It bears as heavily on its own representatives as on its adversaries.

"Although our hall was closed to the public," says Bailly, "there were always more than six hundred spectators."[1225] These were not respectful and silent, but active and noisy, mingling with the deputies, raising their hands to vote in all cases, taking part in the deliberations, by their applause and hisses: a collateral Assembly which often imposes its own will on the other.

They take note of and put down the names of their opponents, transmit them to the chair-bearers in attendance at the entrance of the hall, and from them to the mob waiting for the departure of the deputies, these names are from now considered as the names of public enemies.[1226] Lists are made out and printed, and, at the Palais-Royal in the evening, they become the lists of the proscribed .-- It is under this brutal pressure that many decrees are passed, and, amongst them, that by which the commons declare themselves the National Assembly and assume supreme power.

The night before, Malouet had proposed to ascertain, by a preliminary vote, on which side the majority was.

In an instant all those against had gathered around him to the number of three hundred.