im entertain the worthy
aldermen with an instructing and pleasing narrative of the manner in
which he made the rich citizens of Bordeaux squeak, and gently led them
by the public credit of the guillotine to disgorge their
anti-revolutionary pelf.

All this will be the display, and the town-talk, when our regicide is on
a visit of ceremony. At home nothing will equal the pomp and splendor of
the _Hotel de la Republique_. There another scene of gaudy grandeur will
be opened. When his Citizen Excellency keeps the festival, which every
citizen is ordered to observe, for the glorious execution of Louis the
Sixteenth, and renews his oath of detestation of kings, a grand ball of
course will be given on the occasion. Then what a hurly-burly! what a
crowding! what a glare of a thousand flambeaux in the square! what a
clamor of footmen contending at the door! what a rattling of a thousand
coaches of duchesses, countesses, and Lady Marys, choking the way, and
overturning each other, in a struggle who should be first to pay her
court to the _Citoyenne_, the spouse of the twenty-first husband, he
the husband of the thirty-first wife, and to hail her in the rank of
honorable matrons before the four days' duration of marriage is
expired!--Morals, as they were, decorum, the great outguard of the sex,
and the proud sentiment of honor, which makes virtue more respectable,
where it is, and conceals human frailty, where virtue may not be, will
be banished from this land of propriety, modesty, and reserve.

We had before an ambassador from the most Christian King. We shall have
then one, perhaps two, as lately, from the most Anti-Christian Republic.
His chapel will be great and splendid, formed on the model of the Temple
of Reason at Paris; while the famous ode of the infamous Chenier will be
sung, and a prostitute of the street adored as a goddess. We shall then
have a French ambassador without a suspicion of Popery. One good it will
have: it will go some way in quieting the minds of that synod of zealous
Protestant lay elders who govern Ireland on the pacific principles of
polemic theology, and who now, from dread of the Pope, cannot take a
cool bottle of claret, or enjoy an innocent Parliamentary job, with any
tolerable quiet.

So far as to the French communication here:--what will be the effect of
our communication there? We know that our new brethren, whilst they
everywhere shut up the churches, increased in Paris, at one time at
le