entered here, in boots; and, whip in hand, ordered his registering to be done,--with an Olympian look which none durst gainsay; and did, without stratagem, in such unceremonious fashion, hunt as well as register! (Dulaure, vi.

306.) For Louis XVI., on this day, the Registering will be enough; if indeed he and the day suffice for it.
Meanwhile, with fit ceremonial words, the purpose of the royal breast is signified:--Two Edicts, for Protestant Emancipation, for Successive Loan: of both which Edicts our trusty Garde-des-Sceaux Lamoignon will explain the purport; on both which a trusty Parlement is requested to deliver its opinion, each member having free privilege of speech.

And so, Lamoignon too having perorated not amiss, and wound up with that Promise of States-General,--the Sphere-music of Parlementary eloquence begins.

Explosive, responsive, sphere answering sphere, it waxes louder and louder.

The Peers sit attentive; of diverse sentiment: unfriendly to States-General; unfriendly to Despotism, which cannot reward merit, and is suppressing places.