Kes da tT €) PUPP EARS: 
is the danger of anarchy, that if it 
triumphs, it leads to royalty through 
calamities and crimes, and can only 
be fubdued by caufing the public 
authorities to aflume a carriage in- 
variably more or lefs favourable to 
the partifans of defpotifm. This 
laf maxim has been but too much 
verified during fifteen months paft; 
and royalifm, {trengthened by the 
~ defeat of a few brigands, whofe rage 
it had itfeif organized, and whofe 
attempts it had directed, would, 
fince the commencement of that 
period have made a progrefs if not 
more exienfive, at leaft more rapid, 
provided one of its orators had not 
been in too much hafte to point 
out the aim in view. This orator, 
named Lemerer, has been, as well 
as Merfan, acknowledged by Du- 
verne de Preflc {o be known and 
eftablifhed intermediary agent be- 
tween a part of the legiflative body 
and the agents of the pretender. 
When, in the month of Fructidor, 
of the 4th year, Lemerer undertcok, 
‘in one of the national tribunes, to 
point out the conftitution of 1791 
as the object of the regret of his 
party; when he rafhly infulted the 
triumph which liberty obtained on 
ha of Auguft, 1792, the eyes 
of all the faithful deputies were in- 
' ftantly opened, and from that time 
to the 1ft of Prairial latt, they con- 
ftantly oppofed to every counter- 
revolutionary propofition, theirzeal, 
their energies, and their votes. Ob- 
liged to adjourn on the 1 ft Prairial, 
the epoch of its legiflative fway, 
royalifm gave a new direction ‘to 
its efforts. It encircled the feat of 
government more clofely than ever; 
_and by eftablifhing agents, guards, 
and emiflaries on all fides; by or- 
anizing their conneétions, their 
ubordination, and their correfpon- 
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dence; by, infome meatfure, fetting 
up a counter-revolution in each de- 
partment and in each commune, it 
fought at once to pave the way for 
the eleGtions, and to fecure a mili- 
tary force which it might bring in- 
to action at its pleafure. Such, ci-. 
tizens, from the month of Pluviofe, 
was the power of royalifm, that the 
difeovery of the con{piracy of Brot- 
tier, Dunan, and Villernois, merely 
augmented its audacity, and fortifi- 
ed its means even by their manifef- 
tation. Never did confpirators, fo 
fully convicted by their writings 
and confeffions, find more apolo- 
gifts, fupporters, and protectors, 
who did not hefitate to manifeft the 
lively intereft they took in their 
caufe. In ferving them, it, was 
found to be more ufeful than dan-~ 
gerous to difplay the full extent of 
the different refources of the party 
under which they acted. It can- 
not be doubted, citizens, but that 
in the majority of the departments 
the eleétions were the work of this 
party. In proof of this. you have 
only to refer to the debates of the 
military tribunal; to the two decla- 
rations which Duverne de Prefle 
has placed in our hands, and which 
we publifh this day; and, finally, to 
the fentiments and condué of the 
new deputies, whom corruption 
and intrigue gave to the Republic. 
Emigrants inundating Paris and the 
departments more and more; re- 
publicans either butchered or fore- 
ed to fly from their homes: fuper- 
ftition and fanaticifm recalled by 
thofe even who, under the monar- 
chy, contributed the moft effectual- 
ly to’ profcribe them ; the patriotic 
inftif{utions abandoned and infult- 
ed; the fymbols of royalifm difplay- 
ed audacioufly; the licentioufnefs 
of the prefs carried-to an unexam~ 
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