ood by infamous pursuits, "hit-men and
their henchmen of evil haunts," used to blood, quick to strike, good
cut-throats, picked men out of the bands that had marched on Aix, Arles,
and Avignon, the froth of that froth which, for three years, in the
Comtat and in the Bouches-du-Rhone, boiled over the useless barriers
of the law.--The very day they reach Paris they show what they can
do.[2635] Welcomed with great pomp by the Jacobins and by Santerre, they
are conducted, for a purpose, to the Champs-Elysees, into a tavern,
near the restaurant in which the grenadiers of the Filles St. Thomas,
bankers, brokers, leading men, well-known for their attachment to a
monarchical constitution, were dining in a body, as announced several
days in advance. The mob which had formed a convoy for the Marseilles
battalion, gathers before the restaurant, shouts, throws mud, and then
lets fly a volley of stones; the grenadiers draw their sabers. Forthwith
a shout is heard just in front of them, a nous les Marseillais! upon
which the gang jump out of the windows with true southern agility,
clamber across the ditches, fall upon the grenadiers with their swords,
kill one and wound fifteen.--No debut could be more brilliant. The party
at last possesses men of action;[2636] and they must be kept within
reach! Men who do such good work, and so expeditiously, must be well
posted near the Tuileries. The mayor, consequently, on the night of the
8th of August, without informing the commanding general, solely on his
own authority, orders them to leave their barracks in the Rue Blanche
and take up their quarters, with their arms and cannon, in the barracks
belonging to the Cordeliers.[2637]

Such is the military force in the hands of the Jacobin masses; nothing
remains but to place the civil power in their hands also, and, as the
first gift of this kind was made to them by the Girondins, they will not
fail to make them the second one.--On the 1st of July, they decree that
the sessions of administrative bodies should thenceforth be public; this
is submitting municipalities, district, and department councils, as
well as the National Assembly itself, to the clamor, the outrages, the
menaces, the rule of their audiences, which in these bodies as in the
National Assembly, will always be Jacobin.[2638] On the 11th of July,
on declaring the country in danger,[2639] they render the sessions
permanent, first of the administrative bodies, and next of
the forty-ei