At each fresh communication from M.de Lessart, minister of foreign affairs, the party of the Gironde raised a fresh cry of war and treason.

Fauchet denounced the minister.

Brissot exclaimed, "The mask has fallen,--our enemy is now known,--it is the emperor.

The princes, who hold possessions in Alsace, whose cause he affects to espouse, are but the pretexts of his hate; and the _emigres_ themselves are but his instruments.

Let us despise these _emigres_: it is the duty of the high national court to execute justice on these mendicant princes.