148 (the grenadiers numbered only 166) .-- Moniteur, XIII.

310 (session of Aug.

1).

Address of the grenadiers: "They swore on their honor that they did not draw their swords until after being threatened for a quarter of an hour, then insulted and humiliated, until forced to defend their lives against a troop of brigands armed with pistols, and some of them with carbines."-- " The reading of this memorandum is often interrupted by hooting from the galleries, in spite of the president's orders."-- Hooting again, when they file out of the chamber.] [Footnote 2636: The lack of men of action greatly embarrassed the Jacobin party.

("Correspondance de Mirabeau et du Comte de la Marck," II.