“The gulf into which royalty is
j precipitated, remains long unclosed,
and often, before it is so, swallows up
several generations. Who does notre
i collect the situation of France, after
the death of Louis XVI? The events
which followed that death, were simi
lar to those which transpired at the
Crucifixion, when the voice of Deity
rent the veil of the temple, obscured
the light of heaven, opened the sep
ulchres-, and caused the earth to quake.
French society was broken up, from
its veiy foundations, and all became
chaos. The living laid bloody hands
upon each other, barbarity stalked
forth, fully armed, from the very midst
of civilization, spreading terror along
its path; and even the tombs of St.
