Montreux, painted by JHardwicke Lewis & May Hardwicke Lewis; described by Francis Gribble . I $1 THE LATER HISTORY OF CHILLON 39 became filthier, and even their custodians weremoved to pity. Subscriptions were opened for theirbenefit, and General Schauenburg was memorializedby the Helvetian Directorate. The tears of the prisoners, ran the memorial, their mental anguish, and the sufferings whichsome of them endure through their wounds, andthe great age of others, make it right that theyshould be released. The Directorate implores younot to stand on your rights as conquerors, but totreat them li
Montreux, painted by JHardwicke Lewis & May Hardwicke Lewis; described by Francis Gribble . I $1 THE LATER HISTORY OF CHILLON 39 became filthier, and even their custodians weremoved to pity. Subscriptions were opened for theirbenefit, and General Schauenburg was memorializedby the Helvetian Directorate. The tears of the prisoners, ran the memorial, their mental anguish, and the sufferings whichsome of them endure through their wounds, andthe great age of others, make it right that theyshould be released. The Directorate implores younot to stand on your rights as conquerors, but totreat them like the prisoners of the small cantonswhom victory also placed at the mercy of yourgenerosity. The appeal was not without effect. A consider-able number of the prisoners were allowed to returnto their homes in the Valais; but their places weresoon taken by others. The French had been de-feated in battle by the coalition of the Powers, andthe Catholics of Fribourg had seized the oppor-tunity to cut down the trees of liberty and rise inrevolt. The reply of the French Administrationwas to a
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