Robespierre.
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"I1e was alone, yet he sat erect, formal,


stiff, precise, as if in his very home he was


not at ease. HIS dress was in harmony


with his posture and chamber; it affected a


nea'ness of its own both 10 the foreign,


both to the sumptuous fashions of the de-


posed mobiles, and the filthy raggedness OF


the sansculo'ts. Frizzled and coll1e, not


hair was out of order, not speck lodged


on the surface of the blue coal, not a wrin-


kle crumpled the snowy vest, with lis un,
der relief of delicate pink. At the first
glance you might have seen in that face
nothing but the i'll favored features of a
s'ckly countenance; at q second glance
you would perceive it had power, a char
acter of its own. The forehead, though
low and compressed was not without lha,
appearance of thought and intelligence
which, il may be observed, that breadth
between the eyebrows almost invariably
gives; the lips were firm and tightly drawn
together, yet ever and anon they trembled
and wriihed restlessly. The eyes, sullen
and gloomy, were yet piercing, and full of
vigor, that did not seem supported by the
thin feeble frame, or the green lividness of
the hues which told OF anxiety and dis
ease.


"Such was the Munimilian Robespierre.
Such the chamber over the Meunisiers
shop, whence issued The edicts that launch
ed armies on their career of glory, and or
dained an artificial conduit, 10 carry eff
the blood that deluged the metropolis OF
the most marshal people of the globe! Such
was the man who had res, gned a judicial
appointment (the early part oi his ambi,ion)
rather than violate his philanihropic prin-
ciples, by subscribing to the death of sin
gle fellow creature! Such was the virgin
enemy to capital punishment, and such
Butcher Uic .or, now, was the man whose
pure and rigid manners, whose incorrupti~
bic honesty, whose hatred 10 the excesses
that tempted to lore and ssiae, would, had
he died two years earlier, have left behind
him the model for prudent fathers and
careful citizens 10 place b.iore their sons.
Such was the man who seemed TO have no
vice, ill circumstances, that hot bed, bro'l
forth the two, which in ordinary times lie
ever the deepest and IN st latent in a
mans cowardice aud enuY. IT,
one of these sources is 10 be traced every
murder that master spirit committed. Hi,