88). Vie de Jeanne de
St. Remi, Comtesse de Lamotte, &c. &c. See Diamond Necklace (ut supra).)
which, in its present humour, France will greedily believe.

For the rest, it is too clear our Successive Loan is not filling.
As indeed, in such circumstances, a Loan registered by expunging
of Protests was not the likeliest to fill. Denunciation of
Lettres-de-Cachet, of Despotism generally, abates not: the Twelve
Parlements are busy; the Twelve hundred Placarders, Balladsingers,
Pamphleteers. Paris is what, in figurative speech, they call 'flooded
with pamphlets (regorge de brochures);' flooded and eddying again.
Hot deluge,--from so many Patriot ready-writers, all at the fervid or
boiling point; each ready-writer, now in the hour of eruption, going
like an Iceland Geyser! Against which what can a judicious friend
Morellet do; a Rivarol, an unruly Linguet (well paid for it),--spouting
cold!

Now also, at length, does come discussion of the Protestant Edict: but
only for new embroilment; in pamphlet and counter-pamphlet, increasing
the madness of men. Not even Orthodoxy, bedrid as she seemed, but will
have a hand in this confusion. She, once again in the shape of Abbe
Lenfant, 'whom Prelates drive to visit and congratulate,'--raises
audible sound from her pulpit-drum. (Lacretelle, iii. 343. Montgaillard,
&c.) Or mark how D'Espremenil, who has his own confused way in all
things, produces at the right moment in Parlementary harangue, a pocket
Crucifix, with the apostrophe: "Will ye crucify him afresh?" Him, O
D'Espremenil, without scruple;--considering what poor stuff, of ivory
and filigree, he is made of!

To all which add only that poor Brienne has fallen sick; so hard was
the tear and wear of his sinful youth, so violent, incessant is this
agitation of his foolish old age. Baited, bayed at through so many
throats, his Grace, growing consumptive, inflammatory (with humeur
de dartre), lies reduced to milk diet; in exasperation, almost in
desperation; with 'repose,' precisely the impossible recipe, prescribed
as the indispensable. (Besenval, iii. 317.)

On the whole, what can a poor Government do, but once more recoil
ineffectual? The King's Treasury is running towards the lees; and Paris
'eddies with a flood of pamphlets.' At all rates, let the latter subside
a little! D'Orleans gets back to Raincy, which is nearer Paris and
the fair frail Buffon; finally to Paris itself: neither are Freteau and
Sabatier banished forever.