This letter, dated January 3, 1795, and received in London February 23, 1795, is confirmed, as to the noisomeness of the Conciergerie and the light-heartedness or apathy of the inmates, by Beugnot and other French prisoners:—
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ou la Mort.
Paris, 14 Nivose, 3 année Républicaine.
You may. think, perhaps, that you have lived long enough to know how to date a letter, but I can show you that the wisest may learn.
You may also learn that I am all alive again; how that comes about I am at a loss to tell you, unless you have faith in predestination; and, after all, that is the best way of accounting for it, that my time was not come; otherwise I presume I should have accompanied many of my companions. However, all is well that ends well; but would it were ended! For though I have escaped one great storm, the weather still seems inclined to be squally. To finish a history of fifteen months
