ng to note. Dumouriez
corresponds with Kaunitz, Metternich, or Cobentzel, in another style
that Delessarts did. Strict becomes stricter; categorical answer, as to
this Coblentz work and much else, shall be given. Failing which? Failing
which, on the 20th day of April 1792, King and Ministers step over to
the Salle de Manege; promulgate how the matter stands; and poor Louis,
'with tears in his eyes,' proposes that the Assembly do now decree War.
After due eloquence, War is decreed that night.

War, indeed! Paris came all crowding, full of expectancy, to the
morning, and still more to the evening session. D'Orleans with his two
sons, is there; looks on, wide-eyed, from the opposite Gallery. (Deux
Amis, vii. 146-66.) Thou canst look, O Philippe: it is a War big with
issues, for thee and for all men. Cimmerian Obscurantism and this thrice
glorious Revolution shall wrestle for it, then: some Four-and-twenty
years; in immeasurable Briareus' wrestle; trampling and tearing; before
they can come to any, not agreement, but compromise, and approximate
ascertainment each of what is in the other.

Let our Three Generals on the Frontiers look to it, therefore; and poor
Chevalier de Grave, the Warminister, consider what he will do. What is
in the three Generals and Armies we may guess. As for poor Chevalier de
Grave, he, in this whirl of things all coming to a press and pinch upon
him, loses head, and merely whirls with them, in a totally distracted
manner; signing himself at last, 'De Grave, Mayor of Paris:' whereupon
he demits, returns over the Channel, to walk in Kensington Gardens;
(Dumont, c. 19, 21.) and austere Servan, the able Engineer-Officer, is
elevated in his stead. To the post of Honour? To that of Difficulty, at
least.

Chapter 2.5.X.

Petion-National-Pique.

And yet, how, on dark bottomless Cataracts there plays the foolishest
fantastic-coloured spray and shadow; hiding the Abyss under vapoury
rainbows! Alongside of this discussion as to Austrian-Prussian War,
there goes on no less but more vehemently a discussion, Whether the
Forty or Two-and-forty Swiss of Chateau-Vieux shall be liberated from
the Brest Gallies? And then, Whether, being liberated, they shall have a
public Festival, or only private ones?

Theroigne, as we saw, spoke; and Collot took up the tale. Has not
Bouille's final display of himself, in that final Night of Spurs,
stamped your so-called 'Revolt of Nanci' into a 'Massacre of Nanci,'
for