se, bulletins of the military police
and correspondence of the gendarmerie). Brumaire 25, year VIII, attack
on the Paris mail near Arpajon by 5 brigands armed with guns. Fructidor,
year VIII, at three o'clock P.M., a cart loaded with 10,860 francs sent
by the collector at Mantes to the collector at Versailles is
stopped near the Marly water-works, by 8 or 10 armed brigands on
horseback.--Similar facts abound. It is evident that more than a year is
required to put an end to brigandage.--It is always done by employing
an impartial military force. (Rocquam, Ibid, p. 10.) "There are at
Marseilles three companies of paid national guards, 60 men each, at a
franc per man. The fund for this guard is supplied by a contribution of
5 francs a month paid by every man subject to this duty who wishes to
be exempt. The officers... are all strangers in the country. Robberies,
murders, and conflicts have ceased in Marseilles since the establishment
of this guard."]

[Footnote 3109: Archives Nationales, 3144 and 3145, No.1004. (Reports
of the councillors of State on mission during the year IX, published by
Rocquam, with omissions, among which is the following, in the report of
Francois de Nantes.) "The steps taken by the mayors of Marseilles are
sufficiently effective to enable an emigre under surveillance and just
landed, to walk about Marseilles without being knocked down or knocking
anybody else down, an alternative to which they have been thus far
subject. And yet there are in this town nearly 500 men who have
slaughtered with their own hands, or been the accomplices of
slaughterers, at different times during the Revolution.... The
inhabitants of this town are so accustomed to being annoyed and
despoiled, and to being treated like those of a rebellious town or
colony, that arbitrary power no longer frightens them, and they simply
ask that their lives and property be protected against murderers and
pillagers, and that things be entrusted to sure and impartial hands."]

[Footnote 3110: Roederer, III., 481. (Report on the Senatorerie of
Caen, Germinal 2, year XIII.)--Faber, "Notice sur l'interieur de la
France"(1807), p.110, 112. "Justice is one of the bright sides of France
of to-day. It is costly, but it cannot be called venal."]

[Footnote 3111: Rocquain, ibid., 19. (Report of Francois de Nantes on
the 8th military division.) "For the past eighteen months a calm has
prevailed here equal to that which existed before the Revolution.