(Speech of Thermidor 8, year II.)] [Footnote 31130: Garat, "Memoires," 87, 88.] [Footnote 31131: Buchez et Roux, XXI., 107.

(Speech of Petion on the charges made against him by Robespierre.) Petion justly objects that "Brunswick would be the first to cut off Brissot's head, and Brissot is not fool enough to doubt it."] [Footnote 31132: Garat, 94.

(After the King's death and a little before the 10th of March, 1793.)] [Footnote 31133: Ibid., 97.

In 1789 Robespierre assured Garat that Necker was plundering the Treasury, and that people had seen mules loaded with the gold and silver he was sending off by millions to Geneva .-- Carnot, "Memoires," I.512.

"Robespierre," say Carnot and Prieur, "paid very little attention to public business, but a good deal to public officers; he made himself intolerable with his perpetual mistrust of these, never seeing any but traitors and conspirators."] [Footnote 31134: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 417.