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The escort were two mounted patriots in red caps and tri-coloured

cockades, armed with national muskets and sabres, who rode one on

either side of him.

The escorted governed his own horse, but a loose line was

attached to his bridle, the end of which one of the patriots kept

girded round his wrist. In this state they set forth with the

sharp rain driving in their faces: clattering at a heavy dragoon

trot over the uneven town pavement, and out upon the mire-deep

roads. In this state they traversed without change, except of

horses and pace, all the mire-deep leagues that lay between them

and the capital.