BOOK XV.
I.
Whilst a war to the death impended over the people, and menaced the king, discord continued to reign in the councils of the ministers.

The minister of war, Servan, was accused by Dumouriez with obeying with servility, which resembled love rather than complaisance, the influence of Madame Roland, and of having wholly defeated the plans for the invasion of Belgium.

The friends of Madame Roland, on their side, threatened Dumouriez that they would make the Assembly demand of him an account of the six millions of secret expenses, whose destination they suspected.

Already Guadet and Vergniaud had prepared discourses and a project of a decree to demand a public reckoning for these sums.
Dumouriez, who had bought friends and accomplices with this gold amongst the Jacobins and the Feuillants, revolted against the suspicion, refused, in the name of his outraged honour, to make any return of this expenditure, and boldly offered his resignation.

Upon this a great number of members of the Assembly, Feuillants and Jacobins, Petion himself, called at the residence of the insulted minister, and conjured him to return to his post.