robbery, forgeries, &c. &c. &c.—­The second, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh classes, were particularly numerous, insomuch that I doubt whether they would not have included nineteen-twentieths of all the people in France who were honest or at all capable of reflection.]

     “IV.  Those who pity avaricious farmers and shopkeepers, against
     whom the laws have been necessarily directed.

“V.  Those who with the words liberty, country, republic, &c. constantly in their mouths, hold intercourse with ci-devant Nobles, Contre-revolutionnaires, Priests, Aristocrates, Feuillans, &c. and take an interest in their concerns.

“VI.  Those who not having borne an active part in the revolution, endeavour to excuse themselves by urging the regular payment of their taxes, their patriotic gifts, and their service in the Garde National by substitute or otherwise.

     “VII.  Those who received the republican constitution with coolness,
     or who intimated their pretended apprehensions for its establishment
     and duration.

     “VIII.  Those who, having done nothing against liberty, have done as
     little for it.

     “IX.  Those who do not frequent the assembly of their section, and
     offer, for excuse, that they are no orators, or have no time to
     spare from their own business.

     “X.  Those who speak with contempt of the constituted authorities,
     of the rigour of the laws, of the popular societies, and the
     defenders of liberty.

     “XI.  Those who have signed anti-revolutionary petitions, or any
     time frequented unpatriotic clubs, or were known as partizans of La
     Fayette, and accomplices in the affair of the Champ de Mars.”

—­and it must be allowed by all who reside in France at this moment, and are capable of observing the various forms under which hatred for the government shelters itself, that the latter is a chef d’oeuvre in its kind.

Now, exclusive of the above legal and moral indications of people to be suspected, there are also outward and visible signs which we are told from the tribune of the Convention, and the Jacobins, are not much less infallible—­such as Gens a bas de soie rayes mouchetes—­a chapeau rond—­ habit carre—­culotte pincee etroite—­a bottes cirees—­les muscadins—­ Freloquets—­Robinets, &c. [People that wear spotted or striped silk stockings—­round hats—­small coats—­tight breeches—­blacked boots—­ perfumes—­coxcombs—­sprigs of the law, &c.] The consequence of making the cut of a man’s coat, or the shape of his hat, a test of his political opinions, has been the transformation of the whole country into republicans, at least as far as depends on the costume; and where, as is natural, there exists a consciousness of inveterate aristocracy, the external is more elaborately “a la Jacobin.”  The equipment, indeed, of a French patriot of the latest date is as singular as his manners, and in both he is highly distinguishable from the inhabitants of any other country:  from those of civilized nations, because he is gross and ferocious—­from those of barbarous ones, because his grossness is often affected, and his ferocity a matter of principle and preference.