o the proletariat as a sure prey if they would
seize hold of it."]

[Footnote 26131: This manifesto, was drafted for the Duke of
Brunswick-Lunebourg, the general commanding the combined Prussian and
Austrian forces, by the French emigre Marquis de Limon. It threatened
the French and especially the Paris population with unspecified "rigors
of war" should it have the temerity to resist or to harm the King and
his family. It was signed in Koblenz, Germany on 25 August 1792 and
published in royalist newspapers 3 days later in Paris.(SR).]

[Footnote 26132: "Moore's Journal," I. 303-309.]

[Footnote 26133: "Archives Nationales," 474, 426. Section of
Gravilliers, letter of Charles Chemin, commissary, to Santerre, and
deposition of Ilingray, cavalryman of the national gendarmerie, Aug.
11.]

[Footnote 26134: Beaumarchais, "oeuvres completes," letter of Aug. 12,
1792.--This very interesting letter shows how mobs are composed at this
epoch. A small gang of regular brigands and thieves plot together some
enterprise, to which is added a frightened, infatuated crowd, which may
become ferocious, but which remains honest.]

[Footnote 26135: The words of Hobbes applied by Roederer to the democracy
of 1792: "In democratia tot possent esse Nerones quot sunt oratores qui
populo adulantur; simul et plures sunt in democratia, et quotidie novi
suboriuntur."]

[Footnote 26136: Lucas de Montigny, "Memoires de Mirabeau," II. 231
and following pages.--The preface affixed by Manuel to his edition
(of Mirabeau's letters) is a masterpiece of nonsense and
impertinence.--Peltier, "Histoire du 10 Aout," II. 205.--Manuel "came
out of a little shop at Montargis and hawked about obscene tracts in the
upper stories of Paris. He got hold of Mirabeau's letters in the drawers
of the public department and sold them for 2,000 crowns." (testimony of
Boquillon, juge-de la paix).]

[Footnote 26137: Lafayette, "Memoires," I. 467, 471. "The queen had
50,000 crowns put into Danton's hands a short time before these terrible
days."--" The court had Danton under pay for two years, employing him as
a spy on the Jacobins."--" Correspondance de Mirabeau et du Comte de la
Marck," III. 82. Letter from Mirabeau, March 10, 1791: "Danton received
yesterday 30,000 livres".--Other testimony, Bertrand de Molleville, I.
354, II. 288.--Brissot, IV. 193--. Miot de Melito, "Memoires," I. 40,
42. Miot was present at the conversations which took place between
Danton, Legendre