neur
Morris, so well informed, had already written, under date of Dec.27,
1791: "The national guards, who have turned out as volunteers, are in
many instances that corrupted scum of overgrown population of which
large cities purge themselves, and which, without constitutions to
support the fatigues... of war, have every vice and every disease which
can render them the scourge of their friends and the laughing stock of
their foes."--Buchez et Roux, XXVI. 177. Plan of the administrators of
Herault, presented to the Convention April 27, 1793. "The composition
of the enlistment should not be concealed. Most of those of which it
is made up are not volunteers; they are not citizens all classes of
society, who, submitting to draft on the ballot, have willingly made
up their minds to go and defend the Republic. The larger part of the
recruits are substitutes who, through the attraction of a large sum,
have concluded to leave their homes."]

[Footnote 3243: C. Rousset, 47. Letter of the directory of Somme, Feb.
26, 1792.]

[Footnote 3244: "Archives Nationales," F 7, 3270. Deliberations of the
council-general of the commune of Roye, Oct. 8, 1792 (in relation to the
violence committed by two divisions of Parisian gendarmerie during their
passage, Oct. 7 and 8).]

[Footnote 3245: Moore, I. 338 (Sept. 8, 1792).--(The Condes were proud
princes from a branch of the royal house of Bourbon. (SR).]

[Footnote 3246: C Rousset, 189 (Letter of the Minister of War, dated at
Dunkirk, April 29, 1793).--Archives Nationales," BB, 16, 703. (Parisian
national guard staff major-general, order of the day, letter of citizen
Ferat, commanding at Ostend, to the Minister of War, March 19, 1793):
"Since we have had the gendarmes with us at Ostend there is nothing but
disturbance every day. They attack the officers and volunteers, take the
liberty of pulling off epaulettes and talk only of cutting and slashing,
and declare that they recognize no superior being equals with everybody,
and that they will do as they please. Those who are ordered to arrest
them are chased and attacked with saber cuts and pistols]

[Footnote 3247: C. Rousset, 20 (Letter of General Wimpfen, Dec. 30,
1791).--"Souvenirs" of General Pelleport, pp.7 and 8.]

[Footnote 3248: C. Rousset, 45 (Report of General Wimpfen, Jan. 20,
1792).--Letter of General Biron, Aug. 23, 1792.]

[Footnote 3249: C. Rousset, 47, 48.--"Archives Nationales," F7, 3249.
Official report of the municipal