[Footnote E: The "September Massacres" lasted from the 2nd to the 6th of that month.--Ed.] [Footnote F: He reached Paris in the beginning of October 1792.--Ed.] [Footnote G: The Place du Carrousel.--Ed.] [Footnote H: See notes [E] and [F].--Ed.] [Footnote I: "One day, among the last of October, Robespierre, being summoned to the tribune by some new hint of that old calumny of the Dictatorship, was speaking and pleading there, with more and more comfort to himself; till rising high in heart, he cried out valiantly: Is there any man here that dare specifically accuse me? ''Moi!'' exclaimed one. Pause of deep silence: a lean angry little Figure, with broad bald brow, strode swiftly towards the tribune, taking papers from its pocket: 'I accuse thee, Robespierre,--I, Jean Baptiste Louvet!' The Seagreen became tallow-green; shrinking to a corner of the tribune, Danton cried, 'Speak, Robespierre; there are many good citizens that listen;' but the tongue refused its office. And so Louvet, with a shrill tone, read and recited crime after crime: dictatorial temper, exclusive popularity, bullying at elections, mob-retinue, September Massacres;--till all the Convention shrieked again," etc. etc. Carlyle's 'French Revolution', vol. iii. book ii. chap. 5.--Ed.] [Footnote K: Robespierre got a week's delay to prepare a defence. "That week he is not idle. He is ready at the day with his written Speech: smooth as a Jesuit Doctor's, and convinces some. And now?...poor Louvet, unprepared, can do little or nothing. Barrère proposes that these comparatively despicable _personalities_ be dismissed by order of the day! Order of the day it accordingly is." Carlyle, _ut supra_.--Ed.] [Footnote L: Harmodius and Aristogiton of Athens murdered the tyrant Hipparchus, 514 B.C., and delivered the city from the rule of the Pisistratidæ, much as Brutus rose against Cæsar.--Ed.] [Footnote M: He crossed the Channel, and returned to England reluctantly, in December 1792. Compare p. 376, l. 349: 'Since I withdrew unwillingly from France.' Ed.] [Footnote N: Had he remained longer in Paris, he would probably have fallen a victim, amongst the Brissotins, to the reactionary fury of the Jacobin party.--Ed.] [Footnote O: He left England in November 1791, and returned in December 1792.--Ed.] [Footnote P: He stayed in London during the winter of 1792-3 and spring of 1793, probably with his elder brother Richard (who was a solicitor there), writing his remarkable letter on the French Revolution to the Bishop of Landaff, and doubtless making arrangements for the publication of the 'Evening Walk'. The 'Descriptive Sketches' were not written till the summer of 1793 (compare the thirteenth book of 'The Prelude', p. 366); but in a letter dated "Forncett, February 16th, 1793," his sister sends to a friend an interesting criticism of her brother's verses. The 'Evening Walk' must therefore have appeared in January 1793.--Ed.]