His inclinations lead him to retirement.

He only remained in the tumult of the Jacobins from devotion to his country; but men of mediocre understanding are not accustomed to the eulogiums of another, and the mob likes to change its hero.
"The faction of the La Fayettes, Guadets, Brissots circumvent him.

They call him the leader of a party! Robespierre chief of a party! They show his hand in the disgraceful columns of the Civil List.

They make the people's confidence in him a crime, as if a simple citizen without fortune and power had any other means of acquiring the love of his fellow-countrymen but from his deserts! as if a man who has only his isolated voice in the midst of a society of _intrigants_, hypocrites, and knaves, could ever be feared! But this incorruptible censor annoys them.

They say he has an understanding with me to offer him the dictatorship.