Another detachment, conducted to the section of the Roule, is likewise disposed of in the same way.[26103] Carle, at the head of the gendarmerie, is called out of the Assembly and assassinated on the Place Vendome, and his head is carried about on a pike.

The founder of the old monarchical club, M.de Clermont-Tonnerre, withdrawn from public life for two years past, and quietly passing along the streets, is recognized, dragged through the gutter and cut to pieces .-- After such warnings (murder and pillage) the Assembly can only obey, and, as usual, conceal its submission beneath sonorous words.

If the dictatorial committee, self-imposed at the Hotel-de-ville, still condescends to keep it alive, it is owing to a new investiture,[26104] and by declaring to it that it must not meddle with its doings now or in the future.

Let it confine itself to its function, that of rendering decrees made by the faction.

Accordingly, like fruit falling from a tree vigorously shaken, these decrees rattle down, one after another, into the hands that await them,[26105] 1.