On the 16th the Assembly summoned to its bar the municipality and its officers, to make it responsible for the public peace.

It drew up an address to the French people, in order to rally them around the constitution.

Bailly, the same evening, issued a proclamation against the agitators.

The fluctuating Jacobins themselves declared their submission to the decrees of the Assembly.

At the moment when the struggle was expected, the leaders of the projected movement were invisible.