Thus were the stupid Bavarians (as the French were once pleased to call them) their instructors in the art of overturning the world. The French were indeed the first who put it in practice. These committees arose from the Illuminati in Bavaria, who had by no means given over working; and these committees produced the Jacobin Club. It is not a frivolous remark, that the Masonic phrase of the persons who wish to address the Brethren, (_F. S. je demande la parole_, which the F. S. reports to the V. G. M. and which he announces to the Brethren thus, "_Mes freres, frere tel demande la parole, la parole lui est accordee_,") is exactly copied by the Jacobin Club. There is surely no natural connection between Free Masonry and Jacobinism--but we seek the link--Illuminatism.-- The office-bearers of one of the Lodges of Philalethes in Paris were _Martin_, _Willermooz_, (who had been deputy from the _Chevaliers Bienfaisants_ to the Willemsbad Convention) _Chappe_, _Minet_[23], _de la Henriere_, and _Savatier de l'Ange_. In another (the _Contract Social_) the Political Committee consisted of _La Fayette_, _Condorcet_, _Pethion_, _d'Orleans_, _Abbe Bartholis_, _d'Aiguillon_, _Bailly_, _Marq. de la Salle_, _Despresmenil_. This particular Lodge had been founded and conducted by one _De Leutre_, an adventurer and cheat of the first magnitude, who sometimes made a figure, and at other times was without a shilling. At this very time he was a spy attached to the office of the police of Paris[24]. _The Duke of Orleans_ was Warden of the Lodge. The _Abbe Sieyes_ was a Brother Orator, but not of this Lodge, nor, I think, of the former. It was probably of the one conducted by Mirabeau and the Abbe Perigord. But it appears from the piece from which I am at present borrowing, that Sieyes was present in the meetings of both Lodges, probably as visiting Brother, employed in bringing them to common measures. I must observe, that the subsequent conduct of some of these men does not just accord with my conjecture, that the principles of the Illuminati were adopted in their full extent. But we know that all the Bavarian Brethren were not equally Illuminated, and it would be only copying their teachers if the cleverest of these their scholars should hold a _sanctum sanctorum_ among themselves, without inviting all to the conference. Observe too that the chief lesson which they were now taking from the Germans was _the method of doing business_, of managing their correspondence, and of procuring and training pupils. A Frenchman does not think that he needs instruction in any thing like principle or science. He is ready on all occasions to be the instructor.