ing,
with nameless cruelty. They fight and fire 'from behind thickets and
coverts,' for the Black man loves the Bush; they rush to the attack,
thousands strong, with brandished cutlasses and fusils, with caperings,
shoutings and vociferation,--which, if the White Volunteer Company
stands firm, dwindle into staggerings, into quick gabblement, into panic
flight at the first volley, perhaps before it. (Deux Amis, x. 157.) Poor
Oge could be broken on the wheel; this fire-whirlwind too can be abated,
driven up into the Mountains: but Saint-Domingo is shaken, as Oge's
seedgrains were; shaking, writhing in long horrid death-throes, it is
Black without remedy; and remains, as African Haiti, a monition to the
world.

O my Parisian Friends, is not this, as well as Regraters and Feuillant
Plotters, one cause of the astonishing dearth of Sugar! The Grocer,
palpitant, with drooping lip, sees his Sugar taxe; weighed out by Female
Patriotism, in instant retail, at the inadequate rate of twenty-five
sous, or thirteen pence a pound. "Abstain from it?" yes, ye Patriot
Sections, all ye Jacobins, abstain! Louvet and Collot-d'Herbois so
advise; resolute to make the sacrifice: though "how shall literary men
do without coffee?" Abstain, with an oath; that is the surest! (Debats
des Jacobins, &c. Hist. Parl. xiii. 171, 92-98.)

Also, for like reason, must not Brest and the Shipping Interest
languish? Poor Brest languishes, sorrowing, not without spleen;
denounces an Aristocrat Bertrand-Moleville traitorous Aristocrat
Marine-Minister. Do not her Ships and King's Ships lie rotting piecemeal
in harbour; Naval Officers mostly fled, and on furlough too, with pay?
Little stirring there; if it be not the Brest Gallies, whip-driven,
with their Galley-Slaves,--alas, with some Forty of our hapless Swiss
Soldiers of Chateau-Vieux, among others! These Forty Swiss, too mindful
of Nanci, do now, in their red wool caps, tug sorrowfully at the oar;
looking into the Atlantic brine, which reflects only their own sorrowful
shaggy faces; and seem forgotten of Hope.

But, on the whole, may we not say, in fugitive language, that the French
Constitution which shall march is very rheumatic, full of shooting
internal pains, in joint and muscle; and will not march without
difficulty?

Chapter 2.5.V.

Kings and Emigrants.

Extremely rheumatic Constitutions have been known to march, and keep on
their feet, though in a staggering sprawling manner, for long per