h they have
made for her; a France that, in such Constitution, cannot march! And
Hunger too; and plotting Aristocrats, and excommunicating Dissident
Priests: 'The man Lebrun by name' urging his black wiski, visible to the
eye: and, still more terrible in his invisibility, Engineer Goguelat,
with Queen's cipher, riding and running!

The excommunicatory Priests give new trouble in the Maine and Loire; La
Vendee, nor Cathelineau the wool-dealer, has not ceased grumbling
and rumbling. Nay behold Jales itself once more: how often does that
real-imaginary Camp of the Fiend require to be extinguished! For
near two years now, it has waned faint and again waxed bright, in the
bewildered soul of Patriotism: actually, if Patriotism knew it, one
of the most surprising products of Nature working with Art. Royalist
Seigneurs, under this or the other pretext, assemble the simple people
of these Cevennes Mountains; men not unused to revolt, and with heart
for fighting, could their poor heads be got persuaded. The Royalist
Seigneur harangues; harping mainly on the religious string: "True
Priests maltreated, false Priests intruded, Protestants (once dragooned)
now triumphing, things sacred given to the dogs;" and so produces, from
the pious Mountaineer throat, rough growlings. "Shall we not testify,
then, ye brave hearts of the Cevennes; march to the rescue? Holy
Religion; duty to God and King?" "Si fait, si fait, Just so, just so,"
answer the brave hearts always: "Mais il y a de bien bonnes choses
dans la Revolution, But there are many good things in the Revolution
too!"--And so the matter, cajole as we may, will only turn on its axis,
not stir from the spot, and remains theatrical merely. (Dampmartin, i.
201.)

Nevertheless deepen your cajolery, harp quick and quicker, ye Royalist
Seigneurs; with a dead-lift effort you may bring it to that. In
the month of June next, this Camp of Jales will step forth as a
theatricality suddenly become real; Two thousand strong, and with the
boast that it is Seventy thousand: most strange to see; with flags
flying, bayonets fixed; with Proclamation, and d'Artois Commission of
civil war! Let some Rebecqui, or other the like hot-clear Patriot; let
some 'Lieutenant-Colonel Aubry,' if Rebecqui is busy elsewhere, raise
instantaneous National Guards, and disperse and dissolve it; and blow
the Old Castle asunder, (Moniteur, Seance du 15 Juillet 1792.) that so,
if possible, we hear of it no more!

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