even like, in case of
necessity, to have some that are qualified to act as national agents."]

[Footnote 3369: Archives des Affaires etrangeres, vols. 322 to 334,
and 1409 to 1411.--These agents reside in Nimes, Marseilles, Toulouse,
Tarbes, Bordeaux, Auch, Rochefort, Brest, Bergues, Givet, Metz,
Thionville, Strasbourg, Colmar, Belfort and Grenoble, and often betake
themselves to towns in the vicinity.--The fullest reports are those
of Chepy, at Grenoble, whose correspondence is worthy of publication;
although an ultra Jacobin, he was brought before the revolutionary
Tribunal as a moderate, in Ventose, year II. Having survived (the
Revolution) he became under the Empire a general commissary of Police at
Brest. Almost all of them are veritable Jacobins, absolutist at bottom,
and they became excellent despotic tools.]

[Footnote 3370: Buchez et Roux, XXX., 425.--Twenty-four commissioners,
drawn by lot from the Jacobins of Paris, are associated with Collot
d'Herbois. One of them, Marino, becomes president of the temporary
Committee of Surveillance, at Lyons. Another, Parrien, is made president
of the Revolutionary Committee.--Archives Nationales, AF., II., 59.
(Deliberations in the Paris Jacobin club, appointing three of their
number to go to Tonnerre and request the Committee of Public Safety "to
give them the necessary power, to use it as circumstances may require,
for the best good of the Republic." Frimaire 6, year II.)--"Order of the
Committee of Public Safety, allowing two thousand francs to the
said parties for their traveling expenses."--Archives des Affaires
Etrangeres, vol. 333. The agents sent to Marseilles affix their
signatures, "sans-culottes, of Paris," and one of them, Brutus, becomes
president of the Marseilles revolutionary tribunal.]

[Footnote 3371: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 49. Papers relating to
the revolutionary tax of Belfort, giving all the amounts and names.
(Brumaire 30, year II.) Here is the formula: "citizen X... (male or
female) will pay in one hour the sum of--, under penalty of being
considered suspect and treated as such."--"Recueil des Pieces
Authentiques concernant la Revolution a Strasbourg," I., 128, 187.
(Expressions of the representative Baudot in a letter dated Brumaire 29,
year II.)]

[Footnote 3372: Archives Nationales: the acts and letters of the
representatives on mission are classed by departments.--On the delegates
of the representatives on mission, I will cite but on