d'Herbois, who, no longer on the stage, plays before the town the
melo-dramatic tyrant with all becoming ostentation. One morning, at
Lyons, he directs the revolutionary Tribunal to arrest, examine and
sentence a youthful "suspect" before the day is over. "Towards six
o'clock,[32153] Collot being at table enjoying an orgy with prostitutes,
buffoons and executioners, eating and drinking to choice music, one of
the judges of the Tribunal enters; after the usual formalities, he is
led up to the Representative, and informs him that the young man had
been arrested and examined, and the strictest inquiries made concerning
him; he is found irreproachable and the Court decided to set him free.
Collot, without looking at the judge, raises his voice and says to him:

"I ordered you to punish that young man and I want him out of the way
before night. If the innocent are spared, too many of the guilty will
escape. Go."

The music and gaiety begin again, and in an hour the young man is
shot."--And so in most of the other pachalics; if any head mentally
condemned by the pacha escapes or does not fall soon enough, the latter
is indignant at the delays and forms of justice, also against the judges
and juries, often selected by himself. Javogues writes an insulting
letter to the commission of Feurs which has dared acquit two former
nobles. Laignelot, Lecarpentier, Michaud, Monestier, Lebon, dismiss,
recompose, or replace the commissions of Fontenoy, Saint-Malo, and
Perpignan, and the tribunals of Pau, Nimes, and Arras, whose judgments
did not please them.[32154] Lebon, Bernard de Saintes, Dartigoyte and
Fouche re-arrest prisoners on the same charge, solemnly acquitted by
their own tribunals. Bo, Prieur de la Marne, and Lebon, send judges and
juries to prison that do not always vote death.[32155] Barras and Freron
dispatch, from brigade to brigade, to the revolutionary Tribunal in
Paris, the public prosecutor and president of the revolutionary Tribunal
of Marseilles, for being indulgent to anti-revolutionaries, because, out
of five hundred and twenty-eight prisoners, they guillotined only
one hundred and sixty-two.[32156]--To contradict the infallible
Representative! That of itself is an offense. He owes it to himself to
punish those who are not docile, to re-arrest absolved delinquents, and
to support cruelty with cruelty.

When for a long time someone has been imbibing a strong and nauseating
drink, not only does the palate get accus