-du-Pin, October
28, 1789.--Letter of M. de Langeron, September 3rd; of Breitman,
garde-marteau, Val Saint-Amarin (Upper Alsace), July 26th.]

[Footnote 1306: Leonce de Lavergne, 197. (Letter of the intermediate
commission of Poitou, the last month in 1789.)--Cf. Brissot (Le patriote
francais, August, 1789). "General insubordination prevails in the
provinces because the restraints of executive power are no longer felt.
What were but lately the guarantees of that power? The intendants,
tribunals, and the army. The intendants are gone, the tribunals are
silent, and the army is against the executive power and on the side of
the people. Liberty is not a nourishment for unprepared stomachs."]

[Footnote 1307: "Archives Nationales," D. XXIX. I. (Letter of the
clergy, consuls, presidial-councillors and principal merchants of
Puy-en-Velay, September 16, 1789.)--H. 1453. (letter of the Intendant
or Alencon, July 18th). "I must not leave you in ignorance of the
multiplied outbreaks we have in all parts of my jurisdiction. The
impunity with which they flatter themselves, because the judges are
afraid of irritating the people by examples of severity, only emboldens
them. Mischief-makers, confounded with honest folks, spread false
reports about particular persons whom they accuse of concealing grain,
or of not belonging to the Third-Estate, and, under this pretext, they
pillage their houses, taking whatever they can find, the owners only
avoiding death by flight."]

[Footnote 1308: A body of magistrates forming one of the lower
tribunals.]

[Footnote 1309: "Archives Nationales," H. 942. (Observations of M. de
Ballainvilliers, October 30, 1789.)]

[Footnote 1310: "Archives Nationales," D, XXIX. 1. Letter of the
municipal assembly of Louviers, the end of August, 1789.--Letter of
the communal assembly of Saint-Bris (bailiwick of Auxerre),
September 25th.--Letter of the municipal officers of Ricey-Haut, near
Bar-sur-Seine, August 25th; of the Chevalier d'Allouville, September
8th.]

[Footnote 1311: "Archives Nationales," D, XXIX. I. Letter of
M. Briand-Delessart (Angouleme, August 1st).--Of M. Bret,
Lieutenant-General of the provostship of Mardogne, September 5th.--Of
the Chevalier de Castellas (Auvergue), September 15th (relating to the
night between the 2nd and 3rd of August).--Madame Campan, II. 65.]

[Footnote 1312: Arthur Young, "Voyages in France," July 24th and 31st,
August 13th and 19th.]

[Footnote 1313: De Bouille,