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ity of the means, are determined to make an end of the 
adversaries who annoy them, as soon as circumstances — 
seem to promise them victory. 
Bailly had still near him some Eschevins long accus- 
tomed to regard him as a magistrate for show. 
The former gave the Mayor false, or highly coloured 
intelligence. The others, by long habit, did not conceive» 
themselves obliged to communicate any thing to him. 
On the bloody day of July, 1791, of all the inhabitants — 
of Paris, perhaps Bailly was the man who knew with 
least detail or correctness the events of the morning and 
of the evening. 
Bailly, with his deep horror for falsehood, would have 
thought that he was most cruelly insulting the magistrates, 
if he had not attributed to them similar sentiments to his 
own. His uprightness prevented his being sufficiently 
on the watch against the machinations of parties. It was 
evidently by false reports that he was induced to unfurl 
the red flag on the 17th of July: “It was from the re- 
ports that followed each other,” he said to the Revolu- 
tionary Tribunal, on being questioned by the President, 
“and became more and more alarming every hour, that 
the council adopted the measure of marching with the 
armed force to the Champ de Mars.” 
In all his answers Bailly insisted on the repeated or- 
ders he had received from the President of the National 
Assembly; on the reproaches addressed to him for not 
sufficiently watching the agents of foreign powers; it was 
against these pretended agents and their creatures, that 
the Mayor of Paris thought he was marching when he 
put himself at the head of a column of National Guards. 
Bailly did not even know the cause of the meeting; he 
had not been informed that the crowd wished to sign a 
