rs in speech;
Manuel, Tallien and Company; Journalists Gorsas, Carra, Mercier, Louvet
of Faublas; Clootz Speaker of Mankind; Collot d'Herbois, tearing a
passion to rags; Fabre d'Eglantine, speculative Pamphleteer; Legendre
the solid Butcher; nay Marat, though rural France can hardly believe
it, or even believe that there is a Marat except in print. Of Minister
Danton, who will lay down his Ministry for a Membership, we need
not speak. Paris is fervent; nor is the Country wanting to itself.
Barbaroux, Rebecqui, and fervid Patriots are coming from Marseilles.
Seven hundred and forty-five men (or indeed forty-nine, for Avignon now
sends Four) are gathering: so many are to meet; not so many are to part!

Attorney Carrier from Aurillac, Ex-Priest Lebon from Arras, these shall
both gain a name. Mountainous Auvergne re-elects her Romme: hardy tiller
of the soil, once Mathematical Professor; who, unconscious, carries in
petto a remarkable New Calendar, with Messidors, Pluvioses, and such
like;--and having given it well forth, shall depart by the death they
call Roman. Sieyes old-Constituent comes; to make new Constitutions as
many as wanted: for the rest, peering out of his clear cautious eyes,
he will cower low in many an emergency, and find silence safest. Young
Saint-Just is coming, deputed by Aisne in the North; more like a Student
than a Senator: not four-and-twenty yet; who has written Books; a youth
of slight stature, with mild mellow voice, enthusiast olive-complexion,
and long dark hair. Feraud, from the far valley D'Aure in the folds of
the Pyrenees, is coming; an ardent Republican; doomed to fame, at least
in death.

All manner of Patriot men are coming: Teachers, Husbandmen, Priests
and Ex-Priests, Traders, Doctors; above all, Talkers, or the
Attorney-species. Man-midwives, as Levasseur of the Sarthe, are not
wanting. Nor Artists: gross David, with the swoln cheek, has long
painted, with genius in a state of convulsion; and will now legislate.
The swoln cheek, choking his words in the birth, totally disqualifies
him as orator; but his pencil, his head, his gross hot heart, with
genius in a state of convulsion, will be there. A man bodily and
mentally swoln-cheeked, disproportionate; flabby-large, instead of
great; weak withal as in a state of convulsion, not strong in a state of
composure: so let him play his part. Nor are naturalised Benefactors of
the Species forgotten: Priestley, elected by the Orne Department,