188 BAILLY. 



that his name must raise here. Jud^e, Gentlemen, 



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weigh, my scruples : the furious persecutor of Bailh, of 

 whom I have been talking to you for some minute? was 

 Marat. 



The revolution of '89 just occurred in time torelieve 

 the abortive author, physiologist, and physicist ^'orn the 

 intolerable position into which he had been thro-n by his 

 inability and his quackery. 



As soon as the revolution had assumed ^ decided 

 movement, great surprise was occasioned by ne sudden 

 transformations excited in the inferior walks i the polit- 

 ical world. Marat was one of the most striMg examples 

 of these hasty changes of principles. T J Neufchatel 

 physician had shown himself a violent ad rsar j to those 

 opinions that occasioned the convocation the assembly 

 of Notables, and the national commotio' a '89- At that 

 time democratical institutions had nr l more bitter or 

 more violent censor. Marat liked i*> be believed that 

 in quitting France for England, h^ ed especially from 

 the spectacle of social renovation 4C " was odious to 

 him. Yet a month after the takr of tne Bastille, he 

 returned to Paris, established a jour' anc ^ fr m its very 

 beginning left far behind him, eve* nose wno ? in the 

 hope of making themselves remar'* e > thought they 

 must push exaggeration to its very fe 68 ^ limits. The 

 former connection of Marat with I^ e Calonne was 

 perfectly well known ; they remembert nese words of 

 Pitt's : u The French must go through J*ty, and then 

 be brought back to their old govern inc^y licence ; ' : 

 the avowed adversaries of revolution t^ by their 

 conduct, by their votes, and even by r imprudent 

 words, that according to them, the wo/ as the only 

 means of returning to what they call thd i and yet 



