Already at this date forty-two departments had expelled or interned the unsworn ecclesiastics.] [Footnote 2505: Mercure-de-France, Feb.25.] [Footnote 2506: Moniteur, X.440 (session of Nov.22, 1791).

A letter to M.Southon, Director of the Mint at Paris, is read, "complaining of an arbitrary order, that of the Minister of the Interior, to report himself at Pau on the 25th of this month, under penalty of dismissal." Isnard supports the charge: "M.

Southon," he says, "is here at work on a very circumstantial denunciation of the Minister of the Interior (Applause from the galleries.) If citizens who are zealous enough to make war on abuses are sent back to their departments we shall never have denunciations" (The applause is renewed.):--Ibid., X, 504 (session of Nov.

29).

Speech by Isnard: "Our ministers must know that we are not fully satisfied with the conduct of each of them repeated applause:; that henceforth they must simply choose between public gratitude and the vengeance of the law, and that our understanding of the word responsibility is death." (The applause is renewed.)--The Assembly orders this speech to be printed and sent into the departments .-- Cf.
XII, 73, 138, etc.] [Footnote 2507: Moniteur, XI.603.