Letters named of the Seal (de Cachet), as many as needful, some sixscore and odd, are delivered overnight.

And so, next day betimes, the whole Parlement, once more set on wheels, is rolling incessantly towards Troyes in Champagne; 'escorted,' says History, 'with the blessings of all people;' the very innkeepers and postillions looking gratuitously reverent.

(A.Lameth, Histoire de l'Assemblee Constituante (Int.

73).) This is the 15th of August 1787.
What will not people bless; in their extreme need?
Seldom had the Parlement of Paris deserved much blessing, or received much.

An isolated Body-corporate, which, out of old confusions (while the Sceptre of the Sword was confusedly struggling to become a Sceptre of the Pen), had got itself together, better and worse, as Bodies-corporate do, to satisfy some dim desire of the world, and many clear desires of individuals; and so had grown, in the course of centuries, on concession, on acquirement and usurpation, to be what we see it: a prosperous social Anomaly, deciding Lawsuits, sanctioning or rejecting Laws; and withal disposing of its places and offices by sale for ready money,--which method sleek President Henault, after meditation, will demonstrate to be the indifferent-best.