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miisioners who had been sent 
into the department of Eure 
and. Loire to quell the riots, 
made his report in the tribune. 
“* “Yesterday,’’ said he, 
“ your commifsioners were be- 
tween life and death ; and per- 
haps at this moment the city 
of Chartres is on fire, and to- 
morrow will be delivered up 
.to pillage, by a mob of twelve 
or fifteen thousand men. 
“On our arrival at Char- 
tres, we were informed by the 
‘administrative bodies, f the 
circumstances of the imsyrrec- 
tion. The pretence is the 
-dearnefs of provisions, 
“Yesterday, the 19th, we 
went toCourville, withcut arms, 
with the sole force of reason, 
thinking we fhould find men 
who had been misled, but 
whom it would be tasy to 
bring back to theirduty. But 
how great was our etror? We 
found men imprefsed with the 
most unjust prepofsefsions <- 
‘gainst the National Afsembly, 
and ready to fhed the blood 
of three of its members. 
“ Qn our arrival at Cour- 
_ ville, at about eight in the mor- 
ning, we conferred with the 
citizens, who were beginning 
‘to afsemble, and we augured 
favourably from their answers 
But soon a report was circu- 
lated among the people, that 
we were followed by a consi- 
derable armed force, and that 
we were come to order a gene- 
‘al m afsacre, 
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“ Mean while the crowd in- 
creased, and amounted to @- 
bout 6000 men, armed with 
guns, scythes, hatchets, G'ce 
At our entreaty they repaired 
to the field of the federation, 
whither we went also, and, 
placing ourselves in the middle, 
we harangued them. 
“ We were heard at’ first 
peaceably, but soon, several 
voices cried out, that we were 
monopolizers, aristocrats, paid 
by the farmers, enemies: to the 
people ;—cur heads were de- 
manded, and the cry ef no 
quarter became general.—My 
colleagues and myself were 
seized, separated, and dragged 
away; I cried out to them 
that 1 was a representative of 
the peopie; blows then took 
place of words, and a hatchet 
—(Here the voice of the ora- 
tor was lost amidst the expref- 
sions of general indignation) 
—-“‘at the same time the clothes 
of my colleazues were torn off 
and thsown into the riversthe 
muzzle of a loaded gun was 
prefsed against my breast. 
At that moment a citizen who- 
had already warned me to re- 
tire, told the multitude to spare 
my life, on condition I signed 
the price of corn as they 
wifhed it to be fixed. 
“ I was in consequence * 
dtagged with my colleagues 
to the corn market of Cour- 
ville. We were placed upon 
the sacks, and were forced to 
sign the tax of the ptice ofcern; 
