[316] "I used to meet Barrère at a table d'hòte. I considered him of a mild and amiable temper. He was very well-bred, and seemed to love the Revolution from a sentiment of benevolence. His association with Robespierre, and the court which he paid to the different parties he successively joined and afterwards deserted, were less the effect of an evil disposition, than of a timid and versatile character, and a conceit, which made it incumbent upon him to appear as a public man. His talents as an orator were by no means of the first order. He was afterwards surnamed the Anacreon of the guillotine; but when I knew him he was only the Anacreon of the Revolution, upon which, in his 'Point du Jour,' he wrote some very amorous strains."--DUMONT, p. 199. [317] Lacretelle, tom. x., p. 41. [318] "O! peuple babillard, si tu savais agir!" [319] Thiers, tom. iii., p. 170; Lacretelle, tom. x., p. 23. [320] Mignet, tom. i., p. 224; Thiers, tom. iii., p. 213; Lacretelle, tom. x., p. 54. [321] "Point de procès au roi! épargnons le pauvre tyran!"--LACRETELLE, tom. x., p. 47. [322] Dumouriez, vol. iii., p. 273. [323] Mignet, tom. i., p. 228. [324] M. de Septueil, in particular, quoted as being the agent by whom Louis XVI. was said to have transmitted money to his brothers when in exile, positively denied the fact, and made affidavit accordingly.--S. [325] Mignet, tom. i., p. 229; Montgaillard, tom. iii., p. 265; Thiers, tom. iii., p. 259; Lacretelle, tom. x., p. 164; Madame Campan, vol. ii., p. 222. [326] "Unhappy Stuart! harshly though that name Grates on my ear, I should have died with shame, To see my King before his subjects stand, And at their bar hold up his royal hand; At their command to hear the monarch plead, By their decrees to see that monarch bleed. What though thy faults were many, and were great-- What though they shook the fabric of the state? In royalty secure thy person stood, And sacred was the fountain of thy blood. Vile ministers, who dared abuse their trust, Who dared seduce a king to be unjust, Vengeance, with justice leagued, with power made strong, Had nobly crush'd--The King can do no wrong." _Gotham._--S. [327] This club used to meet on the 30th January, at a tavern near Charing Cross, to celebrate the anniversary of the death of Charles I. Their toasts were, "The glorious year, 1648." "D----n to the race of the Stuarts." "The pious memory of Oliver Cromwell," &c.--See _Gent.'s Mag._, vol. v., p. 105; and "_History of the Calves-Head Club_." [328] "No one act of tyranny can be laid to Louis's charge: and, far from restraining the liberty of the press, it was the Archbishop of Sens, the King's prime minister, who, in the name of his Majesty, invited all writers to make known their opinions upon the form and manner of assembling the States-General."--DE STAËL, vol. ii., p. 94. [329] Lacretelle, tom. x., p. 145. [330] Thiers, tom. iii., p. 257. CHAPTER XIII.