but a soldier's death for it;" (Toulongeon, ii. 149.) and so,
'in the dark stormy night,' he has flung himself into the throat of the
Austrian cannon, and perished in the skirmish at Maubeuge on the ninth
of June. Whom Legislative Patriotism shall mourn, with black mortcloths
and melody in the Champ-de-Mars: many a Patriot shiftier, truer none.
Lafayette himself is looking altogether dubious; in place of beating the
Austrians, is about writing to denounce the Jacobins. Rochambeau,
all disconsolate, quits the service: there remains only Luckner, the
babbling old Prussian Grenadier.

Without Armies, without Generals! And the Cimmerian Night, has gathered
itself; Brunswick preparing his Proclamation; just about to march! Let
a Patriot Ministry and Legislative say, what in these circumstances it
will do? Suppress Internal Enemies, for one thing, answers the Patriot
Legislative; and proposes, on the 24th of May, its Decree for the
Banishment of Priests. Collect also some nucleus of determined internal
friends, adds War-minister Servan; and proposes, on the 7th of June, his
Camp of Twenty-thousand. Twenty-thousand National Volunteers; Five out
of each Canton; picked Patriots, for Roland has charge of the Interior:
they shall assemble here in Paris; and be for a defence, cunningly
devised, against foreign Austrians and domestic Austrian Committee
alike. So much can a Patriot Ministry and Legislative do.

Reasonable and cunningly devised as such Camp may, to Servan and
Patriotism, appear, it appears not so to Feuillantism; to that
Feuillant-Aristocrat Staff of the Paris Guard; a Staff, one would say
again, which will need to be dissolved. These men see, in this proposed
Camp of Servan's, an offence; and even, as they pretend to say, an
insult. Petitions there come, in consequence, from blue Feuillants in
epaulettes; ill received. Nay, in the end, there comes one Petition,
called 'of the Eight Thousand National Guards:' so many names are on it;
including women and children. Which famed Petition of the Eight Thousand
is indeed received: and the Petitioners, all under arms, are admitted to
the honours of the sitting,--if honours or even if sitting there be;
for the instant their bayonets appear at the one door, the Assembly
'adjourns,' and begins to flow out at the other. (Moniteur, Seance du 10
Juin 1792.)

Also, in these same days, it is lamentable to see how National Guards,
escorting Fete Dieu or Corpus-Christi ceremonial,