lding him, they say for his numbness. By whom,
nevertheless, the royal Apprentice had learned something of that craft.
Hapless Apprentice; perfidious Master-Smith! For now, on this 20th of
November 1792, dingy Smith Gamain comes over to the Paris Municipality,
over to Minister Roland, with hints that he, Smith Gamain, knows a
thing; that, in May last, when traitorous Correspondence was so brisk,
he and the royal Apprentice fabricated an 'Iron Press, Armoire de Fer,'
cunningly inserting the same in a wall of the royal chamber in the
Tuileries; invisible under the wainscot; where doubtless it still
sticks! Perfidious Gamain, attended by the proper Authorities, finds the
wainscot panel which none else can find; wrenches it up; discloses
the Iron Press,--full of Letters and Papers! Roland clutches them out;
conveys them over in towels to the fit assiduous Committee, which sits
hard by. In towels, we say, and without notarial inventory; an oversight
on the part of Roland.

Here, however, are Letters enough: which disclose to a demonstration the
Correspondence of a traitorous self-preserving Court; and this not with
Traitors only, but even with Patriots, so-called! Barnave's treason, of
Correspondence with the Queen, and friendly advice to her, ever since
that Varennes Business, is hereby manifest: how happy that we have him,
this Barnave, lying safe in the Prison of Grenoble, since September
last, for he had long been suspect! Talleyrand's treason, many a man's
treason, if not manifest hereby, is next to it. Mirabeau's treason:
wherefore his Bust in the Hall of the Convention 'is veiled with gauze,'
till we ascertain. Alas, it is too ascertainable! His Bust in the Hall
of the Jacobins, denounced by Robespierre from the tribune in mid-air,
is not veiled, it is instantly broken to sherds; a Patriot mounting
swiftly with a ladder, and shivering it down on the floor;--it and
others: amid shouts. (Journal des Debats des Jacobins in Hist. Parl.
xxii. 296.) Such is their recompense and amount of wages, at this
date: on the principle of supply and demand! Smith Gamain, inadequately
recompensed for the present, comes, some fifteen months after, with a
humble Petition; setting forth that no sooner was that important Iron
Press finished off by him, than (as he now bethinks himself) Louis gave
him a large glass of wine. Which large glass of wine did produce in
the stomach of Sieur Gamain the terriblest effects, evidently
tending towards