: 
cerned in it. The character of Madame 
Roland is drawn with great severity, 
and we cannot but observe in general, 
that republicanism is a crime which Mr. 
Adolphus cannot regard with any toler- 
able complacency. ‘The king’s friends 
are ‘all honourable men:’ we remember 
that the Marquis de Bouillé acknow- 
ledges himself to have detested the con- 
stitution at the time when he swore to 
support it; and on his own confession 
also, (see p. 291 of his very interesting 
memoirs) that he took a solemn oath 
before Almighty God, in compliment 
to the king, and with a premeditated 
intention not to keep it one moment 
longer than his majesty! Conscious of 
am insincerity to which, in our opinion, 
was attached no common guilt, itis but 
natural that he should regard every one 
as the spy and suspector of his conduct. 
To be haunted by suspicion, is the wise 
and salutary punisliment inflicted by 
the Gop or Trutu on such as meditate 
the slightest profanation of his sacred 
altar. Afterwards, in consequence per- 
haps of a natural and well-founded sus- 
picion of the sincerity of the king, and 
of the king’s friends, many voted for 
the abolition of royalty, who but for a 
different conduct on their part might 
possibly have been induced to have 
iven a different vote. But to have 
voted for the abolition of royalty is 
enough; and we find the learned and 
respectable Bishop of Blois, so well 
known for his concurrence with those 
clergymen in the sitting of the Etats Gé- 
néraux, who united themselves with the 
Tiers Etats in opposition to the design of 
allotting separate chambers for the two 
superior orders; so well known for his 
activity in the first national assembly, 
as a reformer of clerical abuses; so well 
known for his eloquent speeches and mo- 
tions in favour of the emancipation of 
African slaves; so well known for his 
beautiful pamphlet entitled “a Preser- 
vative against Schism;” and so well 
known for his encyclie, his circular letter 
to the bishops of Irance, requiring their 
aid in the convocation of a national 
council, for the purpose of restoring the 
clergy, aecording to the decrees of the 
council of Trent, the synod of Borromeo, 
and the liberties and independence of 
the gallican church; we find this gen- 
tleman represented as ‘‘vying in ribal- 
dry and blasphemy” with Lindet, Coupé, 
Villiers, &c. on the 7th of November 
1793, at a sitting of the national con- 
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vention, headed by Gobet, constitutional 
Bishop of Paris, where they rejected 
their clerical functions; and at which 
very sitting Gregoire, in a declaration 
full of zeal, asserted his christianity and 
scrupulous adherence to the faith of his 
forefathers! (See Mem. of the Foun- 
ders of the F. R. art. Gregoirs, vol. 1.) 
But it is ttme we should give our rea- 
ders a specimen of the style in which 
this work is composed. After a con- 
cise but clear and connected account of 
the campaign in 1794, Mr. Adolphus 
turns his attention to the internal state of 
the republic. 
«« From these scenes of carnage, where 
the horrors of death are diminished by the 
‘ pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious 
war,’ the attention is called to contemplate 
transactions not less sanguinary, though in- 
finitely more disgusting, exhibited in the 
internal government of France. Terror, 
avowed as a system, stalked over the land, 
dealing on every side the blow of fate; and 
extinguishing love, mutual confidence, ho- 
nour, and pity. The various devices for 
proving treason, or treasonable inclinations, 
gave vigour to a host of spies, informers, and 
persecutors, some of whom were in the ay 
of government; some hoped to conciliate 
favour, and others thought, by denouncing 
their nearest relations or most intimate 
friends, to avoid those persecutions, of which 
a moment might make them the victims.— 
No man could consider. himself sure of an 
hour’s life, yet no man was permitted to 
prepare himself for death ; and he who dared 
to express or inculcate a hope of a better ex- 
istence beyond the grave, incurred imminent 
danger of being sacrificed as an incorrigible 
fanatic. 
«« Yet no motive of safety, or hope of ad- 
vantage, stimulated the rulers of France to 
so profuse a waste of human blood : no for- 
mal opposition to their ascendancy existed 
in the convention, nor could insurrection 
venture to lift her head ini any of the depart- 
sth Jan, Ments: At an early period of the 
n. : 
year Charette was expelled from 
the isle of Noirnioutier, and the last hopes 
of the royalists seemed to have expired : ba 
the termination of fear did not terminate the 
vengeance of government; every inhabited 
place of La Vendée, and every district pre- 
sumed accessary to the insurrection, was a 
monument of blocd and insatiate revenge. 
The deputies sent on mission to these parts 
were purposely selected from the most bar- 
barous, ferocious, and brutal of the people : 
they carried to exaggeration the fashionable 
manners of the cordeliers, adding to the dis- 
gusting deportment, obscene diction, and 
unrelenting cruelty, required by the prevail- 
ing disposition in Paris, all the violences 
which.an unbridled indulgence in the worst 
and most detestable passions could prompt, or 
