. . . We dispersed the members of a cathedral body to which we
were attached by the ties of blood and friendship; we dismissed all,
from the bishop down to the children of the choir. We had but three
communities of mendicant monks, and all three have been suppressed.
We have sold all national possessions without exception." - The
commander of their gendarmerie is, in fact, an old member of the
body-guard, while the superior officers of the National Guard are
gentlemen, or belong to the order of Saint-Louis. It is very
evident that, if they defend themselves against Jacobins, they are
not insurgent against the National Assembly. - In Arles,[2] which
has put down its populace, which has armed itself, which has shut
its gates, and which passes for a focus of royalist conspiracy, the
commissioners sent by the King and by the National Assembly, men of
discretion and of consideration, find nothing, after a month's
investigation, but submission to the decrees and zeal for the public
welfare.
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