The burning of ships, the explosion of magazines, the roar of artillery, and the cries of these fugitives, filled up many hours.

At last the men-of-war were followed by a flotilla bearing those miserable exiles; the walls were abandoned; and Dugommier took possession of the place.
The Republicans found that all persons of condition, who had taken part against them, had escaped; and their rage was to be contented with meaner victims.

A day or two having been suffered to pass in quiet, a proclamation, apparently friendly, exhorted the workmen, who had been employed on the batteries of the besieged town, to muster at headquarters.

One hundred and fifty poor men, who expected to be employed again in repairing the same fortifications obeyed this summons--were instantly marched into a field--and shot in cold blood; not less than a thousand persons were massacred under circumstances equally atrocious.

Buonaparte himself repelled with indignation the charge of having had a hand in this butchery.