ught
for and beaten the English every where; that he gained the famous
battle of Robeck, and chastised the Flemish; that he enjoyed for
twelve years the salary and appointments of Constable; and that,
moreover, his landed estate, (which included many castles inherited
from his ancestors, in Bretagne and Poitou,) was very considerable."]

During the Vendean war, the royalists had been driven out of Clisson
by the republicans, under the command of a ferocious jacobin. The town
was pillaged and burnt before they quitted it. Twenty-seven females
had, during the battle, concealed themselves among the ruins: when
information of it was given to the troops, who had already quitted the
place, they were ordered to return, and the whole of these unhappy
women were thrown alive into a well, where they perished!!! It has
since been filled up, and the lonely tree, just mentioned, now records
the bloody and inhuman deed.

In the account of Clisson, by a late French author, no notice is
taken of this circumstance. He merely observes, when mentioning the
destruction of the place, after the de la Roche-Jaquelin had quitted
it, "Les Rives ombragees de la Sevres, si seduisante par ses belles
cascades et l'ensemble de ce paysage poetique, feroient de cette
contree un sejour delicieux, si de tristes debris, qui heureusement
disparoissent tous les jours, ne rappelaient encore le souvenir
affligeant de nos discordes civiles. Les armees Revolutionnaires qui
combattirent les Vendeens, en 1793 et en 1794, employerent inutilement
pour les reduire le fer et le feu; la flamme atteignit les villes, les
villages, les metairies, et jusqu'aux humbles chaumieres; et, dans ce
vaste et epouvantable incendie, Clisson ne put echapper a une ruine
complete. Jamais peut-etre cette petite ville ne se seroit entierement
reedifie, sans une circonstance particuliere qui contribua puissamment
a la faire renoitre de ces cendres".

In the town of Clisson was born the celebrated Barin de la
Galissonniere, Admiral of France, who fought the well-known action
off Mahon, in the month of June, 1756, with Admiral Byng, who, in
consequence of his conduct on that occasion, was brought to a court
martial and shot. The French writers make the following absurd remark,
as to the _cause_ of his fate: "Les Anglais, furieux d'avoir ete
vaincus par un Amiral Francois, firent fusiller l'Amiral Byng". It is
now well known that he was sacrificed to an unprincipled ministerial
faction