This we plainly see by
their massacre at Quiberon, where they put to death, with every species
of contumely, and without any exception, every prisoner of war who did
not escape out of their hands. To have had property, to have been robbed
of it, and to endeavor to regain it,--these are crimes irremissible, to
which every man who regards his property or his life, in every country,
ought well to look in all connection with those with whom to have had
property was an offence, to endeavor to keep it a second offence, to
attempt to regain it a crime that puts the offender out of all the laws
of peace or war. You cannot see one of those wretches without an alarm
for your life as well as your goods. They are like the worst of the
French and Italian banditti, who, whenever they robbed, were sure to
murder.
Are they not the very same ruffians, thieves, assassins, and regicides
that they were from the beginning? Have they diversified the scene by
the least variety, or produced the face of a single new villany? _Taedet
harum quotidianarum formarum_. Oh! but I shall be answered, "It is now
quite another thing;--they are all changed. You have not seen them in
their state dresses;--this makes an amazing difference.
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