He yielded to the times, embraced his minister, and requested the Girondists to supply him with another.

The Girondists were already silently occupied in so doing.

They had previously made, in the name of the party, overtures to Roland at the end of February.

"The court," they said to him, "is not very far off from taking Jacobin ministers: not from inclination, but through treachery.

The confidence it will feign to bestow will be a snare.