A few days after the revolution of July, Lord Stuart the annals of England prove that her peerage was largely de Rothsay, the English ambassador, received from increased by persons connected with trade, at a time when, Lord Wellington orders to require from the new go- throughout the rest of Europe, there was no access to vernment of France a categorical answer as to its in- nobility but by the sword. This he proves by sundry intentions relative to Algiers." stances (most of which happen to be no instances at all) from 'Camden's excellent work on British Commerce,'Camden never having written any such work-and then to make all sure he subjoins

And to this he adds the following note:

To account for Lord Wellington's direct intervention in a matter which was rather in the department of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, it is necessary to know that some weeks before the appearance of the Ordonnances, M. de Polignac had sent over a secret agent to his Grace, to communicate confidentially his intended measure, and to assure him that the expedition to Algiers had no other object than to produce a military success, which might re-act favourably on the projected coup d'état.'—p. 87.

We can take upon ourselves to assert, that every statement and inference in this note is absolutely false, and without even a colourable pretence.

The following is a chronological list of the merchants who have been ennobled by the crown since the close of the sixteenth century.

'1464-Sir John Gillott, merchant and mayor of York, knight of the order of the Bath.

1465-Sir Ralph Josline, merchant-draper, knight of the Bath and baronet.

1471-Henry Weaver, sheriff of London, knight of the Bath and baronet.

'1487-Sir William Horne, trading in salt-meat, a baronet.

Henry VIII.

1583-Sir John Allen, merchant, privy councillor to Henry VII.

1628-Sir William Acton, knight of the Bath and

baronet.

'1536-Sir Thomas Adams, knight of the Bath and

1490-John Perceval, merchant-taylor, baronet. All the world knows, because it has been published in 1513-Sir Thomas More, sheriff of London, and the journals and in the parliamentary debates of both coun-afterwards Lord Chancellor and privy councillor to tries, (our readers will find it stated in the Quarterly Reme for July, 1833, vol. xlix. p. 524,) that the Wellington cabinet, immediately on the accession of Louis Philippe, did require and obtain a categorical answer on the subject of Algiers-but the special and direct interference of the Duke himself on that occasion, and the previous communi-baronet.'-vol. ii. p. 244. cution with M. de Polignac respecting the ORDONNANCES, are absolute falsehoods. Our readers well know that, on the Could it have been believed that any man-much less a first burst of the events of July, some such community of literary man-a publiciste by profession-volunteering to councils was imputed to the Duke of Wellington and M. discuss a matter of history and legislation, could have, by de Polignac by their respective enemies—and especially by any ingenuity of ignorance, contrived to accumulate such that pattern of accuracy and candour, Lord Brougham-a mass of blunders? Not one of his examples is a case of but the trial of the ex-ministry in Paris, and the declara- peerage! He confounds the occasional knights of the Bath tion of the Duke of Wellington in England, had, we made at coronations with the modern Order of the Bath. He thought, dissipated that calumny for ever; however, as M. enumerates baronets centuries before the title was invented Surrats has thought proper to repeat it with such special-and even imagines that knighthood, the baronetcy, and rcumstances, we take upon ourselves to assert, not only the privy council, confer the peerage! We wonder that of that there was no such agent, but that there was not any such peerages—instead of a list of nine, he did not enumerate the slightest—written or verbal communication of M. de nine hundred since the close of the sixteenth century, which, Pac's design made to the British government, or to any it seems according to M. Sarrans's new 'Art de vérifier les weber of it. We can further state, that so fearful was M. Dates,' was about 1464—a century and a half earlier than de Polignac of giving umbrage to his own jealous country- the vulgar reckoning. When M. Sarrans exhibits such wra, by the appearance of any intercourse with the Duke serious and such ridiculous ignorance about one part of Wellington, that when he left England with the secret this subject, we naturally feel some suspicion as to his trust. ration of accepting the place of President of the Coun-worthiness in others; and although we may presume that to Charles X., he did not even communicate his depar- he knows a little inore of France than he does of England, lart or its untives to the Duke, and even evaded the ordinary we confess, that if we had not some other evidence than eaty of a parting visit; and we farther finally assert his own for most of his statements, we should not have tiat so far, so blameably far-was this system of retroces- paid them much attention. But the truth is, that Sarrans from English counsels carried, that the first intimation derives all his importance from his connexion with Lafayette stach the British cabinet had of any unusual design or and his party,-whose views he developes-whose cause ture was by the same Moniteur which had announced he advocates-and whose statements he records. It is not Ordonnances to the people of Paris. Sarrans we trust, but Lafayette, Lafitte, Dupont, and OdilWe did not expect to have ever again had occasion to lon Barrot, all of whom appear to have contributed to this, mr to this topic; but when we find M. Sarrans gravely even more directly than to his former work; these volumes ng such fables, we think it right, for the sake of his- contain a letter from each of these persons, which, so far cal truth, to repeat the contradiction. We do not sus- as they are concerned, accredit the book; and in truth all M. Sarrans of intentional misrepresentation; but it is the fucts of the book relate to them, or rather to Louis surprising how ignorant of us and all our affairs, Philippe in his intercourse with them. M. Sarrans has arther recent or remote, the French, even their men of also been at the pains to hunt up some old publications, *s, are; and not merely uninformed, but utterly igno- and he has been furnished with some original documents, nt of matters, which they, nevertheless, venture to discuss and from all these sources has collected a mass of anecdotes the boldest style. For instance, M. Sarrans, thinking it relative to the personal and political life of the King of the ary, in a high constitutional disquisition, to compare French, which are, beyond all doubt, true in substance, the Chamber of Peers in France with our House of Lords, though the commentaries of M. Sarrans are deeply_tine jects to the former as exclusively feudal, while, he says, tured with party prejudice and personal animosity. These VOL. XXVIII. JANUARY, 1836-3.

we shall endeavour to put aside, and to exhibit to our same reason that they now quote it—namely, because they rcaders the real character of Louis Philippe, which, like think it does no credit to him-so long their idol, and most other real characters, will be found to be a mixture now their bete noire. We, on the contrary, think that, on of good and bad-of something to be approved-some- the whole, it does him no discredit, and we wish to prething to be censured-and a good deal to be pitied, as the serve it for the sake of justice and truth. The facts may weakness of human nature-and much to be forgiven, as be of little historical value; many of the details are insig arising from the irresistible force of circumstances. nificant and puerile, as may be well expected, when we M. Sarrans sets out by showing that his Majesty began remind our readers that the author was only seventeen life as a Jacobin-his first political declaration was in the when the journal was kept; but it affords many interesting strong and homely designation of himself as Louis Phi- traits of personal character, and inust be, at all events, culippe Egalité, by misfortune a French prince, but by choice rious, as the first chapter, written by his own hands, of the a Jacobin to his fingers' ends. This general thesis M. life of a man, who, whatever be his ultimate destiny, has Sarrans elucidates by extracts from a journal kept by the already secured a prominent place in the history of this Duke de Chartres in 1790 and 1791, and which, having most eventful agc.

been lost or forgotten when he emigrated, was soon after We must introduce this journal by a few preliminary published in Paris. Our readers are aware that the cele-explanations, and we shall occasionally intersperse observabrated Madame de Genlis, in addition to the education of tions on some prominent passages, and subjoin a few Mademoiselle d'Orleans, became charged with the super-foot-notes.

intendence of the education of M. de Chartres and his two The journal begins with the entrance of the young brothers, under the masculine title of governor; and cer- Duke de Chartres into the Jacobin Club-an event of containly as regarded mere education, she justified the singu-siderable importance in a public view, as marking his falar confidence which was placed in her: never had any ther's adhesion to the principles of that society, and which experiment a severer trial, or, we will add, a more suc- was also the occasion of serious family dissensions. The cessful result. The early education of Louis Philippe, as Jacobins, we find, were so much pleased at seeing the experience has shown, not only fitted him for the respecta- Duke de Chartres amongst them, that they presented him ble and honourable maintenance of the station to which he a formal address, of which the first sentence is curious:was born, but afforded him support and consolation in deep and unexpected adversity; and now, in an equally unexpected elevation, enables him to fulfil with vigour and intelligence the most difficult and the most awful duties.

Sir, we congratulate ourselves! Should we not also congratulate you? You have been our prince—you are now our colleague,' &c. Signed Manuel, president; Lepage, secretary. (Chronique de Paris, 19th Nov. 1790.) But that which was a matter of congratulation to the Jacobins, How often'-says Madame de Genlis, in allusion to was a source of deep affliction to his amiable and excelthe trials and privations to which the young prince was lent mother, and became the immediate cause of an open exposed after his escape from France- How often,

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since his misfortunes, have I applauded myself for the rupture between her and Madame de Genlis-by whose education I had given him-for having taught him the counsels that princess believed that her son had taken this principal modern languages-for having accustomed unhappy and degrading step.

Madame de Genlis, in her

him to wait on himself-to despise all kinds of effemi- Memoirs, attributes it solely to the Duke of Orleans himnacy-(mollesse)-to sleep habitually on a wooden bed, self; but it is, we think, clear that she must share the rewith no covering but a mat-to expose himself to heat, sponsibility. We have the young duke's evidence, that cold, and rain-to accustom himself to fatigue by daily his father only approved his own proposition; and we shall and violent exercise, and by walking ten or fifteen see, as we proceed, that this too-docile and over-affectionate miles with leaden soles to his shoes-and, finally, for pupil would never have thought of making such a proposi having given him the taste and habit of travelling. He tion without Madame de Genlis's previous concurrence;had lost all that he had inherited from birth and for- her husband, M. de Sillery, proposed him-her personal tune-nothing remained but what he had received from nature and me!'-Mém. de Genlis, iv. 203. friends, and the attendants whom she had placed about him, all became members also. When, in a year or two One of the modes by which Madarne de Genlis endea- after, she, with her niece and Pamela, accompanied Madevoured to teach her royal pupils to examine and regulate moiselle d'Orleans to England, they designated themselves their own mind and conduct was the keeping a journal; les quatre émigrées Jacobines.' (Correspondance de d'Or and it is to a portion of a journal so kept-extending from léans, ii. 90.) In short, it is clear that she countenanced, the autumn of 1790 to the summer of 1791-that M. and probably advised her pupil's entry into the Jacobin Sarrans refers. This journal certainly affords some very Club-which, however, as she justly observes, had not, at piquant contrasts-the prince turned Jacobin is striking this period, attained its subsequent ferocity and infamy. enough, but the Jacobin turned king is still more so. There is another circumstance in this affair, which corroM. Sarrans, of course, quotes no more than serves his borates the opinion that the plunges of the Duke of Orleans own purpose-he quotes nothing that can do the king into the successive depths of democracy were chiefly credit, and once or twice, by an omission, makes the pas- prompted by moral cowardice-the Duke de Chartres besage look worse than it really is. We happen to possess came Jacobin at the moment of that violent excitement a copy of this little work, and as it is rare, and has never, which followed the duel of Messrs. de Castries and Lawe believe, been translated, we think our readers will not meth; but the father himself did not become a member of be sorry to possess it in extenso-particularly as, amidst the club till the commotion occasioned by the flight of the the deluge of French memoirs with which we have been king, when, not without some demur, he was admitted. lately inundated, this curious little piece has been care- (Journal des Jacobins, 23d June, 1790.) Again-it was fully suppressed. Nay, in the laboured apologetical life of amidst the massacre of the 10th of August that he soliLouis Philippe in that liberal, but most flimsy and false cited the change of his name to Egalité. We say moral publication, the Biographie des Contemporains, it is not cowardice, for he showed more than once, and particularly even alluded to. The fact is, that the Liberals have at his last hour, personal firmness.

hitherto endeavoured to hush up this publication, for the We are tempted to quote from the little-known relation

of an eye-witness the account of his last hours. On the mittee meets every Thursday. Irequested one of my 6th of November, 1793, he was brought before the revolu- colleagues to express my regret at not being able to attionary tribunal, and, after a mock trial, condemned to tend to-morrow. death, on a series of charges, of all of which he was noto- Chateau Neuf.* 7th Nov.-Attended mass; they did riously guiltless. He treated the dreadful mockery with obedience to the decrees of the National Assembly.— not offer us incense,t my grandfather insisting on exact contempt, and begged, as an only favour, that the sentence If they had attempted to offer me the incense, I had raight be executed without delay: the bloody indulgence made up my mind not to allow it. Messrs. de Gilbert, was granted, and he was led, at four o'clock, when the father and son, dined here to-day; the son is seventeen daylight was almost failing, from the court to the scaffold. and a half, and very steady, very civil and very amia'I confess,' says the editor of the Correspondance crats, he is nevertheless a great patriot, which has won ble; although his father and all his family are aristod'Orleans, I had the barbarous curiosity to see him my heart..... So my trip to Château Neuf is over. go to execution; I took my station opposite his palace, We shall set off to-night at eleven. Although I have that I might observe the effect which, at his last mo- been very happy to pass this time with my mother and ments, these scenes of former splendour and enjoyment my grandmother, I have felt great pain in separating might have on him. The crowd was immense, and ag-myself from those with whom I have lived so long, and gravated, by its reproaches and insults, the agony of particularly my Friend [Madame de Genlis], whom I the sufferer. The fatal cart advanced at so slow a pace, shall always consider as a second mother-and my brothat it seemed as if they were endeavouring to prolong ther (the Duke de Montpensier] from whom I had never his torments. There were many other victims in the been separated before. I felt deeply, in the course of same cart; they were all bent double, pale, and stupi- this little journey, how dear everything at Bellechasse fied by horror: Orleans alone-a striking contrast is to me, and how painful it would be to me to be long stood upright, his head elevated, his countenace full of away from it. its natural colour, with all the firmness of innocence. By a refinement of cruelty, the cart was stopped at the Madame de Genlis, then called Madame de Sillery, is gate of his palace; I saw him run his eyes over the throughout the Journal designated emphatically as my building with the tranquil air of a master, who should friend (mon amie). She resided in a convent in the Faube examining whether it required any additional orna-bourg St. Germain, called Bellechasse, where the Duke of ment or repair. This air was, no doubt, studied and Orleans had erected a pavilion for the residence of her and pat on-1, as well as every body else, could see that it

was; it was even said that he had prepared himself for his daughter Mademoiselle Adelaide-thither the young it by wine; but, with all that, I was astonished-I am men used to come every day to receive the instruction of still astonished to think how such a man as d'Orléans their Governor. We may as well take this opportunity of could, by any means, have subdued his natural charac- observing, once for all, that the romantic attachment of ter, and worked himself up to such an appearance of Louis Philippe for Madame de Genlis, and the passionate courage and tranquillity.' expressions of fondness which, as we shall see by and by, We return from this digression to observe, that as to the more than filial affection, but there is no real ground for he employs, might create a surmise that he felt for her rupture between the Dutchess of Orleans and Madame de Genlis, the latter, in her Memoirs, does tardy and rather might be proved, if it were necessary, by some very naïves any such suspicion; the fact is notoriously otherwise, as reluctant, but yet complete, justice to the former. confessions in the course of the Journal. We here see,

The cause,' says she, of the Dutchess's coldness and shall see more fully hereafter, that the young duke la. towards me was evidently a difference of opinion on ments, as so much time lost, his occasional visits to his the politics of the day; and I am now ready to acknow-mother, who-notwithstanding his visible indifference for ledge that her fears which, at the time, appeared to me her and his enthusiasm for his friend-continued to treat to exaggerated, and even so unjust, were but two well him with all the affection and attention that she was allowfounded. She did not permit her imagination to lead ed to show him. In reading, however, his extravagant her astray-she did not abandon herself to romantic expressions concerning his friend, it must be recollected ons her judgment, alas! was better than mine.'Men de Gen, iv. 81.

With these preliminary observations on the state of the family, which will tend to explain some things that might be otherwise obscure, we proceed to the Journal itself.

that the Journal was intended for her future inspection, and that the youth would naturally write in a way that would be most agreeable to her. This will account, in her, and will also explain the choice of topics, &c.; but, some degree, for the excessive fondness he professes for after all, there is no doubt that he felt for her the warmest gratitude and affection.

JOURNAL OF LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE DE CHARTRES. 224 Oct. 1790.-I dined at Mousseaux*-next day should have been to return with my mother, I opposed 7th Nov.-I forgot to say, that however happy I ay father having approved my anxious wishes to become member of the Jacobin club, M. de Sillery proposed well. I should have come in the cabriolet with Garher coming back with me, as she seemed rather unme on Friday. Nov.-I was yesterday admitted to the Jacobins, danne; but she preferred travelling all night to return and much applauded-I returned thanks for the kind with me,-besides, she can sleep in a carriage.

ception that they were so good as to give me, and I 'Paris, 9th Nov.--We left Chateau Neuf at eleven at sured them that I should never deviate from the sa- night, and arrived at Bellechasse at ten next day. I got tred duties of a good patriot and a good citizen. on horseback at Angerville, nine leagues off; it was still

3d Nov.-I was this morning at the National AssemMy-in the evening at the Jacobins, where I was put the Committee of Presentations, that is on the comstee appointed to examine candidates. This com

* A country seat of his grandfather, the Duke de Penthievere.

Under the old church regime, incense was presented to persons of highyrank-a kind of feudal honour which A villa of the Duke of Orleans, so close to Paris, was abolished in the general abolition of all feudal the north-west, as to be within the walls.

rights.

dark, and I rode to Paris. In the evening I attended the Jacobins. We learn from a subsequent entry, 26th the Jacobins. They appointed me Censor (they do the November, that Meeke appealed against the justice of this duty of ushers). As the hall is much too small to con- denunciation-but had it been ever so just, it was not the tain the Friends of the Constitution,'-[the formal title Duke of Chartres who should have made it.

of the Club, which derived its popular name from meeting at the convent of the Jacobins,]-whose numbers increase 16th Nov.-At the Jacobins-I rose to speak, and daily, a conumittee was named to look out for another said, that I had had the honour of being admitted last place. They were discussing the king's household year (though under age) into the Philanthropic Society, troops. M. Mathieu de Miranbal (a young man) spoke This society was in the habit of distributing 100,000 particularly well. I learned that I had been named one (4007.) per annum, but this year the funds had fallen off of a deputation to convey to the National Assembly the by one-half, because several very affluent persons had proposition relative to the Tennis Court.* retired under pretence that the Revolution prevents 10th Nov.-Yesterday my father sent for me, re- their contributing four louis a year. In this they have ceived me most kindly, and gave me fifty louis, of two objects-the first to discredit the Revolution for which I gave my brother ten. My father desired me having destroyed so good an institution; and, secondly, to call on Madame de Lamballe-I went directly; and to make it enemies of all the poor whose pensions from her to the Assembly, and from that, with my fa- should be thus stopped, by saying, "It is the Revoluther's approbation, to dine with M. Bonne-Carrère, who tion deprives you of your bread." I said I thought had been spokesman of the deputation to the Assembly that it was worthy of the club to support the PhilanHe had invited the whole deputation and several mem-thropic Society, and I invited all who could afford four bers of the Assembly. The dinner was very gay, very louis a year to belong to it, and those who could not, to patriotic, and very decent. contribute what they could afford. I was much ap11th Nov.-At the sifting of the Assembly M. Biau- plauded, and, on the motion of M. Faydel, a subscripzat moved that the committees of the constitution and tion which had been raised a month ago, for a poor man of military affairs should unite to prepare a decree on who had refused it, was transferred to the Philanthrothe composition of the king's guard of honour. M. de pic Society.

Beauharnois proposed that the king should never com

mand the troops in person. M. Malouet opposed both 17th Nov.-I was yesterday at the National Assemthese motions. Alexander Lameth complained that bly-the question was about Avignon. I had forgotten the friends of liberty were always represented as the to take paper with me which prevented my making enemies of the king. On this the Blacks [royalists]|

notes.

cried "Yes, yes, and 'tis true," and the Côté Gauche ' 19th Nov.—This evening at the play to see [Vol"No, no-the true friends of the king are those who taire's] Brutus-the audience made many allusions. have destroyed the ci-devant clergy and the parliaments When Brutus says, "Give me, ye gods, death rather -'tis they who have delivered the nation from all the than slavery," the house rang with shouts of applausetyrannies under which we had so long groaned." The great waving of hats. It was magnificent. Another Côté Gauche and the galleries applauded violently. I line ended with these words-“ free and without a joined in the applause. M. de Cassigny Juigné, de-king.' Some applause was heard, in which neither 1 puty of the Var, and M. de la Chèze, who sat near him, nor any one in our box joined. Then there was a cry appealed to the President that I should be turned out of "God save the king;" but it being observed that for having dared to applaud. The President shrugged this cry was unconstitutional, they substituted that triup his shoulders-1 continued my applause, and then ple cry, which sounds so sweet in patriot ears-" God took up my opera glass to see who were the two mem- save the nation, the law, and the king," and Vive la bers who had noticed me. There was a cry of " Down liberté. It was clear from all that passed that the pawith the opera-glass!" but I did not take it down till triots had a great majority over the aristocrats; three I had well seen and distinguished them. Thence I or four of these latter would have applauded some conwent to dinner at the Palais Royal, and in the evening genial allusions, but they were reduced to silence. to my committee at the Jacobins, where I announced 20th Nov.-Last night at the Jacobins, M. Pujot, [denounced?] to the committee that a person lately ad- an apothecary, and an excellent patriot, had lent a mitted by the committee, and now standing for election by the society (M. Meeke), was concerned in an aristocratic paper called La Gazette Générale. He was in consequence adjourned sine die.'

friend his card of admission-he was suspended, according to a rule, which every one signs on admission, excluding members who shall lend their cards, but .M. Pujot had not read it. I solicited the indulgence of the club for this patriot, and he got his card again. I We are afraid that this passage is one of the least cre- missed the reading [of the procès verbal] because I ditable to the writer that the Journal contains. M. Meeke could not come till nine o'clock, having been detained seems to have been a person attached to his education. at the National Assembly by the politeness of M. GrouMadame de Genlis, when inculcating on him his duty to- velle, who was to read an address at the bar, and rewards his attendants, says, You should confer on quested me to stop to hear it-the address seemed to Messrs. Myris and Meeke-if he should remain with you-me fine, but rather long. I wish he had said someand your other masters and attendants, any favour in thing of religion. This morning, at seven o'clock, I attended at the hospital of the Hotel Dieu, to see the your power.'-(Mém de Genlis, vol. iii. p. 284.) M. Myris patients dressed and to learn to dress. I returned at a was his drawing master, who continued attached to him, and quarter past eight. I dined at the Palais Royal with for his conduct at Jemappes was made a chef de brigade-of my father. him we shall hear more hereafter; but poor M. Meeke, as

Madame de Genlis suspected, seems to have quitted him—| * M. Sarrans has rather uncandidly suppressed all probably on account of politics-and the favour' which, the rest of this article. It is evident that he wishes to in pursuance of Madame de Genlis's considerate advice, leave an impression as if Louis Phillippe had applauded he seems to have conferred on him, was a denunciation to free and without a king;' but as he expressly states that neither he nor his company did so, Sarrans is

A bombastic address from the Jacobins to the Na-guilty of a misrepresentation. tional Assembly, for a due commemoration of the cele- + It does not appear what this address was—probably brated oath in the Tennis Court, at Versailles.-See about the civil constitution of the clergy, which was at Moniteur, 9th Nov. 1790. that time under discussion.

24th Nov.-Another delightful day at Bellechasse. Here we see the Duke does not lament the days spent This morning we attended at the Hotel Dieu; I visited at the Jacobins, nor the dinners at the Palais Royal, or and bled some patients.' the Place Vendôme, but is greatly distressed at the loss of

We find in the French papers, that Louis Philippe has two hours in dining with his mother.

had recent occasion to exercise this very useful but unusu 2d Dec.-I went yesterday morning to the Hotel al accomplishment of being able to bleed. When he was Dieu-I dressed two patients, and gave one six and the lately travelling in Normandy, one of his postillions had a other three livres. Dined at Bellechasse, and went very severe fall, and was senseless. The king, to the great early to the Jacobins; we had to elect a president and astonishment of his attendants and the spectators, jumped secretary. I voted for MM. de Mirabeau and Beauharnais, from the carriage, pulled out a lancet, and bled the poor who had the majority of votes. M. Barnave spoke exThis was one of Madame ceedingly well on the club which calls itself the repre

fellow with skill and success.

de Genlis's practical items of education.

sentatives of the National Guards of France-M. de Lafayette had granted them the right of sending two of their members every day to attend the king-they solicited the same indulgence at the National Assembly. M. Barnave showed how impolitic it would be to allow the National Guard to become a body apart, and that the soldiers should not be separated from the citizens, &c. was named Censor.

25th Nov.-After dinner to the Jacobins-I was the first who arrived. They gave me some letters from the country to abstract-for, except the letters be very interesting, they only read abstracts. One of the ab. stracts (not one of mine) was in these terms: "A letter from the society at Foix inclosed a copy of an address to the king, and states a fact against M. Lambert, the 3d Dec.-I dined yesterday at the Palais Royal, and comptroller-general." The address itself was now call- afterwards attended the committee of presentations at ed for, and found to be in the form of the old regime-the Jacobins. I endorsed the proposals of M. Lecoup**your kingdom-your faithful subjects, who would shed pey, Conad, and Alyon. I also endorsed those of their blood for your sacred person." This was received Messrs. Henezet and Issonrah. I had inquired about with murmurs, in which I took no part. A member of the first, and the result was favorable to him. The sethe National Assembly for Foix endeavored to justify cond was recommended to me by M. Myris, who anM. Lambert, and said that we should excuse the old-swers for his patriotism. M. Bonne-Carrère'read from fashioned style of his countrymen, who were so remote, a committee the project of a regulation for the proceedthat public spirit had not yet made its way amongst ings of the club. One article was, that no one should them, but that they loved and blessed the constitution. be admitted under the age of twenty-one, except under On my proposition, supported by some other members, particular circumstances. I proposed eighteen-saythe club passed to the order of the day. I got to Belle-ing, that at eighteen one was quite equal to understand chasse at a few minutes past eight. our discussions-that the club, having no legal charac26th Nov.-I went this morning to the Hôtel Dieu-ter, should be looked upon as a school, where young the next time I shall dress the patients myself. Yes-midity, and fit themselves for one day defending the terday I was to have dined at Villoni's, No. 17, Place sacred rights of the nation from the tribune of the Nades Victoires, at nine livres a head; Messrs. Barnave, tional Assembly. My reasons were not convincing, and Laneth, Noailles, Mirabeau, Sillery, &c. who were to have been of the party, did not go, because M. Brissot, had a kind of personal interest in the amendment, bemy amendment was rejected. I then said that I had who had so grossly calumniated M. Barnave, and called him a tool of tyranny," was to be there. Instead, cause my brother-[M. de Montpensier was now but fiftherefore, of that, I went to dine at Mousseaux, where teen]-desired ardently to enter the club, and that this were Madame de Buffon, an danother lady, and Mes. rule would postpone him for a long time. steurs Valkiers, St. Fare, Belsunce, d'Henencourt, and d'Herbois told me that it should not affect him-that when one had received an education like ours, he fell Sheldon. After dinner they began to play cards, en into the provided case of exception. I returned to which I went away to the Jacobins-I called the attenBellechasse at three-quarters past eight. This mornting of the club to the letter which M. Meeke [see ante, 1th Nor.) had published in "Carra and Mercier's Jouring I have been to the Hotel Dieu and dressed patients. 6th Dec.-I dined to-day at the Palais Royal with al." I was asked if I answered for the truth of his statements; I said no. I returned to Bellechasse at my brother and sister. After dinner M. de Cubières showed some experiments in optics; during this time I three-quarters after eight. went out with Edward,§ and went to the house of one 2th Nov-I was last night at the Assembly-there Bailly, a Bookseller. I told him and his wife that I was an enormous crowd. M. Voidel made a speech on greatly protected Topin, that I could answer for his good the obstacles which the bishops, the chapters, and some conduct and good principles; that he had been for six of the parochial clergy throw in the way of the execu- years in love with their daughter, and that I hoped they tion of the decrees on the civil constitution of the clergy, would consent to the match. To which there being no by their protests and declarations. He stated amongst

men should learn betimes to overcome their natural ti

others the conduct of a parish priest near Peronne, who,

M. Collot

*To teach my pupils Greek, I have attached to not satisfied with exciting the people to refuse the pay- their establishment of education M. Lecouppey, an exment of taxes, excited them to massacre the tax-gath-cellent Grecian.'-Mem. de Gen. iii. 324. M. Conad erers. I had taken notes of the whole discussion to

te it out here, but, as I am three days in arrear, it is appears to have been his medical attendant. M. de Montpensier was soon after admitted, for we find him on the 21st of June proposing the admission of

unpossible.

It Dec. 1790.-I dined yesterday with my grandfa- his father. ther the Duke de Penthi rre] at the Hotel de Toulouse; Mademoiselle Adelaide, who is supposed to be the toy mother dined there too; I returned to Bellechasse wife by secret, but not illegitimate nuptials of General ata quarter past four. Though I am delighted at dining Athelin, her brother's first aide-de-camp. Within these frequently with my mother, yet all does not go as I had few days we learn this lady has taken the title of MaAmed I had hoped to be able to continue my studies dame, to the great scandal of the Liberals, who look on alost without interruption, but I was mistaken, and I it as a symptom of feudality.

Am sincerely grieved at it: of the seven days of the § This Edward seems to be the same person menweek, I can give but three to my beloved Bellechasse-tioned afterwards as Topin, who appears to have had this distresses me very much.' some office about the Duke de Chartres,