ennes. Thus was the Throne overturned
thereby; but thus also was it victoriously set up again--on its vertex;
and will stand while it can be held.

BOOK 2.V.

PARLIAMENT FIRST

Chapter 2.5.I.

Grande Acceptation.

In the last nights of September, when the autumnal equinox is past,
and grey September fades into brown October, why are the Champs Elysees
illuminated; why is Paris dancing, and flinging fire-works? They are
gala-nights, these last of September; Paris may well dance, and the
Universe: the Edifice of the Constitution is completed! Completed; nay
revised, to see that there was nothing insufficient in it; solemnly
proferred to his Majesty; solemnly accepted by him, to the sound
of cannon-salvoes, on the fourteenth of the month. And now by such
illumination, jubilee, dancing and fire-working, do we joyously handsel
the new Social Edifice, and first raise heat and reek there, in the name
of Hope.

The Revision, especially with a throne standing on its vertex, has
been a work of difficulty, of delicacy. In the way of propping and
buttressing, so indispensable now, something could be done; and yet,
as is feared, not enough. A repentant Barnave Triumvirate, our Rabauts,
Duports, Thourets, and indeed all Constitutional Deputies did strain
every nerve: but the Extreme Left was so noisy; the People were so
suspicious, clamorous to have the work ended: and then the loyal Right
Side sat feeble petulant all the while, and as it were, pouting and
petting; unable to help, had they even been willing; the two Hundred and
Ninety had solemnly made scission, before that: and departed, shaking
the dust off their feet. To such transcendency of fret, and desperate
hope that worsening of the bad might the sooner end it and bring back
the good, had our unfortunate loyal Right Side now come! (Toulongeon,
ii. 56, 59.)

However, one finds that this and the other little prop has been added,
where possibility allowed. Civil-list and Privy-purse were from of old
well cared for. King's Constitutional Guard, Eighteen hundred loyal men
from the Eighty-three Departments, under a loyal Duke de Brissac; this,
with trustworthy Swiss besides, is of itself something. The old loyal
Bodyguards are indeed dissolved, in name as well as in fact; and gone
mostly towards Coblentz. But now also those Sansculottic violent Gardes
Francaises, or Centre Grenadiers, shall have their mittimus: they do
ere long, in the Journals, not without a hoa