papers are seized, 13.

arms are confiscated, 14.

three thousand persons are arrested and led off;[3138] priests, old men, the infirm, the sick.
The action lasts from ten in the evening to five o'clock in the morning, the same as in a city taken by assault, the screams of women rudely treated, the cries of prisoners compelled to march, the oaths of the guards, cursing and drinking at each grog-shop; never was there such an universal, methodical execution, so well calculated to suppress all inclination for resistance in the silence of general stupefaction.
And yet, at this very moment, there are those who act in good faith in the sections and in the Assembly, and who rebel at being under such masters.

A deputation from the Lombards section, and another from the Corn-market, come to the Assembly and protest against the Commune's usurpations.[3139] Choudieu, the Montagnard, denounces its blatant corrupt practices.

Cambon, a stern financier, will no longer consent to have his accounts tampered with by thieving tricksters.[3140] The Assembly at last seems to have recovered itself.