to the 'honours of the sitting, honneur
de la seance.' A long-flowing Turk, for rejoinder, bows with Eastern
solemnity, and utters articulate sounds: but owing to his imperfect
knowledge of the French dialect, (Moniteur, &c. (in Hist. Parl. xii.
283).) his words are like spilt water; the thought he had in him remains
conjectural to this day.

Anacharsis and Mankind accept the honours of the sitting; and have
forthwith, as the old Newspapers still testify, the satisfaction to see
several things. First and chief, on the motion of Lameth, Lafayette,
Saint-Fargeau and other Patriot Nobles, let the others repugn as they
will: all Titles of Nobility, from Duke to Esquire, or lower, are
henceforth abolished. Then, in like manner, Livery Servants, or rather
the Livery of Servants. Neither, for the future, shall any man or woman,
self-styled noble, be 'incensed,'--foolishly fumigated with incense, in
Church; as the wont has been. In a word, Feudalism being dead these ten
months, why should her empty trappings and scutcheons survive? The very
Coats-of-arms will require to be obliterated;--and yet Cassandra
Marat on this and the other coach-panel notices that they 'are but
painted-over,' and threaten to peer through again.

So that henceforth de Lafayette is but the Sieur Motier, and
Saint-Fargeau is plain Michel Lepelletier; and Mirabeau soon after
has to say huffingly, "With your Riquetti you have set Europe at
cross-purposes for three days." For his Counthood is not indifferent to
this man; which indeed the admiring People treat him with to the last.
But let extreme Patriotism rejoice, and chiefly Anacharsis and Mankind;
for now it seems to be taken for granted that one Adam is Father of us
all!--

Such was, in historical accuracy, the famed feat of Anacharsis. Thus did
the most extensive of Public Bodies find a sort of spokesman. Whereby at
least we may judge of one thing: what a humour the once sniffing mocking
City of Paris and Baron Clootz had got into; when such exhibition could
appear a propriety, next door to a sublimity. It is true, Envy did
in after times, pervert this success of Anacharsis; making him, from
incidental 'Speaker of the Foreign-Nations Committee,' claim to be
official permanent 'Speaker, Orateur, of the Human Species,' which he
only deserved to be; and alleging, calumniously, that his astrological
Chaldeans, and the rest, were a mere French tag-rag-and-bobtail
disguised for the nonce; and, in short, s