at the guilty have done and will do to affect the minds of the
people in the seventeen communes concerned in the devastation."]

[Footnote 3273: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3249 letter of M. de Gouy to
Roland, Sept. 21. (An admirable letter, which, if copied entire,
would show the character of the gentleman of 1789. Lots of heart, many
illusions and much verbosity.) The first attack was made Sept. 4 and the
second on the 13th.]

[Footnote 3274: Most of the domiciliary visits end in similar
damages. For example, ("Archives Nationales," F7, 3265, letter of
the administrators of Seine-Inferieure, Sept. 18, 1792). Visit to
the chateau de Catteville, Sept. 7, by the national guard of the
neighborhood. "The national guard get drunk, break the furniture to
pieces, and fire repeated volleys at the windows and mirrors; the
chateau is a complete ruin." The municipal officers on attempting to
interfere are nearly killed.]

[Footnote 3275: The letter ends with the following: "No, never will I
abandon the French soil!" He is guillotined at Paris, Thermidor 5, year
II., as an accomplice in the pretended prison-plot.]

[Footnote 3276: Raid on Protestants under Louis XIV. (SR).]

[Footnote 3277: '"Archives Nationales," Letter of the Oise
administrators, Sept. 12 and 15.--Letter of the syndic-attorney of
the department, Sept. 23.--Letter of the administrators, Sept. 20 (on
Chantilly). "The vast treasures of this domain are being plundered."
In the forest of Hez and in the park belonging to M. de Fitz-James, now
national property, "the finest trees are sold on the spot, cut down, and
carried off."--F7, 3268, Letter of the overseer of the national domains
at Rambouillet, Oct. 31. Woods devastated "at a loss of more than
100,000 crowns since August 10."--"The agitators who preach liberty
to citizens in the rural districts are the very ones who excite the
disorders with which the country is menaced. They provoke the demand for
a partition of property, with all the accompanying threats."]

[Footnote 3278: Albert Babeau, I.504 (Aug.20).]

[Footnote 3279: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 322 (Sept 4).]

[Footnote 3280: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.325.--"Archives Nationales," F7,
3239. Official report of the municipality of Rheims, Sept 6.]

[Footnote 3281: "Archives Nationales," F7, 4394. Correspondence of the
ministers in 1792 and 1793. Lists presented by Roland to the convention,
on the part of various districts and departments, containing the names