arat, October lst.
"Sweep all the suspected men out of the Hotel-de-Ville. . . . . Reduce
the deputies of the communes to fifty; do not let them remain in office
more than a month or six weeks, and compel them to transact business
only in public."--And II. 412, another article by Marat.--Ibid. III.
21. An article by Loustalot.--C. Desmoulins, "Discours de la Lanterne,"
passim.--Bailly, II. 326.]

[Footnote 1422: Mounier, "Des causes qui ont empeche les Francais d'etre
libre," I. 59.--Lally-Tollendal, second letter, 104.--Bailly, II. 203.]

[Footnote 1423: De Bouille, 207.--Lally-Tollendal, ibid, 141,
146.--Mounier, ibid., 41, 60.]

[Footnote 1424: Mercure de France, October 2, 1790 (article of Mallet du
Pan: "I saw it"). Criminal proceedings at the Chatelet on the events of
October 5th and 6th. Deposition of M. Feydel, a deputy, No. 178.----De
Montlosier, i. 259.--Desmoulins (La Lanterne). "Some members of the
communes are gradually won over by pensions, by plans for making a
fortune and by flattery. Happily, the incorruptible galleries are always
on the side of the patriots. They represent the tribunes of the people
seated on a bench in attendance on the deliberations of the Senate and
who had the veto. They represent the metropolis and, fortunately, it
is under the batteries of the metropolis that the constitution is being
framed." (C. Desmoulins, simple-minded politician, always let the cat
out of the bag.)]

[Footnote 1425: "Procedure du Chatelet," Ibid. Deposition of M. Malouet
(No. 111). "I received every day, as well as MM. Lally and Mounier,
anonymous letters and lists of proscriptions on which we were inscribed.
These letters announced a prompt and violent death to every deputy that
advocated the authority of the King."]

[Footnote 1426: Buchez and Roux, I. 368, 376.---Bailly, II. 326,
341.--Mounier, ibid., 62, 75.]

[Footnote 1427: Etienne Dumont, 145.--Correspondence between Comte de
Mirabeau and Comte de la Marck.]

[Footnote 1428: "Procedure criminelle du Chatelet," Deposition
148.--Buchez and Roux, III. 67, 65. (Narrative of Desmoulins, article
of Loustalot.) Mercure de France, number for September 5, 1789. "Sunday
evening, August 30, at the Palais-Royal, the expulsion of several
deputies of every class was demanded, and especially some of those from
Dauphiny... They spoke of bringing the King to Paris as well as the
Dauphin. All virtuous citizens, every incorruptible patriot, was
exhorted to set