The sums pocketed by Bailly are estimated at more than two millions; what 'Mottie' (Lafayette) has taken for the past two years is incalculable."[3126]--On the 15th of November, 1791, the gathering of emigres comprises "at least 120,000 former gentlemen and drilled partisans and soldiers, not counting the forces of the German princes about to join them."[3127]--Consequently, as with his brethren in Bicetre, (a lunatic asylum), he raves incessantly on the horrible and the foul: the procession of terrible or disgusting phantoms has begun.[3128] According to him, the scholars who do not choose to admire him are fools, charlatans and plagiarists.

Laplace and Monge are even "automatons," so many calculating machines; Lavoisier, "reputed father of every discovery causing a sensation in the world, has not an idea of his own;" he steals from others without comprehending them, and "changes his system as he changes his shoes." Fourcroy, his disciple and horn-blower, is of still thinner stuff.

All are scamps: "I could cite a hundred instances of dishonesty by the Academicians of Paris, a hundred breaches of trust;" twelve thousand francs were entrusted to them for the purpose of ascertaining how to direct balloons, and "they divided it among themselves, squandering it at the Rapee, the opera and in brothels."[3129]--In the political world, where debates are battles, it is still worse.

Marat's publication "The Friend of the people" has merely rascals for adversaries.

Praise of Lafayette's courage and disinterestedness, how absurd If he went to America it was because he was jilted, "cast off by a Messalina;" he maintained a park of artillery there as "powder-monkeys look after ammunition-wagons; "these are his only exploits; besides, he is a thief.