meaning we may attribute to them, it is evident that the 
sentiments and passions of the lower class have no share 
in them ; it is a point beyond discussion. 
On reéntering the Conciergerie, the evening before his 
death, Bailly spoke of the efforts that must have been 
made to excite the passions of the auditors, who followed 
the various phases of his trial. Factitious excitement is 
always the produce of corruption. The working classes . 
are without money; they then cannot have been the cor- 
ruptors or direct promoters of the distressing scenes of 
which Bailly complained. 
The implacable enemies of the former President of the 
National Assembly had procured for pay some auxiliaries 
among the turnkeys of the Conciergerie. M. Beugnot 
informs us that when the venerable magistrate was con- 
signed to the gendarmes who were to conduct him to the 
Tribunal, “these wretches pushed him violently, sending 
him from one to the other like a drunken man, calling 
out: Hold there, Bailly! Catch, Bailly, there! and that 
they laughed and shouted at the grave demeanour the 
philosopher maintained amidst the insults of those can- 
nibals.” 
To confirm my statement that these violences (in com- 
parison with which, in truth, those of the Champ de Mars 
lose their virulence,) were fomented by pay, I have more 
than the formal declaration of our colleague’s fellow pris- 
oner. For in fact I find that no other prisoner or convict 
underwent such treatment; not even the man called the 
Admiral, when he was taken to the Conciergerie for hav- 
ing attempted to assassinate Collot-d’ Herbois. 
Besides, it is not only on indirect considerations that 
my decided opinion is founded relative to the intervention 
of rich and influential people in those scenes of indescrib- 
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