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Rh [reading dares to say that we went after Custine on Pitt's orders, and not because Custine was a traitor, but because he was not a worse one.

[reading Committee will reduce the Assembly to the servile condition of a parlement the rebellious members of which are to be thrown into prison."

[correcting them puts "would reduce," and not "will reduce."

same thing.

[reading how near is the Committee to ruining the Republic, when it sends two of its Deputies which it cannot bribe to the Luxembourg?"

says "it can send," and not "it sends."

[pettishly't be so particular!

[reading has the effrontery to maintain that "the War-office appointed as heads of the armies the brothers of actresses with whom they had been intimate."

the defense, reviling the nation in the eyes of foreigners! Can nothing stop his vile tongue!

the whole thing bristling with demands for clemency, and talk about humanity!

his hypocritical tears! Bah!

is no plague of Egypt like a sentimental man! No tyrant brings more harm to