successful. (Gibbon's Letters.)

Another small phasis we add, and no more: how, in the Autumn months, our
sharp-tempered Arthur has been 'pestered for some days past,' by shot,
lead-drops and slugs, 'rattling five or six times into my chaise and
about my ears;' all the mob of the country gone out to kill game!
(Young, i. 176.) It is even so. On the Cliffs of Dover, over all the
Marches of France, there appear, this autumn, two Signs on the Earth:
emigrant flights of French Seigneurs; emigrant winged flights of French
Game! Finished, one may say, or as good as finished, is the Preservation
of Game on this Earth; completed for endless Time. What part it had to
play in the History of Civilisation is played plaudite; exeat!

In this manner does Sansculottism blaze up, illustrating many
things;--producing, among the rest, as we saw, on the Fourth of August,
that semi-miraculous Night of Pentecost in the National Assembly; semi
miraculous, which had its causes, and its effects. Feudalism is struck
dead; not on parchment only, and by ink; but in very fact, by fire; say,
by self-combustion. This conflagration of the South-East will abate;
will be got scattered, to the West, or elsewhither: extinguish it will
not, till the fuel be all done.



Chapter 1.6.IV.

In Queue.

If we look now at Paris, one thing is too evident: that the Baker's
shops have got their Queues, or Tails; their long strings of purchasers,