...politics, and the Bastile became the first tcpic of discussion : « He shewed me (says the author) the master key of that tower of tyranny, within the...fetters, one pair of which had been found on the wrists or a man recently dead, who was either doomed by those who immured him in his cell to die thus miserably,...

...possession, he has likewise "avérai species of fetters from the " king's castle," of which one pair had been found on the wrists of a man recently dead, who had been starved to death, either by design, or by a still more atrocious neglect. The following anecdotes...