Name Forgotten—Aide-de-camp to General Wirion,
member of the legion of honour; dismissed
the army.
Besides these honourable members so disgraced,
many others narrowly escaped, and a long list of insignificant
delinquents, might be added, whose rogueries
are not comprised in the foregoing calculations.
Having thus noticed some of the most
notorious characters, most of whom had
sprung from the revolution, I now turn
from this painful detail, to bring forth characters,
as truly honourable as generous,
whose actions indicated the strictest sense
of duty, united with feelings, the most
refined, and which could only flow from
innate benevolence—from a "veritable
grandeur d'âme:" such indeed were the
noble minded De Beauchêne, De Meulan,
Du Croix Aubert, and a few others; this
I do with the greater satisfaction, not only
because the system they adopted proved
the national feeling of the prisoners to
have been in accordance with those venerated
soldiers, but also to show, how very
little the then French ministers were capable
of appreciating true greatness; or why
