May 19, 1792, p. 205.--Dumouriez, "Memoires," III. 296, and 339,
340, 344, 346.--"Cambon, a raving lunatic, without education, humane
principle, or integrity (public) a meddler, an ignoramus, and very
giddy. He tells me that one resource remained to him, which is, to seize
all the coin in Belgium, all the plate belonging to the churches, and
all the cash deposits... that, on ruining the Belgians, on reducing them
to the same state of suffering as the French, they would necessarily
share their fate with them; that they would then be admitted members of
the Republic, with the prospect of always making headway, through the
same line of policy; that the decree of Dec. 15, 1792, admirably favored
this and, because it tended to a complete disorganization, and that the
luckiest thing that could happen to France was to disorganize all
its neighbors and reduce them to the same state of anarchy." (This
conversation between Cambon and Dumouriez occurs in the middle of
January, 1793.)--Moniteur, XIV. 758 (sitting of Dec. 15, 1792). Report
by Cambon.]

[Footnote 2208: Chronique de Paris, Sept. 4, 1792. "It is a sad
and terrible situation which forces a people, naturally amiable and
generous, to take such vengeance!"--Cf. the very acute article, by
St. Beuve, on Condorcet, in "Causeries du Lundi,"--Hua (a colleague of
Condorcet, in the Legislative Assembly), "Memoires," 89. "Condorcet,
in his journal, regularly falsified things, with an audacity which
is unparelleled. The opinions of the 'Right' were so mutilated and
travestied the next day in his journal, that we, who had uttered them,
could scarcely recognise them. On complaining of this to him and on
charging him with perfidy, the philosopher only smiled."]

[Footnote 2209: Malouet, II. 215.--Dumouriez, III. ch. V. "They were
elected to represent the nation to defend, they say, its interests
against a perfidious court."]

[Footnote 2210: Moniteur, X. 223 (session of Oct. 26, 1791). Speech by
M. Francois Duval.--Grandiloquence is the order of the day at the very
first meeting. On the 1st of October, 1791, twelve old men, marching in
procession, go out to fetch the constitutional act. "M. Camus, keeper of
the records, with a composed air and downcast eyes, enters with measured
steps," bearing in both hands the sacred document which he holds against
his breast, while the deputies stand up and bare their heads. "People of
France," says an orator, "citizens of Paris, all generous Fre