- There is the same state of suspicion in the
neighboring towns. The municipal body of Valence, hearing that two
youths had ordered coats made "of a color which seemed suspicious,"
send for the tailor; he confesses the fact, and adds that "they
intended to put the buttons on themselves." Such a detail is
alarming. An inquiry is set on foot and the alarm increases; people
in a strange uniform have been seen passing on their way to the
chateau of Villiers; from thence, on reaching the number of two
hundred, they will go and join the garrison of Besan?on; they will
travel four at a time in order to avoid detection. At Besan?on they
are to meet a corps of forty thousand men, commanded by M.
Autichamp, which corps is to march on to Paris to carry off the
King, and break up the National Assembly. The National Guards along
the whole route are to be forced into the lines. At a certain
distance each man is to receive 1,200 francs, and, at the end of the
expedition, is to be enrolled in the Artois Guard, or sent home with
a recompense of 12,000 francs.
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