Not only does it refuse, but it enjoins him to order one-half of his troops back to their barracks.

By way of an offset, it sets free a number of soldiers condemned to the galleys, and all that are confined for insubordination .-- Henceforth every shadow of discipline vanishes, and, in the following month, murders multiply.

M.de Possel, a navy administrator, is taken from his dwelling, and a rope is passed around his neck; he is saved just in time by a bombardier, the secretary of the club.

M.Senis, caught in his country-house, is hung on the Place du Vieux Palais.

Desidery, a captain in the navy, the cure of La Valette, and M.de Sacqui des Thourets, are beheaded in the suburbs, and their beads are brought into town on the ends of three poles.