l from them; in disdainful hate, they drew the sword
and flung away the scabbard. France has not only no Hierarchy of
Authorities, to translate command into obedience; its Hierarchy of
Authorities has fled to the enemies of France; calls loudly on the
enemies of France to interfere armed, who want but a pretext to do
that. Jealous Kings and Kaisers might have looked on long, meditating
interference, yet afraid and ashamed to interfere: but now do not the
King's Brothers, and all French Nobles, Dignitaries and Authorities that
are free to speak, which the King himself is not,--passionately invite
us, in the name of Right and of Might? Ranked at Coblentz, from Fifteen
to Twenty thousand stand now brandishing their weapons, with the cry:
On, on! Yes, Messieurs, you shall on;--and divide the spoil according to
your dates of emigrating.

Of all which things a poor Legislative Assembly, and Patriot France, is
informed: by denunciant friend, by triumphant foe. Sulleau's Pamphlets,
of the Rivarol Staff of Genius, circulate; heralding supreme hope.
Durosoy's Placards tapestry the walls; Chant du Coq crows day, pecked
at by Tallien's Ami des Citoyens. King's-Friend, Royou, Ami du Roi,
can name, in exact arithmetical ciphers, the contingents of the various
Invading Potentates; in all, Four hundred and nineteen thousand Foreign
fighting men, with Fifteen thousand Emigrants. Not to reckon these your
daily and hourly desertions, which an Editor must daily record, of whole
Companies, and even Regiments, crying Vive le Roi, vive la Reine, and
marching over with banners spread: (Ami du Roi Newspaper in Hist. Parl.
xiii. 175.)--lies all, and wind; yet to Patriotism not wind; nor, alas,
one day, to Royou! Patriotism, therefore, may brawl and babble yet a
little while: but its hours are numbered: Europe is coming with Four
hundred and nineteen thousand and the Chivalry of France; the gallows,
one may hope, will get its own.

Chapter 2.5.VI.

Brigands and Jales.

We shall have War, then; and on what terms! With an Executive
'pretending,' really with less and less deceptiveness now, 'to be dead;'
casting even a wishful eye towards the enemy: on such terms we shall
have War.

Public Functionary in vigorous action there is none; if it be not
Rivarol with his Staff of Genius and Two hundred and eighty Applauders.
The Public Service lies waste: the very tax-gatherer has forgotten
his cunning: in this and the other Provincial Board of M