I only wish that the middle class was as strong in France as it is in England; it is no doubt infinitely stronger than it was; while the lower order is better than that of England, I believe, for such occasions.

They have good men now in the provisional Government--so they had in 1788; and, like them, the present men will probably be swept away by the mob.

They are not, however, likely to be embarrassed by other nations, since the days of Pitt and George III.

are passed away, and so are the feudal times when the barons could get up civil wars for their own selfish purposes.

There are no characters sufficiently prominent to get up a civil war, but the enormous size of the army is enough to create feelings of disquiet.