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the profusiOn of an ocean. His usual Calcu- IatIOn ot the heads which he demanded a. mounted to two hundred and sixty thousand {; and though he sometimes raised it as high as three hundred thousand, it never fell beneath the smallest number. It may he hoped, and for the honor of human nature we are in clined to believe, there was touch of insani- ty in this unnatural strain of ferocity; and the wild and squallid features of the wretch appear to have intimated degree of alena- ton of mind. Marat was, like Robespierre, a coward. Repeatedly denounced in the As sembly, he skulked instead of defending him self, and lay concealed in some obscure gar ret or cellar among his cut-throats, until a storm appeared, when, like bird Ofill omen, his death screech was again heard. Such was the strange and fatal trumvirate,in in which the same degree of cannibal cruelty existed under different aspects. Danton murdered to glut his rage; Robespierre to avenge his inju red vanity, or to remove rival whom he en- vied; Marat from the same instinctive love of blood, which induces wolf to continue his ravage of the fiocks long after his hunger is for his cowardice, Robespierre feared the fe rocious audacity of Danton; and with him to fear was to hate-and to hate was-when the hour arrived-to destroy. They differed in their ideas also of the mode of exercising their terrible system ofgovernment. Danton had cften in his mouth the sentence of Mach iayel, that when it became necessary to shed blood single great massacre has more dreadful effect than series of successive executions. RObespierre, on the contrary, preferred the latter process as the best way of sustaining the reign of terror. The appetite of Marat could not be satiated but by comh ming both modes of murder. Both Danton and Robespierre kept aloof from the sanguin ary Marat.

 Among the three monsters mentioned, Danton had the energy which the Girondists wanted, and was well acquainted with the secret movements of those institutions to which they possessed no key. His vices of wrath, luxury, love of spoil, dreadful as they were, are the attributes of mortal men; the envy of Robespicrre, and the instructive blood thirstiness of Marat were the properties of fends. Danton, like the huge serpent called the Boa, might be approached with degree of safety when gorged with prey-but the ap- petite of Marat for blood was like the horse leech, which says,-Not enough-and the slaughterous envy of Robespierre was like the gnawing worm that dieth not, and yields no interval of repose. In glutting Danton with spoil, and furnishing the means of indulging his luxury, the Glrondists might have pur- chased his support but nothing under the supreme rule in France would have satisfied RObespierre and an unlimited torrent of the blood of that unhappy country could alone have satiated Marat. If colleague was to be chosen out of that detestable triumvirate, unquestionaby Danton was to be considered as the most eligible"