be considered as
confidential; I pray you do not compromise me. "--Letter of M. Gilles,
juge-de-paix at Rocquemaure, Oct.31 (with official reports).]

[Footnote 3294: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3227. Letter of the municipal
officers of Tullins, Sept. 8.]

[Footnote 3295: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3190. Letter of Danton, Oct.
9.--Memorandum of M. Casimir Audiffret (with documents in support
of it). His son had been locked up by mistake, instead of another
Audiffret, belonging to the Comtat; he was slashed with a saber in
prison Aug.25. Report of the surgeon, Oct. 17: "The wounded man has
two gashes more on the head, one on the left cheek and the right leg is
paralyzed; he has been so roughly treated in carrying him from prison
to prison as to bring on an abscess on the wrist; if he is kept there he
will soon die."]

[Footnote 3296: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3195. Letter of M. Amiel,
president of the bureau of conciliation, Oct. 28.--Letter of
an inhabitant of Avignon, Oct. 7.--Other letters without
signatures.--Letter of M. Gilles, juge-de-paix, Jan. 23, 1793.]

[Footnote 3297: Fabre, "Histoire de Marseilles," II. 478 and following
pages.--"Archives Nationales," F7, 3195. Letter of the Minister of
Justice, M. de Joly (with supporting documents), Aug. 6.--Official
reports of the Marseilles municipality, July 21, 22, 23.--Official
report of the municipality of Aix, Aug. 24.--Letter of the
syndic-attorney of the department (with a letter of the municipality of
Aubagne), Sept. 22, etc., in which M. Jourdan, a ministerial officer, is
accused of "aristocracy." A guard is assigned to him. About midnight the
guard is overcome, he is carried off, and then killed in spite of the
entreaties of his wife and son. The letter of the municipality ends with
the following: "Their lamentations pierced our hearts. But, alas, who
can resist the French people when aroused? We remain, gentlemen, very
cordially yours, the municipal officers of Aubagne."]

[Footnote 3298: This stage of revolution seems to be sought after by the
secret communist revolutionaries arranging for the break-up of formerly
powerful independent states such as Germany, Yougoslavia, India etc.
(SR).]

[Footnote 3299: Moniteur, XIII. 560. Act passed by the administrators
of the Bouches-du-Rhone, Aug. 3, "forbidding special collectors from
henceforth paying taxes with the national treasury."--Ibid., 744. A
report by Roland. The department of Var, having called a me