deaux region: men of fervid Constitutional principles; of quick
talent, irrefragable logic, clear respectability; who will have the
Reign of Liberty establish itself, but only by respectable methods.
Round whom others of like temper will gather; known by and by as
Girondins, to the sorrowing wonder of the world. Of which sort note
Condorcet, Marquis and Philosopher; who has worked at much, at Paris
Municipal Constitution, Differential Calculus, Newspaper Chronique de
Paris, Biography, Philosophy; and now sits here as two-years Senator:
a notable Condorcet, with stoical Roman face, and fiery heart; 'volcano
hid under snow;' styled likewise, in irreverent language, 'mouton
enrage,' peaceablest of creatures bitten rabid! Or note, lastly,
Jean-Pierre Brissot; whom Destiny, long working noisily with him, has
hurled hither, say, to have done with him. A biennial Senator he too;
nay, for the present, the king of such. Restless, scheming, scribbling
Brissot; who took to himself the style de Warville, heralds know not
in the least why;--unless it were that the father of him did, in an
unexceptionable manner, perform Cookery and Vintnery in the Village of
Ouarville? A man of the windmill species, that grinds always, turning
towards all winds; not in the steadiest manner.

In all these men there is talent, faculty to work; and they will do it:
working and shaping, not without effect, though alas not in marble, only
in quicksand!--But the highest faculty of them all remains yet to be
mentioned; or indeed has yet to unfold itself for mention: Captain
Hippolyte Carnot, sent hither from the Pas de Calais; with his cold
mathematical head, and silent stubbornness of will: iron Carnot,
far-planning, imperturbable, unconquerable; who, in the hour of need,
shall not be found wanting. His hair is yet black; and it shall grow
grey, under many kinds of fortune, bright and troublous; and with iron
aspect this man shall face them all.

Nor is Cote Droit, and band of King's friends, wanting: Vaublanc, Dumas,
Jaucourt the honoured Chevalier; who love Liberty, yet with Monarchy
over it; and speak fearlessly according to that faith;--whom the
thick-coming hurricanes will sweep away. With them, let a new military
Theodore Lameth be named;--were it only for his two Brothers' sake, who
look down on him, approvingly there, from the Old-Constituents' Gallery.
Frothy professing Pastorets, honey-mouthed conciliatory Lamourettes,
and speechless nameless i