a member also of the Assembly, he has just set up in that empire of gazettes.  Condorcet was chosen to draw the first declaration presented by the Assembly to the king, as a threat to the Elector of Treves, and the other princes on the Rhine.  In that piece, in which both Feuillants and Jacobins concurred, they declared publicly, and most proudly and insolently, the principle on which they mean to proceed in their future disputes with any of the sovereigns of Europe; for they say, “that it is not with fire and sword they mean to attack their territories, but by what will be more dreadful to them, the introduction of liberty.”—­I have not the paper by me, to give the exact words, but I believe they are nearly as I state them.—­Dreadful, indeed, will be their hostility, if they should be able to carry it on according to the example of their modes of introducing liberty.  They have shown a perfect model of their whole design, very complete, though in little.  This gang of murderers and savages have wholly laid waste and utterly ruined the beautiful and happy country of the Comtat Venaissin and the city of Avignon.  This cruel and treacherous outrage the sovereigns of Europe, in my opinion, with a great mistake of their honor and interest, have permitted, even without a remonstrance, to be carried to the desired point, on the principles on which they are now themselves threatened in their own states; and this, because, according to the poor and narrow spirit now in fashion, their brother sovereign, whose subjects have been thus traitorously and inhumanly treated in violation of the law of Nature and of nations, has a name somewhat different from theirs, and, instead of being styled King, or Duke, or Landgrave, is usually called Pope.

[Sidenote:  State of the Empire.]

The Electors of Treves and Mentz were frightened with the menace of a similar mode of war.  The Assembly, however, not thinking that the Electors of Treves and Mentz had done enough under their first terror, have again brought forward Condorcet, preceded by Brissot, as I have just stated.  The declaration, which they have ordered now to be circulated in all countries, is in substance the same as the first, but still more insolent, because more full of detail.  There they have the impudence to state that they aim at no conquest:  insinuating that all the old, lawful powers of the world had each made a constant, open profession of a design of subduing his neighbors.  They add, that, if they are provoked, their war will be directed only against those who assume to be masters; but to the people they will bring peace, law, liberty, &c, &c.  There is not the least hint that they consider those whom they call persons “assuming to be matters” to be the lawful government of their country, or persons to be treated with the least management or respect.  They regard them as usurpers and enslavers of the people.  If I do not mistake, they are described by the name of tyrants