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 ¬properties, and our securities, are so bound up and intervoven, that from the prince upon the throne to the beggar in the streets with his tattered hat held out to you, we are as it were but one being, and nothing but universal death can dissolve us. ¬" In reverting to the undone Capetia, I wish I could throw a veil over this afflicting period. — In following my rapid abridgment you must be aware, that such a tremendous accumulation of horrors could not be condensed into a day. — They began in the delirium of popular fury, which could no more be calmed or resisted by the higher orders amongst themselves, nor by foreign assistance, than the desolations of an earthquake can by any human means be avert- ed; but when the victims of the distracted insurrections had been dispersed, and when arranged under more civilized and reflecting leaders, they began to contemplate the preserva- tion of their monarchy ; then was the moment for Armata to have stood forward — then perhaps ¬she ¬