(See the Advertisement to 'Guilt and Sorrow', vol.i.p.

77.)--Ed.] [Footnote T: The goddess of Reason, enthroned in Paris, November 10th, 1793 .-- Ed.] [Footnote U: Jeanne-Marie Phlipon--Madame Roland--was guillotined on the 8th of November 1793.
"Arrived at the foot of the scaffold, she asked for pen and paper _to write the strange thoughts that were rising in her_: a remarkable request; which was refused.

Looking at the Statue of Liberty which stands there, she says bitterly: _O Liberty, what things are done in thy name!_ ...

Like a white Grecian Statue, serenely complete," adds Carlyle, "she shines in that black wreck of things,--long memorable." 'French Revolution', vol.iii.book v.chap.

2.
Madame Roland's apostrophe was 'O Liberte, que de crimes l'on commet en ton nom!' Ed.] [Footnote V: In the long vacation of 1790, with his friend Jones .-- Ed.] [Footnote W: Compare the sonnet, vol.ii.p.