ABSTRACT
When Vaurien reflected on the indeterminations of his secret committees, the imbecillity of his coadjutors, and the evident smallness of the number of true republicans in this country, he perceived that it was necessary to congregate men by other means than the projects hitherto pursued. After profound meditation, he sketched several plans equally ingenious, and at length selected one which appeared to promise an universal confusion; to delight the young enthusiast in his closet, the enlightened by / honours rendered to science, the populace by the astonishment of a new and universal sensation, and the true republican by enabling such to meet for mutual support, and, like David, to ‘number his people.’ 500
