Sent to London by the minister on one of those missions which are nameless, he there became connected with the editor of the _Courrier de l'Europe_, a French journal, printed in London, and the boldness of whose style was offensive at the court of the Tuileries.

He engaged himself to Swinton, the proprietor of this newspaper, and edited it in a manner favorable to the views of Vergennes.

He knew at Swinton's several writers, amongst others one Morande.

These libellers, outcasts of society, frequently then become the refuse of the pen, and live at the same time on the disgraces of vice and in the pay of spies.

Their collision infected Brissot.