nds tied behind him, and
stripped for execution, to say one parting word to his deluded
people,--of Santerre, who commanded the drums and trumpets to strike up
to stifle his voice, and dragged him backward to the machine of murder!
This nefarious villain (for a few days I may call him so) stands high in
France, as in a republic of robbers and murderers he ought. What
hinders this monster from being sent as ambassador to convey to his
Majesty the first compliments of his brethren, the Regicide Directory?
They have none that can represent them more properly. I anticipate the
day of his arrival. He will make his public entry into London on one of
the pale horses of his brewery. As he knows that we are pleased with the
Paris taste for the orders of knighthood,[13] he will fling a bloody
sash across his shoulders, with the order of the holy guillotine
surmounting the crown appendant to the riband. Thus adorned, he will
proceed from Whitechapel to the further end of Pall Mall, all the music
of London playing the Marseillaise Hymn before him, and escorted by a
chosen detachment of the _Legion de l'Echafaud_. It were only to be
wished that no ill-fated loyalist, for the imprudence of his zeal, may
stand in the pillory at Charing Cross, under the statue of King Charles
the First, at the time of this grand procession, lest some of the rotten
eggs which the Constitutional Society shall let fly at his indiscreet
head may hit the virtuous murderer of his king. They might soil the
state dress which the ministers of so many crowned heads have admired,
and in which Sir Clement Cotterel is to introduce him at St. James's.

If Santerre cannot be spared from the constitutional butcheries at home,
Tallien may supply his place, and, in point of figure, with advantage.
He has been habituated to commissions; and he is as well qualified as
Santerre for this. Nero wished the Roman people had but one neck. The
wish of the more exalted Tallien, when he sat in judgment, was, that his
sovereign had eighty-three heads, that he might send one to every one of
the Departments. Tallien will make an excellent figure at Guildhall at
the next Sheriff's feast. He may open the ball with my Lady Mayoress.
But this will be after he has retired from the public table, and gone
into the private room for the enjoyment of more social and unreserved
conversation with the ministers of state and the judges of the bench.
There these ministers and magistrates will hear h