s successive changes of colour and character, will blaze over
the face of Europe, and afflict the scorch all men:--till it provoke all
men; till it kindle another kind of fire, the Teutonic kind, namely; and
be swallowed up, so to speak, in a day! For there is a fire comparable
to the burning of dry-jungle and grass; most sudden, high-blazing:
and another fire which we liken to the burning of coal, or even of
anthracite coal; difficult to kindle, but then which nothing will put
out. The ready Gaelic fire, we can remark further, and remark not in
Pichegrus only, but in innumerable Voltaires, Racines, Laplaces, no
less; for a man, whether he fight, or sing, or think, will remain
the same unity of a man,--is admirable for roasting eggs, in every
conceivable sense. The Teutonic anthracite again, as we see in Luthers,
Leibnitzes, Shakespeares, is preferable for smelting metals. How happy
is our Europe that has both kinds!--

But be this as it may, the Republic is clearly triumphing. In the spring
of the year Mentz Town again sees itself besieged; will again change
master: did not Merlin the Thionviller, 'with wild beard and look,' say
it was not for the last time they saw him there? The Elector of Mentz
circulates among his brother Potentates this pertinent query, Were it
not advisable to treat of Peace? Yes! answers many an Elector from the
bottom of his heart. But, on the other hand, Austria hesitates; finally
refuses, being subsidied by Pitt. As to Pitt, whoever hesitate, he,
suspending his Habeas-corpus, suspending his Cash-payments, stands
inflexible,--spite of foreign reverses; spite of domestic obstacles, of
Scotch National Conventions and English Friends of the People, whom he
is obliged to arraign, to hang, or even to see acquitted with jubilee: a
lean inflexible man. The Majesty of Spain, as we predicted, makes Peace;
also the Majesty of Prussia: and there is a Treaty of Bale. (5th
April, 1795, Montgaillard, iv. 319.) Treaty with black Anarchists and
Regicides! Alas, what help? You cannot hang this Anarchy; it is like to
hang you: you must needs treat with it.

Likewise, General Hoche has even succeeded in pacificating La Vendee.
Rogue Rossignol and his 'Infernal Columns' have vanished: by firmness
and justice, by sagacity and industry, General Hoche has done it. Taking
'Movable Columns,' not infernal; girdling-in the Country; pardoning the
submissive, cutting down the resistive, limb after limb of the Revolt
is b