You speak of hindrances to a free vote; there has never been anything of the kind in this Assembly."] [Footnote 2139: Sauzay, I 140.

Letter of M.Lompre, liberal deputy, to M.Seguin, chanoine (towards the end of November, 1789).

"The service becomes more difficult every day; we have become objects of popular fury, and, when no other resource was left to us to avoid the tempest but to get rid of the endowments of the clergy, we yielded to force.

It had become a pressing necessity, and I should have been sorry to have had you still here, exposed to the outrages and violence with which I have been repeatedly threatened."] [Footnote 2140: Mercure de France, Nos.

of January 15, 1791; October 2, 1790; May 14,1791 .-- Buchez and Roux, V.343 (April 13, 1790); VII.
76 (September 2, 1790); X.225 ( June 21, 1791) .-- De Montlosier, I.
357 .-- Moniteur, IV, 427.] [Footnote 2141: Archives of the Police, exposed by the Committee of the district of Saint-Roch.