The fact, however, is that years elapsed before the public indignation was thoroughly awakened, and that months elapsed before the blackest part of the story found credit even among the enemies of the government.

That the massacre should not have been mentioned in the London Gazettes, in the Monthly Mercuries which were scarcely less courtly than the Gazettes, or in pamphlets licensed by official censors, is perfectly intelligible.

But that no allusion to it should be found in private journals and letters, written by persons free from all restraint, may seem extraordinary.

There is not a word on the subject in Evelyn's Diary.

In Narcissus Luttrell's Diary is a remarkable entry made five weeks after the butchery.