rought under. La Rochejacquelin, last of our Nobles, fell in battle;
Stofflet himself makes terms; Georges-Cadoudal is back to Brittany,
among his Chouans: the frightful gangrene of La Vendee seems veritably
extirpated. It has cost, as they reckon in round numbers, the lives of
a Hundred Thousand fellow-mortals; with noyadings, conflagratings by
infernal column, which defy arithmetic. This is the La Vendee War.
(Histoire de la Guerre de la Vendee, par M. le Comte de Vauban, Memoires
de Madame de la Rochejacquelin, &c.)

Nay in few months, it does burst up once more, but once only:--blown
upon by Pitt, by our Ci-devant Puisaye of Calvados, and others. In the
month of July 1795, English Ships will ride in Quiberon roads.
There will be debarkation of chivalrous Ci-devants, of volunteer
Prisoners-of-war--eager to desert; of fire-arms, Proclamations,
clothes-chests, Royalists and specie. Whereupon also, on the Republican
side, there will be rapid stand-to-arms; with ambuscade marchings by
Quiberon beach, at midnight; storming of Fort Penthievre; war-thunder
mingling with the roar of the nightly main; and such a morning light as
has seldom dawned; debarkation hurled back into its boats, or into
the devouring billows, with wreck and wail;--in one word, a Ci-devant
Puisaye as totally ineffectual here as he was in Calvados, when he rode
from Vernon Castle without boots. (Deux Amis, xiv. 94-106; Puisaye,
Memoires, iii-vii.)

Again, therefore, it has cost the lives of many a brave man. Among whom
the whole world laments the brave Son of Sombreuil. Ill-fated family!
The father and younger son went to the guillotine; the heroic daughter
languishes, reduced to want, hides her woes from History: the elder son
perishes here; shot by military tribunal as an Emigrant; Hoche himself
cannot save him. If all wars, civil and other, are misunderstandings,
what a thing must right-understanding be!

Chapter 3.7.IV.

Lion not dead.

The Convention, borne on the tide of Fortune towards foreign Victory,
and driven by the strong wind of Public Opinion towards Clemency and
Luxury, is rushing fast; all skill of pilotage is needed, and more than
all, in such a velocity.

Curious to see, how we veer and whirl, yet must ever whirl round
again, and scud before the wind. If, on the one hand, we re-admit the
Protesting Seventy-Three, we, on the other hand, agree to consummate
the Apotheosis of Marat; lift his body from the Cordeliers Church, and