housand impressions
are ordered to be printed. Then, to cap the climax, following the
example of the Commune, no accounts are rendered, or, if this is done
for form's sake, no fault must be found with them, under penalty of
suspicion, etc."--The twelve leaders, proprietors and distributors of
civism, have only to agree amongst themselves to share the profits, each
according to his appetite; henceforth, cupidity and vanity are free
to sacrifice the common weal, under cover of the common interest.--The
pasture is vast and it is at the disposal of the leaders. In one of his
orders of the day, Henriot says:[3327]

"I am very glad to announce to my brethren in arms that all the
positions are at the disposal of the government. The actual government,
which is revolutionary, whose intentions are pure, and which merely
desires the happiness of all,.... will search everywhere, even into the
attics for virtuous men,.... poor and genuine sans-culottes." And
there is enough to satisfy them thirty-five thousand places of public
employment in the capital alone:[3328] it is a rich mine; already,
before the month of May, 1793, "the Jacobin club boasted of having
placed nine thousand agents in the administration,"[3329] and since
the 2nd of June, "virtuous men, poor, genuine sans-culottes," arrive
in crowds from "their garrets," dens and hired rooms, each to grab his
share.--They besiege and install themselves by hundreds the ancient
offices in the War, Navy and Public-Works departments, in the Treasury
and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Here they rule, constantly denouncing
all the remaining, able employees thus creating vacancies in order to
fill them.[3330] Then there are twenty new administrative departments
which they keep for themselves: commissioners of the first confiscation
of national property, commissioners of national property arising
from emigrants and the convicted, commissioners of conscripted
carriage-horses, commissioners on clothing, commissioners on the
collecting and manufacturing of saltpeter, commissioners on monopolies,
civil-commissioners in each of the forty-eight sections, commissioners
on propagandas in the departments, Commissioners on provisions, and many
others. Fifteen hundred places are counted in the single department of
subsistence in Paris,[3331] and all are salaried. Here, already, are
a number of desirable offices.--Some are for the lowest rabble, two
hundred, at twenty sous a day, paid to "stump-speake