As to the three imprisoned men, the municipal authorities
visit them in a body and demand their provisional release. One of
them having made his escape, they refuse to give the commandant the
order for his re-arrest. The other two triumphantly leave the
chateau on the 11th of April, escorted by eight hundred National
Guards. They go, for form's sake, to the prisons of the
s?n?chauss?e but the next day are set at liberty, and further
prosecution ceases. As an offset to this, M. d'Ambert, colonel in
the Royal Marine, guilty of expressing himself too warmly against
the National Guard, although acquitted by the tribunal before which
he was brought, can be set at liberty only in secret and under the
protection of two thousand soldiers. The populace want to burn the
house of the criminal lieutenant that dared absolve him. The
magistrate himself is in danger, and is forced to take refuge in the
house of the military commander.[31] Meanwhile, printed and written
papers, insulting libels by the municipal body and the club, the
seditious or violent discussions of the district assemblies, and a
lot of pamphlets, are freely distributed among the people and the
soldiers: the latter are purposely stirred up in advance against
their chiefs.
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