is and charge find that
they must retire to the Netherlands; must wait on the Frontiers for a
week or two; till Monseigneur, by Jacobin help, get it wound up. 'Next
morning,' says Dame Genlis, 'Monseigneur, gloomier than ever, gave
me his arm, to lead me to the carriage. I was greatly troubled;
Mademoiselle burst into tears; her Father was pale and trembling. After
I had got seated, he stood immovable at the carriage-door, with his
eyes fixed on me; his mournful and painful look seemed to implore
pity;--"Adieu, Madame!" said he. The altered sound of his voice
completely overcame me; not able to utter a word, I held out my hand;
he grasped it close; then turning, and advancing sharply towards the
postillions, he gave them a sign, and we rolled away.' (Genlis, Memoires
(London, 1825), iv. 118.)

Nor are Peace-makers wanting; of whom likewise we mention two; one
fast on the crown of the Mountain, the other not yet alighted anywhere:
Danton and Barrere. Ingenious Barrere, Old-Constituent and Editor
from the slopes of the Pyrenees, is one of the usefullest men of this
Convention, in his way. Truth may lie on both sides, on either side,
or on neither side; my friends, ye must give and take: for the rest,
success to the winning side! This is the motto of Barrere. Ingenious,
almost genial; quick-sighted, supple, graceful; a man that will prosper.
Scarcely Belial in the assembled Pandemonium was plausibler to ear and
eye. An indispensable man: in the great Art of Varnish he may be said
to seek his fellow. Has there an explosion arisen, as many do arise, a
confusion, unsightliness, which no tongue can speak of, nor eye look on;
give it to Barrere; Barrere shall be Committee-Reporter of it; you shall
see it transmute itself into a regularity, into the very beauty and
improvement that was needed. Without one such man, we say, how were
this Convention bested? Call him not, as exaggerative Mercier does, 'the
greatest liar in France:' nay it may be argued there is not truth enough
in him to make a real lie of. Call him, with Burke, Anacreon of the
Guillotine, and a man serviceable to this Convention.

The other Peace-maker whom we name is Danton. Peace, O peace with one
another! cries Danton often enough: Are we not alone against the world;
a little band of brothers? Broad Danton is loved by all the Mountain;
but they think him too easy-tempered, deficient in suspicion: he has
stood between Dumouriez and much censure, anxious not to