'Liberty is gone,' he replied, 'if we do not speedily disconcert the plots of the court.

La Fayette is meditating treason in the north: the army of the centre is systematically disorganised: in six weeks the Austrians will be at Paris.

Have we then laboured at the most glorious of revolutions for so many years to see it overthrown in a single day?
If Liberty dies in France, it is lost for ever to the rest of the world!--all the hopes of philosophy are deceived--prejudices and tyranny will again grasp the world.

Let us prevent this misfortune, and if the north is subjected, let us take Liberty with us into the south, and there form a colony of free men.' His wife wept as she listened to him, and I myself wept as I looked at her.

Oh! how much the outpourings of confidence console and fortify minds that are in desolation.