Ah! let liberty be assured, let equality be confirmed; let the _Intrigants_ disappear, and you will see me as anxious to fly from this tribune, and even this place, as you now see me desirous to be in them.

Thus, in effect, my dearest wishes will be accomplished.

Happy in the public liberty, I shall pass my peaceful days in the delights of a sweet and obscure privacy." Robespierre confined himself to these few words, frequently interrupted by the murmurs of fanatical enthusiasm, and then adjourned his answer to the following sittings, when Danton was seated in the arm-chair, and presided over this struggle between his enemies and his rival.
Robespierre began by elevating his own cause to the height of a national one.

He defended himself for having first provoked his adversaries.

He quoted the accusations made, and the injurious things uttered against him, by the Brissot party.