kept her tinder-box and matches; I found them, and do any thing I don't wish, I'm sure; and now I'll tell struck a light; and by the light of the match I perceived you that I never would give evidence against him or the candle and candle-stick lying on the floor. I picked any other man to have him hanged. So, if you find out it up, lighted it, and then turned to the bed; the flock that it is him, do not say a word about it. Promise me, mattress was above all, and the groans proceeded from Jack."

beneath. I threw it off, and found Old Nanny still "Why, mother, I can't exactly say that I will; but I breathing, but in a state of great exhaustion, and quite in- will talk to Peter Anderson about it." sensible. By throwing water on her face, after some little

"It's no use talking to him; and, if you do, it must be while I brought her to her senses. The flaring of the under promise of secrecy, or I will not consent to it. Jack, candle reminded me that the shop door was open; I went Jack, recollect that my poor boy was hanged from my and made it fast, and then spoke to her. It was a long fault. Do you think I will hang another? Oh, no. while before I could obtain any rational answer. She con- haps this very man had a foolish, wicked mother, like me, tinued to groan and cry at intervals, "Don't leave me, and has, like my boy, been led into guilt. Jack, you must Jack, don't leave me." At last she fell into a sort of do as I wish-you shall, Jack.” slumber from exhaustion, and in this state she remained "Well, mother, I have no animosity against the man for more than an hour. One thing was evident to me, himself; and, if you forgive him, I do not see why I should which was, that the party, whoever it might be, had at- do any thing." tempted to smother the poor old woman, and that in a few seconds more he would have perpetrated the deed.

Yes," said she, "so it was. I was just in bed, and "Yes, mother, every one says so; why, I do not know; my candle was not out when I heard a noise at the door, and as long as it is supposed, you will always be subject as if they were turning a key in it; and then a man en- to attacks like this; unless, indeed, if you have money, tered; but he had something over his face, I thought, or you are to put it away safely, and let every body know he had blacked it. What do you want?' cried I; I that you have done so. Tell me truly, mother, have you come for a light, old woman,' said he. I cried, Thieves! any money?" murder!' as loud as I could, and he ran up to me just as Jack, what a boy you are to ask questions. Well, I was getting out of bed, and tried to smother me. I don't perhaps I have a little-a very little; but no one will ever recollect any thing more till I heard your voice. Thank find out where I have hidden it." you, Jack, and God bless you; if you hadn't come to the assistance of a poor old wretch like me, I should have been dead by this time."

head closer to her, while she whispered, "You must take can now do them neither good nor ill; generals who could the back out of the fire-place, and then pull out three no longer order any body to be shot, and emperors who bricks, and then put your hand into the hole, and you will had given up the keys of Olmutz, or who could no longer find a small box; and there you will find a little money-send the refractory a letter of introduction to the wolves of a very little, Jack, hardly worth having; but still it may Siberia. be of some use; and it's all yours when I die, Jack; I give to you."

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Mother, I'm thankful for your kindness; but I cannot touch it, if you do die, without you leave it to me by your will."

"Ah! that's true, Jack. Well, tell Anderson to come here, and I'll tell him I'll leave the money to you; but I won't tell him where it is; I'll only say that I leave you every thing I have. They'll suppose that it's the shop and all the pretty things." Here she chuckled for some time. It was now broad daylight, and Nanny told me that she would like to get up, and see about the padlock being put to her door before night; so I wished her good-by, and left her.

From Blackwood's Magazine.

DE WALSTEIN, THE ENTHUSIAST.

A TALE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

"There were but two men in the world when I first knew it," said the general.

I involuntarily stared at this antediluvian view of things. He smiled.

"That is," said he, "there were but two men in the world whose names it ever mentioned-your Pitt and all the world's Napoleon. In those days, I hated your great minister as much as I worshipped the Corsican. They were my opposing powers of light and darkness, my two antagonist principles-the tyrant of the seas and the regenerator of the earth; but I had the excuse of having all Germany, or perhaps all Europe, of my opinion.” "The Germans soon changed theirs, I presume, at least of the French Emperor."

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My countrymen," said the general," are certainly excellent men; but they have not the faculty of reasoning. They toil admirably; but they find it difficult to think. They have the virtue of the mole in perfection. Give them something obscure, heavy, and disheartening to labour at, and they will drudge away for ever. Their existence, known too, like the mole's, by the little heaps of dust which they throw up on the surface, and undoubtedly Great men must be employed to complete great changes loosening the soil for better uses to come. But the moment in empire; but little men often begin them. In this moral they are put upon the surface they are blind;-bid them architecture, the man who raises the proud superstructure, walk, and they stumble: bid them run, and they fall into who brings all the discordant features into one grand har- the first ditch. In literature, they are what the pioneers mony, who fills the eye with the consummate and the are to an army, essential to every advance, but a rough magnificent shape of solidity and power, must be the mas-corps after all; stout, strong-handed serfs; and with ter of his art; but any workman can dig the foundation. hatchet and saw in hand formidable to thickets and rocks; but what man ever looks among the pioneers for a hero?" "Yet they had esprit enough to admire the romantic glitter and magic freaks of Napoleon."

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Joseph II. of Germany was the workman of the French Revolution. He was the delver, Napoleon was the architect. Nothing could be more remote from each other, than the obscure industry of the German and the brilliant mis- Yes," said the general, "all children are fond of tales chief of the Italian; yet they were combined in one fear-of wonder, and all gossips of telling them. We Germans ful fabrication, they were both essential to the design: if are proud of our country, and it is by nature a noble one Joseph, in all his mediocrity, had never been born, Napo--certainly superior in its natural advantages to any other leon, in all his splendour, would never have been heard of. that I have seen, not even excepting your own; for the Let philosophers reconcile those difficulties; I have now unrivalled loveliness of England is the work of man, of no time to speculate. Those are the mysteries of human freedom, good sense, and the simple tastes of the nation. character. They must be left till the day when oracles But we are still in our infancy. Germany is only one huge revive, and men have only to ask questions of the pytho- nursery, in which the population is in its cradle. But we are children with a fine inheritance waiting for us when

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Some years ago, in a tour during which I passed some we shall arrive at the age of discretion; yet, until then, we days of an intense summer among the hills of Carinthia, must be allowed to play the antics of the nursery, to stare I happened to meet with a wanderer like myself, who, at every thing, to imagine that we know every thing, to though with but one riband at his button-hole, had seen attempt every thing, and, finally, like children who never service in the field, had sustained office in the imperial see a toy but with a longing to know what makes it court, taken his share in the chief events of the last thirty squeak, or dance, or tumble, breaking up every one of our years; and, in his two-fold capacity of a general officer graver toys of state, religion, and science, with a curiosity and an imperial councillor, was as well calculated to assist worthy of the cradle, and having only the fragments, after a traveller in a huge German hotel to get through the all, for our pains. I am a patriot, sir," said he with a heaviness of an idle day, as most men whom fortune has smile, "yet you see I too can play the philosopher." ever thrown in my way. He was still in what is to be re- "But when is your infant to arrive at man's estate?" garded as the very finest period of life; when the under- "National minds are of slow growth," was the answer. standing has arrived at its maturity without losing its lus-"I do not think that Germany will be mature in less than tre, and the heart, if man can be allowed to have any thing five hundred years. It will take at least a century to get rid of the kind, has acquired steadiness without losing its of her presumption that she is the cleverest nation in the sensibility. His countenance was handsome, yet with world; and until then she cannot be said to even have the some lines of trial; and both countenance and manner use of her understanding." had, as Hamlet says, "more of the ancient Roman than the Dane." He looked as if he had been born rather on the southern side of the Alps than the northern, and I could conceive him, at the head of his corps d'armée, or in the midst of a whirlwind of Hungarian cuirassiers, making a very showy figure of modern chivalry.

"A long probation. But she is certainly not retrograding she is clearly advancing."

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"I am not so fully convinced of that. She is yet got little beyond the line where the French revolution placed her. I allow that to have been in advance. But it was universal. It pushed every nation of Europe some degrees We discussed the great names of the war over our bottle nearer the moral equator. Politics are the sun of the of wine, in the light way in which men talk of those who world. England had sun enough already, and could be

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tropical only to be scorched; but Germany, cold, aguish,| "Never, when all that is charming in it has such a reswampy, and wild, would be much the better for being presentative as your Imperial Highness." half roasted alive. The world has to thank a German for Well, that at least is unequivocal; and I must acknowthat revolution. Joseph the Second-of all Germans that ledge that the opinion of so severe a critic as Count Walever lived the truest model of the German of the nineteenth stein is said to be, is of peculiar value. But, to say no century-was the man." more on those pretty topics, how long is it since you have returned to Vienna ?"

"What-Joseph the philosopher and philanthropist !

Where was the fire ?"

"We shall long remember him," observed the general, "for three things-the partition of Poland, the loss of the Netherlands, and the overthrow of the Bourbon throne."

"I have already lost the recollection. Let Schiller answer for me :—

"Who reckons the moments
When beauty is nigh-
When life is a glance,

And the soul is a sigh?""

The evening was one of southern beauty; and the window of the hotel overlooked one of those small lakes which are so numerous in the country, watered by the thousand 'Well, I see you are determined to continue in your springs of the Tyrolese hills. The air, after a day of in- old opinions. Women are made to be laughed at. But as tense warmth, flowed in filled with the freshness of the none of the Guard ever condescend to waltz, tell me the mountain vegetation; and a young rising moon, just news from the Low Countries. Is the Emperor still santouching with her circlet the brow of a forest above, gave guine in his ideas of reducing them to order? We all the due finishing of the picture. But even this was not know Count D'Alton's great abilities; but I have some all; for a troop of the travelling horn-players, who range very dear relatives there, and I feel an anxiety to know the all Europe, from the Mediterranean to, I believe, the Pole, state in which you left Brabant."

seeing our casement open, took up a position in the adjoin- The young officer listened, rose from his seat, and drew ing garden and began their display. All this is common; a fauteuil for the lady. The subject was a real one, and but the effect was as good, on the whole, as if we had the vapid elegance of the guardsman was exchanged for heard it in a salon of Vienna, or were even enjoying a respectful attention. His regiment had been quartered at painted moon and canvass forest, with the full crash of a Brussels on the first breaking out of the Flemish disconParisian orchestra in front, to take us by storm. tents in 1788, and he now slightly detailed the circumWe had both sunk into silence; and after a while I ob- stances which had occurred within his knowledge. served my companion had drawn from his bosom a minia- "My infancy," said the princess, "was spent in the ture, on which he gazed with a fixed eye. He saw that I palace of the Archduke, and though, when he ceased to was looking at him, and handed it over to me. It was be governor of the Netherlands, I returned to Germany, well worth his study, for it was one of the loveliest faces my recollections of that fine city, and not less of its luxuthat I ever saw in my life. riant landscape, and its kind and hospitable people, are as "I presume I may ask the name? It is excessively much alive as ever. Of course, I know all the noble familovely at once gentle and noble." lies. Are any of them engaged in those unhappy disturb"You may; for she is neither an opera girl nor a god- ances?" dess. It was exactly in such an hour, and in this very "None that I could hear of," was the answer. "The apartment, five-and-twenty years ago, that a German friend whole character of the popular convulsion was the reverse of mine was indebted to this lady for the most important of all that strongly engages the mind. The controversy event of his life." was of lawyers, not men; of old privileges against new

I looked all curiosity; but feeling that I had no right to encroachments: it began in the parchments of jurists and intrude upon his recollections of one perhaps dead, re- advocates, and is likely to end in the dust and darkness of mained in silence. But foreign manners are often remarka- the closets from which it came." bly frank; and he saw my wish at once.

"Then our war with the Netherlands will be brief, and "You shall have the story," said he, " of my friend. He Count D'Alton will settle the rebellion by a feu-de-joie," was an enthusiast in those days, though born on the said the fair politician. "I see that you have no faith in northern side of the Alps. The lady was somewhat of an the force of popular outery against the spurs and swords enthusiast too, though no Encyclopediste. Both had their of the Austrian cuirassiers." share of the republican mania, though both living in the

"That must depend on circumstances," was the reply. most formal court from this to Pekin. But I must tell the "We know what an army can do; but in the mind of a story in my own way." nation we have a new element before us. We know the He then threw himself back in his chair, and with his limit of the machine; but who can tell the limit of powers eyes fixing alternately on the landscape and the picture, that, like the wind, at this moment unfelt, may, at the next, talked in the dramatic style into which the continental change the calm for the storm; and then, subsiding as taste throws every thing: suddenly as it rose, leave us nothing but the desolation that marks its way across the land?"

Imagine a young officer of the Hungarian Guard, en. raptured with a sense of his wearing the most showy of The princess felt herself gradually engaged by the conall possible uniforms, declining to dance when the fairest versation. The sentiment and the expression might be forms of Vienna were whirling before him, and playing nothing, but they were new to her, were totally unlike the the coxcomb with the most well-bred apathy in the world. language of the court, and were the more surprising from Imagine another figure in this history piece, a beautiful being the language of one of that very showy corps whom woman of the first rank, approaching him, with ridicule all the world looked on as the especial idlers of the court; sparkling in her brilliant eyes. "Bon jour, Monsieur le perhaps to prolong an indulgence which she began to feel Comte, you look the very picture of a philosopher."

"Then, your Imperial Highness, I look perfectly unlike what I am, or ever can be, while I have the honour of being in the same ball-room with you," was the answer, without changing his position.

"Perhaps said gallantly, yet perhaps not; I know the Count de Walstein's chivalry, yet I suspect he despises the sex," playfully observed the lady.

in the hour, the scene, and the speaker, she turned to the topic of the Belgian tumults once more. The subject, too, had an interest for the guardsman, of which he had been hitherto unconscious, and he began to wonder at the ardour of the thoughts which rose to his lips.

"If the lovers of change," said he, "expect any thing from the risings in the Netherlands, they will be disappointed. A few cannon-shot, and a few charges of cavalry,

will be enough for the riotous rabble of the town: as for, she moved!" that "jewel to be set only in the crown of the peasantry, they may be brave, but they have no grievan- princes!" what chance could he ever have of being any ces, or at least none which prevent them from having the thing nearer to her than a gazer on the star! So solilo best furnished farm-houses and the richest crops in the quized he; so has every man in his circumstances soliloworld. In short, regard the whole as une affair finie. quized at one time or other. His mind was feverish; the Yet," added he, after a pause, "I admit that there are things which might awake a nation. There may be pulses in the national heart which have never beat before: I can imagine events to occur, like the giving of wings to the human frame, lifting us into a new element, giving us a new faculty, and laying open a career, to whose loftiness, vastness, and splendour, the world has never yet seen the equal."

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agitation of his thoughts communicated itself to his frame and for the purpose of escaping the questions which his hollow cheek and sunken eye brought incessantly and provokingly upon him, he obtained a short leave of absence, and determined to exert the remaining vigour of his mind and body in heroically running away from the danger. "All the roads of the world," says the Frenchman, run to Paris." This is true, at least, of all the minds of All this was new from the lips of the soldier, and new the continent. The young run to it for pleasure, the old to the ears of the princess. She gazed on his countenance, for variety, the vicious for indulgence, the curious for at that moment thrown into unusual animation by the oddity, and the clever to be admired. Paris at this period topic, and listened like one who had heard a sudden had the additional interest of being the centre of all the burst of harmony from a harp shaken only by the wind. politics-that is, of all the absurdities of the foolish, all the She was not altogether unconscious of the singularity of business of the idle, and all the knavery of the unprincipled, amusing herself with this tete-a-tete, with five hundred among mankind.

eyes upon her. She also knew perfectly the laugh of the De Walstein happened to reach Paris on the morning of world of fashion at embarrassments of the nature into the 14th of August, 1789. He was tired with a sleepless which she might be plunging; but she was a woman, that night in one of the most comfortless inventions of man, a is saying much a young, lovely, and brilliant one-and French diligence, and longed for nothing so much as to that is saying more. She saw a new subject before her, find rest in his hotel. But this was not to be. The mornperhaps a new slave: that settled the question, and she re-ing was destined for renown. As the diligence made its solved to make the experiment. All this may be blamable; heavy way over the intolerable pavement of the fauxbourg but courts are never very lively places with all their balls; St. Antoine, it was surrounded by a multitude shouting all and the court of Joseph II. was as prim and pedantic as kinds of cries, and with all kinds of weapons brandished its master. The conversation flew on from grave to gay, in their hands; and the formidable question was asked by and from gay to grave again. The guardsman had found a thousand voices at once," Are there any aristocrats that the finest woman of Vienna was not a fool; and the within ?" Sincerity was no virtue at such a time, and the discovery stimulated even his apathy until he felt that to conductor, trembling at the forest of pikes below, roared affect it any longer would be ridiculous. He became ani- from the top of the coach, that they were all good citizens. mated his ideas flowed-he now recollected, for the first He was not prepared for the reply, "Then let them all. time during a half a dozen of years, that he had been in Italy, come out and assist the brave citizens of Paris to conquer Greece, and England; that he had wandered among classic their freedom." Liberty of choice was now out of the ruins, ranged over Arcadian hills, and listened to the lan- question. The passengers were all forced out, and the guage of the boldest, freest, and most eccentric race of conductor had only the honour of marching at their head, men that were ever enclosed in an island. He had found unconsciously that conversation was not limited to the merits of a horse, an actress, or a new epaulette; and the eyes of the fair listener showed by their downcast lids that she listened with all her soul.

pike in hand, in the midst of groups of the populace danc. ing, fighting, clashing their weapons, and shouting, "Down with the king and up with the people! De Walstein made at attempt to escape this forced levy; but, hemmed in with pikes and muskets, he was instantly driven back; and A universal flourish of the imperial orchestra, which luckily remaining unwounded by the justice of the sove intimated that the most distinguished violinist of the earth reign people, he had no recourse but to march on with had just finished his most celebrated concerto, unhappily the rest. As they advanced, the crowd became thicker unheard from its first note to its last, alike by the princess and the tumult more violent. Shots were heard, followed and the count, at length told them that they had conversed by the roar of cannon.

beyond all legitimate bounds at the imperial supper-table, The cry of "To the Bastile !" now thundered in every and that etiquette required their separation. quarter, and the turning of a narrow strect brought the whole

A week of pomps and parades followed, in which the column in front of the dreaded fortress of Paris. De princess was surrounded by French milliners and coiffeurs Walstein was a soldier, though an unwilling exhibiter on all the morning, and imperial and serene highnesses, and this occasion, and for the first few moments he felt the imtheir excellencies the ambassadors all the night. The posing nature of his first battle. The houses surrounding Hungarian was on horseback riding in procession twelve the fortress were filled and covered with the armed pohours a-day; or escorting some diplomatic cavalcade; or, pulace, keeping up an ill-directed but incessant fire. The in the intervals, writing the name of Catharena Zadorinsky space below, and all the streets leading to it, were a mass on his tablets, and calculating the exact distance between of men, women, and even children, all firing, or screaming, a cornet of cavalry and a princess of the imperial line. or exclaiming against the government. The embrasures He might have calculated for ever without finding hope at of the Bastile showed heavy guns pointed downwards to either the top or the bottom. The fact flashed upon him the masses, and from time to time throwing a few plunging for the first time, that he was but the fifth son of a Hun- shot into the crowd, each of which was followed by an garian noble; that, however embroidered his uniform, he universal chorus of curses and groans. This desultory had nothing for his inheritance but his sabre; and that, warfare had lasted for some time, and seemed likely to last however the belles of Vienna might approve of him as a through the day; when the beating of drums was heard, a partner in the waltz, it must be a peculiarly soft-souled one commotion was seen among the more distant columns, and who would prefer him, as a partner for life, to the heaviest the cry of "the guard! the guard!" turned every eye in possessor of any one of those glittering equipages which the direction.

toiled their daily course round the verdant alleys of Schoen- A battalion of the Royal Household was seen advancing brun. But of all women of Vienna or of earth, Catharena that at a rapid pace, with colours flying and bayonets fixed, till terrestrial star! that "luminary which dazzled wherever they came to the foot of the drawbridge. An universal

fire now poured from the roofs and windows, and all was soners, he had attempted to rescue a young officer, who covered for some period with smoke. When it cleared had been already wounded by a musket-shot, and was away, the royal guard were seen rushing over the bridge. evidently on the point of being massacred. The attempt The populace poured after them, shouting out victory, and cost him a stab of a butcher's knife in the arm; but he De Walstein found himself carried along by the torrent. nevertheless contrived to draw the officer towards a recess When they had passed those gates, which were once so which screened him for the moment. As they leaned against like the gates of death, the situation of the assailants the wall, a door opened behind, and an old servant of the became a sufficiently perilous one. They found that a governor, terrified to death, gave them refuge, and instantly second was between them and the body of the place, that closed the door. It was the nephew of the governor who the garrison, small as it was, had made up their minds at had been thus saved, and he was profuse in his acknowlast to resist, and in the narrow space of the inner-court ledgments.

numbers only exposed themselves to be mowed down by The accident of having been flung into this corner prothe grape-shot. They were not long in suspense. Two bably saved both their lives. For the populace, now comguns on either side of the drawbridge were suddenly un-plete masters of the fortress, gave a vent to all the fury of masked, and threw a shower of grape among the crowd. men intoxicated with sudden success, and determined to The discharge was followed by an universal yell; fifty had destroy the last remnant of a building on which Paris had fallen, the court was covered with killed and wounded; all looked with terror for centuries. If the French had stopped now attempted to rush back to the gate; but it too was with pulling down the Bastile, they would have earned the choked up. If the garrison had now followed up their praise of every man of humanity and reason in Europe. blow, the fortress would have been saved, the populace It was to the monarchy what the Inquisition was to the beaten, and the Revolution crushed in its birth. Such are papacy—an embodying of its spirit-a sullen, fearful, and the strange chances of human things. The bayonets of a abhorred monument of all that was fearful in despotism; company of invalids might have extinguished a war which and the day which saw those gates torn down for ever, was yet to sweep away millions of men, and shake all the which were once like the gates of death, was a day of thrones of Europe. But this was not to be. De Launay, triumph, not for France alone, but for the world. the governor of the Bastile, though a brave man, had not As the old domestic led them through the vaulted pasthe cunning sense to know, that when a battle begins the sages and gloomy corridors, De Walstein fully forgave the only wisdom is to strike till it is ended. He was a mar-wild turbulence which had overthrown the stronghold of quis too, and in that day what was a French marquis good arbitrary power, and, involuntary as his share in the for but to dance attendance at Versailles? He ordered his exploit had been, he was not inclined to regret it. His cannoniers to stop, advanced to the battlements, and pro-young companion was inconsolable: he internally execrated posed that the assailants should withdraw without further the barbarism which had put his relative to death; but his damage. On this moment was balanced the French grief was mingled with indignation at the negligence of monarchy. While he was in the act of speaking, a shot the court. fired by some drunkard or madman struck one of the "Will you believe it," he exclaimed, "nothing could chains of the drawbridge, it shook; the populace rushed awake those fools at Versailles to a sense of our condition. forward with a roar; a tumbler from one of the suburb My unfortunate uncle remonstrated with the War Minister theatres, with the agility of his trade, sprung upon it, until he actually gave up the idea, through fear of imputadragged it down, and cut away the remaining chain with tions on his personal nerve. We had full information for the blow of an axe. A discharge of cannon swept the some days that the fortress was to be attacked. We knew bridge; but the multitude were now frenzied; they rushed even the sums of money which were showered among the forward, firing, roaring, and trampling upon each other. rabble of the Fauxbourg. We knew that powder and ball The confusion was horrible, all was darkened with the were purchased, and to all this the court turned a deaf smoke, and all that De Walstein could feel was, that he ear; left the garrison of a place like this, commanding was in the midst of a human hurricane tenfold more ter- Paris, without twelve hours' bread and wine, without rible than the natural one. The firing continued on both ammunition for a siege of twenty-four hours; and what sides for some time, and when the multitude were on the were our numbers to keep a capital of 600,000 people in point of giving way again, all eyes were directed to the order, exactly one hundred and ten men, of whom eighty white flag, hoisted for capitulation on the great tower of were actual invalids? We were thus left to be sacrithe fortress. The shout that rose from the multitude in ficed!" the streets, the houses, and the roofs, tore the very air. In

"No," said the young officer; "I saw them once. They also made a republican of me. And yet, if I stay here I must die; my wounds bleed. Well, it is better to perish on the pikes of the rabble, than die like a trampled worm in its hole." He fell back, fainting.

"But what will be the result? Will this shake the a few moments the governor was seen, pale and bleeding, Ministry? Will the Court come to their senses at last?" without hat or sword, dragged along in the midst of a eagerly asked De Walstein. crowd of the royal guard, to whom he had surrendered A loud roar, that rang round the building, stopped his with his feeble garrison, on the sole condition of sparing speech. "They are bursting in," exclaimed the old dotheir lives. But what are conditions to the mob, rendered mestic, "we must fly to the Souterrainnes." ferocious by feeling themselves masters? To the horror of De Walstein, no sooner had they seen the garrison and their unfortunate commandant disarmed, than they clamoured for their instant death, threw themselves upon the guard, tore them away, and began stabbing them with the fury of demons. De Launay fell under a hundred knives; De Walstein instantly took him on his shoulders, his principal officers were butchered over his corpse; and, rushed to the door, and after winding through a sucnot content with those atrocities, the savages in their fero- cession of passages-which gave him the strongest idea cious triumph decapitated them, hung their trunks to the of the passages of some huge sepulchre-saw a massive cords of the lamps, and fixing their heads and hands on door, which barred his further progress, swing backward pikes, carried them to the sitting of the Civic Committee under successive blows, fall into fragments, and let in in the Place de Grêve. The whole event in its sudden upon him the whole formidable marshalling of the mul outbreak, its strange success, and its remorseless cruelty, titude. It was the picture of the Revolution in all its was the emblem of the Revolution. wild grandeur, its sanguinary horrors, and its colossal

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