draws
its powers entrusted to the commissioners elected by it to the
council-general."]

[Footnote 3140: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 154 (session of Aug. 30).]

[Footnote 3141: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 171 (session of Aug. 31).--Ibid.,
208.----On the following day, Sept. 1, at the instigation of Danton,
Thuriot obtains from the National Assembly an ambiguous decree which
seems to allow the members of the commune to keep their places,
provisionally at least, at the Hotel-de-ville.]

[Footnote 3142: "Proces-verbaux de la Commune," Sept. 1.]

[Footnote 3143: "Proces-verbaux de la Commune," Sept. 1. "It is resolved
that whatever effects fell into the hands of the citizens who fought
for liberty and equality on the 10th of August shall remain in their
possession; M. Tallien, secretary-general, is therefore authorized to
return a gold watch to M. Lecomte, a gendarme."]

[Footnote 3144: Four circumstances, simultaneous and in full agreement
with each other, indicate this date: 1. On the 23d of August the
council-general resolves "that a tribune shall be arranged in the
chamber for a journalist (M. Marat), whose duty it shall be to conduct
a journal giving the acts passed and what goes on in the commune"
("Proces-verbaux de la Commune," Aug.23) 2. On the same day, "on the
motion of a member with a view to separate the prisoners of lese-nation
from those of the nurse's hospital and others of the same stamp in the
different prisons, the council has adopted this measure" (Granier de
Cassagnac, II. 100). 3. The same day the commune applauds the deputies
of a section, which "in warm terms" denounce before it the tardiness of
justice and declare to it that the people will "immolate" the prisoners
in their prisons (Moniteur, Nov. 10, 1793, Narrative of Petion). The
same day it sends a deputation to the Assembly to order a transfer of
the Orleans prisoners to Paris (Buchez et Roux, XVII. 116). The next
day, in spite of the prohibitions of the Assembly, It sends Fournier
and his band to Orleans (Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 364), and each knows
beforehand that Fournier is commissioned to kill them on the way.
(Balleydier, "Histoire politique et militaire du people de Lyon," I.79.
Letter of Laussel, dated at Paris, Aug.28): "Our volunteers are at
Orleans for the past two or three days to bring the anti-revolutionary
prisoners here, who are treated too well there." On the day of
Fournier's departure (Aug. 24) Moore observes in the Palais Royal an