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historical chronicle. 



vernment when we were banished horn 

 the ancient declaration of rights, anl 

 the ancient constitution, those parasite 

 branches which the constituents suffer- 

 ed to grow there. 



You are toid that an extensive plan 

 of a government must be presented. 

 Nothing is more pernicious than such 

 an idea ; for an tx'ensive plan requires 

 much time to be formed, and much 

 time to be discufsed. Besides, it is 

 not an extensive plan that we have oc- 

 casion {oi, — our bases are laid, and our 

 most iiiiportant object is to have a go- 

 vernment as speedily as pofsible. 



I have already said, that the tribu- 

 r^als ought to have been difsolved the 

 , day af er you abolished royalty, for 

 that must be lior.e in order to substi- 

 tute arbitration in the room of tneir 

 sentences and deciiiors. Hjd an arbi- 

 trator been appointed in ^Jch can-on, 

 that ofRce would certainly^ have been 

 given by tlie people to the honescest 

 man in the dis-ricr. 



The Sime fear of disorganization 

 has prevented the army fom be ng 

 nationalised. Vlha difficulty would 

 there be in establiihing national volun- 

 teers, and causing the suld'ers to elec 

 tlicir own officers ? Such ' an operation 

 would not require much time, and 

 would occ.isinn lefs disorganization m 

 the .irmv, than the leaving such traitors 

 as Mon esqiiiou at the head of it. 



To establifh the r-!igion of the law, 

 all citizens, without distinction, must 

 "be invited to have a Ihare in the for- 

 mation of the law. Every Sunday 

 after mifs, let the operation? of the 

 legislature be read to the people; let 

 the ()eople discufs them, and consider 

 whether they are proper or not to be 

 adopted. When a law fliall have thus 

 been approved by the majority of the 

 people, you nted njt be afraid that a 

 single individual will be tem/ted to 

 break it. 



September 44. Chabot moved that 

 the order of the day Ihould be invaria- 

 bly fixed on the means of forcing the 

 tin-ventton «j organize the governmcnf 

 speedily; and before they proceeded lo 

 any other bus'.nefs. 



Some rr.embcrs found fault with 

 the word forcings but Chabot said, 

 that if the Jacobins of Paris had not 

 a right 10 force the coi vmtion to do 

 such and such a thng, the Jacobins of 

 the lohole empire, that is to say, all 

 good citizens, had incoitesiibly that 

 right j tor, added he, constituents have 

 always a right X'^ farce their represen- 

 tatives to obey tlieir orders, and if the 

 constitntion be not fixed by the end of 

 November or December, and if it be 

 not revised by the people before the 

 end of March, our liberty is lost. 



A curious debate arose on this af- 

 sertion, in which Le Vafseur, in a 

 very msnly way, said, tiiat as a repre- 

 sentative of the nation, it was neither 

 in his principles, nor his character, to 

 be forced to any thing. —During the 

 tumult of debate which ensueci, M, 

 Petion, with a number cf hi' friends, 

 entered the hall, and the president's 

 chair being offered to him, he accepted 

 it. The evident intention of their 

 com ng was to resist, in its commence- 

 .Tient, a plan fornted by Roberspierre, 

 and his party, to irsiigne the people 

 against the resolutions which hid been 

 come tobv tlieconvention that day, for 

 courting the instigators to malsacre 

 and pillage — for procuring a guard 

 fiom the 83 d?pa-tmen;s to overawe 

 the mob of Paris, &c. 



Fal er b g m the a'tack, and af?ert- 

 cd, that the propo;ed measure was a 

 direct censure on the conduct of the 

 true patriots, who hid snved their 

 country from destruction. He was al- 

 so very severe against iiie mover, 

 Buzat, who was warmly defended. by 

 his fviend Petion, and after a tumul- 

 tuous discufs on, the president and his 

 party had sufficient Interest to get the 

 question acjourned. 



From these specimens, our 

 readers will be able to form 

 some idea of the state of par- 

 ties ill France, of the motives 

 that actuate the differentleaders, 

 and the means they rely upon 

 for effecting their purposes. 



Other ntwj deferred till cur next. 



