These fellows are striving to excite the people and turn them against the National Assembly and the council.

They have organized a Star Chamber and they have a small army under pay, aided by what they found or stole in the palace and elsewhere, or by supplies purchased by Danton, who is underhandedly the chieftain of this horde."-- Dusaulx, "Memoires," 441.
"On the following day (Sept.

3) I went to see one of the most estimated personalities at this epoch.

'You know,' said I to him, 'what is going on ?'--'Very well; but keep quiet; it will soon be over.

A little more blood is still necessary.'-- I saw others who explained themselves much more definitely.