The French Government, However,
Has Not Ventured To Act Any Further Upon It, Than To Make A Pompous Display
Of The Royalist Zeal And Bon Esprit That Pervades The Department Of The
Doubs.
I see a good deal of Mlle Michaud.
I find her conversation extremely
agreeable. She had lent to me an Italian work by Verri entitled Le notti
Romane al sepolcro di Stipione. She is a very rigid Catholic, having been
educated by a priest of very strict ideas. Her devotion however does not
render her less cheerful or less amiable. She having expressed a wish to
hear the Protestant church service, I offered to accompany her and we went
together one Sunday to the Cathedral Church at Lausanne. But it
unfortunately happened that on that day a sermon was preached which must
have given a great deal of pain to her filial feelings. Mr Levade, the
minister, took it into his head to give a political sermon, in which, after
a great deal of commonplace abuse of Voltaire, Rousseau and the French
Revolution, and very fulsome adulation towards the English government (a
subject which was brought in by the head and shoulders), of that island
(as he termed it) surrounded by the Ocean, he lavished a great deal of
still more fulsome adulation on the Bourbons; and then most wantonly and
unnecessarily began a furious declamation against the regicides as he
termed them, who had taken refuge in the Canton, and intimated pretty
plainly how pleasing it would be to God Almighty that they should be
expelled from it.
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