text:  Who was to cut the favourite slices of France employed all the gossips of the camp in imitation of the graver gossips of the cabinet; and in the mean time we were saved the trouble of the division by a furious decree from the Convention ordering every man in France to take up arms--converting all the churches into arsenals anathematizing the German princes as so many brute beasts and recommending to their German subjects the grand republican remedy of the guillotine for all the disorders of the government past present and to come