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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 



