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Paris; Lullier, the Syndic Procurator General of the 

 Department ; Coffinhal, Judge of the Revolutionary Tri 

 bunal ; Dufourny, manufacturer of gunpowder ; Momoro, 

 a printer. 



All these witnesses strongly blamed the old Mayor of 

 Paris ; but who is there that does not know how much 

 arbitrariness and cruelty these individuals, whom I have 

 mentioned above, showed during our misfortunes ? Their 

 declarations, therefore, must be received with great sus 

 picion. 



The sincere admirers of Bailly would be relieved of a 

 great weight, if the event of the Champ de la Federation 

 had been darkened only by the testimonies of Chaumettes 

 and Coffinhals. Unfortunately, the public accuser pro 

 duced some very grave documents during the debates, 

 which the impartial historian cannot overlook. Let us 

 say, however, just to correct one error out of a thousand, 

 that on the day of Bailly s trial, the public accuser was 

 Naulin, and not Fouquier Tinville, notwithstanding all 

 that has been written on this subject by persons calling 

 themselves well-informed, and even some of the accused s 

 intimate friends. 



The catastrophe of the Champ de Mars, when impar 

 tially examined in its essential phases, presents some very 

 simple problems : 



Was a petition to the Constituent Assembly illegal that 

 was got up on the 17th of July, 1791, against a decree 

 issued on the 15th ? 



Had the petitioners, by assembling on the Champ de 

 Mars, violated any law ? 



Could the two murders committed in the morning be 

 imputed to these men ? 



Had projects of disorder and rebellion been manifested 



