The comet., 1880-10-02

seeing the Democratic principle was
gaining too much strength, and the
revolution going too far he had un-
dcrtaken to stop its march, and that
The negotiations with the courtly, the
unfortunate LuOis, XVI, which were
notorious, had for their object the pre-
Nentlon Of republic, and the estab-
llShmcnt OF Il limited monarchy.
His Will had hitherto been law; he
had ruled and played with all parties
ana iactlons-but whether he could
now have succeeded to the utmost Of
| his wish-Whether he could now have
| Quilted the storm he had mainly
raised, aud on which he had nOated
we cannot determine for at the very
crisis, at the time when he was sup
| posed to hold the dcstinies of his
country in his hands, he died in the
| loriy-second year of his age, after Il
most agonizing illness Of five days.
Mr.. Long, in his recently completed
work, France and its Revolutions,
thus describes the death and funeral
Of this extraordinary man: "Mira-
beau had no religious conviction,
though in his speeches he always
spoke with respect Of religion. A let
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sion of his oninione On tIn in,n,nrtnT-
tv of tha soil Tn III, Lay HIM. ii,,n ''I''
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to pass thrce-Quarters of an hour alone
with an ecclosiastic, Lamorette the
constitutional bishop of Lyon. His
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