the recall of all ambassadors, 8.

the suppression of diplomacy, 9.

and a return to the state of nature.
The Girondins may now delay, negotiate, beat about and argue as much as they please; their hesitation has no other effect that to consign them into the background, as being lukewarm and timid.

Thanks to them, the (Jacobin) faction now has its deliberative assemblies, its executive powers, its central seat of government, its enlarged, tried, and ready army, and, forcibly or otherwise, its program will be carried out.
V .-- Evening of August 8.
Session of August 9 .-- Morning of August 10 .-- Assembly purged.
The Assembly must first of all be made to depose the King.

Several times already,[2655] on the 26th of July and August 4, clandestine meetings had been held where strangers decided the fate of France, and gave the signal for insurrection .-- Restrained with great difficulty, they consented "to have patience until August 9, at 11 o'clock in the evening."[2656] On that day the discussion of the dethronement is to take place in the Assembly, and calculations are made on a favorable vote under such a positive threat; its reluctance must yield to the certainty of a military occupation--On the 8th of August, however, the Assembly refuses, by a majority of two-thirds, to indict the great enemy, Lafayette.