Did not the glance of his royal countenance, like concentrated sunbeams,
kindle all hearts in an august Assembly; nay thereby in an inflammable
enthusiastic France? To move 'Deputation of thanks' can be the happy
lot of but one man; to go in such Deputation the lot of not many. The
Deputed have gone, and returned with what highest-flown compliment they
could; whom also the Queen met, Dauphin in hand. And still do not our
hearts burn with insatiable gratitude; and to one other man a still
higher blessedness suggests itself: To move that we all renew the
National Oath.

Happiest honourable Member, with his word so in season as word seldom
was; magic Fugleman of a whole National Assembly, which sat there
bursting to do somewhat; Fugleman of a whole onlooking France! The
President swears; declares that every one shall swear, in distinct je
le jure. Nay the very Gallery sends him down a written slip signed, with
their Oath on it; and as the Assembly now casts an eye that way, the
Gallery all stands up and swears again. And then out of doors, consider
at the Hotel-de-Ville how Bailly, the great Tennis-Court swearer,
again swears, towards nightful, with all the Municipals, and Heads of
Districts assembled there. And 'M. Danton suggests that the public would
like to partake:' whereupon Bailly, with escort of Twelve, steps
forth to the great outer staircase; sways the ebullient multitude with
stretched hand: takes their oath, with a thunder of 'rolling drums,'
with shouts that rend the welkin. And on all streets the glad people,
with moisture and fire in their eyes, 'spontaneously formed groups, and
swore one another,' (Newspapers in Hist. Parl. iv. 445.)--and the whole
City was illuminated. This was the Fourth of February 1790: a day to be
marked white in Constitutional annals.

Nor is the illumination for a night only, but partially or totally
it lasts a series of nights. For each District, the Electors of each
District, will swear specially; and always as the District swears; it
illuminates itself. Behold them, District after District, in some open
square, where the Non-Electing People can all see and join: with
their uplifted right hands, and je le jure: with rolling drums, with
embracings, and that infinite hurrah of the enfranchised,--which any
tyrant that there may be can consider! Faithful to the King, to the Law,
to the Constitution which the National Assembly shall make.

Fancy, for example, the Professors of Unive