of Orne advises the
Minister[3262] that "a former noble has been killed (homicide) in the
canton of Sepf, an ex-cure in the town of Belleme, an unsworn priest in
the canton of Putanges, an ex-capuchin in the territory of Alencon." The
same day, at Caen, the syndic-attorney of Calvados, M. Bayeux, a man
of sterling merit, imprisoned by the local Jacobins, has just been
shot down in the street and bayoneted, while the National Assembly was
passing a decree proclaiming his innocence and ordering him to be set at
liberty.[3263]

Route of the East.--At Rouen, in front of the Hotel-de-ville, the
National Guard, stoned for more than an hour, finally fire a volley
and kill four men; throughout the department violence is committed
in connection with grain, while wheat is stolen or carried off by
force;[3264] but Roland is obliged to restrict himself; he can note only
political disturbances. Besides, he is obliged to hurry up, for murders
abound everywhere. In addition to the turmoil of the army and the
capital,[3265] each department in the vicinity of Paris or near the
frontier furnishes its quota of murders. They take place at Gisors, in
the Eure, at Chantilly, and at Clermont in the Oise, at Saint-Amand in
the Pas-de-Calais, at Cambray in the Nord, at Retel and Charleville in
the Ardennes, at Rheims and at Chalons in the Marne, at Troyes in
the Aube, at Meaux in Seine-et-Marne, and at Versailles in
Seine-et-Oise.[3266]--Roland, I imagine, does not open this file, and
for a good reason; he knows too well how M. de Brissac and M. Delessart,
and the other sixty-three persons killed at Versailles; it was he who
signed Fournier's commission, the commander of the murderers. At this
very moment he is forced to correspond with this villain, to send him
certificates of "zeal and patriotism," and to assign him, over and
above his robberies, 30,000 francs to defray the expenses of the
operation.[3267]--But among the dispatches there are some he cannot
overlook, if he desires to know to what his authority is reduced, in
what contempt all authority is held, how the civil or military rabble
exercises its power, with what promptitude it disposes of the most
illustrious and most useful lives, especially those who have been, or
are now, in command, the Minister perhaps saying to himself that his
turn will come next.

Let us look at the case of M. de la Rochefoucauld. A philanthropist
since he was young, a liberal on entering the Constituent