Almost all the ecclesiastics, even those who are
sworn, are comprised within the first category; the administration
enumerates 366 in the department of Doubs alone,[94] and 556 in that
of H?rault. Thousands of ecclesiastics are comprised in the second
category; the administration enumerates over 800 who, returned from
the frontier of Spain alone, still wander about the southern
departments. On the strength of this the moralists in office proclaim
a hunt for the black game in certain places, an universal destruction
without exception or reprieve. For instance, in Belgium, recently
incorporated with France, the whole of the regular and secular clergy
is proscribed en masse and tracked for transportation; 560
ecclesiastics in "Ourthe and the forests", 539 in Escaut, 883 in
Jemmapes, 884 in Sambre-et-Meuse, 925 in la Lys, 957 in Deux-N?thes,
1,043 in Meuse-Inf?rieure, 1,469 in Dyle, in all 7,260, without
counting the missing names.[95] A number of them escape abroad or
hide away; but the rest are caught, and quite enough of them to load
and fill the carts constantly. - "Not a day passes," says an
inhabitant of Blois,[96] "when from seven to twenty and more are
lodged at the Carmelites.
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