228 BAILLY. 
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 Fédération 
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 
