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One afternoon in April, 1791, two ates of this pleasant place They were Captain Joris Van Hee in Federal Hall, Broad Street, and Jacobus Van Ariens, a wealthy citizen, and a deacon in the Dutch Church Van Heeer to force the centuries and abolish all edies she had been enacting in the holy nah they had saddened, had, hitherto, not discouraged hi to work out their social salvation, without faith in either God orhad almost killed his hopes for the spread of republican ideas in Europe, "Van Ariens," he said war Louis and his family is hardly to be believed It is too e had been our prisoner we should have behaved towards him with humanity After this, no one can foresee what may happen in France"

"That is the truth, ood Doht also understand the Revelations The French have gone ers walk on four feet or on two WE won our freedoton and Franklin, and other good and wise leaders who feared God and loved o But I did not speak to hihty, because he is an atheist Yet if ere prudent and ious, the Lord forsakes them; and if bloodshed and bankruptcy follow it is not to be wondered at"

"That is true, Van Ariens; and it is also the policy of England to let France destroy herself" "Well, then, if France likes the policy of England, it is her own affair But I ary at France; she has stabbed Liberty in Europe for one thousand years A French Republic! Bah! France is yet fit for nothing but a despotism I wish the Assembly had more control--"

"The Assembly!" cried Van Heemskirk scornfully "I wish that Catherine of Russia were now Queen of France in the place of that poor Marie Antoinette Catherine would e in history As to Paris, I think, then, the devil never sowed a round"