n. Bonneau, the
commander concludes to march only under protest and to avoid spilling
blood.]

[Footnote 2536: Deposition of Lareyrnie, a volunteer soldier of the Ile
Saint-Louis battalion.]

[Footnote 2537: Deposition of M. Witinghof,
lieutenant-general.--"Correspondence of Mirabeau and M. de la Marck."
Letter of M. de Montmorin, June 21. "At two o'clock the gathering
amounted to 8,000 or 10,000 persons."]

[Footnote 2538: Moniteur, XII. 717. "What a misfortune for the freemen
who have transferred their powers to you, to find themselves reduced
to the cruel necessity of dipping their hands in the blood of
conspirators!" etc.--The character of the leaders is apparent in their
style. The incompetent copyist who drew up the address did not even know
the meaning of words. "The people so wills it, and its head is of more
account than that of crowned despots. That head is the genealogical tree
of the nation, and before that robust head the feeble reed must bend!"
He has already recited the fable of "The Oak and the Bulrush," and he
knows the names of Demosthenes, Cicero, and Catiline. It seems to be the
composition of a school master turned public letter writer, at a penny a
page.]

[Footnote 2539: Hua, "Memoires," 134.]

[Footnote 2540: Moniteur, XII. 718.]

[Footnote 2541: "Chronique des cinquante jours," by Roederer,
syndic-attorney of the department.]

[Footnote 2542: Hua, 134.--Bourrienne, "Memoires," I. 49. (He was with
Bonaparte in a restaurant, rue Saint-Honore, near the Palais-Royal.) "On
going out we saw a troop coming from the direction of the market, which
Bonaparte estimated at from 5,000 to 6,000 men, all in rags and armed in
the oddest manner, yelling and shouting the grossest provocations, and
turning towards the Tuileries. It was certainly the vilest and most
abject lot that could be found in the faubourgs. 'Let us follow that
rabble,' said Bonaparte to me." They ascend the terrace on the river
bank. "I could not easily describe the surprise and indignation which
these scenes excited in him. He did not like so much weakness and
forbearance. 'Che coglione! he exclaimed in a loud tone. 'How could they
let those rascals in? Four or five hundred of them ought to have been
swept off with cannon, and the rest would still be running!'"]

[Footnote 2543: "Chronique des cinquante jours," by Roederer.--Deposition
of Lareynie.]

[Footnote 2544: Deposition of Lareynie.]

[Footnote 2545: Report of Saint-Pri