m a country which
he had contributed to ruin. The king, also, soon again declined in
popular favour; the sentiments of his heart did not accord with his
public declarations, and this becoming manifest, the popular party was
disquieted and enraged. Mirabeau, whose ardour for revolution had begun
to cool, and who now saw that the constitution was far too democratic
for a monarchy, leagued secretly with the fallen court, and laboured
with all the force of his popularity to raise it from its degraded
state, and to recover for the crown a portion of strength necessary for
its existence. But it was too late. Before this, clubs had been formed
among the members of the national assembly, in order that better
directed and more energetic efforts might be made in securing the
objects of the revolution. Pre-eminent among these clubs was that of
the deputies from Bretagne, which held its sessions in the suppressed
cloister of the Jacobins, from which cloister the members of the club
received the name of Jacobins; a name which finally obtained a bad
celebrity in the world's history. Similar clubs were also formed in most
of the important cities of the kingdom, which maintained, with that at
Paris, the closest union of sentiments and efforts. The bonds of society
in France were, in truth, loosened, and no human skill could restore
them: the bridle had been taken from the mouth of the fiery steed,
and no human arm could arrest his headlong course. Marat, Danton, and
Robespierre-men of blood--with others of the same stamp, had already
made their execrable names known in the clubs of the Cordeliers and
Jacobins, which finally united, and these were the men who were, for a
brief period, to rule the destinies of France.

PROGRESS OF REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES IN ENGLAND.

It has been well said that the season of hope and delusion ought now to
have been over--that whatever right-hearted and right-headed Englishmen
might have thought of the French revolution at the opening of the
States-general in May, 1789, they ought not at the close of this year
to have regarded it with any other sentiments than those of horror,
disgust, and pity. But "rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft." Although
it was as clear as the sun at noon-day, that the events which had
taken place in France were but the precursors of some horrible
catastrophe--that the French regenerators sought not wholesome and
legitimate reformations, but the ruin of their country, ye