e was a partisan
of the French Revolution, we must combat the assertion by a reference to
dates. Talleyrand was ambassador in England in 1792. In October 1791,
Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" appeared, to which Tom
Paine's "Rights of Man" was one of the replies, and Sir James
Mackintosh's "Vindiciae" another; and previously, in 1789 and 1790, Burke
had condemned the tendencies of the Revolution, and the conduct of the
Revolutionists.--H. T. R.

[10]

-------- immedicabile vulnus
Ense recidendum, ne pars sincera trahatur.

[11] Co-editor with Hebert of the disgusting "Pere Duchesne."--H. T. R.

[12] "Dux faemina facti."--VIRG.

[13] This extract has been given before at p. 247.--_Translator._

[14] Foulon was a contractor, who, odious to the populace, was compelled
to fly from Paris, but being discovered, was brought back, and
eventually murdered by the mob in July 1789. Berthier was his
son-in-law, and also incurring the displeasure of the people, was a few
days later stabbed by a hundred bayonets whilst on his way to
prison.--H. T. R.

[15] See Michelet's History of the French Revolution, vol. i.
p.154.--_Standard Library._

[16]

"Hail mighty triumph!--enter these our walls!
Restore those soldiers, heroes of the day
When fell Desilles, pierced by their murderous balls,
And blood of citizens bedew'd the clay!"

[17] In Michelet's _History of the French Revolution_, publishing
contemporaneously with this work, the author acquits the Duc d'Orleans
of any participation in the riots and bloodshed at Versailles, on the
4th and 5th of October; but says, page 280., "Depositions prove that he
was seen every where between Paris and Versailles, but that he did
nothing. Between eight and nine o'clock in the morning of the 6th, so
soon after the massacre that the court of the castle was still stained
with blood, he went and showed himself to the people, with an enormous
cockade in his hat, laughing, and flourishing a switch in his
hand."--_Standard Library._--H. T. R.

[18] This passage is somewhat obscure in the original: "_Dumouriez se
trouva la genie d'une circonstance cache sous l'habit d'un aventurier._"
We trust we have caught its spirit.--H. T. H.

[19] Madame Du Barry was the favourite mistress of Louis XV., and her
brother, as he was called, the Count Jean du Barry, had the king's
patronage, and preyed on the public to a great extent, to supply his low
habits an