Have they received it ?" "Here is a copy." The peasant gave a paper to the person who was interrogating him.

The latter opened it and read: The war has absolutely no result save that of making the monarchy odious and threatening.

Monarchs who return to their own through its bloody succor are never loved; these sanguinary measures must therefore be abandoned; confide in the empire of opinion which returns of itself to its saving principles.

"God and the King," will soon be the rallying cry of all Frenchmen.

The scattered elements of royalism must be gathered into one formidable sheaf; militant Vendee must be abandoned to its unhappy fate and marched within a more pacific and less erratic path.