yet, thin and feeble as these streaks of Federates seem, they are
the only thing one discerns moving with any clearness of aim, in this
strange scene. Angry buz and simmer; uneasy tossing and moaning of a
huge France, all enchanted, spell-bound by unmarching Constitution,
into frightful conscious and unconscious Magnetic-sleep; which frightful
Magnetic-sleep must now issue soon in one of two things: Death or
Madness! The Federes carry mostly in their pocket some earnest cry and
Petition, to have the 'National Executive put in action;' or as a step
towards that, to have the King's Decheance, King's Forfeiture, or
at least his Suspension, pronounced. They shall be welcome to the
Legislative, to the Mother of Patriotism; and Paris will provide for
their lodging.

Decheance, indeed: and, what next? A France spell-free, a Revolution
saved; and any thing, and all things next! so answer grimly Danton and
the unlimited Patriots, down deep in their subterranean region of
Plot, whither they have now dived. Decheance, answers Brissot with the
limited: And if next the little Prince Royal were crowned, and some
Regency of Girondins and recalled Patriot Ministry set over him? Alas,
poor Brissot; looking, as indeed poor man does always, on the nearest
morrow as his peaceable promised land; deciding what must reach to the
world's end, yet with an insight that reaches not beyond his own nose!
Wiser are the unlimited subterranean Patriots, who with light for the
hour itself, leave the rest to the gods.

Or were it not, as we now stand, the probablest issue of all, that
Brunswick, in Coblentz, just gathering his huge limbs towards him to
rise, might arrive first; and stop both Decheance, and theorizing on
it? Brunswick is on the eve of marching; with Eighty Thousand, they
say; fell Prussians, Hessians, feller Emigrants: a General of the Great
Frederick, with such an Army. And our Armies? And our Generals? As for
Lafayette, on whose late visit a Committee is sitting and all France
is jarring and censuring, he seems readier to fight us than fight
Brunswick. Luckner and Lafayette pretend to be interchanging corps, and
are making movements; which Patriotism cannot understand. This only is
very clear, that their corps go marching and shuttling, in the interior
of the country; much nearer Paris than formerly! Luckner has ordered
Dumouriez down to him, down from Maulde, and the Fortified Camp there.
Which order the many-counselled Dumouriez, wi