HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
working upon their paffions; and 
{pread as they were, like the preach- 
. -ers of a new-religion, in every part 
of the kingdom, it will not be won- 
‘dered at, the ignorance of the mul- 
titude being likewife always re- 
membered, that they fhould have 
fucceeded in prompting them to the 
greateit acts of outrage and violence. 
But the great promoter, caufe, 
and, it might perhaps be faid, au- 
thor of the revolution; the man 
who, deftitute of fpirit in himfelf, 
poffefied and applied the means of 
communicating energy to millions, 
and of infufing difattection and dif- 
loyalty in every order of men 
through that vaft and populous 
kingdom, fill remains to be taken 
notice of. This was no lefsa perfon 
_ thanthe firft prince of the blood; the 
man next in fucceffion to the crown, 
in the cafe of failure of iffue male in 
.the immediate reigning family. The 
name, character, and conduét of Phi- 
Tip Duke of Orleans are now too 
notorious, to render any delicacy in 
treating of them at all neceflary. 
_ That immenfe fortune which, under 
the guidance of wifdom, beneficence, 
or even the defire of attaining fame, 
* might have been direéted to the ac- 
complithment of the nobleft and 
moft ufeful purpofes, was now di- 
rected to the ruin of his country, to 
the fubverfion of its government, 
and to the extermination of that 
royal family to which he was fo 
nearly related. 
Here then we are to find a folu- 
tion for many things which would 
otherwife appear unaccountable, or 
remain hid in abfolute darknefs, 
From hence it was that the gardens 
_ of the Palais Royale and all the open 
places of Paris were ftocked with 
hungry, ignorant, and abandoned 
_ @rators, and covered with riotous 
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mobs, who fucked in from thefe 
preachers every thing that could 
corrupt and poifon the mind, and 
not only eradicate every moral prin- 
ciple, but deftroy all the native feel- 
ings of humanity. Thus likewife was 
the ferocity of the Dames du Halle, 
and of all the other female furies of 
the capital, called into action; until 
the fex, feeming to have totally 
changed its nature and charaéter, 
was degraded and ftained by atro- 
Cities, without example in any. civi- 
lized country. And thus a numerous 
army of ragged Sans Culottes, of 
ruffians from the gallies, and from 
every part of the kingdom, being 
incorporated with the no lefs nu- 
merous ‘or wicked native brood, 
were maintained and kept in readi- 
nefs for the purpofes of rebellion, 
anarchy and murder, as time and 
occafion fhould cali forth their fer- 
vices. 
From the fame abundant fource 
of the means of evil, crouds of cou- 
riers were difpatched at the fame in- 
ftant of time from Paris to every 
part of the kingdom, conveying 
every where the falfe intelligence, 
as if proceeding from the firit an- 
thority, that~the ariftocrates were 
raifing troops or armies of brigands 
in order to deftroy and maflacre the 
peafants; and calling upon the lat- 
ter to prevent the danger by imme- 
diately taking up armsand deftroy- 
ing their enemies, the nobility in 
the firft inflance; an injunction 
which they moft willingly and ef- 
fectually complied with. Ia the 
fame manner was the prodigious ex- 
pence fupported, of fo long diffemi- 
nating throughout the kingdom 
thofe innumerable feditious publi- 
cations, which were every day pre- 
fented tothe people. By the fame 
means majorities were fecured, and 
feveral 
