all Patriot judgments? Hateful is that massacre; hateful the
Lafayette-Feuillant 'public thanks' given for it! For indeed, Jacobin
Patriotism and dispersed Feuillantism are now at death-grips; and do
fight with all weapons, even with scenic shows. The walls of Paris,
accordingly, are covered with Placard and Counter-Placard, on the
subject of Forty Swiss blockheads. Journal responds to Journal; Player
Collot to Poetaster Roucher; Joseph Chenier the Jacobin, squire of
Theroigne, to his Brother Andre the Feuillant; Mayor Petion to Dupont de
Nemours: and for the space of two months, there is nowhere peace for the
thought of man,--till this thing be settled.

Gloria in excelsis! The Forty Swiss are at last got 'amnestied.' Rejoice
ye Forty: doff your greasy wool Bonnets, which shall become Caps of
Liberty. The Brest Daughter-Society welcomes you from on board, with
kisses on each cheek: your iron Handcuffs are disputed as Relics of
Saints; the Brest Society indeed can have one portion, which it will
beat into Pikes, a sort of Sacred Pikes; but the other portion must
belong to Paris, and be suspended from the dome there, along with the
Flags of the Three Free Peoples! Such a goose is man; and cackles over
plush-velvet Grand Monarques and woollen Galley-slaves; over everything
and over nothing,--and will cackle with his whole soul merely if others
cackle!

On the ninth morning of April, these Forty Swiss blockheads arrive.
From Versailles; with vivats heaven-high; with the affluence of men and
women. To the Townhall we conduct them; nay to the Legislative
itself, though not without difficulty. They are harangued, bedinnered,
begifted,--the very Court, not for conscience' sake, contributing
something; and their Public Festival shall be next Sunday. Next Sunday
accordingly it is. (Newspapers of February, March, April, 1792; Iambe
d'Andre Chenier sur la Fete des Suisses; &c., &c. in Hist. Parl. xiii,
xiv.) They are mounted into a 'triumphal Car resembling a ship;' are
carted over Paris, with the clang of cymbals and drums, all mortals
assisting applausive; carted to the Champ-de-Mars and Fatherland's
Altar; and finally carted, for Time always brings deliverance,--into
invisibility for evermore.

Whereupon dispersed Feuillantism, or that Party which loves Liberty yet
not more than Monarchy, will likewise have its Festival: Festival of
Simonneau, unfortunate Mayor of Etampes, who died for the Law; most
surely for the Law, thoug