The Gazette

Siege of Lyons.
From a late English paper.

EVEN those who admire the French
revolution cannot view the following
scene but with horror and detestation.
It is a faithful picture of the memorable
siege of Lyons, and may serve to show
the savage ferocity of all the jacobins,
when the chance of war favors their di-
abolical designs :

" DURING the space of sixty days.
the too unfortunate Lyons, withstood
an army of fifteen times their strength.
plentifully provisioned, and provided
with every instrument of destruction.-
Never, perhaps, were there such feats
of valor performed as by this little ar-
my ; thrice their numbers did they lay
dead before their injured city. The
besieged then seeing no hopes of a capi-
tulation, seeing the city without another
day's provision, and the total im possi-
bility of succour from without, being
completely invested on every side, had
but one measure to adopt ; to cut their
way through the enemy, or fall in the
attempt. A plan of retreat was there.
fore settled upon ; the out posts were
to be called in, and the whole were to
assemble at the Rhone. It was midnight
when they began their retreat, lighten-
ed by the blaze of bombs and burning
houses. Reader, cast your eyes on this
devoted city—see children cling to their
fathers, distracted mothers to their sons;
wives holding in their arms what they
held dearer than life, forgetting all but
their husbands marching by their side,
and braving death from ten thou sand
hands! But what were they to do
against fifty times their number ? The
whole, about fifty persons excepted,
were either butchered, or taken, to gra-
tify by torture, the barbarous disposi-
tion of the victors."