r that the palace guard be hereafter composed
daily of citizens taken from the sixty battalions,[2629] so that the
chiefs may no longer know their men nor the men their chiefs; so that
no one may place confidence in his chief, in his subordinate, in his
neighbor, or in himself; so that all the stones of the human dike may be
loosened beforehand, and the barrier crumble at the first onslaught.--On
the other hand, they have taken care to provide the insurrection with
a fighting army and an advanced guard. By another series of legislative
acts and municipal ordinances, they authorize the assemblage of the
Federates at Paris; they allow them pay and military lodgings;[2630]
they allow them to organize under a central committee sitting at the
Jacobin club, and to take their instructions from that club. Of these
new-comers, two-thirds, genuine soldiers and true patriots, set out for
the camp at Soissons and for the frontier; one-third of them, however,
remain at Paris,[2631] perhaps 2,000, the rioters and politicians, who,
feasted, entertained, indoctrinated, and each lodged with a Jacobin,
become more Jacobin than their hosts, and incorporate themselves with
the revolutionary battalions, so as to serve the good cause with their
guns.[2632]--Two squads, late comers, remain separate, and are only the
more formidable; both are dispatched by the towns on the sea-cost in
which, four months before this, "twenty-one capital acts of insurrection
had occurred, all unpunished, and several under sentence of the maritime
jury."[2633] The first, numbering 300 men, comes from Brest,

* where the municipality, as infatuated as those of Marseilles and
Avignon, engages in armed expeditions against its neighbors; where
popular murder is tolerated;

* where M. de la Jaille is nearly killed;

* where the head of M. de la Patry is borne on a pike;

* where veteran rioters compose the crews of the fleet,

* where "workers paid by the State, clerks, masters, non-commission
officers, converted into agitators, political stump-speakers, movers,
and critics of the administration," ask only to be given roles to
perform on a more conspicuous stage.

The second troop, summoned from Marseilles by the Girondins, Rebecqui,
and Barbaroux,[2634] comprises 516 men, intrepid, ferocious adventurers,
from everywhere, either Marseilles or abroad, Savoyards, Italians,
Spaniards, driven out of their country, almost all of the vilest
class, or gaining a livelih