The Jacobins began to require from them an account of the acts of a ministry which was in their hands, and bore their name.

Dumouriez, placed between the king and the Girondists, saw daily the increasing want of confidence between his colleagues and himself; they suspected his probity equally with his patriotism.

He had profited by his popularity and ascendency over the Jacobins to demand of the Assembly a sum of 6,000,000 (240,000_l._) of secret service money on his accession to the ministry.

The apparent destination of this money was to bribe foreign cabinets, and to detach venal powers from the coalition, and to foment revolutionary symptoms in Belgium.

Dumouriez alone knew the channels by which this money was to flow.