3) .-- Granier de Cassagnac, II.257.A commissary of the section of the Quatre-Nations states in his report that "the section authorized them to pay expenses out of the affair."-- Declaration of Jourdan, 151 .-- Lavalette, "Memoires," I.91.The initiative of the commune is further proved by the following detail: "Towards five o'clock (Sept.

2) city officials on horseback, carrying a flag, rode through the streets crying: 'To arms! To arms!' They added: 'The enemy is coming; you are all lost; the city will be burnt and given up to pillage.

Have no fear of the traitors or conspirators behind your backs.

They are in the hands of the patriots, and before you leave the thunderbolt of national justice will fall on them!"-- Buchez et Roux, XXVIII.105.Letter of Chevalier Saint-Dizier, member of the first committee of supervision, Sept.10.

"Marat, Duplain, Freron, etc., generally do no more in their supervision of things than wreak private vengeance...