"If you'll take the trouble to examine my back, you'll find on it the marks of the lashes I got for just telling my Captain that it was ag'in the grain for me, a republican as I was by idee and natur', to fight other republicans.

Sia general or an admiral who dies for his sovereign does deserve to be made a saintthis would leave these miserable French republicans, Signore, without hope or honor!"

Did the church condescend to notice such an unbelieving republican, it would be to command all its faithful to unite in their prayers for his destruction.

But that among freemen and professed republicans even the honour of an unfortunate nation, in its most mournful suffering, should not be sacred,that is indeed a sorrowful page in human history.

The batteries were now manned, and a consultation was held on the propriety of punishing a republican for daring to come so near a Tuscan port.

In Ireland, Fleetwood knew not how to reconcile the conduct of his father-in-law with his own principles, and expressed a wish to resign the government of the island; Ludlow and Jones, both stanch republicans, looked on the protector as a hypocrite and an apostate, and though the latter was more cautious in his language, the [Footnote 1: Thurloe, ii. 406.

It is with this that Montalembert threatens the French republicans.

They were stubborn, unbending republicans, partly from political, partly from religious, principle.