He took his turn in watching poor Louis XVI. at the Temple, and Cléry tells us that once when the King withdrew after dinner to his study to read, James went in, sat down by him, and refused to leave, though the King urged that he could be sufficiently watched from the anteroom through an open door. The unhappy monarch gave up reading for that day. James was one of the secretaries of the Jacobin Club in 1794. He may have been related to the Captain Charles James, "one of the many hundreds who helped to demolish the Bastille," who published in London in 1792 " An Extenuation of the Conduct of the French Revolutionists." He gravely alleged that Marie Antoinette had said she should never be satisfied till she had bathed in the blood of Frenchmen. He insisted, too, that from the 14th July 1789 to the 4th September 1792 there had not, with the single exception of Theobald Dillon's murder, been any case of "unprovoked severity, misnamed barbarity."
Louis Henri Scipio Beauvoir, Comte Duroure, was the grandson of Bolingbroke's sister. Lady Catherlough. The name Scipio, which fitted in so conveniently with Jacobin usages, and in favour of which he dropped his other names, had for several generations been a family one. A Scipio Duroure, probably his grandfather, entered the English army in 1705, and became a colonel. He himself was born at Marseilles in 1763, but was educated in
