Danton on that day displayed the greatest audacity.
M.de La Fayette had the proofs of the orator's venality in his possession--he had received from M.de Montmorin 100,000 francs.

Danton knew that M.de La Fayette was well aware of this transaction; but he also knew that La Fayette could not accuse him without naming M.de Montmorin, and without also accusing himself of participation in this shameful traffic, that supplied the funds of the civil list.

This double secret kept them mutually in check, and obliged the orator and general to maintain a degree of reserve that lessened the fury of the contest.
Lameth replied to Danton, and spoke in favour of concord.

The violent resolutions proposed by Robespierre and Danton had no weight that day at the Jacobins' Club.

The peril that threatened them taught the people wisdom, and their instinct forbade their dividing their force before that which was unknown.
XX.
The same evening the National Assembly discussed and adopted an address to the French nation, in these terms:-- "A great crime has been committed.