"L'armee et la garde nationale," by Baron Poisson, III.475.

"On hostilities being declared (April, 1792), the contingent of volunteers was fixed at 200,000 men.

This second attempt resulted in nothing but confused and disorderly levies.

Owing to the spinelessness of the volunteer troops it was impossible to continue the war in Belgium, which allowed the enemy to cross the frontier."-- Gouverneur Morris, so well informed, had already written, under date of Dec.27, 1791: "The national guards, who have turned out as volunteers, are in many instances that corrupted scum of overgrown population of which large cities purge themselves, and which, without constitutions to support the fatigues...

of war, have every vice and every disease which can render them the scourge of their friends and the laughing stock of their foes."-- Buchez et Roux, XXVI.177.Plan of the administrators of Herault, presented to the Convention April 27, 1793.