plunge for life; bewhistled with curses and lead.
Sunk to the middle, with or without horses, several servants killed,
they escape out of shot-range, to General Mack the Austrian's quarters.
Nay they return on the morrow, to Saint-Amand and faithful foreign
Berchigny; but what boots it? The Artillery has all revolted, is
jingling off to Valenciennes: all have revolted, are revolting; except
only foreign Berchigny, to the extent of some poor fifteen hundred,
none will follow Dumouriez against France and Indivisible Republic:
Dumouriez's occupation's gone. (Memoires, iv. 162-180.)

Such an instinct of Frenehhood and Sansculottism dwells in these men:
they will follow no Dumouriez nor Lafayette, nor any mortal on
such errand. Shriek may be of Sauve-qui-peut, but will also be of
Vive-la-Republique. New National Representatives arrive; new General
Dampierre, soon killed in battle; new General Custine; the agitated
Hosts draw back to some Camp of Famars; make head against Cobourg as
they can.

And so Dumouriez is in the Austrian quarters; his drama ended, in this
rather sorry manner. A most shifty, wiry man; one of Heaven's Swiss that
wanted only work. Fifty years of unnoticed toil and valour; one year of
toil and valour, not unnoticed, but seen of all countries and centuries;
then thirty other years again unnoticed, of Memoir-writing, English
Pension, scheming and projecting to no purpose: Adieu thou Swiss of
Heaven, worthy to have been something else!

His Staff go different ways. Brave young Egalite reaches Switzerland and
the Genlis Cottage; with a strong crabstick in his hand, a strong heart
in his body: his Princedom in now reduced to that. Egalite the Father
sat playing whist, in his Palais Egalite, at Paris, on the 6th day of
this same month of April, when a catchpole entered: Citoyen Egalite
is wanted at the Convention Committee! (See Montgaillard, iv. 144.)
Examination, requiring Arrestment; finally requiring Imprisonment,
transference to Marseilles and the Castle of If! Orleansdom has sunk
in the black waters; Palais Egalite, which was Palais Royal, is like to
become Palais National.

Chapter 3.3.VII.

In Fight.

Our Republic, by paper Decree, may be 'One and Indivisible;' but what
profits it while these things are? Federalists in the Senate, renegadoes
in the Army, traitors everywhere! France, all in desperate recruitment
since the Tenth of March, does not fly to the frontier, but only flies
hither and