ommune: "After the people have saved the country, after
decreeing a National Convention to replace you, what remains for you to
do but to gratify their wishes?... The people, forced to see to its
own salvation, has provided for this through its delegates... It is
essential that those chosen by itself for its magistrates should enjoy
the plenary powers befitting the sovereign."]

[Footnote 3124: Official reports of the commune, Aug.
10.--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 155. Letter of the Minister Servan, Aug.
30.-Ibid., 149.--Ibid., 148. The commission on supplies having been
broken up by the commune, Roland, the Minister of the Interior, begs the
Assembly to act promptly, for "he will no longer be responsible for the
supplies of Paris."]

[Footnote 3125: Official reports of the commune, Aug. 21. A resolution
requiring that, on trials for lese-nation, those who appear for the
defendants should be provided with a certificate of their integrity,
issued by their assembled section, and that the interviews between them
and the accused be public.--Ibid., Aug.17, a resolution to suspend the
execution of the two assassins of mayor Simonneau, condemned to death by
the tribunal of Seine-et-Oise.]

[Footnote 3126: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 11. Decree of Aug.11.]

[Footnote 3127: Prudhomme, "Revolutions de Paris" (number for Sep. 22)..
Report by Roland to the National Assembly (Sept. 16, at 9 o'clock in the
morning).]

[Footnote 3128: Madame Roland, "Memoires," II. 414 (Ed. Barriere et
Berville). Report by Roland Oct. 29. The seizure in question tool place
Aug.27.]

[Footnote 3129: "Memoirs sur les journees de Septembre" (Ed. Barriere
et Berville, pp. 307-322). List of sums paid by the treasurer of the
commune.--See, on the prolongation of this plundering, Roland's report,
Oct. 29, of money, plate, and assignats taken from the Senlis Hospital
(Sept. 13), the Hotel de Coigny emptied, and sale of furniture in the
Hotel d'Egmont, etc.]

[Footnote 3130: Official reports of the commune, Aug. 17 and 20.--List
of sums paid by the treasurer of the commune, p. 321.--On the 28th of
August a "Saint-Roch in silver is brought to the bar of the National
Assembly."]

[Footnote 3131: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 150, 161, 511.--Report by Roland,
Oct. 29. P. 414.]

[Footnote 3132: Moniteur.514, 542 (sessions of Aug. 23 and 26).]

[Footnote 3133: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 99 (sessions of Aug.15 and 23).
"Proces-verbaux de la Commune," Aug. 18, a resolution t