win over
their colleagues,.... and engage them in proceedings contrary to their
mandate."[1124] In the first place, and before they are admitted
into Paris, their Jacobinism is to be verified, like a bale in the
customs-house, by the special agents of the executive council, and
especially by Stanislas Maillard, the famous September judge, and his
sixty-eight bearded ruffians, each receiving pay at five francs a day.
"On all the roads, within a circuit of fifteen or twenty leagues of the
capital," the delegates are searched; their trunks are opened, and their
letters read. At the barriers in Paris they find "inspectors" posted by
the Commune, under the pretext of protecting them against prostitutes
and swindlers. There, they are taken possession of, and conducted to
the mayoralty, where they receive lodging tickets, while a picket of
gendarmerie escorts them to their allotted domiciles.[1125]--Behold them
in pens like sheep, each in his numbered stall; there is no fear of
the dissidents trying to escape and form a band apart: one of them, who
comes to the Convention and asks for a separate hall for himself and his
adherents, is snubbed in the most outrageous manner; they denounce
him as an intriguer, and accuse him of a desire to defend the traitor
Castries; they take his name and credentials, and threaten him with an
investigation.[1126] The unfortunate speaker hears the Abbaye alluded
to, and evidently thinks himself fortunate to escape sleeping there
that night.--After this, it is certain that he will not again demand the
privilege of speaking, and that his colleagues will remain quiet; and
all this is the more likely

* because the revolutionary tribunal holds permanent sessions under
their eyes,

* because the guillotine is set up and in operation on the "Place de la
Revolution;"

* because a recent act of the Commune enjoins on the police "the most
active surveillance" and "constant patrols" by the armed force;

* because, from the first to the fourth of August, the barriers are
closed;

* because, on the 2nd of August, a raid into three of the theaters puts
five hundred young men in the lock-up,[1127]

so the discontented soon discover, if there are any, that this is not
the time or the place to protest.

As to the others, already Jacobin, the faction takes it upon itself to
render them still more so.--Lost in the immensity of Paris, all these
provincials require moral as well as physical guides; it agree