[Footnote 261: Thiers, vol. i., p. 166. Ferrières, t. ii., p. 198.] [Footnote 262: "Many of the emigrants had joined the army in a state of complete destitution. Others were spending improvidently the last relics of their fortunes. All were in good spirits, for the camp life was free and joyous. They confidently believed that the end of autumn would find them restored to their splendid homes, to their groves, to their forests, and to their dove-cots."--_Chateaubriand's Memoirs of the Duke de Berri._] [Footnote 263: See Recueil de divers Ecrits relatif à la Revolution, p. 62; also Chateaubriand's Memoirs of the Duke de Berri. In reference to England Michelet remarks, with much truth: "The first power is aristocracy, the second aristocracy, and the third aristocracy. This aristocracy goes on incessantly recruiting its body with all those who grow rich. To be rich in order to be noble is the absorbing thought of the Englishman. Property, specially territorial and feudal, is the religion of the country."--_Michelet's French Revolution_, p. 432.] [Footnote 264: "The meeting ended at half past five, and Mirabeau went to the house of his sister, his intimate and dear confidante, and said to her, 'I have pronounced my death-warrant. It is now all over with me, for they will kill me.'"--_Michelet_, p. 461.] [Footnote 265: The peculiar character of Mirabeau is illustrated by the following well-authenticated anecdote. He was, on one occasion, reading a report to the Assembly upon some riots in Marseilles, which he affirmed were fomented by the partisans of the court. He was incessantly interrupted by the aristocratic party with such abusive epithets as "calumniator, liar, assassin, scoundrel." He stopped a moment, looked at them with an imperturbable smile, and, in his most honeyed tones, said, "Gentlemen, I wait till these amenities be exhausted."--_Dumont, Souvenirs_, p. 278.] [Footnote 266: The English _people_ were at this time generally in sympathy with the Revolution. The aristocratic _government_ of England was in deadly hostility to it. In 1792, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, then head scholar in Jesus College, Cambridge, wrote an Ode to France, commencing with the words, "When France, in wrath, her giant limbs upreared, And, with that oath which smote air, earth, and sea, Stamped her strong foot, and said she would be free, Bear witness for me how I hoped and feared." In consequence of this ode, and his avowed attachment to the principles of the Revolution, he became so obnoxious to his superiors that he was constrained to leave the college abruptly, without a degree.--_Cyclopædia of English Literature, Article S.T. Coleridge._]