down like a mountain deluge, and submerge France!
A singular thing this camp of Jales; existing mostly on paper. For the
Soldiers at Jales, being peasants or National Guards, were in heart
sworn Sansculottes; and all that the Royalist Captains could do was,
with false words, to keep them, or rather keep the report of them, drawn
up there, visible to all imaginations, for a terror and a sign,--if
peradventure France might be reconquered by theatrical machinery, by the
picture of a Royalist Army done to the life! (Dampmartin, Evenemens, i.
208.) Not till the third summer was this portent, burning out by fits
and then fading, got finally extinguished; was the old Castle of Jales,
no Camp being visible to the bodily eye, got blown asunder by some
National Guards.

Also it has to hear not only of Brissot and his Friends of the Blacks,
but by and by of a whole St. Domingo blazing skyward; blazing in literal
fire, and in far worse metaphorical; beaconing the nightly main. Also
of the shipping interest, and the landed-interest, and all manner
of interests, reduced to distress. Of Industry every where manacled,
bewildered; and only Rebellion thriving. Of sub-officers, soldiers and
sailors in mutiny by land and water. Of soldiers, at Nanci, as we shall
see, needing to be cannonaded by a brave Bouille. Of sailors, nay the
very galley-slaves, at Brest, needing also to be cannonaded; but with no
Bouille to do it. For indeed, to say it in a word, in those days there
was no King in Israel, and every man did that which was right in his own
eyes. (See Deux Amis, iii. c. 14; iv. c. 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 14. Expedition
des Volontaires de Brest sur Lannion; Les Lyonnais Sauveurs des
Dauphinois; Massacre au Mans; Troubles du Maine (Pamphlets and Excerpts,
in Hist. Parl. iii. 251; iv. 162-168), &c.)

Such things has an august National Assembly to hear of, as it goes
on regenerating France. Sad and stern: but what remedy? Get the
Constitution ready; and all men will swear to it: for do not 'Addresses
of adhesion' arrive by the cartload? In this manner, by Heaven's
blessing, and a Constitution got ready, shall the bottomless fire-gulf
be vaulted in, with rag-paper; and Order will wed Freedom, and live with
her there,--till it grow too hot for them. O Cote Gauche, worthy are
ye, as the adhesive Addresses generally say, to 'fix the regards of the
Universe;' the regards of this one poor Planet, at lowest!--

Nay, it must be owned, the Cote Droit makes