HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
general apprehension and terror 
that prevailed, more and more, of 
“the Prussian army; the suspicion 
that they were encouraged in their 
advances by a collusion with the 
court, and a very general conviction 
-that there was no safety to the 
“nation but in a second revolution. 
‘This republican combination, the 
Jacobin club, with its affiliations 
‘and adherents, by governing the 
‘great mass of the people who had 
‘neither property, nor good charac- 
ters, nor good hopes, governed also 
‘the Assembly, of which almost ali 
the leaders of the Jacobin club were 
also members. 
The Legislative Assembly had 
been divided into three parties :— 
the Moderate Men, or those who 
endeavoured to support the consti- 
“tution; the Republicans, who were 
determined to pull it down; the 
-Girondists,* friends to a feederative 
~republic,and who balanced and com- 
‘bined the different interests of the 
Opposite parties, in such a manner 
as to promote their own views, 
concerning which various opinions 
were entertained ;+ and the party 
»who called themselves Independ- 
ents, though they might with great- 
“er propriety have been stiled Indif- 
ferents, as they were neither much 
hed to the constitution, nor 
, entertained any particular de- 
, ‘or views of farther revolution. 
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The members of the Jacobin club 
at that time associated not with 
any other of the Assembly than 
the republicans; or, as they were 
called, by one of those cant 
words that. are coined in all 
great political commotions, the 
Mountain; and the Girondists, who 
were all of them members of the 
club in which the measures to be 
adopted by the Assembly were pre- 
viously debated:—so that, in fact, 
the Jacobin club had become the 
legislative body for the whole of 
France. Liberty had been decreed, 
but men were not permitted either 
to speak or dress, but in the way 
that pleased the rulers of the Jaco- 
bins. Suspicion was as dangerous 
as conviction; denunciation was 
amongst the number of the patriotic 
duties of a citizen; it.was become 
dangerous.to be obnoxious to the 
rulers of the predominant party, 
but not so to be guilty; juries 
had been ordained, but justice 
had never had its free course. 
In political matters, and even in 
private causes between men of op- 
posite factions, every thing was car- 
ried by party spirit: nor can the 
Jacobins in this be said to have 
been inconsistent with their pro- 
fessions of disregard to all long esta- 
blished authorities, human and di- 
vine, They had nothing to con- 
sult but their appetites and their 
Composed of the deputies from Bourdeaux and the course of the Garron; who 
ned to he men of very distinguished abilities, and who were joined in political 
“sentiments and habits of intimacy with Brissot, Condorcet, Wergniaud, and other 
of talents, 
’ 
RA the appointment of a regency. 
S) Vou. XXXIV. 
+ It was very generally supposed that they wished to drive away the King, and 
s abdication of the throne to declare the Dauphin his successor, and to take the 
of the young prince and the government of the kingdom into their own 
If this was the case, the Girondists may 
ered as the Whigs of France; attached to Kingly government and regu- 
berty, but more attached perhaps to their own ambitious interest than to 
(D] 
will; 
