The keeper of the Hotel Meurice, where Moore and Lord Lauderdale put up, was on guard and on the chase the night before: "He talked a good deal of the fatigue he had undergone, and hinted a little of the dangers to which he had been exposed in the course of this severe duty.

Being asked if he had been successful in his search after suspected persons--'Yes my lord, infinitely; our battalion arrested four priests.' He could not have looked more lofty if he had taken the Duke of Brunswick,"] [Footnote 3138: According to Roederer, the number arrested amounted to from 5,000 to 6,000 persons.] [Footnote 3139: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.147, 148, Aug.28 and 29 .-- Ibid., 176.

Other sections complain of the Commune with some bitterness .-- Buchez et Roux, XVII.

358.--"Proces-verbaux de la Commune," Sept.1.

"The section of the Temple sends a deputation which declares that by virtue of a decree of the National Assembly it withdraws its powers entrusted to the commissioners elected by it to the council-general."] [Footnote 3140: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.