y, in the Salle de Manege.

Outwardly: for Dumouriez, overrunning the Netherlands, did, on that
day, come in contact with Saxe-Teschen and the Austrians; Dumouriez
wide-winged, they wide-winged; at and around the village of Jemappes,
near Mons. And fire-hail is whistling far and wide there, the great guns
playing, and the small; so many green Heights getting fringed and maned
with red Fire. And Dumouriez is swept back on this wing, and swept back
on that, and is like to be swept back utterly; when he rushes up in
person, the prompt Polymetis; speaks a prompt word or two; and then,
with clear tenor-pipe, 'uplifts the Hymn of the Marseillese, entonna la
Marseillaise,' (Dumouriez, Memoires, iii. 174.) ten thousand tenor or
bass pipes joining; or say, some Forty Thousand in all; for every heart
leaps at the sound: and so with rhythmic march-melody, waxing ever
quicker, to double and to treble quick, they rally, they advance,
they rush, death-defying, man-devouring; carry batteries, redoutes,
whatsoever is to be carried; and, like the fire-whirlwind, sweep all
manner of Austrians from the scene of action. Thus, through the hands
of Dumouriez, may Rouget de Lille, in figurative speech, be said to
have gained, miraculously, like another Orpheus, by his Marseillese
fiddle-strings (fidibus canoris) a Victory of Jemappes; and conquered
the Low Countries.

Young General Egalite, it would seem, shone brave among the bravest
on this occasion. Doubtless a brave Egalite;--whom however does not
Dumouriez rather talk of oftener than need were? The Mother Society has
her own thoughts. As for the Elder Egalite he flies low at this time;
appears in the Convention for some half-hour daily, with rubicund,
pre-occupied, or impressive quasi-contemptuous countenance; and then
takes himself away. (Moore, ii. 148.) The Netherlands are conquered, at
least overrun. Jacobin missionaries, your Prolys, Pereiras, follow
in the train of the Armies; also Convention Commissioners, melting
church-plate, revolutionising and remodelling--among whom Danton, in
brief space, does immensities of business; not neglecting his own wages
and trade-profits, it is thought. Hassenfratz dilapidates at home;
Dumouriez grumbles and they dilapidate abroad: within the walls there is
sinning, and without the walls there is sinning.

But in the Hall of the Convention, at the same hour with this victory
of Jemappes, there went another thing forward: Report, of great length,