and men that circulate in the interior
distributing and disbursing the same; one of these we denounce now to
Legislative Patriotism: 'A man Lebrun by name; about thirty years of
age, with blonde hair and in quantity; has,' only for the time being
surely, 'a black-eye, oeil poche; goes in a wiski with a black horse,'
(Moniteur, Seance du 2 Novembre 1791 (Hist. Parl. xii. 212).)--always
keeping his Gig!

Unhappy Emigrants, it was their lot, and the lot of France! They are
ignorant of much that they should know: of themselves, of what is around
them. A Political Party that knows not when it is beaten, may become one
of the fatallist of things, to itself, and to all. Nothing will convince
these men that they cannot scatter the French Revolution at the first
blast of their war-trumpet; that the French Revolution is other than a
blustering Effervescence, of brawlers and spouters, which, at the flash
of chivalrous broadswords, at the rustle of gallows-ropes, will burrow
itself, in dens the deeper the welcomer. But, alas, what man does know
and measure himself, and the things that are round him;--else where
were the need of physical fighting at all? Never, till they are cleft
asunder, can these heads believe that a Sansculottic arm has any vigour
in it: cleft asunder, it will be too late to believe.

One may say, without spleen against his poor erring brothers of any
side, that above all other mischiefs, this of the Emigrant Nobles acted
fatally on France. Could they have known, could they have understood! In
the beginning of 1789, a splendour and a terror still surrounded them:
the Conflagration of their Chateaus, kindled by months of obstinacy,
went out after the Fourth of August; and might have continued out, had
they at all known what to defend, what to relinquish as indefensible.
They were still a graduated Hierarchy of Authorities, or the accredited
Similitude of such: they sat there, uniting King with Commonalty;
transmitting and translating gradually, from degree to degree, the
command of the one into the obedience of the other; rendering command
and obedience still possible. Had they understood their place, and what
to do in it, this French Revolution, which went forth explosively in
years and in months, might have spread itself over generations; and
not a torture-death but a quiet euthanasia have been provided for many
things.

But they were proud and high, these men; they were not wise to consider.
They spurned al