226 BAILLY. 
after all, this or that qualification of this monstrous trial ? 
in the judgment of any man of feeling, never did Bailly 
prove himself more noble, more courageous, more worthy, 
than in this difficult situation. 
Bailly appeared again before the Revolutionary Tri- 
bunal, and this time as the accused, the 10th of Novem- 
ber 1793. The accusation bore chiefly on the pretended 
participation of the Mayor of Paris in the escape of Louis 
XVI. and his family, and in the catastrophe that occurred 
in the Champ de Mars. 
If any thing in. the world appeared evident, even in 
1793, even before the detailed revelations of the persons 
who took a more or less direct part in the event, it is, 
that Bailly did not facilitate the departure of the royal 
family ; it is that, in proportion to the suspicions that 
reached him, he did all that was in his power to prevent 
their departure ; it is, that the President of the sitting of 
the Jeu de Paume had not, and could never have had in 
any case, an intention of going to join the fugitive family 
in a strange country ; it is that, finally, any act emanating 
from a public authority in which such expressions as the 
following could be found: “The deep wickedness of 
OS ae Bailly thirsted for the people’s blood!” 
must have excited the disgust and indignation of good 
men, whatever might be their political opinions. 
The accusation, as far as it regarded the murderous 
fusillade on the Champ de Mars, had more weight; this 
event had as counterpoises, the 10th of August and the 
dist of May; La Fayette says in his memoirs, that those 
two days were a retaliation. It is at least certain that 
the terrible scenes of the 17th of July cost Bailly his life ; 
they left deep impressions in people’s minds, which were 
' still perceptible after the revolution of 1830, and which, 
