We suspect each other of different plans when we have but the same idea--of contrary feelings, when every one of us has in his heart the testimony of his colleagues' purity, during two years of labour performed together--during consecutive proofs of courage--during sacrifices which nothing can compensate but the approving voice of conscience." Here Barnave's voice was lost in the applauses of the majority, and the Assembly electrified, seemed for the moment unanimous in its monarchical feeling.
X.
At the sitting of the 25th of August, the Assembly discussed the article of the constitution which declared that the members of the royal family could not exercise the rights of citizens.

The Duc d'Orleans ascended the tribune to protest against this article, and declared, in the midst of applauses and murmurs, that if it were adopted, there remained to him the right of choosing between the title of a French citizen and his eventual right to the throne; and that, in that case, he should renounce the throne.

Sillery, the friend and confidant of this prince, spoke after him, and combated with much eloquence the conclusions of the committee.

This discourse, full of allusions to the position of the duc d'Orleans, impossible to be misunderstood, was the only act of direct ambition attempted by the Orleans party.

Sillery began by boldly replying to Barnave:--"Let me be allowed," he exclaimed, "to lament over the deplorable abuse which some orators make of their talents.