Denunciation of Lettres-de-Cachet, of Despotism generally, abates not: the Twelve Parlements are busy; the Twelve hundred Placarders, Balladsingers, Pamphleteers.

Paris is what, in figurative speech, they call 'flooded with pamphlets (regorge de brochures);' flooded and eddying again.
Hot deluge,--from so many Patriot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready-writer, now in the hour of eruption, going like an Iceland Geyser! Against which what can a judicious friend Morellet do; a Rivarol, an unruly Linguet (well paid for it),--spouting cold! Now also, at length, does come discussion of the Protestant Edict: but only for new embroilment; in pamphlet and counter-pamphlet, increasing the madness of men.

Not even Orthodoxy, bedrid as she seemed, but will have a hand in this confusion.

She, once again in the shape of Abbe Lenfant, 'whom Prelates drive to visit and congratulate,'-- raises audible sound from her pulpit-drum.

(Lacretelle, iii.343.