ed together, and all the world exclaim, There is the tornado! Tout
le monde s'ecria, Voila l'ouragan!

For the rest, in such circumstances, the Successive Loan, very
naturally, remains unfilled; neither, indeed, can that impost of the
Second Twentieth, at least not on 'strict valuation,' be levied to good
purpose: 'Lenders,' says Weber, in his hysterical vehement manner, 'are
afraid of ruin; tax-gatherers of hanging.' The very Clergy turn
away their face: convoked in Extraordinary Assembly, they afford no
gratuitous gift (don gratuit),--if it be not that of advice; here too
instead of cash is clamour for States-General. (Lameth, Assemb. Const.
(Introd.) p. 87.)

O Lomenie-Brienne, with thy poor flimsy mind all bewildered, and now
'three actual cauteries' on thy worn-out body; who art like to die of
inflamation, provocation, milk-diet, dartres vives and maladie--(best
untranslated); (Montgaillard, i. 424.) and presidest over a France with
innumerable actual cauteries, which also is dying of inflammation and
the rest! Was it wise to quit the bosky verdures of Brienne, and thy new
ashlar Chateau there, and what it held, for this? Soft were those
shades and lawns; sweet the hymns of Poetasters, the blandishments of
high-rouged Graces: (See Memoires de Morellet.) and always this and
the other Philosophe Morellet (nothing deeming himself or thee a
questionable Sham-Priest) could be so happy in making happy:--and
also (hadst thou known it), in the Military School hard by there sat,
studying mathematics, a dusky-complexioned taciturn Boy, under the
name of: NAPOLEON BONAPARTE!--With fifty years of effort, and one final
dead-lift struggle, thou hast made an exchange! Thou hast got thy robe
of office,--as Hercules had his Nessus'-shirt.

On the 13th of July of this 1788, there fell, on the very edge of
harvest, the most frightful hailstorm; scattering into wild waste the
Fruits of the Year; which had otherwise suffered grievously by drought.
For sixty leagues round Paris especially, the ruin was almost total.
(Marmontel, iv. 30.) To so many other evils, then, there is to be added,
that of dearth, perhaps of famine.

Some days before this hailstorm, on the 5th of July; and still more
decisively some days after it, on the 8th of August,--Lomenie announces
that the States-General are actually to meet in the following month of
May. Till after which period, this of the Plenary Court, and the rest,
shall remain postponed. Further,