Petion, in the name of the Commune, appears personally and proposes a new plan, demanding the dethronement.

"This important measure once passed,"[2621] he says, "the confidence of the nation in the actual dynasty being very doubtful, we demand that a body of ministers, jointly responsible, appointed by the National Assembly, but, as the constitutional law provides, outside of itself, elected by the open vote of freemen, be provisionally entrusted with the executive power." Through this open vote the suffrage will be easily controlled.

This is but one more decree extorted, like so many others, the majority for a long time having been subject to the same pressure as the King.

"If you refuse to respond to our wishes," as a placard of the 23rd of June had already informed them, "our hands are lifted, and we shall strike all traitors wherever they can be found, even amongst yourselves."[2622]--"Court favorites," says a petition of August 6, "have seats in your midst.

Let their inviolability perish if the national will must always tamely submit to that lethal power!"-- In the Assembly the yells from the galleries are frightful; the voices of those who speak against dethronement are overpowered; so great are the hooting, the speakers are driven out of the tribune.[2623] Sometimes the "Right" abandons the discussion and leaves the chamber.