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The human heart is subject to stranger Eccentricities, & if the motives of its hatred, or friendship were analyzed they would generally be found to be self= love or [[underline]] wounded, or [[/underline]] gratified.-- The Object of their crime is social Life-- the wages of [[underline]] their Sin [[/underline]] is social death-- A mind broken with the consciousness of publick calamity--& [[underline]] Exasperated [[/underline]] by publick folly. M.'s present account of France I read no Expression on any face, save those that mark the ordinary feelings of social Life, or the various characters of civil occupation, I see no frightful spectacle of infuriated power, or suffering humanity--I see no tortures, --I hear no shreiks, --I no longer behold the human Heart charged in the flame of its own vile & paltry passions, black, & bloodless--
