Dangers surround us.

Let us not hazard the advantages for which we have paid so dearly--Liberty and Equality!--" A democratic member, Linglet, added aloud--"and the Constitution--" "The Constitution!" continued Napoleon, "it has been thrice violated already--all parties have invoked it--each in turn has trampled on it: since that can be preserved no longer, let us, at least, save its foundations--Liberty and Equality.

It is on you only that I rely.

The Council of Five Hundred would restore the Convention, the popular tumults, the scaffolds, the reign of terror.

I will save you from such horrors--I and my brave comrades, whose swords and caps I see at the door of this hall; and if any hireling prater talks of outlawry, to those swords shall I appeal." The great majority were with him, and he left them amidst loud cries of "_Vive Buonaparte!_" A far different scene was passing in the hostile assembly of the Five Hundred.