The Debate has published some very . curious letters which have
been discovered from the great Marquis Mirabeau to a M. Reybaz (a Genevese, born at Nyon, in the Pays de Vaud, in 1737), in which Mirabeau admits continually that AL Reybaz was writing his speeches for him, and thanks him over and over again for their ability, wit, and eloquence, and this from day to day. Etienne Dumont asserted in his Souvenirs, published in 1832, that he himself, M. Reybaz, M. Claviere, and M. Daraveray, had all contributed much to the famous speec lies of Mirabeau, and now this appears to be confirmed, as far as M. Reybaz is concerned, under Mirabeau's own hand. These letters have been discovered in the library of Geneva, among M. Reybaz's papers deposited there. The letters to Reybaz are themselves sufficiently able, and quite prove that if Mirabeau Used intellectual instruments, he selected them skilfully, directed their operations carefully, and did not in any way hold himself at their mercy.
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