text:  How am I to understand all this? Even in his postscript he tells me in one breath that the whole of the strong places in our front are filled with national guards and that no less than seven corps of troops of the line are prepared to fight us in the plains of Champagne; and that we have only to push on to take the towns--charge the troops of the line to see them disperse--and advance within ten leagues of Paris to extinguish the rebellion set the royal family free and restore the monarchy