rds, and 'soon after fly over to the Austrians.'

So that when it here as elsewhere comes to the question of Arrears,
the humour and procedure is of the bitterest: Regiment Mestre-de-Camp
getting, amid loud clamour, some three gold louis a-man,--which have,
as usual, to be borrowed from the Municipality; Swiss Chateau-Vieux
applying for the like, but getting instead instantaneous courrois, or
cat-o'-nine-tails, with subsequent unsufferable hisses from the women
and children; Regiment du Roi, sick of hope deferred, at length seizing
its military chest, and marching it to quarters, but next day marching
it back again, through streets all struck silent:--unordered paradings
and clamours, not without strong liquor; objurgation, insubordination;
your military ranked Arrangement going all (as the Typographers say of
set types, in a similar case) rapidly to pie! (Deux Amis, v. c. 8.) Such
is Nanci in these early days of August; the sublime Feast of Pikes not
yet a month old.

Constitutional Patriotism, at Paris and elsewhere, may well quake at
the news. War-Minister Latour du Pin runs breathless to the National
Assembly, with a written message that 'all is burning, tout brule, tout
presse.' The National Assembly, on spur of the instant, renders such
Decret, and 'order to submit and repent,' as he requires; if it will
avail any thing. On the other hand, Journalism, through all its throats,
gives hoarse outcry, condemnatory, elegiac-applausive. The Forty-eight
Sections, lift up voices; sonorous Brewer, or call him now Colonel
Santerre, is not silent, in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. For, meanwhile,
the Nanci Soldiers have sent a Deputation of Ten, furnished
with documents and proofs; who will tell another story than the
'all-is-burning' one. Which deputed Ten, before ever they reach the
Assembly Hall, assiduous Latour du Pin picks up, and on warrant of Mayor
Bailly, claps in prison! Most unconstitutionally; for they had officers'
furloughs. Whereupon Saint-Antoine, in indignant uncertainty of the
future, closes its shops. Is Bouille a traitor then, sold to Austria?
In that case, these poor private sentinels have revolted mainly out of
Patriotism?

New Deputation, Deputation of National Guardsmen now, sets forth from
Nanci to enlighten the Assembly. It meets the old deputed Ten returning,
quite unexpectedly unhanged; and proceeds thereupon with better
prospects; but effects nothing. Deputations, Government Messengers,
Orderlies