Letter of the administrators of the district of Senlis, Oct. 31, 1792.
Two of the administrators of the Senlis hospital were arrested by Paris
commissaries and conducted "before the pretended Committee of Public
Safety in Paris, with all that they possessed in money, jewels, and
assignats." The same commissaries carry off two of the hospital sisters
of charity, with all the silver plate in the establishment; the sisters
are released, but the plate is not returned.--Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 209
(Patriote Francais). Session of April 30, 1793, the final report of the
commission appointed to examine the accounts of the old Committee of
Supervision: "Panis and Sergent are convicted of breaking seals."...
"67,580 francs found in Septenil's domicile have disappeared, as well as
many articles of value."]

[Footnote 3409: Schmidt, I, 270.]

[Footnote 3410: Mortimer-Ternaux, IV. 221 to 229, 242 to 260; VI. 43 to
52.]

[Footnote 3411: De Sybel, "Histoire de l'Europe pendant la Revolution
Francaise," II 76.--Madame Roland, II.152. "It was not only impossible
to make out the accounts, but to imagine where 130,000,000 had gone...
The day he was dismissed he made sixty appointments,... from his
son-in-law, who, a vicar, was made a director at 19,000 francs salary,
to his hair-dresser, a young scapegrace of nineteen, whom he makes a
commissary of war".. "It was proved that he paid in full regiments that
were actually reduced to a few men.--Meillan, 20. "The faction became
the master of Paris through hired brigands, aided by the millions placed
at its disposition by the municipality, under the pretext of ensuring
supplies."]

[Footnote 3412: See in the "Memoirs of Mme. Elliot," the particulars of
this vote.--Beaulieu, I.445. "I saw a placard signed by Marat posted on
the corners of the streets, stating that he had demanded 15,000 francs
of the Duke of Orleans as compensation for what he had done for him.
Gouverneur Morris, I. 260 (Letter of Dec. 21, 1792). The galleries
force the Convention to revoke its decree against the expulsion of the
Bourbons.--On the 22nd of December the sections present a petition in
the same sense, while there is a sort of riot in the suburbs in favor of
Philippe-Egalite.]

[Footnote 3413: Schmidt, I. 246 (Dutard, May 13). "The Convention cannot
count in all Paris thirty persons ready to side with them.]

[Footnote 3414: Buchez et Roux, XXV. 463. On the call of the houses,
April 13, 1793, ninety-two deputie