rcism and Apage-Satanas.
But furthermore, consider what 'poisoning of public opinion' in the
Departments, by these Brissot, Gorsas, Caritat-Condorcet Newspapers!
And then also what counter-poisoning, still feller in quality, by a Pere
Duchesne of Hebert, brutallest Newspaper yet published on Earth; by a
Rougiff of Guffroy; by the 'incendiary leaves of Marat!' More than once,
on complaint given and effervescence rising, it is decreed that a man
cannot both be Legislator and Editor; that he shall choose between the
one function and the other. (Hist. Parl. xxv. 25, &c.) But this too,
which indeed could help little, is revoked or eluded; remains a pious
wish mainly.

Meanwhile, as the sad fruit of such strife, behold, O ye National
Representatives, how between the friends of Law and the friends of
Freedom everywhere, mere heats and jealousies have arisen; fevering the
whole Republic! Department, Provincial Town is set against Metropolis,
Rich against Poor, Culottic against Sansculottic, man against man. From
the Southern Cities come Addresses of an almost inculpatory character;
for Paris has long suffered Newspaper calumny. Bourdeaux demands a
reign of Law and Respectability, meaning Girondism, with emphasis. With
emphasis Marseilles demands the like. Nay from Marseilles there come two
Addresses: one Girondin; one Jacobin Sansculottic. Hot Rebecqui, sick of
this Convention-work, has given place to his Substitute, and gone home;
where also, with such jarrings, there is work to be sick of.

Lyons, a place of Capitalists and Aristocrats, is in still worse state;
almost in revolt. Chalier the Jacobin Town-Councillor has got, too
literally, to daggers-drawn with Nievre-Chol the Moderantin Mayor; one
of your Moderate, perhaps Aristocrat, Royalist or Federalist Mayors!
Chalier, who pilgrimed to Paris 'to behold Marat and the Mountain,' has
verily kindled himself at their sacred urn: for on the 6th of February
last, History or Rumour has seen him haranguing his Lyons Jacobins in
a quite transcendental manner, with a drawn dagger in his hand;
recommending (they say) sheer September-methods, patience being
worn out; and that the Jacobin Brethren should, impromptu, work the
Guillotine themselves! One sees him still, in Engravings: mounted on
a table; foot advanced, body contorted; a bald, rude, slope-browed,
infuriated visage of the canine species, the eyes starting from
their sockets; in his puissant right-hand the brandished dagger