in the Garde du Corps, and, like most of his brethren, was strongly attached to the King’s person.  Rage and despair prompted him to the commission of an act, which can never be excused, however the perpetrator may imagine himself the mere instrument of Divine vengeance.—­Notwithstanding the most vigilant research, he escaped for some time, and wandered as far as Forges d’Eaux, a little town in Normandy.  At the inn where he lodged, the extravagance of his manner giving suspicions that he was insane, the municipality were applied to, to secure him.  An officer entered his room while he was in bed, and intimated the purpose he was come for.  PARIS affected to comply, and, turning, drew a pistol from under the clothes, and shot himself.—­Among the papers found upon him were some affecting lines, expressive of his contempt for life, and adding, that the influence of his example was not to be dreaded, since he left none behind him that deserved the name of Frenchmen!—­"Qu’on n’inquiete personne! personne n’a ete mon complice dans la mort heureuse de Scelerat St. Fargeau.  Si Je ne l’eusse pas rencontre sous ma main, Je purgeois la France du regicide, du parricide, du patricide D’Orleans.  Qu’on n’inquiete personne.  Tous les Francois sont des laches auxquelles Je dis—­

     “Peuple, dont les forfaits jettent partout l’effroi,
     “Avec calme et plaisir J’abandonne la vie
     “Ce n’est que par la mort qu’on peut fuir l’infamie,
     “Qu’imprime sur nos fronts le sang de notre Roi."

“Let no man be molested on my account:  I had no accomplice in the fortunate death of the miscreant St. Fargeau.  If he had not fallen in my way, I should have purged France of the regicide, parricide, patricide D’Orleans.  Let no man be molested.  All the French are cowards, to whom I say—­’People, whose crimes inspire universal horror, I quit life with tranquility and pleasure.  By death alone can we fly from that infamy which the blood of our King has marked upon our foreheads!’”—­This paper was entitled “My Brevet of Honour.”

It will ever be so where the people are not left to consult their own feelings.  The mandate that orders them to assemble may be obeyed, but “that which passeth show” is not to be enforced.  It is a limit prescribed by Nature herself to authority, and such is the aversion of the human mind from dictature and restraint, that here an official rejoicing is often more serious than these political exactions of regret levied in favour of the dead.—­Yours, &c. &c.

March 23, 1793.

The partizans of the French in England alledge, that the revolution, by giving them a government founded on principles of moderation and rectitude, will be advantageous to all Europe, and more especially to Great Britain, which has so often suffered by wars, the fruit of their intrigues.—­This reasoning would be unanswerable could the character of the people be changed with the form of their government:  but, I believe, whoever examines its administration, whether as it relates to foreign powers or internal policy, will find that the same spirit of intrigue, fraud, deception, and want of faith, which dictated in the cabinet of Mazarine or Louvois, has been transfused, with the addition of meanness and ignorance,* into a Constitutional Ministry, or the Republican Executive Council.