nder; poor Louvet, unprepared, can do little
or nothing: Barrere proposes that these comparatively despicable
'personalities' be dismissed by order of the day! Order of the day it
accordingly is. Barbaroux cannot even get a hearing; not though he rush
down to the Bar, and demand to be heard there as a petitioner. (Louvet,
Memoires (Paris, 1823) p. 52; Moniteur (Seances du 29 Octobre, 5
Novembre, 1792); Moore (ii. 178), &c.) The convention, eager for public
business (with that first articulate emergence of the Trial just coming
on), dismisses these comparative miseres and despicabilities: splenetic
Louvet must digest his spleen, regretfully for ever: Robespierre, dear
to Patriotism, is dearer for the dangers he has run.

This is the second grand attempt by our Girondin Friends of Order, to
extinguish that black-spot in their domain; and we see they have made it
far blacker and wider than before! Anarchy, September Massacre: it is a
thing that lies hideous in the general imagination; very detestable to
the undecided Patriot, of Respectability: a thing to be harped on as
often as need is. Harp on it, denounce it, trample it, ye Girondin
Patriots:--and yet behold, the black-spot will not trample down; it will
only, as we say, trample blacker and wider: fools, it is no black-spot
of the surface, but a well-spring of the deep! Consider rightly, it is
the apex of the everlasting Abyss, this black-spot, looking up as water
through thin ice;--say, as the region of Nether Darkness through your
thin film of Gironde Regulation and Respectability; trample it not, lest
the film break, and then--!

The truth is, if our Gironde Friends had an understanding of it, where
were French Patriotism, with all its eloquence, at this moment, had not
that same great Nether Deep, of Bedlam, Fanaticism and Popular wrath and
madness, risen unfathomable on the Tenth of August? French Patriotism
were an eloquent Reminiscence; swinging on Prussian gibbets. Nay,
where, in few months, were it still, should the same great Nether Deep
subside?--Nay, as readers of Newspapers pretend to recollect, this
hatefulness of the September Massacre is itself partly an after-thought:
readers of Newspapers can quote Gorsas and various Brissotins approving
of the September Massacre, at the time it happened; and calling it a
salutary vengeance! (See Hist. Parl. xvii. 401; Newspapers by Gorsas and
others, cited ibid. 428.) So that the real grief, after all, were not
so m