escorted by a thousand men, to
hold an inquest, can get no testimony. The municipal officers feign to
have heard nothing, neither the general alarm nor the guns fired under
their windows. The other witnesses say not a word; but they declare,
sotto voce, the reason for their silence. If they should testify, "they
would be sure of being killed as soon as the troops should have gone
away." The foreman of the jury is himself menaced; after remaining
three-quarters of an hour, he finds it prudent to leave the city.--After
this the clubs of Beausset and of the neighborhood, gaining hardihood
from the impotence of the law, break out into incendiary propositions:
"It is announced that after the troops retreat, nineteen houses more
will be sacked; it is proposed to behead all aristocrats, that is to
say, all the land-owners in the country." Many have fled, but their
flight does not satisfy the clubs. Vidal orders those of Beausset who
took refuge in Toulon to return at once; otherwise their houses will
be demolished, and that very day, in fact, by way of warning, several
houses in Beausset, among them that of a notary, are either pulled down
or pillaged from top to bottom; all the riff-raff of the town are at
work, "half-drunken men and women," and, as their object is to rob
and drink, they would like to begin again in the principal town of the
canton.--The club, accordingly, has declared that "Toulon would soon see
a new St. Bartholomew"; it has allies there, and arrangements are made;
each club in the small towns of the vicinity will furnish men, while
all will march under the leadership of the Toulon club. At Toulon, as at
Beausset, the municipality will let things take their course, while the
proceedings complained of by the public prosecutor and the district and
department administrators will be applied to them. They may send reports
to Paris, and denounce patriots to the National Assembly and the King,
if they choose; the club will reply to their scribbling with acts. Their
turn is coming. Lanterns and sabers are also found at Toulon, and the
faction murders them because they have lodged complaints against the
murderers.

III.--Each Jacobin band a dictator in its own neighborhood.

Saint-Afrique during the interregnum.

By what it dared to do when the government still stood on its feet we
may we may imagine what it will do during the interregnum. Facts, then,
as always, furnish the best picture, and, to obtain