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This military man had not so good nerves as the peaceable gentlemen of the Old Jewry. See Mons. Mounier's narrative of these transactions: a man also of honor and virtue and talents, and therefore a fugitive. He has since been obliged to live in exile, though one of the firmest assertors of liberty. See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to.
They could not agree; Mounier's party refusing to fall in with a project calculated to revive the orders, and the aristocracy refusing to accept a senate, which would confirm the ruin of the nobility. The greater portion of the deputies of the clergy and of the commons were in favour of the unity of the assembly.
You may imagine M. Mounier's astonishment, and the concern he felt at being in the presence of a culpable general who, though at first thrown into confusion, might recover himself and recollect that he had eighty thousand men under his command, of whom eight to ten thousand were at this moment gathered not far from the prefecture.
Under Mounier's controlling hand the prelate and the noble united to declare that the essential liberties of men are ensured to them by nature, and not by perishable title-deeds. Travellers had initiated him in the working of English institutions, and he represented the school of Montesquieu; but he was an emancipated disciple and a discriminate admirer.
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