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France, and thofe wHo were in the fecret 
of “his duties and defigns had conceived ~ 
projecis which they werefure HERAULT 
would not ae in ; they converted the 
means he had asopicn for founding the 
hoftile cabinets, and eipeci ‘ally> that of 
Great Britain, into fufpicions, and 
charges of compromifing the honour of 
his country. 
Another a&, pages, however, by 
proof, was imputed to him, which could 
not fail greatly to injure his reputation : 
it was, that he had employed more than 
one agent to veft.a cenfiderable {um in 
the Englifh funds. ‘The circumftances 
of his peaking Englifs, and atfociating 
greatly with the Englifh, in Paris, gave 
colour to thofe furmites. HeRaviT 
not only failed in every endeavour at pa- 
cification, but the war, at this precife 
time, took a peculiarly unfavourable 
turn: feveral of the fir ‘ong garrifon 
towns fell into the hands of the ailies, 
and thefe circumitances were, by the 
enemies of the diplomatic member, at- 
tributed to HeERAvur's- complaifance, 
and to the fymptoms of weaknefs which 
he had betrayed in his offers for accomo- 
dation. 
In collifions of parties of this kind, the 
leaft popular is iure to fall. While Ro- 
befpiefre and Couthon wete flattering 
the powerful Jacobins in their hall, and 
the facile people in the tribunes of the 
Convention, HER AULT was inconfide- 
rately trifling his time in the company 
of a chere amie and her mother, whom 
he ‘had gallanily conducted to Paris, 
on his return from Chambery, whither 
he had been fent on a commiffion, and 
on which expedition he was accom- 
panied by the celebrated American JORL 
BARLOW. 
The envious foes of HERAULT DE 
SECHELLEs had by far the advantage 
over him, in the pecple’s eyes ; Bho 
while they were feen walk’ng on foot to 
the Jacobins, or other popular focieties, 
he was difcovered in a iéte-@-ié/e witha 
fair lady, at a {plendid houfe on the 
Boulevards, cr peeping through the 
glafs of a gild.d charict. _Thefe were 
fcenes which, however tolerated a fhort 
time before, could not be looked on with 
compofure by the ftern eyes of repub- 
licans, efpecially by thofe who confidered 
themfels es fuch par excellence. Thus-the 
very man who had, a few weeks before, 
prefented the plan of the new conftitu- 
tion to the Convention, and had pre- 
fided in the Field of Mace. on the ap- 
sete day of confederation for its for- 
mal acceptance, was now treated as a 
Original Anecdotes.-- Herault de Sechelles. 
ing before 
[June, 
fufpeéted perfon, by his colleagues in 
the government-committee ; infomuch- 
that when BARRERE, on the 17th of 
March, 1794, announced to the Conven- 
tion that HERAULT had been arrefted, 
by the order of that committee, it ap- 
peared, that he, had not, for feveral 
weeks, affifted at its councils. 
Above half a million of people had © 
lately looked up to HERAULT, on the 
elevated altar of liberty, and done 
homage to him, as perfonifying the new 
democratic conftitution: he was now, 
fad reverfe! about to be inglorionfly fa- 
crificed, on an ignominious fcaffold ! 
Danton, the famous leader of an- 
other party, had been taken up the even- 
HIERAULT, by order of the 
fame committee; and, as fuch violent 
factions give but lictle breathing-time to 
their antagonifts, when the favourable 
mcment arrives for directing a Blow - 
with effeét, ‘the accufed were brought to 
trial on the third dav, and, to the fur- 
prize of a great many, the acd ud accufation 
(indiétmenr) charg sed them with con-" 
{piring together to ‘Ov erturn the National 
Convention, to re-eftablifh royaity in 
France, and to maffacre the Committee 
ot Publ Welfare. here are times 
when the zAfe dixit of a popular orator 
is fufficient to condemn any obnoxious 
chara€ter to pubic odium. ‘The cor- 
rupt fervility of the Revolutionary Tri- 
bunal f{tudied and obeyed the will of the 
few in power, who now appeared to 
have perpetuated their authority. The 
judge and jury, therefore, after “the 
moft inconfiftent accufation and evidence, 
condemned HERAULT. DE SECHELLES, 
ae the other defignated confpirators, to 
ie by the guillotine. This the new 
ae called the fecond weeding of the 
republican garden, which work, if they 
had been allowed to proceed in their 
own way, would doubtlefs have ended 
in converting it into a defert for the 
chafe and pleafure of one or a few 
defpots. 
Heravutt, Danton, Chabot, Phil- 
lippeaux, and five others, were, on the 
sth of April, conveyed m three carts to 
the place of execution, compelled’ to 
wear the fearlet cloke, the opprobrious 
badge ‘of treafon; they fuffered in the 
prefence of an immenfe multitude, among 
whom, many did not fail to exprefs their 
doubts concerning the juftnefs of the 
fentence, and the truth of the charges. 
HERAULT,. who was but thirty years - 
of age, was of a handfome perfon and 
pleafing addrefs. He {poke with confi- 
derable energy when before the ena 
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