to Revolutionary fame:  Camille Desmoulins, though he stutters in speech; Manuel, Tallien and Company; Journalists Gorsas, Carra, Mercier, Louvet of Faublas; Clootz Speaker of Mankind; Collot d’Herbois, tearing a passion to rags; Fabre d’Eglantine, speculative Pamphleteer; Legendre the solid Butcher; nay Marat, though rural France can hardly believe it, or even believe that there is a Marat except in print.  Of Minister Danton, who will lay down his Ministry for a Membership, we need not speak.  Paris is fervent; nor is the Country wanting to itself.  Barbaroux, Rebecqui, and fervid Patriots are coming from Marseilles.  Seven hundred and forty-five men (or indeed forty-nine, for Avignon now sends Four) are gathering:  so many are to meet; not so many are to part!

Attorney Carrier from Aurillac, Ex-Priest Lebon from Arras, these shall both gain a name.  Mountainous Auvergne re-elects her Romme:  hardy tiller of the soil, once Mathematical Professor; who, unconscious, carries in petto a remarkable New Calendar, with Messidors, Pluvioses, and such like;—­and having given it well forth, shall depart by the death they call Roman.  Sieyes old-Constituent comes; to make new Constitutions as many as wanted:  for the rest, peering out of his clear cautious eyes, he will cower low in many an emergency, and find silence safest.  Young Saint-Just is coming, deputed by Aisne in the North; more like a Student than a Senator:  not four-and-twenty yet; who has written Books; a youth of slight stature, with mild mellow voice, enthusiast olive-complexion, and long dark hair.  Feraud, from the far valley D’Aure in the folds of the Pyrenees, is coming; an ardent Republican; doomed to fame, at least in death.

All manner of Patriot men are coming:  Teachers, Husbandmen, Priests and Ex-Priests, Traders, Doctors; above all, Talkers, or the Attorney-species.  Man-midwives, as Levasseur of the Sarthe, are not wanting.  Nor Artists:  gross David, with the swoln cheek, has long painted, with genius in a state of convulsion; and will now legislate.  The swoln cheek, choking his words in the birth, totally disqualifies him as orator; but his pencil, his head, his gross hot heart, with genius in a state of convulsion, will be there.  A man bodily and mentally swoln-cheeked, disproportionate; flabby-large, instead of great; weak withal as in a state of convulsion, not strong in a state of composure:  so let him play his part.  Nor are naturalised Benefactors of the Species forgotten:  Priestley, elected by the Orne Department, but declining:  Paine the rebellious Needleman, by the Pas de Calais, who accepts.