Protestants from all the provinces of France.

[Footnote 27: Ancillon was an eminently learned man. His
library was one of the choicest that had ever been collected,
and on his expulsion from Metz it was pillaged by the
Jesuits. Metz, now part of German Lorraine, was probably not
so ferociously dragooned as other places. Yet the inhabitants
were under the apprehension that the massacre of St.
Bartholomew was about to be repeated upon them on Christmas
Day, 1685, the soldiers of the garrison having been kept
under arms all night. The Protestant churches were all pulled
down, the ministers were expelled, and many of their people
followed them into Germany. There were numerous Protestant
soldiers in the Metz garrison, and the order of the King was
that, like the rest of his subjects, they should become
converted. Many of the officers resigned and entered the
se