(Summary of dispatches arranged according to dates.-Letters of Adjutant-General Vicose, Fructidor 3, year VII .-- Letters of Lamagdelaine, commissioner of the executive Directory, Thermidor 26 and Fructidor 3, year VII.)--"The rascals who led the people astray had promised them, in the King's name, that they should not be called on for further taxes, that the conscripts and requisitionnaires should not leave, and, finally, that they should have the priests they wanted."-- Near Montrejean "the carnage was frightful, nearly 2000 men slain or drowned and 1000 prisoners."-- (Letter of M.Alquier to the first consul, Pluviose 18, year VIII.) "The insurrection of Thermidor caused the loss of 3000 cultivators .-- (Letters of the department administrators and of the government commissioners, Nivose 25 and 27, Pluviose 13, 15, 25, 27, and 30, year VIII.)--The insurrection is prolonged through a vast number of isolated outrages, with sabers or guns, against republican functionaries and partisans, justices of the peace, mayors, etc.

In the commune of Balbeze, fifty conscripts, armed deserters with their knapsacks, impose requisitions,give balls on Sunday, and make patriots give up their arms.
Elsewhere, this or that known patriot is assaulted in his house by a band of ten or a dozen young folks who make him pay a ransom, shout "Vive le Roi!" etc .-- Cf.

"Histoire de I' insurrection royaliste de l'an VII," by B.Lavigne, 1887.] [Footnote 2115: Archives nationales, F7, 3273 (Letter of the commissioner of the executive Directory, Vaucluse, Fructidor 6, year VII.): "Eighty armed royalists have carried off, near the forest of Suze, the cash-box of the collector, Bouchet, in the name of Louis XVIII.

These rascals, it must be noted, did not take any of the money belonging to the collector himself."-- (Ibid., Thermidor 3, year VII.) "On looking around among our communes I find all of them under the control of royalist or town-councillors.

That is the spirit of the peasants generally....