Letter from Lhoste, agent, to the minister of justice, Lyons, Pluviose 8, year VIII.

"The diligences are robbed every week."-- Ibid., F7,3267, (Seine-et-Oise, bulletins of the military police and correspondence of the gendarmerie).

Brumaire 25, year VIII, attack on the Paris mail near Arpajon by 5 brigands armed with guns.

Fructidor, year VIII, at three o'clock P.M., a cart loaded with 10,860 francs sent by the collector at Mantes to the collector at Versailles is stopped near the Marly water-works, by 8 or 10 armed brigands on horseback .-- Similar facts abound.

It is evident that more than a year is required to put an end to brigandage .-- It is always done by employing an impartial military force.