The French Revolution : a history . ies andGenealogy-books, nay better still, with Lawyers-bags, sacs de procidure ; which shall be burnt. The Thirtyseat-rows of that famed Slope are again full; we have abright Sun; and all is marching, streamering and blar-ing : but what avails it ? Virtuous Mayor Pdtion, whomFeuillantism had suspended, was reinstated only lastnight, by Decree of the Assembly. Mens humour is ofthe sourest. Mens hats have on them, written in chalk, Vive Potion ; and even, Petion or Death, PMon oula Mort. Poor Louis, who has waited till five oclock before theAssembly would arri
The French Revolution : a history . ies andGenealogy-books, nay better still, with Lawyers-bags, sacs de procidure ; which shall be burnt. The Thirtyseat-rows of that famed Slope are again full; we have abright Sun; and all is marching, streamering and blar-ing : but what avails it ? Virtuous Mayor Pdtion, whomFeuillantism had suspended, was reinstated only lastnight, by Decree of the Assembly. Mens humour is ofthe sourest. Mens hats have on them, written in chalk, Vive Potion ; and even, Petion or Death, PMon oula Mort. Poor Louis, who has waited till five oclock before theAssembly would arrive, swears the National Oath thistime, with a quilted cuirass under his waistcoat whichwill turn pistol-bullets. Madame de Stael, from thatRoyal Tent, stretches out the neck in a kind of agony,lest the waving multitude which received him maynot render him back alive. No cry of Vive le Roisalutes the ear ; cries only of Vive Potion; Petion ou laMori. The National Solemnity is as it were huddled Campan, ii. c. 20; De Stael, ii. c. From Tableaux historiques. JULY 1792] SOME CONSOLATION TO MANKIND 323 by; each cowering off almost before the evolutions aregone through. The very Mai with its Scutcheons andLawyers-bags is forgotten, stands unburnt; till certainPatriot Deputies, called by the people, set a torch to it,by way of voluntary after-piece. Sadder Feast of Pikesno man ever saw. Mayor Pdtion, named on hats, is at his zenith in thisFederation: Lafayette again is close upon his does the storm-bell of Saint-Roch speak out, nextSaturday ; why do the citizens shut their shops ? ^ It isSections defiling, it is fear of effervescence. LegislativeCommittee, long deliberating on Lafayette and thatAnti-jacobin visit of his, reports, this day, that there is not ground for Accusation ! Peace, ye Patriots, never-theless ; and let that tocsin cease: the Debate is notfinished, nor the Report accepted; but Brissot, Isnardand the Mountain will sift it, and resift it, perhaps forso
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