[751] Ibid., Sept. 3, 1798. This view that the Courant sought to turn the agitation over the Illuminati to political account is confirmed by the following extract from “Guillotina,” the new year’s poem that the editors of the Courant presented to their patrons early in 1799.
“O thou who spurn’d monarchial sway,
E’er nature sprang to birth;
Lord of each Jacobinic fray,
In ev’ry clime on earth.
“Tho’ plung’d from thy once high estate,
For turning Order’s foe;
We joy that thou a Prince so great,
Dost rule the world below.
“We joy that when like falling star,