- At N?mes, under the leadership of a patriotic
dancing-master, not content with "decreeing proscriptions, killing,
scourging, and often murdering," these new champions of the Gallican
Church undertake to reanimate the zeal of those liable to
contribution. A subscription having been proposed for the support
of the families of the volunteers about to depart, the executive
power takes upon itself to revise the list of offerings: it
arbitrarily taxes those who have not given, or who, in its opinion,
have given too little some "poor workmen fifty livres, others two
hundred, three hundred, nine hundred, and a thousand, under penalty
of wrecked houses and severe treatment." Elsewhere, the volunteers
of Baux and other communes near Tarascon help themselves freely,
and, "under the pretext that they are to march for the defense of
the country, levy enormous contributions on proprietors," on one
four thousand, and on another five thousand livres. In default of
payment, they carry away all the grain on one farm, even to the
reserve seed, threatening to make havoc with everything, and even to
burn, in case of complaint, so that the owners dare not say a word,
while the attorney-general of the neighboring department, afraid on
his own account, begs that his denunciation may be kept secret.
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