Assail the constables with awful rage;
Who, in return, assiduously engage
In direful conflict, and at length subdue
The barb’rous and antagonistic crew:—
The word “Surrender,” fraught with dreadful threat,
With due submission instantly was met.
Thus, then, o’erpower’d, dejected, and dismay’d,
Like sheep to slaughter they were instant led—
With handcuff’d wrists—each to a felon’s cell,
Where they awaited their disastrous trial.