that we all ought to be shot—knowing what
the terms of the capitulation had been, did
all that he could to secure some approach to
a fulfilment of them. He behaved like a
gentleman and a Christian; and we honoured
him, though we did wish that he had not
held it to be part of his Christian duty
to preach sermons to us about our sins,
and our sins to our people in the different
forts and bastions. Once, when some of the
prisoners were shot while in the act of
escaping, the major made sermons of their
bodies, ordering them to be placed upon
boards and exhibited in all the prisons.

The revolution being quenched, and the
people utterly quelled, no compulsion to
mercy pressed upon the conquerors. The
government of Baden, conscious that it had
provoked the outbreak by its own
mismanagement, and being really in the hands of
kindly men, was inclined to clemency. The
Prince of Prussia and his adherents, glad of
an opportunity, off their own ground, of
inflicting a severe blow on the German
democrats, without putting themselves to any
inconvenience, urged severity. The promises of
General Count G. were set aside as informal,
being given without reference to a superior
authority, that of the Prince, who was at the
time present in Baden. Nothing more was
said of us as prisoners of war; we were
treated and spoken of as captured malefactors.
Court-martial law was put in force
against us, and our judges were Prussians—
officers and soldiers of the regiments we
had been fighting with; men who had
seen their friends and brethren fall under
our balls, who themselves carried wounds of
our inflicting.

Especially were the Prussians eager for
the punishment of such of their own countrymen,
officers in their army, as had participated
in the Baden outbreak. As I was
known to have been at one time in the
Prussian service, I was one of the first men
called before the judge. It was not credited
that I had ceased to be a Prussian and
belonged to Saxony. I could have proved the
fact easily, but gained several weeks of
valuable time by leaving them to arrive at their
own assurance in the due official way.

The spirit of revenge by which the Prussian
leaders were actuated, seemed to us
proved by the haste they showed in bringing
M. E. to trial. This gentleman had been
secretary to the parliament; and, during the
Baden revolution, was attached as a non-
combatant, to the ministry of war. During
the siege of Rastadt, he kept up the spirit of
our people by publishing a patriotic journal,
in which the Prince of Prussia was not too
politely dealt with. He was the first man
whose blood soaked into the sand of Rastadt.
The soldiers, not yet used to fusillades in cold
blood, wavered, and the victim still living
after the muskets had been fired upon him,
was despatched with bayonets.

One of the next men shot, was our governor
of Rastadt, whom at the time I found it hard
to forgive for having resisted every request
to destroy his papers before the entry of the
enemy into the town. He would not, he said,
burn historical documents; and so he left
them to be seized, and to furnish evidence
enough for the destruction of a score or two
of lives. The governor was followed to the
fatal ground by an old colonel. The bullets
carried far away, a piece of his skull with
one of his long grey locks attached to it.

Prussian soldiers brought us tidings of
these things as we endeavoured to be
cheerful in our casemates. Our servant
had dressed some rough boards into a table
and benches, upon which we played at chess
with figures made of bread. The victuals
allowed, being very bad, and the conditions
under which the men lived fearfully
unwholesome, great mortality arose among
them—pent in the cells to which we had at
first been taken; but of us, none became ill.
We were better lodged; and a doctor, one of
our fellow-prisoners, had wisely counselled
us to make free use of cherry brandy. We
had among us no small store of learning,
wit, and knowledge of the world. Old Colonel
K. had seen a good deal of service during the
French war, to which his scars bore honourable
witness. He had sojourned for a long
time in Constantinople, and in several stations
on the coast of Africa, whence he came
to France. He had been on his way through
Baden to his home, where he had wife and
children, when he was made, by the revolutionary
government, colonel of the Hungarian
legion. We disliked his Austrian manners,
and a too subservient way towards our
conquerors; but, he was a brave man
nevertheless. K.'s adjutant was a hungry fellow
who could never wait for dinner, and was
noisy in his sleep; for the last-mentioned
crime he was banished of nights to an
adjoining compartment of our casemate, where
he talked to his Fanny, questioning her conduct,
or quarrelling with her chocolate, which
he said smelt horribly. Lieutenant T. who had
been in Finland, sang us Finnish songs.
Major R., who was an able engineer, told us
of the adventures he had had in Venice and
elsewhere. Major W., who had fought in
Polish battles, had good military tales to
tell, and as the most orderly man in our
party, was elected major-domo of the
dungeons. M. S., a handsome merry fellow,
who had been editor of a liberal paper, and
as a born Bavarian believed in beer, amused
us with incessant jokes, and sang almost
hourly his beer lyric of Hildebrand and his
son Hadubrand. These were the sort of
men who formed our company.

The first great shock to our mirth came
one morning after we had finished our small
dinner—a measure of soup with a bit of dog's
meat in it—when we were invaded by a host
of Prussian officers, corporals, even civilians,