or publishing it: to which Secret Protest
his signature, and that of other honourable Deputies not a few, stands
legibly appended. And now, if the seals were once broken, the
Mountain still victorious? Such Protestors, your Merciers, Bailleuls,
Seventy-three by the tale, what yet remains of Respectable Girondism in
the Convention, may tremble to think!--These are the fruits of levying
civil war.

Also we find, that, in these last days of July, the famed Siege of Mentz
is finished; the Garrison to march out with honours of war; not to serve
against the Coalition for a year! Lovers of the Picturesque, and
Goethe standing on the Chaussee of Mentz, saw, with due interest, the
Procession issuing forth, in all solemnity:

'Escorted by Prussian horse came first the French Garrison. Nothing
could look stranger than this latter: a column of Marseillese, slight,
swarthy, party-coloured, in patched clothes, came tripping on;--as if
King Edwin had opened the Dwarf Hill, and sent out his nimble Host
of Dwarfs. Next followed regular troops; serious, sullen; not as if
downcast or ashamed. But the remarkablest appearance, which struck every
one, was that of the Chasers (Chasseurs) coming out mounted: they had
advanced quite silent to where we stood, when their Band struck up
the Marseillaise. This Revolutionary Te-Deum has in itself something
mournful and bodeful, however briskly played; but at present they gave
it in altogether slow time, proportionate to the creeping step they rode
at. It was piercing and fearful, and a most serious-looking thing, as
these cavaliers, long, lean men, of a certain age, with mien suitable
to the music, came pacing on: singly you might have likened them to Don
Quixote; in mass, they were highly dignified.

'But now a single troop became notable: that of the Commissioners or
Representans. Merlin of Thionville, in hussar uniform, distinguishing
himself by wild beard and look, had another person in similar costume on
his left; the crowd shouted out, with rage, at sight of this latter, the
name of a Jacobin Townsman and Clubbist; and shook itself to seize him.
Merlin drew bridle; referred to his dignity as French Representative, to
the vengeance that should follow any injury done; he would advise every
one to compose himself, for this was not the last time they would see
him here. (Belagerung von Maintz, Goethe's Werke, xxx. 315.) Thus rode
Merlin; threatening in defeat. But what now shall stem that tide o