[83] P. 23, 23, 24.

[84] See Blackstone’s Magna Charta, printed at Oxford, 1759.

[85] 1 W. and M.

[86] Ecclesiasticus, chap, xxxviii. ver. 24, 25.  “The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure:  and he that hath little business shall become wise.  How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks?”

Ver. 27.  “So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboreth night and day,” &c.

Ver. 33.  “They shall not be sought for in public counsel, nor sit high in the congregation:  they shall not sit on the judge’s seat, nor understand the sentence of judgment:  they cannot declare justice and judgment, and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.”

Ver. 34.  “But they will maintain the state of the world.”

I do not determine whether this book be canonical, as the Gallican Church (till lately) has considered it, or apocryphal, as here it is taken.  I am sure it contains a great deal of sense and truth.

[87] Discourse on the Love of our Country, 3rd edit p. 39.

[88] Another of these reverend gentlemen, who was witness to some of the spectacles which Paris has lately exhibited, expresses himself thus:—­“A king dragged in submissive triumph by his conquering subjects is one of those appearances of grandeur which seldom rise in the prospect of human affairs, and which, during the remainder of my life, I shall think of with wonder and gratification.”  These gentlemen agree marvellously in their feelings.

[89] State Trials, Vol.  II. p. 360, 363.

[90] 6th of October, 1789.

[91] “Tous les Eveques a la lanterne!”

[92] It is proper here to refer to a letter written upon this subject by an eyewitness.  That eyewitness was one of the most honest, intelligent, and eloquent members of the National Assembly, one of the most active and zealous reformers of the state.  He was obliged to secede from the Assembly; and he afterwards became a voluntary exile, on account of the horrors of this pious triumph, and the dispositions of men, who, profiting of crimes, if not causing them, have taken the lead in public affairs.

Extract of M. de Lally Tollendal’s Second Letter to a Friend.

“Parlons du parti que j’ai pris; il est bien justife dans ma conscience.—­Ni cette ville coupable, ni cette assemblee plus coupable encore, ne meritoient que je me justifie; mais j’ai a coeur que vous, et les personnes qui pensent comme vous, ne me condamnent pas.—­Ma sante, je vous jure, me rendoit mes fonctions impossibles; mais meme en les mettant de cote il a ete au-dessus de mes forces de supporter plus longtems l’horreur que me causoit ce sang,—­ces tetes,—­cette reine presque egorgee,—­ce roi, amene esclave, entrant a Paris au milieu de ses assassins, et precede des tetes de ses malheureux gardes,—­ces