By way of conclusion to the meeting, they pass a resolution insisting that M.de Barras should reduce the price of all comestibles.

On his refusal, they "open the window, exclaiming, 'We hold him, and we have only to throw him into the street for the rest to pick him up.'" Compliance is inevitable.

The resolution is proclaimed by the town-criers, and at each article which is reduced in price the crowd shout, "Vive le Roi, vive M.
Barras!"-- One must yield to brute force.

But the inconvenience is great for, through the suppression of the flour-tax, the towns have no longer a revenue.

On the other hand, as they are obliged to indemnify the butchers and bakers, Toulon, for instance, incurs a debt of 2,500 livres a day.
In this state of disorder, woe to those who are under suspicion of having contributed, directly or indirectly, to the evils, which the people endure! At Toulon a demand is made for the head of the mayor, who signs the tax-list, and of the keeper of the records.