.... Never did he propose any remedy. He left the
task of finding expedients to others, and especially to Danton."
[84] Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 437, 438, 440, 442. (Speech by
Robespierre, Thermidor 8, year II.)
[85] Ibid., XXX., 225, 226, 227, 228 (Speech, Nov. 17, 1793), and
XXXI., 255 (Speech, Jan.26, '794). "The policy of the London Cabinet
largely contributed to the first movement of our Revolution....
Taking advantage of political tempests (the cabinet) aimed to effect
in exhausted and dismembered France a change of dynasty and to place
tke Duke of York on the throne of Louis XVI. .. . Pitt....is an
imbecile, whatever may be said of a reputation that has been much too
greatly puffed up. A man who, abusing the influence acquired by him
on an island placed haphazard in the ocean, is desirous of contending
with the French people, could not have conceived of such an absurd
plan elsewhere than in a madhouse." - Cf. Ibid., XXX., 465.
[86] Ibid., XXVI., 433, 441, (Speech on the Constitution, May 10,
1793); XXXI., 275. "Goodness consists in the people preferring itself
to what is not itself; the magistrate, to be good, must sacrifice
himself to the people.
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