"Hasten!" exclaimed Isnard; "whilst you are deliberating perhaps the traitor will flee." "I have been a long time judge," replied Boulanger, "and never did I decree capital punishment so lightly." Vergniaud, who saw the indecision of the Assembly, rushed twice into the tribune to combat the excuses and the delays of the right side.

Becquet, whose coolness was equal to his courage, desirous of averting the peril, proposed that it should be sent to the diplomatic committee.

Vergniaud began to fear that the moment would escape his party, and said, "No, no we do not require actual proofs for a criminal accusation--presumptive proofs are sufficient.

There is not one of us in whose minds the cowardice and perfidy which characterises the acts of the minister have not produced the most lively indignation.

Is it not he who has for two months kept in his portfolio the decree of the reunion of Avignon with France?
and the blood spilled in that city, the mutilated carcases of so many victims, do they not cry to us for vengeance against him?
I see from this tribune the palace in which evil counsellors deceive the king whom the constitution gives to us, forge the fetters which enchain us, and plot the stratagems which are to deliver us to the house of Austria.
(Loud acclamations.) The day has arrived to put an end to such audacity and insolence, and to crush such conspirators.