oniteur, X. 440 (session of Nov.22, 1791). A letter to
M. Southon, Director of the Mint at Paris, is read, "complaining of an
arbitrary order, that of the Minister of the Interior, to report himself
at Pau on the 25th of this month, under penalty of dismissal." Isnard
supports the charge: "M. Southon," he says, "is here at work on a very
circumstantial denunciation of the Minister of the Interior (Applause
from the galleries.) If citizens who are zealous enough to make war
on abuses are sent back to their departments we shall never have
denunciations" (The applause is renewed.):--Ibid., X, 504 (session of
Nov. 29). Speech by Isnard: "Our ministers must know that we are not
fully satisfied with the conduct of each of them repeated applause:;
that henceforth they must simply choose between public gratitude and the
vengeance of the law, and that our understanding of the word
responsibility is death." (The applause is renewed.)--The Assembly
orders this speech to be printed and sent into the departments.--Cf.
XII, 73, 138, etc.]

[Footnote 2507: Moniteur, XI. 603. (Session of March 10. Speech by
Brissot, to secure a decree of accusation against M. Delessart, Minister
of Foreign Affairs.) M. Delessart is a "perfidious man," for having
stated in a dispatch that "the Constitution, with the great majority
of the nation, has become a sort of religion which is embraced with
the greatest enthusiasm." Brissot denounces these two expressions as
inadequate and anti-patriotic.-Ibid., XII. 438 (session of May 20).
Speech by Guadet: "Lariviere, the juge-de-paix, has convicted himself
of the basest and most atrocious of passions, in having desired to usurp
the power which the Constitution has placed in the hands of the National
Assembly."--I do not believe that Laubardemont himself could have
composed anything equal to these two speeches.--Cf. XII. 462 (session
of May 23). Speech by Brissot and one by Gonsonne on the Austrian
committee. The feebleness and absurdity of their argument is
incredible.]

[Footnote 2508: Affairs of the Minister Duport-Dutertre and of the
Ambassador to Vienna, M. de Noailles.]

[Footnote 2509: Mercure de France, March 10, 1792.]

[Footnote 2510: Moniteur, XI. 607 (session of March 10).]

[Footnote 2511: Moniteur, XII.396 (session of May 15). Isnard's address
is the ground-plan of Roland's famous letter.--Cf. passim, the sessions
of the Assembly during the Girondist ministry, especially those of May
19 and