waiting to strike in. Trouble enough at Lyons; and the dominant party
carrying it with a high hand! For indeed, the whole South is astir;
incarcerating Jacobins; arming for Girondins: wherefore we have got
a 'Congress of Lyons;' also a 'Revolutionary Tribunal of Lyons,'
and Anarchists shall tremble. So Chalier was soon found guilty, of
Jacobinism, of murderous Plot, 'address with drawn dagger on the sixth
of February last;' and, on the morrow, he also travels his final road,
along the streets of Lyons, 'by the side of an ecclesiastic, with whom
he seems to speak earnestly,'--the axe now glittering high. He could
weep, in old years, this man, and 'fall on his knees on the pavement,'
blessing Heaven at sight of Federation Programs or like; then he
pilgrimed to Paris, to worship Marat and the Mountain: now Marat and
he are both gone;--we said he could not end well. Jacobinism groans
inwardly, at Lyons; but dare not outwardly. Chalier, when the Tribunal
sentenced him, made answer: "My death will cost this City dear."

Montelimart Town is not buried under its ruins; yet Marseilles is
actually marching, under order of a 'Lyons Congress;' is incarcerating
Patriots; the very Royalists now shewing face. Against which a General
Cartaux fights, though in small force; and with him an Artillery Major,
of the name of--Napoleon Buonaparte. This Napoleon, to prove that the
Marseillese have no chance ultimately, not only fights but writes;
publishes his Supper of Beaucaire, a Dialogue which has become curious.
(See Hazlitt, ii. 529-41.) Unfortunate Cities, with their actions and
their reactions! Violence to be paid with violence in geometrical ratio;
Royalism and Anarchism both striking in;--the final net-amount of which
geometrical series, what man shall sum?

The Bar of Iron has never yet floated in Marseilles Harbour; but the
Body of Rebecqui was found floating, self-drowned there. Hot Rebecqui
seeing how confusion deepened, and Respectability grew poisoned with
Royalism, felt that there was no refuge for a Republican but death.
Rebecqui disappeared: no one knew whither; till, one morning, they found
the empty case or body of him risen to the top, tumbling on the salt
waves; (Barbaroux, p. 29.) and perceived that Rebecqui had withdrawn
forever.--Toulon likewise is incarcerating Patriots; sending delegates
to Congress; intriguing, in case of necessity, with the Royalists and
English. Montpellier, Bourdeaux, Nantes: all France, that i